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This is part of the classic The United Federation of "hold my beer, I got this" post chain. It's definitely part of my headcanon, if only in general spirit instead of literally that's-what-happened. It conveniently explains so much about why these shows focus so much on humans. It's like reality TV, it's pointless to focus the camera on the well-adjusted ones.
Edit: I should mention that my headcanon extends humanity's hold-my-bear mad science bent to the social sciences. Why else do you think we so rarely see other multi-species governments, or when we do it's just a boring old "boss species conquered a bunch of subordinate species"? Humans were probably warned by the Vulcans that different species tended to have incompatible governing interests and doctrines and the humans thought "but what if we gave them all a vote anyway and see what happens? Maybe a Federation will go twice as fast!"
I've tried posting other things before and it's been a bit flaky for me, I'm not sure if anyone else saw them. So feel free to reap the karma-equivalent for yourself if you like. Or edit it in to this post and you can pretend you meant to do that from the start. :)
Well, it's reassuring that those posts are actually invisible rather than just "nobody even cared enough to downvote them" :) I'm accessing the fediverse through kbin rather than Lemmy, which I like a lot in general design but which has had some glitches with fully federating stuff in other areas before so I'm not surprised. The bugs will get sorted out over time.
Also, you can't take it from me because I'm giving it to you. Here! \
Heh. You'll likely be disappointed, I've always been much more of a commenter than a poster. 12 years on Reddit got me 450,964 comment karma and only 2,351 post karma, and most of those posts were my failed attempt to get a subreddit about moonbases off the ground. :)
Well that's where you're going wrong. Moonbases stay on the ground, even if that ground is in the sky ;)
I'm also on kbin, and I also see no posts in your profile.
Anecdotally, I lost a pretty good number of comments in previous months during the big migrations, but that seems to have gotten better.
I don't care if it makes me inhuman, I'm not holding anybody's bear
Don't worry, you only need the bear arms.
Fortunately, US citizens have a right to those!
But isn't that actual canon, that humans are the only species that actually brought together all those species.
Sure, but my headcanon is more about the underlying reasoning of why they did that. In canon it was out of some sort of high-minded ideals and a unique human ability to build communities and see past differences and such blather. In my headcanon it's actually more because the Vulcans told them they didn't think it would work.
Your version seems more plausible actually.
Vulcan: do not touch the hot griddle. It will burn you.
Human: You can't tell me what to do! Burns hand
Vulcan: I will apply medication to the burn.
Human: I'm not burned! This is what human flesh looks like! Holds up mangled extremity
Vulcan: ...
Human: ...
Vulcan: ...
Human: burns other hand
And yet somehow, we make it work.
I love it. Thanks.