I suppose it makes sense. If there is no money and everyone wants to work for their own improvement and the betterment of mankind...who is going to willingly choose to become the 'Safety Guy?'
Nobody. That is a brutal thankless job.
The girder installer probably thinks: "Yeah, here in the ceiling seems as good a place as any! If they dont like it what are they gonna do? Fire me? I dont even get paid for this!"
"Uh hey...where are the seatbelts?"
The seatbelt guy didnt show up today and we've gotta go. So...no seatbelts.
"Is that a good idea?"
It is what it is. Now...take us out! What are the odds that we're going to need seatbelts, just dont hit anything or come to any sudden stops! Its space! Whats the worst that could happen?
Its funny, the Empire in Star Wars is a cold and callous government that puts efficiency and order above human needs. They have millions of disposal troops and pilots with substandard equipment and fighters and therefore health and safety is secondary. So you so bottomless pitts with no safety rales, soldiers on 2 foot wide platforms next to a super laser. Fighters with no shields and no ejection seats. Armor that doesn't stop anything but looks cool.
The Federation is about humanity and human needs, and equality. However we see officers live in luxury with carpeted bridges and real leather seats. Huge cabins with private bathrooms. But from health and safety the Federation is far worse then the Empire. No seatbelts on the bridge. No walk ways. improperly stored containers that aren't tied down. Warp cores that are exposed and people can walk into. Transporters that have a poor safety record from losing people in space, to allowing parasite to occupy the energy matrix. to on occasion turning the users inside out.
And don't forget the flames throwers on the bridge that are fed from unshielded energy conduits on the bridge.
The Empire is what it is. The Federation behind its veener just really doesn't care.
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Guessing everyone has seen the Lower Decks finale, so hopefully not a spoiler to talk about T'Pol.
Glad she didn't appear on any other (cough cough "Trek") shows of the past few years...
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So how did the series snag franchise icon Jolene Blalock to return as T'Pol, and why was she only credited by her first name?
I wrote her a letter explaining how important her work on Enterprise was to me not only as a fan, but also as a writer of Star Trek and how I defined Vulcans and that T’Lyn is like kind of a love letter to her work [as T’Pol] among others. I sent her the script, and she read it, and she watched the show, and I guess she had turned down other Star Trek to be on because I think she didn't wanna be. sort of like window dressing, you know what I mean? I didn't expect to get her because we had heard she had said no before.
Mike McMahan has talked in the past to CinemaBlend about how T'Lyn is based on T'Pol, so it's no surprise to me that he and the staff were able to write her lines and craft her moments with the perfect tone.
She said, ‘Would it be ok if I just went by Jolene?’ and we were like, ‘Jolene, it is whatever you want to be.’ I think a lot of times in this industry you are told what you're allowed to do. And I really wanted to make sure that she felt like she was in charge of defining stuff because we were so appreciative of her coming back. She didn't tell me why, but she was like, ‘I would prefer just to be Jolene in this,’ and we were happy to do it.
“I’m terrified of how it’s going to be received because it’s not the Trek people want. The Trek that people want, the Trek that we all want, is just 1,000 more episodes of TNG,” Kazinsky said. “Everyone’s always furious that they’re not getting more TNG, whilst at the same time when TNG came out, everybody hated it. So, this is going to come along, and it’s not going to feel like any Trek that they’ve ever seen,” he added.
Kazinsky touched on why Section 31 is essential to the Federation at New York Comic-Con in October by quoting Deep Space Nine Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) in the episode “The Maquis, Part II. “It’s easy to be a saint in paradise,” he said. Section 31 will be set outside of the Federation, “…on the frontier where the Federation doesn’t already exist, there is the need for somebody to roll up their sleeves and live in the gray areas,” he said.
The sad thing is that you could make a really good section 31 series, if you are willing to make the main characters to be extremely misalliance. All roads lead to victory.
You could have a super spy group that while working for the good of the federation, you're working counter to the values of the Federation.
A section 31 would see a threat around every corner and work on a institutional paranoia.
They could work to influence the very democracy of the Federation, compromising political offices with a goal of not saving democracy but saving the Federation. They'd see the more utopian concepts of the Federation as the ultimate in weakness and work to over throw it, not through phasers and torpedeos, but by literally creating an environment of corruption and creating enemies to bring the structure down.
You could literally have a corrupt senator running a macarthy'esque investigation into individuals accused of actions against the good of the Federation. You could have Section 1 trying to create a war between the Klingon's and Rumulans to reduce the threat of the Federation.
But instead, we're going to probably get more bizarre stupid Discovery style weirdness.
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Apparently there is an episode of Discovery where the universal translator breaks down and it turns out everybody on the bridge crew speaks different languages.
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Apparently there is an episode of Discovery where the universal translator breaks down and it turns out everybody on the bridge crew speaks different languages.
That sounds like something stupid Discovery would do but since I'll never watch it I'll have to take your word for it.
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