"Old age and treachery always triumph over youth and a smart mouth.
Sounds like a threat. That you're ready and willing to send the youthful cadets you claim to be so connected with to their deaths if they annoy you so much. Or hell, even if they don't.
"A smart mouth isn't worth a damn."
Pretty rich coming from a people who make everything sarcastic, ironic, and quippy because they're so allergic to genuine feeling, emotion, and seriousness. All while quoting and praising a notorious smartass satirist like Oscar Wilde.
Anyway, they're not making their ideal "post-scarcity" Communist utopia future look so ideal when they still need to subject their students to humiliation rituals like this. Means they haven't drilled it into society's head yet.
In DS9, the Dominion War and the existence of Section 31 were used to attack the utopic view of Star Trek. Section 31 was the secret Stasi making everything seem so Utopic.
Sounds like a threat. That you're ready and willing to send the youthful cadets you claim to be so connected with to their deaths if they annoy you so much. Or hell, even if they don't.
Pretty rich coming from a people who make everything sarcastic, ironic, and quippy because they're so allergic to genuine feeling, emotion, and seriousness. All while quoting and praising a notorious smartass satirist like Oscar Wilde.
Anyway, they're not making their ideal "post-scarcity" Communist utopia future look so ideal when they still need to subject their students to humiliation rituals like this. Means they haven't drilled it into society's head yet.
In DS9, the Dominion War and the existence of Section 31 were used to attack the utopic view of Star Trek. Section 31 was the secret Stasi making everything seem so Utopic.
It's absolutely a threat.