Barbossa should have been a starfleet captain

The hat rivalry with Guinan would’ve been intense.

Reminds me of the hats in the Dune miniseries.
I imagine Barbosa and Janeway would have gotten along
Ask him if he’ll ever violate the prime directive:

He would’ve made admiral for sure!
More like, Command’s personal opinion…
There’s a difference between understanding a rule and it’s rationale and breaking it because you know it isn’t ideal in this circumstance, and breaking a rule without a full understanding of why it is there and what the results may be, I suppose.
That’s sort of how I feel about art. People like Picasso’s weird paintings because they know he can paint conventionally. Cubism was an intentional choice.
Once you know rules, wisdom and creativity know when to break them.
I appreciated that in SNW they called it out as an odd name when SF adopted it officially.

Prime Directive? Schmime Directive!

We call this Shmort Shmartial to Smorder!







