If you’re doing a show set in outer space and don’t have a shot like this what are you doing with your life?
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If you’re doing a show set in outer space and don’t have a shot like this what are you doing with your life?
Ship mutuals. You won’t believe the carnage I witnessed tonight on space show…. A beautiful model ship… A beautiful, $200,000, museum quality model ship destroyed. It was so awful, ship mutuals! It was so awful!
I lied I’m not normal again. Or ever. Really.
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Experience the dynamic dance of our galaxy like never before. 🚀
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Experience the dynamism and diversity of the worlds that share our solar system, and the unique conditions that make life on Earth possible.
Okay, okay. I've seen several very anti-Threshold-Day takes floating around in the last year and I'm kinda getting sick of it.
Regardless of how you feel about Threshold as an episode - be that the quality of the ep, the storyline, the themes, whatever - Threshold Day isn't really about Threshold itself. I mean, yes, it is a day celebrating that episode, but the actual point of Threshold Day is community. It's a day where people band together to make memes and tell jokes and overall have fun. It's a day where you send random salamanders to your friends and go "omg tommy p???" It's a day where you appreciate the cool art and fics people make and leave encouraging comments. It's a day for Fun. Everyone gets to be in on a giant inside joke and enjoy that feeling. Everyone gets to commit to the bit. Not to sound all "here's the real meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown," but, in a very serious and literal sense, that's what Threshold Day is really about. Community.
And it's okay not to enjoy the episode! It's okay not to want to participate in the fun! Seriously, it's OKAY. You don't have to join in! But when you sit there and go "I cannot fathom how all these people like this episode and they're all wrong to be making memes and celebrating" you're missing the point and you start to ruin the very harmless fun everyone else is having. You are not on a moral high-ground for not enjoying a meme or a dumb internet holiday. You are *especially* not on a moral high-ground when you try to make other people feel bad for enjoying something that, again, is so incredibly harmless and ultimately about having fun as a community.
Again: it is fine to not enjoy Threshold. But I see so many posts throughout the year where people seem to be flaunting the fact that they are not like everyone else and hate the episode, the holiday, whatever. I see people talking about how much they wish Threshold Day would go away and it's really, really not cool. Your horse is not higher than mine for not being down to clown with your mutuals, your friends, about a silly Star Trek episode.
This was what NBC originally wanted to call the show. Luckily, Gene Roddenberry and crew were able to convince them otherwise.
Listen watching space shows about funky space people (The Mandalorian, Star Trek, Doctor Who) has healed me on ways I can't describe in words.
Like you're telling me the wondrous vastness of space and the emotional bonds that people form in the stretches of everything is NOT peak television? Like what???
Aliens and found family never fail to make me soft omg