b’elanna in the idw comics going through 7+ years of character development getting married and having a kid then being like wait this sucks actually i need to find another bajoran baddie to get into toxic yuri with. she’s so real for that

I enjoy Kira/Keiko as a ship, but I wish that most of the discussion about them didn’t center on the “O’Brien polycule”. I’m interested in how their dynamic changed from vaguely adversarial in “In the Hands of the Prophets” to friendly in later seasons. I want to know how they navigated the differences in their opinions on faith and religion. I want to know if/how Keiko’s thoughts on Bajoran religion changed over time. I want to know if Kira experienced any lingering resentment toward Keiko. I want to know how long it took them to become friends – if one or both of them made a great effort to mend the divide between them. I want to know if they have disagreements after that or if they carefully try to avoid speaking about topics where their opinions differ. There’s a lot that’s potentially interesting about their dynamic outside of how it relates to Miles.

imo the number of voyager episodes that heavily feature tom and neelix as a duo is just further proof that if neelix was a shippable twink tovix would be top three in terms of popularity

The Borg chip from “Human Error” that kills you when you ‘fall in love’ should at least be as infamous as ‘turning into lizards at warp 10’ when it comes to Brannon Braga's stupid ideas and I mean it. Both concepts fundamentally misunderstand the nature of human life but the former is about women and their necessity to (romantically) ‘love’ (a man) to be truly human so we're giving Braga a pass for that I guess

two ppl with shared history is the bestest most delicious compelling dynamic in the world... exes. old friends. childhood friends. old friends who are no longer friends. decade long slowburns. multi decade slowburns. etc

the thing about star trek is i don't watch it to see a group of plucky gun loving cadets save the galaxy or something i'm watching it to see the unlucky nerd of the week face their mortality in a way that is so fucked up and creepy. or to perform in community theater or go to therapy over confidence issues or play trombone or something

thinking about the recurring theme of sisko being someone who constantly comes adrift in time, literally and metaphorically, physically and emotionally. no matter how much he wants to stay here, and how hard he tries to, he drifts, he comes unmoored. you exist here. and always existing here means he can't exist there simultaneously; one precludes the other. and the grief of that truth that rings like a bell through his whole existence at once. hm.

attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you

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genuinely curious, why dont you like critical role?

lol its not deep or nothing i just find both the creators and fans really annoying. they’re also very dnd industrial complex which i haaate, play another goddamn game

when will there be an Actual Play podcast featuring uncritical worldbuilding, dumb as fuck characterization, and boring interaction between hated enemies"

in many ways voyager is a great place for both harry and b’elanna in terms of giving them an environment where their mad scientist tendencies can run free with little to no ethical oversight. harry being jazzed about finding a way to separate tuvix, b’elanna’s rogue ai, all the various catastrophic engine designs they created together. all they need is to justify it by telling janeway it’ll be good for voyager and she’ll sign off on it no questions asked

listening to taylor swift: boring. uninspired. objectively mid.

listening to taylor swift in jarchie amvs: the height of romantic tragedy. a testament to art and lyricism and emotional repression. I'm crying so hard I frew up.

Do you guys remember watching the finale for the first time and crying laughing when they threw in a sepia toned jiles montage out of nowhere or was that jsut me

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