From my collection of OC Trek memes. Not Princess Bride but close.

PunnyName , 9 months ago

What does anyone need with a starship, really?

TonyToniToneOfficial , 9 months ago

Jefferson wanted one, but had to settle for an airplane for a while

aeronmelon , 9 months ago

Underrated joke.

7of9 , 9 months ago

No one’s gonna get it now

FlyingSquid , 9 months ago

No one sure needs one in NuTrek when you can use transporters to send people across the galaxy.

VindictiveJudge , 9 months ago

Transporters are way less useful on their own than you think. Take the following scenario…

Centuries ago, your people developed transporters. You improved the tech until you could beam to the next star system. Now you have a network of them spanning hundreds of light years. You can cross your entire interstellar civilization in minutes. Your people discovered warp a couple decades ago, but it’s merely a curiosity next to your transporters and wasn’t developed much.

One day, you encounter a new alien race called the Romulans. They use primitive warp drive ships rather than transporters, so you don’t think much of them. Things are a bit tense for a few years, and then they demand your unconditional submission to the Romulan Star Empire. This is absurd, so you obviously refuse.

Three days later, refugees start beaming in from one of the outer colonies. Reports indicate that none of your soldiers ever saw a Romulan. Rather than beaming down soldiers to fight, the Romulans levelled the colony with energy weapons from high orbit. Your forces tried to board the enemy ships, but they had some kind of energy field around them preventing transport. A lucky shot from a planet-side cannon firing beyond its rated range managed to find the mark, but was blocked by that same energy field just meters away from the hull.

It’s been three weeks and now the Romulan fleet is in orbit of the homeworld. Bolts of green light start falling from the sky, obliterating the capital city, but leaving the capital building intact. Your transporters are still unable to pierce their shields. Your scientists think they’ll crack it eventually, but they need weeks and you only have minutes.

With all the major population centers destroyed, the Romulan commander repeats their ultimatum: unconditional surrender or complete destruction. You accept their demands. Three Romulans beam into your office, the first time since the war began that your people have come face to face. Two are holding rifles. The other is holding a document and a pen.

JWBananas , 9 months ago

You mean like an Iconian gateway?

FlyingSquid , 8 months ago

Yes, except not unfathomable technology far beyond Starfleet. Instead, just something Scotty dreamed up.

The_Picard_Maneuver , 9 months ago

Humanity really started to thrive when we encountered the Falkans.

swab148 , 9 months ago

Gotta get those eucalyptus leaves somehow.

famousringo , 9 months ago

sh.itjust.works/post/1580927 🐨

satanmat , 9 months ago

Such a perfect use of this …. Damn.

GreenMario , 9 months ago

I don’t know much about Gods, but my wife… she has this thing for Q. Says he can just appear anywhere, no need for a starship. These things, they bother me.

FauxPseudo OP , 9 months ago

My wife also has a thing for Q. And Worf, and Data.

GreenMario , 9 months ago

She’s got good taste lol

stephfinitely , 9 months ago

This makes me think of Star Gate more then Star Trek.

Sharpiemarker , 9 months ago

Murder by Death?

FlyingSquid , 9 months ago

I know it’s not Star Trek, but I just saw it elsewhere and it was too close to this thread not to share:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f71961da-6125-4dfb-bd1d-efc98910ad74.png

Kolanaki , 9 months ago

Picard: “So as you can see, we are just ordinary people like you. We just have much more advanced technology.”

Primitive Alien: “I see. May I ask a favor?”

Picard: “Anything.”

PA: “Bring back my dead family members!”

Picard: https://yiffit.net/pictrs/image/31398bf3-b09c-4324-b44a-81da7e5ebfb1.jpeg