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“I wanna be Captain Janeway when I grow up!”

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who is you guyses favourite one-off trek character. one episode darling. asking for a friend

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There’s a certain point on Voyager where everyone is just used to being bored. They’re just bored, most of the time. Most people pick up a hobby or two or nine, romantic escapades get complicated and messy, drama and gossip run amok, but that’s not what everyone wants. Not even what most people want. Most people just want some basic entertainment, something stimulating and interesting.

Eventually, while doing research into the ship’s database, Neelix comes upon his saving grace. Something that’s generally considered fun. An old Earth game, one that was often done over a breakfast meal, or sometimes even turned into a competition on how quickly you get could it done.

Neelix starts adding crosswords to his broadcasts.

It explodes. He’s just pulling old puzzles from whatever he could find, but people love it. They give a lot of folks a sense of home, and especially because he can access some Federation ones, they have alien answers in there too. It gives everyone something to do, and soon enough, he’s having physical PADDs out at mealtimes with the daily crossword.

Tom ends up setting up a ranking system. People can submit their times and scores and keep track of who dominates at the crosswords. It’s all voluntary, the names aren’t auto submitted, but it’s fun. People are entertained. Janeway allows the friendly competition and smiles into her coffee every morning as she does her own.

As he does more research, though, Neelix realizes crosswords tended to have cultural relevance, and often went up in difficulty as the week went on. Monday through Sunday, each day would get progressively harder. He tried to make some himself, of course, but puzzle making was hard, and he just didn’t have the structural ability for it.

Only natural for him to approach the one man he knows to be good at puzzles. With Janeway’s help, of course.

Begrudgingly, Tuvok agrees to attempt to make crossword puzzles for the crew, as long as he is not connected to them. He doesn’t submit his own name for the scoreboard, so there’s no risk of him being found out like that, but he’d rather not be approached and asked about answers. Neelix swears a vow of secrecy, Janeway teases him some, but they promise to not tell.

The relevant crossword puzzles become slowly introduced as Tuvok gets his bearings, and eventually, they stop relying on old puzzles altogether. The crew adores them. The Sunday puzzles eventually become partial scavenger hunts, looking through that week’s reports, trying to recall what sorts of play on words that means, looking at languages not spoken on board, even having to scrounge around for old literature at times. The feedback given is what keeps the ante ramping, and it just makes everyone more excited.

It gives people something to look forward to.

Despite begging, Neelix does keep his secret. Zips his lips with a coy smile every time someone asks who made the puzzle, and that becomes gossip in it of itself. Who makes these? Is someone on board secretly a puzzle whiz? Some people even approach Neelix asking to try their hand at making the crosswords, but most of them aren’t skilled enough yet. It would be best to collaborate.

It takes time. A lot of time, actually. A ridiculous amount of time. But, eventually, with the combined force of nature that Neelix is and pressure from an old friend, Tuvok takes credit for his work.

He takes on a couple apprentices, and teaches them how to make the crosswords. Gradually, him and two or so other members on board make the daily puzzles. Tuvok still does almost every Sunday, purely for the sheer level of brain power needed, but they help. They collaborate. They work together.

When Neelix leaves the ship, they continue their crosswords. The Sunday after he left, he was a clue on the board.

Across. Six letters. “A good person; a dear friend.”

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Captain Janeway narrates the journey of the Voyager 1 spacecraft in Elio (better with headphones)

I about fucking cried and it's only a minute in. Don't come at me with your bullshit takes on this absolute beauty of a movie. And please go see it in theaters. It deserves to be viewed and loved.

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Klingons are a diaspora. They're an empire that span multiple planets with multiple environments. Their history is long and full of expansion and conquest- which inevitably creates cultural differences.

Included in their history are plagues and genetic and surgical manipulation that created physical differences.

That's how this guy is Klingon

And this guy is Klingon

And this guy is klingon

And this babe is also Klingon

Klingon identity as a diaspora is kind of the whole point of the story of the Klingons. What does it mean to be Klingon?

The rallying cry of the Klingon armies during the war with the Federation is "Remain Klingon".

What does that mean? Do they even know?

Is Klingon a racial or cultural identity?

Those are questions B'elanna Torres and Alexander Rozhenko are asking themselves all the time.

Can you convert to Klingon?

Curzon Dax and the alternate timeline "Sons of Mogh" seem to indicate you potentially can.

The planet of integrated Romulan and Klingons managing to strike a balance between both cultures was such a shock to Worf because hate and mistrust for Romulans had been such an integral part of his concept of Klingon identity that it made him ask new questions about himself.

If hating Romulans is not essential to Klingon identity, then what is Klingon identity?

Worf being biologically Klingon and culturally Jewish, I think, was meant to drive home the point that, like the Jewish people, Klingons are a diaspora and not a monlith.

And arguing about which Klingons are "real" ones is kind of funny because it's replicating the same debates the Klingons are having amongst themselves without even realizing it.

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Watching Voyager

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The only valid video game dancing animations are "sort of waving the character model around like a kid making an action figure dance" and "meticulously referenced from life, of someone who sucks at dancing".

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bringing my portable soldering iron to the function to attract the hoes

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hey kinda messed up that 1st degree burn is the mildest burn but 1st degree murder is the worst murder. they should have collaborated more on that one.

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Kid today (probably like 6 years) came up to me and was like "teacher teacher what's your name" and i was like "asha :) also im not a teacher" and he was like "okay asha asha asha I need help" and i was like "okay buddy what's wrong" and he showed me this chunk of metal he'd found sitting in the sun that he was just carrying around and it was super sharp and super hot from the sun and he was like "my hand hurts :(" and i was like "ok. put that down. does it still hurt?" And he did and was like "no." and then he picked it up again and immediately went "my hand hurts :(" again and then I was like "kid. put that down and stop touching it" and he was like "ok but when I touch it my hand hurts :(" and i was like "Please Just Stop Touching That. If you dont touch it your hand won't hurt" and this went on for like another 2 minutes before i got him to realize that if he stopped touching the metal it would not hurt. Kids are so fucking weird man

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Feels like Tumblr is the right audience for this one

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learning that ofc means ‘of fucking course’ is such bullshit. she’s ‘ofcourse’ to me

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Steve Harvey is the only host of anything that I can appreciate

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Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

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People always get so weird about my participation in the Flat Earth Advocacy Group. For the last time, we aren't cranks, we aren't conspiracy theorists, we're definitely not geocentrists, and our policy think tank is fully aware of what shape the planet currently is

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this is one of my fav tweets of all time and i think of it everytime i listen 2 the song

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1. Star Trek

2. Dnd

3. Ball python care (in my experience)

4. Speculative biology or aliens or dragons

5. Musical instrument repair and playing

I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.