#Colony V

[catogorizing-like-no-man-before]

TOS S1E3 Charlie X

First aired September 15, 1966

Stardate 1533.6

Rating ⭐⭐⭐🔘🔘

This episode has interesting conflict, really demonstrating some values of the main cast. Charlie is made to be really annoying (and scary), but I can't give this episode five stars because seeing his smarmy face always irritates me. Also, the expression he has when he is using his powers is too goofy.

Summary

The USS Enterprise rendezvous with a cargo vessel. The cargo vessel's crew asks Captain Kirk to take a 17-year-old boy they found on Thasus to Colony V to his closest living relatives. The boy - Charlie - was the only survivor of a crash landing. He's been alone on Thasus for 14 years. As the crew tries to figure out how he survived that long without help and get to know Charlie more, they learn everything is not as it seems.

Well for the time - 😬😬🔘🔘🔘

Misogyny

This episode is the beginning of Janice Rand's struggles with unwelcome romantic interest. Her experience and Kirk's dismissal of her concerns is eye roll inducing.

Characters

Captain James Kirk

Captain Ramart

Tom Nellis

Charlie Evans

Janice Rand

Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Spock

Uhura

Tina Lawton

Ships

USS Enterprise

Antares, cargo vessel

Planets/Places

Colony V

Thasus

Species

Humans

Thasians

Vulcan

The Other Kind of Ships

Uhura x Spock 🫤

Uhura's song objectifies Spock. He goes along with accompanying her, but he seems uncomfortable. I do like seeing everyone hanging out though.

Spirk 🤏🏼

Just a little hint. Kirk says he needs Spock to run the ship.

[alienglowgarden]

There is no needle and thread that will mend you, so

Don't you break, I will not let you

[oldschoolfrp]

Crazy Glurps Used Space Craft, a galaxy of savings, whether you're looking for a preowned Colonial Viper or a Saturn V with sketchy papers (Roger Raupp, from "New Ideas for Old Ships" for Traveller by Paul Montgomery Crabaugh, in Dragon 51, July 1981)

[perenial]

What are good books about explorers, if I may ask? I'd love to get into some harrowing survival (or just trying to survive) stories.

HI ok these are all heroic age antarctica-centric bc that's all i've had rattling around in my brain for a solid year and a half now so if anyone has non-polar recs pls feel free to throw em in the replies lmao

if we're talking harrowing survival there's nothing more fucked than shackleton's trans-imperial expedition aka endurance and the ross sea party. the classic here is endurance by alfred lansing (and ofc south by ol ernie shackles but i feel like his own account is less approachable to a first time reader) but i also highly recommend the lost men by kelly tyler-lewis for the ross sea party half of the story that often falls to the wayside.

and we can't talk abt shackleton without getting into scott & the terra nova & the race for the pole which WILL take over ur life if u get into it lol. the worst journey in the world by apsley cherry-garrard is required reading (and so is cherry by sara wheeler, possibly my fave biography of all time), and for a more general overview a first-rate tragedy by diana preston is the absolute gold standard. for amundsen ask @roaldamundsen there's the last viking by stephen r. brown which i haven't read yet but i've heard v good things about (nb: u may be recommended roland huntford's books when it comes to amundsen. read them if u want but he's got a Thing against scott which in turn distorts how he approaches amundsen but then again every polar biographer wants to make tender romantic love to their special little guy so)

OH and we can't forget the northern party aka six guys in a hole (NOT sexy) (well–). there are banger first-hand accounts (especially raymond priestley's) but weirdly enough my fave when it comes to this part of the terra nova story is a polar affair by lloyd spencer-davis, which is technically abt the sex lives of adélie penguins. it was the first book i read connected to terra nova and although it leans more popular history than rigorous biography or historical analysis it rly primes u to understand the fricative relationship between the expedition's two intertwined objectives – scientific advancement and imperialist glory – that were the root of most of their issues.

outside of endurance & terra nova i'd be remiss not to rec The gateway book to antarctic history, the madhouse at the end of the earth by julian sancton. i should have put this first bc this is genuinely one of my fave books of all time, polar-related or otherwise. it's a comedy it's a tragedy it's an adventure it's an insight into colonial ambition (although imo this aspect could have been pushed further) it's a romance for two specific guys it could easily be a musical it might be adapted into a tv show or movie in the near future?? it's an absolute trip i rec it to anyone who stands still enough to let me shove a copy in their hands. read madhouse NOW

finally i want to give a shout out to the australasian antarctic expedition which in comparison is less insane than everything else here but it's entirely possible the guy who was once on the australian $100 note ate his dog handler. so like. read alone on the ice by david roberts

(ps. for more boat books see @jesslovesboats's banger posts ✌️⛵️)

[gingersnaptaff]

🔥 hot takes on anything Arthuriana related

btw love your welsh legal history posts

Oh, hello!!!! I love ur blog so like hi, hi, hi!!! Ahh, thank u for saying u like the legal posts!! They're super fun to do so I'm glad you've enjoyed them!!!!! :D sleep deprived but okay, hot takes.

Purely Welsh myth but Arthur should've left Bendigeidfran's head where it was. Like bruh, you brought the misery upon yourself. Plus, I don't think I've seen a lot of lit exploring this aspect of the myth but I think it would be fun cuz it shows Arthur as being hubristic which does get glossed over I think.

Also, Geraint needs to be chucked off a cliff. I volunteer to do it.

And I don't think Guinevere / Gwenhwyfar was ever a goddess. There's nothing to suggest she was at all. That's silly. That's stupid.

Also, authors stop using Bedwyr for the Lancelot stand-in when u don't want to put him in. EDERN IS RIGHT THERE.

(This isn't a hot take but I have many bugbears either Marion Zimmer Bradley and have a deep, deep dislike for her work. She's just ehdjxjcjx)

Also, this is a Welsh myth thing but I guess I'm putting it in because Arthur does have Welsh gods in his retinue and has his roots in Welsh things but can we stop using Gwydion as a good guy, pls? He is a Bad, Bad man.

Also, Arthur was never a real person but a lot of the lads who got folded into the mythos are and that gets overlooked because we all want this king to be super fuckin real and for what? I think if we'd had evidence for a real Arthur then we'd have gotten it by now.

Also somebody pls write me a book about real irl cousins urien and peredur / percival. I need it like I need air.

[flmboyz]

1958 Mercury Monterey _Super Marauder

[encryptedlunacy]

The springtail cultures in my terrariums are so interesting to watch because in one terrarium you can see a wholesome example of the springtail community working together to break down a dead leaf and you get to see the decomposition cycle and how terrariums sustain themselves and then in another terrarium you're watching a cage fight that started exactly like the "she's touching me" argument in Lilo and Stitch with the whole neighbourhood stood in a circle to watch shit go down like where is the middle ground here

[embodiedfutures]

[chamerionwrites]

Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free

[occvltswim]

❝ Capac Cuna Inca o Genealogía de los Incas (18th century) ❞

This canvas illustrates the “Inca family tree”. The Spanish monarchy of the time sought to legitimize its absolute power over the conquered territories. To this end, the Spanish were obliged to demonstrate that the conquest of Peru did not spell the end of the Inca dynasty, and that the kings of Spain were their only legitimate heirs. In this painting, the Holy Roman Emperor Carlos V appears as the successor to Atahualpa, and Carlos IV – the last king represented – figures as the 25th Inca emperor of Peru.

[philippageorgiou]

anyone have any non-fiction book recs? sociology / social science / politics type stuff? i've been reading a lot about socialism and abolition and colonialism and palestine, and have planned my next few 'themes' but if anyone has any other recs for me to add to the list pls lmk!!!

[m-4399]

Pt.2 of the collection of Sri Lankan stamps

(These stamps were issued during the colonial era of Sri Lanka. Correct me if I am wrong)

[lycheelovescomics]

need people to pick up some modicum of critical thinking and wonder that maybe, it's possible, that the show is critiquing how it's always the same two men's dreams that come into conflict about how to move forward vs or with the rest of humanity ... and that maybe, just maybe, the answer could be (surprise!!) a secret third or even fourth option that doesn't include them?

because ororo did tell jean that they ought to believe not in a dream or for their gifts/powers... but in each other 👀

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[sissa-arrows]

“In a war of liberation, the colonized people must win, but they must do so cleanly, without "barbarity." The European nation that practices torture is a blighted nation, unfaithful to its history. The underdeveloped nation that practices torture thereby confirms its nature, plays the role of an underdeveloped people. If it does not wish to be morally condemned by the "Western nations," an underdeveloped nation is obliged to practice fairplay, even while its adversary ventures, with a clear conscience, into the unlimited exploration of new means of terror.”

A dying colonialism (L’an V de la révolution Algérienne) by Frantz Fanon.

In this part he explains how to colonized are forced to held themselves to a higher standard and are not allowed to be barbaric in their violence because it’s used to prove that they deserve oppression. So even in our violence we respect certain rules. He explains how in the very same region the French executed 30 Algerian who threw rocks… meanwhile an Algerian doctor sent men from the Algerian resistance get supplies and medicine to treat a French prisoner.

It was published in 1959 so in the middle of the war and that makes it so interesting. It’s also very very very relevant to the present. And it also shows that hope is very important because an army can take some of the land from the resistance but if the people don’t get back to their state of fear and despair it’s useless they will keep fighting. Hope is so much more important than we think. He wrote this in 1959 he didn’t know the outcome but he was convinced that the population in Algeria and in the world had reached the stage where France could take as much land as they wanted they would still end up losing Algeria it was only a matter of time.

[wicked-witch-ofthe-east]

How steeped in colonialism is our country? Spot what’s missing from Andrew Jackson’s biography on the White House webpage: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/andrew-jackson/

ANSWER: There is no mention of the Indian Removal Act - a law signed into place in 1830 (the second year of his eight year ruling!) allowing Jackson to set aside tribal land west of the Mississippi in exchange for tribal lands occupied in the East. The Cherokee Indians of the Georgia state region took this up with the Supreme Court in a case titled “Cherokee Nation v. Georgia.” The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Nation granting them the right to self-govern on their land and stating that Georgia’s extension of state law was unconstitutional. Jackson refused to enforce the courts decision and thus the Trail of Tears began. Keep in mind, the Cherokee Nation had just played a pivotal role in helping Andrew Jackson win the war of 1812. They were allies for the man, and this is how he treated them.

The Cherokee Nation did everything right according to the “system” and still, an abuse of power lead to destruction. This was one of the first legal precedents of our system exploiting and undermining the marginalized.

My life is steeped in hipocracy. Uphold Cherokee v. Georgia!! Accountability for abusive presidents!!