I was a counter battery radar operator. The systems I used 20 years ago had these neat things called electronic counter measures. I guess russia never got the message that it's not a smart idea to radiate in a zone with anti-radiation missiles.

Well Britain did a little colonizing in that area of the world.

Rule of Acquisition #45: Expand or die.

Rule of Acquisition #75: Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum.

Rule of Acquisition #9: Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.

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Don’t even have to go that far back. Look at Netflix removing the DnD Community episode because Chang dresses as a drow elf (black skin, white hair). He even says he’s a drow in the episode yet Netflix removed it from the series since it was “racist”. Without pirates that episode would quickly be forgotten.

I used to comment a lot on reddit

Same. I had a 15 year account with a couple hundred thousand karma and commented and posted a lot. If you piss off the people who actually use the site you will reap what you sow. Reddit should have known that since the exact scenario happened fir Digg when everyone migrated to reddit.

Kirk's leadership style:

What people don't realize is that this was actually said very sarcastically. The problem is it's so hard to read vulcans no one on Enterprise realized it at the time. For another example of this vulcan sass I give you T'Lyn whose emotional outbursts got her kicked off her vulcan vessel.

Geordi isn't really "blind" though, he just sees in a different way than other humans do

The devil is married?

Jim just wants to find out the secret to Chris' hair regimen.