Which branch of Starfleet?

[Chancellor Valium]

I don't think I actually have any talents useful to Starfleet. Unless they need people with a foot in both history and archaeology. Would that indicate sciences?

Ideally, I'd go for Intelligence...

[Nate the Great]

So you'd probably want to hop into the Guardian of Forever, zap over to the Stargate universe, and join Daniel Jackson's team, huh? Hang out with Rothman!

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I wonder if Hornblower and Kirk really have any simularities.

Hornblower shared Kirk's isolation, and he did bed the odd beautiful woman (adulterously, no less), but there weren't any three-breasted green aliens. Hornblower also suffered from a lack of self-confidence and self worth: he achieved great things through his native intelligence and wit, but he never felt he deserved rewards and praise for them, thinking he was only doing his duty.

So you're a "re not er" fan. I'm on the fence.

I'm Canadian. I'm a fan of spelling things properly.

Hey, I'm sure any field you can major in at Starfleet Academy can have missions associated with it. We just never see them because sloshing chemicals from one flask to another is kinda McCoy's schick, and we don't want to be stepping on his toes, do we? Besides, how dramatic is "boldly going" to the lab?

Well, doing research in chemistry can be done much more efficiently from a permanent address, rather than a mobile starship. It's not something that requires access to deep space facilities, and would actually be hampered on a cramped ship with limited space for equipment and storage that routinely gets knocked around "like a bunch of fireflies in a rambunctious toddler's jar."

[Nate the Great]

Oh, a language purist. I suppose you're a proponent of maintaining the use of "ae" as in aether.

Oh, and I define proper spelling as "anything the dictionary says it can be." Ergo, center and theater are just as proper.

Oh, and I don't understand the "Canadian="perfect" spelling" hypothesis. How does that follow?

Oh, and I'm sure that on starships there are labs with independant inertial dampeners, so that even if YOU'RE banging from wall to wall, your chemicals will be just fine.

[Gatac]

Intelligence.

(It bears repetition.)

Gatac

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

So you'd probably want to hop into the Guardian of Forever, zap over to the Stargate universe, and join Daniel Jackson's team, huh? Hang out with Rothman!

I would, but I know next-to-nothing about exo-archaeology (yes, it's spelled "ae" ), or the Ancients, and his theories on ancient Egypt are harder to swallow than Mt. Rushmore.

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Oh, a language purist.

We're everywhere!

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

I suppose you're a proponent of maintaining the use of "ae" as in aether.

And "oe". As in oeconomy. And 'connexion', 'reflexion' etc. But *NOT* "crucifiction" - that would mean 'moulding into the shape of a cross'.

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Oh, and I define proper spelling as "anything the dictionary says it can be." Ergo, center and theater are just as proper.

So if I become boss-man at the OED, and for the next edition decide that you can spell "centre" as qzhokhtir, you'd agree with that?

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Oh, and I don't understand the "Canadian="perfect" spelling" hypothesis. How does that follow?

Canadian spelling = English spelling. English spelling of English language = correct.
Now answer a simple question: Does the above progression seem logical to you?

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

I don't think I actually have any talents useful to Starfleet. Unless they need people with a foot in both history and archaeology. Would that indicate sciences?

You never know. Could come in handy in the event you meet anyone named Khan.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Oh, and I don't understand the "Canadian="perfect" spelling" hypothesis. How does that follow?

Small joke. My smiley must've gotten eaten.

Canadian spelling = English spelling.

Combination of the two, actually. Theoretically, either/or is fair game here, but good-naturedly tweaking American sensibilities is also a Canadian past time. *g*

[Nate the Great]

Uh, as long as the Canadian culture contains elements of the French culture, a dollar that is so close to ours, and insists on reaping all of the benefits of being American without paying any of the associated costs, I'll never agree that "Canadian=English."

Hey, I love Canada and it's residents, but Canucks are just as fallable as Yankees in my book.

I could make a joke about how tweaking fun at Americans has to be your only pasttimes because there's "nothing" else to do up there, but enough of you know that I'm Minnesotan that the flaming would bounce back faster than I could say "yah, sure, you betcha."

[mudshark]

Minnesotans are really Canadians, anyway, eh?

[Nate the Great]

I suppose in the past that was true, but, at least here in The Cities, that's really no longer the case. We're a major immigration destination, for some reason. Why, I don't know. Didn't their travel agent tell them that Minnesota defines "post-apocalyptic winter weater?" Sheesh, that should be Basic Travel Agent Information 101. I was born and bred here and so were my ancestors going back generations, so I know how to deal with fifty below. I pity these guys who were living in deserts and swampland two years ago.

Go out into the country, though, and yeah, we're still basically good, humble people. I've met them. They're great. They're like Canadians who use the Imperial system.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Uh, as long as the Canadian culture contains elements of the French culture, a dollar that is so close to ours, and insists on reaping all of the benefits of being American without paying any of the associated costs, I'll never agree that "Canadian=English."

English spelling of French is just the same as the French spelling of French

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Hey, I love Canada and it's residents, but Canucks are just as fallable as Yankees in my book.

Indeed.

[Celeste]

Dental Hygienist, Baby. I'm so totaly for the Medical carear track. Althought the Character I play on TV is Security.

[Nate the Great]

Oh, another graduate of the Austin Powers School of Speaking. I meet more of you guys every day. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Dentists in Starfleet? I thought the Cardassians kidnapped all of those guys years ago.