filed under scenes that make me go a little nuts. sometimes all it takes is your best friend softly saying your name to make you back down from going hms bounty on your acting captain
literally the tom/harry dynamic
All Star Trek fans need to get angry over what’s happening to Prodigy.
Canceling it is whatever. That happens. But if they’re willing to remove Prodigy they can pull any other Trek show.
Edit: Prodigy doesn’t have a large online presence but by Paramount+‘s own metrics it’s one of their most watched shows and is incredibly popular with kids. It’s also been critically well-received and scored an Emmy nomination for best animated series. This isn’t a case of streaming service clearing out an under performing show.
It’s coming off Paramount+ reportedly ‘in a matter of days’ and they’re looking for a new home for it but currently only the first 10 episodes of season 1 are available to buy on either physical media or digital storefronts like Amazon and iTunes.
Don’t get comfortable just because Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds have a visible online presence; this is bad for all of us
The arc of the first episode with the Gorn was Kirk realizing they're not evil space monsters but an intelligent spacefaring race acting reasonably to a intrusion into their territory, and anyway fifty-five years later they ran with "no, the Gorn ARE irredeemably evil space monsters actually"
Anyway someone on Twitter said there was a interview with the showrunner of SNW where he says "The Gorn are monsters, they're not analogs for anything" and that's why they're interesting and I Regret To Inform you it's real
"That's a view of the universe that shouldn't be discarded". But. It is discarded. The entire point of "Arena" is that it's a wrong view of the universe that should be discarded. This is literally the moral of the episode. It is told to you directly. The entire point of the episode is that Kirk overcomes his xenophobia and refuses to kill the Gorn and The Guy In Charge of Star Trek missed that so hard he became "obsessed" with how the Gorn could be pure evil
Absolute peak "No Meaning, Only Lore"
I've seen people say he means on a "character" level, that everyone sees the Gorn as evil but. Setting aside how Starfleet shouldn't even know what the Gorn are in SNW, how on earth does making them knock-off xenomorphs set up a ending where they're shown mercy. It's not like there's just "rumors" of them being evil that can be shown to be false. They're now canonically slavers who lay their eggs in other people's bodies since, well, they're knock-off xenomorphs
You know, I bet the Ferengi have someone like Ea-Nasir and he's like. a saint or something
By the Prophets this can't be happening
do NOT shift into the star trek universe . jean-luc picard is extremely homophobic
op is a poser. I've shifted into st universe at least a dozen times and picard has the trans flag tattooed on his flat french ass
One aspect I particularly enjoy in Star Trek: Voyager is Captain Janeway and her small moments of bonding and tenderness with members of her crew. I find it moving because she is supposed to be a larger-than-life leader and role model - but she is very much human, and despite wanting to keep distance from her crew in the beginning, in these moments she can’t help but to be kind. I find it to be a great character balance since often times in the show she has to make incredibly hard and cold decisions in order to survive. One particular moment always comes to mind when I think about this, and funny enough, it’s a scene we never see in the series.
the aesthetic romanticism of this episode. the deep love for discovery. the decolonization allegory which is not so much a 1-to-1 allegory, so to speak, because sisko proving that ancient bajorans had not only the technology but the sheer Wonder and Curiosity to venture into space is a metaphor for speaking against any number of white supremacist "histories" deriving from imperialistic paradigms since the age of colonization---
to provide the counter-colonization narrative with a space-ship that sails on the impulse of photons (a very real and possible engineering for space-flight--like NASA is building ships like that) is wonderful. this story about the ancient people who thought to travel to space and push their spacecraft through space off the force of light, and then sisko proving to everyone not only its possibility but its historical fact, was sweet and interesting and full of feeling.
it's all as if to say: to engage whole-heartedly with an episteme of decolonization is to engage whole-heartedly with an episteme of curiosity and discovery and love for What Is.
"Explorers" is one of my favorite DS9 episodes, for the reasons op describes. OP, i hope you don't mind if i add on some more of the things i adore about this ep!
First off, I just love when Sisko's artistic passion is showcased.
- I admire Commander/Captain Sisko, but chef Sisko, craftsman Sisko, literature-and-history lover Sisko truly has my heart. He takes so much pride in his work, and he is truly skilled!
- In this ep (and various others), he uses his passion for history and crafting to connect with the Bajoran people, learn about and uplift some of their history. Just look at these gifs, at the excitement and (to use OP's word) wonder!
- Jake — and, we'll see, many others — is skeptical that the ancient Bajorans were capable of doing what their legends say they did.
- But Benjamin believes — because of that sense of wonder, and also because his identity as a Black man, and depth of knowledge of his own people's history. Sisko understands that oppressive powers depend upon the erasure of their targets' history — most of the rest of this post will explore that further.
Really quick though, I do want to highlight how this episode cultivates Benjamin's and Jake's father-son relationship, which is itself one of the best elements of DS9.
- I won't spend too long gushing about it because I've done that plenty in previous posts (like this one and this one), but ohhh my goodness, the way Benjamin is always so emotionally open and honest with his son!! The way he encourages his interests and nudges him to engage in the wider world!! I crie!!
- According to the fan wiki for this episode, Miles O'Brien was originally going to be the one to join Benjamin in his solar sailing, but the producers decided the season needed a father-and-son centric episode, and I'm so glad they did.
Moving on: i think it's fitting that this episode is the debut of Sisko's goatee — a key symbol of Sisko's representation of "unrepentant Black manhood."
- Avery Brooks fought for facial hair from the start, but a head of hair + clean-shaven face was literally in his contract. Why? While one excuse involved a previous acting role Brooks had, Paramount's president, Kerry McCluggage, admitted that they didn't want Sisko to look too "street" — a bald and bearded Black man would just be too "threatening" to white viewers ://
- It took all the way till episode 22 of the third season for producers to give in — and what a difference it makes in how Brooks carries himself as Sisko! As this episode explores decolonization, this assertion of Black power that refuses to bow to white comfort is significant.
As he embarks on his quest to prove the ancient Bajorans could have sailed across space and all the way to Cardassia, Sisko wears civilian clothes inspired by his African ancestry (if anyone has info about the specific African culture/s this outfit's patterns draw from, please let me know!). This is an earlier example of Brooks getting the show to let him incorporate African imagery into Sisko's clothes (and quarters).
- I see a parallel between Bajorans' pride in their history — how they uplift their ancestors' skill and technical advancements in the face of colonizers who deny it — and Black pride in the face of similar erasure of Africa's long history of wealth, scholarship, and scientific advancement.
- Others have explored better than I can (as a white person) how Sisko's Blackness is vital to his ability to connect to Bajorans: he knows what it is to belong to a people that's been subjugated and stripped of resources, denied autonomy and respect; to grapple with the consequences of Empire long after "official" occupation is over...
- Of course, within the fiction of Star Trek, we are meant to believe that humanity has deconstructed white supremacy and antiblackness by this point — that the Sisko family lives free of those evils — yet Sisko never forgets what his ancestors endured (and what DS9's Black viewers still endure).
- As Angelica Jade Bastién puts it, Sisko (and particularly his relationship with Jake) provides "a window into the future of black identity that never forgets the trials of our past or the complexity of our humanity."
- To me, this identity is what enables him to serve Bajor as their Emissary, to help guide this people so newly free of their oppressors into a future where they are truly free, yet honor what their ancestors went through to get them there.
[Gonna put the rest of this under a readmore cuz it's so long oops]
evrybody hate me and want me dead. except for god he said faggot! you will live forever
Strange Women in Bodies of Water No Longer Distibuting Swords; Have Now Started Dispensing Dildos For Better Governance
somebody tell kirk they found his rock
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#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
After all, comedy is timing.
Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist
And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?
listen to me. LISTEN to me. b’elanna is not a girlboss. just because she’s good at engineering doesn’t mean she’s not a flop girlfailure in every other aspect of her life. put her in a social situation and she’ll biff it immediately. she’s weird and off-putting. she’s the queen of untreated anxiety manifesting as anger and self-isolating behaviour. the fact that she’s best friends with harry (who is a heat-seeking missile for friendless weirdos) should tell you everything you need to know