Yeah, that line always felt kinda strange. I rationalized it by thinking in the Star Trek world, there was no violent revolution, but more of a pseudo-Posadist realization of global unity in the wake of the third world war and First Contact with the Vulcans, thus Mao’s axiom being less applicable.
Or, more realistically, Standards and Practices needed them to disavow what was being described as terrorism in that particular episode.
I mean, it’s cool as hell, it’s just unlike Captain Jean-Luc Picard to make quips like that or for Star Trek characters to so blatantly advocate socialism. The UFP is certainly a post-scarcity socialist utopia, but I think the conceit in the writers room is that they are so established in their utopia that they don’t speak of it in such direct terms because it’s established. That, and the sensibilities of the late 80’s would make such a statement provocative on network television. Heck, Jean-Luc even at one point refutes Mao’s idea that political power stems from the barrel of a gun.
But I could see them having more leeway in a video game.
Is this actually a quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Final Unity?
I loved that game as a child but I couldn’t get past any of the puzzles, being 6 years old.
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In my personal experience, I found meeting people in person a far more fruitful dating method than online dating. I was fairly successful in both. I’m not particularly attractive but I’m rather charismatic and I found online dating resulting in a lot more flubs than meeting someone with the intent of simply making a new friend based on shared interests and finding something more growing from that. The online dating did give me a lot of fun dates and sexual experiences, though.
But perhaps take it all with a grain of salt because I ended up with an old friend from high school when we moved in together to save money on rent.
I’m not saying it can’t work, I just see a lot of lonely people wondering why the apps don’t work for them yet try nothing else.
Online dating is great for hook ups, but joining in person hobby groups is better for making friends that might turn into something more.
The Barracuda is (apparently) an export variant of the Suffren and is indeed a little shorter but still over 300 ft long.
The scale of these things is always fascinating. They’re always much larger than I think they are.
For reference, I think that’s a Suffren class, making it just shy of 100m, or a tad longer than a football field for my fellow Americans.
Gah you are so right with that. Between the first Trill episode and the non-binary planet episode… just a rough time for queer Trek. At least we got some good stuff with DS9, though even the head writer wishes they pushed the envelope a little further.
I’m hopeful we can get some better stuff out of Strange New Worlds. While Disco had more representation, I did not care for that show for a myriad of other reasons.