/strek/ - Star Trek ★

>>2958 (OP)

Because Starfleet vessels are ships of peace :^)

Seriously though they are long range explorers, without crew comforts they would be worthless.

>>3157

What makes Wesley valuable is that he's both competent and credulous. Riker knows that Wes will believe and do whatever Riker tells him to do.

>>3172

My headcanon is that happened to O'Brien on more than one occasion.

>>3182

Why did Riker remain a Commander? Why didn't he keep his field promotion?

>>3183

>Why did Riker remain a Commander? Why didn't he keep his field promotion?

Well that was my point, the rank of Captain is not necessary to serve as "Captain" or "CO" - commanding officer of a vessel. It's very common in USN for Commander or even Lt. Commander's to be the "CO" or "Captain" of the vessel. Temporary giving Riker a rank promotion just to demote him again in a few episodes is not the way it works.

A "XO" - executive officer (first officer) can can be the same rank as the "CO", you'll see this on larger USN ships like Carriers. It is common for the "Captain" (position, not rank, aka "CO") and the "XO" to both be ranked Captains on USN Carriers. The "CO" is the designated commander of the ship though, and the Captain under him carries out his orders as "XO".

It's even depicted this way in Star Trek V and VI following Kirk's demotion from Admiral in IV. Kirk and Spock both wear the rank insignia's of Captain in V and VI.

>>3186

So you're saying that Riker was in charge?

>>3203

>So you're saying that Riker was in charge?

The writers were just being derps and giving Riker a rank promotion instead of a job title promotion. Failing to differentiate between the formal rank Captain and an officer designated as the senior officer in charge of the vessel with the job title "Captain", not necessarily of that rank. Basically the line of succession aboard the Enterprise was Picard "CO" > Riker "XO" > Shelby "2nd officer", the moment Picard got assimilated, Riker assumed the "CO" and Shelby became the acting "XO". Riker and Shelby could both still retain Commander ranks, but Riker is the "CO".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_officer

>In the United States Navy, commanding officer is the official title of the commander of a ship, but he or she is usually referred to as "the Captain" regardless of his or her actual rank: "Any naval officer who commands a ship is addressed by naval custom as "captain" while aboard in command, regardless of their actual rank."[1] He or she may be informally referred to as "Skipper", though allowing or forbidding the use of this form of address is the commanding officer's prerogative.

"old man" is another popular naval slang for the "skipper"

>>3183

Same reason he turns down every command he's offered. He sees how hard a captain has to work, and decided he would rather spend his time plowing strange alien pussy.

>>3234

>Bane Trek

Now there is something worth seeing.

>>3237

>Nolan is autistic enough to make a good Trek film

It would be dark enough to shit bats.

>"The Klingons killed my boy. I will have my revenge."

>"But Jim! You can't just murder them in cold blood!"

>"Can't I? Mr. Sulu: target their warp core."

>"Jim, please--"

>"Fire."

>wreckage and frozen purple blood everywhere

>>3262

>We will get a Warbird scene with the Tal-Shiar and Garak wearing a mask

>>3272

Funny thing is that it would actually be lore accurate

>>3158

>"Both of you shut the fucking fuck up and help me get the kindergartners buckled in!"

Now I just want to watch that episode.

>TFW the teacher is Keiko

>>3284

>The teacher is Keiko

>The class forms a suicide pact

>>3285

>The teacher is Keiko

>Kids are suddenly possessed by the spirit of Keiko hating viewers everywhere.

>For the rest of the show there are cutaway segments to the kids pranking, tormenting, disobeying or just straight up being shamelessly rude to her.

>Keiko depends to visibly deteriorate over the course of the show

>Gets to the point where fans can tell exactly how far into the plot a scene is just from looking at how distraught Keiko is.

There's no need for the kids to suffer.

Keiko must suffer.

>>3287

>Keiko depends to visibly deteriorate over the course of the show

Keiko begins to …..

not sure where that came from.

>>3326

It's the height of normalfag fetishes. I am not even joking, it's the fetish someone uses when they want to pretend they are degenerate but it's so overly common and used it's just a normal fetish

>>3327

>normalfag fetishes.

What the fuck happened to two girls at once? Or is that considered too vanilla for today's degenerates?

>>3338

>Only Harem & impreg fetishes is okay.

>Ultra normie tier fetishes like slightly bigger boob size & hair color preference is degenerate.

I think you've gazed too deeply into the void, my friend.

>>3345

I bet you'd be in favor of handholding too you pervert.

I could try to make up some autistic rant on how fetishizing something like hair color or breast size is bad, but I'd rather just go ahead and admit I made a sweeping statement when I was thinking of a general guideline.

>>3345

Can't really blame him for overlooking those things. Fetishes have gotten so out of hand these days, that the basic ones are considered extremely vanilla to a point of being entirely forgotten.

>>3349

>I could try to make up some autistic rant on how fetishizing something like hair color or breast size is bad

Autistic ranting is always fun old man, don't let us stop you.

>>3354

I bet the Federation lackeys would still try and use the swimming pool even in battle.

>>3316

Do you think there are traps on federation vessels? It must be pretty easy to pass with 24th century tech. I bet half of those cute little ensigns were concealing a feminine penis.

>>4641

There was certainly a few to be sure all Romulan spies under deep cover