Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈

Oh, same! Not my kind of humour at all. 😂

The ending is beautiful. Also Ni’Var!

I'm gonna say it: cats are great

A close up of a snow globe containing a model of the NX-01 Enterprise, in the Star Trek: Discovery episode “All is Possible”.

Genuinely thought I was the only one who likes “All is Possible”. 😊

If you see this, post something purple. #StarTrek 🖖🏼💜

Aww, thank you! 😊🖖🏼💜

a group of owls are standing next to each other and one says " and like any other life form she deserves our respect " Alt: a group of owls are standing next to each other and one says " and like any other life form she deserves our respect "

😊👍

Broken Pieces I think is an absolute masterpiece. Possibly my favourite from Picard Season 1.

Progress I really like! Among the Lotus Eaters as well - it has such a haunting atmosphere.

I absolutely love A Mathematically Perfect Redemption, though the first time I was totally wrong-footed by it & devastated by the twist. I think I’m the only Trek fan in the world who loves Peanut Hamper. 😂

I think Emergence is genuinely good too - I didn’t realise it was disliked.

I cannot stand most of Bound!

I saw Extinction again recently & actually didn’t hate it! Then again, I quite like Exile as well, so… 😂

LWAXANA: “Contract? What contract?”
TROI: “Between father and son. A fair and balanced way to achieve a mutual sense of order.”
LWAXANA: “Well, how ghastly for you. And you're doing this to your own child, Mister Woof?” 🤣

I love Cost of Living! That conversation Lwaxana has with Alexander is so sweet & moving.

And the comedy! “Ha!” 😂

Star Trek Strange New Worlds scene kind of but also Star Trek Lower Decks scene but that's all I can say and if this confuses you just watch more Star trek. Anyhoo, we see a non-cartoon Bradward Boimler and Mariner standing in a corridor on the Strange New Worlds Enterprise outside a beautiful orange door and talking. Both are in Lower Decks era uniforms with red bottom/white crisp stripe across the chestal region and black shoulers. Boims looks distressed, as per usual. He also has slightly purple hair. Mariner is speaking, closed caption reads, "Oh, okay, don't act like the prospect of working with Spock doesn't tick off some weird box for you."

Alt in pic 1, also BRING BACK LOWER DECKS BRING IT BACK SOMEBODY PICK IT UP AND DO 17 MORE SEASONS IM SURE MIKE WOULD BE FINE WITH THIS

Unfinished painting or sketch by Édouard Vuillard of a naked female model facing right, with her face turned towards the viewer.

Le Modèle (ca 1903), by Édouard Vuillard

Mine too! I have a lovely book just of his watercolours.

Watercolour painting by John Singer Sargent of a brook rushing over rocks and pebbles in the sunshine.

Rushing Brook (ca 1911), by John Singer Sargent

Painting by Théo van Rysselberghe of a woman dressed in white, reading.

Young Woman Reading (1887), by Théo van Rysselberghe

Alexander,

There is an excellent documentary about Klingon honor on Netflix. Have you watched it yet?

Father

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

- Carl Sagan

I was always a huge Kubrick fan, & he lived just a few miles from where I was growing up & I never knew. I might have walked past him in the supermarket!

💯🧄🧄🧄🧄😊

*Dammit, I should have typed 50 thousand years ago! There were no humans on earth 50 million years ago, although there were countless sentient species.

@bsky.app , please introduce an edit feature!

Ah, I get it now. 😁 Morph was a thing on Children’s TV way back when I was a kid.

It feels like so much of recent politics rises from people refusing to accept the line “Your sons & your daughters are beyond your command…” in “The Times They are A-Changin’”

And I loved your essay! 💜

Yay for “Storm Front” and Alicia Travers! 💯👍

The Chinese Chang’e 4 lander on the far side of the moon in 2019, photographed by its robotic rover Yutu-2.

The Chinese Chang’e 4 lander on the far side of the moon in 2019, photographed by its robotic rover Yutu-2.

Gralik Durr (John Cothran, Jr) in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “The Shipment”.

(3/3) “It's hard to imagine five sentient species evolving on the same planet.” Really? #StarTrek often confuses “sentient” with “sapient” (all animals are sentient), but there were at least five species of human on Earth 50 my ago, probably more!

I like this episode. Besides, Gralik is the man! 😊