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Captain Sisko's mother-effin' pimp hand

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A very old eccentric live-blogs Star Trek, Firefly, Game of Thrones and Batlestar Galactica.

holy shit

this was so huge. the alien he’s arguing with uses standard pro-life arguments that you still hear today. he literally talks about all life being sacred (even though his plan to deal with overpopulation is to kill people with meningitis). and this aired only 4 years after contraception was legalized in the united states. in context this is actually even more pro-contraception than it appears in these caps. 

William T. Riker’s command, the U.S.S. Titan, as seen in Star Trek: Lower Decks. First mentioned in Star Trek: Nemesis, the Titan became a spinoff series of Star Trek Novels, where this design debut. From Memory Beta:

When Pocket Books launched the Star Trek: Titan book series, they held a competition to design the new Luna class. The winning design by Sean Tourangeau was announced on October 6, 2005. Tourangeau then worked with artist Ellery O'Connell to develop a 3D model of the Titan, which debuted on the cover of the fourth Titan novel, Sword of Damocles.

I’d say they stayed pretty faithful to the model:

Here’s the design they submitted, which iirc was a fold out insert:

Finally, a good reason to post something from LD

Next gen missed the opportunity to do an ep where the universal translator breaks and like all the expected things happen Picard is speaking French maybe worf is speaking russian but then Beverly shows up and has the strongest Scottish accent you’ve ever heard