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ok anson mount is really fumbling the bag with the vulcan thing, but it's also extremely funny so i'll allow it

listen. an "everyone gets turned into a vulcan" episode should be super fun but it should also consist of the human cast being completely unequipped for vulcan emotions and having to ineptly hide being super unhinged the whole time

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pike's vulcan hair is so funny i will forgive almost anything though

listen. an "everyone gets turned into a vulcan" episode should be super fun but it should also consist of the human cast being completely unequipped for vulcan emotions and having to ineptly hide being super unhinged the whole time

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listen. an "everyone gets turned into a vulcan" episode should be super fun but it should also consist of the human cast being completely unequipped for vulcan emotions and having to ineptly hide being super unhinged the whole time

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Andor is so good I regularly forget it's star wars.

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I saw this on Facebook and had to look it up. It really happened, albeit the details are different. From Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story:

"On the evening of MD-46, I finally played the trick that had been in work for over two month," said Garriott. "It even had the flight controllers puzzled for twenty-five years! My objective was to pretend that my wife, Helen, had come up to Skylab to bring us a hot meal, even though this was an obvious impossibility. Here is how the scheme worked. I recorded her voice on my small hand-held tape recorder before flight, pretending to have a brief conversation with a Capcom, with time gaps for his replies. The Capcom would be my only accomplice, but his role would be carefully disguised.

It was also necessary to have some recent event mentioned to validate the currency of the dialogue, so it would seem it could not have been recorded before fight. The short dialogue is printed below in its entirety. I knew that both Bob Crippen and Karl Henize were going to be Capcoms for Skylab, so they were brought into the planning, given the script and rehearsed on their timing. They kept the short script on a piece of paper in their billfolds, awaiting the right moment.

"For our flight in August-September, there would be many occasions of natural disasters involving forest fires or hurricanes, which would be widely known throughout the United States. So a few comments about one or the other were made on the tape. This led to four different scripts being recorded, one for each of the two Capcoms and one each for the two natural events. I would play the tape on the normal air-to-ground voice link with my wife's recorded voice and the Capcom would respond as if totally surprised by the female interloper."

Near the end of one period of voice contact Garriott said to the ground, "I'll have something for you on the next pass, Bob." Crippen replied, "Roger that, Owen." Then quietly and surreptitiously, he reviewed the brief script that had been in his pocket for all these weeks. Soon after coming into voice range, the ground heard this voice on the standard air-to-ground link:

Skylab (a female voice): "Gad, I don't see how the boys manage to get rid of the feedback berween these speakers.... Hello Houston, how are you reading me down there? (s sec. pause) Hello Houston, are you reading Skylab?"

Capcom: "Skylab, this is Houston. We heard you alright, but had difficulty recognizing your voice. Who do we have on the line up there?"

Skylab: "Hello Houston. Roger. Well I haven't talked with you for a while. Isn't that you down there, Bob? This is Helen, here in Skylab. The boys hadn't had a good home cooked meal in so long, I thought I'd bring one up. Over"

Capcom: "Roger, Skylab. Someone's gotta be pulling my leg, Helen. Where are you?"

Skylab: "Right here in Skylab, Bob. Just a few orbits ago we were looking down on those forest fires in California. The smoke sure covers a lot of territory, and, oh boy, the sunrises are just beautiful! Oh oh..... See you later, Bob. I hear the boys coming up here and I'm not supposed to be on the radio."

"Then quiet returned to the voice link, but we were told later, Bob Crippen had lots of questions coming his way in the Control Center," Garriott said. "What was going on? Where was this voice coming from? Bob must have been a very good actor, because he claimed complete ignorance and innocence of how it happened. Everyone heard it coming down on the air-to-ground loop. The whole two-way conversation sounded like a perfectly normal dialogue. No breaks or gaps, and they all heard Bob respond in real time. Could I have recorded Helen's voice on a 'family conversation' from our home? Yes, but there was no recent one. How would she have known about the fires, or who was to be on Capcom duty and how could she respond to Bob's comments in real time, as everyone could hear?

"No one ever worked out how this was accomplished. Finally, at our twenty-fifth reunion celebration in Houston in 1998, and with many of the flight directors and controllers present and still with no clue as to how it was done, I described it all as above. My prejudiced opinion is that this was the best 'gotcha' ever perpetrated on our friendly flight controllers!"

Crippen recalled: "That was kind of a fun trick. There was head rubbing.

Everybody in the MOCR, or the control room, was looking like, What the hell is going on?' We did a good job. It was fun. Working those missions got to be tough. We did all kinds of things to try to come up with levity. That was a nice one that the crew got that the ground control didn't know about."

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also this episode could have been so interesting as far as the question of "is starfleet military? (yes, but)" but they just went for ufp propaganda in the end?? i enjoy strange new worlds, but i feel like they consistently miss opportunities to sit with the ambiguity that ds9 and even tng were comfortable with back in the fucking 90s. wrapping it up with "starfleet is a happy found family that does good and heals lost and damaged people so it's all okay" is the safest and least interesting take, actually

i am begging star trek writers to talk to a horse person or do the tiniest little bit of research before they put horse things in

... the implication that pike had to shoot his 'bronco' under fully automated luxury space gay communism ... i'm just lmaoooo

it's not as silly as the intramuscular bute injection thing from yellowstone, a show i do not watch, but

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i am begging star trek writers to talk to a horse person or do the tiniest little bit of research before they put horse things in

... the implication that pike had to shoot his 'bronco' under fully automated luxury space gay communism ... i'm just lmaoooo

it's not as silly as the intramuscular bute injection thing from yellowstone, a show i do not watch, but

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"Ghorman is a gift."

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One year later

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Inspired by this post by @timetochillnow.

(Has anybody done this meme already?)

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My upstairs roommate/neighbors are older ladies (like, they have adult children) and I’m cat sitting while they are out of town. I only TODAY learned that one of them has a Picard plate on the mantelpiece. 🥹

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HANDMADE MICRO-PROPS FROM “ANDOR” S2 

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having some thoughts about the fact that obi-wan is just as violent, intense, dangerous and insane as say,,, anakin, or quinlan, or any other unhinged jedi - but he chooses to not act with aggression first, he tries option a, b, c and d before that, which is why he is the better jedi, and the more threatening jedi. there are so many examples of obi-wan being scary and menacing, the difference is he hides it better.

he chooses restraint in his life, but-----

he cut down maul at 25

he destroyed grievous without flinching and made a snide little remark after, smirking

he left anakin to burn, slowly and painfully in the lava

from wildspace: "Kenobi had made of himself a deliberate target... No fear. No doubt. Instead, a supreme confidence. Curving his lips, the merest hint of a smile... Dazed, Bail shook his head. 'He's enjoying this. He's enjoying this? He really is mad.' Kenobi's lips parted in a fierce grin and he focused his deflections on the weaker machine." smiling mid-battle?! normal behaviour, im sure.

from wildspace again: "No. He'd always needed to be doing something. Making things happen. Seizing the moment by the throat." THROAT!? OBI-WAN there are many other ways that could have been explained.

from wildspace again again: “... I tumbled into a firebeetle pit.” The faintest of wry smiles. He had himself well in hand again. "It must have been … terrible.” “Not at all,” Kenobi said politely. “It was hilarious.” No, you nearly got eaten alive. But he didn’t say it. He wished now he’d kept his mouth shut. No wonder Kenobi had come out of his trance screaming. “Fortunately there was no harm done,” Kenobi continued briskly.”

his ability to completely disconnect, there is some benefit in being able to compartmentalise, but there are many times when he just comes across as completely cold, eg, clone wars gambit: stealth, the constant frustration and dismissal of anakin's slave-history influencing his choices and feelings about situations, and his annoyance at qui-gon for choosing a child with a traumatic history for him to train. there comes a time where compartmentalisation becomes detachment, that is probably the line obi-wan.

the way he can step back to see the bigger picture is a terrifying ability, it takes a strong amount of emotional control and disconnect to be able to dismiss suffering in front of you to analyse a larger scenario.

he is known as the negotiator, because of his ability to manipulate and deceive to obtain the goals he wants, yes he can be diplomatic when he needs to be, or desires to be, but ultimately, he knows how to use his words and his deceptively harmless demeanor to get exactly what he wants.

what about the quote from the empire strikes back: "Yoda: Much anger in him, like his father. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Was I any different when you taught me?" hello?! we know obi-wan was a nightmare as a padawan, do we really think he just 'got better'? no, he got better at hiding it. he chooses restraint every time because the alternative is too terrifying to unleash. he knows what he’s capable of, he’s seen it. qui-gon saw it. qui-gon knew obi-wan was capable of taking on someone as dangerous and powerful as anakin, because he knew obi-wan could be just as powerful and dangerous, and he was right.

he is a flirt, he is a tease, he knows he is gorgeous, he knows he has an allure about him, and he USES IT, he exploits it, it manipulates people with it, he plays and toys with people, not because he is being malicious or salacious, but because he has these gifts, so why not use them when the time calls for it?

in the obi-wan tv, the fact that even after 10 years of disconnecting himself from the force, and no longer practicing with his lightsaber, his raw abilities and power were able to outmatch vader, who had been both practicing his skills and had tapped into the ferocity of the dark side - OP as hell. and that is the point, he IS OP AS HELL, but he exercises a significant amount of restraint and compassion.

he’s the Jedi who can smile while ordering a battalion to hold the line, he’ll bow respectfully to an enemy before slicing them in half. he’ll soothe you with gentle words, only to manipulate your choices in ways you won’t realize until it’s too late. obi-wan is a weapon wearing the mask of a peacekeeper.

he chooses peace first. he chooses compassion first. but he can go further than anyone else when he’s forced to. obi-wan can kill you and mourn you at the same time. thats what makes him so dangerous. because unlike anakin, he won’t break when he does the unthinkable. he’ll live with it. he’ll ache and grieve and still do it again tomorrow, because it’s what the republic needs. that is his duty. because it’s what the jedi ask. and that is why he represents the perfect jedi, because he will always prioritise these things first, he makes the conscious - and harder - choice to embody the jedi teachings, even when it would be easier to throw them out the window.

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some of my favourite shit from the rots novelization:

it's very important that we know count dooku is a space racist. this is key to his sith/separatist plans

also he hates prosthetics/he's ableist. this is also critical information

obi-wan does some kind of insane battle meditation when he fights that makes him one with the force & he thinks thats normal

obi-wan is the order's specialest princess. every1 thinks he's the bestest jedi everrrrr and he can win any fight (true)

mace windu's secret attachment to the republic/democracy

sheev palpatine is like THE master manipulator Of All Time in that book. in the days before the Fall he's manipulating anakin on like 18 different levels with like 15 different techniques. king shit

the entire Jedi Trap explanation. the narrative is doomed the moment obi-wan chooses to spring the trap that is utapau ect ect

artoo telling anakin to look up his ass for a map when anakin is sassing him

padmé calling out obi-wan's attachment to anakin to his face. brutal

the delegation of 2000 shit is like SO pivotal now with andor's everything being what it is. padmé is literally the one who advises bail & mon to go undercover in the imperial senate

after the order is dead & he's failed & whatever, yoda FINALLY admits that the jedi order stagnated - largely because of him. and it partially caused its own downfall

obi-wan's interal monologue during the entire mustafar fight. him admitting he still loves anakin. him proving once again he is the best of the order by letting go. all of it

"this is the twilight of the jedi"

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ALDENTIUM, SNW!? you can't name your super secret space fuel after pasta

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A Grand Day Out (Short) | Nick Park | 1989