Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x010: “Rubincon”

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Graffiti’d on the wall in the Atrium are the words “Break. Burn. Build.” Other visible graffiti include “Liberation”, “Take Change” and “Never Again”.

There’s also ‘Veni, vidi, vici, Venari’, which is a modification of Julius Caesar’s famous phrase meaning ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’. With ‘venari’ added it could be translated as ‘I came, I saw, I conquered, I hunt’.

It’s also thematically relevant to the title, as it was Caesar who crossed the Rubicon (on his way back from conquering), and became dictator of Rome, similarnto what Nus Braka was trying to do in this episode.

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