#star trek pop quiz

[star-trek-pop-quiz]

Star Trek POP-QUIZ #21

( 09 / 03 / 2024 )

Question 1. Who was the first host of the Dax symbiont? a. Tobin b. Lela c. Torias d. Emony

Bonus Question: What was this host's occupation?

Question 2. TRUE OR FALSE Nyota Uhura is fluent in 37 languages and Hoshi Sato is fluent in 76 languages.

Bonus Question: TRUE OR FALSE While at Starfleet Academy, Nyota Uhura wrote 3 papers on Hoshi Sato.

Question 3. Which of these actresses has not played T'Pring? a. Mary Rice b. Arlene Martel c. Gia Sandhu d. Celia Lovsky

Question 4. Where did Deanna Troi study psychology? a. Starfleet b. Yale University c. Ni'Var Institute d. University of Betazed

Question 5. Fill-in Question! How many ships has Kathryn Janeway commanded?

Bonus Question: Name one ship she has commanded ( other than the USS Voyager ).

Score: __/ 5 + 3 bonus ( Answers under cut )

Question 1. b. Lela

+ Lela was a famous legislator in the Trillian government, and one of the first women to be appointed as a council member.

Question 2. FALSE. Although Nyota Uhura is fluent in 37 languages, Hoshi Sato was known to be fluent in 86 languages.

+ TRUE.

Question 3. d. Celia Lovsky

Question 4. d. University of Betazed

Question 5. 2.

+ She also commanded the USS Dauntless.

Happy ( late ) Women's Day!

[eightiesfan]

Monday Quiz !

Lt. Commander Data Metal Hearts Club Band

[amememightywarrior]

Phases of growth of an internet user in fandom, circa 2024

0-10 yrs - if you're on the internet it's either your parent(s) posting pics of you to facebook or you're watching youtube kids with less supervision than you actually need 'cos there are some weird as shit channels out there labeled 'for kids'. 11-12 - somehow they gave you a smartphone but you're very busy watching minecraft or roblox youtube channels and video-chatting your friends and you're probably into Pokemon. 13-16 - You are convinced only fellow teens your age belong on the internet sharing memes, because this is literally where ALL your peers are. What do you MEAN there are older people here on [social media site] that you can actually interact with?? Ew! 17-18 - The weight of IRL expectations is slowly crushing your creative spirit but you persevere. Time to apply to college. 19-20 - The end of your life is nigh. Also you're in college now trying to be an adult. What is happening?? You can vote now???? 21-24 - College, graduation, and discovering the wonderful surprises awaiting you in the economy earlier generations have left you (right now? it's shit. sorry.) You're still here doing what you enjoy. But are you letting your life slip away between your fingers? 25-29 - The 13-16 yr olds react like they're amazed at you for being on the internet but this is where you have your audience/friends/ways to talk about your favorite shows, which you STILL HAVE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Your biggest fear is hitting 30 and having nothing to show for it but you've been making a lot of adulting mistakes and learning from those mistakes in a big way. It really stings when teenagers scream in astonishment that you're over 25. 30-39 - Now the gap between you and the 13-16 yr olds is bigger than ever but you look at them and see your past self and oof...but they deserve that chance to learn and grow just like you. And now you also know they will experience what you have: the neverending weird looks from whoever is currently 13-16. Such is the curse of aging. You may have a kid or two yourself by now, too. It doesn't bother you as much when you see polls asking about what age you are as a fanfic writer. Your twenties were miserable but it's getting better now that you kinda know what you're doing. The only drawback is the random aches and pains. Hey you! Quit shrimping! I see that! You're gonna regret it! 40+ (and I do mean the plus) - You were here before all these damn kids. How dare they try to cite the Deep Magic at you, you were there when it was written (the Deep Magic: the first Star Trek fanfic ever posted on the internet). You witness the very real loss of knowledge and wisdom of the internet that seemed like it had been around just ten years ago, as no one knows to even look for the history of anything. The landscape has really changed, but you're still here doing what you enjoy. Only difference is you can see the big picture now. When someone pulls out the famous 'do you know what this old tech is' pop quiz, you get excited when you see something familiar.

[torihakaraublog]

Obey Me! NB "Identity Crisis" Pop Quiz

Very cute event!

Potion gone wrong (kinda - it was a supposed to be a prank on Lucifer) resulting in body swap!

Really like how everyone worked together and encouraged each other to get their tasks done (human world fashion show, fruit eating contest, paperwork etc.). One of my favorite parts was Satan making the fruit eating event more appealing to Asmo by asking the organizer if Asmo could film himself.

Also loved how Solomon showed how well knew Asmo through his actions and made sure to respect his body/person TwT (and Asmo's routines) He even worried about not meeting Asmo's expectations!

Got a little concerned alone in Satan's room...

One of his lines was "...Now that I'm myself again, do you mind if I touch you?"

Which seemed a bit uncomfortably bold if you are not romantically pursuing Satan.

The response options were:

"Not at all." Which I picked.

Or something along the lines of 'I want to touch you too.'

Both not great options if you don't want to move forward as both insinuate you are okay with 'more.'

Luckily with the option I picked resulted in "Okay, then let me hold your hand." So, it ended up working out for me as my MC's relationship with Satan is 'complicated' and she wouldn't want to lead him on. But during that uncertain moment my stomach dropped thinking I would either sound harsh in my rejection or that I would not be aloud to refuse. But despite this overall I really enjoyed this event - could possibly even consider it one of my favorites this year! :3

Food Mentioned

cookies made with hellfire rose jam

Satan's Birthday 2024 🎂

(My Birthday was on the 18th! Really enjoyed the birthday messages and stuff this year 🤗 this was like the first Birthday in 4 years that I was not sick lol yay progress!! 💜 wasn't able to go to the cat café this year, but got amazing souffle pancakes from a place called Fuwa Fuwa - took my 'son' Yuji with us too xD)

(Pancakes: matcha tiramisu

Drink: Nutella hazelnut latté)

Satan's Birthday event was alright.

The plot was cute; wake him up, go to a secluded movie theater, special private time with cats, reading, and cake/singing, then a group party with everyone after.

Think my only complaint really was that the 'interactive movie theater' wasen't really a movie theater per say. There was no scheduled movie/plot. It was more of just an interactive room like the holodecks in star trek. 🌟

Like to picture he gave me a lil forhead kissy after our 'our love yous' :3

[haveievermentioned]

I'm curious, what are some of your favorite bits of pop culture and history/law/etc intersecting?

Stuff like:

Historical metaphors, subtext, and coding that get muddled the farther we get from it's release (i.e. the Subtext that Ian Chesterton from Doctor Who survived the Blitz)

Pop culture influencing history or laws (how the Quiz Show Scandal changed how we watched TV)

Or other similar things. (Uhura in Star Trek, the history of non white dolls, violets as a lesbian symbol, etc)

[t-cognoscente]

Pop quiz!

[pinkyjulien]

🟨 OC Personality Match Quiz

Got tagged by @therealnightcity and @ouroboros-hideout Thank you guys! 😊🧡

Pre-shooting this by saying I don't know everyone on the list 🤏 so I'm not sure of how accurate the results are HGFH

Taking this for Valentin of course- but since he shares a lot of my own personality and traits, the results also matches with meeeee in some ways 👁👄👁👉👈

Rom (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 88%

Maurice (Beauty and the Beast): 86%

Wyatt Langmore (Ozark): 85%

Sam Witwicky (Transformers): 85%

Rio (Money Heist): 85%

Hoban Washburne (Firefly + Serenity): 83%

Steve Brady (Sex and the City): 83%

Kenny McCormick (South Park): 83%

Hughie Campbell (The Boys): 83%

Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things): 83%

Man. I only know like- two of those AHGHFH Ngl the noise I made when I saw this dude pop up tho

No offense but AUIHGHUEZIUZ........ I checked his traits and I see why he'd match with Valentin tho

Like. Yeah. Yeah I get it, I get it, I get it HGHFHGF That applies perfectly to my boy 🤧

▶ Tagging, with no pressure 💛 Not sure who already did it or not! @halkuonn - @dreamskug - @aldecaldhos - @lokiina - @lucky38-2077 - @ne0n-rust - @nw-art - @wraithsoutlaws - @elvenbeard - @theviridianbunny - @kharonion

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (24-30 Dec 2023)

*delighted* this show went straight to full musical episode in only the second season. amazing.

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Hither, Page (Page & Summers #1) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - reread; christmas-set post WW2 cozy mystery (vibes are basically 'agatha christie but queer')

🥰 The Missing Page (Page & Summers #2) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - reread; the further adventures of Leo & James

😍 We Could Be So Good (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - reread; this was one of my fave books of the year tbh; loved the setting and the characters and the vibe

😍 Bells Are Ringing (A We Could Be So Good Holiday epilogue) (Cat Sebastian) - so grateful that Cat S gifts us a holiday epilogue every year!

🥰 The Things We Hide (ThePirateStorm) - 109K, stucky no powers omegaverse/accidental mpreg with fantastic amounts of pining and a great cast of fully realized supporting characters; I fucked up my sleep schedule to finish reading this and had zero regrets.

🥰 I'd Swing With You for the Fences (nontoxic) - 86K, Schitt's Creek AU with MLB player Patrick and David (who's still mostly canon David) - very warm and sweet and absolutely DELIGHTFUL

🥰 Third Eye (Felicia Day, author; full voice cast) - comedy fantasy audio drama about Laurel, who 15 yrs ago was the Chosen One and who…failed. Now her life is sad but she gets a 2nd chance when a terrible teen (who may also be the Chosen One) cannonballs into her life. Had a lot of fun listening to this, great voice cast featuring FD, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, London Hughes

💖💖 +186K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

[PODFIC] A Nativity of Oranges (Tanouska) - MCU: stucky, 9K - great podfic, reread, great Stucky holiday fic

How The Elf-King Stole Khuzmus (DeHeerKonijn, PointlesslyPoetic) - LOTR: 1.3K - a The Hobbit/Dr. Seuss mashup, very clever, great art

[Podfic of] Spaceships & Laserswords (blackglass, klb, luvtheheaven (VioletEmerald), reena_jenkins, Shmaylor, silverandblue, wordsaremyfaith) - Star Wars: finnpoe, 4K - great podfic of a short but hilarious & very sweet fic - modern AU where weirdo hermit Luke joins the (college-age) 'kids' D&D game & volunteers his sister to DM

[Podfic] Mission Impossible (quietnight) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 20K - hilarious shrunkyclunks fic, great podfic version of it

flow through (rainbow_nerds) - Stranger Things: steddie, 6K - a gift for me! I requested @rainbow-nerdss continue in the universe created by sharp temporary walls and it was everything I could have wanted!!!! 💜

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2023

The Legendary Rick Perry and the Art of Dimension 20

D20: Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - s4, e21-22

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - s1, e7-10; s2, e1-10

Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road (2023 special #4)

Midsomer Murders - s24, e1-2

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Hit Parade - Second-Chance Hits Edition

Vibe Check - 2023, Don’t Let The Door Hit You…

Ologies with Alie Ward - Alieology (YOUR HOST): an Ask-Me-Anything Goofy Hang

It's Been a Minute - Why grief sometimes looks like a hyphy party

One Year - The Making of One Year: 1990

⭐ Code Switch - The Fallout of a Callout

Hit Parade - The Posthumous Hits Edition, Live from Seattle

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2024 Pop Culture Predictions

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Fun Christmas Oldies

my Dolly Parton Christmas playlist

Swingin' Christmas

Presenting Lindsey Stirling

Power Ballads Forever

[deep-space-lines]

Being exclusively a fan of media that ended years ago & is still holding onto a fanbase but is not really super Culturally Relevant in the present time (Mass Effect trilogy... Deep Space 9...) is kind of a weird experience at my age in a way that's hard to put into words

I think I'm probably only noticing it for the first time myself because I haven't really interacted with fandom spaces at all before. My irl friends and I don't have overlapping interests, I avoid social media like the plague and I prefer to just rotate the media in my brain like watching it go around in a microwave, but it's like... here I feel like a baby. When this media was new I was Not Born Yet (DS9) or in Middle School (Mass Effect 3). And I find these things 10, 20+ years after they ended and become absolutely obsessed with them but so much of the posts and art and fanfic about these are from so many years ago and it's somehow intimidating!!! And that doesn't make sense!!! I am not a baby I am a grown ass adult with a degree!!! I gotta stop overthinking this everyone is really nice I just need to not worry and have a fun time and remember all art is derivative holy shit 2 cakes!!! I am doing this for me not for an audience or someone who's gonna give me a pop quiz at the end!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA

anyway im going to beam autism directly into my art app and draw the mass effect crew in star trek uniforms

[nameofallteams]

345 Witty & Clever Trivia Team Names to Outsmart the Competition

Coming up with a clever trivia team name can be half the fun of game night! Whether you're competing at your local bar, a pub trivia night, or just a casual trivia session with friends, a witty team name can give you that extra boost of confidence and charm. Here’s a massive list of 345 clever and witty trivia team names to help your squad stand out and outsmart the competition! Pop Culture-Inspired Trivia Team Names Pop culture references are always a hit at trivia nights. These team names are perfect for fans of TV shows, movies, and music: - Quiztina Aguilera - The Quizzard of Oz - Let’s Get Quizzical - Trivia Newton John - Quiz Khalifa - Beyonce Know-Alls - The Big Fact Theory - Quizzly Bears - The Smarty Pints - Tequila Mockingbird - The Trivia-nators - Game of Phones - I Am Smartacus - Sherlock Homies - Quiz Me Baby One More Time - The Fellowship of the Quiz - Stranger Quizzes - Cunning Linguists - Snoop Doggy Knowledge - The A-Team Literary & Book-Themed Trivia Team Names If your group loves books, literature, and wordplay, these literary trivia team names are just what you need: - The Bookworms - The Great GatsQuiz - The Catcher in the Quiz - War and Quiz - Pride and Prejudice and Answers - Lord of the Answers - The Quiz of Monte Cristo - The Da Vinci Coders - A Tale of Two Quizzers - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Trivia - Quizdom Come - Moby Quiz - Quizzy Stardust - The Know-It-Alls - Sherlock's Last Answer - Fahrenheit 451 IQ - Quizbeth Bennet - The Trivia Time Travelers - Of Mice and Knowledge - Quizian Grey Geography & History-Themed Trivia Team Names For trivia teams who love geography, history, and all things related to the world’s past, these names are right up your alley: - The United States of Quizmerica - Victorious Secret - Alexander the Great Minds - Napoleon Brain-aparte - The Know-It-All Napoleons - The Time Traveling Trivia Buffs - The Roman Brain-pire - The Renaissance Men - Geographically Challenged - Who, What, When, Where, Win - Atlas Shrugged Off Wrong Answers - Historically Incorrect - Magellan’s Map Mistakes - The Worldly Wisecracks - The Triviators of History - Brainy Explorers - Maps and Mishaps - Trivia Crusaders - The Know-It-All Empire - Quiztorical Society Punny Trivia Team Names Puns are always a go-to for trivia team names. These punny names will give you that perfect balance of humor and wit: - Know It Ales - Smartinis - Quiz in My Pants - E=MC Hammer - You’re a Quizzard, Harry! - Risky Quizness - Agatha Quiztie - Menace to Sobriety - Quizzie McGuire - The Trivia Pursuits - Quiz and Shout - It’s Trivial, Karen! - The Quizzards of Waverly Place - Let’s Get Ready to Fumble - Beer Pressure - I Wish This Was Beer Pong - Red Hot Trivia Peppers - Eggheads and Scrambled Brains - Smarter than the Average Bear - Trivially Challenged Movie-Themed Trivia Team Names For movie buffs, these trivia team names inspired by famous films are sure to be a hit: - The Fellowship of the Quiz - Raiders of the Lost Answers - Gone with the Win - Jurassic Facts - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusaders - The Trivia Strikes Back - Casablanca Knowledge - Quizbusters - The Avengers of Trivia - Trivia Trek - Inception: The Quiz Within a Quiz - Star Warts - The Quizshank Redemption - Guardians of the Galaxy Brains - Kill Bill's Quiz Team - Forrest Answered - The Quiz Matrix - Jaws of Victory - The Quiz Awakens - The Dark Knight Wins Food & Drink-Themed Trivia Team Names For teams who love food and drink, these clever food-inspired trivia names are a treat: - Quiche Your Brain - Tequila Mockingbird - Beer Pressure - Nacho Average Quiz Team - Whiskeypedia - Let’s Get Ready to Crumble - Smarty Pints - Quizzed and Confused - Poutine on the Ritz - Macaroni and Quiz - Drinkers with a Trivia Problem - Pints of Knowledge - Wine Not? - Hungry Hungry Fact-o-saurs - Cereal Quizness - The Quizine Experts - Burger Queens - Fork You, We’re Right! - Taco ‘Bout Smart - The Nacho Know-It-Alls Music-Themed Trivia Team Names If music is your thing, these trivia names will hit the right note at your next quiz: - Quiztallica - The Rolling Brains - Bohemian Trivia-sody - Smells Like Team Spirit - Fleetwood Trivia - Stairway to Trivia - The Sound of Silence (after a wrong answer) - Quiz Jovi - The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind - Don’t Stop Quiz-lievin’ - The Trivia Stones - The Quiz Fighters - Sweet Trivia o’ Mine - The Beatles of Knowledge - Trivia and the Jets - Born to Run...This Quiz - The Trivia Temptations - Brainy Spears - We Will Quiz You - A Whole Lotta Knowledge Nerdy & Science-Themed Trivia Team Names If your team is filled with science lovers and trivia nerds, these brainy trivia names will suit you perfectly: - The Periodic Table Dancers - Nerd Immunity - Quarks & Recreation - The Quantum Quizzers - The Pythagorean Theorists - E=MC Awesome - Schrödinger's Cats...and Dogs - The Big Quiz Theory - The Geek Squad - Knowledge is Power Rangers - Ctrl + Alt + Win - Science Is the Answer - The Einstein Monsters - Nerds of Knowledge - Quizzy Rascals - I Can Haz Trivia? - The Know-it-nerds - The Trivia Astronomers - Radioactive Brainwaves - The Cosmic Quizzers TV Show-Inspired Trivia Team Names These trivia team names inspired by TV shows will have you binge-winning every trivia round: - How I Met Your Knowledge - The Office Know-It-Alls - Breaking Brains - Friends with Knowledge - Stranger Blings - Parks and Recollection - Arrested Knowledge - The Quiz Is Right - Game of Trivia - Better Call Knowledge - Jeopardy Rejects - The Quizzing Dead - Facts of Thrones - Quizy's Anatomy - I Know What You Did Last Trivia Night - Mad Quiz Men - The Fresh Prince of Brain-Air - Who Wants to Be a Quiz-illionaire? - The Trivia Masters - Brain of Thrones Clever & Witty Trivia Team Names If your team is all about clever wordplay and showing off your wit, these names will help you shine: - Smarty Pints - Quiz-tential Knowledge - Quizlamic State - The Know-It-All-Stars - The Smarty Pants - Quiz Pro Quo - Fact Hunt - We Drink and We Know Things - Sharp Minds, Sharper Answers - Risky Quizness - Trivia Troopers - The Mental Block Party - Quizlamic Jihad - The Mind Benders - Quizzards of Waverly Place - Too Legit to Quiz - Trivial Pursuers - Thinkers and Drinkers - The Quizzas - Brainy and the Quiz Random & Miscellaneous Trivia Team Names For teams that like to be totally unpredictable, here are some random and hilarious trivia team names: - The Quizzstakers - The Smarty Pints - Trivial Haters - Bright Sparks - Trivia Newton-John - Punderful Brains - Quiztopher Columbus - The Answer Guys - The Quizcals - Fact or Fiction Addicts - Two Truths and a Quiz - No Idea at All - Quiztronauts - Questioning Everything - WikiLeakers - Triviaholics Anonymous - Full of Questions - The Factonators - I Thought This Was Speed Dating - Quizzically Challenged - The Unsinkable Quiz Team - Pants on Fire (because we're so fast with answers) - The Brainiacs - The Quizmaster’s Apprentices - Forever Young (at heart, not in trivia) - The Uneducated Guessers - We Know Everything…or Do We? - The Broken Pencils (because we’re pointless) - Google It Later - Purely Guessing - Trivia Sharks - Mind Over Matter - Wise Quackers - Quizness Time - Take a Hint - We’re All a Little Trivial - The Quizfits - Fact Machines - The Guessperts Movie Buff Trivia Team Names For film lovers, these movie-themed trivia team names are cinematic gold and perfect for any quiz night with a focus on films: - Cinema Trivia Club - The Quizfather - The Movie Buffs - Factbusters - The Reel Deal - Jurassic Quiz - Reel Genius - Quizzin’ Impossible - The Trivia Supremacy - Lights, Camera, Quiz! - Raiders of the Lost Answers - Mission Quizzable - Silence of the Answers - Trivia Goes to Hollywood - Trivia Rhapsody - The Quiz Before Time - Avengers of Trivia - Quizbusters - Reel Knowledge - The Quiz-tians of the Galaxy TV Show-Themed Trivia Team Names TV enthusiasts can use these trivia team names inspired by iconic television shows to dazzle their competition: - The Quiz is Right - Arrested Development of Knowledge - Trivial Pursuit of Happiness - Friends With Answers - How I Met Your Trivia - The Quiz World Order - All in the Family Feud - Quizzin’ Anatomy - The Brainiacs of Waverly Place - Trivia Goes Wild - Factbusters - Quiz TV Dinners - The Answer Game - The Quizzing Dead - The Trivia Diaries - TV Addicts Anonymous - The Trivia is Out There - Better Quiz Saul - Golden Girls of Trivia - The Big Quiz Theory Work & Business-Themed Trivia Team Names If you’re competing in a corporate or office trivia event, these business-related trivia team names will bring some workplace humor to the quiz: - The Office Whiz Kids - Cubicle Champions - Executive Quiz-cision - Deadline Crushers - The Paper Pushers - Mission Accomplished - The Work in Progress - Brainstormers - The Meeting of the Minds - Out of Office (and into trivia) - The Busy Bees - The Corporate Crushers - The Workaholics - The Deadline Destroyers - Trivia Department - Casual Friday - All Work and All Play - Office Space Cadets - The After-Hours Think Tank - Synergy Seekers Science-Themed Trivia Team Names For the science-loving teams, these clever names will help you show off your smarts: - The Atomic Brains - Nerd Herd - The Quiz-otic Neurons - The Mad Scientists - Quantum Leapers - Schrödinger’s Quiz - Einstein’s Descendants - The Big Brain Theory - Chemists Who Crack - Brain Cells Gone Wild - Theory of Everything - The Neutron Stars - The Science Squad - Quizology - The Brain Waves - Physics Phanatics - The Quiz Lab - Quantum Quizzers - Trivia-saurus Rex - Chemical Attraction Sports-Themed Trivia Team Names Sports fans will love these trivia team names that capture the competitive spirit of the game: - The Dream Team - Fast & Curious - The Know-It-Balls - Trivia MVPs - Field of Answers - Touchdown for Knowledge - Trivia Titans - Goal Diggers - Home Run Heroes - Scoreboard Wizards - The Quizletes - The Fact-letes - The Brainstorming Ballers - Trivia Champions League - Quiz and Slam - The Ball Game Brainiacs - The Field Day Facts - Slam Dunk Trivia - Knowledge Strike Force - Answer All-Stars Pop Culture Trivia Team Names Pop culture references make for some of the best trivia team names. Here are some fun ones that’ll stand out at your next game night: - Pop Culture Whiz Kids - Stranger Facts - The Hollywood Quizzards - Guardians of the Trivia - Trivia and Chill - The Pop Culture Savants - Quiztastic Voyage - Cult Classic Know-It-Alls - The Flashbacks - The Know-It-Alls of Pop Culture - Quizzing Like a Pop Star - Binge-Watching Brainiacs - Netflix and Triv - Pop Stars of Trivia - The Screen Legends - Retro Revivalists - The Pop Quiz Kings - The 90s Nostalgics - Streaming Sensations - Trivia Time Machine Clever Trivia Team Names For those who like to show off their wit and intelligence, here are some clever trivia team names: - The Brainy Bunch - Smarty Pants - Sharp Minds - The Think Tank - Quiz Quackers - Mind Over Matter - The Answer Addicts - Trivia Tacticians - The Brain Trust - The Knowledge Ninjas - Wits and Giggles - Fact or Faction - Quiznado - The Quizzical Thinkers - The InQUIZition - The Cerebral Assassins - Brainiacs United - IQ Level: Expert - Quizzards of the Coast - The Genius Brigade Music-Inspired Trivia Team Names If you love music and trivia, these names will hit the right note: - Treble Makers - Quiz Jam - Symphony of Knowledge - The Sharp Notes - Quizzer’s Paradise - The Quiz Harmonics - Decibel Domination - Hit the High Notes - The Quizzical Chorus - Knowledge Beats - Rock and Quiz - Melodic Minds - The Beat Brains - Trivia Symphony - Harmonic Intelligence - Quiz Box Heroes - Music to Your Gears - The Quiz-cussions - High Note Heroes - The Melody Masters Miscellaneous Trivia Team Names For those who just want something fun and out of the box, here are some unique and quirky trivia team names: - Trivia Survivors - The Knowledge Knights - The Winning Minds - Curious Quizzers - Fact Seekers - Don’t Google It! - Trivialize This! - Mind Melders - The Answer Is... - Question Marks - The Brain Trust - Last Call for Trivia - Too Smart for Our Own Good - The Questionable Decisions - In Pursuit of Knowledge - The Guessperts - Final Answer - The Trivia Commandos - The Masterminds - The Quiz Blitz Conclusion There you have it—345 witty and clever trivia team names to help your squad outshine the competition. Whether you’re looking for something funny, brainy, or pop-culture inspired, this list has you covered. A great trivia team name can add an extra layer of excitement to your game night, and it just might give you that mental edge to win! Now, go pick the perfect name, gather your trivia experts, and get ready to dominate quiz night! Read the full article

[subbyfoxelf]

[tv review] tng 6x24-25 (1993)

6x24 “second chances”

pop quiz, hotshot. what’s the only thing that's better than will riker? that’s right: two will rikers!

the real danger here is that you’re teasing me with the idea that there’s really no reason that every crewmember can’t be will riker, and i think that idea is just too seductive to safely even hint at.

okay in all seriousness it’s actually pretty wild just how well this episode works? this really seems like the kind of thing that should just be unbelievably silly, but this show is so fucking good that it actually manages to mine it for genuine character conflict & growth.

seriously, i don’t think this is a good episode on most shows. but on this one it’s fucking fantastic. i love how they even teased taking the narrative path of least resistance by imperiling riker 2.0 towards the end of the episode, which is absolutely the kind of status quo-preserving move a lot of shows would’ve opted for. but no, there’s just another will riker (or thomas riker, by the very end of the episode) running around starfleet now.

i think the only thing i would’ve liked to be handled differently about this episode is i would’ve appreciated quite a bit more worf, but that’s just a personal quibble not a real criticism. a-rank

6x25 "timescape"

they liked “the next phase” so much they basically made it again, and honestly? fair!

i love a good romulan episode and i love a good “weird time shit is happening” episode and this is both, and it kicks ass. it even has a signature, box art moment when a delirious picard draws a smiley face with his finger in the coolant plume of a warp core breach. and it turns out he has– and i’m not making this up–“the time bends.”

this is one of the most prototypically star trekky episodes ever. like, i’d put it on a short list with like the aforementioned “the next phase” and “cause and effect” as some of the best episodes to show someone to give them a representative idea of what star trek is about. a-rank

[star-trek-pop-quiz]

Star Trek POP-QUIZ #37

( 01 / 07 / 2024 )

Question 1. What is the name of the Trekkie who inspired Geordi La Forge? a. George La Forge b. Gisèle La Forte c. Garance La Torre d. Geordi La Forgia

Question 2. TRUE OR FALSE Spock has a learning disability.

Bonus Question: What is it / What was the "Human" equivalent?

Question 3. Which character does Kenneth Mitchell play? a. Geordi La Forge b. Aurellio c. Hemmer d. George Alevizos

Bonus Question: What is this character's occupation?

Question 4. In which TOS episode does Dr. Miranda Jones ( a blind telepath ) appear? a. The Alternative Factor ( S1, E27 ) b. Is There in Truth No Beauty? ( S3, E5 ) c. Patterns of Force ( S2, E21 ) d. Mirror, Mirror ( S2, E4 )

Bonus Question: Which other Star Trek character does her actress play?

Question 5. Fill-in Question! What is the name of the wheelchair-user who is the namesake of a DS9 episode?

Score: __/ 5 + 3 bonus ( Answers under cut )

Question 1. a. George La Forge

( you can find more details on Mr La Forge on MemoryAlpha and here )

Question 2. TRUE. Spock has been confirmed to have L'tak Terai, which has been confirmed as the Vulcan equivalent of dyslexia, making it difficult for him to read, write and learn.

Question 3. b. Aurellio ( although the other names are also disabled characters/actors )

+ Scientist.

Question 4. b. Is There in Truth No Beauty? ( S3, E5 )

+ Her actress is Diana Muldaur who also played Dr Katherine Pulaski ( TNG ) and Ann Mulhall ( TOS ).

Question 5. Melora, featured in DS9 episode Melora ( S2, E6 ).

Happy Disability Awareness Month!

[euphoniaofathousandwinds]

CHAPTER 2 — THE VISION

"On Kairos' Hill, tomorrow night. The answers you seek may be found if only you look hard enough."

This was the predicament Ria Carter had found herself in today. The classes passed rather quickly, as she faded in and out of the gazes that were thrown at her occasionally. But what plagued her mind wasn't her pending Physics project or the pop quiz in History that was leaked momentarily.

What haunted her was the voices that she, alongside Mar, Lucas, and Irina had heard last night. What terrorized her were the insults, the jibes, and the personal affronts thrown at her that shook her to the core.

But what broke her the most into her downcast state was the gentle, familiar voice that guided them down the hill that night.

"Come forward, if you seek to find who you truly are."

What they truly are? Was some voice in the wind really going to lead them through some spiritual journey into awakening their full potential like some B-Grade anime?

'I might be late tonight. I have a stunt performance downtown.' Lucas had texted her earlier. How they even managed to compose themselves enough that night to exchange numbers was beyond her.

All she knew right now was that she was going up Kairos' Hill through the dirt path, accompanied by Irina, Mar, and Lucas. Well, hopefully, to say the least. The former two had not provided any clarification on whether or not they wanted to act upon the words of the voice in the wind. Hey, even Ria was a bit apprehensive to trust an unknown voice when their past encounters with such weren't the least bit pleasant. But she also doubts the wind needed them to RSVP their presence tonight, so she left it up to fate if they were willing to chase the answers they wanted.

"You're here." Irina declared, her small frame rocking lightly to the beat of the music in her earphones. "Mar's running late."

"So is Lucas," Ria replied, sitting down on a bench near the foot of the mountain, beside Irina.

The atmosphere slowly grew awkward, as neither felt the need nor the knowledge to approach and engage in conversation. The dead silence of the leaves rustling in the wind filled the next few moments, all until Marlon arrived.

"Lucas texted," he said, not minding the egregious atmosphere that had grown between the two girls. "He said to go ahead without him."

"Very well, then!" Irina stood up, wiping off the nonexistent dirt from her teal dress. The light color only served to highlight the paleness in her complexion, which sent a bit of guilt into a long-buried part of Ria's memories.

With that, the three of them slowly trekked up the dirt road they had been terrorized in only last night. By the time they arrived at the top of Kairos' Hill, the sky had grown significantly darker than it was before.

The winds enveloped their bodies as the stars glimmered in the night sky. But aside from Irina's soft pants from short breath, there was nothing but silence. The voice was nowhere to be heard...found.

And the confusion was shared across all of them.

"Is it because we're incomplete?" Mar proposed, prompting himself to pick up the phone and dial Lucas.

And at that moment, a voice bellowed.

"Sing!"

"What? Did it just say sing?"

"Sing!" the winds howled, growing fiercer and stronger, tipping Irina to the side, had Mar not caught her.

"What song?!" Ria asked desperately, if only to appease the winds that seemed to rage so suddenly.

A melody began to play, through the deafening roar of the winds, and it sent shivers down Ria's spine to hear it again.

"I know that song..." she trailed off, eyes radiant in shock and mesmerization.

"Then sing it, before the wind throws us all off the hill!"

Composing herself, Ria caught her voice before it cracked in nerve. She allowed the winds to calm down, letting her hymn be heard through the night's silence.

"Where do we turn once the thousand winds take flight? To the south wind that soothes or the north wind that bites? For all those who hear the hymn of yesteryear, may your tales live on in the wind's chime as fragments of the legends in immemorial skies."

Thus, the wind began to calm down as it sank into a soothing melody. Ria could feel her nerves still at the softer voice that wafted from the night sky that day.

But the words that came were nothing close to the assurance they had hoped to receive.

"An accident. Quickly, or your friend might meet an untimely end."

The image of Lucas flashed in their minds. First, proud and joyous, smirking as he put on his helmet for yet another stunt show. Was this the reason he was late to their meetup today? He was performing stunts downtown, wasn't he?

Next, a flash of red. So swiftly, Lucas had made his way across the course, motorcycle whirring at a speed beyond their eyes could fathom. He was skilled, sure, everyone knew of his little gimmicks downtown, but what did the voice mean when—

A crash. Loud, and deafening. The crowd was covered in screams and cries for help. Panic ensued. In the rubble, a familiar voice groaned, wincing and groaning in the pain of dozens of wounds.

"...help...me..."

"What are you waiting for? RUN!" the voice bellowed, sending a gust of wind to nearly have them roll down the hill. The three felt themselves dazed from the long daydream, thinking momentarily about their next course of action.

It was almost as though the voice meant to get rid of them quickly, as the next few words not only sent shivers down Ria's spine but made her blood run cold.

"If you dawdle any longer, you'll be finding a corpse instead of a friend."

And with that, the three of them ran. It was almost surreal, how quickly they made it from the top of Kairos' Hill all the way to the other side of Tetrasa, the downtown area where the world seemed to grow darker than pitch black.

Irina was the last to compose herself, pants ringing through all their ears as she struggled to keep up with the fast pace. No one blamed her for it, and Mar was kind enough to suggest she sit this one out for her own safety, but even he seemed taken aback by what she replied:

"...You..." she had said, between bated breaths, "...none of you have ever been downtown, right? How would you ever know where Lucas' stunt show is?"

And now there she was, wading them through the darker parts of their small town, as though she'd been there enough times to memorize the place like the back of her hand. But neither Mar nor Ria had the time or energy left to expend in interrogating her, as the image of Lucas' bloodied body and the haunting words of the voice continued to linger in their minds.

"Excuse me, is this where Lucien will be performing tonight?" Irina asked the bouncer who had blocked their path.

"Yes," the large figure replied, "but you need tickets to get in."

"Eep!" Mar yelped, shocked by the voice. Well, considering his yelping hadn't ended at any point since their arrival downtown, that much wasn't really surprising.

"But we really need to get in!"

"So do a lot of people, ma'am. Still, no tickets, no entry."

"You don't understand, mister," Mar declared, although he could barely be seen from where he was cowering behind Ria, "it's a matter of life and death! Someone is in danger!"

"It's a stunt show, sir. It's supposed to be dangerous."

"What in the world are you all doing here?"

"LUCAS!" the three of them exclaimed, eyes lighting up at the realization that he hadn't gone on yet. But the joy was short-lived, as they saw he was already dressed up in full gear.

"Thanks, Marco, but they're with me. You can let them pass." he beckoned the three to follow him inside, as the bouncer opened the door without complaint.

The inside was...bewildering, to say the least. There were crowds upon crowds, cheering and laughing at the performers who were doing their flavors of foolhardy feats. Some of them were so flabbergastingly dangerous that it made Ria nervous, and she wasn't even the one performing.

Which brought them back to their current issue. The three of them locked eyes for milliseconds, reaching the immediate conclusion that they needed to tell Lucas about the vision from the voice.

But just visualizing how they would attempt to do that was enough to make their heads hurt.

"What happened up on the hill?" Lucas broke their train of thought fairly quickly, sipping on an energy drink to add to his adrenaline. "Did the voice stay true to their promise? Or was it really just some mass hallucination or something?"

"Actually, to be classified as a mass hallucination, it would probably require a larger number of people—"

"Don't take it literally, Lancaster. And you should sit down, you look pale." Lucas chided, turning to Ria again to beckon an answer.

"The voice came back," she began, hoping the tension wouldn't crash the weight of her own words.

"And?"

"And it told us that you were going to suffer a bad accident in your stunt today, which is why we ran here."

They could feel something snap. Lucas' brows furrowed, annoyance and disdain playing in his expressions continuously. He stared at the three of them, weighing their expressions and the sincerity of their words with every glance.

"Yeah, no. I'm not buying it." Lucas said stubbornly, picking up his helmet and threatening to wear it and go ahead with his stunt.

Possessed by some unknown courage, Mar grabbed the helmet and pulled it far from Lucas.

"What the... Mar, give it back."

"You need to listen to us! The voice showed us your body, beat up and covered in blood because of these reckless performances!"

"Last I checked," Lucas' voice turned sharp, annoyed by the interference and unwelcome dialogue, "I wasn't asking for your opinion on my shows. Just hand me the helmet, Marlon."

"No, don't! Do you realize how dangerous the things you're doing are?!" Irina answered frantically, her face still faintly pale from the exhaustion. "The chances of you getting into an accident or worse is catastrophic!"

"I don't care about that!" Lucas shouted, this time furious.

"Then what about the people who care about you, then? They're probably worried sick—"

The raven-haired boy tsked, eyes rolling in defiance. Ria was ready to continue her beratement, but the words that fell from her classmate's mouth felt like a weight pulling at her stomach.

"That would actually matter if there were people who cared," Lucas said, nonchalantly. Or rather, that was the image he attempted to project. Even Irina fell silent as she heard the crack in his voice and the weight he carried in his words.

"Lucien! You're up—Oh, am I interrupting something?" a crewman came into Lucas' room, giving them all curious looks and smiling awkwardly at the downcast atmosphere.

All eyes locked on Lucas, whose gaze was intent on Mar's as the other continued to deprive him of his helmet. Finally, he sighed and shook his head scornfully.

"Cut me out of today's show. Or replace me, whatever. I'm not going on tonight," he turned to the three, who beamed joyously, "happy?"

The three of them nodded sincerely, as the crewman made his way out of the room to escape the weighing tension.

The four of them fell silent, not knowing how to approach a topic or each other now that their main concern, Lucas' safety, had been dealt with.

But surprisingly, the ice-breaker came from the tongue that brought it, Ria, herself.

"What...do you mean, when you say that there weren't people who cared about whether you got hurt or not?"

Lucas groaned, an unusual habit as they would come to notice, before glaring lightly at the three of them.

"Don't pretend you haven't heard the story. It was the talk of the town for months when I came here." Lucas stood up, pulling a newspaper clipping from who-knows-where and presenting it in front of their eyes.

It was a piece from the local paper, and quite old too. Around a few years now, if any of them were capable of noting. The headline read, in bright bold letters:

"Illegitimate son of a senator sent away to Tetrasa"

And that was when the realization struck.

"You're...the senator's son?!" Mar exclaimed, eyes still fixed on the paper Lucas had shown them.

"Oh. You guys really didn't know." He said, looking surprised for once. "Yeah. His greatest shame, if you'll have it."

"Your father," Irina inquired, "tossed you here to keep you out of his sight, didn't he?"

Lucas paused, taking in the brutal honesty of Irina's words. Ria was beginning to question whether she just had really bad social skills or she was just intentionally being crass.

Slowly, Lucas nodded, his gaze fixed on the marble floor that seemed to offer all the answers in the world.

"He sent us here to shut down rumors and to..." he breathed sharply, "fade away. Almost like another method of simply deleting us from existence, now that we became inconvenient."

"Is that why you do the stunts? To get him to notice you?" Mar pressed on, losing his cowardice for even a few moments.

"Yeah, that too. But I mostly felt like doing it to get back at him...for trying to make me fade away. I wanted to be here, surrounded by cheering crowds, to remind myself I wasn't disappearing from the Earth, just like how he wants me to."

"But that's stupid," Irina said.

"Are you always this mean? And they say I'm the bad boy." Lucas said, pouting at Irina's choice of words. Turning solemn, he went on. "Yeah, I know. It's stupid and meaningless and horribly dangerous but..."

"But it's all you have?" Ria finished, to Lucas' agreement.

"And what if you get hurt? What if the vision came true and we weren't here to stop it, what if you got into an accident, or worse," Mar breathed deeply, "died?"

"Then you'd be doing him a favor, right? You'd be finishing what he started," Irina continued, causing Lucas to lose his composure for a few minutes as he came to what they were saying.

"Then he'd win. He'd go on with his life, and you'd be a bygone anecdote, a momentary inconvenience left to memories." Ria closed, sealing their words off to strike something deep into Lucas.

It was effective, it seems, considering he was staring off into the distance, pondering their words sagely. Did they hit the mark?

"Haaa. Whatever."

Well, it was worth a shot. The three of them thought collectively.

"But it was nice. Thank you for that," Lucas said, turning away from them all to hide the blush very visible on his ears all the way to his neck.

"He's like a tomato," Mar whispered.

"I can hear you!" Lucas growled, growing further in scarlet. "But yeah. Thank you for worrying about me. It was...nice to feel that for once."

And the three of them shared a soft smile.

"I'm glad..." Irina had managed to say, before fainting completely.

"IRINA!"

Suffocating.

The hospital rooms Irina had made into her home felt suffocating to look at, that was Ria's honest opinion. Here she was now, sitting beside an unconscious Irina after she had to be rushed to the hospital due to her condition.

Mar was outside, handling the brunt of the explanation, having to reason out to Irina's parents why their daughter was out at night, and moreso, downtown. Lucas had to step out of the picture for a moment as well, lest he becomes the unwilling target of a parental interrogation.

"Urgh.. my head hurts.." the figure atop the hospital bed said, shaking awake. Ria lighted up in surprise, ready to rush out and call the nurses to tell the news. "Wait!"

"I'm just going to tell them you're awake," she assured.

"That's what I meant. Don't...do that." Irina replied, trying her best to get up despite how frail she looked. "Please."

Ria could feel an underlying desperation in her voice and moved back to her earlier seat beside Irina.

Much to her surprise, the other gathered their strength quickly, standing up from the hospital bed and dragging Ria outside through a passage in who-knows-where. It was only moments before they found themselves outside, in front of a stream behind the hospital building.

And near the stream was Mar, who seemed to busy himself with preparing a makeshift picnic near a grove, and Lucas, who was surprisingly nimble in his assistance.

"When did they..."

"I texted them earlier." You know what, for once, Ria didn't feel like asking. She herself was exhausted to the bone, and the quiet scenery of the calm stream was compelling enough to quiet her down.

Once they were all seated, they began to chat idly. Almost as though this was the most casual conversation to have. Almost as though it was only last night that they were terrorized by a voice of unknown origin, and haunted by visions of accidents and crashes. Almost as though they were just a couple of high schoolers being friends.

"You wanted to ask me something, right?" Irina said, taking a bite from a sandwich Ria could only assume she wouldn't be allowed to taste in normal circumstances. Was it just her or was Irina more rebellious than she imagined?

"Your condition," Ria began, trying to soften the topic as much as she could, "is it terminal or anything?"

Irina chuckled lightly.

"It's not fatal or anything, so calm down." Irina assured them, "I just grew up so afraid of everything that might hurt me, that could possibly impede my dreams and I guess…"

"You lost track of everything else?"

"Yeah. My disease isn't fatal, but my fear of loss and failure made me feel like it was."

Irina sighed to herself, gaze falling deep into her own thoughts.

"I know downtown because I frequented it before. I would run away there to get a glimpse of a world I knew—or at least, I felt like I knew—I would never experience. Then I buried that knowledge so deep inside myself I could deny it existed to my own subconscious."

"So you mastered lying to yourself?" Mar asked, pressing her further. He had a habit of doing that now.

Irina laughed bitterly. "Haa. Yeah, basically. I mastered fooling myself out of my own curiosity but faking my desires so much I got lost on which lies I told myself."

The four of them fell silent, letting the winds do the talking as they were enveloped by harmony again. Irina stared at the stream quietly, almost as though the waters would provide her the answers to the predicament she sought so desperately.

"in the end, failure wasn't my greatest enemy after all. It was time. All the moments I wasted running away from the world left me bereft of the chance to experience it." the brunette sighed, "I guess, in that sense, I failed still, huh?"

"What was it, then?" Lucas asked, frustration and determination mingling in his voice. What was he up to this time? "What were the things you wanted to experience? The things you think you failed in?"

Irina locked gazes with him, bewildered azure eyes meeting resolute hazels. "…Why?"

Lucas groaned in annoyance, scratching his head in an attempt to possibly hide the creeping blush on his cheeks. "You said time was your enemy, right? Well, you haven't run out of it yet, have you? If you want to experience the world you missed out on…"

The brunette's eyes glimmered as she realized the intent of Lucas' words.

"What are you standing around for? You have us, we'll walk you through it all, together."

"Fear, huh..." Mar whispered lowly, eyes fixated on the ice cream Lucas had treated them all earlier, as part of his mischievous little scheme into getting Irina to experience the outside world.

Although, the whole ordeal didn't come off as easily as any of them hoped, even with the teary-eyed speech the raven-haired bot had given them earlier. Despite his protests, Irina had argued with him tirelessly about "balanced diets" and "unhealthy and improper nutritional habits" among a great many ideals she seemed to have thrown out the window the moment she tasted the sugary delight.

It was nice to see her loosening up more. Mar would think at that moment. It was nice to see them all so comfortable with one another. So free, so devoid of anxieties and worries and...

Fear. It invaded Mar's thoughts again, like a crawling plague that never seemed to be cured no matter how he dealt with it. It was like a leech, attaching itself to his thoughts and his mind until there was nothing left but the constant absence of everything else.

It wasn't surprising for Mar at all, to learn how Irina had begun fearing the world outside of her grasp, of all she wanted to experience—but most of all, the possibility that for all her yearning, she might fail to achieve what she desired. It wasn't surprising at all, considering it was that emotion that drew him to Irina.

For once, he felt a kindred spirit. A fellow individual who struggled with something so deeply ingrained in who they are, the only way to be rid of it was to remove themselves as well.

Because fear, for someone like him, was endless. It felt like a routine to him now, the fear of everything in the world and all it could do to him.

But what drowned out all these fears was a terror he had concocted on his own. The fear of who he was. The fear of what he would become. 

"Feeble. Feeble. Feeble." the voice had called out to him that night. It was a miracle he could keep his composure as it haunted his thoughts amid his graduation speech, yet he stood strong for one of the few moments he had no choice but to do so. And mostly because whatever the voice had told him was nothing new for him to hear.

"Weak. Craven. Wimp. Coward."

These were just a few of the many words Mar had gotten used to hearing from himself, like an echo in his mind that would never end.

And now, Irina had found a way, had found people who were willing to help her overcome the fear she had planted so deep into her character. And it was nice, really. It was fantastic to see someone like her, someone so deserving of all the happiness despite her hurts, finally bloom into what she had dreamed.

But what of people like him? What of people whose fears are buried so far into who they are, the relationship had grown symbiotic with the fear he was meant to revile? What of people who were so trapped in their own horrors that the idea of ever escaping the box they had shut themselves on was impossible? What of people who were made to be too afraid to dream?

"Mar!" Ria frantically shook the shoulder of the smaller man, trying hard to wake him from the daydream that clouded his thoughts.

"Ah..." he shook out of it, finally. Ria sighed in relief. "Apologies, I was in deep thought. Were you asking something?"

"Nothing!" Ria assured, "I was just wondering if you were okay. You've been a little out of it since we left downtown."

"Yeah, you got something going on?" Lucas added crassly, positioning himself on the headrest of the bench Mar had sat on.

From his position, it felt like he was going through a thorough interrogation. Irina had quietly positioned himself beside Mar, eyes still glittering from bliss but curious nonetheless.

"So, what's your deal?"

"Ahh... My life isn't as interesting as you imagine." Mar replied, sweating visibly under the stares of three curious gazes.

"Well, you all insisted on butting in my life, so it's nice to do the same," Lucas argued, pointing the tip of the ice cream cone in mock threat. "Talk."

"B-But..." Mar stuttered, trailing off. He sighed deeply, all manner of thoughts plaguing his mind, but most of all, the hesitation to welcome their unwelcome presence in their thoughts. "I'm..."

"A coward?" Lucas completed, getting impatient. Which of course, earned him a kick on the shin from both Irina and Ria.

"Yeah." Mar agreed, much to everyone's surprise.

Well, if there was a moment, to be honest, he might as well do it now. There'll probably be little chances for it any time soon.

"But unlike you," he faced Irina, "I'm not afraid of the outside world. What I'm afraid of is..."

He gestured to his chest.

"Here. Myself."

The three stared at him, awaiting an explanation Mar was even more hesitant to provide. Was it really okay to tell them this? Or is this too much for a bunch of strangers he only met through a mysterious voice?

"Speak. It might be the only chance you have." the voice had whispered into his head just now, gentle but sincere in its words. Mar felt himself sink into the seat in a growing concern.

Finally, he resigned himself and spoke again, "I'm afraid of becoming something. A person, a concept, an ideal, a character I can't even determine what now. But growing up, I felt so afraid I would become something horrendous."

"Why?"

"Because I feel that way. I feel like some part of me has been inherently afraid of my own dreams and ambitions and of moving further into the world that..."

"You resigned to cower in fear for anything that could make you greater than you are?"

"I'd rather sink lower into failure than feel the fear of being taken so high into the world I can't see the ground anymore. Because then, I would truly feel horrendous."

The four of them exchanged glances, but it was only Irina who had fixed her gaze on Mar's sullen ones, hazel eyes refusing to face them in shame.

"But is that what you want, Mar?" Irina interjected, leaning closer until Mar had no choice but to face her completely. "Are you okay with stagnancy? Do you want to stay in place as the world revolves just because you're afraid of what you could become?"

"Resignment isn't stag—"

"Yes, it is!" Irina argued, this time glaring hard. "How would you ever know that you would become horrendous by trying something new if you never do? Do you simply wanna be stuck in a state of limbo between your fears and your dreams?"

The setting sun painted golden hues over the shocked expression Mar held. He felt himself drawn away for a moment, like a thousand needles pricking his skin had been removed in one fell swoop. For once, the world felt real to him, and not some surrealistic simulation of what he had made it out to be.

"Haa.." Lucas sighed, "What a pain. Hey, Marlon."

"Hm?"

"Wanna go ride on my motorcycle? Consider it the first step into trying something new."

"ABSOLUTELY NOT."

And the four of them erupted in laughter. It was a slow process, but Lucas seemed to be determined—or downright pushy—enough to make it work. Ria could feel something warm fill her chest, at the sight of three people laughing splendidly...and the feeling of being welcome again.

"But do you really deserve to be this happy? Do you really deserve to share their smiles?"

No. No no no no no, not again.

"Can someone like Ria Carter, betrayed and betrayer, really have friends?"

[feifiefofum]

i have never loved star trek as much as i loved the most recent episode of disco

for three, 3!, whole ass seasons, star trek discovery is like, you can’t abandon your morals whenever it’s fucking convenient for you.

and i was all ‘star trek’s really starting to retread some themes here- i’ve graduated from this lesson, next moral fable star trek!’

and the writers for discovery were all ‘really? bet’

and then the most recent episode of discovery came out, slap me in the face with daddy admiral vance, i turned around back to star trek morals for kindergartners because apparently that’s where i belonged.

spoilers under the cut

it’s so fascinating how the writers strung me along. osyraa badass that she is, was so easily hate-able. she took out the disco crew, put a mind control thingamabob on stamets, and was hamming it up as a villain. all monologues, earned confidence, spectacular callousness- the works.

she was working herself to emperor georgiou status, but then she goes to negotiate with the federation.

and y’know, audience members, myself included, no especially, were like, she’s not gonna negotiate in good faith.

and the writers of disco were like- nah, she is.

and i was like, okay, it’s gonna be a bad deal for the federation.

and the writers were like, nah, it’d be everything the federation would want.

and then i was like, oh no, admiral vance is gonna ask for something that osyraa doesn’t want.

and the writers just grinned at me, knowing exactly the thought process my feeble monkey brain would make.

‘oh no, vance is gonna aske for her to relinquish power’

but no, vance does more than that, vance wants to put osyraa on trial.

and i was silently yelling at vance about ‘why are you like this!!?’ and then vance talked about accountability, his people dying for their beliefs and the credibility of the federation.

because that’s what osyraa wanted. she wanted the credibility of the federation, the name is associated with hope, help, and kindness. meanwhile the emerald chain’s a space pirate organization and nobody likes ‘em. but they’re big, they span a large sector of space and they have a monopoly of trade routes or something.

the federation could use their help and i was all but ready to throw in with criminals if they decided to go legit. let bygones be bygones.

not my daddy admiral vance- oh no, he’s holding them accountable if they join the fed, because if they’re not held accountable, then the federation means nothing.

and the writers of discovery were like ‘so, you thought you learned the lesson of never compromising your emotions, huh?’

and at that moment i know i didn’t.

it’s good that star trek is still challenging its viewers like this. they gave us the lesson, twice before within the series and i still failed at the most recent season and i’m humbled.

did anyone else experience this? was anyone else just going ‘omg’ at vance and then post vance speech just going ‘omg’ at themselves?

[reginaldqueribundus]

i’d follow him to hell and back but i wish he’d just stop going there

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Miscellaneous

This Is How Your Beloved Dies (Bob x F!Reader)

Heat (TGM a/b/o anthology)

Toshokan Sensou