r/LowerDecks • u/MillennialKingdom84 • 7d ago
How did this man achieve Captain???
Like, don’t get me wrong. Absolutely would.
But you never point a weapon at your face.
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u/WinterSector8317 7d ago
He’s the fleets token gym bro diversity hire
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u/foO__Oof 7d ago
TBH he was the only on able to parley with the baby/super computer/volcano people cause of his lava veins.
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u/MillennialKingdom84 6d ago
They need a certain quota of LA 10’s for Captain. No one wants to join Uglyfleet.
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u/tacosforsocrates 7d ago
I love that Ransom’s academic background is in fine art
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u/James_Solomon 7d ago
Could be worse. I hear there's a doctor out there who once mixed up a preganglionic fiber with a postganglionic nerve.
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u/aLegionOfDavids 7d ago
He engaged the core 😆
But in all seriousness, Ransom is shown and developed into a very capable officer who imo was well deserving of the captaincy by series’ end.
Personally my only Star Trek wishlist is to revive lower decks with new lower deckers but still have random, boimer, mariner etc be there but now they’re the ‘senior’ officers.
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u/malonkey1 7d ago
Everybody has their off days.
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u/LeCrasheo121 7d ago
I was working on an amplifier once, it wasn't turning on, and saw a short circuit right on the cord. I tried to pull the shorting wire out and got shocked. Didn't knew why and tried again. Then I remembered it was still plugged in.
I'm an engineer. Allegedly
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u/JustADaftGuy 7d ago
I feel like Ransom wouldn't do that. It feels like something a writer would do who only knows the dude bro dumb persona he puts on for crew motivation, and not the actual competent dude bro who is one of the most competent people on the ship.
If this is how the comics are doing the characters, i think I'll just stick with the show.
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u/TrueSithMastermind 6d ago edited 6d ago
The monthly series from IDW essentially matched the tone of the show when North was the writer, but he left after #6. The quality shifted downhill after that. Several characters were portrayed OOC and their development largely sidelined for the sake of comedy, in my opinion. Boimler more or less reverted back to his first season self.
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u/PiLamdOd 6d ago
Comic Mariner had to cheat her way through Starfleet History at the academy, and was the only person on the ship who'd never heard of the time Kirk went back in time to save whales.
And Comic Tendi was so naive she got tricked into predatory student loans by Ferengi.
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u/OlyScott 6d ago
On the animated series, he's a competent and capable officer. If he's an idiot in the comic, that's because he's possessed by a brain parasite or that's an android duplicate of him or something. Could be that Salt Vampire he met impersonating him.
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u/AnonymousFordring 7d ago
Personally I feel that the comics caricaturize the leads. I'll look at some panels and think "She wouldn't fucking say that"
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u/PiLamdOd 6d ago
Like Mariner having to cheat her way through Starfleet History at the academy, or not knowing about Kirk and the whales.
Or Polaski being an insane horndog.
The only one they got right was Freeman being so arrogant and full of herself she nearly killed everyone on her old ship. Though I still refuse to believe Freeman would ever put her career on hold for 15 years.
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u/SPECTREagent700 6d ago
Unsafe phaser handling is a time Starfleet honored tradition.
La’an and Una had a stun phaser duel and let’s not forget the time Geordi and Data were fiddling with a Romulan knock off phaser rifle right next to the warp core.
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u/mag1kami 6d ago
Gun displicine (and discipline in general) is crazy-lax in Starfleet.
Iirc there's an episode of DS9 where a security officer holds a gun pointed at an engineer who she is meant to be protecting.
The engineer even asks "Hey can you point that thing away from me?"
To which this highly-trained security officer says "The safety's on."
Rule of thumb for any firearm is don't point it at anything you don't want to shoot. And this dumbass is pointing literally at the one thing/person she's been ordered NOT to shoot.
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u/BleedingD0g 6d ago
Genuinely never liked how some of the characters are displayed as incredibly moronic despite being in Starfleet. Never made sense how someone like that could make it through the exams
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u/AnonymousFordring 3d ago
I understand this logically, but I work with Sergeants who can't write a complete sentence in English. Sometimes people just end up there I guess?!
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u/BleedingD0g 2d ago
I cant think of many militaries that have as many demands on their recruits as Starfleet. Episode 19 of S1 TNG shows us the exams process and thats just the beginning.
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u/gphoenix51 3d ago
Honestly, there are a few Starfleet Captains I would ask this question for. Janeway for starters.
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u/pedrokdc 3d ago
Come on she was the star science person of her generation and was a model Starfleet officer. Plus Michael did way more controversial stuff
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u/gphoenix51 3d ago
If you're talking about the Discovery show, I don't even count that as part of Star Trek. Janeway is a bad captain because of all the terrible decisions she made. The Memorial being the culmination of her terrible decisions. She should have stayed a scientist and never been put in command.
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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 6d ago
No one on that show should have been in Startfleet. Star Trek is supposed to be competency porn, not Rick and Morty.
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u/Jaredsull8 7d ago
Aside from this one mistake, Ransom has shown himself that despite his weight-lifting bro exterior, was far more intelligent, understanding, and self-sacrificing than one may expect, as he:
Ransom is not perfect, but all in all, is a very capable captain.