( a textbook answer, the kind given in interviews and exchanged as a nicety. )
I know your captain and his first officer. They're solid, and they've got good instincts. I don't know you.
My people are xenophobic, they distrust anything outside of what they've been raised to believe. I need diplomats, but there's a real threat negotiations will break down. In the event of a firefight, only the best will cut it. No itchy trigger fingers, no one weak in the knees. Professionals.
That goes for the talks, too.
I've never heard anyone talk his way out of a bad situation faster than Christopher Pike. Have you?
You say your people experience the narrowing of perspective that accompanies bigotries, but you minimize your own role in also distrusting what you do not know. It is one thing to laud Captain Pike and Commander Chin-Riley. It is quite another to imply that Starfleet's other long-standing crews might possess "itchy trigger fingers".
Nevertheless, we are here. And Captain Pike is a successful negotiator. [ Coming from the son of a very questionable ambassador. ]
I trust that you have detailed the potential threat in full to the captain.
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( a textbook answer, the kind given in interviews and exchanged as a nicety. )
I know your captain and his first officer. They're solid, and they've got good instincts. I don't know you.
My people are xenophobic, they distrust anything outside of what they've been raised to believe. I need diplomats, but there's a real threat negotiations will break down. In the event of a firefight, only the best will cut it. No itchy trigger fingers, no one weak in the knees. Professionals.
That goes for the talks, too.
I've never heard anyone talk his way out of a bad situation faster than Christopher Pike. Have you?
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Nevertheless, we are here. And Captain Pike is a successful negotiator. [ Coming from the son of a very questionable ambassador. ]
I trust that you have detailed the potential threat in full to the captain.