#Farpointe

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Star Trek: The Next Generation "Encounter at Farpoint"

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My theory on how it went down

[hobbithabits]

Seeing people post about parts of Star Trek I haven’t seen and then seeing it is so crazy to me. You’re telling me Q’s cunty judge outfit is from EPISODE ONE of TNG??? Sat down to finally binge it and was greeted with John de Lancie serving looks almost immediately. Absolutely bonkers.

[kugelfische]

encounter at farpoint

[geekysteven]

[speed dating]

HER: "My parents named me 'Dax' after the Star Trek character. I like having a unique name"

HIM, NAMED GROPPLER ZORN: "I'm really happy for you"

[federationgothic]

[agent-troi]

rewatching encounter at farpoint and it’s just sooooo funny to me how seriously picard takes Q at first, and by the third time he shows up picard is like 🙄😒WTF DO YOU WANT NOW Q I JUST WANT TO ENJOY MY EARL GREY IN PEACE

[swan2swan]

People: "But--but he can't be that old, his age was revealed to only be sixty-five in Donald Starr's 2008 novel Crash Point, and reaffirmed in the 2012 Guide to the Jedi Order and Chronology of the Clone Wars guidebooks!"

Me: *pointing to medal on my SW Fan uniform* "Do you see this? This was awarded to me for surviving the Spaarti Clone Cylinder Retcon of 2002. Rushed clone production without yslamari was canonized, Kamino became the planet, and Boba Fett is now a clone. Note the Jaster Mereel pip. They awarded these back when retcons were truly upsetting. To children."

[dataentryspecialist]

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Cosmozoans you wish you could pet

As you venture out into the galaxy, it's not all humanoids you know. Our universe is full of space-born life known as Cosmozoans. These creatures fly around the depths of space living their best lives and occasionally getting into crazy scrapes when a starship flies by. And you know what? A bunch are SO CUTE! We did a poll of our team to find out which ones we want to take home and snuggle with (not accounting for size). 

So get out your EV suit, we’re here to pet space’s cutest lifeforms!

Gekli

These snuggly babies might get a bit close to your ship’s fusion reactors but there’s no denying how touchy-feely they can get. One, nicknamed ‘Junior’, was suckling off the Enterprise D until its kindred were found in a nearby asteroid belt. In our books, it can’t be blamed for thinking the Enterprise was mommy.

Farpoint creature

Maybe we’re pushing cuddly by including a jellyfish, but our local Benzite here, Mandiks, insisted. But what is undeniable is how beautiful and glorious these creatures are in their natural forms. When we say natural forms; well they also double as space vessels. So I guess you can cuddle them from the inside?

Gormagander

Sometimes given the misnomer, “space whale”, this majestic creature is endangered due to them being so obsessed with eating that they forget to reproduce. A feeling some of our readers may sympathise with. The bonus is adopting it in an official refuge will help protect them from hunters; so adopt a whale to save the whales!

Crystalline Entity

This handsome snowflake of awesome proportions might consume whole planets or all organic matter on a regular basis, but it has also consumed our affections. Just be sure to get your graviton pulses at the right rate or it may get confused as to where it’s dinner is.

Verugament

These gorgeous bioluminescent organisms migrate through space looking for new breeding grounds (they seem a lot better at that than the Gormagander; take notes, readers. We know you've been without, for seven years about). While easily small enough to get your arms around, they can deliver painful electric shocks and are considered by Bal here to be “icky” given their goopy texture. That's not for everyone, but they're definitely cute.

Gomtuu

Much like the aforementioned Farpoint creature, Gomtuu are sentiment organic space vessels who can communicate telepathically. These creatures share something with cats; the ability and will to defend their boundaries. Get too close without permission and you may find yourself caught up in an energy wave capable of destroying a Warbird. My cat is still more fierce about being petted without warning, however (incidentally, from our last pet poll it seems you lot are all about your cats too! Congratulations, we have readers of culture).

Rytonian

These little squid babies, again on the list thanks to Mandiks’ love of marine-looking life (we are told they have quite an aquarium at home), are formed from the gravity well inside nebulae. Large swarms may be formed during intense energy waves. Don’t you just want to boop their… their… I don’t see a nose but that won’t stop me booping them.

Tardigrade

These little creatures are a bit more of a huggable size. They’re interdimensional creatures who can incorporate other forms of DNA within their own and warp across the galaxy: your chief engineer can eat their heart out! (that's a human expression I'm told, we do not advise they actually do that). They’re friendly but fearsome in self-defence so absolutely do not be late with their dinner! 

Disclaimer

We could include a great number of other entities such as the telepathic pitcher plant, Zetarians, Beta Renner cloud, Calamarain, Species 8472, Cosmic cloud, Nucleogenic cloud, space amoeba, and so on but we figure we have to draw the line at petting somewhere and have gone with the most common humanoid feelings on the matter. Do correct us though if you want to hug the space amoeba!

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The U.S.S. Hood and U.S.S. Enterprise from Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Star Trek The Next Generation "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987)

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i mentioned this in an earlier post and didn't have the clips on hand then, but i do now! so here's the neat parallel between the Vulcan and Betazoid telepathy used in The Devil in the Dark (TOS: 1x25) and Encounter at Farpoint (TNG: 1x01) respectively!

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Androids Love Him! Death Fears Him

[grayrazor]

Q’s whole “humanity on trial” deal probably would have made more sense in really early TOS, when the galaxy was more mysterious and the protagonists worked for the United Earth Space Probe Agency.

Well before TNG started they had established the United Federation of Planets as a multi-species faction, and the galaxy as being full of all kinds of nasty aliens.

While Q was lecturing Picard about how violent humans are and how they need to go back to Earth and stay there, Worf should have been in the background rolling his eyes like "why am I here?"

The Q in “Q Who” made a bit more sense than the one in “Encounter at Farpoint,” less “humans are too violent for the pure innocent universe” and more “nooo wait humans you’re too baby to play in the deep end unsupervised, what if you run into a Cthulhu?”