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sodiumlamp · 4 months

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Picard

We're in the final stretch of the first season, and the gang finally makes it to the mysterious planet Soji recalled from her dreams. I haven't spent a lot of time on plot holes and other inconsistencies, but a pretty good example of my problem with the writing is how they found Soji's homeworld.

The Romulan agent finds out she's capable of dreaming, then gets her to tell him enough about the dreams to figure out that she's dreaming of home, then he gets her to do some sort of Romulan meditation technique where she can interact with the dream while awake, so she can look up at the skylight in her "father's" laboratory, and identify two red moons and constant lightning in the sky.

I mean, it's not a bad way to extract this information. The problem is that not even Soji knew what she knew, so it makes sense that the answers would lie in her subconscious. My gripe is that it's a tad convenient that her originworld would be so distinctive that this simple description would tell you everything you needed to know to find it. What if the planet had no moons, or whatever the usual number is in Star Trek? What if the planet had clear, unremarkable weather? What if the lab had no skylight? Also, why is the dream taken so literally? Soji saw her father working on a life-size wooden doll bearing her own face. That didn't actually happen so why would the two moons and lightning thing be true?

To be fair, we could argue that the dreams were purposely designed to contain information Soji could use to find her way back home, except the whole point was to suppress that kind of information for her mission. The Romulans discovered her dreams and exploited them, which makes it seem like more of a bug than a feature. But this all happened in Episode 6, and I'm here to complain about Episode 9.

So, the gang arrives at Soji's home planet, Coppelius, and while there's two moons, the weather seems quite ordinary and Earthlike. The Memory Alpha article even points out this contradiction, almost like they're making a joke, but maybe I'm imagining things.

"While Soji Asha was undergoing the Zhal Makh, she had a vision that this planet had electrical storms as part of its weather patterns, though the natural environment was quite sunny, with a hot desert-like environment."

I mean, everyone located the planet based on the details of her vision, but the vision itself was bullshit. Why wouldn't you just put some lighting storms on the planet? We know they can do that effect because they already did it when they produced the scenes of her dream. Just do it again.

When they arrive, all the other androids welcome her back and their leader is Noonien Soong's son. Not an android, like, his biological son. He's a cyberneticist too, so when the ban on synths went down 14 years ago he and Bruce Maddox ran off to Coppelius to make a bunch of androids. Then Bruce made Soji and Dahj and they went off on a mission to......

What the hell was their mission? I think Dahj and Soji were meant to infiltrate the Daystrom Institute and the Borg Reclamation Project respectively, but to what end? And Maddox was up to something on Freecloud, except his lab got destroyed and Jurati killed him before we could find out what he was up to. I think the idea here is that the Coppelius androids would have been better off if Maddox had stayed put, but I can't tell. Instead Maddox and Dahj are dead and Soji has returned to tell them that a Romulan armada is following her to destroy them all.

The crux of the episode is when everyone compares notes and the Coppelians learn about the "warning" the Romulans discovered that convinced them androids will ruin everything. They soon determine that the "warning" was misinterpreted, as it may have been intended for synthetic minds to comprehend. They perceive the message as a promise, one left behind by fellow synthetics, who claim that organic life forms will inevitably create, envy, and betray synthetic life forms. The message contains instructions to contact the ancient synthetics, who will come to rescue any synthetics who are being persecuted. Also, they might just wipe out the persecutors.

So the androids (and Soong) are like, cool, let's just call those god-machines and let them take care of business, but Picard tries to convince them to evacuate in his ship instead. He makes a bunch of pie-in-the-sky promises about Federation protection and getting the synth ban overturned, but Soong calls bullshit because no one listened to Picard before, and no one listens to him now.

So this could be a decent payoff on the whole "warning" business. The Romulans have been worried about it this whole time, but I was afraid we'd never get a clear answer on whether their fears were justified. Now Coppelius has the means to actually summon the horror that the Romulans were afraid of, so at least we'll find out if it's a real thing or not. My guess is that they'll make the call and no one will answer, or at least the answer they get will be much less awesome and terrible than anyone feared/hoped. It's the only way to defuse this, unless a Star Trek show seriously intends to call down God to settle things.

Don't get me wrong, this show still sucks. They spent most of this episode just sort of reacting to Soji's people, Soong, etc. Jurati makes a lot of funny faces and that Romulan guy kills an android by ripping her eye out, so this show still maintains its throughline of dumbassery and violence. The cliffhanger here is that Picard is placed under house arrest, so he won't be able to stop the Coppellians from summoning the machine-gods and he won't be able to evacuate them before the Romulan armada arrives. But that's stupid. The Coppelians took that Romulan guy prisoner and he immediately escaped. Yet we're meant to believe they can hold Picard against his will for more than ten minutes? It's just sloppy and dumb, and it takes way too long to get there.

For instance, there's a scene where the ship loses power on its way down to the planet, and it's dark inside, and then Rios uses his lighter to see what's happening. But he can't just do that, it takes several tries to get a flame, so we have to put up with several cuts to different characters with each flash of the lighter. And for what? This isn't a big dramatic moment. The ship's inoperative and there's nothing they can do about. But they waste a bunch of time like they're building up to something, as if Jason Voorhees is gonna appear behind them in the dark. The whole series is like that. It really sucks.

Now you might wonder why I'm still watching this crap. The show is really, really bad, and I don't think it's worth the trouble, so why bother sitting through the whole thing? What's the point? Well, take a look at this shot of Bruce Maddox's room on Coppellius.

Like Jurati's desk in Episode 1, it's got a lot of labware, but they actually took the time to get some decent looking props instead of just slapping some present-day beakers and flasks. Maddox has the same blue and red liquid in unfamiliar containers that Dr. Crusher had in TNG. There's some other stuff too, which looks vaguely familiar but not easily identifiable. Someone actually went to the trouble to make some convincing props here. They probably looked up photos of real lab equipment and designed things that would look just similar enough to look appropriate, but strange enough to be unrecognizable. I have no idea what this stuff could be used for, but it still looks like a workspace. Like I could see a person sitting at this desk and doing things with this stuff.

And that's growth right there. Don't get me wrong, this doesn't redeem the gripe I had with the Daystrom Institute set from Episode 1. This set only proves my point. They knew what to do and how to do it right, but they just chose not to do that until later in the show.

Still, it's encouraging to see a mistake corrected, even in a sloppy shop like Star Trek: Picard. I had to dig pretty deep for this moment, but it's worth it. Sometimes bad shows are worth watching just for these kinds of experiences.

#mike watches picard #sheer fucking hubris #plot twist: jurati killed maddox because she was jealous of his sweet lab #wait that actually makes sense #soong offered to let her work in his facility #she might as well use maddox's lab since there's a vacancy #oh my gosh agnes you murdering murderer #this absolutely sucks ass jurati's just mirror universed her way into a promotion and no one even seems to mind

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tanadrin · 10 months

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i think you can make a plausible argument that it was the cultural reaction to 9/11 that killed the star trek franchise for a long time. without rehashing the politics of the 00s too much, there were two possible reactions to something like 9/11, what we might term the "oklahoma city" reaction and the reaction we actually got. 9/11 could have been viewed as a major tragedy but ultimately a criminal act, one which had to be dealt with by the civil authorities like the mcveigh bombing or other notable incidents of deadly terrorism on US soil prior to that date. instead though it was largely conceived of as a foreign military threat, encouraged no doubt by an administration that wanted to pursue a more vigorous foreign policy, and we got, well--*gestures at the first two decades of the 21st century*

this really soured the national political mood--it made the cultural zeitgeist one of paranoia and violent revenge fantasies. it gave us 24, and Taken, and while I'm not sure it's wholly responsible for the reboot of BSG (there's a throughline there with Ronald D. Moore's other work) it certainly contributed to an environment that was receptive to it. and i think in that environment 90s end-of-history optimism about the future, though it should have been a welcome corrective to all that cynicism and paranoia, simply felt like an anachronism. enterprise did last a few years, but only four seasons in total, the shortest run since TOS. the only movie we got in that era before the big hiatus was Nemesis, a movie about terrorism and a foreign threat that just felt kind of weird and incoherent.

and that was the problem for star trek in that era: if you take the utopianism out of roddenberry's future, you're not left with anything interesting. utopianism is the whole justification for these guys exploring space and going boldly and whatnot, the whole reason why the federation is worth rooting for over any of the other guys. i think a big reason the jj abrams movies fail to have any real substance is that they try to make star trek an action-adventure thing, when that was never its strong suit--indeed, TOS fight scenes are notoriously bad!--and it really took until discovery before people were willing to make star trek qua star trek again.

but even then, there's a degree of pessimism at the core of (some of) post-hiatus star trek that sits uncomfortably with the show's original utopian vision. some of this is just the usual metastasization of conceits that worked better as one-offs or very sparingly at most, comparable to the way the borg got beaten into the ground by voyager. but the heavy reliance on elements like section 34 and the mirror universe and the postapocalyptic future and the crapsack alpha quadrant of picard all to me speak of a certain yearning for utopia--a nostalgia for the utopias of the 90s--but much greater cynicism about the relevance of utopian fiction to our day-to-day lives.

#this is not to knock bsg #i like bsg a lot!#but it is really such an artifact of its time #star trek

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eponymous-rose · 9 months

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So I've been rewatching Star Trek: TNG as comfort TV during/post-move and just got to Yesterday's Enterprise, which I remember liking well enough, but man, it's really unusual in the context of the rest of these early episodes. For one thing, the violence shown is a lot more stark than we've seen in the show thus far - Riker with his throat cut, Captain Garrett with the metal shrapnel in her head, lingering close-ups on dead faces. It's dark and moody and the "happy ending" resolution (as far as we know at this point, anyway) is saving the few survivors of a brutal battle, patching them up, and then shipping them straight back into that battle to be killed.

Given the show's not-so-great track record with its female characters, it's weirdly refreshing that we get a re-do for Tasha Yar. And yeah, she falls in love with a dude and goes off with him on his ship, but she was ready to say goodbye to him and that would've been that - what finally prompts her to step willingly into the meat-grinder is the realization that she had an "empty death" (Guinan had some really raw lines in this one) in the other timeline, and that now her death can have some meaning. It's nicely done, if a bit of a self-flagellating "mea culpa" on the writers' parts.

The alternate timeline isn't the gleeful, campy evil of the Mirrorverse, it's just an exhausted grind through the final days of a losing war. Lots of little touches show how desperate things have become - Wesley's been fast-tracked to a full ensign, Picard is a tactician first and foremost (he takes officers' opinions under advisement, yes, but he's also keeping from them the inevitable, imminent surrender), the bridge is laid out so the captain is front and center with everyone else in the background. As a contrast with the actual Enterprise's chill 90s living room lounge vibe, it's pretty striking. It's like a sneak preview into the bleak and war-heavy sci-fi that would start saturating pop culture a decade or so later, and then it's a firm rejection of that premise - "This isn't a ship of war. It's a ship of peace."

I have a long, long history with TNG - DS9 is my favorite Trek on balance, but TNG is encoded in my DNA. From around ages 3 and 5, my brother and I were watching and rewatching TNG constantly. (My parents would laugh over the fact that my brother didn't know how to read yet but had memorized the episode titles of the first couple seasons.) We had pajamas. We scoured every garage sale and had a giant metal can full of action figures and phasers and tricorders and ships and even, shockingly, that transporter toy that made things disappear using mirrors.

The tactile experience of those toys is burned in my brain - the loose nacelles on the Enterprise model, the click of the left phaser button, the little hole at the bottom of the Borg cube that we once stuck a pencil in and had the tip of the graphite snap off and rattle around forevermore. My brother and I played incessantly with our action figures, to the point where most of them had the paint at least partially rubbed off - we created hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of new episodes over the years. The first time I ever used a touchscreen was at some sort of Star Trek exhibition in Canada in the early 90s that we stumbled across on our way to visit my grandparents.

I'm always fascinated by how kids interact with fictional media - my brother and I were so young, but we obviously knew Star Trek wasn't real. Except... I just always assumed that important people watched it, realized "well, that seems nice", and were actively working to make that future happen. I was (perhaps a little embarrassingly) older when I realized that no, we weren't gonna be out there on science missions to the stars during my lifetime. At least, not in an Enterprise kind of way.

At any given time, there's just this Star Trek filter over how I experience the world - when I got to go to college thanks to scholarships, I had that weighty feeling of responsibility and awe that came with daydreaming about Starfleet Academy. I saw my career shift from the gold of engineering to the blue of science to the red of command. And the older I get, the more I appreciate a show that, for all its flaws, managed to make a utopia interesting and complex.

Because TNG was such a phenomenon when I was a little kid in the early 90s, a lot of my family relationships also have TNG tied up in them. I remember going to my grandparents' apartment and my uncle showing us a fan magazine about the show. I remember another uncle who didn't really "get it" but gifted me and my brother astronaut ice cream because he knew we liked that space stuff. I remember watching most episodes curled up on the couch or my parents' bed with my brother and my mom and dad. When Mom got sick and we talked about death, I remember the way she wistfully brought up the Nexus from Generations or how she hoped she could see the next season of Picard (she didn't, sadly, but she really enjoyed that first season). Hell, one of the first real bonding moments I had with my otherwise hyper-professional and businesslike PhD advisor was when she made a TNG joke, I laughed at it, and she said, "I just love that show, everyone's so nice to each other."

It's just been a lot of fun coming back to this show, is all. I think I periodically forget how much it's affected me and the extent to which it was a fundamental, formative influence. While a lot of it either hasn't aged well or fails to hold up to modern media analysis, so much of it is still lovely, and occasionally there are these moments of shockingly good storytelling.

Star Trek good.

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meilas · 1 month

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Socks’ Star Trek must-watch list

Socks’ list of must-watch Trek episodes

OG Trek

Welcome to the NCC-1701 starship, known as the Enterprise. The captain and crew follow rules when the plot says so, the captain is often on away missions with his top-ranked crew members leaving some unqualified guy in charge, and the captain gets to snog a lot of ladies. Like, a lot. Seriously. This series features lots of questionable fashion choices, including men’s heeled boots and miniskirts.

Space Seed - our introduction to Khan Noonien Singh, played by Ricardo Montalban. Khan is the villain of the second Trek movie Wrath of Khan which is why this episode is on the list.

Taste of Armageddon - Do you remember the game Battleship? Two planets wage a war against each other. There is staggering loss of life, but no destruction. The Lottery in Space.

Mirror, Mirror - obligatory parallel universe episode! This parallel universe shows up later in Deep Space Nine which is why it is on this list.

Trouble With Tribbles - Clue in Space. Just a fun episode. Also shows up in Deep Space Nine!

A Piece of the Action - another fun episode. And the reason I don’t know if the proper expression is concrete galoshes or cement overshoes.

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - two individuals who are the very last members of their races who were at war are still trying to kill each other. This episode was about racism and it is not subtle about it at all.

Next Generation

Welcome to the NCC-1701D, also known as the Enterprise! Not the Enterprise from the original series, but a younger, more advanced starship that is the successor to the Enterprise name. And since the Enterprise and trouble go so well together, the crew of this Enterprise find lots of adventures to keep them busy as they explore strange new worlds and seek out new civilisations.

Encounter at Farpoint - The very first episode. Not great, but it also serves as an introduction to Q, who will show up several times throughout the series. So that I don’t fill up this whole post, just go ahead and watch every Q episode (which will 99% of the time have Q in the title.)

Measure of a Man - Data is put on trial to determine if he is property or his own person, and Riker is forced to testify against him for plot reasons. This episode explores individuality and friendship.

Q Who - I said I wouldn’t fill this up and I won’t, but this episode is special because it introduces the Borg. There’s also a great moment between Picard and Q toward the end.

The Survivors - An elderly couple are the last survivors on a planet. Hard to explain why I like this episode without giving away the whole plot.

Sarek - This episode can be pretty sad as it deals with dementia and what it can do to people.

Menage a Troi - Any episode with Deanna’s mother, Lwaxana, is always a funny one. (Except the one that is sad, more on that later.) This episode is excellent because we get to hear Sir Patrick Stewart recite Shakespeare in the most over-the-top delivery possible.

Best of Both Worlds, parts one and two - THE CLIFFHANGER TO END ALL CLIFFHANGERS HOLY SHIT THIS EPISODE HAS ALL THE DRAMA

Family - A follow-up to Best of Both Worlds. Deals with family that is gone, family that can be A Bit Much, and family that is estranged.

Suddenly Human - This episode is similar to the Deep Space Nine episode Cardassians: a boy who has been adopted by others is discovered and found to have living family who want him back. Which family is the child supposed to stay with?

Darmok - An episode all about language and how ideas are communicated. Yes it has some flaws, but overall it is interesting from a linguistic point of view. By the end of the episode, you will understand how darmok=memes and inside jokes.

The First Duty - A good Wesley episode. This explores truth, loyalty, and doing what is right.

I, Borg - The Enterprise rescues a Borg teenager, who begins to develop individuality. He is named Hugh. Hugh is adorable.

The Inner Light - THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE EVER. IF THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING ON THIS LIST THAT SOUNDS INTERESTING PLEASE AT LEAST WATCH THIS.

Rascals - Picard and a few other randos (no seriously why is this bunch of people even on a shuttle together?) experience a transporter malfunction and are beamed aboard the Enterprise, except they materialise as pre-teen children! This episode is just pure fun. Contains: bby!Picard throwing a tantrum, and bby!Guinan jumping on the bed.

*Frame of Mind - This is a pretty heavy episode that deals with hallucinations. Riker is supposed to be performing in a play, but suddenly he’s in an alien mental institution and accused of murder. Riker repeatedly flashes between being on the Enterprise and being in the institution and he increasingly cannot tell which is real.

*Technically, this episode does not contain gaslighting even though it will seem like it. Please make sure you are in a good place if you decide to watch this episode.

**Dark Page - Lwaxana Troi is back! But something is up with her.

**I can’t explain why this is a serious episode without giving it away, so here it is: this episode deals with child death.

Deep Space Nine

By far my absolute favourite series, and the only one I have seen every episode of. Deep Space Nine is about a Cardassian space station that is now occupied by joint Federation and Bajoran forces. Deep Space Nine just so happens to be situated right by a stable wormhole that goes to another quadrant of space that would take years and years and years to travel to by starship alone. Naturally, everyone wants to be in control of the wormhole. The closest planet, Bajor, was until recently occupied by Cardassians. (Think of Cardassians as Space Russians.) The Bajorans are deeply spiritual people (literally every fucking Bajoran subscribes to the same religion) and they believe that their gods reside in the wormhole. (THEY ARE WORMHOLE ALIENS FFS AND THEY DON’T CARE ONE BIT ABOUT BAJOR OR CARDASSIA OR THE FEDERATION.) Because this series is set on a space station that does not go anywhere, we get to see that actions have consequences. If Next Generation was the fuck around series, this one is the find out series.

Emissary - A two-parter and our introduction to Deep Space Nine and the majority of the major characters in this show.

Past Prologue - This episode is important because we meet Garak, a tailor and the only Cardassian still living on the station. What could he possibly be doing here?

Duet - A Cardassian arrives at the station, as they often do, but this one seems to be hiding something. This explores topics of colonialism, genocide, terrorism, and how complicated people really are. This was one of the episodes that made me watch the entirety of DS9. (The other was Take Me Out to the Holosuite.)

Cardassians - Another Garak episode. This one has a similar plot to the Next Generation episode Suddenly Human. Garak and Bashir discover a Cardassian boy is the adopted son of a Bajoran man. But since Bajorans and Cardassians kind of hate each other because Cardassions tried to colonize Bajor, there is a concern that the Cardassian boy is being abused by his adopted father. To make matters worse, Gul Dukat gets involved. (Gul Dukat is played by a native Wisconsinite!)

Shadowplay - Kind of similar to the Next Generation episode Survivors.

The Wire - Garak episode! This episode deals with the topic of addiction and friendship.

Second Skin - Kira might actually be an undercover Cardassian agent?!?

Crossover - Welcome back to the mirror universe, which we haven't seen since the OG series. Here we find out what happened after Kirk left that universe. Told you this was the 'find out' series.

Fascination - A fun Lwaxana episode

Past Tense, parts one and two - Time travel episode! This episode takes place August 30-September 1, 2024. The Bell Riots occurred in San Francisco, and were a turning point in earth history. These are pretty heavy episodes, and they deal with things that still resonate today: poverty, racism, classism, homelessness.

The Visitor - Similar vibes to The Inner Light. Sisko jumps through time at increasing intervals. Meanwhile, Jake lives his life with his father literally popping into existance for a short time only. Jake is older every time. Sisko is not.

Trials and Tribble-ations - The 'find out' episode to OG Trek's Trouble With Tribbles. This is just a really cool episode that blends footage from OG Trek with DS9.

Things Past - An interesting episode where some of the crew wake up in the bodies of people living on the station during the Cardassian occupation.

Ties of Blood and Water - Kira's Cardassian "father" (the guy from Second Skin) arrives on the station.

In the Cards - Jake and Nog do increasingly weird tasks in their quest to obtain a baseball card for Jake's father. Oh and that bitch Kai Winn is there too.

Statistical Probabilities - This episode introduces the Jack Pack! They're a bunch of genetically altered humans, just like Bashir! Oh, and they are extremely neurodivergent and would probably be tons of fun to hang out with.

Far Beyond the Stars - The crew, but what if they were science fiction writers in the 50s? Deals with the topic of racism.

In the Pale Moonlight - How far is Sisko willing to go to get the Romulans to join the war against the Dominion?

Take Me Out to the Holosuite - One of DS9's obligatory holosuite episodes. A Vulcan that Sisko knows shows up and in a very un-Vulcan-like manner boasts to Sisko that he and his crew are superior beings who have been trying Sisko's favorite sport and just absolutely crushing it. Sisko challenges him to a baseball game. The only problem is that most of his crew are not human and have never played baseball before.

Chrysalis - Have you ever read Flowers for Algernon? The Jack Pack returns.

#socks list #star trek #the next generation #deep space nine #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #star trek tos #star trek ds9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek deep space 9

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dduane · 1 year

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This question is prompted by my listening to The Magic Flute on public radio (it's the Met's Christmas performance of the Julie Taymor production): What inspired the madcap opera sequence at the end of Dark Mirror?

My guess is that it was a response to the rest of the book being (relatively speaking) so dark and grim... and also really tiring to write; which at the time surprised me.

A while after the book was turned in, though, I remembered something from C. S. Lewis's foreword to The Screwtape Letters. Lewis speaks about how people would keep asking him to add new material to it, and how he had "not the least inclination" to do so... at least partly because it was so easy to write from the point of view of evil. "It would run away with you for a thousand pages if you gave it its head. But though it was very easy to twist one's mind into the diabolical mode, it was not fun, or not for long. The strain produced a sort of spiritual cramp."

...That I could definitely sympathize with, as about half of that book required all the major characters to be twisting themselves mentally into that kind of position (and if they had to be doing that, obviously I had to be doing it too). And the other characters were almost all there already. Though all this made for good drama, it definitely wasn't fun. So on at least one level, I was really glad to escape the darkness of that particular reflection.

"...The triumph of structure and love over chaos and hate," is how Picard characterizes Die Zauberflöte, musing on it during that final farrago scene. Well, whole buckets of ink (and loads of electrons) have been spilled in analysis of that work, and almost certainly other scholars more deeply clued-in about it than I have found more profound things to say about Mozart's masterpiece. But right then--feeding into the earlier Klingon-opera trope--that was a work I was glad to turn loose on the holodeck, as structure and love looked pretty good to me about then. :)

HTH!

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swedebeast · 2 months

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Swedebeast Reviews Deep Space Nine (Again)

Well, here I am. I have spent the last month or two re-watching Deep Space 9, and I am aware of having done so in the past and I did actually write a little review about it - presented here.

And I think what I have to say is in line with what is already written. The points about the show being dark, it is a Babylon 5 rip-off, it is a great space opera but not a great Trek show, opening the door for turning the franchise of one of hopeful optimism into one of gritty reality with dark plots and compromised values still stand. But I will further expand on it, realizing I omitted something even worse than falsifying records to bring an old enemy in as a new ally with lies and murder, the Federation which was supposed to overcome difficulties by taking the enlightened and GOOD line... did not.

Section 31 is in my opinion one of the most misguided inclusions into the franchise, and see some of the show creators talking about the DS9 "Mirror Universe"-episodes, it clicks. "What if we took a brutal empire like Rome or China, because they had to be brutal because they were surrounded by barbarians, and they suddenly turned nice? They would fall apart - to think Kirk could send Spock to turn these empires nice and everything would function is too easy, there's consequences to that".

I don't think they believed it could be done. And there we have, as Odo said, "You have Section 31 do your dirty work and turn a blind eye. A convenient arrangement, isn't it?" after he learns Section 31 had orchestrated the genocide of his entire species by infecting him with a manufactured virus... and while at war, it bears mentioning, but the Federation still does not take the high road. They exploit it. They are content with taking advantage of quite literally genocide - the eradication of an entire species - if it means winning a war.

And this is the writers' designed story. I will not talk about what makes sense, what is realistic, or the difference between naive utopia "it is easy to be an angel in paradise" and grimdark... the writers could have had the Federation do the right thing. But they did not.

And that left a very, very sour taste in my mouth.

And this will be an addendum to the old review. It was a good show with great acting in it, great stories, great action, great messages. But in their path, they did something to the Star Trek universe that really couldn't be undone, and we see it today with current shows - the old review was written in 2014, well before Discovery and Picard - in which darker stories, plots, and characters taking the center stage.

By turning the Federation into yet another player in an interstellar game of realpolitik, and depriving it of what made it special, Trek has become a hollowed out shell of what it once was.

It is just another science fiction franchise now, a Game of Thrones in space as so many other shows try to be. It is not setting trends any more. It is following them.

#swedebeast reviews #swedebeast reviews deep space 9 #DS9 #deep space 9 #star trek

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antimatterpod · 11 months

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We’re putting on our old uniforms, hijacking a starship and stealing a shuttle to rescue Beverly Crusher, and we have NO REGRETS. Yes, it’s finally time for Anika and Liz to talk about Star Trek: Picard…

There is a strong possibility that this was … bad

In Star Trek: Picard, Borg nonsense is always on the horizon

Is Terry Matalas mirror!Anika? The signs are there!

A lot of our problems with this season are actually with season 2, ie, the discarding of the original cast

Some TNG characters were incredibly well-served in season 3. Others…

Returning female characters, fridging, and men who hold grudges for three decades

The MCUification of Star Trek

Anika cannot be normal about Jack Crusher

Something very odd is happening with the passage of time in this series, and in the absence of any other evidence, we’re going to assume it’s Janeway’s fault

Hey, remember when Soji was the female lead? Anyone?

#star trek: picard #antimatter pod

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hazelcephalopod · 1 year

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…like it’s cool we got to see more TNG characters but overall how did “alright synthetics lost rights but get them back but also there are probably evil synthetics in… somewhere where they can access the current time and place and have named themselves like protectors of all synthetic life(?) and might do immense violence to further that goal. So the… nvm. Anyway… something about the borg. Oh and look the Romulans, they are sad now, also they have warrior nuns and this one dude; also a weird cult bent on preventing the synthetic apocalypse by any means and they might be kinda right -but also might also be causing the things they fear most. But actually fucketh all that let’s do time travel and a new mirror universe. The borg queen is here and it’s all Q’s fault. One of the crew fuses with the borg queen. They have to figure out what to do with half the cast. Well fuck that too, hey look all the old guys. Neat. Look changelings, alright cool. Anyway that was fun but screw it. It’s the Borg! Surprise!” happen?

Ya know, I liked season one. I thought it brought a couple cool ideas we’d get to explore. Elnor, who wants to be a warrior nun, and is Picards like pseudo adopted son kinda but not because fucketh that. Rios and Rafi and 7 who have fucking problems, and that’s kinda interesting. Picard, he is old and has so many problems. Soji the android who has been pseudo Manchurian candidate for an while and is just kinda a cool character idea. Unpopular ‘pinion but that Neras Narak guy, what was his deal? Why did he have that like inferiority complex, was that anything? But again, the weird evil synthetics and all those newly freed Borg and then they all just go away. But that was neat! We sweep “synthetic’s get rights (back) and the romulans uh, I guess they are around somewhere? Those borg are mostly dead tho(?)” right under the rugs and tbh those weren’t fully baked ideas but they were baking into something potentially interesting. So, it’s all just a little disappointing.

I hope maybe it will do some neat stuff in the future. In something. Idk.

#Star Trek #star trek picard #the other new ones seem good

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cordrazine-official · 11 months

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For the ask game: Winn/Opaka; Kate Pulaski/Deanna Troi/Beverly Crusher; Kira Dax/Lenara Kahn, specifically post-Jadzia's death; Worf/Sisko; Geordi LaForge/Miles O'Brien; Nyota Uhura/Christine Chapel; Keiko O'Brien/Garak; Dukat/his own hand while standing in front of a mirror & an itemised list of his achievements starting from age 3.

Thank you for this ask! You guys really delivered, I spent the entire day in bed AND replying to these & I didn’t even see time pass, so thank you to everybody who sent in an ask, I really appreciate it <3

I’ll cut this one for length.

I already addressed Winn/Opaka, so I’ll skip that one if you don’t mind.

Kate Pulaski/Deanna Troi/Beverly Crusher: I ship it

What made you ship it?

Since Kate joins Enterprise as a replacement for Beverly, & since in S2E7 Deanna mentions to Picard that she’s been spending time with Kate & is thus able to comment on her performance as CMO, I choose to believe that Deanna & Kate start a thing around that time & that they stay in touch once Kate leaves the ship, & that over time they absorb Beverly into that relationship. It’s more that Deanna is dating the both of them at first, but I can see Kate & Beverly quickly growing closer: they’ve got similar personalities & similar outlooks & I think they most probably knew each other before Pulaski was posted on the Enterprise. They might even have attended Starfleet Medical together, right? Hmm. Wonder what might have happened there - & if meeting again through Deanna wasn’t more of a second honeymoon thing…

What are your favorite things about the ship?

All three are cool characters with different motivations & I think that they’d be really good for each other - in the sense that what one needs in a relationship, the other two can provide. All in all they’d be a really strong throuple & once they’ve taken over the Enterprise no one will be safe… Picard’s just gonna spend the rest of his life hiding in his ready room because he’ll be too scared of the absolute dream team that is the Pulaski/Troi/Crusher triangle. “Bridge to Picard” - “No… *wet sobbing noises*”

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Kate Pulaski is a good character & she’s not a big meanie who hates Data. Beverly Crusher is a bad doctor (like, terrible. Just imagine going to her for something that’s a little more sensitive than a broken rib from Parrises Squares & you’ll see what I mean).

Kira/Dax/Lenara Kahn: I ship it

What made you ship it?

This one I had never even considered but it’s a wholehearted YES from me. I can see Lenara coming back to the station (maybe after the war?) because she learned of Jadzia’s death & is looking for - maybe not closure but… something? Perhaps even she doesn’t know what she’s looking for. & she finds Kira, still reeling from the war & Jadzia’s death & trying to figure out where she stands now, & Ezri, who’s just thrown herself into the most toxic relationship she could’ve possibly found on the station & who’s definitely on a path to self-destruction; & one night all three of them are sitting in Quark’s with drinks they’ve barely touched & they’re talking about things that don’t matter to any of them, & then somehow they find themselves in Lenara’s guest quarters & they hook up, & it’s a mixture of grief & pent-up sexual energy & frustration about the way the war ended & Ezri’sl life going to shit & Lenara sort of regretting having come here. & of course, Ezri carries the symbiont’s memory of the previous hosts & so does Lenara, & you’ve got the symbionts themselves in there as well… Perfect. Mwah.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The way that a lot more people & entities than just the three of them would be involved in this relationship. They all meet in the middle but behind each of them they carry many more people.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Ezri is not a replacement for Jadzia & should not be judged as such. Yes, Nicole de Boer replaced Terry Farrell on the show, but a new Trill host is not a replacement for the previous one & it’s unfair to judge Ezri as a character in contrast to Jadzia. Also, Ezri is an interesting character & that’s a hill I’ll die on.

Worf/Sisko: I don’t ship it

Why don't you ship it?

Mainly because of Worf - I don’t think he’d ever, ever consider a relationship with a superior officer & if he ever happened to break that rule he would feel horrible about it. I could see him resigning his commission & exiling himself to a Klingon monastery over something like this. One day he just disappears on a shuttle to Q’onoS & no one knows why (not even Ben!)

What would have made you like it?

I think I’d like it if it specifically included Worf exiling himself to a Klingon monastery over it & both him & Ben having to deal with what that means - & you’d talk about loss & faith & what’s right & what’s wrong, & how people who are very different can still connect, etc. Am I writing the blurb for my next fic here? Maybe! We can never know.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Whatever happens, it can never be boring. There’s nothing these two men can do that would make a fic about them boring. It’s all Game of Thrones-style political manoeuvres & deep feelings & epic quests, there’s no way to make it uninteresting!

EDIT: I just realised that by the time I finished writing that section I'd changed my mind about this pairing? So I guess I ship it now! Amazing.

Geordi LaForge/Miles O’Brien: I ship it

What made you ship it?

I had never considered it before today but you know what? It makes sense, & I like it. Now what I need to decide is which I like best: if they get together while Miles still serves on the Enterprise or if they reconnect once he’s settled into his new position as Chief Engineer on DS9. I think I’ve got a slight preference for the latter; first, because that means the hyperfixation technobabble conversation potential is off the fucking charts, & second because I think it would remove a layer of hero worship Miles might’ve had for the flagship’s Chief Engineer while he was still serving with him.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The “we are autistic about warp drives” vibes; Geordi’s bubbly charm vs. Miles’ panicked stiffness; the fact that some might think that there’s a strange mismatch between them but when you look closer they actually make total sense.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Geordi LaForge should be shipped with more people than just Data. I see the appeal of DaForge (& I don’t NOT ship it, I guess) but multishipping is cool actually & Geordi especially is a character you can ship with a lot of other characters. He’s easygoing, friendly, fun & charming, & there’s really many characters he’d be fun to ship with!

Nyota Uhura/Christine Chapel: a classic, but I just realised that I don’t ship it (oops)

Why don't you ship it?

I guess I just don’t see it. There’s really no other reason. Sorry, this one is really boring, haha!

What would have made you like it?

More interactions between them might have swayed me, I suppose? But then I think that they’re very different people & that more interactions might’ve just reinforced my opinions, lol.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

The sex they’d have would be insane. People talk about the noises coming from Kirk’s quarters but what about the hours-long lesbian fucking happening in Uhura’s quarters??

Keiko O’Brien/Garak: I ship it

What made you ship it?

I ship it in one specific setting, which is as follows: they tried it once, because they were both in a weird headspace & it seemed appealing - & then the sex wasn’t really good & they were both sort of weirded out & they never did it again. It happened either in the arboretum where they had been tending to Keiko’s projects & Garak’s flower & gossiping, or it happened after a lunch date in Garak’s changing rooms. They never talk about it & there’s an unspoken rule that they never talk about it to anyone - not because Keiko cheated on Miles (the O’Brien’s have an open marriage) but because they can’t acknowledge it in any way. After a few months Keiko relaxes about it & she tells Miles (he promises not to tell anyone, & he doesn’t) but Garak is taking that secret to his grave (there’s really no reason to but he insists on it).

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The vibes are so off & it’s delicious <3

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I think that when Garak says he’s all alone & doesn’t have any friends he is lying for dramatic effect, & that he’s actually very fond of Keiko as a friend & he knows that she’s very fond of him too. Is that unpopular? I don’t know, but I feel like it could be.

Dukat/his own hand, etc.: this one is canon so I won’t elaborate.

#katherine pulaski #deanna troi #beverly crusher #kira nerys #ezri dax #lenara kahn #worf #ben sisko #geordi la forge #miles o'brien #nyota uhura #christine chapel #keiko o'brien #elim garak

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chillychive · 1 year

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Greetings friend.

What piece of non canon Trek lore do you forget is not canon?

also, can I steal your metatarsals?

Well for one, everything u created about terran culmets. I was watching the end of S1 today and I was soo confused when Paul shows up and then is confused and doesn't recognize HUGH. Like... what?? It was weird.

I also saw the part where they run out of spores and have to use their entire crop to escape the Mirror universe and I kept expecting Paul to have a necklace with a sample of the spores just in case around his neck and he didn't and then I remembered that's also something from a fanfic.

Also Tracy & Paul being friends...

I often forget that Q & Picard weren't supposed to be this homoerotic relationship that somehow manages to have a ton of tension AND seems like an old married couple at the same time?? Idk.

#answered ask #and also to the metatarsals:#if you can catch me #:)#star trek #culmets #paul stamets #terran empire #mirror universe #hugh culber #srs tho go read all the fics by Goblinofthewords #and nowornever_phantom #they're fantastic

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my-timing-is-digital · 9 months

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DOSSIER CHEAT SHEET

LEGAL NAME: Data Soong

NICKNAME[S]: He doesn't have one, but would love to have one. So, send in your best Data nicknames for mah boi! (Although I like the one Mirror!Barclay gave him in a personal log, which is "Picard's pet android.")

DATE OF BIRTH ACTIVATION: February 2, 2338

GENDER: Male

PLACE OF BIRTH ACTIVATION: Omicron Theta colony

CURRENTLY LIVING: On the U.S.S. Enterprise

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, French, binary, and probably a lot more (Earth languages as well as alien languages). This funky lil' android is literally a walking ChatGPT, albeit more advanced.

EDUCATION: Starfleet Academy.

HAIR COLOR: Depends on the lighting; sometimes it's dark brown / brown, at other times, it's auburn.

EYE COLOR: A greenish yellow (or chartreuse, according to Google).

HEIGHT: 1.80 / 5'9''

WEIGHT: 100 kg

FAMILY INFORMATION

SIBLING[S]: B-4 and Lore, his older brothers (and Altan Inigo Soong, I suppose, although I'd like to think of him as Data's half-brother, since Juliana never mentioned him, so he might have had a different mother? God knows what Noonian has been up to in that weird jungle hideout of him).

PARENT[S]: Doctor Noonian Soong and Juliana Soong

RELATIVE[S]: Adam Soong, Arik Soong, and Ira Graves, but idk if he even qualifies lol.

CHILDREN: Lal, Dahj and Soji (and technically an entire planet of androids, but let's not over-complicate things).

PET[S]: SPOT! His precious cat!

RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Tbh, I've thought about this a lot, but never wrote it down as a proper headcanon; I'd like Data to represent the minority and state that he's aromantic — he's possibly bordering on the asexuality spectrum as well. And as for his preference, he doesn't have one; not only does his programming prohibit him from discriminating between genders and withhold him from engaging in favouritism, he's also genuinely fascinated by everyone. In other words, he doesn't nurture a strong preference for a specific gender. However, since he's aromantic he's not really interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with anyone; it's primarily friendships he's after, familial or platonic.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Data is a single bean, just living his best life with his beloved cat.

SINCE WHEN: And this is where we ignore the whole romantic escapade with Jenna D'Sora lol. So, N/A (Or since his date of activation).

Tagged by: @lettherebemonsters Tagging: @elaleph (Agnes!), @ensnchekov, @dimensionalspades (Julian!), @quantumstarpaths, @nebulaties (Tasha!), @fasciinating, @storiest0ld (Beverly!) & anyone else who'd like to do this!

#ooc: thanks a lot for tagging me! this was fun!#but yes give him nicknames!

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los-ninos-tortugas · 2 months

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Maybe the distrust in First Contact would completely nullify things, "prevent" Star Trek? Or maybe a completely different Federation (or UFP), or one with different views?

Or maybe it'd just be a direct cause or make things so much more dangerous? Humans trying to engineer themselves to an even larger extent to best the Yokai in some twisted hate. Stricter Federation?

Could we see whatever organization forms put Draxum on trial for all those crazy forcing mutation shenanigans? (That is if Draxum lives that long I forgot LOL)

We could end up with a timeline a lot like the alternate timeline we see in season 2 of Star Trek: Picard (*cough* diet mirror-verse *cough*) where Earth decided to be conquerors rather than explorers. But admittedly, I'm a little opposed to that route, what can I say, I like Star Trek's inherent optimism.

There's a lot of steps leading up to first contact in Trek lore (and man do I need to watch the First Contact movie again, I'm just being reminded of how good it is) so let's explore this hypothetical for a bit.

I don't think it would be too far fetched to think that someone like Bishop would probably have a direct role in the creation of the Augments and sowing mistrust in yokai, mutants and aliens. I think he'd see it as a fighting fire with fire situation, if he got ahold of and poached Draxum's work (while also condemning him for it like the hypocritical bastard he is) to "level the playing field" between humans and mutants/yokai. He would probably insist on the name "augments" just to differentiate between them and the mutants. And thus he's directly responsible for the creation of Khan. Now Trek has been kinda wishy-washy lately about the timeline and now places the Eugenics wars & WWIII in the 21st century so I'm gonna go with that too. Which unfortunately for the boys means they'll be around to see the rise of the tyrants and watch society unravel, it's a very different kind of apocalypse than the one they prevented. This one is slow and creeping and driven by malice and greed long before it comes to overwhelming martial force. Logically though I think the boys (and maybe some old mutant enemies turned friends, and a good amount of Yokai) would side against Khan and Bishop in defense of humanity, so there'd be another resistance in this timeline as well. According to memory alpha, in the new timeline the wars last about 34 years, so there is at least some chance that the boys live all the way through the wars and come out on the other side into a world that after nearly tearing itself apart is taking its first tentative and terrified steps into world peace. Which has some interesting implications towards what will eventually become the Federation's ban on genetic engineering because, yes the belligerents in the war you just fought were genetically engineered humans but also they were defeated and the world lead into peace by genetically engineered mutants so.... what now? But that's getting a little ahead of myself. For now we're still 7 years out from Zephram Cochrane's first warp flight and First Contact. Earth has been so wrapped up in its own problems who's even thinking of space anymore? Well...

The boys would all be middle aged men at this point, and what they all do post war is a bit uncertain (mostly because I'm just supremely spitballing here) but I can't imagine Donnie not being apart of the Phoenix project along with Cochrane. And also given his everything I don't think the Borg sphere and the Enterprise in orbit would escape his notice even a little bit.

The Borg are an unpleasant surprise to say the least, especially given their similarity to the Kraang. Now of course during it all you have Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew trying to keep a second impending invasion on the DL -and as I'm typing this I've realized that I've fucked up this causality loop a little bit but I'm gonna blame that on Trek being Like This and time travel bullshit being confusing- because now in this scenario we have the Kraang invasion as being an almost direct cause of the eugenics wars, and the Enterprise crew would definitely know that and they have just come back from a timeline where Earth is assimilated and they're trying to set things to rights, soooooo... okay okay we have Donatello, an old veteran with old wounds opening up again, Zephram, who's completely lost his way and doesn't even know why he's doing this anymore, and you have Geordi, Riker, and Troi coming from the future to say, "stay the course, it's worth it." And they're both terribly skeptical and on the verge of losing hope but damn, it can't all have been for nothing, right? And when that Vulcan ship comes down, and Zephram and Solkar shake hands and yeah, maybe things will be alright after all.

I kinda doubt that any of the boys would live long enough to actually see the founding of the federation (unless they have multicentury lifespans) but they would definitely go down in federation history as playing a role in the very beginnings of what would eventually become starfleet and the golden age of space exploration.

At least that's my take if Rise and Star Trek were on the same timeline, and I definitely could go way more into detail on it if I really wanted to, like I said I'm kinda flying by the seat of my pants for this one. For now though when it comes to Set a Course for Home I'll keep the two universes separate, if only for my own sanity lol. And above I have Donnie working alongside Cochrane and truthfully, I think my ideal ending for him (way way after the events of Set a Course for Home, in another hypothetical future) would be that he becomes the Zephram Cochrane figure if his own dimension and discovers faster than light travel. Listen Janeway can try as she might for the sake of the Prime Directive but he's gonna be spending a lot of time on that ship it's gonna be a little hard for him not to at least figure out some of the basics of warp field mechanics, he'll just have to figure out how to create it with the materials he'll have in his dimension's 21st century. He's a scientist through and through and I like the idea of him leading the way to the stars.

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tanadrin · 2 years

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maybe it’s the myopia of the 21st century trying to imagine future fascisms, but there’s something that rings a bit hollow about the earth-first language of Terra Prime. like, i can imagine reactionary rhetoric being used against aliens, sure; and i can imagine reactionary movements persisting into the future; but it’s hard to imagine reactionaries of this flavor being able to stomach an in-group that encompasses the whole human race. if you have an expansive enough worldview to encompass all of humanity as your ingroup, then extending it to vulcans feels like it should be trivial; and if you’re racist against vulcans, i imagine you’re probably racist against a lot of other human groups as well.

this is kind of a problem with the depiction of both the Confederation in Picard, and the Terran Empire in the mirror universe, too--i can imagine a fascist space empire, but i’d think the first groups it would subjugate would be other humans, not that it would integrate them seamlessly into its ruling class. To either explore or explain away that dimension you’d have to deal with uncomfortably non-speculative histories of oppression, so I sort of get why they don’t do that, but it feels like an oversight.

#enterprise

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the-heartstring-chronicles · 1 year

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This is a bit long, but is something that has weighed on my mind since I watched the episode last night. I come from a place of being a physically disabled from birth Trekkie who has watched episodes of TNG/all of Trek since she was 8, thirty years ago. I touched on this a little in my review last night, but here is my full analysis on a problem I saw with the episode that goes beyond which villain is behind door number 3

Some vague Spoilers ahead for Star Trek Picard s3 episode 9 but no way to avoid them if I am to discuss this topic.

In 2023, apparently, we still have issues in Star Trek of all places, with coping with disability and difference.''

And what bothers me most is those issues are issues had by my two favorite characters in all of Trek about their own progeny.

This progeny has a genetic issue inherited from their father, as a result of a trauma the father suffered that altered his DNA.

The progeny has the potential to be dangerous because of what they've inherited, like world ending dangerous. But so far, they had seemed until last night, to be kindhearted, smart, sensitive, fun, like their folks. And to only use their potentially dangerous differences to take out bad guys, to protect people they care about and to try to save the day.

And yet, the minute, the dad finds out what the cause of the issue is, his first solution is to put his progeny in an institution, no joke, the calmest, gentlest guy in the history of Trek is like, you know , we'll just put you there, you'll be fine. And when his progeny asks what Star Trek's biggest moral leader sees when he looks at his progeny, basically either a choice between saying whether he sees his child or a monster, he says nothing.

And the mother of this child, the character who usually is a cross between the world's best at her position, the most accepting person ever and funny as heck, says to her progeny, that they can fix this/ deal with it. Not I love you, not I see you, none of her normal character stuff, just an allegory for how some parents might deal with this stuff in the real world. Not an example of how to do better

And the parents refuse to talk to each other about any of it, to even comfort each other. Despite being the Star Trek pairing known for talking to each other about everything, they won't even soothe each other, even as friends or parents.

So basically in stuff set in 2403, the writers went with disability/difference can be potentially dangerous and we should fear before we love and panic before we think and say really ablestic crap, because trauma and/or training overrides who characters were written to be for 40 years prior. And makes for good drama

I'm hoping the last episode next week has the writers making them believe they acted like jerkholes, but if not, I will maybe consider long and hard about writing to both the new producer and to both actors (They are both big advocates for justice and inclusion of all in Trek media, at conventions and in the actual world ie politics and organizations. And have spoken up about how to handle plots on screen and issues off screen many times) and I'm disheartened that no one nixed this plot or at least this handling of it.

A big name creator also pointed out on youtube that this could be an allegory for how some parents reject their LGBT+ children too and the issues with that plot, i have to say it's possible as well.

Which doesn't make again, for pleasant or safe viewing for a generation of folks of all different walks of life who just wanted to see characters they trusted as a distraction or as validation of their real struggles, the way Star Trek has always been, not a mirror of injustices and pain for drama.

#star trek picard #picard spoilers #jean luc picard #beverly crusher #jack crusher #ableism #allegory #Do better Star Trek please #disability

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davidtennantpussytulpa · 7 months

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sorry im gonna send you another ask cos im Obsessed with you. now do star trek. um specially ds9 but also tng pls and thank you also i love you . And you can answer for tos too if you want 😋

KICKS MY LITTLE FEETS IN THE AIR FOREVERRRRR 🤭🤭🙈🙈🙈 YAAYAYY MUTUAL OBSESSIONNNN ❣️❣️❣️❣️ILYYYY

Favorite character: tos is spock tng is data ds9 is quark HEEHEEEE 🤭🤭🤭

Second favorite character: tos is jim tng is UHM. IMPOSSIBLE TO CHOOSE. BUT MY SWEET ANGEL WESLEY 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 OR MY SILLY ANGEL WORF 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 and ds9 i loveeee jadzia… 💙💙💙

Least favorite character: tos i dont dislike anyone on the crew so probably mudd bc even tho i really love his eps hes a good villain hes also a misogynist </3 tng is pulaski like SORRYYY to all the thinkpiece bitches out there saying its not feminist to hate her bc shes basically the same as bones its like. 1. okay so shes kind of badly written bc they just tried to rip off bones and 2. her thing with data isnt the same as his with spock bc spock was bitchy right back but data just didnt get it. so she was just being straight up cruel to him all the time and nobody defended him. YEAH SHE GOT ME HEATED. and ds9 i got distracted by so many other tv shows shes been on hiatus for a bit but kai winn booooo we hate your ass 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

The character I’m most like: now. Uhm. literally fighting one million years with myself to determine kirk or spock and i never fully decided so we will leave it at they are two sides of the same coin and that coin is MEEEE ^_^. tng is hard to say bc i love them all but none of them ever grabbed me by the throat and shoved me into a mirror like so many other shows have done. i think either data geordi or picard (minus his leadership skills) would be the closest fit for me. and well as those who were here for biquark url know. 😏🤭

Favorite pairing: tos is obviously spirk 5ever and always like it changed the world. they are the fucking blueprint for everything they invented gay people. tng literally everything is so fun i think everyone has huge chemistry such interesting dynamics with each other. deanna and riker invented t4t bi4bi love but then geordi and data invented my lovely robot wife but then rikorf invented silly boy and autistic boy love and then qcard invented me and my wet crumpled paper bag weirdo boyfriend. HOW COULD I DECIDE… 💔💔 and ds9 quodo is everythang… i love you sillies ❤️

Least favorite pairing: this has less to do with tos and more the crimes of other trek series using tos characters but. spuhura i guess you had some moments but why did they do both your characters the disservice :(( and tos chapel and spock was so nice and hurting like i love her she crucified herself for the right to love a stoic alien (girl i get ittt) and snw fucking slaughtered her. literally feel sick thinking about how horribly they adapted her. evil and sick and twisted. anyways. tng i didnt love geordis weird hologirlfriend and also barclay stay your ass away from any woman on board. ds9 whaaaleeeee i dont really hate anything at the moment ^-^ i guess when i swing back around to it i may have more to say…. 🧐

Favorite moment: OHHHOHHHHOHHH. WELL. tos pretty much anything with spock he is my beautiful angel. but ill say the entirety of city on the edge of forever its so insanely good and has me vomiting up blood. oh also i love kevin riley when he goes crazy and is singing to the ship :•) tng oh god when data is on that planet with the little girl hes pen pals with. ingrained in my brain forever. but there are honestly so many moments i could name like i think they might be my favorite crew ever like i said the chemistry between each and every character is so fucking amazing. and also horny. i love you deanna and riker 🫶🏻 and ds9 frankly im obsessed with quark and the undercover girl ferengi bc hes so bisexual with her in drag well um. who said that

Rating out of 10: 10/10 fucking all around forever theyre my three beautiful weed smoking girlfriends. We Dont Have To Talk About The Movies.

#alsoooo teehee in good omens when she calls crowley a good lad and he says neither actually #it reminded me of when sulu called uhura fair maiden and she said neither #LIKE!!! TEEHEHEE THEY SHOULD BE BEST FRIENDSSS 🤭🤭🤭🤭😁😁😁❤️❤️❤️#asks #I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVAARRRRRRRRR

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