Does Star Trek Even Make Sense?

Sierra Times ^ | May 1, 2003 | J. Neil Schulman

[lentulusgracchus]

An ensign is the lowest-ranking commissioned officer. (In the U.S. Navy, anyway.)

Not quite. Chief Warrant Officers (CWO2, CWO3, and the very rare CWO4) are all commissions. The only true warrant officer left is the Warrant Officer (WO1), whose warrant comes from the Congress. I'm a little murky on the status and commissioning of Chief Warrant Officers, but they are indeed commissioned officers and eventually fleet up to Restricted Line Officers when they become Ensigns. Many of them would rather remain warrants than become Ensigns, since they're generally mature men.

Warrant and Restricted Line Officers ("mustangs") have specialization designators which, while superficially similar to the designators worn by other officers, actually connect to and prolong their rating specialties they had as enlisted men. If they rise high enough, like Admiral Jeremy Boorda, all that falls away at the senior-officer level and they become line officers.

[ArGee]

I would have to say my favorite episode was the one with Abraham Lincoln. The whole thing was a metaphor for why the West was different from the Soviets. It all boiled down to a rock asking Kirk something like, "What is the difference between good and evil? You used the same methods, fought in the same way. I couldn't tell the difference."

Kirk asked the rock, "What did you offer them to get them to fight?"

The rock answered, "What they wanted most - power."

Kirk's reply. "You offered me the lives of my crew."

THAT was outstanding.

Shalom.

[dfwgator]

In the immortal words of Bill Shatner, "Get a life!!"

[WarmLiquidGhoo]

"...and a Borgette who had to have her uniform spray painted on."
Hey wait a minute. I liked that part!

[WarmLiquidGhoo]

"The Dauphin."

Wasn't that the episode that was subtitled: "Wesley Gets a Stiffy"?

[whd23]

...what with cancelling Farscape.

Oh, you mean "Muppets in Space?"

Best show they ever cancelled was "Good vs. Evil"

[Junior]

11. They have money! In a recent flash-back episode, Trip offered to BUY an Admiral a drink. They BRIBE people to get the job done. People BUY and SELL things. In the TNG universe, they had eliminated money and everyone simply did their jobs for the joy of working (like that's ever going to happen) and cast members made the occasional smarmy anti-money, anti-profit tirade.

[bicycle thug]

I believe Jonathan Frakes directed 'Cause and Effect' where Kelsey Grammer placed Captain Bateman in the other ship the Enterprise repeatedly rams in a timeloop.

Somebody made a mistake leting Bill Shatner direct Movie five though. That is one time having an actor be the director in the Star Trek franchise. That movie was the only one I have watched just a couple of times.

[tophat9000]

Kirk asked the rock, "What did you offer them to get them to fight?"
The rock answered, "What they wanted most - power."
Kirk's reply. "You offered me the lives of my crew."
THAT was outstanding.
Shalom.

For all the camp in Star Trek.... that are many little gem like that

The one I love where the all so superior alien is damm Kirk and all humans as having a nature of brutal savage murders we all have we are a unworthy and dammed race

Kirk accepts this about humans but counters with something to the effect that humans maybe brutal & savage by nature... we may be murders but we have the power to chose we can chose not to murders today... (i.e our accepting our nature and the choosing not to follow it is our saving grace) the concept of original sin & saving grace

[Tribune7]

Mess with her & you'll never be senator from Illinois.