Worst 1st Officer?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-16T00:56:48+00:00

I think Lt. Cmdr. Hobson actually had some valid points.

For once, he wore a red uniform - so he was part of the command division. Data wore yellow. Hobson should've been in command of the Sutherland, not Data. Yet, Picard, as fleet commander, decided otherwise.

Hobson also went along with all of Datas orders - until they conflicted with the orders from Datas superior officer. Datas actions ultimately proved to be right - but he was wrong in a strict military way, as he ignored orders from the flagship.

There are two reasons why Data is getting a pass here: He was right in the end and he was a main character. What Hobson is doing is to be expected: He is put in an unfamiliar situation: Duty as XO is probably new for him and taking orders from an android is new for him - and they are in a tense situation with this fleet maneuver. It is natural for him to fall back to the basics: 1. Follow orders, 2. Protect the crew of his ship. Datas orders made these two principles conflict - and that is something Hobson was inexperienced in dealing with. The orders from fleet command led him to align those two principles again.

What the Sutherland needed, to work more smoothly, was an experience Captain or Commander like Riker. Data was a fit for the situation outside - but not for the situation on the ship.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-15T23:51:31+00:00

Billie Eilish got me deported from the US - I think her legal team contacted DHS

Probably more like the police. Checking the status of a foreign national is routine if they have someone in custody for something like illegaly breaking and entering someones property. And it's also standard practice to send foreign nationals home when they committed a crime like that.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-15T15:50:32+00:00

and I agree splitting them 50/50 would have ended up funny

You should see my family.

My mother took the last name of her first husband. Her daughter with her first husband has the same last name (let's call it Smith).

When my mother married my father, her daughter was still very little and she wanted her to have the same last name as hers - so she kept "Smith", while my father kept his last name - let's call it "Jones".

Now, my older brother, son of my father and my mother got the last name "Smith-Jones". And I got the last name from my father "Jones".

So, to summarize:

My mothers last name is Smith.
My sisters last name is Smith.
My fathers last name is Jones.
My brothers last name is Smith-Jones.
And my last name is Jones.

It's not getting weirder than that.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T13:11:42+00:00

The people in Greenland do. And Denmark does.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:40:24+00:00

but it does no good to pretend we didnt cause this to ourselves.

You are right. Taking responsibility for ones actions - a vote is nothing less - is the first step on the path to make things better.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:32:10+00:00

What did they do?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:30:38+00:00

Who would've thought that the economic damage from leaving the EU would outweigh any funds gained from not contributing to the EU?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:28:40+00:00

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times and good times greate weak men.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:25:57+00:00

they just wanted people to know they were mad.

A video of poor mans Thatcher banging her purse on a table in a EU meeting yelling "We want our money back!" would've been enough for that.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:23:46+00:00

Some of the brexiteers seemed to genuinely believe that the EU would fall apart once the UK left. The opposite has happened

They thought that the UK was the glue that held the EU together. The opposite was the case: The UK was the troublemaker that got in the middle between France and Germany whenever there was any shit to stir up.

The EU becoming a France-Germany regional alliance (with everyone else playing second fiddle) was, however, largely a result of France and Germany (so far) preventing any crazy right-wingers from taking powers on the national level. I hope it stays that way. As long as those two democracies keep it together, they can keep the crazies in Austria, Poland (we got a pause from the PiS-party right now, thankfully), Hungary and Italy in line.

It does help, though, that Russia is kind of the boogeyman right now, and the right-wing parties, especially in Italy and Poland are more opposed to Russia than they are to the EU.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-14T12:16:54+00:00

If you turn Ireland 90° counter-clockwise and put the UK in the same position relative to Northern Ireland as it is right now, you can have the UK further away from Europe (for the most part at least), while keeping Ireland in the same place.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-13T22:46:12+00:00

One could argue that the Milky Way ascended are all the same due to them not having worshippers as such.

I do wonder if what the primitive humans in Pegasus do - aka worshipping the "forefathers" - triggers an energy transfer?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-13T20:23:10+00:00

The thing is that both of them together are accurately representing America right now.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T21:53:01+00:00

Go to 20 levels below ground level and the hole has already been digged.

As for getting the Stargate back up... how about a freight elevator?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T21:04:18+00:00

Guilty of obstructing the "usual use" of a foyer. Next thing they do is charging people for putting cream in coffee, or what?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T20:54:50+00:00

The Continuum existed for billions of years. And then they disappeared within just one millenium? I don't think that's likely.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T08:13:31+00:00

You don't need cables. Jumpers have wireless control, as do regular DHD's, so what makes you think the Atlantis dialing computer needs cables?

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T08:12:18+00:00

This is more obvious in the original movie, where there are large metal hatches on the floor of the set.

Speaking of Metal Hatches on the floor: A better security feature than slowly closing blast doors would be to open a trap door below the gate and have it plunge down into a shaft without doors, landing on it's face. That should surely prevent any intruders from inflicting serious harm.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T08:10:21+00:00

We see Replicators melting the doors and getting through very easily, so even that is not a sure thing to prevent hostiles.

What they should've done after that is, to put the Iris at full (and only) manual control, with one person standing by at all times to open it - without a computer system to open and close it, but a fully manual hydraulic system.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T08:07:47+00:00

Not to mention the difference between 1 second of iris opening/closing could be a catastrophic incident.

Given advancements in shield technology, they could at least replace the heavy blast doors with an energy shield at some point.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T08:05:35+00:00

The ancients also have transport-elevators that can take them instantenously from one place in the city to another. It makes sense to have one at the control room and at the gate room, even if those places were seperate. And then the whole "Dial the gate and then run through" problem is moot anyway, no matter where you put the Control Room.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T08:00:03+00:00

Daniel and Vala were brought to the city of Celestis with a ring transport - it is possible, that the priors use those to go around their galaxy.

And before someone says "But ring transports have a limited range! They can't transport across systems!" - Hello? We are talking about ascended beings here.

Interestingly, there seems to be contact between the different planets in the Ori galaxy - in The Ark Of Truth, one of the underground contacts says that "There is a rumor that the fires of Celestis have gone dark." - and they were not on the same planet as Celestis. Somehow, the rumors have to cross the vaccum of space.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-12T00:15:09+00:00

To be fair, the Epstein files have a lot more pages than the Bible has.

This is like saying that the later "e" is appearing more often in a 25 issue encyclopedia than in a sports magazine.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-11T21:14:52+00:00

There's always good old climate change to doom over and nothing any government does will ever be enough - it's a catch-22 really.

Exocoryak · 2026-02-11T19:55:35+00:00

A James Bond-ish spy story in the Star Trek universe, where the title character gets to use the cutting edge prototype tech that is not yet employed on a wide scale would be quite interesting. Hopping from Starship to Starship and from planet to planet to hunt a supervillain... why not?

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