In this case, I'm referring to the description it had during and before WW1, "the sick man of Europe." I'm not 100% clear on what happened, but it was collapsing on itself, and wound up fracturing.
And I see your point, since I didn't specify a time period. For a while, they were serous badasses.
I think things could get better, if the democrats take back power, and then display a level of virtue and resolve they we have never seen from them in the history of ever.
I think it more likely that we become the Ottoman Empire.
Our government isn't quite a case of Trump's word is law. And it was only two years ago that we had a nearly functional government. When Trump finally does the only good thing he will ever do, we have something to fall back on.
I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn't sure one of them counted.
I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?
I'm a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)
This show doesn't have much of that. It doesn't even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That's a different journey entirely.
Don't get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don't they all?
I used to be Catholic. Every Sunday, they performed the transubstantiation on the hosts and the wine. Every Sunday, I subjected both to analysis by one of the most sensitive chemical sensing device in the world.
Every week, it came back as Styrofoam and wine. Never once was it meat or blood.
According to the TNG tech manual, the smooth curves of the ship makes it easier to maintain a warp field in a shape that uses less power while traveling at warp. So, not aerodynamic, but voidynamic, or something.
Unless you're a MAGA influencer. Then you get evacuated.