Ah but they’re non-temporal. If Q ever did that, they wouldn’t be present when we see them in ds9, therefore Q does not and can not!

And then once you’re a captain you can pretty much violate the prime directive as much as you want with impunity.

Section 31 actually knows about all the infiltrators, but at least in early stages of their infiltration when they’re trying not to arouse suspicion they end up doing a better job than the human admirals would have anyway, so they’re allowed to do their thing.

Ya made me look bad!

Someone’s about to get warcrimed

No joke though, I would looooove to see a series about the adventures of Beverly Crusher, Captain of the Pasteur.

God I didn’t even think of that. Instant army. Altho, for that matter, you could also just use a replicator to fabricate an instant army of killbots.

Funnily enough, nazis WOULD really like it if you tolerated rape and pedophillia. You’ll never guess why!

Al Borlan from Tool Time

Most of the crew dies offscreen, they just keep duplicating them all the time.

She complains about having to use her ration on coffee in one episode. Presumably that’s why they divert to the coffee nebula.

I do love watching shuttle launches, but I’m not sure I’d call a bunch of public domain NASA footage the best opening sequence ever.

I feel like some of that was on purpose. Like, the whole point of the show was our bumbling first steps into space, there’s gotta be mistakes. And it gives some latitude to explore plots that aren’t all “Flawless Space Hero Saves the Day”

I think a lot of atrocities come from our need to be accepted by the people around us. Especially with fascists, whose group identity is based around excluding and hurting the outgroup, they’re stuck in a constant cycle of egging eachother on. One fascist says “lets beat up a black guy”, the others nod, and the person who feels most vulnerable to getting kicked out of the group tries to prove he belongs by saying “Nah, let’s KILL a black guy” repeat ad nauseam.