#st tng: all good things

[scifidancer]

𝑆𝑇𝐴𝑅 𝑇𝑅𝐸𝐾: 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 / "𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑇𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠"

[rainbowresurrection]

Data is a hoot because he's constantly trying out new shit. One day everyone wakes up and he's in his stoner phase and Picard yells at him for danking out the bridge

[faintwhitenoise]

Star Trek: The Next Generation - S7E25/26 "All Good Things..."

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry [all good things... part I, s7ep25] 'The First Proteins'

[geekysteven]

[Image description Alternate future Picard tending his vineyard with text "you know what, fuck you *slaughterhouse fives your picard*]

[higherrealmscoffee]

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[horsechestnut]

Man, they got me all emotional over a poker game.

[cptdorkery]

ST: TNG "All Good Things" 1994

ST: Picard "The Last Generation" 2023

[thegeminisage]

ok, tng update time. i'm quite behind! monday we did "deja q," tuesday we did "a matter of perspective," and then wednesday was "yesterday's enterprise."

deja q: NOT as bad as i feared but still not great. turning q into a human was a fantastic idea because in general it helps facilitate empathy when you see a character suffer, which worked a little on me, and then also i greatly enjoyed seeing him suffer because he was so annoying before, lol. guinan and worf kicking him when he was down were the best <3

another smart choice was to have data be the only one who had any sympathy for him - precisely because data's "feelings" ""can't"" be hurt and he's less likely to hold grudges. also, because data is wonderful and it's easy to get behind his cause of reforming q into some kind of functional being

AND it was good that the first time q felt shame it was because data almost died for his ungrateful fucking ass...correct response

unfortunately i still have many problems. during that section right before data's sacrifice move, all of the goodwill q generated by being fun to laugh at kind of evaporated because he was being annoying

SECONDLY, i have realized the reason i dislike q is because his main two personality traits have aged horribly. firstly is the "randumb~ XD" humor (the mariachi band at the end of this ep, the random napoleon soldiers from the other ep, his various costumes...). i think the only person who could ever do that kind of humor well was robin williams and they didn't cast him as q and also he's dead now, so knock it off. his second personality trait is that he's smarter and more powerful than anybody else in the room which he (and the people writing him) seems to think is a license to be an asshole to them, as long as it is charming assholery. think t*ony st*rk, house, bbc sh*rlock. this of course is a deeply flawed premise to begin with, but he doesn't even do it WELL. nothing about his assholery is charming. specifically i am thinking of all the "worf is dumb because he's a big brutish klingon" jokes, which are for sure fantasy racism and border on ACTUAL racism, because they're derivative of horrible antiblack stereotypes. not that q is the only source of this kind of stuff aimed at worf, but it's really damning that it's ALWAYS the first thing out of his mouth and played for laughs and made his "but worf i'm a klingon at heart too!" bit extra unfunny

anyway, bringing in a SECOND q to praise him for his "selfless" act is eeehh considering one q is already one too many and the act wasn't even that selfless. it would've been better if he said the only reason he was doing it was for data, specifically, so he could stop feeling shame - that's more genuine than trying to get me to believe he'd give himself up for that ship of people even if really what he was mostly doing was committing suicide.

nonetheless i DID really enjoy getting to see data laugh at the end. GOOD for him <3 also lmao, the moon is falling, so true. JUST like majoras mask

a matter of perspective: the one thing i don't understand here is the bit where picard is a horrible painter and then data insults his art. like yes it was funny but i thought it would have something to do with the main plot. riker sees events this way and that lady sees them this way. not unlike in the art room where everyone interpreted the nude model in a different manner!

ALSO, WHY IS THERE A NUDE MODEL. does that woman not live and work on this starship. does she not have to command respect from her coworkers the rest of the time. they didn't even do this in the holodeck where that sort of thing would have made sense!! the one time you WANT the holodeck around...

anyway, i thought this episode veered dangerously close to dud territory. trial drama is fine, even though it begs the question of why no lie detector in tng. holodeck recreation also fine in this instance, as was the murder mystery

but why ON EARTH did they feel the need to show a fake version of riker attempting to rape this lady and then have deanna go well that's the way she remembers it because i sense no dishonesty from her :) this is just the true way each of you remembers it :)

LIKE THERE IS A CANYON OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIKER'S VERSION AND THAT LADY'S VERSION. it's not like they can both partially be true. in one instance she flung herself at him despite his clearly being uncomfortable and in the other he forced her despite her asking him to stop!!! like in this case what you do is believe the woman except because riker's our protagonist we know he didn't do it except they never CLARIFY that he didn't do it??? obviously i don't think for a minute that he did, but of all the fucking things to leave open...

anyway i hated it. i actually hated it more than catherine did which may be a first for tng

yesterday's enterprise: TASHA YAR?????????????????????????????

ok, the premise of this was kinda confusing at first, but i don't give a single fuck. TASHA YAR!!!!!!

i was so happy and confused to see her but the more scenes she had...man. like, ok, they did not HAVE to have her make out with this guy. even in death they will not stop doing this to her. but the whole thing where guinan was like your death was meaningless and empty in this timeline so she decides to go back and die in the past instead...GOOD for her

also, i'm a little confused on my canon - i think the battle that other enterprise went back to die in was the one that worf's parents were killed in? which is why he wasn't on the bridge because he fuckin DIED at age 6 or whatever? i guess they must have done enough good to save at least some people??

anyway, ABSOLUTELY adored this one. tasha yar redemption arc. that was the LAST thing i EVER expected to see on tng but here we are. they even made that other captain a woman although lmao in the end they refridged tasha nd this other captain. STILL. if shes gotta die let it be better than the death she got in canon. i'll miss you queen

my one gripe, aside from her boyfriend, is that she and data had a lil scene in the elevator and im mad we could not infer from it whether or not they had fucked in this timeline. rip :(

NEXT TIME: "the offspring" and "sins of the father," which is a normal title that does not at all match the title of a merlin episode i wrote a 130k coda about

[scifidancer]

𝑆𝑇𝐴𝑅 𝑇𝑅𝐸𝐾: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 / "𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠"

[foundfamilyappreciation]

Welcome All to the first ever Found Family Face-off! Thank you all for the 100+ (!) submissions and apologies to those whose nominations didn't make it. Polling will begin this week, with each group of 8 face-offs released daily (hopefully)

To help speed things along too i'm hoping that you guys can help me find good pictures for each of the groups mentioned, especially for the ones i'm not as familiar with, mainly those in Group D and some in Group B. Submissions are open and in the case where the medium is non-visual and you want to submit fan art, please ask the artist for permission before doing so and give full credit.

Anyway, please meet your contestants and round 1 matches below. Let the Found Family Face-off begin!

Group A

Voyager Crew (Star Trek: Voyager) vs DS9 Crew (Star Trek DS9)

TOS Crew (Star Trek: The Original Series) vs TNG Crew (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Team Fivey vs Original TARDIS Team (Doctor Who)

AR-1 Crew (Stargate Atlantis) vs SG-1 Crew (Stargate SG-1)

The Avengers vs Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Black Widow Family (Marvel Cinematic Universe) vs Byers-Hopper Family (Stranger Things)

Legends Crew (Legends of Tomorrow) vs Team Flash (The Flash)

Batfam (DC Comics) vs The X-Men (Marvel)

Group B

What We Do In The Shadows Family: Movie vs TV show

Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death) vs The Scooby Gang (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Nine-Nine (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) vs The BAU (Criminal Minds)

The Greendale Study Group (Community) vs Julie and the Phantoms (Julie and the Phantoms)

Tight-Knit Family (Falsettos) vs St Cassian Chamber Choir (Ride the Cyclone)

The Gangsey (The Raven Cycle) vs The Lyctor Project (The Locked Tomb)

Nevermoor Family (Nevermoor series) vs The Flock (Maximum Ride)

Group C

Team Friendship vs Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

The Plantar Family (Amphibia) vs Trollhunter Family (Tales of Arcadia)

Bad Girl Coven vs Noceda Family (The Owl House)

Gaang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Krew (Legend of Korra)

Pelekai Family (Lilo and Stitch) vs The Crystal Gems (Steven Universe)

Planet Express Crew (Futurama) vs The Mystery Gang (Scooby Doo)

Ghost Crew (Star Wars Rebels) vs Team Voltron (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Hamato Clan (TMNT 2003 vs ROTTMNT)

Group D

Bucci Gang (Jojo's Bizarre Adventures) vs Bebop Crew (Cowboy Bepop)

Straw Hat Pirates (One Piece) vs The Visored (Bleach)

Forger Family (Spy x Family) vs Buddy Daddies Family (Buddy Daddies)

Armed Detective Agency (Bungo Stray Dogs) vs Team Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Class 3-E (Assassination Classroom) vs Phantom Thieves (Persona 5)

The Dreemur Family (Deltarune) vs Undertale Family (Undertale)

IPRE/Bureau of Balance (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs The Riptide Pirates (Just Roll With It)

Vox Machina vs The Mighty Nein (Critical Role)

[dragonsongmakhali]

10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags:

Basic rules: choose 10 fandoms that you are part of/support, and choose a favorite character from each of those. Then, tag ten folks!

Tagged by: @jigschosai @sealrock @reikatsukihana and @sasslett! Thank y'all :'D

This is not ordered by how much I'm into them, they're just in whatever order came to mind :) I will caution that I don't tend to choose favorite characters, I'm more of an OC maker. Feeling chatty, so I'm putting the actual list under a cut. You're welcome.

1. FFXIV : Pretty self-explanatory for the xiv sideblog. Since I'm not as in to the MSQ, I don't think I actually have a favorite character (which I know is illegal, I'm sorry :<). I really love seeing what the community does with the characters, though!

2. Halo : The storyline went to hell long ago, but I do still adore the original trilogy and constantly mine it for gpose captions. It was basically what I lived off of in high school. If I had a tumblr back then, I'd have been insufferable. Favorite character is easily Rtas 'Vadum.

3. WoW : Kind of. Asterisk. I really only know Classic, and even then, I'm way more Horde than I am Alliance. I have approximate knowledge of many things. No favorite there either - I'm all about the world and making OCs. We have two concurrent WoW tabletop games running at the moment, so this is where most of my headspace is. Their shared timeline is different from the canon, so I'm not really in the fandom per se.

4. Mass Effect : Alien dating sim, my beloved. I even enjoyed Andromeda (jump jets implemented perfectly, fun combat, the Jardaan reminded me of Forerunners). If you ask me to choose a favorite, I'll cry. How is a mother supposed to choose between her two sons (Legion and Grunt)? Drack also gets an honorary mention for his 100s of low res pictures of guns email.

5. Elder Scrolls : Mostly Skyrim, some Oblivion. I know, I'm one of those fans. Anyway, I've probably played over 1k hours of Skyrim by this point and yet. And yet! I don't have a favorite. The entirety of the Companions? I just wish that the faction questlines in Skyrim weren't "you killed 3 wolves and have been here a week. You lead us all now", but it does give me good scaffolding which. As an OC fiend. Grabby hands.

6. The World Ends With You : This game made me good at calculus in high school. My favorite character from here is Sho Minamimoto, and I was a completely normal teenager who dealt with that by doing calculus problems for fun. Turns out, the trick to get good at math is repetition.

7. Pokémon : Probably my earliest fandom. Still play the games now and again, just got Legends Arceus (super late, I know), and that's been a lot of fun. My favorite character from the franchise is Sinnoh's Rock type leader, Roark. I had a long-running sideblog dedicated to the Sinnoh region because gen IV is my favorite in general! It's inactive at the moment.

8. Guild Wars : 2, to be more precise. I started playing about a month after release, and since it's f2p, I still drop in from time to time. Like every MMO, I have no favorites. I really love playing Sylvari, though! (The glow!! The nightmare!! The [[Heart of Thorns spoiler!!]] They're just so neat)

9. Star Trek : we're now getting into "shows I watched and didn't hate" because I'm definitely not in the 'fandom' for Trek. We've been going through the old series as a way to wind down before bed, starting with TNG. We're on Enterprise now, and I'm sad that it got canceled. Still will probably have a better ending than Voyager. I don't have a favorite, but I can tell you that the writers' collective favorite must be either Seven of Nine or Data.

10. Uh. Various anime? I can't say I've recently loved any particular series to the point of fandom, but as a whole, I've been a weeb since I was in middle school. "Recent" series that I've enjoyed have included Mob Psycho and Love is War. Coincidentally, they both saved the most banger opening for their third season.

We had to stretch a little bit, but we made it to ten! Proud of this community (this community is my brain desperately trying to remember 10 things I like)

Have no idea who's been tagged in this, so if you've done this, please ignore! Or reblog it again!

@miqojak @airis-ray @wilanserulia @ahollowgrave @blackestnight @starstrider @iron-sparrow @sumifinalfourteen @jump-n-dive @otherworldseekers

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry All Good Things... Part II [s7ep26]

[hylianengineer]

🌀❤️ 😒

🌀 If the holodeck was real, what would be the first thing you'd use it for?

Well, right now, I really fucking miss horses. So I think I'd go hang out with and ride some holographic ones. Maybe also cows. I really miss cows, too. I just wanna snuggle with all the farm animals.

❤️ Your ST comfort character/s.

There is A List. Julian Bashir is my main one. Also Hugh Culber, Paul Stamets, Adira and Gray, Bones, Christine Chapel, and occassionally M'Benga and Reno.

😒 Character who annoys you.

Deanna Troi. I don't have a good reason I simply do not like her. She bores me, feels like a very stereotypical female character in a way I don't like, and I'm not sure if I dislike the WAY she is as a counselor or just the fact that she is, because I have weird bad therapist trauma, but yeah, I don't vibe with her. Sorry Deanna Troi fans, glad someone appreciates her but I sure as heck don't. Maybe she gets better after the first couple seasons? I never could finish TNG.

[hjea]

Nine people I'd like to get to know better

Tagged by: @talshiargirlfriend

Last song: St. Peter’s Bay - Sarah Harmer

Favorite colour: Blue or green! But really any thing primary and saturated enough for me to enjoy, as I have moderate to sever red-green colour blindness.

Last movie/TV show: I just watched High on the Hog season two, which is such a considered and powerful food documentary. Also earlier this week I watched Squid Game for the first time, three years late. I get the hype! It was good!

Sweet/spicy/savoury?: Yes, all of it. Yummy.

Relationship status: I Live Alone and It’s Awesome

Last thing I Googled: How to spell “liopleurodon” because I remembered that Charlie the Unicorn video and I needed to get those dumb quotes stuck in my friends’ heads as well.

Current obsession: Star Trek Enterprise is a big way, obviously (the potential!!!). Last week I did a curated trek night for @eggsworthy and her brother, pairing “Carbon Creek” with TNG’s “Who Watches the Watchers”, since they’re fully to blame for my Star Trek obsession to begin with (it only took 12 years of gentle persuasion and a pandemic for me to finally relent and put on an episode, and now look at me).

Tag nine people: anyone who wants to do this, consider yourself tagged!

[horsechestnut]

Old Man Picard is reminding me a lot of my grandpa and it’s making me even more emotional then I already was.