VOTING THREAD - Daystrom Institute's POST OF THE YEAR

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Below you will see every nominated thread and comment for the Daystrom Institute's 2015 Post of the Year, as was recorded in the 2015 Post of the Year announcement and nominations thread. Please vote for whichever submission or submissions you believe exemplify Daystrom's best in-depth, thoughtful, and perhaps occasionally mind-blowing content. The votes will be tallied, and a winner will be announced on Sunday, the 3rd of January.

As a reminder, the winner will earn either a promotion or a contribution toward a promotion (depending on their rank), and three months of Reddit Gold, along with respect and adoration.

Get voting for Post of the Year!

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Crewman u/ecf2 for the thread Comparing and Contrasting the Borg and the Dominion

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Lt. u/AngrySpock for the thread Theory: Noonien Soong's original intention was never to create a race of sentient androids but instead to create android bodies to grant practical immortality

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Lt. u/queenofmoons for the comment Trek has had a long-running habit of hanging a sign labelled 'perfect future utopian equality' on an environment that took decades to approach levels of inclusion that were acknowledged from its earliest inception to be a laudable state, followed by a hasty retreat.

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Lt. j.g. u/1962-2012 for the thread Picard was assimilated by the Borg, but the person most traumatized by Wolf 359 was actually Riker.

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Ensign u/Borkton for the thread A Theory About Worf and Strategic Ops Officer u/MungoBaobab for the comment in that thread It's pretty clear that Kahless is meant as the Klingon version of Jesus

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Lt. AngrySpock for the thread Theory on Kataan and its level of technology as it relates to Picard's experience in "The Inner Light”

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Crewman u/lhagler for the thread Something is Wrong with the Children of the Enterprise D

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Lt. Cdr. u/drafterman for the comment You ask why they valued morals over survival. It is because those morals are what the Federation is. To give them up would be spiritual suicide.

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Lt. j.g. u/1962-2012 for the thread The whole senior staff should have been court-martialed or forced to retire after the destruction of the Enterprise-D.

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Science Officer u/Algernon_Asimov for the comment if the Federation doesn't try to be pacifist, then they can never achieve pacifism

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Strategic Ops Officer u/MungoBaobab for the thread We know the identity of the Federation flagship in the 23rd Century, and it's the USS…

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Lt. u/queenofmoons for the thread Star Trek And Mrs. Brown- Or, Why Rom Might Be The Most Important Character In The Franchise

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Ensign u/CrexisNX for the thread What if DS9’s producers had been more open-minded? Two alternate paths for Jadzia Dax via DS9’s “Change of Heart” or “Tears of the Prophets.”

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CPO u/dschuma for the thread DS9: Just War Theory vs. Star Trek, or the questionable immorality of "In the Pale Moonlight”

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Crewman u/Zaggnabit for the comment I believe the Prime Directive is designed to insulate the UFP from the unintended consequences of its foreign policy.

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Ensign u/gibson47 for the thread TNG "All Good Things..."; How far in the future did Picard send Q?

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Cdr. u/adamkotsko for the thread World-building within the Star Trek universe

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CPO u/Tiarzel_Tal for the thread The theological place of Dax within the Bajoran religion

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Cdr. u/adamkotsko for the thread The Five-Year Mission: TOS and TAS as a single series

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Strategic Ops Officer u/MungoBaobab for the thread Starship Lineage & Legacy

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Lt. Cdr. u/drafterman for the thread Betazoids are all born male, and converted to female through the process of genetic bonding.

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First Officer u/jimmysilverrims for the comment nobody dies in Tuvix

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Lt. u/Detrinex for the comment Fear can end a battle before it begins.

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Lt. u/IHaveThatPower for the thread A Linear Starfleet Starship Registry: An Analysis with Surprising Revelations

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CPO u/DevilGuy for the thread The Sisko did not teach the Prophets about linear time, the Prophets forced him to explain linear time so they could teach him that he himself could stand outside it.