#source: star trek: deep space 9

[enockhe]

Caliandra: Galacu was more than a hero. He was a union man!

#incorrect quotes #Caliandra #Galacu #Caliandra and Galacu #crowfeathers #source: star trek: deep space 9

[cunning-and-cool]

i think cardassian's should have a term of endearment that translates to "secret keeper"

#my source: vibes #the vibes are telling me. and have been for a month #star trek #deep space nine #ds9 #deep space 9 #cardassians #cardassia #elim garak #garak #garashir #because u know garak would call julian that. if only in his head.

[cowboychekov]

julian: you set me on fire

garak: real suede wouldn’t have gone up so fast. you got robbed— this is a blend.

julian: YOU. SET. ME. ON. FIRE.

#source: incorrect-hamlet-quotes #star trek #julian bashir #elim garak #garashir #ds9 #star trek ds9 #star trek deep space 9

[justlemmesignin]

I could not stop thinking about the outfit Garak wore in the fic ‘All is Fair in Love and War’ by Syaunei, so you know I HAD to get it out of my system.

I’m not very good with colors, if anyone wants to step in and finish the drawing, be my guest.

#elim garak #garak #ds9 #star trek ds9 #deep space 9 #deep space nine #myart #he was supposed to have tight pants :(( #but I checked the source material after Ive already drawn in the baggier pants #garashir #garak x bashir #ooooooh boi did I have fun drawing this #I havent had so much fun with my art in a long long time #my art #my blorbo

[quietduckpond]

Kira, about Garak: I just don't think you should be spending time with him. He's a war criminal!

Julian: In what war is he a criminal? The battle for our affections?

#julian bashir #elim garak #kira nerys #star trek #ds9 #deep space 9 #deep space nine #source: community

[geekysteven]

[Image description Tweet from Oritart "Star Trek is so woke now that if they remade deep space 9 the captain would be black, the first officer would be a woman, they'd have two trans people, and they'd paint a hardworking businessman as a greedy moralless capitalist"] Source

#star trek #image described #image description added #described images #star trek deep space nine #star trek deep space 9 #deep space nine #st deep space nine #st ds9 #star trek ds9 #ds9 #quark ds9 #quark #Trans #ezri dax #jadzia dax #Dax #Trill #captain sisko #benjamin sisko #kira nerys #major kira nerys

[thesixthplaneteer]

So excited I got @crownedinmarigolds into something Sci-fi and it's Star Trek! We watched a season and a half of Voyager and switched to Deep space 9. Of course we immediately came up with a ship that has all of our OCs on it as Starfleet officers. It's also got me inspired to write about it so here is a lil tid bit of what I've been working on. They are aboard the USS Antumbra, a Nova class ship under the command of Captain Carver Delroux. Their mission is to handle the dirty work of Starfleet. Benevolence can only go so far in a galaxy full of warlords and tyrants. They operate off book although they are more of a penal ship and menagerie of misfits rather than strictly covert ops. Sometimes the crimes of the few can be good for the many.

Todays episode is Holodeck Happenings ~below the break~

The warm briney breeze blew through their hair as the cool waves lapped at their feet. The hot sand shifted under them in their crescendoing passion. Nythanel’s hand ran through the coarse hair on Sydney’s chest, while Sydney’s hand gripped the back of Nythanel’s neck. Their minds opened to each other and their desires guided their bodies. It was bliss, ecstasy, excitement. It was a moment long waited for. A perfect scene crafted for them to enjoy each other. Nythanel tugged at the waistband of Sydney’s swimming trunks when their empathic bond was suddenly broken by the sound of someone clearing their throat. They looked at the source of the noise to see the human bartender holding a phaser in his hand, aiming it directly at them.

“Fuck, Sydney!” Nythanel said, pushing himself off of his lover. “I get this enough on away missions, can we not?”

Sydney didn't have to be an empath to know Nythanel was frustrated, but being a Betazoid he felt a hot angry wave radiating off his half Klingon half Romulan lover.

“I didn't program this in.” Sydney said, rolling onto his side. “Computer, remove the bartender and any other hostile elements.”

There was a heavy pause with only the sounds of the waves brushing the beach.

“Nice try, but your tricks don't work on me.” The bartender said.

“Did someone come in?” Nythanel asked, looking back at Sydney.

“No, I'm not picking up on thoughts or feelings-” A phaser shot from the bartender cut Sydney off and reduced his coconut drink to a smolder. He was stunned, unsure and inexperienced in dangerous situations. Being the ship's counselor usually kept him out of these sorts of messes.

“Enough talking. I am part of the United Union Consortium. You two StarFleet officers will be-.”

Nythanel cut him off with a loud guttural yell, throwing a cloud of sand into the man's eyes, causing him to reel back and shoot off a wide shot from his phaser. Nythanel leapt up from the ground and tackled the man. With one double fisted pummel the man was unconscious.

“Just what I needed on my day off.” Nythanel grumbled as he picked up the phaser.

Sydney stood up next to him. “Computer, end holodeck program.” He was met with silence. “It's still not responding. Do you think safety protocols have been disengaged?”

“I have no idea. I think I know a way to test it.” Nythanel replied as he began looking around on the beach.

He found a shell and broke it in half, then dragged the sharp side across his forearm. Green blood welled up from the small cut.

“Yep, no safety protocol.” He said before licking the wound clean.

“What do we do? Surely there has to be some kind of override.” Sydney said, a low panic in his voice.

“This ship is crewed by people that don't exactly adhere to regulations. I doubt there is one. If we're lucky that was the only glitch and Lieutenant Lyubov will shut it down once our time is up.” Nythanel said.

“ Well, that’s an hour and I can think of worse places to be trapped with you.” Sydney said with a smirk, feeling more confident as he stepped close to Nythanel.

That confidence quickly faded as the beach suddenly disappeared, and they found themselves in the middle of an arena with a chanting and roaring crowd. Large braziers with bright flames lit the room. A bat'leth replaced the phaser in Nythanel’s hand. Banners displaying the symbol of the Klingon empire unfurled. At the far end of the arena entered two Klingons, armed with their dreadful blades.

“You take the one on the left, I'll distract the one on the right?” Sydney said uneasily as he awkwardly held up his own bat'leth

“Damnit Sydney…” Nythanel said under his breath as he prepared to fight. ~~To be continued???~~

#star trek #my writing #sydney #nythanel

[cantsayidont]

As much as I still enjoy the older comics and books, my feelings about modern STAR WARS media are at best mixed. Many of the recent streaming shows (with the notable exception of ANDOR) have been especially dire, but to my mind, the rot set in long before that.

There have been a lot of terrible SW tie-ins over the years (the old Bantam novels were so bad that after a while I stopped even bothering to get them from the library), but I'm particularly antipathetic to THE CLONE WARS, which is now emerging as the core text of the new SW universe. (I refer here to the 2008 animated series, not the earlier Genndy Tartakovsky shorts, which I hated and found pointless, but were at least easy to ignore.)

One of the riskiest and most potentially troublesome things a spinoff or tie-in project can do is to go to war with its own source material. This is something that even STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE ended up struggling with, despite that show's strengths; the writers couldn't hide their annoyance with some of the basic premises of the TNG-era future (like the Federation's abandonment of money), which at times became not so much a critique as an expression of writing staff frustration with dramatic rules they didn't make but weren't empowered to change.

That tension is also at the core of THE CLONE WARS, which is driven by an ill-disguised disdain for the SW prequel films the cartoon is ostensibly supposed to bridge. TCW, particularly in the early seasons where Lucas was still directly involved, takes exaggerated care to remain faithful to the details of the prequel storyline (for instance, the assertion in REVENGE OF THE SITH that Obi-Wan Kenobi has never previously met General Grievous face-to-face). However, it also plainly wants to redo the prequels, making their story and characters into something more like what the show's creators would've preferred to see in the first place. (Some of that revisionism may have come from Lucas himself, but it's continued in substantially similar ways since Lucasfilm was swallowed by the Mouse.) It's not hard to see where the creators of TCW are coming from, because the prequels were distinctly disappointing in many respects, from their appalling racism and antisemitic caricatures to their hilariously clunky dialogue to the inept handling of the Anakin-Padme romance. However, in the show's zeal to fix what it sees as the films' flaws, THE CLONE WARS also seeks to dismantle their thematic integrity.

Where Lucas might have taken the SW prequel trilogy if 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq hadn't occurred is anyone's guess, but ATTACK OF THE CLONES and REVENGE OF THE SITH are plainly constructed as a surprisingly angry critique of the politics of the Wubbya era and the invasion of Iraq: The Jedi and the Republic are tricked into going to war on false pretenses, engaging in a conflict whose real purpose is to undermine the foundations of republican government and bring about the rise of a fascist dictatorship. By the end of ATTACK OF THE CLONES, where the war begins, the heroes have already lost: The military they're building is unmistakably an early iteration of the Imperial war machine seen in the original films, and the clone troopers are or will shortly become stormtroopers. Aside from being doomed by the narrative, Anakin Skywalker in Episodes 2 and 3 is a moral and emotional wreck: an immature, unstable young soldier — trained (and used) by an institution with no regard for his well-being that repeatedly urges him to reject normal human connections in favor of acetic martial purity — whose volatility and hazy grasp of right and wrong make him a dangerous, genocidal monster with no compunctions about murdering children in his paranoia and rage. None of the other prequel characters is remotely sympathetic: Obi-Wan Kenobi is a contemptible fool whose stubborn incuriousness (even when Dooku tells him quite directly what's really going on) and blind faith in the institutions he serves contribute materially to both the moral collapse of his apprentice and the ultimate triumph of interstellar fascism. Yoda is by the rules of our world a war criminal, whose eventual response to his failure to defeat Palpatine in single combat is to run away and make the brutal rise of the Empire everybody else's problem. Padme, meanwhile, is Anakin's enabler and apologist (she's an accessory after the fact to an explicit act of genocide, and she marries him anyway!) before becoming another of his victims. That's harrowing stuff, for all its clumsiness of execution, and, Lucas being Lucas, it's not at all subtle.

The central project of THE CLONE WARS is a cowardly obfuscation of the admittedly extreme grimness of the prequel films. It makes Anakin stable and competent, a capable if somewhat reckless leader who's a far cry from his deranged, tantrum-throwing live-action counterpart, a compassionate mentor with his own adorable teenage apprentice rather than a child-murdering fascist lunatic. The show also works overtime to rehabilitate Obi-Wan, Padme, and Yoda (who really doesn't deserve it). More alarmingly than that, TCW seeks to legitimize what the live-action films present as an unequivocally phony war, and blunt the edges of the prequels' original critique. In the films, the clones embody a military-industrial complex that's fundamentally inimical to the survival of justice or democracy — manufactured soldiers (and, pointedly, men of color) who are considered disposable war materiel even by the Jedi, and who are conditioned to follow any order delivered in a reasonably authoritative tone of voice. THE CLONE WARS wants desperately to reassure you that the clones are actually good guys (which it seeks to accomplish in part by making them white), noble and heroic true friends of our Jedi heroes who would obey them even if they didn't have to, and whose eventual heel turn has to be mechanically coerced. Moreover, TCW and its repulsive spinoff, THE BAD BATCH, take pains to distance the clones from the stormtroopers of the original films, qualitatively, morally, and ethically. Of course they're not stormtroopers who carry out massacres without question (even though we see them do just that in REVENGE OF THE SITH and in flashbacks to that period), they're Good Soldiers and heroes! They're victims of the evil space-wizard, just like the Jedi children and innocent people we watched them slaughter, and most of them feel terrible about it! The clones can't be bad guys, because then people wouldn't want to buy their toys. It's as disingenuous and cynical as the live-action films were dark, and it's completely nonsensical within the narrative bounds Lucas originally set out.

I'm not very fond of the prequels, which were not what I would have expected or wanted to see, and I can't blame Lucasfilm people for feeling similarly. However, I think that some creative levers really only go one way: You can take something simplistic and make it complex, or take something that's pretty black and white and introduce many shades of gray, but going the other way rarely works, and often feels insulting to boot. I did see the prequels, even though I didn't enjoy them very much, and while I don't begrudge anyone for wanting something lighter and less doomstruck, trying to tell me those movies were about something different than they obviously were has an "Ignore your lying eyes" vibe that I'm always going to find suspect.

#movies #animation #star wars #this is a clone wars hate blog #i don't dislike ahsoka in the cartoons #but as soon as she was introduced my thought was #“great -- a teenage apprentice for anakin to eventually murder” #and indeed the only reason she survives her confrontation with vader #is that ezra resorts to time travel to save her at the last minute #live-action ahsoka is weirdly amoral #and has no dramatic direction worth mentioning

[awesomealienshowdown]

Awesome Aliens 2: Round 1

You are free to @ me with your propoganda, but you can also send it in via ask or submission! The box is always open! I split the bracket into two - "popular" and "niche". This is all based on what I know of the characters, their source material, and fanbases, so I apologize in advance for any inaccuracies. I did it this way to give some of the more obscure characters a fair chance and not to be utterly wiped out by Optimus Prime or Spock. Or Kirby.

And with everyone in, here are the matchups! Because there's so many, I'm putting it under a cut. All will have their polls linked as soon as I've got them up. Every poll lasts for a week.

Remember, everyone - keep it civil, keep it fun, we're here to have a good time. If your nominee didn't make it, please understand I narrowed down individuals based on how many votes they had and then just picked randomly between ties.

LEFT SIDE (high-popularity or very well-known sources and characters)

Freiza (Dragon Ball) vs Kartana (Pokemon)

Benrey (HLVRAI) vs Black Doom (Shadow the Hedgehog)

Deoxys (Pokemon) vs Venom (Marvel)

The Mayor (Homestuck) vs Tali'Zorah (Mass Effect)

Optimus Prime (Transformers) vs Kirby (Kirby)

King Dedede (Kirby) vs Bumblebee (Transformers)

AL-AN (Subnautica) vs Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)

Starmaker (Courage the Cowardly Dog) vs Spock (Star Trek)

Vortigaunt (Half-Life) vs The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Peridot (Steven Universe) vs Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect)

Giygas (Earthbound) vs Vash (Trigun)

Xenomorph (Alien) vs Piccolo (Dragon Ball)

Martian Manhunter (DC Comics) vs Keroro (Keroro Gunsou)

Stitch (Lilo and Stitch) vs Luma (Super Mario Galaxy)

The Collector (The Owl House) vs The Impostor (Among Us)

Kilowog (DC Comics) vs Robot Randy (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

RIGHT SIDE (low-popularity, not very well-known sources and characters, or anyone that just didn't quite make it for the other half)

Rappy (Phantasy Star) vs Bomberman (Bomberman)

Trazyn the Infinite (Warhammer 40k) vs Omega-Xis (Mega Man Star Force)

Akai Tsubasa (Kaitou Joker) vs N. Trance (Crash Bandicoot)

Evolt (Kamen Rider Build) vs Neil/Silver (Coffee Talk)

BOB (Slime Rancher) vs Stinger (Uchuu Sentai Kyuuranger)

Gallaxhar (Monsters vs Aliens) vs Naga Ray (Uchuu Sentai Kyuuranger)

Londo Mollari (Babylon 5) vs Nitros Oxide (Crash Bandicoot)

Prince Baka (Level E) vs Kugo Yuuma (World Trigger)

Utahoshi Kengo (Kamen Rider Fourze) vs Orbulon (WarioWare)

Talita Dospaco (Runaway to the Stars) vs Ultraman Tiga (Ultraman Tiga)

Rlain (Stormlight Archive) vs Zim (Invader Zim)

Brain Guy (MST3K) vs Ootori Gen (Ultraman)

Mercury (Mega Man Classic) vs Mommy Martian (Backyardigans)

Brain-Eating Meteor (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) vs Lard Nar (Invader Zim)

Pollination Tech#9 Smith (The Sims) vs Kirby (Chicken Little 2005)

Ghazghkhull Thraka (Warhammer 40k) vs Nei (Phantasy Star 2)

#Awesome Aliens 2 Round 1

[artofthemindblog]

Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

A House with Many Rooms Interview 2

We are delighted to speak with Karin Valis, machine-learning engineer and esoteric explorer, on the vast subject of how the fields of artificial intelligence and magic overlap, intertwine, and inform each other. We discuss:

The uncanny oracular effects and synchronistic weirdnesses exhibited by large language models,

Conversations with ChatGPT considered as invocation,

AI as the fulfilment of the dream of the homonculus (with the attendant ethical problems which arise),

AI as the fulfilment of esoteric alphanumeric cosmologies (and maybe, like the Sepher Yetsirah, this isn’t so esoteric after all; maybe it’s just science),

And much more.

Interview Bio:

Karin Valis is a Berlin-based machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on combining technology with the esoteric, with projects such as Tarot of the Latent Spaces (visual extraction of the Major Arcana Archetypes) and Cellulare (a tool for exploring digital non-ordinary reality for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe). She co-hosted workshops, talks and panel discussions such as Arana in the Feed (Uroboros 2021), Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript (Trans-States 2022) and Remembering Our Future: Shamanism, Oracles and AI (NYU Shanghai 2022). She writes Mercurial Minutes and hosts monthly meetings of the occult and technology enthusiasts Gnostic Technology.

Works Cited in this Episode (roughly in the order cited):

The homonculus passage in the Pseudo-Clementines: Homilies 3.26; cf. Recognitions 2.9, 10, 13–15; 3.47.

On the Book of the Cow/Liber vaccæ: see e.g. Liana Saif. The Cows and the Bees: Arabic Sources and Parallels for Pseudo- Plato’s Liber Vaccæ (Kitab al-Nawams). Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXXIX:147, 2016.

‘The Measure of a Man’, Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 9, first aired 13 February, 1989.

Doctor Strange, dir. Scott Derrickson, 2016 Marvel Studios.

Recommended Reading:

Karin has a substack where she posts interesting things. Her recent essay Divine Embeddings is particularly relevant to the discussion of alphanumericism in the interview.

#history of science #ai #artificial intelligence #ai art #philosophy of science #history #media theory #magic #history of mathematics #history of computing #history of religion #the digital age #alchemy #kabbalism #golem #homunculi #homuncus fallacy #western esoteric tradition #marx and computing #marx and mysticism #the digital #shwep #the critical tradition

[child-of-hurin]

Tagged by @chthonic-cassandra o/

Last song:

Last show: Amazon's Rings of Power... I don't watch a lot of TV

Last movie: This was not in the original meme but I love movies, so I took the liberty of adding this :) I watched "Decision to leave" on mubi, it's visually stunning, gorgeous. This director has a very specific style when it comes to scripts and character building and I never completely vibe with it tbh; that said, this is my favorite movie of his that I have watched, and I really liked the ending.

Currently watching: We have slowly been watching Star Trek Deep Space 9, Kate loves it and convinced me to give it a try, even though I haven't watched any other Star Trek. We're on Season 4, I'm having a great time so far! It's such a Feeling to see something so directly and unabashedly informed by 90's international politics... I'm kind of fascinated by the zeitgeist of the 90's in international politics, the brief time window between the believable end of the Cold War and the global shift after the attack on the Twin Towers in the US, and that show is in deep conversation with it, it's very interesting... Also the antics hehehe :) I love all characters.

Currently reading: "The Fall of Númenor" and I'm not enjoying it very much. I think I was expecting a historical approach like Chris Tolkien's in the History of Middle Earth, but it's phrased more as a sort of guide or compendium, and a lot of the information there is stated but not sourced -- and a lot of it is just not interesting to me on a narrative/world-building level, & at times it even impoverishes the established material from the Silmarilion and the Unfinished Tales, from my perspective. I distract myself by imagining it was written by a pious early Gondorian :P

Current obsession: Fandom-wise I'm gently phasing out of Queen's Thief -- I'm still interested, but no longer thinking about it 24/7! What is currently plaguing my thoughts is just specific aspects of the same general thing that I'm always thinking of, which is the challenge of de-catechization.

Tagging @vardasvapors @hadrianspaywall @medievalcat @kareenvorbarra @anghraine @thelioninmybed @dontbotherwiththepronunciation @yavieriel and anyone else who feels like it :^)

#meme #Youtube

[dateamonster]

A weird thought that kind of hung out in my head for a while that is sort of relevant to this blog's theme, but also kind of isn't, but I'm honestly not sure, but I have no better place to dump it into, so whatever. Feel free to ignore this if you're not interested >>

Yautja. Predators. However you want to call them. They have a very particular, hunting and honor-centric cultural mindset. But. What would it be like for someone in their culture to just... not be into that? There are people who are basically entirely averse to romance, in spite of how central it is in our culture, so how would some who is, uh... akynig, not interested in hunting? And how would such a person, perhaps, adapt to another society, lacking this aspect of Yautja culture but carrying across many others?

The worldbuilding nut in me is always excited about those things but it is a very rare opportunity to discuss it in any manner >>

i dont rly know anything abt the predator film franchise so i cant rly add much but i do enjoy the idea of like. alien cultures and what that means for the individuals within that culture.

idk how comparable this is but i was just recently watching a video that was talking abt the ferengi from star trek and how upon their original introduction they were kinda this one note species because their sole characteristic was being a hyper capitalistic culture built around hoarding wealth, but in deep space 9 we start to actually see individual ferengi characters outside the context of this monolithic cultural concept and come to understand that their greed is not like some innate personal trait but the result of the values and demands of ferengi society.

theres def a larger discussion to be had abt the way a lot of popular scifi tends to narrow entire planets worth of people down to singular traits and how thats kind of a major weakness when it comes to like world building and imagining alternate societies, but when thats a thing the franchise is already doing it does open up an interesting avenue of like, how many ppl within this culture actually share this valued trait? how many are just going along with it bc its what you do? how many have so deeply internalized it that even if removed from this society and its rules they would unconsciously mirror it? is there a space for counter-culture in this world?

it seems like itd be harder to analyze stuff like that in the context of predator movies tho since, from my limited understanding, it seems like the yautja were at least originally designed simply according to what would make them serve best as a scary antagonist. i do think its cool tho that there seem to be a lot of fans who are trying to give their species more depth and complexity than the source material affords them. again tho im probably missing a lot of actual context lol.

#ask #predator #aliens #systemsearcher

[tanadrin]

The thing about VOY that’s worth keeping in mind is that it was essentially screwed by the network from the start. Unlike Deep Space 9, which had been crafted as a budget-minded drama that was intended to compete with Babylon 5, Voyager was meant to be a return to TNG form with standalone episodes outside of occasional two-parters. There were network mandates that each story be self-contained, with limited interconnectivity, specifically so that they could be shown in any order during UPN’s daylong or weekend-long Trek marathons; as a result each episode hits the reset button hard and there’s basically no capacity for continued growth in the characters. That’s why the cool ideas introduced in the pilot and early episodes basically go nowhere and why everything feels so disjointed and underdeveloped - the writers WANTED to be able to tell more intricate stories like Behr et al were doing over in DS9, and couldn’t.

I don't think that limitation screws the show as hard as people think it does. TNG did very good things with an episodic format, and still managed character growth and the occasional thematic arc in a way that worked quite well. Moreover, VOY has some great standalone episodes! The best VOY episodes IMO are pretty much all standalone or two-parters that just use the conceit of the show to its fullest.

Being a full-on serial like the last arc of DS9 is not a prerequisite to good storytelling. It's certainly not a prerequisite to good Star Trek. And I think on balance VOY is good! VOY lends itself to comparison with the BSG reboot, not just on structural grounds but because Ron Moore was involved in both, and while the BSG reboot was also good, I find myself returning to VOY a hell of a lot more than I find myself returning to BSG. Letting writers run a bit wild with their budget and their ability to plan arcs sometimes results in great art, and sometimes just results in kind of a letdown, and BSG was never able to live up to the promise of its more serialized format, despite having more structural freedom than Voyager. It didn't stick the landing--much like JJ Abrams or Russell T Davies, Moore had a massive problem actually resolving the arcs he set up.

Not every writer's room is the DS9 writer's room. Now, I don't know what the Voyager writer's room was like; maybe it was closer to DS9 than BSG. But it still produced some great episodes, and while the status quo directive from above may have limited the kinds of stories the writers were able to tell, I don't think it's a major source of what are (to me) the biggest flaws in VOY, which have more to do with inconsistent script quality, underutilizing some of the most interesting aspects of their characters, and a breathtakingly stupid depiction of native american culture.

#truth be told #the nonserialized format is kind of a breath of fresh air these days #given how heavily serialized *everything* is #as a result of the impact of prestige tv #fun fact #the guy who was the native american consultant on voyager was a fraud #he passed himself off as a native consultant in hollywood in the 90s #despite having no native ancestry or cultural background #and the 90s being what they were #nobody noticed for years somehow

[cowboychekov]

Odo: How did none of you hear what I just said?

Bashir: I’ve been zoned out for the last two and a half hours.

O'Brien: I got distracted about halfway through.

Quark: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.

#source: unknown #star trek #star trek ds9 #star trek deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #odo #constable odo #julian bashir #miles o'brien #quark #ds9 quark #incorrect quotes #incorrect star trek quotes #incorrect star trek ds9 quotes

[hsavinien]

Eight Shows To Get To Know Me

Tag accepted from @rubynye.

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - Faaaamily. I watched this with my mom and sibs. Yes, things can be complicated or bad, but people can still be friends and it still matters that you care, it still matters that you protect what you can. Anger is a reasonable reaction to people hurting you and the people you care about. Punching is an appropriate response to colonizers. What you do and what you choose is important.

Jeeves and Wooster - I really, really enjoy ridiculous, chaotic, intertwined plots when done with silliness and cleverness.

Tin Man - Oz was my book series as a kid. I liked that even this grim, war-torn version didn’t make fun of its source material, maintained some of the wonder and hope.

due South - Looking silly and doing things differently don’t mean you’re wrong. Justice is more important that dignity. Fandom that really sustained me through grad school.

Read or Die - Books are magic, but people are more important.

Samurai Champloo - Goals can change. Quests can fail. That’s okay. Good, good art.

Steven Universe - Hope! Hope in the face of danger and despair. The pressure put on you to “live up to your potential” isn’t fair and isn’t yours to bear alone. Love isn’t a good justification for hurting someone. Very important to my partner and I to be able to see ourselves and some of our weaknesses in Ruby and Sapphire.

The Owl House - Queer weirdos, theater kids, the hurting, and the outcasts will defeat fascism in the end. Kindness matters, but isn’t the tool to use when someone’s decided to exterminate you. Fight back. Partner and I are currently identifying HARD with Eda and Raine respectively.

@hyenabeanz, whoever else wants to.

#tv #me

[spicymotte]

How would you suggest someone to get into startrek? Like, As someone who knows next to nothing about it, where should one start? What series do you start watching, and stuff like that. <3

ngl I saw a post about this some time ago and I can confirm that:

just start anywhere, it doesn't matter. it's always fun to watch Star Trek! You may have to get into it for a few episodes, get used to it, y'know? But once you know the main cast, it's just a sitcom in space that ranges from "people should always try to be a better and more kind version of themselves" to "capitalism is the source of so much evil and it sucks ass" to "alone on a friday night? pathetic. you wanna see my naughty holodeck program though? ;)"

personally, I start rewatches with Star Trek; The Next Generation, followed by Deep Space 9 and Voyager. I really like Discovery as well, the production quality is very good :)

#Star Trek #tbh just jump in :) #TNG Voyager and DS9 are so popular because they did build all the sets back then #and it is soooo charming to see all the love they put into the series!