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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that
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The funny thing is that, contrary to how they act in their roles as Captain, Kirk was a studious nerd and a bit of teacher’s pet at the academy while Picard was a hard-partying drunk who not only participated in, but started bar fights.
Kirk would do his best to defend you in a bar fight and then would punish you after the fact, according to Star Fleet rules.
Picard would try to stop the bar fight from happening to begin with, would break it up if it escalated, but probably wouldn’t defend you specifically unless you had a good reason for being in the fight. He would only punish you if you were in the wrong and then it would probably be something more creative, more immediately punishing, and less impactful (career-wise), then Star Fleet’s regulations prescribe.
Start Trek explained with bar flights. I love it ❤️
To be fair, Star Trek explained Star Trek with bar fights. Play domjot, hyew-mon?
I’m really looking forward to “Star Trek: Bar Fights”.
I think you can get at least four seasons out of this.
Picard got stabbed in the heart in one of those academy bar fights. Might have cooled his jets a bit.
Also, “a bit of a teacher’s pet‽‽‽” Kirk was so much of a golden boy teacher’s pet, he cheated on the Kobiashi Maru test by hacking the holodeck, and forcing a “win condition,” and the instructors allowed it to stand.