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Oh my fucking Gd I forgot the Star Trek writers got tired of fans griping that all their aliens looked like humans with a bit of panstik makeup and cheap prosthetics so at the end of TNG season 6 they were like "FINE. FUCK IT. YOU WANT A WORLDBUILDING EXPLANATION FOR OUR LOW COSTUME BUDGET? PANSPERMIA" lmfaooo

#space treks #one of the funniest retcons since the klingon forehead mutation

[Heavy sigh] The "geometric pattern" that the computer extrapolated from the compiled genetic data on TNG s06ep20 The Chase is one of the shapes they make you draw over and over from memory to test your visual-spatial recall on a standard neuropsych evaluation. Filing this one under my Top 10 Most Stereotypically Autistic Posts

#space treks #I Hate That Zigzag Motherfucker So Much

Many DS9 episodes are riffs on the storylines of/critical commentaries on TNG episodes, as you know. Imo DS9 s02ep15 "Paradise" asks the question "what if we took the bare-bones premise of TNG s06ep17 The Birthright part 2 but changed enough of the details so that it didn't suck ass"

#space treks #this is my star trek midrash based on i have watched So Much Star Trek So Many Times

Watching "Face of the Enemy" and it is delightful to see, like, intertextuality between guest actor cameos. Megan Cole's Cretak on DS9 clearly owes a lot to Carolyn Seymour's performance as Commander Toreth on TNG. Suspicious, professionally competent, adversarial in a homoerotically charged way to Our Main Ensemble Cast Heroine...we love to see it. Romulans are some of my favorite alien-of-the-week characters.

#space treks #once again i have spent SO much of my life watching star trek lmao

S6ep13 "Aquiel" is not a "good" Star Trek episode but it is notable to me because it is the only non-DS9 Star Trek episode I can think of off the dome that is very centrally About Institutional Racism but doesn't adopt the customary Star Trek storytelling conceit of bashing you over the head with a didactic mallet that says THIS EPISODE IS A SOCIAL STORY ABOUT RACISM. They discovered "subtlety" for a given value of subtlety (it's still Star Trek) and they put it in bizarre filler episode that combines a whodunit locked-room mystery with a bodysnatching alien trope and a dog. And it's also a TNG "Geordi gets a parasocial crush on a woman he stalked for work" episode. Why is TNG Like This

#space treks #why have i spent so much of my life thinking about star trek

If I finally got a bureaucratic authority figure on the horn after four years of suffering in the torment nexus and he said "Ah, well, we were unaware you were CONSCIOUS while we stored you in the torment nexus, that IS unpleasant. To circle back, we established a subcommittee to investigate your complaint, and unfortunately, we were unable to make any satisfactory progress--" I would also go Apeshit and hijack the starship Enterprise until somebody took the initiative to Make some fucking Progress lmao. Holodeck Moriarty Did Nothing Wrong

#space treks #The Star Trek Sherlock Holmes episodes are actually Star Trek Kafka episodes #Because they're about Starfleet bureaucracy

Holodeck Moriarty in TNG s06ep12 literally did Nothing Wrong

#He was sentient and they left him in the torment nexus while they convened a committee about a caucus about a--#Meanwhile our boy is conscious and Suffering #and then he proves that he's right and STILL nobody will listen to him #and they convene a working group to address the question to follow up on the grievance to--#So he hijacks the ship!!! And he was right to do it!!!!!#space treks #Free Him!!!!!!!

Star Trek as Geopolitical Social Stories...Ohhh my gd something that has been sticking in my craw for years as a person overly attentive to Rhetoric is like. What the Point was re: this increasingly common phenomenon with aggressor states refusing to call their actions "war" and insisting upon transparently absurd euphemisms like Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine. And this TNG Space Geneva Conventions After-School Special episode was like oh right. Even if the Geneva Conventions and their enforcement are more or less immaterial (or inapplicable depending on signatory status don't @ me). It's the Geneva Conventions Principle. The categorical refusal to admit to a State of War means that enemy combatants are de facto discursively resignified as "terrorists" and no longer subject to the protections of "international human rights law." Again I am speaking about this PURELY as a rhetorical move, because I was confused by what purpose it served rhetorically. Can't believe Star Trek: Big Concepts For Babies helped me understand a Big Concept in real life again

#space treks #brain and brain what is brain #but literally in that star trek does 1/3rd of my thinking for me

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