voyager generation ship au where janeway finally gets to go out in her epic blaze of glory but, either unintentionally or intentionally, her consciousness becomes intertwined with the ship itself. a sort of ascension, a benevolent ghost watching over her crew for eternity
I THOUGHT IT WAS SO FUCKING COOL I CUT IT OUT AND HUNG IT ON MY WALL
okay no I was going to let this go but every time I see it I just have to stop what I’m doing and laugh for ten minutes
bob picardo’s ultimate Dad pose
roxann is wearing velour which was cutting edge fabric probably
i’m pretty sure i had that keyboard
why? is the palm pilot thing under a dome? is it a security dome because there are only ten in the world!? does it need its own ecosystem to survive??? what is happening
looking at kate and robbie makes me think it’s possible this whole spread was in a clothing & lifestyle mail order catalog and not parade magazine after all
look at jennifer’s hands she looks so uncomfortable i want to get her out of this terrible photo shoot
is ethan phillips under quarantine?? what the fuck is happening there? is he supposed to be in a PHONE BOOTH? to use his CUTTING EDGE cell phone? did we not know how cell phones worked yet!? the x-files had been on for two years already get it together
garrett wang what the fuck is that a hi-top made with cutting edge hair pomade or what’s happening here
tim russ is just limbs and a head what was happening in this wardrobe department? did an all-black memo go out by CUTTING EDGE email and tim roxann and jennifer only check their email once a week because that dial-up’s by the minute ok and where i lived you had to call long distance because the other side of the goddamn county was a long distance telephone call YOU DON’T KNOW OUR STRUGGLES OKAY I WOULD HAVE MURDERED SOMEONE FOR A WEBCAM
this is an excellent picture on its own but lets not ignore the contents of that magazine
thought u could hack my webcam and record me?? jokes on u CIA all u gonna get is my brand new dell computer w/ an AMAZING 2.1GB hard drive
when ur parents wants u 2 socialise but ur busy faxing memes 2 ur friends w/ the lastest pda
when ppl ask to use ur brand new photo scanner but u arent done scanning ur collection of cat pics yet
waiting 4 the computer 2 start up so u can show off ur latest – and bestest –photoshops
being the only one in ur friend group w/ a printer and everyone always wants to use ur printer so u decide to just carry it w/ u wherever u go
getting the latest cd-roms before anyone else
when it friday and u decide u deserve that pizza so u call the pizza place to order ur favourite pizza
and jennifer…. continues to look uncomfortable. someone save her
When it’s family photo time but uncle Joe still has Covid.
i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of ‘what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as ‘the evil ones’ and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it’s a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it’s not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don’t think about it’ and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
I think the one time we can forgive the fandom sin of “deciding a character liking a particular food is >50% of their personality now” is when they’re a coffee drinker because that’s how coffee drinkers are in real life. I know because I’m one of them
star trek episodes about a “sentient AI” turning out to be stolen human brains put into computers by a mad scientist, by series
tos: the episode is based on the fact that the stolen brain is a Woman and she needs love too
tng: the mad scientist is a sort of an annoyingly dressed flashy guy who’s annoying and we’re all glad to see him exposed for this by data who makes a quip about being real sentient AI. picard has a moving speech abt how stealing brains is bad. deanna should have sensed the brain but she doesn’t bc she’s not in the episode
voy: they find the brain when it starts decomposing and realize that it has been powering the ship the entire time. they encounter trouble when they realize it won’t work without a human brain. an engineer gets into an accident and falls onto an incurable coma and they decide it’s what they would have wanted and put their brain in but the funeral is really sordid and nobody can look at each other the same after
ds9: julian bashir tries to solve the brain’s problem by growing a headless body in a vial to give it to the brain to use. but the headless body escapes and trouble arises when quark refuses to give it back bc it became his best dabo consumer. this is plot B. plot A is the terrifying reality of war
ent: alien kidnaps archer to use as the brain donor but lets him go as the brain scan turns out to be negative
disco: it’s in season one or two. all klingon ships run on stolen human brains and this isn’t really remarked upon by anybody at all but the floating brains are good set dressing to a scene when ash tyler is breathing heavily and making tortured faces abt having a klingon in his bones
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