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Now, the first words out of your mouth are the most important. You may want to start with something like this.

#i love william t riker pickup artist#and this scene is so great because it’s like him and guinan are just loving it as an art form#meanwhile wesley is like um hi i just want to learn to say hello to a girl without blushing…?#i hate that i can’t appreciate pickup artists in real life#because in real life you can’t be like sorry bud this isn’t a good time#without him turning around and calling you a whore and trying to bargain with you and generally ruin your evening#i imagine the star trek future as a glorious place where people can use their cheesiest lines#with someone who is not otherwise in the middle of a conversation#and there’s no guilt or expectation involved so the person can just be like eh no thanks#and william t riker is like ok cool enjoy your evening and goes to practice his game with guinan for a while (via mylittleredgirl)

So much yes to all of this! This scene is so CUTE. Like, they’re just friends who enjoy no-expectations flirting and that’s cool.

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Half of stars lurk outside galaxies

Rocket experiment captures glow attributed to renegade stars in intergalactic space.

Astronomers have spotted a faint cosmic glow, unseen until now, that may come from stars that float adrift between galaxies. The discovery suggests that as many as half of all stars in the Universe lurk outside galactic boundaries.

"There might be people living out there, out in the middle of cold dark space, that don’t have a Milky Way," says Harvey Moseley, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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#i will never get tired of this

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[I didn’t like what the writers and producers did with Gul Dukat. I wanted to see him develop into a minor hero, rather than a main enemy.]

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Dukat was never capable of becoming a hero. NEVER. Gul Dukat was a monster, masquerading as a man misunderstood. Because the Occupation? That lasted for decades, and Dukat became the Prefect in the last fifteen years or so. And yet, if the Bajoran people were to pick one Cardassian out of them all to parade through the streets with his head on a pike, it would be Dukat. The writers specifically call him out as the Bajorans’ equivalent to Hitler. You don’t redeem Hitler.

The only reason that he had any kind of redemptive glimmer in narrative terms was because circumstance pushed him into the same side as our main characters. But when his interests were better served elsewhere, he turned on them. The whole reason he signs the alliance with the Dominion is because it lets HIM be the man who saved Cardassia, after he’d been disgraced - he gets to be the one who saved his home, and he gets to present it as a noble and selfless deed, done to remove the Klingons. And this is just what he does with the Bajorans - while his people continued to occupy Bajor, he wanted the Bajorans to see him as a savior, because he increased the rations, halted child labor, and gave Bajoran women roles as ‘comfort’ women, allowing their families to live in better conditions. And because he did all of this while the Cardassians held Bajor, lived like kings while Bajorans died in squalor, he expected a statue to honor him erected on Bajor.

Dukat is the epitome of the ‘white savior complex.’ He fetishizes non-Cardassian women. He sees Bajorans as savages who don’t understand what they have. And he expects to be remembered favorably by the Bajorans, with no idea how they could see him as anything but their hero.

You don’t get to be the hero if you never admit your faults and flaws. Dukat didn’t just refuse to admit them, he swore up and down that those flaws were his redeeming qualities.

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A simple portrait of DeForest Kelley. Happy bday to a sweet sweet man. Weeeeh.

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Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) with Jonathan Frakes (Riker), LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge) and Terry O’Quinn (Admiral Erik Pressman) 1994 during the filming of the “Star Trek: The Next Generation”-Episode “The Pegasus”

http://data2364.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/daily-star-trek-11-november-2014/