I was just reading through the Memory Alpha page on Inquisition, and:
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
Is this a print ad for Radio Shack?
NO OMG
I REMEMBER THIS
THIS WAS IN PARADE MAGAZINE
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.
star trek heritage post (January 20th, 2017)
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
Living Witness Janeway
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
given chakotay’s rather. um. unorthodox approach to playing therapist they really missed out on an opportunity for him to manufacture a christmas carol type of situation in response to janeway’s depressive spirals. like it’s not so bad in the delta quadrant, check out these simulations on what we would all be up to if we weren’t here. here’s me and b’elanna getting mowed down by cardassian forces! here’s harry rotting away in a founder prison after being replaced by a changeling! here’s tuvok throwing himself in the path of a phaser blast meant for you! here’s seven, still a mindless borg drone! don’t you feel so much better about your choices now?
I have also been thinking of that happening but as like, Q doing a Tapestry but for Janeway.
*Q snaps his fingers and they appear in an alleyway*
Q: And this is where Tom Paris would be if you hadn't brought him along on your ill fated expedition and had nasty salamander sex with him.
*Janeway looks at Tom laying in the gutter*
Janeway: Yeah, that's about what I expected.
Paris: Hey, I don't live in this gutter! I'm just on my last transporter credit of the month. I want to go back into Sandrines when it opens tomorrow so I didn't beam home.
Janeway: Can I see myself getting overwhelmed and disembowelled by a Klingon boarding party again?
Q: Once was startling, twice was exciting- I'm beginning to think you have a self destructive streak.
i wish more people were capable of understanding that a character’s race actually does impact things you can say about them and that’s a normal thing to take into consideration to avoid perpetuating racist stereotypes. and that if you jump on here headcanoning a black character as psychopathic and engaging in criminal behaviour when they have never canonically done so then maybe you ought to look inwardly instead of doubling down and insisting you basically forgot that the only black character of said family was black. now you look racist and stupid
Beyond a cessation and writing overhaul over how televised Star Trek properties write the narrative reality's alien cultures as narrow expressions of specific characteristics of human culture and imply that a fair amount of this expression is due to biology, one thing that a character like B'Elanna would benefit from is a story in which a lot of the behaviors Klingons are accused of exhibiting are also explicitly described as morally neutral. Pointing out that B'Elanna is rarely ever depicted in action as being more hostile than any other character is important. But it is also important to comment on the frameworks of morality as well that suggest things like loudness and assertiveness and aggression are ontologically "bad."
Suppose the point of speculative fiction were to expose naturalized cultural structures--B'Elanna as a character would benefit from being told she is not violent or aggressive (because she isn't, textually, on a personal level--she was a participant in a violent resistance but this isn't essentialized as a part of her biological expression or used to characterize Chakotay, for instance, as 'naturally' aggressive)--B'Elanna, if she ever is violent and aggressive, might also benefit from being told, and being framed by the writing through, "so what, this is an enormous universe of millions of lifeforms and cultures, millions of ways of being, millions of value systems, so what. all judgments should have to be justified and explained." B'Elanna's dislike of Klingon culture reads too often as self-hatred rather than a sincerely reasoned ethical objection: "too robust for me", she said of the language. Robustness, should it even be a measurable and observable quality of a language (it is not), is morally neutral. What experience is she connecting this description to? Where is this judgment originating? Star Trek aliens are not the most sophisticated speculative creations, for various storytelling reasons (some better than others), but on occasion they can prompt interesting questions and force a confrontation with naturalized moralities. B'Elanna, less tortured by past rejections and isolating incidents, or less obsessed with what these past experiences suggest about her person, could say both things: "I am not hostile." and "The behaviors you describe as hostility are not innately bad."
And, while we're imagining ideal outcomes, a new series of Star Trek is produced and it fully complicates Klingon culture by making it reflect the complexity and multitude of human culture so that the biological influence over culture is shown as profoundly nebulous and impossible to parse.
a quick major kira drawing <3
every time dukat shows up on this show he’s invented a new job for himself. first it was cardassian commander, then he dabbled as a space pirate for a bit, then he tried dominion lapdog. now he’s club president of a cult. by this time next week i expect he’ll be dropshipping 3D printed trinkets on etsy