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  • Rookeh@startrek.websitetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s the craziest or most outrageous (maybe even NSFW) incident that led to someone being fired from your workplace?
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    2 months ago

    Not exactly crazy but just mysterious…this was at a software company I worked at many years ago. It was one of the developers in the team adjacent to ours who I worked with occasionally - nice enough person, really friendly and helpful, everyone seemed to get on with them really well and generally seemed like a pretty competent developer. Nothing to suggest any kind of gross misconduct was happening.

    Anyway, we all went off to get lunch one day and came back to an email that this person no longer worked at the company, effective immediately. Never saw them again.

    No idea what went down - but the culture at that place actually became pretty toxic after a while, which led to a few people (including me) quitting - so maybe they dodged a bullet.

  • Rookeh@startrek.websitetoDaystrom Institute@startrek.website•Does/can the Doctor hold rank?English
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    2 months ago

    In Voyager, he’s shown to have pips. In fact, switching him over to Command mode shows a deliberate animation of pips showing up on hid collar.

    The EMH is never shown with pips on Voyager. The “ECH” was shown with pips appearing on its first appearance, however:

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    The entire ECH subroutine was created as the result of The Doctor’s daydreaming, so the visualisation of a rank appearing out of thin air makes sense in that context.

    The only other time the ECH mode was used in a genuine emergency (Season 7, Episodes 16/17), he did not have pips.

  • Rookeh@startrek.websitetoDaystrom Institute@startrek.website•Can holograms be transported?English
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    2 months ago

    There was an entire TNG episode (Season 6, Episode 12) whose plot centered around this:

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    Moriarty was reactivated by mistake, and took the ship hostage, demanding to be able to leave the holodeck.

    Geordi and Data spent half the episode experimenting with beaming (inanimate) holographic objects off the holodeck, to no avail. With that said:

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    Their transporter turned out to be a holographic fake (and so was Geordi), so who knows if the results were valid.

  • Rookeh@startrek.websitetoDaystrom Institute@startrek.website•Does/can the Doctor hold rank?English
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    2 months ago

    Even without an official rank, on Voyager he was still considered a Department Head and (more importantly) the CMO, which gave significant authority (even exceeding the Captain on certain medical matters), regardless of whether or not he was ever given any pips. The same thing would likely apply on subsequent postings.

    If he ever had to be assigned a rank for clerical/administrative purposes, it would probably be the default required rank for a Starfleet CMO candidate for the class of ship he was serving on.