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bitch you gotta say Chakotay or she won’t know what you’re talking about
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Fencing, Scottish style
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I laugh every time I see this.
imaginegeorgeskirk
Sulu VS. Scotty
Reblogging because of Sulu vs. Scotty comment
startrekconversations
Data: I have no emotions. I feel nothing, especially not joy. I have never felt the mind-numbing joy everyone else feels. I have never once laughed or smiled in my life. Joy is just a concept to me, something that never existed for myself. My emotions were removed long before I could feel them. I am only–
someone: *accidentally runs face first into a wall*
Data: *laughs for 5 minutes straight*
i had my friend maija guess the names of DS9 characters since she's never seen the show, and here are my favorites:
how did she get julian's so accurate
How to deal with authority figures at work
By Doctor Julian Bashir
Something to keep in mind when writing Julian.
This^^^ and then also… “I’d like this order in writing please, sir.”
Greg Abbot is a fucking monster and I hope he suffers just a tenth of the pain he has inflicted on human beings who are just looking for a better life. Fuck Greg Abbot and everyone who supports him.
On the topic of English people being shitheads towards Welsh people - This fucking dude today on AITA
Yeah pretty sure we're all hoping for a divorce on this one lol
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how did this fucker say it's "not as bad as it sounds" and then somehow end up being even worse than it sounds by the fourth sentence
Further updates, I couldn't resist looking this one up.
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Character development.
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I can't believe the thing that finally made Garak crack and openly acknowledge he was a spy is Bashir's holo-fantasy.
He spent all that time denying being in the Obsidian Order despite being it obvious he was but the moment Julian wants to cosplay James Bond he drops all pretense.
It’s like a ‘real life’ version of getting the right answer from the internet, not by asking your question, but by confidently stating the answer wrong and watching indignant experts from across the world scramble to correct you.
Section 31 is the worst thing that Deep Space Nine added to canon, but somehow the only thing that subsequent series have had any interest in developing.
I’ve said once and I’ll say it again, if I were given the keys to the franchise and be told to make my own Star Trek show it would be about how Section 31 gets abolished within the federation.
The most unrealistic part of Star Trek Deep Space Nine is the idea that root beer is exceedingly popular. Root beer is gross and a hyper-advanced humanity isn't going to embarrass themselves by drinking that in front of the aliens
I think the only person on DS9 who actually enjoys root beer is Jake Sisko, and Nog and Quark just think it's a popular human drink because of him. Most of the other humans on the station have probably never even tried it.
"Average human drinks root beer all the time" factoid actually just statistical error. Average human drinks 0 root beer per year. Root Beers Georg, who lives in the Jefferies Tubes & drinks over 10,000 root beers each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
root beer is so good SHUT UP
TNG S5E5 "Disaster":
Keiko: I'm going into labor!
Worf, in an instant, blind, heart-pounding panic: You CANNOT. D:<
People's common responses to Data:
- "He's a machine, he doesn't have Feelings like us."
- "He is my only friend in this whole cruel, uncaring world."
- "He's so sweet and innocent. I must teach him about being human."
- "He's so sweet and innocent. I must make him Evil."
- "He's so sweet and innocent. I must fuck him."
DS9 ep. 1: "Trauma traps you in the past, denying you the true nature and joy of your existence in the present."
DS9 ep. 2: "This local tailor wants to bang the CMO so so so so bad."
DS9 ep 3: "This local cop and career criminal want to bang each other so so so so bad."
Rewatching DS9 again and I am just so interested at how an average Bajoran would view Kira by the end of the series. How an average Cardassian would? We know that a lot of what she does is known to the Bajoran people. Shakaar mentions Furel and Lupaza bragging about her whenever they get news of the station. But lets actually take a look at this:
- She is the highest ranking Bajoran on DS9 outranked only by the Emissary
- Most times Sisko did anything in the capacity as the Emissary, Kira was one step behind and to the right
- She was with Kai Opaka, the most widely loved and respected Bajoran, when she made her journey through the Celestial Temple and “answered the call of the prophets”
- She was highly respected (and loved) by Vedek Bareil who was hugely popular on Bajor (he could very well have been Kai if he hadn’t taken the blame for Kai Opaka’s actions during the Occupation)
- She and Kai Winn had a well known feud and after Kai Winn’s fall from grace at the end of the show, Kira must come out pretty great to everyone else
- She is the one who found and saved the great Bajoran hero, Li Nalas, from a Cardassian work camp and then within a week saved Bajor from a civil war that had been encouraged by Cardassians.
- Between her saving Li Nalas and his fellow prisoners AND finding the Ravinok and saving the Bajorans (and Cardassians and Ziyal) from the Breen mines, was she the person Bajorans turned to when searching for their lost love ones? Was she a symbol to those who kept looking for their loved ones because Kira Nerys found those thought to be lost?
- She prevented ANOTHER Bajoran Civil War and helped elect Shakaar as the First Minister of Bajor. Again being associated with a widely loved and respected member of Bajoran society.
- Kira was in charge of DS9 during Dominion Occupation and started up the station’s resistance cell
- She was permitted to use the Orb of Time, one of Bajor’s most sacred objects
- She was the chosen by a Prophet to be their vessel during the Reckoning with the Pah-Wraith…and the KAI was on the same station. But it was KIRA who was chosen
- She plays chicken with a Romulan fleet…and wins!
- She was a key figure in the Dominion War. She started as a resistance fighter who was assigned to a falling apart, unimportant old Cardassain station and becomes the Colonel of the single most important port in the Alpha Quadrant. She is the right hand of the Emissary. She is widely respected by many beloved figures in Bajoran society.
- And this list is just the most public things that have happened to her. This doesn’t even take into account any of the stories about her that involve her dealing with whatever BS the Star Trek universe decides to throw at the characters that week. Klingons beam in and fight? Gets stabbed and keeps fighting. Emissary is transported to 2024? Kira is on the team that pulls him out.
- By the end of season seven, do politicians on Bajor hold their breath or breathe a sigh of relief if Kira gets involved? Do Vedeks seek her out to ask her about being possessed by a prophet? About her experiences with the Orbs? About Kai Opaka’s last words? Do families still grieving those missing from the Occupation petition her to look for the lost?
And how about the Cardassians?
- The Cardassian government would probably never publicly admit to any time she foiled their plans, but Tekeny Ghemor tells her that she has her own section in the Cardassian Central Archives and is a public figure on Cardassia
- Would the Cardassians in the Breen mine whisper their thanks among their family that Kira Nerys found them?
- Tekeny Ghemor, someone who was respected enough to be considered as the face for the Cardassian resistance against the Dominion controlled Cardassian puppet government, publicly considered her his daughter/family by asking her to participate in the Shri-tal ritual and give her all of his secrets prior to his death (something highly valued in Cardassian society)
- She was a part of Damar’s resistance. She helped them fight the Dominion and was with Damar when he died for Cardassia. In the story of how Damar was martyred for Cardassia’s freedom from the Dominion, Kira Nerys, a Bajoran, is heavily featured.
- In all Bajoran/Cardassian relations, do Cardassians seek to involve Kira as a woman of her word who will treat in good faith or do they cross their fingers and hope she is nowhere near their business?
Can you tell I think about Kira Nerys a lot?
