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Hamish Linklater as Matthew Kimble The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–2010)

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Having Sisko and Bashir be the ones to get stuck in the sanctuary district in Past Tense was such a good call. Julian's characteristic optimistic naivety (at least in the earlier seasons) makes him this weird kind of audience stand-in, but instead of literally representing the audience watching the show, it's like he's representing the view of an imaginary audience from a place where things that are normal or acceptable in our own society are shocking, and it's one of the things that makes the episode work as really biting social commentary. In Star Trek you often get a character who plays an audience pov who asks the kinds of questions the audience might have, especially as a way of explaining away technobabble. To have a character ask "Why isn't anyone helping this person with schizophrenia??" in the same way Riker asks Geordi what's up with the warp core is pretty uncomfortable to say the least.

Julian's constant outrage, disbelief at what he's seeing, and refusal to accept things as they are is also great. He never lets you forget how messed up this is, and I think it was a good opportunity to develop his character as well. It's one of the first really traumatic things that happens to him and the way he reacts to everything really shows it, along with the strength of his convictions and his stubbornness for doing what's right which he carries on right to the end of the series. His kindness also shines through when he helps the woman injured boy (against Sisko's objections) and the woman with diabetes in the processing centre.

Then there's Sisko, who tempers Bashir's outrage with (kind of paternal) pragmatism. He doesn't accept that things had to be that way and understands the wrongness of what he's seeing to its fullest extent, but unlike Julian, he knows what he can and can't do about it, and chooses to accept that there are some things he personally can't change but does everything he possibly can with the influence he has. This Includes taking a bunch of hostages at gun point (and it's actually crazy they had a Star Trek protagonist do that lol), which Julian is visually extremely uncomfortable about, and being prepared to give his life to ensure things get better. For me, he's the very image of a great Starfleet captain in these eps.

I have to also mention the obvious fact that both characters are people of colour who, despite being a decorated commander and a doctor, find themselves immediately written off as worthless by a white guard and discarded into a concentration camp. Meanwhile their white colleague ends up in a penthouse.

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Pluribus 1.08, Charm Offensive

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VICTORIA PEDRETTI Photographed by Ethan DeLorenzo, January 2026

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Hamish Linklater as Clark Debussy in Legion — 2.02 “Chapter 10”

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homelander in fifteen inches of sheer dynamite

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#me whenever anything bad happens to male characters

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4.01 "Valles Marineris" STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022–)

look, while giffing I obviously rewatched the episode and I'm pissed off even more now :D because it could be a good episode... don't get me wrong, I liked parts of it, but

but it would have been so much better if they at least ended the episode with the scene where m'benga and pike talk, then pike not accepting promotion

and maybe talked not only about none of them existing if they had interrupted, but also about what our universe could have been if they had stopped cassell… briefly at least, that was still genocide. they allowed their technology to be used for genocide, and they didn't stop it. pike just ordered them to watch as an entire planet with living creatures got destroyed. that's something you should dramatically stare into space about at the end of the episode and think of your life choices, come on

then they could wrap it up with pike reading the book and telling april he can't accept the promotion

and maybe there would be some meaningful quote from the book that would make us think about what happened with cassell and her people again, make us think about the choices we make etc etc etc... something that would be a fitting ending for such a heavy topic. I mean, entire planet, civilizations were erased because you were there.

what they do?

I shit you not, he opens a bottle right after that because that fits the previous scenes so fucking much

seriously, who put scenes in that order...

he could mention the promotion in the next episode or smth, YES I'm ready to sacrifice my beloved number one's screentime for an episode to be good lmao

you have seen dinos, yay, let's forget that we travelled to the past and unwillingly, but still, gave a weapon to martians, which they used to destroy entire civilization, and we did nothing but watch because we wouldn't exist if we had stopped cassell. that resulted in the death of mars and the dinosaurs as well. yeah, some martians were alive and their dna is out there, but their entire planet died as well… like literally you exist because others died, and you were there to help that happen...

yeah let's drink and talk about dinos YAY COOL why not