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This is hilarious.

It’s always so perplexing when right-wing wackos glom onto things like this show, bands like Rage Against the Machine, characters like Batman, Punisher or Deadpool, stuff like Star Wars or Stark Trek, and be completely obtuse to the fact that all if it is very political, very liberal, entirely progressive in ideology…

…and it’s often a lot of fun to watch these misguided nitwits come to the slow, slack-jawed realization of their mistake…

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enchanted by the way trek paces things. give me 10 solid minutes of a whale talking to a space probe with no subs. we need to see their entire conversation but no we dont its private

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Mad stuff that's 100% canon in the Star Trek universe:

Going past warp 10 turns you into a hyper-evolved Salamander

Special cheese can bring down the highly advanced bio-neural circuitry of an Intrepid-class ship

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across many light years

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across universes

The addition of old DNA in a transporter can reset you physically to whatever age the DNA is from, but with all your memories and experiences intact therefore curing all ills

There's a forcefield surrounding the galaxy and nobody really asks why it's there

Touching it sometimes gives people Q-like powers

There's a Prime Directive not to interfere with pre-warp cultures but everybody does

There's a Temporal Prime Directive not to interfere with the timeline but everybody does

Captain Picard was turned into a Borg for a few days and was never the same again

Captain Janeway, B'Elanna Torres and Tuvok were turned into Borg for a couple of days and where just fine after

Discovery's new captain is probably still waiting on Vulcan

There's a planet in the centre of the galaxy surrounded by a forcefield with a big floating head on it that pretends to be God

The Borg, most deadly dangerous things in the galaxy responsible for enslavement of trillions, could possibly be forever defeated by a single jpeg of a weird shape but they don't do it because sympathy

There's a secret cabal of Starfleet officers that attempted genocide once and it's the only thing that saved the Federation

There's a universe which, when it bleeds into ours, makes everyone uncontrollably sing and dance

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(this story will continue tomorrow.)

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#581 by @unsubscribed

"While the "TOS was never woke" guys are clearly talking out of their asses, I'd argue that Star Trek as a whole is as good as it is because its original creator has been dead for most of its lifetime.

There's no quicker way to ruin a story than a rigid adherence to auteur theory. Collaboration and iteration will always give you a better end result."

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It makes me laugh so much when fans rag on AOS for transwarp beaming, when Next Gen had subspace beaming which was exactly the same, pulled out their asses for one episode ("Bloodlines") and then forever forgotten.

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I have strong opinions about this, and you may too. But if you add notes / comments please remember every one of these series has die hard fans who adore the show.

No room for I liked them all / other movies! Argh, tumblr, please give us just a few more poll options!

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Farewell, I-Chaya

Old unpublished art from 2021

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Favourite TV shows, day 80 of ?

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My theory on the Breen, which will probably be proven wrong by Thursday:

The Breen homeworld has an eccentric orbit around its primary, giving it extremely long, harsh seasons. The Breen have evolved to be able to take two forms, each adapted to a different climatic stage.

The ordinary humanoid stage is adapted to the long summer, which is temperate, while the fluidic/gelatinous form is adapted to the long winter, when the planet Breen is a frozen wasteland. What they're made of I don't know, but it's something that's stable at subzero temperatures and breaks down or evaporates at higher temperatures.

The shift to summer happened only a relatively short time before the 24th century, and it's still summer in the 32nd. This explains the contradictory accounts of planet Breen by outsiders; the tales of the frozen wasteland are out of date.

The winter form is stronger and more resilient than the summer form in the right conditions, but can't survive in normal class-M environments. At some point, the Breen learned to be able to shift between the forms at will, and decided their winter form was superior. They developed their suits to keep themselves cold, just so they can stay in their "superior" form all the time.

Perhaps the ship we saw in "Mirrors" is an environment just for dealing with other species, or perhaps they keep their ships in class-M conditions and stay in their suits all the time out of a cultural imperative.

Eventually, maybe with L'ak's help, they'll learn that neither form is superior, merely adapted to different conditions.

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people who are like "how dare they retcon Spock having a sister" are so weak. have you seen the show? Spock said "one of my ancestors married a human female" and it wasn't until a year later his best friends found out he was talking about his fucking parents, and even then he only reluctantly let it slip because they were in the room

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How do you make people fall in love with you

challenge them to a duel 

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"Hey, what's that mark on your forehead?"

"When I was a baby, my parents cast me in Star Trek"

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experiencing my monthly space dandy derangement