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January 17, 2008

QotD: Age and aging

Sometimes I suspect that everyone under the age of 50 or so thinks they need to get a promotion every few years in order to think of themselves as successful just because the characters on Star Trek all did.

It was noticeable that in the early series, pretty much every StarFleet admiral was either corrupt, insane or a traitor. They only seemed to ease off this unusual hiring policy once Kirk, Scotty, et al reached pensionable age.

Stuart Burnfield, posting to the Techwr-L mailing list, 2007-10-24

Posted by Nicholas at January 17, 2008 12:02 AM
Comments
Yeah... except... they didn't. Every other Admiral in TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT was also corrupt, insane, or a traitor. Or an alien who had assimilated/used the Admiral's form for their own ends. It is one of the annoying Trek-wide phenomena that contributed to my defection from the franchise. Posted by: Chris Taylor at January 19, 2008 11:28 AM


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