[junkyarded]

there is a genre of star's trek episode called "kidnapped by pervert"

[headedoutleft]

[iananan]

i mean, the entire inciting incident of voyager is a pervert based kidnapping.

the caretaker zoops them all to the delta quadrant to see if he could fuck harry and b'elana

[kushblazer666]

[flavorcountry]

[sitting bolt upright from deep sleep in an instant] Why have we not considered the cultural impact of the immutably provable existence of omnipotent beings in the Star Trek universe. "Should there not be a Cult of the Q Continuum on every sentient world?" is just the starting point (besides, I have a feeling Lower Decks dealt very briefly with this specific notion or maybe my memory is hallucinating). We have no idea how old Nagilum is or whether other peoples have encountered him (it) (whatever) -- what does the group that worships that asshole even look like? Was anybody watching Rana 4 from neighboring worlds when it was invaded, and do they now pray to Kevin Uxbridge?? Prior to the events of that episode, there had to be other spacefaring species who had encountered the Husnock; what did they make of their sudden and total disappearance? Analogy: imagine you're a Federation citizen waking up one day to the news that to the best of Starfleet's ability to determine, all Borg everywhere have been utterly annihilated in less time than it took to say the sentence. The fuck??? How do you not become a weird-ass cultist in a universe like this?? Or is the solution everybody is a weird-ass cultist to the point where it's pointless to even discuss your beliefs with other people. Yeah that guy worships the Organians, but what are you gonna do; me, I pray daily to that one Zalkonian guy who turned into a being of light on the bridge of the Enterprise-D, there's sensor logs and everything. No, he doesn't answer but I figure he'll get around to it one day. What were we doing? Pass me that coil spanner.

[flavorcountry]

Addendum: I have further decided that an entire-ass cult probably formed when the Starfleet admiral who read Picard's logs and saw the footage from the events of "Time Squared" quietly passed them around the office like "what the fuck is this" and the incident broke containment but only among the real weirdos

[iananan]

I assume that there's some sort of inverse Pascal's wager in effect.

Sure individual pre-warp cultures might form religions or cargo cults around individual omnipotent beings, but once you encounter more than a couple of them as a species they all sort of... Cancel out.

The classic response to Pascal's wager being "of course that logic works with the presumption of your god being the one true god, but falls apart when you consider the multitude of religions available that can't ALL be right"

In this case it would be "I guess it makes sense to pray to Q if that's who you've encountered, but who says it's a Q showing up next? Could be nagilum, could be the caretaker or a husnack, could be a different, more quixotic Q, or your ex crewmate who ascended last august or your mum from another dimension outside of time. All in all it all comes out in the wash."

It's sort of touched on in the TNG episode where that dickhead pretending to be fek'lhr starts pranking the klingons. though 'ardra' was a con artist rather than a rival god, it's briefly discussed that it might be Q or someone similar.

[pukicho]

Sometimes I overheat and die for a little bit but then I get better

[astrugglingacademic]

The first thing Ryland should do when he gets into his biosphere is run. He hasn't had to space to actually, properly, run in so long. Plus then you get Rocky being confused why Ryland is jetting off the second he steps foot in there. Rocky give tour! Why Grace leave! Where you going?

[astrugglingacademic]

Literally ran to a device with a bigger screen so I could reblog this with @shastafirecracker's tags.

[thisusernameisunique]

Persistance predator. It would be funny if Grace tried to catch his own food in the biosphere. He knows he cant eat it because of heavy metal poisoning but its like fishing with catch and release. Its enrichment. The Erid scientists give him small animals to chase. And every time they say no this animal is too fast there is no way Grace will catch it look how slow he is going. And then the animal stops to rest and Grace keeps going and the animal startles and tries to run but its slower this time. (Obviously this is more a biopark then a biodome at this point. Grace gets his own zoo with parkland and beaches and tunnels for his schoolkids to visit him on field trips) Eventual Grace catches up to the animal and goes "tag" with a dye handprint. And the Eridians with their stopwatches stare at him like, he just ran for hours in gravity twice as heavy as he's used to. And then they turn to Rocky in horror like, what kind of rampaging predator did you bring to our planet and it is capable of reproducing by itself?

And all Grace wants to do is teach science to little pebbles and eat meburgers.

Waving "hi guys" in the background like "how did i do this time? Did I get a good grade in being a pet human?"

And the scientist says "are all humans as fast as you?"

And Grace laughs like, "oh no. They're much faster!"

[femalepope]

My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

[caracalliope]

Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[justagirlchilling]

[ootron]

my god.... it moves so perfectly

[ootron]

she's obsessed with it

[eesttm]

- "What's with all the rubber ducks?" - "Well, it's sort of a secret, but we can tell the story."

[x]

[humanmorph]

Realis is live : )

Realis

A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

[jackalopearts]

Signet’s really more of a spiritual doctor.

[an-unimpressed-jackalope]

Friends at the Table: Janine’s character isn’t a real doctor and Keith is mad about it.

[an-unimpressed-jackalope]

... mad because he didn’t think of it first apparently

[clementine-kesh]

wishlist for heated rivalry season 2:

hayden pike divorce arc

rose landry transitions

svetlana/yuna meet and become embroiled in an intense homoerotic relationship

[quasi-normalcy]

William Shatner bemoans 'Starfleet Academy' end, mocks 'woke' backlash

"Star Trek" star William Shatner reacted with "sorrow" to news that the sci-fi franchise's latest series, "Starfleet Academy," has been canc

Wait, Shatner...gets it? Shatner has a good take?

[courageinsect]

[theabigailthorn]

hello, you're through to someone who can't help, can I start by asking you some useless bullshit?

[illmadekn1ght]

every day it gets harder to have a relaxed jaw and decent posture

[prokopetz]

The real problem with modern personal computing is that it doesn't involve enough mysterious liquids. Sure, there's always been thermal paste, and the steadily increasing popularity of water cooling in gaming rigs is a step in the right direction, but I think we can do better.

[illzazzorino]

Like 10-20 years ago Attack of the Show did a segment about a desktop PC that kept it's components entirely submerged in some kinda mineral based liquid? Does anyone know what came of that thing?

[prokopetz]

As I recall, it turned out that it doesn't actually work particularly better than traditional closed-circuit water cooling owing to the added energy cost of adequately circulating all that fluid, and also it shortens the life of some components because hot mineral oil gradually dissolves plastic.

[sapphire-reblogs-and-rambles]

When I toured a supercomputing center ~2 years ago, they still had components submerged in mineral oil for cooling.

[prokopetz]

Sure, but we're not talking about supercomputers – we're talking about desktop PC stunt builds that basically just take a standard tower case, plug all the holes, and fill it up with mineral oil. Supercomputers which use immersion cooling presumably have the benefit of advantages like "cases that are actually designed to permit the circulation of dense liquids" and "essential components that don't dissolve in mineral oil".

[iananan]

another step in the right direction