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I’m watching Deep Space 9 for the first time and I’ll be honest I thought you guys were just shipping the shape shifter guy with the little ferengi freak because it was funny but no as early as episode 2 they start setting up a really strange sexual tension between them that simply cannot be denied

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When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there

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The only thing crazier than a character clearly intended to be gay but kept in the plausible deniability subtext zone due to censorship issues is a character in a series where only like one of the writers clearly intended them to be gay. So this character is just gay sometimes and nobody acknowledges it

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What if yellow star trek and blue star trek kissed

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*mafia don* ive got this whole freakin' city under my thumb. i can have any two men kissing each other in under 15 minutes

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Starfleet obituaries must be wild af

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The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe is something that would happen to George Costanza

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watching a star trek TOS episode where a starship captain has a psychosis that makes him aggressive and manipulative. he kidnaps kirk and spock, tortures his doctor, kills another mental patient, and threatens the safety of the Enterprise crew.

despite this, kirk continues to show him dignity and respect. instead of villainizing him, kirk reminds him his mental illness is not his fault and the awful things it has caused him to do are not who he truly is.

when spock finally shoots the man you think "well that's the end of that guy." but then we learn spock intentionally only stunned him, and the man is last seen getting mental health treatment. he is unaware of what has passed or who he is, and is confused to be referred to as "Captain" but he returns the respect he receives

Mental illness was treated better in a '60s scifi show than it is now.

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Excerpt from Jake Sisko’s documentary about deep space station living.

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"companion, do you love the man?" *insert very heartfelt speech about loving a man*

james t. kirk. sir. we ALL know who you're talking about.

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SNW never should have updated the uniforms to that degree…. Wouldnt it have been fun to keep everyone in frumpy sweaters and work around it??…. Fabric patch starfleet insignia… turtlenecks…retcon them into being super futuristic environmentally adaptable space wool or something if you have to. I am a huge believer in the good qualities of intentionally strange costume design. “Ooh it doesnt look functional!!” You say. Need i remind you we are talking about star trek. “Ooh it doesnt look GOOD!” Need i remind you we are talking about star trek.

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ideal batshit chaotic ending for me is they get cas back but in the process the Empty basically vomits up every angel and demon they’ve ever killed and it’s like. oh shit. cut to black credits roll hard rock song plays

#spn

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#who is passing i just want to know