#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)
This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.
My favorite thing about this episode is that, while the rest of the characters are taking a more Star Trek philosophical approach to this situation, calmly debating the good and bad points of this colony built upon eugenics, Geordi is just seething. Troi is having a romance with their flippin’ president, but Geordi never hesitates on his morals. He’s always aware that this world’s supposed perfection is built upon the despicable philosophy of killing people like him. He barely even bothers to hide his anger as he has to work alongside their scientists. He’s snappish and short-tempered and bitter, clearly only working with these people because lives are at stake. When he discovers the solution is based on his VISOR, he is viciously triumphant, his joy at saving the people boosted by a bitter sense of righteousness that these people were only saved because someone like him was allowed to survive.
And even though this anger and bitterness are very un-Star-Trek-like approaches to diplomacy–it works. The scientist who works alongside him is the first person who decides to jump ship and leave the colony behind. She sees the stagnation of their bland “’‘‘‘‘utopia’‘‘‘‘‘ and realizes that diversity and adaptation create a much better society. And while the other Enterprise crew members have some wishy-washy lament over how this will destroy this planet’s ‘‘‘culture’‘‘, Geordi never waffles. He has far too personal a stake in this to lose sight of the fact that peoples’ lives are more important than any high-falutin’ philosophical justifications. The episode might waffle over the Prime Directive points of this society’s decline, but Geordi’s perspective is the one showing clearly why it needs to die.
Or the DS9 episode with the woman who is from a light-worle (Earth being a heavy-world) so her people float/fly/glide to get around and when she's in Starfleet vessels, she has to use a wheelchair because her body isn't built for Earth-like gravity. She wants to walk. Dr.Bashir developts a "treatment", to let her walk in Earth-like gravity.
But then, she realizes as they are discussing it, once she does this - there is no going back. Her bones will be too heavy, her muscles too weighty. If she does this, whenever she goes back home, she won't be able to float/fly/glide with her family and friends. She'll be apart from them, for life. So, she opts out and sticks with working from her chair when she's on a Starfleet vessel.
May have scared a manager on a call. She heard my neck crack when I turned my head to look at my second screen. When she freaked over the noise, I sat straight and my entire spine cracked like thunder rolling.
She ought to be around when I move my arm to guide the computer mouse, causing both my radius and ulna to crack at the same time.
Hola, Doomers! Ask and thou shalt receive: here be the June of Doom 2026 prompt list for all your doomsday planning! All the good stuff's below the cut!
Previous Dooms: 2023 || 2024 || 2025
What the heck's a June of Doom?
This is a month-long prompt challenge/ list/ event/ thing that focuses on whump, angst, hurt/ comfort, and the like. Despite the air of doom it exudes, this challenge is very relaxed—your mod knows life happens but you still want to be part of your fandom(s), and sometimes you can't just sit down 30 days in a row to write/ art/ create. So, this list is out stupid early every year so you have the chance to prepare and particiapte! It's never too soon to Doom!
Rules
Tag your stuff with appropriate warnings, plzkthnx.
AI-created content is highly discouraged and frowned upon. I have no way of "checking", but I respect the time and effort people put into their crafts and encourage everyone to do the same. This isn't a contest for best written or prettiest art — it's a challenge, so challenge yourself.
Be cool. We're cool here. Don't like, don't read. Don't start none, won't be none. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. Let people be happy. 💕 (But if someone's comin' at you within the confines of this challenge, let me know ASAP.)
FAQ
You can participate with original and fan works!
You can do so with whatever medium you want!
You can combine this challenge with other challenges!
You can start/ finish this challenge whenever the heck you want! And I'll reblog it here if you tag the blog, even if it's not June!
You can use one, some, or all of the prompts listed for a given day however you want! The point is to be creative!
You can mix and match prompts from different days!
If nothing on a certain day is inspiring you, there are 15 alternate prompts this year consisting of last year's most popular prompts!
Angst, hurt/comfort, and lighter/funnier forms of whump are welcomed and encouraged! Torture takes many forms! :)
I'll post reminders and such as we get closer!
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And don't forget to tag @juneofdoom so I can reblog all of your amazing stuff here! (I typically only check the #juneofdoom and #june of doom tags during the event, so tagging the blog itself is the best way to ensure I see it and share it!)
If you have any questions, comments, shout outs, ideas, or just need some encouragement, inbox me anytime, June or not!
That's right — February is over, but the fluff goes on. We've adopted the 14th of every month into Fluffbruary to spread the fluff around the year.
We have a little theme going ... and it's wide open for seeding, watering, and harvesting fluff of all kinds.
All fandoms, and all ships or no ships--wherever there's loving-kindness and a bit of respite there is fluff! Tag @fluffbruary so we can reblog you, and reblog @fluffbruary to seed the fluff to the four tumblr winds.
Please, please, please, if you MUST give your child a stupid name to haunt them forever, AT LEAST give them a boring middle name? Or, give them a boring first name and let the middle name be where you went wild? That way they, when the time comes to have college diplomas, electrician certifications, or freaking job applications, they can write...
Jane K. Smith instead of Khaleezee J. Smith
Or they can write, K. Allen Smith instead if K'abbi-bong-magillicutty Smith.
The number of times at work, that I have had to stifle a shocked face or an eyeroll over the ridiculous names people have cursed their children with... We get people who name their kids things like Krew Cutt, Hex Bolt, and Rocky Stone. Even one of the doctors has a very, "My mom was clearly high on something when she named me" sounding name.
So please, give them a boring/nornal name in there so they can use it on their resume someday.
(I was going to close this with a clip from VICAR OF DIBLEY, where we find out Vicar Geraldine Granger's middle name, during her wedding rehearsal. Her middle name is the title if a song from Mary Poppins.... But YouTube took down the clip)
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jacobvanloon
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