Star Trek Thoughts From The Scottish Bit Of Qo'noS

Every planet has a Scotland.

[thinkinginklingon]

Squash On The Edge Of Forever

[thetimetostrikeislater]

A possible portal to Halloween Town

[paulgadzikowski]

"Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a really large spoon."

[original-asteria]

my favorite thing about Bra’tac is that every time you think he’s about to die for Teal’c’s characher development, he just… doesn’t

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

I love how unhinged the General Hammond lore is. What do you mean he knew time travel was possible 30 years before anyone else on earth did. He can't have batted an eyelid when he learned about the gate. What do you mean he knew SG-1 before they met him. What must he have been thinking when the guy he helped escape from a prison van 30 years ago came through the gate and helped abduct one of his staff. Two seasons in he casually drops he's been friends with Jacob for years. At what point did he realise his buddy's daughter is That Samantha Carter with the note. Of course he knows Jack's lying about the first Abydos mission - he looks at Daniel's picture on the file and goes that's the dumb bitch that tried to prove he's from the future by saying we know about the moon landing, he's not dead. He knew damn well Daniel and then Teal'c were gonna join SG-1 but he was still resistant about it. You can't blame him for being so freaking grumpy the first few episodes, A he's trying not to give away that he recognises these people and B he has zero free will in this situation 😭 He's friends with shady guys who owe him favours. The president lets him do whatever he wants. He may be his best friend. We never even get to meet that president. He wants to send the entire SGC out to save three members of SG-1 and poor Davis is nearly crying trying to explain why he can't do that. He's all 'I follow orders 😠' but the moment Teal'c leaves too he literally abandons his post to go help him search for the other three. There are literally zero consequences for this

[mirainawen]

don't hide this in the tags op

[aenslem]

Tuvok in Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001) 4.05 "Revulsion"

[animate-mush]

Babylon 5 out here setting up emotional impact trolley problems:

Which is more devastating, losing one recurring character you do know or 2 billion [redacted] you don't know?

[harrykim]

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

[sorenkingsley]

[jazzypizzaz]

aww… Nog has been in Starfleet for twenty-five years at this point, is a Captain, and he still holds Worf as his role model. ❤

[chimaerakitten]

I have just enough knowledge about archaeologists working for the American federal government to write the most boring stargate: SG1 fanfiction ever put to page. Everyone be thankful I have not inflicted it upon you.

[beatrice-otter]

I would love to read a fic about the bureaucracy and Daniel and contractor levels/pay grades. with like. Goa'uld attacks in the background, largely ignored by the fic.

[wafflelovingbatgirl]

Please please please make Daniel deal with endless sterile shovel test pits in a Section 110 project but in space.

[chimaerakitten]

#he deserves it for being an ancient aliens conspiracy theorist#the fact that he was right is irrelevant

@wafflelovingbatgirl truly you are so correct. In my heart the whole Osiris plot line with Daniel’s old archaeology friends involves someone having to explain to the rest of SG1 that everyone cut ties with him completely not because he exploded his career with a crazy theory, but because they all think he’s just horrifically racist. Everyone was so relieved when he took a quiet CRM job in Colorado instead of writing the next Fingerprints of the Gods

[wafflelovingbatgirl]

I don’t think they think Daniel got a CRM job, I think they believe he got chased out of academia so bad for being racist he started working as the department head for a random government installation. Technically true.

[specialagentartemis]

Ryland Grace blowing up his academic career seems primarily by coming off as stubborn, uncollaborative, and willing to get in public fights with his more-established colleagues over exoplanet composition, resulting in him being politely but firmly denied job opportunities and research positions and turned down by potential collaborators because no one wants to deal with that. He’s too early-career for that to be an attitude anyone wants to put up with and mostly makes him register as Difficult To Work With. This is definitely a Type Of Guy.

Daniel Jackson blowing up his academic career is because he thinks aliens built the pyramids. No matter how polite he is about it or how sweet a guy he is, he still thinks aliens built the pyramids. This makes him register as a turbo racist conspiracy theorist who everyone is embarrassed whenever he’s brought up. This is a very different Type Of Guy. However this is a Type Of Guy who everyone piles into his SAA panel and fills up the room because they want to gawk at what the Racist Conspiracy Theorist is saying about ancient aliens this time.

[chimaerakitten]

Canon always seems to go in the direction of “Daniel is sad because absolutely nobody listens to him” which is a crime. We were robbed of “Daniel is sad because the only people who listen to him are 1. Graham Hancock fans and 2. Grad students who are obviously only here so they can roast him after”

[specialagentartemis]

Hahahaha oh nooo that is Significantly worse… I would be sad too 😭

#the show never addresses it because it can’t draw attention to the cracks in its own premise this way #but I think Daniel as a character only works if he hates pseudoarchaeology even MORE than the average archaeologist #because they make him look bad! #unfortunately he can never express in a way that makes anyone think he’s NOT a racist crackpot #because anyone he tells will just think it’s racist crackpot infighting

Daniel Jackson INSULTED and DESPONDENT that Graham Hancock thinks they’re buddies against the Establishment is making me crack up. The worst insult!!!

[chimaerakitten]

Graham Hancock: “my colleague, Dr. Daniel Jackson—”

Daniel:

[captainrina]

SG-1: The United States government spends countless millions of its taxpayers' dollars on a program to explore other planets, only to discover Canada.

SGA: Several governments spend countless millions of their taxpayers' dollars on a program to explore another galaxy, only to discover even more Canada.

[chimaerakitten]

I have just enough knowledge about archaeologists working for the American federal government to write the most boring stargate: SG1 fanfiction ever put to page. Everyone be thankful I have not inflicted it upon you.

[beatrice-otter]

I would love to read a fic about the bureaucracy and Daniel and contractor levels/pay grades. with like. Goa'uld attacks in the background, largely ignored by the fic.

[slippery-domjot-balls]

Did any of you notice the Nausicaans playing darts in the background?

S4 E16 Bar Association

[respocked]

Quark: Doesn't that hurt?

Brunt: I'm sure it does. Most Nausicaan games do. Speaking of pain - did you talk to your brother?

[computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett]

Fun fact, those aren't just any background actors; They're James Lomas and Shawn McConnell, real professional darts players who also worked as "dart advisors" on DS9! McConnell even went on to become a professional stuntman in things like Daredevil (2003) and True Detective.

Moral of the story: It's always a worth it to hire highly skilled pros just to have them perform their job as incorrectly as possible, For The Bit™

[writergeekrhw]

I am stupidly proud of this bit.

(Also... I'm pretty sure the way we did this was to have the pro dart players throw actual darts at each other and hit corkboards built into their costumes. God bless those guys.)

[sg1]

Stargate SG-1, 07.08 Space Race

[respocked]

I have seen many people say that the think the main DS9 cast has too little women in it, and I personally agree. So, discussion question - if you could make one of the existing main male characters into a woman (like in the actual show, not fanfic), who would you pick? And why & what do you think would change about their writing as a result?

Who should have been a woman?

Benjamin Sisko

Julian Bashir

Odo

Worf

Quark

Jake Sisko

Miles O'Brien

Other/Multiple/Show Answers/N/A

Voting ended onApr 20

If a character is not on this poll, it's because I don't consider them a main character (like Rom, Nog or Garak), but I do know that with an ensemble show the line is kind of blurry, so of course feel free to suggest other characters too. (and don't yell at me, I'm mostly basing this on who's in the main cast photoshoots!)

(Also I'm aware that many consider Odo to be nonbinary, but I don't think that's how he's written in the show itself.)

I think this is interesting to ponder bc if a lot of these characters are written as Men. For example, I think my pick would be O'Brien, bc a working class married butch lesbian experiencing the horrors (and taking her shirt off) in star trek would have been legendary. But O'Brien's writing is so rooted in masculinity and gender roles that a lot of her characterization would make little sense without it (for example the heterosexual bonding with Bashir & his whole marriage). And I don't think I'd like the first lesbian marriage in Trek to be as messy as the O'Briens get - although we could then also make Keiko a man, which would again change a lot of things in how she's written.

[whatthefoucault]

This was so difficult for me to answer that I couldn't pick one. It kind of depends, really. Like from the standpoint of it still being a 90s show and not being totally confident that they'd have handled it great when it wasn't coded into Alien Species Are Different Explanation that we can then read queerness into, while I have a lot of feelings about a nonbinary transfem Odo situation in theory (changing literally nothing else about the character) I have worries it could be handled really badly in practice.

Miles is interesting. Assuming Miles is still married to Keiko, and still has the friendship with Bashir, we could have a friendship that's a bit less bro-coded in ways that I'm ehh about, and a close buddy relationship between a strong, rectangular (and she's still rectangular) butch lesbian and her bi autistic bestie? They could still do holosuite adventures together and, idk, paint Warhammer figurines or whatever and talk about girls. Again, do I trust the largely non-sapphic writing staff to write an overtly queer friendship in a way that feels authentic? I don't know. Sometimes it seems like, especially back in the day, it was easier to code these things in, and they'd likely have been subject to more executive meddling. So I don't know. (Bonus points if Keiko is still trying her best to get a throuple going with Kira)

Jake is fun! How would the relationship with his dad change? Would it change at all? Would much of anything change? Would the writers maybe rethink the number of times (which is more than once, and once is too many) teenaged Jacinda ends up in some kind of romance with an older man? Also, still best friends with Nog. Now, Nog also being a girl adds some interesting nuance as well. Obviously she can't be going around the station nude all the time, so her choosing to wear clothes and go to school could start out as a sort of teenage rebellion that both her dad and her uncle have their respective objections to, but eventually come to recognise what a unique young woman she is and her family is super proud of her and and and

ok yeah my answer is Nog

[thinkinginklingon]

Worf. But. No change to Worf's character in TNG and the TNG movies. Just upon arrival at DS9, something is different.

[fictionalred]

reblog or the tribble gets it

[fictionalred]

remember that star trek librarian that was called Atoz .. get it ... A to Z ... they thought they were clever huh