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i could stand maybe ten seconds tops of a DRD sadly singing 1812 Overture as it died of radiation damage until I’d have to climb into the fuckin condiut myself to save it

he was just doing that because it’s a neat trick

i’m maybe a third of the way into macguyver and nana visitor has already played two seperate characters

This pattern is driven by an increase in unhappiness among young people both in absolute terms and relative to older people.

also look at the graph in the article, the yellow line representing 2024 is signifigantly lower before 35 than any point on the blue line representing 2005-2018

as someone approaching my 30s in america this sounds consistent with both my experience and many of my peers. our education system is more or less a trauma machine, and couple that with the demise of “third places” (places that aren’t school or home for kids to hang out in without having to spend money) and the general state of the world being hard for even adult minds fo wrap around… our world is a difficult and unpleasant place to be a kid. it ain’t a cakewalk being an adult either but it is relatively better with a relative increase in agency and more experience dealing with everything

actually either i would probably have to switch seats with O’Brien halfway through because Mariner keeps poking the back of his head and then turning away when he turns around

3 feels like the “right” answer but 7 would absolutely be the most fun

i love both shows but i don’t think they’re really comparable. LD is a very very very good spinoff but it can’t be the tentpole Trek series, whereas SNW was more or less engineered to be that for this generation

“No, you should totally go on this one, captain. Take the XO too. We’ll be fine. We’re all far too busy, uh, reversing the polarity of the deflector dish, and we definitely deleted the template for Romulan ale from the replicators for good this time. Also the transporter is on the fritz so you should probably take a shuttle, and then stay down there and see the sights to make it worth it.”

I’ve had a few old cars where you had to turn off the AC in order to accelerate fast enough to use a highway on-ramp. presumably if you get a lemon of a starship off craigslist, you need to disable life support to go to warp

it suprises me that this sentiment isn’t more common. i don’t hate the other movies, but they’re more movies with the Trek characters and world than they are Star Trek in a movie format. with it’s allegorical but ultimately hopeful story, VI really did feel like Star Trek proper, just with a bigger budget and longer runtime. The Motion Picture had the same spirit but loses points for just bolting 2001 and the Nomad probe episode together, and I’d like to think that Into Darkness could have been a modern-at-the-time Undiscovered Country if they didn’t spend the whole runtime failing to be a modern Wrath of Khan

the duct tape and WD-40 of the SGC. need something in motion to stop? blast door. need something stationary to start moving? C4 baby

good of you to include pike’s hair as a complaint, that way we know who to space

that’s why your time machine has to be a vehicle, like a delorean. you just drive to where the earth was, problem solved!

riker fucking anything that moves and playing trombone checks out. life on a starship is just extended band camp for him

there’s a good joke in here somewhere about Babylon 5’s canonically lesbian XO throwing a fit when the station got a gift shop. “we’re not some deep space franchise, this station is about something!”

if you combine the ratings for Discovery and Knuckles, you get to the third position on the chart. Paramount, you know what must be done…

young ferengi takes human expression “break a leg” too literally

if i had a nickel for every time Spock faced off against a unique species of cat-like predator from Vulcan, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

yeah but what episode of star trek was he in???