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Reminded me for some reason of the description of what "catastrophic damage" is in the board game Starfleet Battles. Not necessarily the level of the nacelles falling off the ship, but a bit more than the captain's chess board slipping off the table.

I'm all for (re)planting forests, but for the purpose of biodiversity loss. It won't put a dent in our carbon problem. It can't...we've released millions of years of plant life carbon collection in a century. Which is why CDR is also a fallacy as a solution, it cannot scale to even balance out yearly emissions, much less what's already in the air and oceans that's driving all the problems we face.

Prediction - we as a global society won't change until we're forced to by necessity (probably scarcity of resources), and even then we'll try and fight it with measures like geoengineering to keep doing things a little longer. As individuals we just have to do the best we can locally to prepare and adapt for a changing future, don't expect help from the powers that be or some future tech that circumvents physics.

Only if it's a federally approved REAL ID license.

Huge scale carbon sequestration is the only direct answer to the situation, anything else is just dealing with the symptoms or buying some time. It's quite possible that even if we could drop to below 300ppm overnight we'd still have to ride out the climate inertia that's already in play, big things don't just stop on a dime.

The comments in this article list a lot of problems though, with the biggest one being the lack of any numbers to even evaluate anything. Can it scale? What's the side effects of taking that biomass out of the cycle (and not just pure carbon blocks)? What's the net energy usage per ton sequestered? What other finite resources will be needed instead of somewhere else?

I mean, sure...doing something is better than not, but only if it makes some difference. And I haven't seen anything that begins to make a dent in the problem, especially when we aren't even fixing the emissions themself, something we do have more control over. We should be doing everything that has a factor, but we're so reluctant to change because we still think we have time to do it later.

It's not about tasting good, it's about sending a message. - Joker

If you really want to get the full idea of what Kirk as a captain is like, dive into the old paperback novels. He has a presence of command that many good writers have expanded on, and there's a reason he's a legend among the many Starfleet commanders. Although I have a head canon that anyone getting to the point of captaining a starship has similar awesomeness in their character that can face just about anything head on. A 23rd/24th century version of the steely-eyed missile man.

Which puts a new light on the various captains in all the series that "failed" in some way. Decker and the rest. They were Kirk level, and what they went through still broke them.

Given that was the very first filmed episode (as a second pilot) it can be forgiven (The Man Trap was the first aired). I can't find a reason for picking "T" later on in the series, but it sounds better than "R" when announcing his full name to an alien ship. "Tiberius" didn't even come along until a later animated episode, and still wasn't canon except to fans until it was used in The Undiscovered Country.

Flying with a payload requires a lot more lift which goes down as temps go up, plus it could be just the heating of the motors under load that have a certain limit before they tend to fail.

I know changing anything is an uphill battle, but why not change a half hour once to average out things and be done?

Airlines aren't run like police departments.

The latter is what Sulu did, but there's more backstory to why he made that choice back then. Obviously from the movies he changed as a captain to do whatever it took when the assistance was needed by friends.

That game option is the perfect Starfleet choice, but I think canon of the test was that once you got in close enough to try a rescue it ended up that the Maru was a ruse. Of course if you didn't do any rescue it would end up being a true ship, but that's the no-win part. The game allowing a partial rescue made it not a "test", but an actual reality with some chance. Which was Kirk's point...reality can hand you many more possibilities than a test ever can.