the trekking of the stars

Hailing frequencies closed. :-(

this episode was the second pilot and so they didnt have all the details down yet, but this line is still so funny to me. “one of my ancestors” you mean your dad, spock? your father?? your father, who married your mother???

one of my favorite things about the one with the whales is how no one from the enterprise crew knows what the fuck is going on when they get to the 80′s. most scifi time travel plotlines have one fucker in the group who ~just happens~ to study the particular period of history they travel to. this crew knows nothing. kirk thinks he knows something. He Does Not

Star Trek: tos as tumblrs banned words

As promised, here's some Data/Lore pics, in all their grainy 90s magazine goodness:

2014 dst germany deep space nine panel cringe compilation

its off duty time and you are jean luc picard

No Time To Die was good but it would have been better if Bond was constantly being followed and ridiculed by a giant lizard who wanted to fuck him. Just my opinion.

@sirknightart

Oh it is. I'm saying that the James Bond film No Time To Die would have been better if it was more like the Deep Space 9 episode Our Man Bashir that aired in 1995 and parodies James Bond. The plots are extremely similar but Bashir is constantly tailed by a sarcastic gay lizard man who loves him, making it the superior narrative in my humble opinion.

i like him

this came to me in a dream 

i have to love the direction for worf here

tuvok is a fucking joy and i love him (twitter) (ref) [ID IN ALT]

like look ik i’m not a parent or anything i just think maybe there was a middle ground for julian bashir’s parents between doing nothing while your son struggles in school and illegally genetically resequencing a six year old ?? like, idk, he said he was having trouble telling things apart, maybe he just needed glasses? costco has good deals on glasses. maybe instead of immediately jumping to editing his dna like a sim they should’ve just taken him to space costco ?

I think you may have stumbled onto something here. like I think there reason they did go DNA hopping was because there was no "simple" or "easy" fix like space specs.

what Julian needed from them was work and effort. I say this from experience as I am dyslexic and my mother (bless her) worked with me every single day for YEARS to make sure me and my brother (who is also dyslexic) didn't 'fall behind'.

I feel like they did try all sorts of things to help Julian, I really do, they must have tried things like glasses, meds or therapies and things like that.

But I think they didn't realise that sometimes you just need to (for lack of a better term) do it yourself. they needed to step up in ways they were not prepared to do, that is doing hard work every day for years and you may never ever get the result you WANT OUT OF THEM, and that is a bitter pill for people (and parents) to sallow.

and none of this is even touching on the fact they wanted Julian to be exceptional in someway.

so yeah, the lesson here is that they may have loved Jules but they only saw the problems that came with loving him as he was, so they instead of putting the work on themselves to solve those issues, they put the work back onto Julian.

oh that’s an interesting way of looking at it! definitely agree, and i think it also has to do with something julian said in the episode about how his parents were always jumping from one thing to the other in some way and never taking responsibility. like you said, they weren’t prepared to step up for him and were looking for an “easy fix.” iirc they never explicitly say in the episode what they did to help him before they rewrote his genetic code, but based on how julian characterizes them, they probably did keep going from one treatment to the next without actually giving any of them a real chance. i suppose if you wanted immediate results, then yeah, illegal genetic enhancement would probably give you that.

the part that was really disturbing to me is that, not only do they not seem to care about the immorality of altering a living breathing person that way (especially since he didn’t even understand what was going on), but we also find out later just how risky of a procedure it is.

on top of that, the episode is framed like it wants you to feel bad for them and understand why they had to do what they did. but the reason they did it was because they’re not good parents, and there were other ways, albeit ones that required like… actual effort from them. like in the episode they act like the only way to help him was to edit his literal dna, as if people today, who don’t even have that option, can’t help their kids when they’re struggling ??

i think i lost the point a little but i think you hit the nail on the head, like that’s exactly why the episode sets me off lol

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I think tng should have had one of those super camp scooby-Doo scenes where Geordi and Data are getting chased by an alien so they run into the holodeck, but once the alien gets in there they program it to be a fancy Italian restaurant and pretend to be waiters and for some reason the alien doesn’t recognize them and they sit him down to dinner and put a little bib on him and then serve him like dynamite or something. You know