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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - S5E6 Trials and Tribble-ations

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Steve Oster [producer of DS9] - about 4.06 - Rejoined

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spock’s room decor is actually fucking bonkers. The weapons??? the big red velvet curtain??? like ok phantom of the opera go crazy.

for reference jim’s room has some photos and a plant so we can surmise this is uniquely a spock being a dramatic weirdo thing

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I love star trek fans & I think the reason why it's so much more bearable than most Fandom Spaces I've been in is because it's old enough to have like, developed a stable ecosystem. You know. Also you have to be a very specific type of person to get really into star trek. It's like a secluded forest

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i hate high-budget star trek you have no business with that. put a unicorn hat on a cocker spaniel. wear felt

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When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

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My favorite thing about “Whom the Gods Destroy” is that Spock, when faced with a classic doppelgänger situation, does not even BOTHER to try to figure out which Kirk is the real Kirk. Instead he responds with basically “You can’t stay like that forever. I’ll wait.” AND PULLS UP A CHAIR.

King behavior.

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boys who can pull off facial hair are hot

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Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. 

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we all knew some star trek embroidery was imminent, surely?

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Move Along Home

whenever the party goes to a different plane of existence, take out a board game and put their miniatures on the board.

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I think it is very important for new Star Trek fans, especially new TOS fans to know that in 2008, George Takei, who played Sulu, got married to his partner of 23 years, Brad Altman, and at their wedding, Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, and Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, served as Best Lady and Best Man.

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wholesome 3

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I’ve only got three possible reactions to watching a TOS episode:

“I can’t believe this aired” (the worst plot you’ve ever seen on tv)

“I can’t believe this aired” (a piece of media so beyond its time and still relevant to today’s discussions, that I’m surprised it didn’t got censored at the time it went on air)

“I can’t believe this aired” (gay as fuck)

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