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I LOVE the idea of Vulcans learning about human scientific practices and methodology to get rid of things like "confirmation bias" and just sitting there stunned like "FUCK WE PURGED ALL EMOTIONS AND THEY JUST COPED?!?!?"

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Real quick writing snippet, gonna add more but class is about to start and I actually landed on a good stopping point to post this now and reblog later with more added (unfortunately I do not have to read through for any typos and stuff so hopefully there’s nothing) (thank you @reffitt-blog1 again for name links)

Xeqqie’s. There were two establishments in the area with that name. One was simply named “Xeqqie’s,” while the other was named “Xeqqie’s: Drinks and Entertainment.”

The one called just “Xeqqie’s” was a quiet place. It has an affordable menu, simple decor, and hardly any customers. Most who stopped by were either Academy students trying to put in an effort to pencil friends into their packed schedules for a quick bite, or they were looking for the other Xeqqie’s. It was a place you go into and get out of just as quickly.

“Xeqqie’s: Drinks and Entertainment” was a different story. It was packed at all hours of the day, every day of the week by customers lingering as long as possible. The menu items ranged from affordable to putting people at risk of being in debt.

But the hype of Xeqqie’s: D&E wasn’t from its expansive menu or choice of music, but from the service workers.

Or, rather, the rumors surrounding them.

Xeqqie’s: D&E was majorly run by Orion women and like most places run by Orion women, everyone frequented it with the hopes that they’d get to bed one. Unlike those other places, however, Xeqqie’s: D&E never got busted for it or any other illegal activities.

The rumors still ran though. That the servers were frisky and if you’d spent enough money, lingered long enough, found the right thing to do, then they’d lead you to the back rooms, and you’d have the time of your life.

That’s how it worked at most places. If it wasn’t that, then the Orion women were a coverup for drugs and other contraband. A sad truth, that a place that goes out of its way to employ that certain demographic is usually hiding something sinister.

The authorities did constant check ups on Xeqqie’s: D&E because of this, but they never found anything. No contraband, no illicit behavior, not even a single health code violation.

So Xeqqie’s: D&E still stands.

As well as the regular Xeqqie’s, who no one bats an eye at, who everyone thought was completely unassociated with Xeqqie’s: D&E, other than unfortunately sharing the same name. The Xeqqie’s that was never investigated because no one had a reason to.

No one, until Nesheh, who found that the establishments were under the same parent company.

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#vorik my beloved

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Ambassador Sarek

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one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife

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I'm fine.

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It bugs me that there's basically no lore for the Tellarites other than "pig guys who like to argue". They've been around since the 60s and there's no lore. They were a founding member of the Federation and there's no lore. There's a Tellarite main character on "Prodigy" and so far the only new lore we've gotten out if it is (1) at some point in the pre-Federation past, they rounded up their orphans and sent them out into deep space on colony ships, and (2) they're born in litters and the runts get called "Pog"

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I’m fascinated by the previous ask’s mention of anime “or the Vulcan equivalent” since anime is literally just Japanese animation would Vulcan animation have a distinctive enough style to warrant a distinct name? What is the Vulcan cultures’ views on animation as an art form (in your opinion).

I don't know enough about animation or art as like an evolving discipline as it relates to society/culture to say much about it in an intelligent way but the newest Dungeon Meshi Extra makes me think about it in a purely 'what would be fun' way

Vulcans also have an incredibly long lifespan so it'd be funny if Vulcans were used to listening to stories that are much longer than other species. [See: Tuvok singing his children a 348 verse story as a lullaby and his children loving it]

You know those soap operas that go on for like decades? Vulcan soap operas are going on for CENTURIES.

I think a lot of the most popular stories on Vulcan center around enlightment or war. In fact I think a lot of Vulcan is probably dedicated to those topics - I headcanon that there are multiple museums and monuments about the many wars Vulcan fought with a heavy emphasis on the great toll it took on their people and how awful these actions were. They almost blew up everything with nukes! But then logic saved them...I believe this is also a common thread in stories that aren't about war - being saved by logic. A woman almost falls for charlatan...but logic saves her. A man almost kills his brother...but logic stills his hand. Etc Etc. A Vulcan author could probably write thousands of books in their lifetime, depending on the age they started. I think having an author with hundreds of books is fairly common and Vulcans are often a bit anxious about reading very good authors of other species...what if they die before they finish writing?? Television shows having like 40 seasons isn't that rare and I think their method of storytelling would probably have to differ from ours in order to facilitate that. That's interesting, isn't it?? I wonder about Vulcan media that isn't Surak's teachings. Like, Tuvok says he likes to read - what's he read about? In 'Riddles' Neelix mentions a "Proto-Vulcan Drama" called 'Clash on the Fire Plains' which has 23 parts. Tuvok apparently has this in book form in his quarters but he's often reading things off his PADD which I assume are also Vulcan literature. It seems that a lot of Vulcan stories we hear about are meant to teach some sort of lesson even if they are also entertaining. When it comes to ongoing media (EX: Television show) I think they'd probably follow a series of arcs and situations with the same characters learning and growing. If you start watching season 82 of a Vulcan program then go back to season 7 it's like a whole new set of characters but they just changed because of their experiences. (As your Vulcan friend will rant to you). It gets a bit ridiculous but it's a bit fun too~ I headcanon that Vulcans in Starfleet will often get together to watch popular Vulcan tv shows' new episodes...alleviates some missing home. Others join in and soon we're seeing tv shows from all over the universe! Surprisingly, Vulcan and Klingon programs are fairly similar in the aspect of 'a lot of battle focused shows which teach lessons' but the exact lessons differ, of course. Oh I bet Vulcan tv shows would also have so much intrigue and drama about clans and marriage and propriety etc which Klingons would love. Klingon: So T'Eyanra is going off with Sarun? Even though she was made aware that Sertik is ill and might be plagued with fever? Vulcan: Yes. And do not forget - Sarun's clan changed the water rights of her own, though she does not know this yet. Klingon: -settling in- Sarun's clan is without honor! That knave... -gasp- and the Ektinslahrah ritual is tonight! Vulcan: -also settling in- Indeed. Oh god this was about anime wasn't it? Well just apply all that stuff I said to anime somehow...Vulcan anime is like one piece's length and death note's complexity but with a shocking amount of painstaking slice of life. I think animation would be taken as seriously on Vulcan as it is on Earth - I can't think of anything that'd make them take it more or less seriously? I picture Betazoid animation would have a heavy emphasis on showing feeling though - like visibly as an ever present cloud behind the characters' heads and you have to know what all the colors mean.

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𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣.. 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.  𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨?

[ Supports me with Ko-fi ☕ ] 

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noooo they gave him the worst crop top of all time……..sick and twisted

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put a shirt on you’re gonna get cold :/

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Deena

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Beyond and Back - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roundtable [x]

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enchanted by the way trek paces things. give me 10 solid minutes of a whale talking to a space probe with no subs. we need to see their entire conversation but no we dont its private

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i'm just going to go ahead and make this its own post. when kirk teases spock he is SO GENTLE. "why mister spock are you feeling emotion?" and he lets spock do the vulcan equivalent of giggling and kicking his feet and going "haha nooo silly i'm a VULCAN i don't do that!!" and kirk's like "oh my apologies mister spock of COURSE not" and then they make consensual loving eyecontact with one another while smiling. when BONES senses blood in the water (spock having an emotion) he will grab spock by the scruff of his fucking neck and shake until dead. like a dog with a squirrel.

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That feel when your fandom has to start a '#no dissection' tag on ao3

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The smell of incense