Prodigy memes? Neat.
My mental justification is that the Tardigrades were either extinct at that point (which is stated to have happened at some point prior to the end of DISCO S3), or what few post-Message in a Bottle admirals might know about the classified project couldn't justify making them suffer-- because, y'know, that is a thing that happens with the spore drive.
Hell, even if it was an option, would Janeway go for it? We saw her get rightly pissed at the equinox crew for running their ship off space aliens' suffering. and I feel like the next-closest alternative known at the time (genemodding someone with Tardigrade DNA and also making them suffer through the jump) might also fly in the face of her highly principled stance.
The defining characteristic of US classified documents is that their release would cause some degree of damage to US national security, ranging from harmful to gravely harmful. here's a Cornell Law writeup that squares with what I know here.
Regardless of any opinions one might have as to the use and application of classification, in the eyes of the US government taking these documents without authorization is harmful by definition.
This is incredibly stupid.
I laughed.
In fairness, they did that on Voyager first.
it has been said that they're all from SNW so here's a list of names for looking them up, left to right, top to bottom:
- Lt. Cmdr. Una "Number One" Chin-Riley & Lt. Spock
- Ens. Nyota Uhura
- Lt. Erica Ortegas
- Dr./Cmdr. Joseph M'benga
- Lt. Hemmer
- Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh
- Cpt. Angel (non-Starfleet)
- F Cpt. Christopher Pike
- Nurse/Lt. Cmdr Christine Chapel
(edit for minor pedantry, both Pike and Uhura got promoted over the course of the current show so it's entirely possible that the ranks I listed don't quite line up with the pictures at the time but that's too much damn work for me so you're getting current ranks as of SNW ep 20)
There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo of Stonn in Strange New Worlds IIRC. He was one of T'Pring's coworkers. Maybe she just got closer to him there.
Look, I'm just sayin', if you know there's a particular haircut that looks good on your family's skull shape, it might be logical to stick with it.
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that you have two pairs of the same person and that more than half of these examples (Solkar, Spock, Sarek) are sourced from a single family.
sorry, it's the future, these are apparently mandatory now.
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eva_sieve
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Vader at the peak of his power is pretty crazy. IMO it'd take a lot of drones to overwhelm him in a direct confrontation, but a cube has drones in the tens of thousands, so that's at least in the realm of plausbility.
Most interesting cross-universe interaction is if the Force can be used to resist transporters, because spacing Vader is probably the best way to get rid of the threat. I think that's a moot point though since the borg can (and do) blow up their own ships to eliminate even minor threats (see: the Borg Queen blowing up a cube of 64k drones for a couple deviants in Unimatrix Zero). So, their best chance is to transwarp to the middle of nowhere and self destruct the cube he's on. If the ship's detonation doesn't take him out, just count on the cold equations of space to do the rest.
Conclusion: Darth Vader would pose a grave threat to any Borg facility he should choose to board, but the Collective is resilient enough to not really care about any damage he could do.