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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • the thing about Jellico, that I don’t like is that he came into an established organizational structure and started changing it.

    Was he right? maybe. Sure. A lot of the changes he made, though weren’t necessarily right or wrong… they were different ways of being a leader. Should the senior officers adapted to Jellico? absolutely. But Jellico should have also adapted to the organizational structure he found himself in.

    Troi’s uniform, for example… he was right she should have been in a standard uniform… but his manner about expressing that was off. Partiularly as a temporary CO coming in as a substitute for Picard, because starfleet- probably at his recommendation- determined Ryker was unqualified. (and yes. Ryker was being a salty jackass.)

    His command of the D was on the order of days; and the changes he would make would take weeks to adjust to- and probably didn’t even get figured out before Jellico left.

    Even if it wasn’t because he wanted to flex on the command staff, it’s still stupid and indicative that he had no understanding of the existing organizational structure on the D. And any leader who comes into an established structure and starts demanding changes without understanding that structure is a bad leader. ESPECIALLY when their leadership is at best temporary.

    As far as the mission goes, yes. 100% he was right. but his leadership skills were still on the level of “Terrible retail manager”


  • this is awesome work.

    outta curosity, how do you feel about the Nova and Sydney classes?

    They may be my favorites, lol. Nova because it’s sleak and actually makes sense as a science platform. (unlike the galaxy class. too big, too resource intensive, too many crew. and what the hell is with all the families on board getting shot at?)

    I like the Sydney because it’s form follows function. it’s boxy, ugly, utilitarian. but it acutally makes sense. (Seriously… what the hell’s with the d’s compound curves? tons of wasted internal volume… exessive structural elements. Tons of vulnerabilities.)







    1. there are protests pretty much everywhere. persistent and on going.
    2. tearing down the east wing may have been retaliation for no kings 2 in which 7-8 million people turned up across the nation, setting records for turn out- at least as the largest turn out in US history; and I can think of a small handful globally that are larger.
    3. going on a general strike means not earning money, means not being able to feed your kids.
    4. If you’re wondering why we’re not protesting in DC…The US is the size of the EU. imagine going from Madrid to Amstardam. That’s the same straightline distance from me to DC. and I’m only in Minneapolis- people In LA? that’s more than double. forget people in Hawai’i, or any of the pacific Islanders. Or Alaska. driving, that’s a 16 hour drive, non stop, one way.

    It’s easy to sit there and feed into this narrative that americans are just going along with it. We’re not. you don’t hear about it because mainstream media here isn’t covering it. and no, we’re not asking you to come save us. if it comes to it- and right now, it’s looking like it will- we’re going to civil war.