on terrorism

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Sisko: As long as you terrorize while wearing your uniform, it's okay!
Janeway: "Now listen here, you little shit.."
- Janeway: "half of my crew can be terrorists"
Counterpoint to Sisko: Javier, the Marquis sympathizer. Sisko went after Javier like he had killed half of all DS9.
- Eddington was Valjean to Sisko's Javier, not Javier himself.
- HE BETRAYED HIS UNIFORM
  
  But he was a damned hero king in Krull!
  
  Isn't that the kind of thing poisoning the atmosphere of several planets would be called?
- Which is exactly what Eddington wanted!
“Also, one of my officers is a retired terrorist who still behaves like a terrorist most of the time, and another officer is a full-time terrorist (and also not an officer).”
- I have been trying to find the one of these where he's a pony for so long
- And one of them dabbled in it because he's kind of a prude.
- "And then there's the time my officer took a vacation on planet vacation, and decided to do a terrorism."
- And then there's the tailor... the less said, the better.
  
  It's insidious!
  
  Is he also a terrorist?
  
  (Psst, that’s the not-an-officer.)
So, like, in that episode where there’s some assholes showing up to pyroform that planet with the “illegal” colonists…. And Data uses that hand phaser to nuke an aqueduct.
Based take from Gabriel Bell.
- Gabriel Bell pumps his shotgun in response
Janeway: personally terrorises the borg
- They were hoarding coffee. What did they expect?
  
  A medal. How many Tuvixen did they have?
- I like to imagine that, at a certain point, the Borg just changed course, when they saw the Voyager in the distance
  
  We are the... NOPE
- The Borg file a complaint with the galactic commissioner.
- digital screeching sounds in the distance
"Sometimes war requires you to terrorise the terrorists" Captain Sisko, probably.
"as a treat"
- Kira fucking loved coaching the Cardassians and storming the citadel with Damar
  
  Damar: How do we combat the Dominion
  Kira: I'll gladly explain, step by step, how we kicked your lizard-ass off our planet
And that's why Ensign Ro never got promoted...
- That's okay, she got to be an Admiral in another universe!
- Can you imagine if Ro and Kim had a baby? It'd never be promoted past cadet
- Que? Terrorists didn’t exist before ‘01? The IRA being the most famous organisation probably in English speaking territories through the 70s and into the 00s wouldn’t be part of their history being from earth? I’m confused
  
  Maybe they are young? It certainly existed before 01. But it was after 9/11 that it became a buzzword that was over applied constantly.
  Like some guy shoots up his office? Terrorism? No he’s just a nut. Traditionally terrorism had some kind of political or social component to it.
  
  I recall the IRA was framed differently from within the USA. It was a religious thing. Like some kind of continuation of the American Revolution, or some insanity like that. It also probably justified US meddling elsewhere in the world to similar effect. Gaddafi's supply of arms is exactly the same kind of thing as the US did in many other places. So labeling that activity terrorist in the media might be politically inconvenient in the USA. It is only terrorism if you're the country on the receiving end, freedom fighters on the other, and political calculus from outside.

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