[geordilablanche]

Main: @valen-but-not-tine

let's see how long this obsession will last me. mostly TNG

Just assume 90% of the posts are queued

url is a reference to a character Levar Burton played on Leverage: redemption, Mr. blanche, he's a librarian :)

[vargdottern]

sometimes when watching star trek you'll be like "this is such a stereotypical trope" but then you'll realize that it most probably invented said trope

[pippinstook]

a messy geordi doodle !

and one without the reflection

[pippinstook]

a messy geordi doodle !

and one without the reflection

[sirellas]

I'm sure Quique would like that. DS9 | 5.02

[assassinbugs]

Spin the wheel twice (feel free to re-spin if you don't recognize a character)

These two Star Trek characters are now stuck in a time loop, are the only two people aware of it, and need to work together to get out of it. How are they doing?

nobody has ever broken out of a loop faster before

good! they work together pretty well

eh. it's ok-ish

could go either way

it's not going well...

they're never making it out of there

other hyperspecific answer

Voting ended onFeb 8

[trekkie-polls]

You can befriend one star trek character. You still live on earth in the present but now they hang out with you sometimes.

James T Kirk

Spock

Data

Elim Garak

Jadzia Dax

The Doctor

Kathryn Janeway

Beckett Mariner

Lwaxana Troi

Nyota Uhura

Rom or Nog

Other in tags

Voting ended onFeb 3

Obviously there isn’t enough room for everyone so I went with some personal faves & ones I think of as popular. No offense intended if your favorite isn’t here!

[aphrostiel]

deanna troi my beloved

[aphrostiel]

sorry i drew them again

[honeyginsen]

data needs some personal matinence sometimes. or something

[tlirsgender]

The really funny thing about Data playing poker with the rest of the senior staff is that, like... with the way his brain works he's constantly aware of numbers and calculating probability but he would also know that counting cards is against the rules so does he just try to ignore it. Does he pretend not to. Can he like actively choose to discard that information as it comes in so he just forgets every .005 seconds

[tlirsgender]

Data trying his absolute hardest not to accidentally rain man his coworkers. I'm autistic I can make that joke. Data sitting there not so much "playing poker" as "playing playing poker," as in, doing his best approximation of a human playing poker. He has an algorithm figured out for it. Semi-random to appear more natural, like how his blinking is timed. He is having fun btw. Data loves playing humans

[tlirsgender]

He isn't trying to win at poker he's trying to win at being in a social situation & he has found that people like it more when they win a certain percentage of the time. The game Data's playing in his head is not the same as the game everyone else is playing

[leolaroot]

tng feels like an ode to theatre in many way

[leolaroot]

this episode people love to laugh at this episode but it has always been one of my favourites because the universe is based in theatre.

[scribefindegil]

Genuinely one of my favorite things about TNG is how often they're just doing art for fun. Riker's been playing trombone since he was a kid and he really enjoys it and also he is Not Good. Dr. Crusher is stalking the halls trying to rope all her friends and acquaintances into joining her community theater productions and musical reviews even if they've never been on stage before. They're constantly going to their crewmates' music recitals and poetry readings, and some of these people are impressively good at what they do but some of them are just getting started or content to stay at beginner level. They're having fun! They don't have to be prodigies in order to be involved with art because engaging with art on whatever level has value of its own! THIS is what I want to see in my post-scarcity socialist space future. Will Riker's bad trombone playing is load-bearing, actually.

[tlirsgender]

It's always so wacky how people just miss the whole point of the gorn. Including other later installments of trek itself

[tlirsgender]

Personally if I was that sparkling space elf and I said "today I'm going to put these two spacefaring species together and make them fight. They're both ships captains they're the same thing and they're on my nerves" & one of em walked away from this experience like "yeah that other guy was a big ugly lizard monster though" ......... you're going back in the arena until you learn your lesson

[tlirsgender]

The gorn is fully just a guy whose language you don't understand. He's a big lizard because it's representative of dehumanization, a perceived monstrous Other... like they're only fighting in the first place because an outside force is Making Them do that. To prove a point about their species' natures and whatever. This is standard trek philosophy fare why does everybody just remember "that time captain kirk fought a lizard"

[boophisburnhamae]

I feel like both canon and fanon should make more of the fact that Geordi is in constant pain

[boophisburnhamae]

I feel like both canon and fanon should make more of the fact that Geordi is in constant pain

[sleepymccoy]

someone i like (it's @muirmarie) is putting hanahaki mcspirk in my head today soooo