#lower function

[cuterefaction]

Can you imagine a wedding attended 90% by multiple Harry Kims? Adorable.

I know we didn't spend all that long with the crew of the Anaxamander but they give a really nice-if-made-almost-entirely-of-sass vibe. I hope they'll all be okay :)

[startrekuniverse]

Fully functional. ;-)

[ireallyamabear]

The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.

Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits. Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict. Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

a guide for BookTokers

[datasoong101]

I don't normally post about Lower Decks

BUT OH MY GOD PURPLE DATA I AM MORE THAN OBSESSED HOLY SHIT I LOVE HIM WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL!!!!!

He wanted to go back home to see Geordi (whom i can only assume is purpler too) that's so cute Jesus I screeched with delight.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS IS THE MOST TNG REMINISCENT DATA CONTENT WE'VE SEEN SINCE TNG??? The movies are paced differently and he's got the chip, same with Picard. But here? Here we have pre-emotion chip Data hanging out on a table for 10 months being adorable getting into shenanigans. BUT ITS LOWER DECKS SO HE'S EVER SO SLIGHTLY SILLIER!!!

And I have to mention how much of a delight it was to see everyone interact with Data. So goddamn incredible. Everyone loves Data.

[loki-zen]

someone could probably do a deep dive on Gender in CK3 which is not gonna be me; for me it's mostly just a culture shock as the *kind* of games I've been mostly playing have such a strong norm of portraying and coding in equality these days

[tiranniesu]

ur not a burnt out gifted kid ur just a burn out

[astral-herald]

had a very stressful day doing ~graduate school things~ so i am putting in a request for you all to start a chain of your favorite viktor pictures. I’LL START!

[floortile34]

not sure if this is a hot take but school is extremely traumatic and needs huge reform. it causes immense damage to everyone who goes through it. no large-scale school system is exempt from this. this happens in all countries, not just the ones where it's worst. this problem's also inextricably tied to capitalism and neither can be fixed without also fixing the other

school genuinely breaks people (and others) with even worse being done to those with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergents and those with other psychiatric disorders

[greglow03]

Has anyone talked about the fact that Fizzy Faz is an energy drink? And that Gregory, a child, casually drinks 4 of 'em in a single night?

[mgu-h]

Idk if this been mentioned but a week-ish ago (before max went to Monaco) bankai and max were streaming separately and bankai was playing with Connor or Lorenzo or someone idk I can’t remember and they said something along the lines of “oh landos busy does that mean we get to play with max today” which just another example of everyone acknowledging the thing™ between them whatever it may be

yess i love how despite the fact that there's sort of a venn diagram ass group dynamic where max is the person in the middle, he's not equally available to everyone—lando always has priority claim on his attention, and everyone knows that if lando's available, max will always choose to play with him, and since lando doesn't want to play with any and all of max's friends, max will always choose to exclude others if it means getting time with lando. it's not subtle lmao they're just Like That and everyone knows it

[thebrainrotsreal]

Saw the s2 trailer for Invincible. Lost my mind. As one does.

[oldtvandcomics]

The fuck. MAJOR things are apparently happening in the Star Trek fandom, and for some reason my dash is not all exclusively Star Trek?? Kind of makes me wonder if I am following the right people.

[dinkykate]

Pant suit cunt-off between Daisy Ridley and Britt Lower WHEN—

[arodykeism]

much ado about pleasure

[wanderingandfound]

Sleep deprived to the point of giving myself chest pain (literal) and raw emotions (figurative). So how do I spend my Friday night? Collecting stats for the tournament blog while watching copaganda? Read a book cover to cover while enjoying the evening breeze? Or scroll through two days worth of my tumblr dash on my phone while lying on the cement porch outside (what I'm currently doing)?