You could imagine a lot of different actors being in this franchise, but if it weren’t for Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek is over with in 1968, and there would be no next generations.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Dax going from an eye level of a 6 foot tall woman as Jadzia to a 5'4 woman as Ezri must have been hella disorienting

Sometimes there’s a small amount of justice in the universe.

Time to boldly go

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

I like how Kira is judging Dax for her taste in men (Captains with transparent skulls) when at this point in the series, Kira has gone out with Boring Vedek and Boring Planet Leader

You cannot make appeasing these people your entire political project.

Star Trek: TMP is a great slow-burn science fiction story, marred only by the presence of Stephen Collins.

Star Trek movies? Fine. The movies are fine, but Star Trek is TV, and not prestige TV even, just TV. At it's best it elevates TV, but it isn't always at its best and honestly that is part of its charm. It is one of the many reasons it needs 22 episode seasons.

‪I helped organize boycotts of The Last Temptation of Christ and the art exhibition featuring "Piss Christ". Here's why I don't care that Donald Trump is attacking the pope.

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

I come more and more to think that this show is writing not only to those of us now who are looking at the present with horror but also to those in the future who will be sifting through what we left behind. Who knows what will happen in the interval. #StarfleetAcademy

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Nah, this is crying out for a brief conflict and then a classic villain team-up.

We are watching a dangerous and unfit President drag this country toward catastrophe — and Republicans refuse to act. Invoke the 25th Amendment. Do your fucking job.

It would be nice if mainstream media would report the obvious fact that the president of the United States is out of his mind. Seems like a highly relevant fact that the media have buried so far, in betrayal of their duty.

I know my district is a tortured monster of a shape in order to both be a maximally safe blue seat and protect even more Republican safe seats… but it also means my representative can safely do what she likes, such as call for the president’s removal from office. So, I’m still glad to be in TX-07.

One the one hand this is obviously very strange, and on the other, a college educated white woman from Georgia getting polarized against the orange man is just about the most normal thing in American politics the last 10 years.

*youth pastor voice* you know who else died, resurrected, and helped lead humanity to its salvation?

You can just not want to be in a relationship with someone / watch a particular TV show / like a band / do literally anything; you don’t have to justify it by making up a reason why the thing is morally problematic. Own your own tastes.

THIS is why I will be supporting the new Animorphs series K.A. Applegate has been a queen from day one

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Mannnnnn. Thank God for Ryan Coogler and his media empire.

You mean to tell me that even leaving this planet does not free you from the grip of Microsoft products? Sigh.

[P] I can never choose between these two

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

I guess I would elaborate — it’s not that what we have now in Congress is good, but that it can actually get worse if you guarantee that every 8 or 12 years, you replace the entire body with people who have no idea what they’re doing but know they have an ax to grind.

Term limits destroy institutional knowledge and create a constant churn of amateurs who need to learn how to legislate. It empowers corporate interests, which is why they push the issue.

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Bears repeating

I guess the logical outcome is that psychotherapy can’t really be regulated as a medical practice, if any regulation would mean you are regulating speech based on viewpoint? So, cool, this will definitely not hurt people whatsoever. Also does this mean fortunetelling bans are unconstitutional?

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Subtweet: X-Files never bought this idea I wrote on a napkin about Romulans so X-Files stinks.

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

In “The Measure of a Man,” Guinan and Picard stop the plot for five minutes to tell the audience “this is like slavery” in so many words. If that’s not a lecture, nothing is. They do it well, because those actors can carry it, but I beg people to pay attention to the text they allegedly revere.

“Star Trek was always political, but it wasn’t preachy.” This episode aired in 1969, three years before it became legal throughout the US for unmarried people to access contraception and four years before Roe v. Wade established the right to an abortion. Learn some history and shut up.

"The Beatles" were the "One Direction" of the 60s and I will not be elaborating on this

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

Also, the weirdest revisionist history is watching people have to pretend TNG season 1 and THE PHANTOM MENACE were undisputed masterpieces and that GHOSTBUSTERS was a serious worldbuilding genre piece with a few jokes and not a capital-C 80s Comedy

One-off love interests in Star Trek are notoriously terrible (Dax and Deral? Troi and Devinoni Ral? Chakotay and Kellin?) so it's amazing that not only does Quark have three that worked but that he pulled the best baddies out of the entire cast