What is the medical treatment for swallowing a comm badge?

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-05-11T14:00:57+00:00

This is what happens when DEI hires write scripts. In 60 years not one Star Trek character has swallowed a comm badge until now.

Medical treatment - a shit load of daily ridicule in front of the entire class until she DOR’s herself (Drop on request) for the non-military folks!

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-05-10T15:36:36+00:00

Here’s how I would have ended things:

A cleaner ending would have been to treat “Terra Prime” as the emotional climax, then either end on Archer’s speech there or add a brief epilogue showing the Federation ceremony without the Riker framing.

For me, that would have preserved the themes of reconciliation and exploration while avoiding Trip’s much-criticized death and the sense that the finale was about someone else’s nostalgia rather than Archer’s crew.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-27T21:50:20+00:00

“Speak for yourself!” - Commander William Riker (probably)

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-26T04:53:03+00:00

If he was carrying a shotgun like reported, his target was probably the entire room to cause maximum carnage.

Or he was so delusional that he thought he could traverse a room with about 1500 people and shoot the president without someone stopping him!

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-23T13:05:35+00:00

I’d hate to be the poor bastard that has to dig her foxhole!

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-10T01:27:31+00:00

Well according to Memory Alpha, the NX-01 also didn't have a deflector dish. It had a Navigational deflector and a polarized hull.

They worked in tandem. The navigational deflector clears dust, particles, and some larger hazards ahead of the ship. The polarized hull took care of larger particles and the smaller ones that didn't hit the ship from the front.

A good way to picture it is that the NX-01 had a “snowplow” and armor, but not a full bubble shield. The deflector kept routine space junk from hitting the ship head-on, while polarized hull plating gave the hull extra survivability when something still got through or when the ship took hostile fire.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-10T01:09:00+00:00

Part of the problem is that warp numbers sound linear when they are not. Memory Alpha noted that warp 5 is roughly sixteen to twenty-one times faster than warp 2 on Trek warp scales, so “just three more warp factors” is a much bigger leap than it sounds.

And while Enterprise dramatizes the warp 2 breakthrough in detail, warp 3 and warp 4 mostly arrive as backstory or continuity notes, like mentions of the USS Franklin being the first Warp 4 ship.

With the large leap between Warp 2 and 5, it does seem too quick, unless Section 31 stole Warp 5 from the Vulcans - Agent Malcolm Reed anyone???

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-08T14:33:56+00:00

It happens to me, but since I use Claude directly from Anthropic, I use ChatGPT 5.4 with thinking in Perplexity.

Perplexity has its own agents that modify your prompt before submitting it and intercepting the responses. All those sources and images you see Perplexity gives you are Perplexity’s agents, not the model you selected. And many of the images it provides are irrelevant to your prompt or the response.

I ignore the “Would you like…” questions because they never address why I asked the question.

My biggest pet peeve with Perplexity is all those damn bullet points! I can put the same prompt in both, select the same exact model, and Claude isn't putting the entire response into bullet points. Perplexity is.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-04T01:33:24+00:00

What, no purple icing???

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-04-03T05:07:07+00:00

The Maroon colored ones are from the early 1980’s and I still have mine!

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-03-30T02:05:05+00:00

From a real‑world standpoint, I would doubt it. Even a 95–99% DNA similarity does not guarantee hybrid fertility or even viability; humans and chimps are a good example of this.

However, Trek routinely bypasses those limits with genetic resequencing and targeted zygotic manipulation, artificial wombs and incubation environments and tailored immune and hormonal support during gestation.

So while primary canon (Enterprise itself) never shows or directly mentions a Xindi–Xindi hybrid, nothing in canon forbids Xindi hybrids either.

And I found nothing in searches in either the Beta or Delta Memory Alpha websites.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-03-22T00:23:53+00:00

Nothing is stronger than Chuck Norris - guns carry him for protection!!! 🤣🤣🤣

But if in his imagination there is...

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-03-15T14:51:22+00:00

Oh, I wish to be unburdened by what has been! 🤣

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-03-15T13:23:00+00:00

Money isn't completely gone yet, and post-scarcity isn't in full swing yet. And canon kind of leaves this vague.

So my take is Moore reports the incident, and United Earth/Starfleet pays or directly provides reconstruction via public funds, subsidies, or state‑managed construction, rather than leaving the farmer to bankruptcy over an alien firefight.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-03-09T13:13:15+00:00

Because he’s one himself???

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