Just Enough of a Bastard to Be Worth Knowing

Various fandoms. Idk

[katherinetheok]

Realizing that more than half of Deep Space Nine aired before HIPPA passed explains so much about the way Julian's always walking into staff meetings with "sorry I'm late, Ensign Goldshirt had a very interesting rash" instead of just saying "medical emergency" 😂

[unamccormack]

This is why DS9 can’t retain a therapist. Between Garak turning up and staring at you for an hour, old blabbermouth Bashir telling the whole of Quark’s about Ensign Traumatised’s nightmares, and the simple fact of O’Brien being there, it’s widely known to be the worst posting in Starfleet.

[katbelleinthedark]

... did we just solve the mystery of Counselor Telnorri's disappearance? They lived peacefully on the station for all of a week (seemed like a cool post, what problem did others have with it?) and then post-Hard Time Miles O'Brien showed up to their office and three days later Telnorri was handing in their resignation and going on a retreat to Andorian ice wilderness to patch up their mental health?

[unamccormack]

Poor Telnorri is actually doing good work with O'Brien post "Hard Time", and then a depressed Bashir, struggling with what he saw of "the blight" arrives in their office. That in itself would not be the deal-breaker, but then Sisko asks Telnorri to go and talk to Garak every day while Garak's in the holding cell. Telnorri lasts just over a week then quits Starfleet and never looks back.

[katbelleinthedark]

Counselor Telnorri's Month From Hell.

They leave Starfleet and go to Risa to be a wellness instructor there. And then Worf, Jadzia, Julian, Leeta and Quark arrive on Risa.

[unamccormack]

LOL. They move to Betazed to explore empathy as a healing tool. Betazed falls to the Dominion.

[katbelleinthedark]

They become a hermit after that.

[unamccormack]

Their retreat to the depths of the Vulcan desert is interrupted by a constant series of messages from Ezri Dax: “help, ben is sad”; “help, julian is sad”; “help, worf is sad & thinking i might not be best placed person to help lol”; “is everyone here always so sad”; “cured the tailor lol”.

[skrankku]

More doodles!

[vulcartist]

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

[tournevis-real]

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

[wolfythewitch]

Saw a tweet about mamdani solving the astrophage crisis and now im just imagining them sending mamdani to space

[wolfythewitch]

This came to me at 3pm in the afternoon

[eilooxara]

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

[quantumofawesome]

I thought I was going to learn something cool....

[dalekofchaos]

[thaumasilva]

star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home

[cantotallyeven]

Why would I want to go home?

[jmtorres]

unfortunately, several admirals will be called into rule on whether you can be permitted to stay here without screwing up the timestream, and if after their deliberations they decide to grant you political asylum then unfortunately you will die in a tragic accident in the last three minutes of the episode.

[captain-callisto]

This came to me when I was half awake this morning and I was compelled to draw it lol

[demilypyro]

The thing about really long series is that they start to develop their own tropes. And if they go on long enough, they get the opportunity to subvert their own tropes.

There's a sort of running gag with the Star Trek engineers. Something will need to get done, the captain asks how long it will take, and the engineer gives an estimate. The captain will then say they need it done twice as fast, or more. They then usually pull it off somehow. This is the done thing. TVtropes calls it "Scotty Time", after the engineer from the first series.

We get this same interaction over and over across multiple series, from multiple different pairs of captains and engineers. By the later seasons of Next Generation they're already riffing on it. One scene establishes that the initial estimate is usually actually already longer than they'll actually need, because captains love to pressure their crews and the engineers know this, so getting it done in less time than initially proposed makes them look good. This ritual has by this point been established as Starfleet standard, seen in the original series, Next Generation, and prominently in Deep Space Nine.

So then we get to Star Trek Voyager, and we have our captain Janeway and our chief engineer B'elanna Torres, and we know how this is gonna go. In a season one episode, sure enough, Janeway asks that whatever needs to be done gets done in half the estimated time, and... Torres stops her. No, she says, it takes as long as it takes, it can't be done faster. And her face is dead serious. Janeway is momentarily surprised but doesn't protest. And it's some great characterization for both of them. It establishes Torres as an honest and hard working officer, a straight shooter who doesn't take shortcuts. She'll look her commanding officer in the face and just say the truth. And it establishes Janeway as someone experienced but not incapable of adapting to her crew. She knows how this interaction is supposed to work, but takes Torres at her word, and doesn't repeat this trope for the rest of the series. I like it a lot. Idk end of post

[faggotfungus]

[frogayyyy]

Spin this wheel twice... These are your new roommates at Starfleet Academy!

How do you feel about this?

AMAZING!!!! This is the best case scenario

Great! I like both of these people

Good.

Eh... Could be better, but it could be worse

Bad. I'm not going to enjoy this year

TERRIBLE. Someone will end up dead

I'm dropping out

other/nuance/secret whatever option

Voting ended onAug 6

if one/both of your new roommates is a child you assume responsibility of that child

if you get the same person twice, you have to live with both of them

[lichposting]

I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary

[lichposting]

[regonym]

hope is a weapon, by @mumblesplash (x)

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

[m-b-w]

I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this, but Keiko is NOT going to be the emotionally intelligent/mature one in the ds9 polycule. this is a woman who called of her own wedding because she panicked. not only that she made DATA tell her fiance that she was calling off the wedding. on the day of the wedding. the fun thing about the ds9 polycule is that none of them have the emotional intelligence and maturity to be in a polycule like that. embrace the chaos.

[overcastghostedghoul]

It couldn't be Nerys either because she is too scared of imposing on them. In an ideal world, Jadzia overheard all of them talking about the situation or talked with Julian about it or something and Jadzia kinda forced them together. Worf was there too but I kinda feel like he disapproves of Polygamy somehow.

[foxglovedforest]

The kids are aight

[jotunvali02]

@cheer-deforest-kelley Thanks to you, I've learnt that Bill Shatner and Deforest Kelley did the Spiderman kiss 14 years before Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.

Minus the rain and the mask.

[brightforestxmoon]

Excuse me please explain

[jotunvali02]

@jonesy201 They witnessed a part of the filming of Star Trek V, the part where Kirk falls off the cliff, is caught in extremis by Spock and scolded by McCoy.

Apparently, during a take of that scene, Bill Shatner and Deforest Kelley started to laugh and De asked Bill (who was still upside down) to kiss him on the lips. Which they did.

[markersss]

I went to one of the "William Shatner: Live on Stage" showings of TWOK recently, where Shatner did a kind of Q&A but more just yapped about whatever he felt like. One of the things he talked about was how beautiful Kelley was. Really, he went on about it for... a while. And How he really was such a charming southern gentleman. Also, I live in a southern state, and during this, he did make a comment about how the southerners may not like what he was saying. So like... seems like he knew how it sounded.

Anyway. Shatner is a INTERESTING guy

[markersss]

Prev asked for elaboration: I don't have the exact quote saved, but right after the show I wrote down what I could remember to the best of my ability: 'Dee was such a beautiful man. So beautiful. He really had that southern charm. The voice, the grace, the manners. You guys know all about southern men here (I live in the south). Don’t kill me please. He was so, so beautiful' paraphrased

This probably captures how I remember it best, but since it isn't a direct quote, there's also the possibility of my interpretation skewing how I remembered it.

[runavik]

Had an at length discussion about this with a friend. Have never wanted to write RPF (horrors!) until this: some speculative alternative history where early on Shatner speedruns this into the “if I was a girl I’d have married him” awakening and the nation throws a fit when the actors of “wholesome Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock” shack up together. Spirk becomes undeniable. Despite deep controversy Lucille Ball funds the TOS run for the full five year adventure, but it takes much longer for any reboots to be made. Actors become carefully screen tested for “too much chemistry”. Science becomes suspect, replacing the “theatre kid” stereotype. NASA suffers brain drain. The US loses the space race definitively. Overconfident, Russia persists in its Afghan presence well into the 90s. Flip phones come two decades late.