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is this anything

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witch-king of angmar: you fool! we updated the saying to close loopholes! NOBODY can kill me!!

odysseus, taking off his rohan helmet: unfortunate

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Comedy series about an evil wizard where in every episode they discover some Ancient Secret of Magic that will allow them to surpass their rivals and bring the world to its knees, and every episode they learn the hard way why modern wizards don't do it that way anymore.

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This chicken is such an unfortunate shape

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ds9 is an incredible show because there’ll be a devastating, thought provoking episode that’s still incredibly relevant to this day and the very next episode will ask the age old question “what if miles o’brien was hunted for sport”

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despite the Federation taking great care to avoid colonizing any inhabited planets, Star Trek is in fact extremely colonialist

There's a critical bit of context that a lot of contemporary discussions of Star Trek's Prime Directive are missing: at the time The Next Generation was being written, there was this popular notion in white leftist circles – and, in particular, in white leftist science fiction – that colonialism was the more or less automatic product of contact between "primitive" and "advanced" civilisations. It wasn't something intentional, it wasn't even really anybody's fault; that the "primitive" civilisation would be subsumed, and ultimately destroyed, by the "advanced" one was framed as something that just sort of happened.

Consequently, the idea that ethical spacefaring civilisations would need to have strict rules about who they were and were not allowed to contact in order to avoid accidentally Doing A Colonialism was seen as an unquestioned truth in a lot of mainstream science fiction from that era. Star Trek didn't originate the idea – the Prime Directive is just Star Trek's particular spin on it. To its small credit, Star Trek does back away from the more nakedly racist iterations of the trope by tying it to the development of a specific, fictional technology (i.e., the warp drive) rather than pop-anthropological notions of "primitiveness", but it's not really challenging the basic premise.

The entire notion is, of course, complete bullshit, but I think it's necessary to understand the context it's coming from if you want to properly appreciate exactly how much bullshit it is.

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the world gets a lot easier when you learn to be wrong without getting pissed or doubling down. saying, ‘you’re right, that makes sense, I was misinformed, thanks for telling me’ instead of going to war over something your ego’s latched onto will save you time, energy, and the embarrassment of sounding like a whiny little bitch

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its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

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they should retitle this show Star Trek: Spock Cheats On His Fiancée

why is star trek strange new worlds so hellbent on shipping spock with various women

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I'm a pimped-out swole hyperthermophile

I'm stealing this from Twitter

Here's the link

I am a high-definition gateway drug body double!

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why is star trek strange new worlds so hellbent on shipping spock with various women

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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Star Trek conventions are so funny. After I got an autograph from somebody, I went to an empty table nearby so I could set my stuff down for a second while I put my autograph in a protective sleeve, and I hear somebody yell at Ethan Peck (whose table is across from the empty table) "HEY HOT SPOCK!" and I turn around because I want to know who the fuck just said that. And it was Jonathan Frakes.

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he definitely fucks but there’s no way he fucks normal

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yo im 4 year old rapper. my names napkin. and i just got sign, to pickles records