dr. internet

Reminded me of this image on my computer which has a datestamp of September 2009, but likely is at least a bit older than that.

Okay but I'm *extremely* here for a story where the main character is courting a Vulcan and they live and die for the raised eyebrow, the variation in word choice, the *impossibly* subtle hint of a smile (but only when they think nobody else can see).

also this ties in to why narendra 3 is such a pivotal moment for fed/klingon relations. the enterprise-c responding to the klingon distress signal by charging in to fight to the death against hopeless odds is an act that would make klingons on both sides of the divide completely horny as hell.

i've been thinking lately the big divide in klingon culture is honor and glory. they're not exclusive but they do conflict at times and the divide is in which of the two a klingon values more.

worf's obviously way big on "duty and honor". the guys who love romulans are big on glory.

"this tennis ball has a gold fringe, which means we are playing admiralty fetch"

screencap of end credits from Dr. Who episode "The Mutants"

:v

I love this scene from The High Ground. The collegial brainstorming (*without* playing Twenty Questions with the computer), Wil Wheaton's performance... and of course, the warp core. :)

"fortran"

i don't know how many times i need to say this:
*delaware is not a real state*

it is a fictitious place. it is a fraudulent assertion of the united states federal government. it is a fake idea.

like, come on. there's no fuckin' way.

"delaware" yeah, sure, whatever.

A chibi plush of Zeta Gundam character Quattro Bajeena aka Char Aznable

didn't know Char had a guest spot on South Park

should have done this ages ago after my old ipod nano died but i just never got around to it. teach me to expect a modern phone to be a decent multi-purpose device

tried to add music to my iphone for the first time. dogshit experience. it keeps trying to create an album for every track (YES the tracks all have the same album tag). now i'm digging out my old android phone to use for music. long-term i might check the local pawn shops to see if they have ipods

they're also sky-high on real drugs

pete buttegieg said that his #1 takeaway from the 2004 election was that john kerry was just too radical a leftist

bernie madoff telling us we're in danger from ponzi schemes so we better give him all our money. go build a submarine already

dude looks like he's one of those supermarionation puppets out of Thunderbirds or Fireball XL-5

Ever since sitting through Man of Steel years ago, I've suspected that the moment anyone tries to edit down a big VFX-filled fight scene, some exec immediately starts yelling about how much money they spent on this.

Don't get me wrong, I like Star Wars too! I just think that different space operas should have different styles to them.

I know this is a grognardy gripe, but I'm grumpy with how modern Trek increasingly treats warp drive as being just like Star Wars hyperdrive. And I get that VFX is its own shitshow of dysfunction and exploitation, but come *on* please don't just rip off the starstreaks coming out of lightspeed.

i've never wanted to win a price is right submarine more than this moment

this one dream i had, there was a filesystem being graphically represented and someone was all "and here are where the mouse drivers live" and it was a little house and the garage door opened and a little car with a little mouse wearing clothes drove out

congratulations everyone. we reinvented the greek chorus

i don't think "filler episode" is really applicable to any show that isn't trying to go for the "ten hour movie" feel. yes, there were "bottle episodes", but that is not the same thing as "filler".

but broadly i agree in that i think trek needs to be able to do low-stakes episodes sometimes

✓ Woman being brutalized, albeit off-screen, as described/implied by Sela

The way he griped in an interview, about how mean ol' Rick wouldn't let him kill Jadzia Dax as brutally as he wanted to, really set me to wonder about how women wind up getting hurt/killed in his body of work.

asuka tries to brag about germany being very enlightened but somehow manages to say the most impossibly problematic thing instead

I lost your man?

the money shot

The sound design on this game was *perfect*.

fucked up if true

I enjoyed Andor, it's a story absolutely worth telling in Star Wars, I'm just leery of pushing the franchise away from the elements that make it special and set it apart from other settings. I'd love to see more space opera settings developed, whether brand-new or adaptations of prior work.