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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2024
- Being the head of Starfleet's HR Command might not seem like a glamorous job. And, it's not.
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Paramount hire this man for a Starbase office comedy
OMG - 1000% this
The Office - Starfleet Edition. We need this!
Lower Decks is pretty close to The Office in space
@@TheWhippingPost But it needs those "just the character talking to the camera person" moments that The Office has. Then it would be perfect.
An office style mockumentary Star Trek show would be hysterical!
“Space is weird, stuff happens” should be the tagline for all of Star Trek.
Almost nothing is happening in the vast majority of space
@TheWhippingPost Oh, I don't know about that. Would we have ever formed without the movement of many celestial bodies? Idk, but I doubt it.
@@gavindonohoo5736As far as we know, we're one of the weirdest things that's happened in space. Sentient bags of water, carbon, and a few other elements, like iron and calcium? That's pretty weird.
@@thing_under_the_stairs Living cells is weird enough. We got so many doggone cells that we don't even notice when they live and die, their own little skin cell or hair follicle lives just coming and going and we're just over here like "should I buy milk?"
@@TheWhippingPost"space is weird, stuff happens" and "the vast majority of space is empty" are un related statements think about it like this, I say "I have eggs cooking in the kitchen" and then you say "the vast majority of your kitchen is empty" both true, but the second statement is not really relevant to the claim of the first.
"We have such problems with Admirals..."
Too true ...
Besides being taken over by alien parasites...
Commodores have a much lower survival rate, just saying.
Badmirals.
I am not sure if they go bad ... or they are all just trying to get demoted like Kirk ...
this line broke me 😂😂😂😂
11:18 Yeah, I call BS. Everything about this guy-from the "consensual relationships form" to the "well you know how Captains get their personalities altered by telepaths" to promising to get the Admiral _transferred_ instead of discharged-reeks of CYA. If I have a complaint about harassment or if I'm asked to report to Starbase One, I'm still grabbing my *Starfleet Union rep* on my way.
This is all to say, as someone who used to work for HR and who _believed sincerely_ in The Mission, that this is exceedingly well written and acted.
@@DavidRYates-tk2tqCover Your Ass
@@DavidRYates-tk2tqCover Your Ass, had to look it up too.
@@DavidRYates-tk2tq I believe it's "Cover(ing) Your Ass". I.e. his main priority is making sure the institution doesn't suffer consequences, not solving the actual problems.
@@DavidRYates-tk2tq cover your ass
@@DavidRYates-tk2tq cover your ass
Having an HR person be awful at following confidentiality rules is extra funny to me.
Sounds weirdly familiar to me....
This NEEDS to be an entire series.
Very evidently he's the head of HR, not PR.
Well said.
Just rewatched TOS, Kirk was a walking HR-Nightmare.
When HR-Steve said "...All actual cases" we knew exactly who he was talking about...
@@willmfrankactually I thought of Janeway and Chakotay in the "Warp 10" episode
For all that Kirk gets the very bad rep of the horn dog of Starfleet, he never dated one of his department heads 🫠
Kirk could be the reason they created this posting was a command, rather than a department or a section.
@@laramyelliott2903 *THAT EPISODE DOES NOT EXIST! EVERYTHING IS NOT LIZARDS AT WARP 10!*
"Up through the 21st century, private companies had HR departments that superficially appeared to support and protect the employees when in reality they almost always acted to protect the interests of the company. And people back then were still forced to trade their labor for the basic necessities of life!"
Savagery.
It would be a minor miracle if any Starfleet HR personnel didn't develop a chemical dependency.
"Mazartians (5:08) don't consider a romantic relationship serious until . . . " Oh, I'm not going to spoil it for anyone who reads the comments first. But that line alone was worth the price of admission.
In a parallel universe, Susan Ivanova explains how humans have relations to an alien whose race seals diplomatic agreements by having relations.
@@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286BOOM SHABALABA!
@@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286First off: username checks out. Second, loved that plotline and how Ivanova convinced that ambassador to "seal the deal." Third: if memory serves, when Delenn and Sheridan got serious, they needed to bring in some third-party observers as well.
I can understand why a culture might evolve that as a sign of commitment; after all, human marriage requires the register to be signed by a "witness", so Mazertian culture's ritual of commitment requires an unbiased person to corroboarate "yep, they definitely are, you know, you know! I watched them!"
This has been one of my favorite intermittent series on this channel, love the mundane look at Starfleet and the subtext (or in many cases text) of the real world parallels are great.
It has been inspired . . . and sets Steve apart from every other Star Trek content creator. (Though I still come here for superior analysis of all things Trek.)
I hear that Starfleet HR has an entire records room to store the complaints from Starfleet Personnel against Lwaxana Troi .
Diplomatic immunity BS always gets in the way; to say nothing of the Betazoid Relations Commission harassing any complaints about any older Betazoid behavior. Suddenly next time you're up for promotion your file is full of high ranking diplomats calling you a racist.
"Never say anything on camera you don't have the power to cut out yourself." An HR rep, probably.
still loving this series.
you've managed to take your budget limitations, your acting limitations, limited special effects, and make all of them strengths in the show. none of it would work if you weren't writing stuff you know and care about, but it really does. rapidly becoming one of my favourite star trek fan fics.
Best disguise ever: remove the hat. No one will ever recognise you.
Now you know why people can't tell the similarities between Superman and Clark Kent. 😊
Perry the Platypus
Works for Perry the Platypus
Darn. Beat me to it.
@@ccf_1004 (without cap) "A starfleet HR Guy?"
(with cap "STEVE the Starfleet HR Guy?"
WAIT. WAS THAT STEVE?
Starting to think Star Fleet might be staffed by clones...
You mean Grand Army of the Federation?
Generally thought that Genetic engineering is prohibited... Then again as someone else mentioned "Space is Weird..." so having a fluke Transporter Accident that Clones, Splits, or even Clones and Splits somebody say 20 times... AND later it happens AGAIN... because "Space is Weird". Or I suppose maybe talking of "Relationships" who's to say a person gets in a relationship with a, lets call them a Xeroxian, and they duplicate their "Relationship" Partners perfectly (well with some slight imperfections, depending on various factors)... Point being each of these "clones" have the same Rights as the Original. Seems unfair to not allow them to continue on with their lives... Their Genetic makeup might already be strong or even stronger after "exposure" to a Xeroxian... So who's to say that these People all aren't just descendants of a common ancestor named Steve...
@@lgoamity cloning isn’t genetic engineering unless you actually edit the genome you’re cloning.
Starting to think Steve is played by Jeffery Combs.
@@tjzambonischwartzI think you win the internets today. At least the _Star Trek_ portions of them.
Y'all think he's putting these out there for our enjoyment, but I'm convinced he's actively mapping out a path for Space Force to become Starfleet.
Actually, if the impossible ever happened and I was able to write for a real Star Trek show, one of the first jokes I'd want to sneak in is that Space Force still exists in the 23rd/24th/whatever century, because I think that's hilarious.
@SteveShives I always thought the 2009 reboot miscast the main 3 leads for the movie. Chris Pine is too nice in real life to convince me his character is a douche, Spock was too handsome, I love Zoey Saldana but she doesn't look like Nichelle Nichols's Uhura. My cast in 2009 would be Mark Paul Gosselaar as Kirk, Benedict Cumberbatch as Spock and Kerry Washington as Uhura.
Kirk isn't a "douche." You are relying on all the exaggerated memes out there.
@gogreen7794 I know he's not. But William Shatner was a douche and a theatre kid so it unintentionally spilled out. Mark Paul Gosselaar who played Zack Morris looks and acts like Shatner. Zack Morris seems like Kirk before joining the military
@@SteveShives Space Force consists of three impulse only shuttles and a cargo freighter, but only on weekends as they're borrowing the freighter... and one of the shuttles has been in the shop for half a year trying to resolve a tricky internal climate control short.
God. This is the only context i can stand someone talking like a real HR lmfao
Nice vid, i hope BAMoR gets more work to do soon.
I hear starfleet is making excellent diplomatic strides with the recently discovered Horta, and many have expressed interest in starship service life....
"Oh, good lord..." Such a wealth of subtext.
"We're both from Appalachia & don't give a shit" 😂
The commiserating heavy drinking session between Head of HR and Deanna Troi as Counselor… the stories they could tell… this is the bitch session we all need to see.
But on Earth would he and "Counselor" Troi have to talk about?
Now, Guinan on the other hand...😉
Half the stories, from both, are about Deanna's mom
You acheived the impossible. You made me like someone from HR!
Having dealt with many HR managers, from a staff representative point of view this is so spot on. Really well written and performed.
"I don't have a self-destruct button."
That is so extremely relatable.
The accent makes me think think that this character's name is Charles Tucker V.
It would change the context of "Keep your shirt on, Lieutenant."
@@willvgo2950 ☺️
I was just thinking that this bit, while hilarious at every step, was maybe going on a little long...and then you hit me with the phrase "mah left-hand titty" and it was all worth it.
Bravo sir
I appreciate that these skits mix roughly equal amounts of well-thought-out worldbuilding about how to run a society as complex as the Federation and completely bizarre noodle incidents justified simply as "space is weird."
"Can you cut that out? We'll talk...."
"Coming Up Next on 'Starfleet Jobs:' a (very) short subject."
Funny... Those admirals sounds a lot like almost every CEO I've ever met...🤔🤷
Me too
I think the HR commander might need a refresher training course in HR.
Starfleet HR sounds like _The Worst._ He didn't even get started on holodeck harems. (😁These skits are pretty good. I've started to really look forward to them)
We do not love the things we love because they constantly please us, we love them because we see the absurdity but still can't live without them, you really love Trek.
Steve is really a wonderful writer and performer in this format. Every episode in this series is just so watchable and satisfying.
That man seems to have not a healthy marriage.
This series is absolute gold. My fave is of course our down to earth UNCO rep but every one has been hugely entertaining.
"Uniforms without pockets! Can you even imagine?"
@@austinluther5825 I think it's known more colloquially as a 'Tomato Pie' but I have no doubt that it's delicious
Can't Paramount just hire you to write an anthology miniseries about all the Starfleet Branches we don't see on the main shows already?
Could be such a fun expansion on Trek's worldbuilding.
Like, HR alone could entail so many stories about cultures and work ethics clashing on Starfleet ships.
Would be more interested in watching this than the Very Short Treks.
There's a Wesley Crusher scene from one episode of TNG where he's at the academy and a big guy with webbed hands bumps into him and then due to alien cultural misunderstanding the big guy starts shouting at Wesley. Then he shouts back and the guy treats him as a friend. Then Wesley explains to his girlfriend for that episode that the web hand guy's people see courtesy as an insult, so you need to be rude as hell to keep them calm.
That episode did two things. It implied Star Fleet has no need for an HR department because apparently every recurring character and nepobaby knows the customs of every single known species out there. It also established a species whose language or culture operates on a seemingly clever idea for one scene in a show, but would never actually work in practice. It sounds cool to have say an entire language is based on reciting references to scenes from that alien culture's version of the Prose Edda, but that's not how language works. Not at all.
This is actually an issue he covered in his Star Fleet JAG corps video. Having a show about the space station that hosts the HR department, the JAG corps, and the office of the chief guidance counselor sounds cool, but literally every other show in the franchise has multiple episodes where the bridge crew do those things without training or consulting those offices. Or worse yet, the character most hated by the fans at that time literally Mary Sue knew it alls his way through those issues.
"My ship's doctor keeps making racially insensitive comments like 'green-blooded pointy-eared sonuvabitch'. Being offended is a human emotion but even so..."
OMG the earphone 🤣😂 Also, the highly specific hypothetical does nothing to protect you, Captain Fisher. ALSO also, we have cut so much out! "Come to our interview with the head of HR at Starfleet. Hello, my name is Captain Fisher" 😅
The longer the episode went on the more I need to see this in a real episode of star trek
Evolutionary astrobiology, absolutely a class I want to take 😂
I can't even with that accent. *chef's kiss*. Can't wait to see what aspect of Star Trek life you're gonna tackle next.
Might I put forward my own bailiwick and suggest supply chain and logistics?
I also work in logistics, and the possibilities there are ENDLESS.
Great video, Steve! Loving this series featuring the not-so-final-frontier jobs of Starfleet! And bonus points for pronouncing “Appalachia” like someone actually from the Appalachian region 😁
Yeah, that accent was pretty good.
Working in an administration role myself, this is pure gold. Absolutely love it!
I used to be Royal Air Force a long time ago now and as ground crew, these videos are absolutely brilliant at reminding people that the pilots don't fly without the admin staff!
He asked so many times to have bits edited out, but the videographer was not willing to cut him any slack? It's because he's Appalachian hill-folk, isn't it! These starfleet documentarians are trying to make him look bad, based on centuries-old prejudices!
They know what content the audience craves!
"Seemed like bad taste at that point"
I didn't just LOL I guffawed!
I really want to be a fly on the wall of the “talk” he and the interviewer have where he bargains for the removals of sections. I could see that being more fun than the original interview.
Absolutely loving the accent! I was born and grew up in southwestern Virginia, and you're dead on! Your western Maryland/too close to West Virginia for comfort definitely shines through!
In all seriousness, if they ever made an anthology series with this idea. Each episode on a person of the needed bureaucracy of Starfleet and/or the Federation, over many different times and places. It would be amazing! Great idea, Steve!
Keep 'em coming!!
How about doing some Starfleet Academy jobs?
- clinic doctor (interplanetary/interspecies STIs... 🙄)
- RA in dorms
- admissions or dean's office
- campus security
- spacecraft loss (theft) prevention
- bouncers at campus bar (must be capable of disarming a Naussicaan, etc)
Seriously Paramount, get Steve a contract and a budget.
Seriously! 😂
Okay. Suggestion for the next one: the guy who has to clean up all the administration stuff after each conspiracy to take over starfleet.
You know, working out which standing orders are from before the admiral fell under the control of a brain worm vs after, which orders were issued by the real admiral and which by the changeling impersonating him, ect.
I imagine that would be a full time job. After all, you can't just leave the infiltrator's orders in the system, who knows what neferious plans they might have in place!
Some infiltrators and some admirals, you may want to keep the infiltrator's policies....
Sometimes it's easier to open the door for a different infiltrator, as they spend so much time accidentally getting in the way of and later deliberately sabotaging other infiltrators rather then get Starfleet Intelligence involved.
Wow, it would really solve a lot of issues if Starfleet DID have an HR department in cannon.
Also, I'd watch that show!
I really love your attention to detail in your scripts and acting. Your characters are fully-realized in the first 30 seconds, and it's such a joy to watch them react to the world for the next 19 minutes and 59 seconds.
Yes, I have a question for the HR representative. Have you ever had to deal with a case where a half-Klingon terrorist was welcomed onto the crew of a starship, and on her first day she punched the chief engineer in the face, and instead of proper discipline the captain assigned the terrorist as chief engineer and made the guy she punched work under her? Asking for a friend.
At first I thought you referred to the other half-Klingon terrorist who somehow managed to retain a command position.
How you make all these characters feel so real is just incredible! Brilliant script and performance as always
You have no idea how happy this video made me.
A few years ago during the lockdowns, my housemate and I came up with the concept of "Star Trek HR" but ultimately never did anything with it.
Our favourite idea was "Menace of the Month" and it's just a wall filled with the same portrait of Will Riker's cheesy grin over and over, except one month where the image is flipped and he's wearing a yellow shirt because it was Thomas Riker actually.
I'm really enjoying this series. I've always liked little things like this in fiction, the people who aren't the stars living their lives and what all that implies. I'm a logistics guy who thinks about the thousands if not millions of people who are directly and indirectly responsible for my bowl of cereal, so seeing the people who logically must exist in Starfleet but we never see will never cease to be gold to me. Thank you.
Awesome. And a reminder of how criminally underused Troi was. So many great potential B plots!
love this, I love fanworks that explore the mundane in extraordinary settings and this is such a great extrapolation of what a star trek HR would be like while while obviously commenting on irl stuff of the today and being very entertaining : D
I wonder how big the file on Steve Johnson is in that department
It depends on whether or not he's got on one of his Republican wigs.
The Kirk file “possibly complete, save just in case…” has to be a few teraflops of data or a small forest of paper…
@@RagnaroknrolThe Kirk file includes the discovery of at least a couple of previously unknown extraterrestrial STIs.
@@RagnaroknrolWait a few decades, a certain young officer Picard might give that file a run for its credits.
You've heard of Memory Alpha, the library the size of a planet; that file would occupy all of Memory Kappa, as in "K for Kirk"@@Ragnaroknrol
Love these oft underrepresented jobs in Starfleet. From a lore perspective they make sense, and from a comedy perspective they are pure latinum. I would love to see more of them, maybe starfleet PR? Get the person on the other side of the holo-imager that has to shuttle it to all these places and interview beings for the catalogues, or document officers after big events.
Next season on SNW:
The crew escape disaster by the skin of their teeth
*Cut to Steve in HR on his 10th cup of Raktajino*
“Here we go again…”
My favourite joke, personally: "Seemed like bad taste at that point." That one hit real good; nice one Steve.
I thought we were going to hear about Spock’s complaints about McCoy.
This was so on-point i actually briefly thought "i don't wanna sit here and listen to more boring HR shit about Mazarites, I'm sick of how attention-seeking they are!"
How many time did starfleet humanoid resources had to fix captain james tiberus intersteller romantic messes?
A reminder that a HR department's job is to protect the company/Starfleet, not you.
Love the vids, all of em. Best wishes Steve, making me laugh during a shitty month. Ppreciate it.
These are some of my favorite videos. There is comedy, but also it seems like it could legitimately fit in with Star Trek canon. There is a lot the shows never cover about how the less glamorous jobs get done.
Dirty Jobs: Star Trek edition
These Starfleet skits would be perfect in acting reel portfolio "i think that's what it's called". Whether funny or dramatic, I get pulled in. Always amazing work
Goddamn you man, now I want a fun little sitcom style show with this guy from HR and BAYMOR hangin' out eating lunch in a corridor with squid aliens. I miss DS9 ._.
Just watched this, and Starfleet Janitor, and now watching Lawyer. Just wanted to compliment you on your acting skills! :)
Great accent work! And great character work too! I thought this was just some generic everyman , but we know alot of personal idiosyncratic information about him, the region of US he's from, the cross cultural marriage he inherited, the fact he cares about how he looks on paper but with just a teensy bit "old club" corruption to offer to trade favors if the interviewer will mske certain edits, the background and story behind why hair doesn't grow anymore on his "lefthand titty" etc. You gave him enough personal detail and qualities, and revealed both at just the right spots in the right amounts. This isn't some 1D type, this is a real person.
Vekumorg and Corvalurians and Mazartians and Burgaloids and Kragmatites, oh, my! 😁 How about the Starfleet version of an OSHA surveyor/inspector? The only problem is, everything is so dangerous and wildly easy to tamper with in the Star Trek universe, where to even start!
I love the commitment to the character; you went so far as to become balding and middle-aged.
I've been preparing all my life.
some people complain that Steve Shives is too Steve Shives, but not me, i like my Steve Shives being as Steve Shives as possible
I like the idea of dolphin crew doing navigation, which is outright started in non-canon official publications and more-than-0 alluded to on screen.
Pretty sure they were Belugas, not dolphins, doing cetacean ops on Lower Decks
They’re much better at 3D navigation. 🐋 🐬
Edited duration: 12.3 seconds.
I really hope they get you on the show for more of this kind of stuff, very lower decks adjacent, the mundanity of the utopia.
The nasty stereotype about Appalachians was unfair and uncalled for.
They're real people, enduring exploitation and neglect.
Every horrible thing they've been accused of is a projection of the aristocracy that needs them helpless, invisible, silenced.
I felt that like an actual slap on the face.
Holy shit sir! I have binge watched a bunch of your "Starfleet Job" series and I am blown away. You're hilarious but you ALWAYS have something to say in it. I'm blown away by "Starfleet Guidance Counselor"! Amazing sir.
Oh wow. I can't even believe how much joy this video gives me.
A line spoken between officers on STO: "I suspect that Starfleet is planning to use paperwork as a new source of energy for warp cores."
Steve is an extremely talented man
Very creatively written and performed! Steve, really enjoy all your humor! Thanks!
These segments you do are very creative and very clever. Thanks for sharing them with us! ❤
My favorite series continues. Love it as always!
Another amazing video! I love these looks into behind the scenes roles that Starfleet would have (or at least need some equivalent of) in order to function.
Great video! What profession is next? Logistics? Law Enforcement? Recruitment? Teaching?
What in the world does logistics even look like in a "post scarcity society"?
It seems like the only times we see anybody transporting anything, it's some thing that's only valuable because it _magically_ can't be replicated and that seems to give whoever has it license to be unconscionably nasty without any repercussions because they're the only way the Federation can get that thing they need. Funny that we never see the Federation go back for a resupply run...
You know, I was skeptical when I started typing, but now your idea seems like a real banger! I hope to see Steve cover it. 😊
I was about to comment on the lack of non-humanoids, but then I realized that era uniform would suggest that Cetacean Ops probably isn't a thing yet.
I really do enjoy these episodes. It fills out the missing bits of what makes an organization run.
This Starfleet HR idea is brilliant. It also proves that starship crews are ridiculously small in canon; the bridge crew should not be responsible for handling all the things we see them do. The HR department on a ship wouldn't have to be huge, but half the problems between crewmen could be solved by that department long before the bridge crew has do something drastic. On top of that, the ship's counselors (because just one counselor for a ship of more than a thousand people is insanity) would work very closely with HR, clearing up a lot of problems with individual crewpersons before they got to the point where they needed to be relieved of duty for a time.
I like the idea that TOS era HR failed to get a representative on every vessel, but managed to change the regulation that Captains can't go on away missions (because they'll get infected by touchy space fungus or whatever.)
HR: Looks at James T Kirk.
HR: add 3 more infractions for trying and failing to seduce crew members.
These are amazing. Too real.
That south of the Mason-Dixon Line accent spot on. 😂
tree squid reference!!
I really do love these skits. Greatness!
God the HR writeup on transporter clones and other related things must be a novel
I love these videos where you roleplay as a realistic role that would exist in the federation and make an interview out of it. They're pretty damn good!
Lucky video to get when you sit and wonder what planet you are on :) Best mini serie on YT
“Uh, can you cut that part.” That is going to fuel a smile all day. Thank you.