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so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

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not only are the players doing sidequests so are the audience members

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happy first contact day! Thought I would re-cap Solkar’s thought process during this momentous historical moment since vulcans kiss with their hands. 

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Credit to Dominion Media Television on FB

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tumblr might make you confused about this but i do think its really important that you understand. Garak is not a main charavter of deep space nine. he is in like six episodes. if you haven't seen the show you might not believe me but im not afraid to be honest. garak is not a main character and most of the show would be identical without him.

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겨울 다 지났다..

Winter's over, but I want to see Spock in a balaclava…

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hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

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Enterprise is a show.

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it irks me a little when people act like tom and b’elanna’s daddy issues are comparable because while sure they both had bad families the root cause of the issues is completely different. which is to say that tom’s stemmed from him being a sensitive, goofy kid who didn’t fit his dad’s pseudo-military family expectations while b’elanna’s stemmed from straight up racism. the former sucks but its very different from the latter, which is quite a bit more serious and damaging! i dunno, i feel like it’s another symptom of fans not taking the racism with which b’elanna is treated particularly seriously, basically only seeing it as a device to be used in the occasional episode instead of something that permeates a character’s entire life

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Telepathic aliens enjoy that humans will "play music" for hours at a time. When it's too mentally quiet on deck, they just announce the catchiest song titles they know and the humans will start thinking about it automatically.

The humans hate this so, so much.

Zorf: Human Steve, can you please play that song I like, the one with all the females

Steve: what

Zorf: A little bit of Monica in my life

Steve:

Steve: mother fu--

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Absolutely transcendent move from Star Trek to write a shapeshifter character who's kind of bad at it. You're like, "oh so he can impersonate other characters?" and they're like no he's not very good at faces :(

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I think Seven of Nine would approach Tuvok like 'I am unaccustomed to being alone but the other crew members keep trying to socialise with me and I don't care for it. I've judged you the member of the crew least likely to engage in meaningless social interactions. I would like to spend some time with you.' And Tuvok is like 'that is logical. You may join me in my quarters this evening.'

She comes over and stands motionless by the wall while he sits and works on his reports and personal log. After 3 hours she's like 'that was satisfactory. I will join you again next week' and he's like 'acceptable'.

It's a major event in both of their social calendars.

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cannot get over this lighting

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You are dropped in a Star Trek location. Spin this wheel to find out which location and this wheel to find out who you are with.

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I know we be memeing, but I genuinely do love "Threshold" beyond the "they became salamanders and had babies" part of it

I'm sure I wrote it out at some point, but I love how they used to take risks in storytelling. Sometimes they end up with episodes we lovingly celebrate nearly 30 years later (lauded to be the worst episode when it's actually pretty solid), but other times that risk taking turns out some of the best - most beautiful, poignant, iconic - episodes that wouldn't exist if they hadn't taken some silly risks in the first place. They embrace camp, they use the medium to make a point, they aren't writing solely for the studio executives and the bottom line, they work within the constraints of the medium and the budget

Without "Threshold", we don't get "Bride of Chaotica!" Without "Move Along Home", we don't get "Far Beyond the Stars"

Episodes like "Threshold" are incredibly important, even if they weren't well received. They can still be celebrated!

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And I fully agree.