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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUO2GINu8A

[Flocke]

Although I'd refuse to upvote this review, I must admit that the first sequel of SFA, that for promotion recetly got published for free, performed such bad, that I have not the slightest interest to ever watch a second one!

And I don't even see a point to talk about it. Luckily I already forgot most of the crap what happened. Did it even have a story? I honestly can't remember.

edit: Sadly in german, but a much better review I fully can agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9N15aGsulk

[AlexMcpherson79]

I have an opinion regarding Kurtzman Trek, for which I would get called Toxic. Guess what that opinion is, based on this basic opinion regarding the purpose of Starfleet and what that means for starship captains...

speaking as if I'm a Starfleet Captain, making an introduction speech at the first assembly for a group of new cadets

In Peace, We are Explorers, Scientists, Engineers and Nurses.

From those who chart the stars, through those who figure out how spatial phenomena work, the people who fix the existing ships or design the next ones, and the healers who tend to us when we get sick or injured.

Except it's more than that.

We are Diplomats, meeting alien civilizations that have cultures, beliefs and attitudes that may be so antithetical to us yet we can't cry out "But thats wrong!" lest we get into another war like the Earth-Romulan War that killed trillions or the many many wars that resulted from that initial impression with the Klingons that even today we still don't have an accurate count for, not just the loss of so many starships and their crews, but the planets on both sides lost along the way. And eve those wars paled in comparison to the Alpha-Gamma Quadrant War, that almost saw the extinction of the Cardassian people at the hands of both those they had initially allied with, and the combined forces of the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans. And those three at that point weren't friends because of the previous wars that then required communication that fixed previous miscommunications, but in spite of it.

We may not just be studying something to learn, but because something is causing tremendous harm, a spatial phenomena that drifted into an inhabited star system, and we need to understand how it works and so how it's actually doing what it's doing to billions of people. And those people may not even be our people, or those of an ally.

The more energy you need, the more dangerous the process to get it, and the energy needed to bend space-time to allow non-relativistic travel between the stars is tremendous. One wrong move, and the starship you're on could literally blow up simply because of the energy release from the interaction of matter and anti-matter, and that's just for how Starfleet ships operate. Civilian ships may not use the same process to extract energy in useable form, I've certainly been passenger on some that didn't have a Matter Annihilation Reactor. But all forms that provide enough power to move hundreds of people and the starship they occupy from star system to star system are going to be very dangerous. And we need people who can fix that, maybe design new systems that make it safer. Or maybe you're the engineer sent onto an alien refugee ship whose crew was mostly killed by a spatial phenomena they didn't understand whilst running from an oppressive regime, no one remaining aboard knows how to fix the ship, and yet there's too many to bring aboard your own ship. But every moment you delay, more of those people will die from the phenomena, or at any moment their power core could explode as a result of important maintenance no longer being performed. and these systems would require a LOT of maintenance.

And it's not just ourselves that our healers treat, it's not just our citizens, either. All are welcome. So long as they're not waving a disrupter around threatening people. But even if they are... you're a doctor, do no harm. How are you going to react to an injured man from another culture, scared of the unfamiliar, brandishing a weapon out of fear of what he thinks you might be?

To become a Starfleet Officer, to wear that uniform, is to declare, You are the Best of the Best. That you will not insult that which you find different. You will not scoff at those who disagree with you. You will not shake in fear at the potential disaster awaiting you, and you will not bend nor bow to those trying to prevent you from carrying out your duty.

You all made it thus far to gain entry to the academy. Some would say that you have proven to be the Best. Here, we will make you even better than that, so that those here that graduate are the Best of the Best. And it is difficult. There is much to learn, under a lot of pressure, and perhaps, more than the typical officer experiences during most of their career. But we do those because you might be the atypical officer who would encounter more than your fair share of difficult situations.

Because there is one thing you need to know about Starfleet Officers. We are not what Breaks. When the Universe calls, and tells us, "you are done" we don't break, we don't blink. The Universe Does.

And if you're a starship captain, when you're on the bridge and the universe calls? Do you CRY? Do you protest that it isn't fair? When your crew looks to you, those less experienced than you to see if there's any hope? What will they take it to mean if you're crying? Despairing? When they look up, they need to believe that there's a way out of this, a way through. And they won't believe if their captain isn't showing that they believe it. There's a reason why the greatest of captains are said to actually have laughed in the face of danger. and It's not, just because some of them were crazy. Welcome to Starfleet.

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

One of the best Starfleet AI videos I have seen yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wcwHd_OTi4

Here is a very funny 'behind the scenes': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ok36v7JDpo (starts about 2 minutes in for above video).

[Flocke]

Love it, especially the 'behind the scenes' one!

[KrazeeXXL]

Haven't watched a single episode. I watched the Drinker review and it was pretty much all I needed to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUO2GINu8A

Came back here to see if you may have actually posted something like this xD

Srsly. I miss the old discussions back when I gave JJ a chance right before the movie came out. Into Darkness? ah forgot the name, doesn't matter anyway what it was called. The one were they blew up Vulcan or Romulus or whatever they did.

Well, you were right all along and it turned out even worse than any of us could've expected. Just wanted to finally let you know.

I have an opinion regarding Kurtzman Trek, for which I would get called Toxic.

Not a shoe I'd put myself on.

But discussion isn't wanted. It's about polarization. It's about the easy solutions for complex problems - the good old black and white thinking.

Gotta love it