Which branch of Starfleet?

[Nate the Great]

Uh, as long as the Canadian culture contains elements of the French culture, a dollar that is so close to ours, and insists on reaping all of the benefits of being American without paying any of the associated costs, I'll never agree that "Canadian=English."

Hey, I love Canada and it's residents, but Canucks are just as fallable as Yankees in my book.

I could make a joke about how tweaking fun at Americans has to be your only pasttimes because there's "nothing" else to do up there, but enough of you know that I'm Minnesotan that the flaming would bounce back faster than I could say "yah, sure, you betcha."

[mudshark]

Minnesotans are really Canadians, anyway, eh?

[Nate the Great]

I suppose in the past that was true, but, at least here in The Cities, that's really no longer the case. We're a major immigration destination, for some reason. Why, I don't know. Didn't their travel agent tell them that Minnesota defines "post-apocalyptic winter weater?" Sheesh, that should be Basic Travel Agent Information 101. I was born and bred here and so were my ancestors going back generations, so I know how to deal with fifty below. I pity these guys who were living in deserts and swampland two years ago.

Go out into the country, though, and yeah, we're still basically good, humble people. I've met them. They're great. They're like Canadians who use the Imperial system.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Uh, as long as the Canadian culture contains elements of the French culture, a dollar that is so close to ours, and insists on reaping all of the benefits of being American without paying any of the associated costs, I'll never agree that "Canadian=English."

English spelling of French is just the same as the French spelling of French

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Hey, I love Canada and it's residents, but Canucks are just as fallable as Yankees in my book.

Indeed.

[Celeste]

Dental Hygienist, Baby. I'm so totaly for the Medical carear track. Althought the Character I play on TV is Security.

[Nate the Great]

Oh, another graduate of the Austin Powers School of Speaking. I meet more of you guys every day. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Dentists in Starfleet? I thought the Cardassians kidnapped all of those guys years ago.

[MaverickZer0]

I'd probably be the one hopping over to Stargate and Daniel Jackson. Writing doesn't have a huge component in anything in Starfleet, I don't think, and I love archaeology. (Plus, mm, Daniel Jackson.)
In Starfleet (if I couldn't get Section 31, that is ;p) I'd probably go for either Security or Command. Why? I'm a blackbelt and I'm good at convincing people. A commander can come from anywhere though, as Janeway and Picard came through Science, Archer through piloting, and I don't know about either Sisko or Kirk but I think Kirk would've been Security.
Or Intelligence. I think any way it went, I'd want something with high risks.

I don't necessarily spell things the Canadian way. I spell them whichever way I am in the mindset of at the time. As much as I hate to say it, sometimes that's the American way.
Hell, I'm not even sure if there is a Canadian way. It's like us using metric for some things and Imperial for others. I just go with what makes sense to me, you know?

[Nate the Great]

Okay, and what makes sense to you? Imperial or metric? As an engineering graduate, I've had to use both, and it really irks me how it always seems like the science classes use metric and the engineering classes use Imperial. I have to know both units.

What makes sense to me? To me it's an example of human frailty. Metric is more logical, but after all:

Gillian Taylor: Who ever said the human race was logical?

Ergo Imperial fits better in human terms.

[PointyHairedJedi]

It would involve holographic cameras, most certainly. I'm sure they still need photographers in the future.

[MaverickZer0]

What makes sense to me? A combination of both. It depends on the circumstances.

I couldn't tell you my height in cm, but I know it in feet. Distances are in kilometers, though, and meters for heights of inanimate objects. If I'm closer to something, it's 30 feet away, not ten meters.

Confused yet? Welcome to Canada.

[Nate the Great]

Anybody else think that that would make a great national motto?

"Confused yet? Welcome to Canada."

The patron saint of the motto would undoubtedly be Red Green!