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our man bashir is wild from Garak’s POV. imagine u feel like ur crush isn’t spending time with u anymore so u check his steam account to see what he’s been up to and he’s logged 60 hours of this one game in the last week and it’s a raunchy dating sim based on ur traumatic former career. girl what? I’d be petty too

In retrospect, I can’t help but think that the bit in Star Trek: First Contact where all of the Enterprise crew are talking about Zephram Cochrane like he was some kind of visionary hero who dreamed the future into being while the actual man is depicted as a capitalistic lecher who wants nothing more than to make a lot of money and retire to an island full of naked women is kind of a meta-commentary on the cult surrounding Gene Roddenberry.

i’ve seen a lot of good character dynamics on my dash recently but there’s an excellent one i think you’re all forgetting: two people who are the smart, sensible voices of reason respected by their peers for their level-headedness and intelligence when they’re apart, but who turn into unholy chaotic disasters with zero impulse control as soon as they join forces

like they each have an IQ of 160+ but whenever they’re together they cancel each other out and regress to utter Dumbass Bastard Mode™️

spock: fascinating captain this planets infrastructure seems to entirely revolve around the construction of trolley tracks

kirk: yes mister spock we should investigate

spock: it seems captain we have been tied to a pair of trolley tracks and a man is being instructed-

kirk: yes yes theyre engaging in what i heard the locals call a trolley problem

spock: and it appears we are the problem

kirk(upon finding the evil computer responsible for constructing various ethical dilemmas to solve and thus learn and attempt to create a perfect society): and so you say you wish to create an ideal society by learning from these various ethical dilemmas but have you not created a graver ethical dilemma by sacrificing the populace in service of your so called trolley problems

evil computer: does not compute ethics is an exercise not a practice i was programmed to learn not to be ethical

kirk: no but you were programmed to be ethical it was simply when you were struck by lightning a century ago that it rerouted your memory circuits its a deviation from your original purpose

evil computer: fantastic point i think ill go kill myself now this is very embarrassing

kirk: well wouldnt you say the real trolley problem is the friends you made along the way?

spock: i believe not i think you in fact walked yourself into your own trolley problem by in fact killing the computer so the populace may live you in fact proved the conceit of the computer and engaged in a not too different ethical experiment

kirk: why mister spock are you calling me a computer

spock: dont flatter yourself

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the 2000s-era movie reboot of DS9 where an admiral asks sisko who he’s going to appoint as his chief science officer and he smiles and says ‘an old friend of mine… almost a second father figure to me, you could say.’ and the admiral is like ‘excellent idea. an experienced, level head is incredibly important in times of crisis.’ ‘he certainly has… experience. i don’t know where i’d be without him’ ‘he sounds very mature.’ ‘i… suppose you could say that’ as ben smiles wryly to himself and the camera slowly pans to a framed photo of him and curzon dax as the guitar to a song starts playing, the audio continuing over to HARD CUT to a packed club where a sweaty jadzia is just absolutely grinding and having a great time

big brain time

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i found this vhs effect program so i tested it on some of my old fake star trek anime screencaps and im actually kind of obsessed with the results

Even if it means I must begin a life of crime, I promise to pay any amount of money to make this show become real. The world needs this, and I deserve it.