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aquamonstra · 4 months

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I think it says a lot about the sad state of Hollywood that none of the live action nutrek series have had the balls to set their stories after Voyager, and I think it's because they're too big of fucking cowards to address the issues of the rights and autonomy behind artificial intelligence set in motion in both Voyager and TNG.

Like I get it there's a bunch of interesting stuff that happened between present day and TOS but FUCK THAT SHIT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER VOYAGER!?!?!?!?!?!?

#im sure people are going to come at me telling me there are books and games but i am SPECIFICALLY TALKING LIVE ACTION HERE #I WANT THE HUMAN REALIZED FUTURE #THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF STAR TREK #IS MAKING A STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL SCI FI FUTURE THAT WE CAN SEE OURSELVES IN #THAT FEELS SO REAL AND TANGIBLE AND RELATABLE THAT WE FEEL INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN #THAT WAS GENES VISION #WE NEED MORE OF THAT #who do i have to fight to get put in charge of a new live action trek series and DO THIS SHIT RIGHT #star trek #star trek voyager

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cantsayidont · 5 months

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Despite its protestations of progressive values, STAR TREK media has always explicitly presented (and, with only fleeting exceptions, consistently celebrated) the Federation as an expansionist imperial power, engaged in a large-scale project of colonialism.

The usual apologia/rationalization for this, both from the franchise itself and from its fans, is that the Federation is also a post-scarcity socialist utopia. However, that is expressly not the case in TOS, despite the attempts of the later series to insist otherwise.

Indeed, the plots of some of the most famous and acclaimed episodes of TOS are specifically about resource extraction and ensuring the Federation's access to crucial resources, including lithium (in "Mudd's Women"), pergium (in "The Devil in the Dark"), and dilithium (in "Mirror, Mirror," et al). We are told repeatedly that the Enterprise has a mandate to use force to secure these resources if gentler methods fail. Moreover, while the Federation has a strategic interest in these resources, it's clear at various points in TOS that their extraction and exploitation are, to a significant extent if not exclusively, overseen by private interests for profit. For instance, in "Mudd's Women," Harry Mudd remarks:

Well, girls, lithium miners. Don't you understand? Lonely, isolated, overworked, rich lithium miners! Girls, do you still want husbands, hmm? Evie, you won't be satisfied with a mere ship's captain. I'll get you a man who can buy you a whole planet. Maggie, you're going to be a countess. Ruth, I'll make you a duchess. And I, I'll be running this starship. Captain James Kirk, the next orders you're taking will be given by Harcourt Fenton Mudd!

In "The Devil in the Dark," Kirk ultimately takes a regulatory position — he will not permit the pergium miners to kill the Horta or continue to destroy her eggs — but at no point does he suggest that stopping the pergium production that threatens the Horta is a viable or even acceptable alternative. The accord he proposes is contingent on the Horta's agreement that she and her children will support the mining efforts on her planet, since Kirk emphasizes that "a dozen planets" are depending on the miners to supply needed pergium. (What would have happened to her if she hadn't agreed is not stated, but the episode strongly suggests that she would have been severely punished for noncompliance with Kirk's mediated solution: forcibly relocated to some kind of Horta reservation away from the main mining operations, perhaps.) When the Horta does agree to this proposal, Kirk assures Vanderberg, "you people are going to be embarrassingly rich," which once again suggests that while the miners may have contractual agreements to delivery pergium to Federation worlds, they are still a private, for-profit business, not a Federation department or nationalized entity.

Profit is also Ron Tracey's motivation for breaking the Prime Directive in "The Omega Glory": He believes that he's discovered a "fountain of youth" that he can own, monopolize, and exploit, and that the value of that resource will be enough to buy his way out of legal trouble for his regulatory violations.

We mostly don't see the Enterprise crew handle money except on away missions in other cultures or times, but there are a number of indications that the Federation in this era has not abandoned money: For instance, Harry Mudd's list of past offenses includes purchasing a space vessel "with counterfeit currency," while in "The Apple," Kirk rhetorically asks if Spock knows how much Starfleet has invested in him, which Spock begins to answer, "One hundred twenty-two thousand two hundred …" before Kirk cuts him off. More tellingly, in "I, Mudd," we have the following exchange:

KIRK: All right, Harry, explain. How did you get here? We left you in custody after that affair on the Rigel mining planet. MUDD: Yes, well, I organized a technical information service bringing modern industrial techniques to backward planets, making available certain valuable patents to struggling young civilizations throughout the galaxy. KIRK: Did you pay royalties to the owners of those patents? MUDD: Well, actually, Kirk, as a defender of the free enterprise system, I found myself in a rather ambiguous conflict as a matter of principle. SPOCK: He did not pay royalties. MUDD: Knowledge, sir, should be free to all. KIRK: Who caught you? MUDD: That, sir, is an outrageous assumption. KIRK: Yes. Who caught you? MUDD: I sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesizer. KIRK: And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.

Whether Deneb is a member of the Federation at this time is unclear, but Vulcan certainly is, and so we may assume that Vulcan and presumably the Federation itself are also part of "the free enterprise system."

The first indication that the Federation does not use money is in STAR TREK IV, and it's not obvious there if Kirk's remark that "They're still using money" is talking about money more broadly or just physical currency, which the Federation may have phased out even if it still uses credit or electronic transfers of monetary value. (Certainly, McCoy's attempt in STAR TREK III to charter a starship indicates that he had some means of paying for passage, since the captain of the ship specifically demands more money upon learning of the intended destination.)

If we accept at face value the assertion of TNG and DS9 that the Federation has genuinely abandoned the use of money, rather than simply going cashless, the most reasonable Watsonian explanation is that this has been a relatively recent development during the 70–80 years between the TOS cast movies and TNG, most likely related to the development of replication technology (which the Federation did not yet have in Kirk's time).

Of course, from a Doylist standpoint, we could chalk up some of this incidental dialogue to the franchise's evolving construction of its own setting, in the same manner as anomalous references to Vulcans as "Vulcanians." Roddenberry and his apologists might also insist that he always meant to depict a socialist utopia, but was prevented by the nattering nabobs of negativity (i.e., the network's BS&P); I'm very skeptical of such claims, but the writers were acutely aware that depicting what Earth is like in Kirk's time would be opening a can of worms, which is why we didn't actually see 23rd century Earth (even briefly) until the movies.

However, the focus on resource extraction and its ramifications is such a load-bearing story element in TOS that the revisionist assertion that the Federation was already a post-scarcity socialist utopia in Kirk's time (as both DISCOVERY and STRANGE NEW WORLDS have attempted to claim) would require really substantial retcons of the original show, perhaps to the extent of insisting that some of those events never took place at all, or happened radically differently than what's in the TOS episodes most STAR TREK fans have seen. For me, anyway, that crosses a line from willing suspension of disbelief to "don't trust your lying eyes," and suggests a frustrating and somewhat disturbing determination to insist that TOS is something much purer and nobler than it is rather than grapple with its actual conceptual flaws and ideological shortcomings.

#teevee #star trek #star trek tos #james t kirk #harcourt fenton mudd #spock #gene roddenberry #i love tos -- truly -- but it doesn't claim to depict a utopia #and its hypocrisies and moral failings are substantial #i am very disgruntled by strange new worlds and discovery #because they clearly WANT to redo tos #but rather than rebooting it to align with their current vision #they've opted for this revisionist death-by-a-thousand-retcons approach

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o-bromio · 1 year

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Julian Bashir / ‘I’m Autistic (I Don’t Get Social Cues)’ - BJ Connolly

Enjoy.

#idk what else to say #is this gene’s vision?#star trek ds9 #garashir #julian bashir #elim garak #song is ‘I’m Autistic (I Don’t Get Social Cues)’ by BJ Connolly #star trek edit #my edit

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jinkiesmariz · 1 year

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Nvm I have a small meal for gene likers hello I need him to chase me with a knife I think

#mystreet gene #gene #mcd gene #Aphmau gene #Aphblr #doodle #mys gene #gene mystreet #I think it’d be so fine if him to act like a piece of shit before stabbing me #idk I got a vision and couldn’t do anything except make it real #I have an exam later today what the hell #anyways look at my pretty princess #ghost face au #he would make a wonderful killer #I’ll be his final girl any day #jinks art

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osaemu · 7 months

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fighting the voices tellin me to write gojo's dad

#✧ — stfu #OK GUYS HEAR ME OUT #DILF GOJO !#do u guys see my vision here #like damn gojo's hot but imagine where he gets the genes from #CAN U GUYS TELL THAT IM GOING INSANE.

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cloudtail · 2 years

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#flywhisker #flypaw #flykit #thunderclan #kittypet #a vision of shadows #the broken code #graystripe's vow #spotfur's rebellion #fav character #she got all the windclan genes

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bellpaw · 4 months

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listened to bob’s burgers, drew some avos sillies

#my art #fanart #warrior cats #warriors #thunderclan #skyclan #twigbranch #violetshine #tree #tree wc #avos #a vision of shadows #i was pretty satisfied w my twig and violet designs so they’re pretty much the exact same #my tree however needed WORK so.#the song is sunny side up summer from bobs burgers! and their parts are tina louise and genes respectively

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thebestcomicbookpanels · 4 months

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Avengers #63 by Gene Colan

#the best comic book panels #marvel comics #marvel #gene colan #avengers #thor #vision #wasp #captain america #hank pym #iron man #goliath #clint barton

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comic-covers · 11 months

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Marvel Super-Heroes Featuring Captain Marvel #13, March 1968, Pencils: Gene Colan, Inks: Frank Giacoia

#Captain Marvel #comic book #1968 #Super-Heroes #comics #Gene Colan #cover art #Frank Giacoia #The Sentry #Sub-Mariner #Captain America #The Human Torch #Vision #comic books

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scalproie · 10 months

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I know Lars has been casted in the role of "The Good Mishima" so deep in my heart I know he's gonna stick with Jin to the end and theyre gonna Save The World from big bad evil Kaz together and theyre gonna be such good family without aknowledging that theyre family at any point and I know tekken HATES subtlety

But MAN what I wouldnt give for a scenario where, in the possibility that Jin DOES take out Kaz, Kaz's warning to Lars that "All Mishimas eventually turn on one another" realizes itself, with Jin seeing yet another family member turn on him bc "the devil gene is too dangerous to be left alive" and with Kaz gone, Jin is the only host of the devil gene. Mannn imagine Lars pulling a gun on Jin the very same way Heihachi did on him in tekken 3, which awoken the devil gene in Jin in the first place, and Lars having the same "Getting the world rid of the devil gene" excuse as Heihachi but meaning it this time and being overall more noble, but still. Lars accidentally looking like Heihachi.

#DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY VISION #DO YOU SEE THE POETIC IRONY AND HOW KAZUYA'S WORDS TO LARS COME BACK INTO THIS?#THE TRAGEDY OF THE DEVIL GENE'S HOLDERS WHERE THEY KEEP GETTING FUCKED OVER BY FAMILY MEMBERS #HOW UNJUST IT WOULD BE TO SEE HEIHACHI INDIRECTLY WINNING THRU HIS DEVIL GENE-FREE SON #it would never happen but still. a poetic end it would be #tagging later #tekken

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mcdgarroth · 6 months

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Dante angst again?? Is this my brand now??

#I actually put a lot of thought on how the lyrics would fit please understand my vision 😭#aphmau #aphmau mcd #mcd #minecraft diaries #aphmau minecraft diaries #dante mcd #dante minecraft diaries #dante aphmau #gene mcd #gene minecraft diaries #gene aphmau #laurance zvahl #garroth ro'meave #mcd edit #minecraft diaries edit #Aphmau edit

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son1c · 1 year

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i loveee making shadow creature this fucking bastard has shitty hedgehog night vision and little ears that twitch and swivel motherfucker!!!!!!!

#don't care if the night vision part is compliant with his fucked up alien genes!!!!!!!!!! i'm the captain of this ship yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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bpod-bpod · 4 days

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Faulty Photocopies

Duplication of the gene that encodes the retinal protein rhodopsin that's sensitive to dim light is a newly-identified genetic fault underlying cases of the inherited vision-degenerating disease retinitis pigmentosa. The study uses human retinal organoids – lab-grown tissue that behaves as a 'disease-in-a-dish' – to gain further insights

Read the published article here

Image from work by Sangeetha Kandoi and colleagues

Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, April 2024

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#science #biomedicine #neuroscience #biology #eyes #eyesight #vision #retinitis pigmentosa #retina #gene mutation

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fairyoctopus · 14 days

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i really want to make a gyuuki dragon (spider ox yokai/oni) and so sandsurges are the best option since they have chitin/their horns are kind of bull-esque...

but i Cannot come up with a good scry that looks cool for a gyuuki...

#im thinking wrought as the primary gene but. idk man. auughh #i probably need a good accent to slap on them but i just looked and none of them share my vision.

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ungoliantschilde · 1 year

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