It probably boils down to Boimler being a sad sack who still isn't confident enough to stand up for himself.

It's an infographic for children...? I think it's meant to be simple.

I'm sure 18+ people should already have a more nuanced view of what those words mean. And if they don't I'm sure there are other materials they can peruse to help them understand.

[-] crazycanadianloon@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She'll always be Stacey Carosi to me.

I believe M'Benga that it was self defense. If you think about how Dak'Rah was goading him it was obvious that he wanted to suss out what our good doctor knew about what happened in J'Gal. Remember, as M'Benga was killing his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in command he was fleeing and knew there was someone out there who knows the truth of what happened. Given the large number of casualties, he most likely is on high alert when he comes across anyone who "was there". He figures Ortegas and Chapel don't have it in them to assassinate 3 Klingons so that leaves M'Benga who (upon rewatch) has this dark edgy energy, so... maybe? When he finally gets the truth out of M'Benga he has no choice but to kill the person who can disrupt his new cushy life.

Thinking about it, either M'Benga dies or he dies. Let's say M'Benga spares his life and exposes him for the coward that he is. He tried to kill civilians! His own people too! The Federation could never allow him to continue his cushy life and his fellow Klingons would never allow him to live after finding out. To not make that attempt to kill M'Benga first would be an illogical choice.

Also other questions to consider:

Did M'Benga hold back during the sparring so as not to give away his abilities?

How threatening was Rah? What if Rah had just said something like "I'm going to make sure no one knows the real story" and M'Benga takes that to mean Rah will kill him at the first justifiable opportunity? So might as well defend himself now?

M'Benga would have to know exactly where to stab so that the 2nd Klingon heart doesn't keep him alive. Otherwise what are the chances of hitting that right spot by luck?

Hey man, I like your creativity.

Same! The only thing missing was a cigar in his hands!

I think it's not just because Una pointed out there was crew down there but specifically told Spock they had to (should) stay close. He took it literally as a command whereas he really should have evaluated it for himself.

One thought just occurred to me... let's say "Khan Noonien Singh" as a real person was made up because Roddenberry just didn't want to let the execs win. Why would he then name Dr. Soong what he did in TNG? He couldn't have liked those strings of syllables that much...?

From what I understand, admins here are literally paying out of pocket AND volunteering their time to host us. Just as when I invite my friends over to my house for a BBQ, if one of them brings a friend that starts shitting in my pool, I tell them to GTFO and probably stop hosting BBQs for a while even though my friends who DIDN'T shit in my pool still end up suffering the consequences.

Thanks, current Fediverse admins!

Wow, can I just add all the communities from mander.xyz and then filter out what I don't want? I like the content but I'm starting to try to consolidate my testing IDs into one instance. It's a feature that I have to purposely go add other communities on other instances and the only "defaults" I get are the ones on my local instance?

I wonder if there is a way to have a feed that is startrek.website + mander.xyz but exclude other non-sciencey discourse from ala .world or .ml. "All" right now does not options to filter those out...

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