Control panals

[Nickswitz]

How the hell do you manage that? I mean, at least with a proper keyboard you can feel your way around it, but you can't even do that with a touch-screen thing.

I don't know how they do it
but they do it

[Captain Seafort]

How the hell do you manage that? I mean, at least with a proper keyboard you can feel your way around it, but you can't even do that with a touch-screen thing.

It was mentioned in the episode that he set up a braile console (or rather, in true technobabble-obsessed fashion, a "tatctile interface") for himself.

[Sionnach Glic]

Ah, right.

[Mark]

Yes. A blind gunner. Truely Voyager Trek writers have struck again.

[Captain Seafort]

TNG did one better with a blind navigator, and the RAF had a legless pilot - he didn't do too badly.

[Aaron]

Yes. A blind gunner. Truely Voyager Trek writers have struck again.

Well they already had a psychopatic Captain, a sociopathic engineer, a retarded cook and a crook for a pilot. Just throw this on the pile of shite we already have.

[Sionnach Glic]

Don't forget that a fairly large portion of the crew were also convicted terrorists, including the XO.

[Aaron]

Don't forget that a fairly large portion of the crew were also convicted terrorists, including the XO.

I dunno about terrorists, did the Maquis blow up civvie targets and what not? I can't remember.

[Sionnach Glic]

Can't remember too well, but I believe they were reffered to as terrorists by the Starfleet crew. *shrug*

[Aaron]

Can't remember too well, but I believe they were reffered to as terrorists by the Starfleet crew. *shrug*

*meh* It's an arbitrary label anyways. I imagine after Voyager had gotten home they got the label "galactic smegheads".

[Captain Seafort]

I dunno about terrorists, did the Maquis blow up civvie targets and what not? I can't remember.

IIRC their first target in "The Maquis" was a Cardassian civvie freighter, they were planning to attack a civilian convoy in "Preemptive Strike", and Eddington's actions were certainly those of a terrorist.

[Aaron]

IIRC their first target in "The Maquis" was a Cardassian civvie freighter, they were planning to attack a civilian convoy in "Preemptive Strike", and Eddington's actions were certainly those of a terrorist.

Was that freighter not carrying materials for the Cardie military? Civvie frieghters carrying materials for the military or a war effort are considered legitimate targets in wartime, whether the Maquis qualify as an actual military/partisan force in Trek, I couldn't say. They certainly don't qualify by any modern standard.

[Captain Seafort]

Personnally I'd put the Maquis actions against military and semi-military targets (like the freighter) in the same category as Warrenpoint. Legal under the laws of war, if they'd been a military force, but terrorism given who was responsible.

[Aaron]

Personnally I'd put the Maquis actions against military and semi-military targets (like the freighter) in the same category as Warrenpoint. Legal under the laws of war, if they'd been a military force, but terrorism given who was responsible.

Hmm, agreed.

[Mark]

Just out of curiousity, is it a jailable offense to just be a part of a terrorist orginazation? Or do you actually have to DO something?

Referring to the Maquis in Trek and nothing under Furher Bush.