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So what your saying is, Picard is the timeline where Kirk saved Edith Keeler from being hit by that truck.

Yes, I at no point denied Starfleet at times served in the role of a military. But rather that Starfleet, in a Watsonian sense, and the show itself, in a Doylist sense, was always focused on exploration first and was never Starship Troopers. That in many ways TNG was a continuation of the themes...

To be fair, it has its roots in TOS where Starfleet very much was a peaceful exploratory and scientific agency first and a military agency second. TNG pushed things to a more absurd degree but the duality of idealism and pragmatism was already present from the very start.

Well it was established in the pilot they use holographic enemies to train in hand to hand combat while Worf's recreational programs tended to test his combat skills. We've also seen the holodeck used to practice and improving marksmanship. Further the context was, again, not so much conducting...

While hardly the best choice of words, it must be remembered the context of them being directed towards an obnoxious outside observer and mediator as well Riker's full objection was a focus on "brawn" over "brains". One does not really need to dig much to see Riker is low-key insulting Kolrami...

I don't remember Riker being that bullheaded, that mostly seemed to get transferred to Worf whose job it was seemed to be to recommend phasers only to be shut down by Picard. If anything I'd argue Riker was far too mellow and in agreement with Picard for much of the series incontrast to the...

For myself, never really had an issue with Geordi. Now maybe as a nerd who had trouble talking to girls and got distracted by whatever my hobby was at the moment I just identified with Geordi's character in a way I couldn't with the infallible Data or cooler than cool Riker.