Captain Picard wants them to read more history.

S02E17&18

[@comical4609]

Picard is the kinda guy who memorizes obscure factoids he read on Wikipedia he randomly drops in conversations so he can say "you should read more history".

[@AlexanderRM1000]

Neither of these should be obscure; this is like someone in our day not knowing what a paddlewheel steamboat was, or hearing the words "German Confederation" and being mystified.

[@musashi4856]

Don’t conflate History with propaganda.

[@spartanx169x]

This "Woke" non-sense has taken hold in Society because people are not being taught history and they are not reading it themselves, they just accept what is being told to them. For Example Hitler used Public Health(our modern CDC) to help him take over his country and create Hatred toward Jews claiming they carried diseases and such. Sound familer- "The Unvaxxed are dangerous".

[@musashi4856]

@@spartanx169x Hence, knowing history awakens the mind to the concept that there is nothing new under the sun. Strategies and agendas are the same yet take on different names. The slightest alteration in these “names” or “titles” of schema serve as red herrings for the uninitiated and apathetic.

[@frederickdietz3148]

"you should read more history" *Proceeds to tell me events about my future*

[@IwasFRAMEDiTELLyou]

"If we don't study the mistakes of the future, we're bound to repeat them for the first time" -Ken M.

[@OhNoNotAgain42]

I remember this episode with Wesley. I never understood why a shuttle would take a long trip at sub-warp speed. It would have taken the Enterprise about 3 seconds to cover that distance and drop them off.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Perhaps localized restrictions against warp travel within the planetary bodies. Analogy would be like how an airplane approaching a city may be able to get to an area you want to access in just minutes but it must land at an airport, then the rest of the way you take (slow) ground transport to your final destination.

[@kentvesser9484]

​@oldtwins na Or could be that the Enterprise was taking advantage of the time to do some kind of maintenance while the captain took the slow boat.

[@Solidfact42]

History is not only highly useful, it can be very entertaining.

[@teehundeart]

Did you know that in Japans history there were giant enemy crabs?

[@BroMaxIII]

@@teehundeart One of the last emperors of Rome had a fascination for chickens. He had a special chicken he named Rome. When the city of Rome got sacked for the first time he received news that Rome was destroyed or taken or something along those lines. He was devastated. He thought his Hen had died.

[@gandalf8216]

History is almost all lies and chronicled sailor's tales, but we can still learn from it.

[@Fredwilson45]

Australia went to war with emus! And lost.

[@williammeyer2584]

Yeah, it’s fun to hear about the height of an empire knowing full well what their downfall will be

[@richardpowell1772]

You can’t understand the present without knowing what lead to it. You can’t understand where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme; you can often predict the future by knowing the past.

[@safffff1000]

You do know that history is written as fake as the news is, by the conquering victors, not the defeated. Great example 1920-40's German history

[@akiramasashi9317]

Stuck in a shuttlecraft with Wesley Was Picard having a nightmare?

[@CrniWuk]

Must have been Q's work.

[@christopherwall2121]

His pacemaker was winding down and Wesley conveniently had a test at the same starbase. Also, Picard went out of his way to get the biggest shuttle on the ship.

[@Lazyguy22]

"*God*, Wesley, read a *book*."

[@DayneTreader]

I've read plenty of books

[@QuadinarosLS]

@@DayneTreader Shut up, Wesley.

[@r0bw00d]

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, unless Captain Picard is around, of course.

[@Dowlphin]

Rabble be like: _You say "doomed". I say "whatever, lol"._

[@justingower4535]

“You should read more history. Would you like a sandwich?”

[@Dowlphin]

Wesley goes to library: _Hi ... uhm ... I would like to read a book about 22nd century interplanetary travel._ Library main person: _Cetainly, Sir. ... Would you like me to super size that?_

[@luispablogonzalezv4522]

I wonder if in their time there is a band like Sabaton singing about history that hasn't even happened yet...

[@jalcomics]

My dude reading from a book in space

[@jdb2002]

While not saying anything about reading more history when Riker didn't know what a Dyson Sphere was. Picard just said that it was a very old theory.

[@r0bw00d]

Because Picard is talking about history in general, not esoterically.

[@a-blivvy-yus]

To be fair, people never built dyson spheres in Trek's history. They did establish the European Union and fly in space without warp capabilities though. Which fits with the real world on all 3 counts, incidentally.

[@Musicrafter12]

"European hegemony" Predicting the European Union 6 years early.

[@123hackfleischvorbei]

A Hegemony is something very different

[@platiuscyndar9017]

@@123hackfleischvorbei a European hegemony would be a kind of European union, as in a union of European states - but not the kind that the actual EU is, in the end.

[@Zamandu]

You should read more history

[@123hackfleischvorbei]

@@platiuscyndar9017 that description was very lack-luster and doesn't even address that a hegemony is a system where control is linked to the dominance of either 1 or a few selected members in that hegemony who hold the power, which is a different system that the EU employs.

[@platiuscyndar9017]

@@123hackfleischvorbei it was, though? I stated that a hegemony functions differently then the real EU.

[@FreedomZealot]

Good advice.

[@methodius--9405]

You know what I like about Fiction? It’s the only genre of literature. That’s actually honest about itself.

[@Daniel-os9tb]

And today Picard says discard history.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

history from different points of view

[@RangerCaptain11A]

while I was earning my math degree the constant joke was 'if math doesn't work out you can always be a history major'.

[@Trusteft]

Math?

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

But History is always written by the winners :(

[@georgoussnowsaintfullysinn9975]

His story right we should be so thankful for his fucking story

[@like-icecream]

Ever since I was a child I hated learning, a feeling of frustration when reading a book, almost torture like. Perhaps I would've been too smart or my own good, even with my very limited intelligence I feel that's already the case having already glitched my brains thinking processes beyond repair, only God knows what else I would've destroyed, maybe even my soul. Knowledge is power indeed.

[@Trusteft]

Or you were lazy.

[@mazokutv504]

Sounds like excuses to be lazy if you ask me

[@freezenexusblogspot]

22nd century vessels had warp engines. Inteplanetary journeys were rather quick (see Star Trek Enterprise). Insterstellar ones were slow as hell during that time(compared to 24th century of course).

[@solomonreal1977]

if Wesley touching anything in my shuttle deck it would such violence i would loose upon the twerp, brierf and brutal and not at all to his advantage

[@adamnunavumiuq5121]

Funny that thanks to Enterprise (at very least), Picard in the shuttle didn't know his history. Talking about very, very slow late 22nd century interplanetary journeries...after Archer's Enterprise was eating up lightyears, and after generations of warp 1-3 interstellar boomers going around to several star systems, going from planet to planet in hours or minutes, and obviously over a century after Earth's first warp ship (which was established a few times before First Contact, and if I remember right even in TOS).

[@TheZapan99]

Didn't Enterprise had a cargo ship episode with a very slow civilian ship?

[@robertcartier5088]

@@TheZapan99 Yes, their young pilot grew up on one.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Don't agree. Picard is talking about transport vessels of Earth. We know there weren't many warp capable ships and where they were, those ships were far out on interstellar missions, not being in routine service for interplanetary transport operations. It would take Earth quite some time to build its fleet services up, particularly amongst civilian transport and not Starfleet operation vessels. Take the analogy of how even though flight was discovered in the early 1900s, it was not common for use as a civilian regular transport option until the jet age in the 50s. Up till the very end, people commonly still took ocean liners to cross the atlantic and pacific oceans.

[@milamberyt]

The European Union is what he's talking about, he was off by a century but it happened!

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

He didn't anticipate Brexit, in character or in person.

[@safffff1000]

Real history or hollywood history??

[@orion_13]

The main issue with history books, they are written by the victors in most cases.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

In more recent times, (good) historians write more critically.

[@spartanx169x]

That is why you read more than one account and research the evidence that supports the claim. Japan has their own version of The USA dropping the bomb. But the fact remains we dropped it( 2 actually) and it ended the war. It is claimed that Japan was getting ready to surrender before the first bomb , and did after the first bomb but the USA dropped the second one anyway. IMO they needed to to drive the point home, not to ever do what they did ever again.

[@podcastdoamer2200]

I love Picard, but he could be condescending as fuck sometimes.

[@cytorakdemon]

Wait I'm sorry... 1330 hours as in... shit, I'm terrible at math, but that sounds like unreasonably long shuttle ride.

[@Dowlphin]

What's your colon?

[@theenigma7290]

They're using 24 hour time. 1330 hours is 1:30 PM

[@Dowlphin]

@@theenigma7290 Since it's 24h format, it should have been 1337 hours. 😎

[@OneEyedKeys]

I like how he says 'read'. We need to read more history. Not watch it from slanted movie portrayals or You Tube documentaries, however good some of them my be. Actually read the books. It takes time, but the amount you gain in bushwacking though the f$$kery is time well spent. Read the classics people, and wake up! That's what I did....it's not fun, nor easy to digest, but it takes you places no plane, boat or train can ever do.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

You sound very "boke" (book woke ;-)

[@johnchao2422]

Disagree. It is fun.

[@TheFarCobra]

It is like Picard is some sort of conservative rebel in the future.

[@jaimemurphy2208]

How does that work?

[@Dowlphin]

_This reminds me of how much worse the Star Trek Picard TV series was._ Picard: _I am sorry, what? Star Trek Picard ... TV series??_ _You should read more history, Sir._ 😏

[@PR--un4ub]

^ Sinophobic POS.

[@valiatus6719]

European Hegmony: Probably okay. EU: Currently on fire, nations becoming more openly nationalist, and more Exits are likely soon.

[@Dowlphin]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if nuclear world war actually happened and then led to warp drive technology and strikingly Trek-similar events? And there you'd have your first post-nuclear religion.

[@TheZapan99]

Because Brussels is not Europe, it is the Tower of Babel.

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

"the first stirrings of world government".... Star Trek writers loved their Socialism.

[@sharp14x]

Globalism.

[@PR--un4ub]

@@sharp14x ^ Meaningless comment.

[@asneakychicken322]

@@PR--un4ub he's right in a literal sense, in a non pejorative way it advocates for a global government (which isn't socialism either, that's simply an economic system, and redundant in a world with zero scarcity and replicators etc.). I believe it's the case that if one ever wanted to advance to a level of social development seen in Trek that a global government is a necessary stepping stone, as long as people are married the idea of tribalism and nation-states it will hold us back. Trek is hardly the only media to use global governments, even if only barely touched on Halo for instance has its UNSC and UEG (United Earth Government).