#SEVEN YEARS RYAN

[mummifiedgoose]

Yeah I'd say ghost hunting for seven years even though you don't believe in ghosts so that your pal will give it his all fighting a puppet is equal exchange

[itberice]

HAPPY SEVEN OF NINE DAY!!

[buddiedaydreamer911]

christopher canonically starts high school in the fall🥺🥺🥺

[trillscienceofficer]

RICK BERMAN: When ending [Star Trek: Voyager], we considered everything. We considered having Janeway die, we considered having Seven of Nine give up her life, we considered so many things. [...] BRANNON BRAGA: My only regret about the Seven of Nine character is that I would have killed the character in the Voyager finale. I remember sitting in a room with Rick and Ken Biller. Ken was running the show in the final season, so I had stepped away and couldn’t really impose my will. I had written one episode in season seven called “Human Error,” where Seven of Nine realizes she can never develop feelings for anyone, because there’s this Borg chip in her that will kill her, so she’s a woman between worlds. She can’t be human and she doesn’t want to be Borg again. She’s a tragic character, and I really felt she should sacrifice her life at the moment of truth to get her crew home. It would have added a real pathos and would have been a fitting end to a very tragic character. I just can’t believe they didn’t want to do it. JERI RYAN: It would have been cool to do that and it would have made perfect sense. It would have been a fitting good-bye to the character. [...]

From “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman (2016)

Note: I'm just reporting a quote I personally find interesting, but I really disagree with Braga's opinion here!

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in STAR TREK: PICARD

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by my beloved no.1 chappell roan stan @cordiallyfuturedwight thanks my darling <33 i can only apologise for the lack of ms roan here... i swear good luck babe has been on repeat i don't know what happened

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[fortunaegloria]

Ranking from best to worst episode of the fourth and last season of Jack Ryan, according to IMDb

[ra-assputin]

ITS SEVEN OF NINE DAY!!

[im-all-out-of-ideas]

fuck the fandom i loved every season of st: picard and i have thoroughly enjoyed the writing they gave the series. it's not my fault that this fandom has called literally every iteration of trek past tos inferior bc you can't get over yourselves about what trek should be. picard is a good if flawed legacy show that honors what it displays and i will love it out of spite.

[stargirlofthecentury]

where can i buy a himbo horsegirl i need one PLEASE

[bergoozter]

The evolution of Shane and Ryan’s friendship has been really lovely to watch over the past seven years.

SO LOVELY !!! from awkward co workers to literal groomsmen who’s doing it like them i wanna cry

[trillscienceofficer]

JERI RYAN: [...] The second or third time the casting person called my agent and said, “Jeri really needs to look at this,” and so they sent over two scenes for me to look at. One I was not terribly thrilled with, which is, of course, the one we used and it ended up on film, which is the now infamous “take off your clothes” scene, which I thought was pretty trite and on the nose and easy. The other scene, which of course never ended up being filmed, showed me the potential of what this character could be, and it was probably the most beautifully written scene that I’ve ever had for an audition, before or since. It was a scene with, I believe, Chakotay. Seven is having her first memories of laughter, and my son, who was two or two and a half at the time—who is now in college—I could draw on him. It reminded me of all the things I’d seen when he was a baby and he sort of surprised himself and laughed, so I could draw on him, his experiences, and I saw how rich this character could be and what the potential was for her. So I went in and I read for the producers and they wanted to do a screen test.

— “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman

[vstheworld]

we hired just an absolute idle bouncing DVD menu of a guy. a real orange cat vibe. if you don’t give him specific instructions on what he should be doing he just. stands there like a sim.

yet we make the same exact pay! I love capitalism.

[housewarningparty]

Diversity win! The insane deity that cursed his lands and people and left a blighted scar on the face of the Earth is gay!

[reasonsforhope]

"Once thought to be extinct, black-footed ferrets are the only ferret native to North America, and are making a comeback, thanks to the tireless efforts of conservationists.

Captive breeding, habitat restoration, and wildlife reintegration have all played a major role in bringing populations into the hundreds after near total extinction.

But one other key development has been genetic cloning.

In April [2024], the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced the cloning of two black-footed ferrets from preserved tissue samples, the second and third ferret clones in history, following the birth of the first clone in December 2020. 

Cloning is a tactic to preserve the health of species, as all living black-footed ferrets come from just seven wild-caught descendants.  This means their genetic diversity is extremely limited and opens them up to greater risks of disease and genetic abnormalities. 

Now, a new breakthrough has been made.

Antonia, a black-footed ferret cloned from the DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has successfully birthed two healthy kits of her own: Sibert and Red Cloud.

These babies mark the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species — and is a milestone for the country’s ferret recovery program.

The kits are now three months old, and mother Antonia is helping to raise them — and expand their gene pool.

In fact, Antonia’s offspring have three times the genetic diversity of any other living ferrets that have come from the original seven ancestors.

Researchers believe that expanded genetic diversity could help grow the ferrets’ population and help prime them to recover from ongoing diseases that have been massively detrimental to the species, including sylvatic plague and canine distemper. 

“The successful breeding and subsequent birth of Antonia's kits marks a major milestone in endangered species conservation,” said Paul Marinari, senior curator at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. 

“The many partners in the Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program continue their innovative and inspirational efforts to save this species and be a model for other conservation programs across the globe.”

Antonia actually gave birth to three kits, after mating with Urchin, a 3-year-old male ferret. One of the three kits passed away shortly after birth, but one male and one female are in good health and meeting developmental milestones, according to the Smithsonian.

Mom and babies will remain at the facility for further research, with no plans to release them into the wild.

According to the Colorado Sun, another cloned ferret, Noreen, is also a potential mom in the cloning-breeding program. The original cloned ferret, Elizabeth Ann, is doing well at the recovery program in Colorado, but does not have the capabilities to breed. 

Antonia, who was cloned using the DNA of a black-footed ferret named Willa, has now solidified Willa’s place as the eighth founding ancestor of all current living ferrets.

“By doing this, we’ve actually added an eighth founder,” said Tina Jackson, black-footed ferret recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in an interview with the Colorado Sun. 

“And in some ways that may not sound like a lot, but in this genetic world, that is huge.”

Along with the USFWS and Smithsonian, conservation organization Revive & Restore has also enabled the use of biotechnologies in conservation practice. Co-founder and executive director Ryan Phelan is thrilled to welcome these two new kits to the black-footed ferret family.

“For the first time, we can definitively say that cloning contributed meaningful genetic variation back into a breeding population,” he said in a statement.

“As these kits move forward in the breeding program, the impact of this work will multiply, building a more robust and resilient population over time.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, November 4, 2024

[reef-sys]

after finally finishing my reread and catching up im trying to familiarize myself with the pre and post chapter 71 events and i can report that the dick coke incident doesnt happen until like chapter 83