It took me decades to realize that, in Chain of Command, Riker was the one in the wrong. Jelico may have been a bit… difficult here and there, but Riker was being an insubordinate child.
Riker came from Alaska and his dad seemed like the 24th century equivalent of a conservative Republican, so maybe he valued the stupid capitalist Protestant work ethic that has no place in a post-scarcity society?
Both Riker and his dad came from Socialist Space Utopia capital: Earth. They’re a couple of impossibly-privileged people slap-fighting over hardly anything. There are worse things than father-son discord… and few things older.
See my edit, but, yeah.
It took me decades to realize that, in Chain of Command, Riker was the one in the wrong. Jelico may have been a bit… difficult here and there, but Riker was being an insubordinate child.
Riker came from Alaska and his dad seemed like the 24th century equivalent of a conservative Republican, so maybe he valued the stupid capitalist Protestant work ethic that has no place in a post-scarcity society?
Both Riker and his dad came from Socialist Space Utopia capital: Earth. They’re a couple of impossibly-privileged people slap-fighting over hardly anything. There are worse things than father-son discord… and few things older.
I was being facetious.