To whom it may concern.
from hopesdead@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 05 Jun 23:29
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Solumbran@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 23:49 next collapse

I’d say that it doesn’t belong anywhere.

Kirk@startrek.website on 06 Jun 12:41 collapse

I don’t think starfleet captains have the authority to command the hearts and minds of their officers.

veeesix@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 01:28 next collapse

And after my shift?

zabadoh@ani.social on 06 Jun 21:51 collapse

I had hoped that the humans of the 25th Century Federation had evolved or developed educational, political , and other social systems to where bigotry wasn’t a large problem anymore.

Kind of like getting rid of money.

Otherwise, there will always be a dark undercurrent of prejudice and hatred in all human dealings, and maybe the Romulans, Klingons, and other antagonistic spacefaring civilizations are justified in not wanting to deal with a human-led Federation.

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website on 06 Jun 20:16 collapse

Woah isn’t that exactly what he himself tries to do in Undiscovered Country?

hopesdead@startrek.website on 06 Jun 21:34 next collapse

Specifically in “Balance of Terror” he is telling Stiles that it was unacceptable to judge Spock for looking the same as a Romulan, fully knowing he was a different species.

EDIT: in STVI, I think the context is being angry for the death of David.

Cort@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 23:54 next collapse

Was that before they discovered the Romulans were long lost Vulcans?

MisanthropiCynic@lemmy.today on 08 Jun 13:02 collapse

Balance Of Terror was when/how they discovered it

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website on 07 Jun 02:26 collapse

Ya in his quarters he decries the Klingon bastards that killed his son. But at the dinner with Gorkon he drinks and toasts with klingons. He leaves it in his quarters, which of course backfires.

hopesdead@startrek.website on 07 Jun 02:31 collapse

Hadn’t they been drinking Romulan ale at that point which he regrets?

MisanthropiCynic@lemmy.today on 08 Jun 13:03 collapse

Yet he still did the right thing in VI despite his bias. (And if you watch the Orville, there’s a character in season 3 that has the same arc).