Threshold without context.
Seeing the official Star Trek Twitter post Threshold art made me freak out a little bit, not gonna lie. Lol.
my humble contribution to this Threshold Day
In the morning I shall embark on the most dangerous thing someone can do: a shuttlecraft trip to a symposium.
I will literally read one thousand stories about the same two people misunderstanding each other and then kissing
She was not sure indeed how she recognized it as love at all. It was a kind of mutual haunting.
— Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose
“I think Christopher’s translations are generally adequate. But he made one mistake which is worth describing because it was deliberate and because it illustrates a fundamental difference in outlook between the translator and his author. “Polly Peachum’s Song” tells how Polly behaved to her suitors before she met the right one, Macheath. In each verse, a boat is mentioned. Polly and one of the suitors get into it. In the first two verses, the boat is cast loose from the shore, and Polly adds, “But that was as far as things could go.” In the third and last verse, however, the boat is “tied to the shore,” when she has got into it with Macheath. Christopher found this incomprehensible, because he took it for granted that the proper poetic metaphor for sexual surrender would be the casting loose of the boat. So, quite arbitrarily, disregarding the meaning of the German text, he transposed the lines and had the boat tied up in the first two verses, only to be cast loose in the last verse when Polly is possessed by Macheath. No one protested. The book appeared with Christopher’s version of the poem. It was only when Christopher met Brecht for the first time, in California about six years later, that he had his misunderstanding corrected. Brecht told him mildly, with the unemphatic bluntness which was so characteristic of him: ‘A boat has to be tied up before you can fuck in it’”
— Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind I doubt I will ever read a funnier anecdote than this one.
Jadzia's fit in Past Tense was unreal
i think every trek series should time travel to the trouble with tribbles. for different, increasingly convoluted reasons. they're all running past each other on the enterprise
I would watch major kira: attorney at law
any owl can be a spotted owl if you’re good enough at spotting owls
fucking obsessed with the mirrorverse. love it when ppl get evil.
I start teaching in two weeks and Em starts classes in two weeks like w/e it’s fine but what’s REALLY important is that Halloween is just seven weeks away and we need to get cracking on our Major Kira/Intendant Kira couples costume.
Duality of man is hating the fact the showeunners of ds9 killed jadzia dax for no reason and also loving ezri dax as a character
My friend is filling out applications for scholarships and found this under “hobbies, interests, and passions”.
star trek heritage post (August 2nd, 2013)
If the past is a foreign country, the second half of the 19th century is the landmark you pass that tells you’re almost home, when you start recognizing stores and street signs — the historian mentions a company, and I think “oh I know them, I use their products”; a trend shows up that’s going to be a major shaper of the next century; a name mentioned in passing as an attendee of a famous school will be a giant of the world stage.
