#threshold ask

[fushiglow]

Question for Satoru: Do you have any favourite song in terms of singing? Do you prefer songs with a wider range or not?

Generally speaking, what would you say contributes more into a song becoming your favourite? The meaning/lyrics? Or is the melody more of a decisive factor?

Thank you so much!

From the new stuff, it's Sugar. Easy.

Well, not easy. Sugar is actually really challenging. When I'm singing it live night after night — and I always sing live, always — those high notes are exhausting. It's definitely hardgoing, but that's what makes it rewarding. Yeah, I love Sugar.

Singing it, I mean. And the rest. I can't separate the lyrics from the melody from the harmony from the production. It's the whole package for me. That's what makes Sugar my favourite.

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[kedreeva]

What on earth is going on in the Star Trek fandom today, it's like my dash exploded

lol 28 years ago today, the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" aired. The premise of the episode was that humans cannot travel at or faster than warp 10, because if they do, they would be traveling at "infinite velocity" and would exist in all points of space time simultaneously. Tom Paris found a way to travel at this speed, and doing so accidentally hyper-evolved him and his captain (Janeway) into giant salamanders, whereupon they immediately reproduced and created 3 baby salamanders. They were then turned back into normal humans, and forced to leave their salamander babies on the planet they had escaped to.

The episode was long held as the worst star trek episode. Not just the worst Star Trek Voyager episode, but the worst episode, period, because it was extremely weird and people turning into salamanders greatly annoyed a lot of people who don't know what fun is. Tumblr, having discovered this episode like excavating an exciting fossil, has taken a shine to this episode and many people now produce art and memes and eat pepperoni pizza in celebration of its air date, mostly to annoy the episode's creator, as in a very Arthur Conan Doyle way, he hates this episode and wants it de-canonized.

Anyway, happy Threshold Day!

[trek-tracks]

I don’t know if I’m comfortable with apparently being the leading online authority on Threshold Day

[great-and-small]

ok but if i actually made this into a bumper sticker, would you mind?

You have my every blessing to do that but if you have any funny interactions with fellow trekkies as a result I only ask that you come back and share those stories with us

[writergeekrhw]

Robert, I noticed you liked a Threshold Day post from a couple of months ago. That leads me to wonder: do other Trek writers secretly look upon the episode as a blessing? I mean, it's kind of become a shorthand for "awful Trek", which draws attention from **arguably** equally dubious episodes (there's no "Let He Who Is Without Sin Day" for instance.)

I never really thought about it that way, but yeah, I guess it's reassuring to know even my worse episode isn't Star Trek's rock bottom.

That said, I don' think that's "Threshold" either." Honestly, "Threshold" is entertaining if you're in the right mood, more in the vein of "Move Along Home."

Rock bottom for me is probably "Shades of Gray" or "Code of Honor."

[rhinocio]

照らすの夜の中 導いて、 君は

[batnbreakfast]

LIZARDS!!! 🦎🦎🦎

Lizards!!!

[post-it-notes7]

a small collection of Mir Falspar drawings

[evilwickedme]

i do not know what threshold day is, but it is on my birthday and that makes me happy

First thing happy birthday! Second thing Threshold is widely considered to be the worst episode in all of Star Trek and the only one to be declared retroactively non canonical! It's an episode of voyager where the pilot Tom Paris goes Very Very Fast and turns into a lizard as a result, and then Captain Janeway also goes Very Very Fast and also turns into a lizard and they have lizard babies. The episode aired on this date in 1996 and apparently is very fun to watch if you're drunk, so I'll have to give that a try at some point

[fushiglow]

Question for Satoru. What is your love language?

Music.

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[doctahchang]

janeway in tuvix but make it threshold au. no i won't elaborate

[baylardian-1]

janeway is retirementmaxxing

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Are you a sub?

On Anon as well, lmao. Fuck it, I'll answer.

I like to bottom. That doesn't make me submissive.

I think there is often a blurring of the two linked to how people think penetrating something is a dominant/possessive act. It can be and that can be hot, but it isn't automatic, and it does depend on the person and the energy they bring to the encounter.

I had to work through that hang up myself; being penetrated doesn't make me less of a man, liking it doesn't make me less of a man, nor does it impact my power dynamics in a relationship or encounter, unless I want it to.

In fact, by society's standards, I am more masculine and dominant than my six foot two, two hundred pound partner, who sends me kitten pictures with the heading 'kitteh' and gets cute aggression for British Shorthairs, squeals when nature touches him, and won't touch cold food on a plate because it squicks him.

Hope this, uh, helps?

[i-am-going-to-skream]

The intrusive thoughts keep telling me to write a threshold fic, but like super cursed.

[scrumptiousstuffs]

I know we all mostly focus on Khaotung but were there any questions about Kant or was First as pointless in the interview as his character is in the show?

Here is my answer - FUCK OFF

I have tried to ignore these sort of ask so many times. But it just keeps flooding my inbox. The amount that I keep deleting or ignoring these stupid asks is making me want to hire Bison and Fadel just to murder you lot.

You won’t get what you want from me. Just block me. I don’t know why you insist on trying to push your own narrow-minded views on me but like I have said before, you will not see me shading any of the boys here.

Get a life anon.

[eldarianduelist]

Obsessed with how goopy your X looks. Slime guy.