You know what really scuffs my potatoes? The fact that Julian Bashir’s parents gave birth to a disabled child, and instead of choosing to enrich their kid’s life by utilizing the advanced technological learning aids/tools that likely existed at the time, they decided to dump him off in a hospital for illegal augmentation treatments because they wanted a human calculator instead.
This is why Amsha crying poor about how “hard” it was to see her kid struggle was such a cop out. Ma’am, if you were really upset, you wouldn’t have had him changed into a genius. Getting him augmented at all was bad enough, but they had to insist he be given above-average intelligence as well.
This was all I could think while watching this đź’€
[Video description:
clips from an episode of strange new worlds, edited with audio from deep space nine.
The camera focuses on T’Prill, T’Pring’s mother as she speaks, but instead of her voice it’s Zek, the Farengi leader from Star Trek deep space nine. He says: “I predict a big future for you Pel, you certainly have the lobes”
The camera then cuts to Spock and the voice of Pel says “so, you like my lobes?”
The camera briefly shows T’Pring, looking at Spock with confusion as Quark’s voice says “Pel?”
The camera then cuts back to T’Prill, and Zek’s voice says “yes, I do”
Finally the camera cuts back to Spock who takes off his fake Vulcan ears as Pel’s voice says “good! Then you can have them!” The voices of Zek and Rom can be heard screaming as he does this.]
I wrote this dialogue right when i was about to fall asleep because i thought it was the best thing I had ever thought up. So, I woke up to this mastery and I knew I had to do my sleep-deprived self justice.