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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It was Geordie. Geordie was the candle-fucker this time. It contained the ghost of a cute and naive young alien engineering student. Because of course it did. Anyway apparently every officer has to redo the E-Learning module on aethereal consent again now. Cheers Geordie.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

(As a general FYI If you can't find the policy on sex with ghost candles on the Enterprise Intranet, you need to look under "fire regulations". It's counter-intuitive but it is what it is)

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

HR just sent out a "reminder" to people that Star Fleet has a policy on sex with ghost candles. So OF COURSE now everyone is trying to work out who did it this time.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The nice thing about being friends with Geordi is you get told the EXACT moment they unlock Cadburys Easter Eggs on the replicators each year.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Intro deal was great, but it's a pain trying to cancel the contract now.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

For years I couldn't work out why whenever I ticked the "remember my details" box on things it never worked. Turns out it was Q. Absolute arsehole.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

From what I've seen the plan is to remove even more of the people interfacing and manual control in favour of computerisation. I accept Command believes this is the appropriate design path. I have also served on two Enterprises so far that would have been lost if they were built to that principle.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Your average Federation citizen will never use a transporter once in their life, even if they frequently travel off world.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Majority of non-essential crew movements happen by shuttle. Transporters are solid tech, but you have to do a risk assessment if you want to use them outside of certain clearly defined priority uses or where shuttle operations are deemed risky.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I briefly commanded the museum ahip USS Kongo, an original Constitution Class, during an anniversary tour. She had a FRICKIN BOWLING ALLEY. It was incredible. Those old ship configurations were insane. Been trying to persuade the Captain we need one on the E, ever since.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Lego kits are rubbish because it's all just stuff from kids holos. Cobi do an excellent range of historic starships though.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Because Starships are an insane amount of raw power forcibly confined in a very small metal box. It's a marvel of engineering that they don't explode more often.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Picard invites the senior staff to take part in a holodeck murder mystery every year, often drawn from his library of old earth dramas. The year Gowron found out about this and invited himself for the first time was... interesting.

text chat with gowron.

GOWRON: Catboy! I have defeated Picard in a battle of words. I will play the Avenging Angel of Death in the Holodeck Murder Carnival this year.
ME: Jessica Fletcher. And that's not what it is.
GOWRON: That is her. All of Cabot Cove will tremble. The dead will be avenged.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

So without going full Shuttle nerd, there is a reason we mostly only run Type-6s and Type-7s on the E. They have an auxiliary manual yoke which has, literally, saved mine (and by extension Riker's) life at least once. They're meant to be bringing it back in the Type-X, thank God, but we'll see.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Yeah. The Galaxy Class is generally seen as a bit of a misstep now. But it was a period where political and military thinking was that the era of major ship-to-ship combat had passed. These days Starfleet tends to offer housing in sector operational centres for families of those on deployment.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Very occasionally you get quirks due to emitter misalignment or software issues, but they're normally very obvious and unpalatable, so get fixed. Used to take ages to get fixed, as Engineering saw it as a low priority. But that was changed after the Chocolate Button Incident a few years back.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Contrary to popular portrayal on holovids, the risk of serious injury or death is actually greater in engineering roles than security ones.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

To bust a myth: If you are selected for command fast track at the academy, you do a sim session once a month in your final two years. ONE of those sessions will be the No-Win test. You have no idea which one it will be. The exact scenario varies. Maru is just the most famous due to Admiral Kirk.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The Prime Directive is actually a lot more complex and subtle than a lot of people think. It's why ships working sectors where there is a risk of first contact tend to be carefully chosen. There's an entire specialism path for captains (or captain candidates) around it.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Anyway. Time for my annual (Starfleet approved) AMA. I am Lieutenant Commander Bull. I'm half-Caitian, and am Chief Shuttle Officer on board the USS Enterprise (NCC 1701-E). Ask me whatever you like about serving in Starfleet. If it won't break regs I'll answer.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

If you've ever wondered why there's a three system exclusion zone around Ison, this is apparently why.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

At a lecture on how the Age of Galactic Exploration changed earth culture. Deeply fascinating how some stuff changed slowly, and other stuff suddenly. Also the accounts of what happened after humanity made contact with the Isonu, who look EXACTLY like "anime" girls, are creepy af.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hundreds of years of technological advancement. And they still can't make a replicator that can do decent toast.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Every time we get a new head of HR on the Enterprise, Geordi convinces them this is a good idea. It never is.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

They opened up the ability for people to run custom, self-created programs on the Holodeck again on Friday. Wanna guess how long that lasted?

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Riker demanding I take him to a Guardian portal so he can go back in time and age verify. This is why I told him to get a credit card last time we were on DS9. Post-money society is great until it suddenly isn't.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Half tempted just to run this through the infosec scrubber and forward the whole email chain to Gowron. Doubt these two would be saying this stuff about the Aeldari to his face.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Now Riker and Geordi are arguing about worst army lists. This is all only happening because Picard is off on some 'Archeological dig'* for a week. Suspect whatever planet he's on must be a different timezone as normally he still watches his emails. *Dirty weekend.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Fun fact: Games Workshop are banned from operating on Ferenginar. bsky.app/profile/xray...

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Before some rando pops up in my replies and says something about how this argument proves Star Fleet has gone 'woke'. Be aware that i know for a FACT Gowron plays Aeldari. I once saw him help Garak run a painting tutorial session for kids in the Warhammer shop on DS9.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Riker uses a grey undercoat spray. Geordi insists on undercoating in black by brush. I don't need to know any of this.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Riker and Geordi are now arguing about the correct way to undercoat miniatures. I'm legit surprised the Captain hasn't replied to this yet and shut the whole convo down.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Riker's used up all the monthly Warhammer credits on the replicators again. I know this because Geordi has emailed the captain complaining that he can't replicate some Tau he preordered and copied all the senior staff in. Join Star Fleet! See the galaxy! Etc.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

There's a compulsory 45min e-learning module for bridge crew that we have to redo annually because of this incident.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Every year on this day the Captain starts banging on about something called a 'Dreamcast'. We nod along politely and pretend we know what the hell he's talking about. Some history thing he's obsessed with.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Just realised I didn't do one of these when I joined here. So: I am Lieutenant Commander Bull, Chief Shuttle Officer on the USS Enterprise (NCC 1701-E). I am half-Caitan on my mother's side. AMA about serving on a ship in Star Fleet and, unless it breaks regs or security, I will try to answer.

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

So that's why I'm in Star Fleet. Because there is no amount of post-scarcity that can quell our desire to better ourselves. To make bold decisions, like my mother. To help people grow, like my father. To reach the stars, like my aunt. And to make those who love and once loved me proud. /END

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

And then she hit me with it: "I promised your mother I'd help you make something of yourself." She hissed. "You were meant to copy me and be a doctor, not do the bit about joining Star Fleet. Stupid organisation full of idiots on ridiculous missions." /17

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

"What was that for?!" I remember shouting as I got up, as around us there's all these graduates and guests who've apparently just seen a serving star fleet senior officer in full uniform scratching the crap out of an ex-cadet! /16

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I found them both after the ceremony, my dad tried to shake my hand. I hugged him. Then I went to hug my aunt and she INSTANTLY leapt on me and started biting my ears (don't worry, it's a Caitian fake fighty "i'm SUPER angry at you" thing). /15

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I hadn't even realised she was in the sector. She'd kept the whole thing a secret from me. Indeed I later learned that she wasn't meant to be in sector at all. The captain of the Ceratos had effectively turned a blind eye to her going AWOL for a week to get back to Earth, via shuttle relay. /14

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I remember graduation day. I remember collecting my badges, up on stage, and looking back and seeing my dad proudly sitting in the crowd. But also there, next to him, my aunt. In FULL dress uniform. I didn't even know she owned one! /13

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

And so, when I was old enough, I applied for Star Fleet Academy. The entrance exam was tough. Probably the only time in my life I've been terrified about failing an exam. But I passed - just - and I got in. Four years later, after a lot of work, I graduated. /12

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

It was my aunt who practically forced me to focus on my studies, bribing me with my first off-world trip. Years later she told me that she saw a lot of her sister in me. Smart but bloody-minded. And it was through her that I came to yearn for the stars. To see what she saw. /11

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

When I struggled at school, and when I became a teen and struggled even more with my identity, it was her that would be there on holo or message to talk to. Or - frankly - who would occasionally claw me and tell me to sort myself out and listen to my dad. /10

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Lt Cdr. Bull (Starfleet Pilot AMA) @catboycdr.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

What I know is that almost every summer, she'd spend a week of shore leave with us. And my GOD the food. The STORIES. She was, and always has been, a devious mog. She would hook me with food and stories of second contact missions, of planets - and also of our culture and history at the same time /9

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