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Janeway: You're gonna self-destruct your ship Other Janeway: What makes you say that?

Hmm, I dunno, it seems to be your favourite backup plan, lmao. You came within one minute of self-destructing your ship literally 4 episodes ago 🤣🤣

I swear, it's always like...

Janeway: I will go down with this ship Literally everyone else: wait, no, you really don't have to. It's totally not necessary Janeway: I want to tho

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I listened to the All Access Trek Podcast. Laurie Ulster said something that piqued my curiosity. Laurie mentioned that the writers of season 5 of Discovery want to be more connected to the larger Trek universe.

Then, Laurie and Anthony Pascal noted how different this attitude was from the early seasons of Discovery. Both Laurie and Anthony were involved in and around Trek productions, and Laurie herself was a host of After Trek (back when it existed).

Laurie mentioned that in season 1 of Discovery, studio executives would freak out if other Trek properties (specifically 90s Trek) were mentioned or alluded to. The TOS era is allowed, but it seems anything related to 90s-era Trek was not allowed.

And, it’s all because Star Trek Nemesis flopped big time.

(According to Jonathan Frakes he was told that Nemesis was the one that actually lost money.)

The effects of Star Trek Nemesis’s flop were so wide-ranging it almost killed the franchise. A few years later, they canceled Enterprise and any upcoming Trek live-action projects.

Nemesis is to blame for why neither Deep Space Nine nor Voyager had a live-action movie.

According to BTS reports and what the TNG actors have mentioned, Nemesis was a troubled production from the start. It got worse when the director, Stuart Baird, didn’t even care to know the actors’ names (famously mispronouncing LeVar Burton’s name). Additionally, he never bothered to watch a single episode of TNG. Marina Sirtis and LeVar Burton have been outspoken about how much they dislike Nemesis and the director (more from Marina on this).

(Both Marina and Gates McFadden weren’t fond of the other TNG era movies either, especially Gates because she was little more than a cameo in the movies.)

After Nemesis flopped it took years for Star Trek to return, and after that, there seemed to be a mandate from the studio to never mention 90s Trek.

This is why Star Trek: Picard was such a big deal, especially since it directly references events from Nemesis.

(And, an even bigger deal for Picard Season 3 reunion getting produced.)

The Nemesis effect continues to have an impact on the movie side of the franchise. The majority of announced projects take place in the pre-TOS era, TOS era, or the Kelvin timeline but there are no projects set during or after the 90s-era Trek.

This is why mentioning a ship class called Janeway was big but even bigger, showing Picard and directly referencing to the Dominion War and Deep Space Nine and Discovery is a big deal.

Anyway, I just wanted to mention all this because it baffled me why the executives were so into TOS-era trek and there seemed to be no interest for 90s-era Trek. And, learning about all this finally answered all my questions.

TLDR, I like TOS era but I’m not into the TOS-era and I enjoy the Kelvin timeline as much as anyone else but it is not the era of Trek I’m interested in. So the movies set all TOS or Pre-TOS era— its just not something I’m going to jump around about.

#god nemesis was bad #but i didn't know it was THIS bad!

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she doctor on my who til i vworp vworp

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JAIME MURRAY  Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)

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I don't know what tenth circle of hell my YouTube algorithm fell into, but I really wish it would stop showing me videos of 5 a.m. morning writing routines.

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Just some things that Becca might have been thinking.

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A shout out to all the writers out there who don’t make the rec lists or have all the buzz or get all the traffic and attention or kudos. Your work is still valuable and appreciated and loved, and without you and your fics, fandom would be so much poorer.

Keep on writing and creating and sharing your works. You have an audience who loves you.

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I want to make it clear that all butches look different! There is no one way to be “butch”. There is nothing that makes a butch more “butch” than someone else. Some butches are fat. Some butches are disabled. Some butches have long hair. Some butches wear pink. Some butches wear makeup. Some butches are submissive! Someone butches aren’t always tops! All butches have feelings and deserve to express them however they want to! If you think being “butch” looks one way and make it your job to judge a butch because they don’t hold certain physical trait, please leave us alone until you educate yourself.

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I don't think most people realize just how absolutely gorgeous the backgrounds are in blue eye samurai, and I don't just mean the big shots of a city or a forest. Episode 7 especially is choke-full of tiny details all over the place that are never the focus of the scene so they don't get noticed.

I mean look at this

Have you seen how intricate that instrument is? And we don't even get a full shot of it

The boxes in the background too!! Some of them have unique patterns that didn't even get used in other assets (I'd know, I've been obsessively collecting screenshots of background details LMAO)

And my god, the wall drawings are GORGEOUS. There was another one like this in episode 1 that I barely paid any attention to when I first watched this show

It's not just the backgrounds, even tiny items and furniture have the most beautiful patterns and drawings. SO much effort went into making this world and so much of it doesn't receive enough appreciation.

I really hope the studio behind bes gets to release an artbook where they show stuff like this, they deserve it!!

#cw amputation

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The current state of pop girlies is so funny like

Ariana Grande: getting dragged for homewrecking with the guy who played SpongeBob in the SpongeBob musical

Taylor Swift: dropping her worst album in years about how deeply obsessed she is with Matty Healy

Billie Eilish, for some reason:

#good for her

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do you ever remember the note the scribe left at the end of catullus manuscript G and want to burst into tears

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academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

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You can try to pry my "Father" of science fiction from my cold dead hands.

a real blorbo is someone you can both write a lengthy and serious/sad analysis on yet also constantly and i mean constantly make stupid jokes about

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centaur

(she/him)🏳️‍⚧️

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#flight flight flight flight!

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without ever touching her skin, how can I be guilty as sin?

for Abbie @morgana-pendragon ♡ happy (belated) birthday!

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#ooooh enrichment! #tagged for liebsteface