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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 29 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Okay okay okay.

It's a funny meme, but Picard had more game than Kirk and it's not even close.

Kirk was a super nerd who did super nerd shit to beat a unbeatable test.

Picard got into bar fights with nausicans and threw down with klingons.

The only reason anyone thinks it's the other way around is their first officer.

Spock was the super level headed logical voice of reason, and anyone looks like a bad ass hunk in comparison.

In contrast, Riker would bang anything with a pulse that was willing. Arguably anything femme enough, or at least masc-stereotype enough, that also wanted him, was open for The Riker Maneuver. And anything standing in his way either gets intimidated or beaten down.

I challenge anyone to find mea being that looks like a slutty hothead in comparison to Riker.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

...... Okay find me another one.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 11 hours ago

Listen here you little shit...

Definitely out-sluts Riker, I can't see Riker hooking up with an insectoid.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah Riker has nothing on Captain Jack.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 62 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I won't stand for this horndog Picard erasure.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't remember all of them, but only a couple of those are legit he got game...

  • Jean Grey was a mate designed to fall in love with the person she first saw

  • Ardra was a con artist

  • Luxwanna, while weirdly in love with him, that scenario was to piss off someone else, nothing more

  • The last panel, that was a mental simulation of someone else's life he was living and they were already married before Picard was forced in.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Absolutely. Some of those were more to highlight his mystique and appeal. The simulation... he did eventually accept it as his reality and had kids. Is that coercion since it's part of a historical record? Very curious.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 14 points 16 hours ago

Right?! Picard could fucking get it.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 50 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Kirk was described by one of his peers at the Academy as "a pile of textbooks with legs."

Picard got stabbed in the heart during a game of space pool and had a laugh about it.

Kirk barely survived encountering Trelane by getting Trelane's parents involved.

Picard tangled with Q on a regular basis and continually maintained the respect and admiration of a nigh-omnipotent being.

Kirk fucked around.

Picard fucked hard.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

He only laughed because he knew his life was back on track from Q fucking it up.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He tells the story to Wesley in an earlier episode and includes that he laughed.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, that's because he knew he was on the right track. Prime directive baby, can't reveal details to big mouth crusher.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

I never thought of it like that.

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Janeway and Sisko aren’t in this scene because they’re out doing actual starfleet shit.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

By "Starfleet shit" you mean breaking the Prime Directive and committing genocide? That tracks.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean with the Borg, genocide really is the only option. I think it's stupid that nobody ever bothered to just build a fleet of piloted, cloaked warp missiles. The pilots don't even need to die, they can be in warp-capable shuttles that detach from the stealth missiles, leaving them to saturation-slam into every piece of Borg bullshit in system at warp 9.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

VOY s5e15 "Dark Frontier"

Janeway employed the beam over a photon torpedo method. Likely, they will have adapted since.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 26 points 18 hours ago

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"So, for the rest of these movies, no more diplomacy. You're going to make me a goddamn action hero!"

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 17 hours ago

That feel when you've been cucked by a ghost.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Season 3 of Picard refutes part of panel 2. Also, dozens? I can only remember David, though I’m not as well-versed in TOS.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 8 points 17 hours ago

After TNG there were no new generations. That ship might as well have been on a religious cruise.