Why do I get the impression that this is part of basic Ferengi education?

Huh, and here I was expecting Meteion the Endsinger (scroll down to The Source of the Sound). That’d be a good crossover. Giving her a Starfleet Captain speech 😂

Unlike Jellico, Shaw actually paid attention to those under his command and showed character growth. Granted, Jellico only had a limited time, but he was given a lot of assholery and extremely few humanizing traits/moments.

With Shaw, it’s spelled out why he is the way he is and that even with those burdens/wounds, he’s still trying. You don’t get any of that from Jellico. The closest you get is him dropping ranks to insult his first officer and then subsequently asking him to do an extremely difficult/dangerous assignment.

Steve Shives defends him, and I do see his point, but my counter-argument to that is worse for efficiency to change up ways of working immediately before a critical event, even if you think your way is better, and to ignore what the modern day calls the “human element”.

I immediately thought of Starship Mine

As an exmo, it is specifically a ban on coffee and tea (not herbal tea, caffeinated tea). Some are strict and extrapolate this to mean “caffeine” and some are literalists that chug Mountain Dew. It’s very weird. As an aside: one of the names of ephedra is “Mormon tea”.

My first thought. I don’t know if it was deliberate or accidental, but that’s going to get a lot of people frothing.

Saw the title and expected:

🎼 Hey, shake a leg. It’s Captain Greg! 🎶

Honestly, I count using the four fingers for 1-4, close the fingers and extend thumb for five, then extend each finger again for 6-9.

The right hand counts tens and works the same way. Can count to 100, and it’s pretty intuitive. It’s like if positional notation was discovered way earlier.

Those are orange cats: only three braincells total are represented in the picture.

I prefer it in the original Klingon.

I was floored when I first noticed that was her.

Instead, take this Tri-Ox! It is approved (required) for field officers and all the cool away teams are doing it. You don’t want to be the one letting your team down… do you?

Hmm. The anti-racist who canonically died fighting against a pogrom, or the ally that literally played chicken with his own life (without blinking) to try to undo systemic damage? Tough call.

Oh Koala! That’s Spot! Call ensigns S’plunk and Johnson! Or just run and cower.

So, do I give them the landlord treatment first, or the cop treatment first? I want to maximize their suffering education from the experience.

Then he has a perfect excuse to hunt down Section 31 agents while trying to establish control of a new clean energy source. And he won’t be fooled by an agent pretending to be a statue. Also he can assemble and disassemble his golden phaser faster than most people can blink.

Damn, I wish I had the writing chops to run with this.

That’s one minor step away from a Von Neumann probe.

You leave Teft alone! He’s a Knight Radiant and a hero, and he didn’t deserve what happened to him.

By value or by reference?

She would have been good IMO. However, then she would have been saddled with the inconsistent writing, and thus be Star Trek’s face of murder and genocide.