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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If O'Brien is perpetually confused it's probably because he has to keep a space station engineers by the Cardis running. I would be perpetually confused too, what with the plasma injectors being the way that they do and all

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Especially when he has to keep taking time off work to suffer Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension™

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And apparently he's the only one who can do actual work, and by work I mean everything, from fixing the future version of your apartment's gas stove, to making sure the whole space station doesn't explode for whatever reason this week.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It only explodes if you upload everyone's brains into the main computer, or you go look in a random section you've never been in before, and how often is that going to happen.

Anyway the most dangerous thing on board is absolutely definitely the turbo lift, someone's getting their fingers cut off or is falling down the hole in the bridge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

He had to add in so many second backups, too!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget the pansexual space lizard (who's just a simple tailor, that's it I swear haha) and the capitalist goblins.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

B5; welcome aboard our five mile long rotating tin can. We'll over through our government, electrocute angels, and figure out who Jack the Ripper was. Also included in your stay is a quarantine that wipes out an entire species. Be sure to check out the zocalo for your fresh orange fix!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Also there's a telepathic police force that abuses its power every opportunity it gets. Watch out for those guys, they're real assholes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

But don't think that, they'll know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Bester was one of the best things about B5

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Picard gets pegged? I clearly missed the TNG After Dark episodes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

our captain gets pegged

It's been a while since I watched TNG, but I don't remember this at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

pegged

by borg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Time for a rewatch. It's in the very first episode.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Forgot the weekly socialist conventions and baseball games on DS9 😔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

After watching Lower Decks for 3 seasons and going back to TOS, I’m thinking about watching some of the middle entries. What are some of the meaningful differences between them. In other words: What should I watch?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I highly reccomend DS9 and Voyager (in that order) if you did like TOS

DS9 is much better since it follows a continuing plot instead of TOS which is more of a "monster of the week" format

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Honestly every series is enjoyable in its own right if you don't take it too seriously. Even the worse ones like Enterprise are still fun to watch, even if they don't hold a candle to others.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It starts getting good around season 3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It also starts disappearing from Amazon around season 3… if we’re talking Lower Decks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh, I was talking tng. Were we talking about lower decks?

Edit: nope, it was TOS. We were both wrong haha. In which case I still maintain that it starts getting good after season three.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I don’t understand the pegging reference. Also

lesbian terrorist

I wish

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t understand the pegging reference.

Maybe this will help:

EDIT: @[email protected] did one better: https://startrek.website/comment/9648635

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Ah I don’t remember that scene. It’s been a while

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah she was never lesbian!

She was straight. The mirror version of her was clearly bisexual

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There was a slight hint towards her and Jadzia dating in the beginning of the show so I assumed she was lesbian. Then I got endlessly disappointed when she only dated men… The fact that she’s bisexual only in de evil dimension makes it even worse because of the implication that gay = bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, I'm not the biggest fan of the tendency to interpret platonic relationships as sexual ones. I do get the desire for more representation, but I just wish the community wasn't so willing to ignore regular old platonic friendships.

I'm sure that comes mostly from me as a guy who puts more emphasis on strong platonic bonds than sexual relationships. But I just don't see Julian and O'Brien's "bromance" as a boyfriend relationship, nor did I see Kira and Jadzia's as dating either.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Q

Basically implying their relationship is homoerotic in nature.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That's Nana...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Right I'm pretty sure Sisko isnt a lesbian. He's definitely a terrorist though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Took me a while to figure out who trans worm is. But yeah, spot on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Perpetually confused white guy is not Doctor Twink? I'm stuck on this one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

O'Brien is what I thought of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Bashir is #FFFFFF compared to O'Brien. The Irish working class guy is whiter than the genetically engineered Oxbridge English guy? I don't think this has been thought through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know we're talking about characters, but Bashir's actor was born in Sudan, is half Sudanese, and his birth name is "Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi" as an FYI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes but there's skin white and then there's state of mind white. Irish and Italians for example weren't in the "white" club until relatively recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

... Bashir is clearly intended to be of middle eastern or perhaps Indian descent, somewhat obvious from the actor. And the episode with his parents, also both clearly not white.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Haha. You aren't wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

He was genetically engineered because his parents were working class and were worried that their kid would be too dumb for even that. He's not exactly high society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I am no longer non-binary. I now identify as a trans worm

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

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