But if i play it up as for the glory of the federation and send them away i can get rid of all the rickety old deathtrap ships, stupid officers and other people I hate while at the same time slightly annoying the borg for a few minutes.
darthdavid wrote:But if i play it up as for the glory of the federation and send them away i can get rid of all the rickety old deathtrap ships, stupid officers and other people I hate while at the same time slightly annoying the borg for a few minutes.
But that is the entire Federation to begin with!
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." -George Carlin (1937-2008)
"Have some of you Americans actually seen Football? Of course there are 0-0 draws but that doesn't make them any less exciting." -Dr Roberts, with quite possibly the dumbest thing ever said in 10 years of SDNet.
Re-evalutate the army first. Form a 10 man squad, with 8 rifles, a LAW type weapon, and a Squad level machine gun. 4-5 of these in a platoon.
Conduct holodeck sims comparing the new platoon to the old platoon. The sim will be an attack by Klingon (or Romulan or Borg) warriors. Set the sim to last for 20 minutes, and the squad type that killed the most will be adopted.
FBHthelizardmage wrote:just after the return of voyager you have won the federation presidency with a massive majority and a reforming agenda, what reforms will you make?
How will you improve ST ship and tech designs?
I would declare myself Enlightened Leader, a position greater than the Presidency which would be held for eternity, including by my embalmed corpse after death, start massive executions of incompetent designers (who would officially be "sent to New Zealand for medical treatment"), and begin a large military buildup geared around fighting the borg and extending the enlightened rule of the Federation in the Gamma Quadrant, building competent military designs with inspiration from Earth's past and through the trial-error-execution method of experimenting with things that actually work until we find equipment (and designers which can make it) that does. We would also change the uniforms to a much nicer and more military appearence, and start May Day Parades in San Francisco.
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Knife wrote:The Darkling was on the right track, me thinks.
A massive reorganization of SF. The bastards have gotten us into three major conflicts in the last 8 years and have only won by luck and the skin of our teeth.
Purge the Admiralty and split the fleet into two organizations. One organization dedicated to defense, the Coast Guard aspect is intreging yet would probablly be just a major command with in the fleet. The other would be a reconnisance and survey group that explores and performs first contact and the such with small ships ie the Nova.
Activily recruit from the corps of ship Captains that fought in the war and proved to be tacticly and strategicly adept. Promote them to the Admiralty and have them start to reorganize SF into a military space navy. Go through SF Academy with a machinegun and reorganise it to train new recruits for a warfighting navy instead of technobabble.
Develope dedicated warships with the latest tech and task them to defend the Federation and project power to defend its interests. Pulse phasers, new shielding, new designs made with war fighting in mind, new engines like the slipstream, scrap the batman armor though. In my mind it is a waste of energy to transport armor to your hull for combat. Just have the fucking armor bolted on and use that energy for the fucking shields.
Develope some sort of economy. Just about every major empire has an economy based off of money of one form or another. The Federation needs to develope its own form of credits to buy, sell, and trade with these empires for its own benifit.
Shrink the goverment, de-centralize the Federation, give more freedom to the citizens. I am a conservitive after all.
You're now appointed the head of the Red Na.. Err, Starfleet. However, due to concerns over your dedication to the Enlightened Principles of the Glorious Federation Leadership, we have decided that in addition to your proposals, a special new branch of Section 31 shall be implemented, consisting of political officers which shall be assigned alongside all Red Na-err, Starfleet officers to make sure that you always follow the Enlightened Principles of the Glorious Federation Leadership.
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Steve wrote:And this is why you insisted I had to listen to "Song of Oil Workers"?!
Petrochemical extraction workers and petrochemical processing workers are a vital part of the economy now that all replicators are devoted to the mass production of the armaments needed to spread Enlightened thought, Comrade! We must sing songs in honour of their ceaseless labour for the State and the People!
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Thank you, Comrade Asako, for making my morning a little more surreal.
"Carriers dispense fighters, which dispense assbeatings." - White Haven
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If only one rock and roll song echoes into tomorrow
There won't be anything to keep you from the distant morning glow.
I'm not a man. I just portrayed one for 15 years.
You're now appointed the head of the Red Na.. Err, Starfleet. However, due to concerns over your dedication to the Enlightened Principles of the Glorious Federation Leadership, we have decided that in addition to your proposals, a special new branch of Section 31 shall be implemented, consisting of political officers which shall be assigned alongside all Red Na-err, Starfleet officers to make sure that you always follow the Enlightened Principles of the Glorious Federation Leadership.
Well, SF does like its traditions based on old Earth. Zampilot (sp?) would be an appropraite title me thinks, under my feeble understanding of Russian.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
I've just been elected Reichspresident of the Feder.....errr..."President"...
So I do a little law passing, and then burn down the Federation
council building with my cronies, blame it on the Dominion shape shifters,
and have myself crowned Führer of the Deutsches Reic....err Federation.
More to come as I think 'em up
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
I immediately carry out the Night of the Long Knifes and ruthlessly purge
Starfleet of it's high level and mid-level officers, all except those who show
an inkling of tactical brilliance and strategic brilliance.
I then begin building up the Kreigsmarine, "War Navy", as a completely
separate service from Starfleet, which is rendered impotent and reduced
to the level of the Coast Guard.
My new ships will be large, and heavily armored, relying on large fusion
power plants to move them around, with small anti-matter reactors used
only to supply power to the Warp Drives (and there will be REAL failsafes
installed on each micro M/AM reactor).
More to come.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Take a machine gun to the existing ship design teams, or better yet let them and there "brilliance" defect to the enemy, that should set them back a good twenty years.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Probably some sort of long-term political and economic reform first. Defense reform as well, but not huge outlays in spending at first. That can wait a bit - the Federation's enemies are incompetent anyways.
Once the economy is up to speed and the politics reformed and the military competently trained, we can use the economy to re-arm and refit the military to something sensible.
An idea for properly re-militarizing Starfleet: Pick about 100 or so of the least militaristically-inclined captains, forcibly retire them with generous pensions and "gently suggest" that they pool those pensions to start the modern equivalent of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; then once they get that up and running, start demilitarizing Starfleet's exploration assets and transferring them to WHOI.
"Carriers dispense fighters, which dispense assbeatings." - White Haven
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If only one rock and roll song echoes into tomorrow
There won't be anything to keep you from the distant morning glow.
I'm not a man. I just portrayed one for 15 years.
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Take a machine gun to the existing ship design teams, or better yet let them and there "brilliance" defect to the enemy, that should set them back a good twenty years.
Actually, we have it all planned out from the trials of the entire Galaxy
Class design team before the People's Court headed by Dr. Freisler,
to Picard's - he'll stand for high crimes and treason for his refusal
to use the paradoxal math trick on the Borg with Hugh.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
phongn wrote:Probably some sort of long-term political and economic reform first. Defense reform as well, but not huge outlays in spending at first. That can wait a bit - the Federation's enemies are incompetent anyways.
No you can't. The political end of the Federation is severely incompetent - 3 major
wars in less than 8 years....you have got to move FAST, and damn the
consequences!
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Uraniun235 wrote:I *STILL* want to know where all these competent officers you want to replace Starfleet's officer corps with will magically come from.
Promote them from the enlisted ranks if you have to. Napoleon made Sergeants into Marshals almost overnight and they performed competently handling corps under his overall leadership.
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phongn wrote:Probably some sort of long-term political and economic reform first. Defense reform as well, but not huge outlays in spending at first. That can wait a bit - the Federation's enemies are incompetent anyways.
No you can't. The political end of the Federation is severely incompetent - 3 major
wars in less than 8 years....you have got to move FAST, and damn the
consequences!
I know the Federation is incompetent when it comes to stopping war, but it seems that their enemies' militaries are so damned incompetent that even Starfleet can handle them.
