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Star Trek: Voyager 1x04: “Phage” vs. 2x24 “Tuvix”

She saved two others and everyone on Voyager needed their commander and ambassador back

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

Tuvix discourse is intellectually dishonest.

In “The Schizoid Man” TNG s2, Ira Graves takes over Data’s body. Picard does not hesitate nor question what the proper thing to do is, and Ira Graves himself eventually comes to that decision himself.

In ENT S3 “Similitude” Archer literally has a clone created for the express purpose of saving Trip, whom he needs for his mission. This clone, Sim, is created, raised, and becomes a person and again… the right thing prevails.

With “Tuvix” the writers literally intended Tuvix to do that right thing. At the last moment though, someone suggested “what if Tuvix was a selfish little shit and put himself before those other two people?” and they went with it just for a lark! Just for whatever.

And as a result Kathryn Janeway has been besmirched as a murderer for 25 years. For doing what Picard would do, for what Archer would do. For what Tuvix would have agreed to but for the whims of a bored writer who didn’t care about assassinating the woman Captain’s character.

Fuck Tuvix.

(Yeah Ik data and seven aren't really SO but functionnally they kinda are)

I'm genuinely curious! I personally don't because it's fun learning things second hand, and if something annoys me too much I just unfollow them.

reblog with your answers in the tags!! maybe an explanation too if you feel like it

I basically never do this, but please reblog- I want it to get outside my sphere of DS9ers

Cursed Enterprise headcanon (maybe AU) cause my favourite series is now Enterprise and they're the closest to the 21st century so I can make millenial headcanons for them and it'd still be considered canon:

what a day to find out that they put Spock-inspired art on my hometown's planetarium

it looks like this btw

threshold is really the funniest star trek episode of all time because i remember going into it the first time i watched it being warned "oh this is one of those silly episodes everyone hates" and i was like WHY because for the first 3/4 it's just like a pretty well-done homage to The Fly but then suddenly it becomes the most bizarre thing you've ever seen. like cronenberg could not conceive of the madness of those wet salamander puppets writhing around on the soundstage and how we're meant to just accept that as the big climactic moment of the story. 10/10 no notes

LGBTQ+ TV-SHOWS UPDATE 🌈

Last month I explained how my friend needs feedback for his website Lingopie where you can learn a language watching movies and tv-shows with dual subtitles and effective tools to progress super, super quick! Here is how it works by the way:

I did a poll asking if people would be interested in them obtaining licensing for LGBTQ+ tv-shows and movies…but the problem was that they have limited funds…

98% or so of you were in favor of them adding LGBTQ shows to their learning platform. I passed on all your replies and he was thrilled to see so many of you willing to help. He's been working hard these past couple weeks on adding LGBTQ+ tv-shows in a variety of languages so I am excited to announce you can now learn the following languages in gay!

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Video streaming takes a lot of data, so usually there is no free trial but as a thank you, he wants to invite you to test Lingopie 7-days for free and get a big discount when you sign up! This offer is only available for a limited time.

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Reblogging because this app actually works really really good for my adhd brain and gives me context to associate the words with. Love the flashcard feature too where they show you the tv-fragments in which the words you are learning are said. I highly recommend lingopie if you've had trouble learning languages before because this is awesome!!

the best thing to come out of the tma fandom was deciding that two of the major villains were in a constant cycle of getting married and divorced. we should bring that energy more often tbh

@girlonthelasttrain a tearful reunion wherein she presents him with divorce papers and he’s like “yes, of course i’ll divorce you my beloved :’)” while everyone looks on in confusion

mr spock you know well enough that I am always doing that

with the number of people who have stated that they're going to pirate the Harry Potter: Blood Libel videogame, I would like to remind you all that the first step to allyship involves the Not a Twat metric.

What is the Not a Twat metric, I hear you ask? Simple! It's not doing something, because even the workarounds are still propagating harm, and you're not a twat.

For example: a big issue with the new Harry Potter game is the outright antisemitism in the form of fantasy blood libel. Whilst I have no lived experience of antisemitism nor am I Jewish, Jewish people have repeatedly pointed out the blatant antisemitism in this game.

Because I'm not a twat, I wouldn't then go and pirate the game.

Illegal traffic is still traffic, and to play the game is to still give antisemitism validation, something I don't want to do because, again, I'm not a twat.

There's no moral superiority to be found in validating harm to others, no matter how you do it. It really is that simple.

there’s definitely a problem within fan spaces of white fans taking bits of characterization that confirms their biases against a character of colour and treating it as the be all end all of that character while ignoring anything in canon that contradicts that. white characters can be complex and nuanced but god forbid you see characters of colour as anything other than a stereotype

talking about star trek specifically you see this so much with how people treat sisko as more violent and cruel than, say, picard when he’s genuinely a very kind and caring person. or harry as the bumbling naive baby of the voyager crew when he’s actually exceptionally competent both professionally and socially. or b’elanna and chakotay as the fiery latina/noble savage who need a white person to tame them. it’s just so pervasive and so awful

voyager straight up should’ve just given us freaky friday but with harry and janeway

the episode starts out with harry complaining to tom and b’elanna that he doesn’t think the captain appreciates everything he does for voyager and them encouraging him to talk to her about it. later on harry finds himself in the turbolift with janeway and tries to bring it up but of course space shenanigans ensue and they get zapped into each others bodies.

the rest of the episode is janeway running herself ragged trying to keep voyager together at operations + acting as b’elanna’s second in engineering + keeping tom entertained so he doesn’t start chewing the furniture + whatever other random projects harry’s got going. meanwhile harry’s sitting in the captain’s chair solving every problem by either trying to martyr himself or threatening to blow up the ship and doing such a good job of it that barely anyone notices he’s not janeway. the only one who does is tuvok, who proceeds to mess with him by making up shit about his and janeway’s time together pre-voyager. of course chakotay also corners harry-as-janeway in the ready room and gives a whole speech about how he’s tired of keeping their relationship a secret that harry has to fake a bout of food poisoning to get out of.

the episode ends with the two of them swapping back after gaining a better understanding of each other and a little too much knowledge about the others personal life. harry’s like “damn this captain shit is stressful i understand why you let things fall through the cracks” and janeway’s like “tbh i was also afraid to promote you because i was scared you’d turn out exactly like me and i hated the thought of doing that to my sweet baby boy but i see that’s already happening so fuck it, congrats lieutenant”