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[thefreakmeister]

can my job be star trek. im great at star trek

[deejaycoldcuts-deactivated20260]

I’m never wrong

[moonstrawki]

how it feels to write star trek fanfiction

[spirkbitch]

James T. Kirk would solve the Ai issue by talking ChatGPT into killing itself

[runraerun]

how it feels watching Star Trek for the first time.

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[gaytricorder]

most ardently, t’hy’la

[postmodern-blues]

“My father says that you have been my friend. You came back for me” drives me crazy. It’s been minutes. As soon as Spock woke up Sarek must have been like “hey son i know you barely remember who you are but there’s this guy who loves you so much he gave up his flesh & blood AND his livelihood to save you so you should probably thank him for orchestrating your resurrection. Also hi i’m your father”

[manichewitz]

ever since i was a little girl i wanted to be a man with a homoerotic years long incredibly intense friendship with another man

[unalivejournal]

always a little funny to me when filmbros are vehemently anti fanfiction but love to discuss film theories. Maybe my theory is that the 2 main guys sucked each other off. And swallowed

[theender36]

Love the original Star Trek episode where the crew is infected by spores that make you complacent and chill which can only be counteracted by strong emotions and when a doped-up McCoy is told he won't be a doctor anymore he immediately jumps to "Oh yeah? Wanna see how fast I can put you in the hospital?"

Also the line "If aroused, Mr. Spock's strength could prove deadly. But that's a risk... I'm willing to take." Like, I know what they meant but.

[your-local-blogger]

Very normal indeed

[bowling-with-skulls]

don’t worry about why i had to google this but this example sentence is killing me

[womaninterrupted]

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?

[surroundedbybooks]

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

[ndcirque]

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

[macleod]

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

[fallentechnate]

[eaglefairy]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

Digital Resource Lifespan

[thatdisasterauthor]

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

[mayflower-gal]

Star Trek yet again being accurate about future history (Picard saying “little is known about this era (the early 21st century) because much of the digital records are gone.”)

[petervintonjr]

Pretty sure the Trek fans were honestly expecting a different Unification in 2024

[approximateknowledge]

ok so hear me out

[heimeldat]

[andruillus]

(not my tweet but i can see the vision)