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Round 1D Matchup 6

May the gayest win!

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Hailing frequencies closed. :-(

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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???

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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

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Star Trek: tos as tumblrs banned words

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

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2014 dst germany deep space nine panel cringe compilation

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its off duty time and you are jean luc picard

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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.

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i like him

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this came to me in a dream 

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i have to love the direction for worf here

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

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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

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 ?