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.
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.
I was being facetious.