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trek-tracks · 6 months

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7, 9, and 40 for the star trek ask game!

7. Who would make up your crew dream team?

I would just take most everyone from every show and have a giant ship, I guess, but...

Captain: This is always super tough but since I'd rather work under SNW Pike I'd say him

Medical: Team of McCoy and Crusher with nurses Ogawa and Chapel, with Troi in psychology

Science: Spock, Tendi, Dax, Tilly

Comms/Ops: Uhura, Data, Tuvok

Security: Worf

Pilots: Sulu and Ortegas

Engineering: La Forge, Torres, Rutherford

Transporter: O'Brien

Bartender and Detector of Things That are Wrong with the Universe: Guinan

9. Which episode plot do you prefer?

a. Time traveling to the past or dealing with time travelers from the future? (I think the latter is more interesting but so so hard to do well because it requires so much imagination)

b. Going undercover to spy on enemies or going undercover to explore pre-warp planets?

c. Holodeck malfunction or space anomaly? Ohhh I love them both! I have to say holodeck because I prefer it just a bit silly.

d. Ship being taken over or being stranded on a planet? Both good but I prefer the new environment of a planet. Better chance of confessing feelings. I don't like the combination of the two, when the ship is taken over and they're forced to be stranded on a planet. I prefer just the landing party be stranded.

e. Rapid aging or de-aging? (It's less tragic and more adorable)

f. Diplomatic negotiations or all out battle? (I have like zero interest in space battles unless it's focused on the characters' reactions and not the spacey spacey pew pew. Just tell me who won.)

40. If you got a trek inspired tattoo what would it be?

A "Kaiidth" tramp stamp.

(No, that's a joke.)

It's probably too many words to look good (I have no tattoos so I am a novice), but I envision a Starfleet Delta on a watercolour rainbow background, surrounded by the quotation, "If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe."

That, or maybe a tiny hypospray.

Now I'm thinking about McCoy getting a hypospray tramp stamp on shore leave, so thank you for that image. (Everyone thinks Jim goaded him into it, but it was Spock.)

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procrastinatorproject · 4 months

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29, 39, and 40 for the Star Trek asks, please. ✨

Thank you so much for the questions!

29. Favourite and Least Favourite Episodes:

Ooooh, good question! Let's start with the negativity so we can end on a high note 😅

I... honestly would put most of Picard seasons 2 & 3 in the "least favourite" category 🙈 If I had to pinpoint some lowlights, it'd be "Fly Me to the Moon". It's not a bad episode in itself and in isolation, I might not mind it, but the two times I watched through season 2 in order, this was the episode where I found myself crying and/or shaking with rage and disappointment when it was over. Probably becuase it really drives home that they're serious about where they're going with this series I used to love and it's not somewhere I can follow.

Disregarding that... I have a terrible memory for this kind of thing 😅 And I guess it depends on what you mean by "least favourite".

I think one objective measure to use: I don't ever want to see the ENT mpreg episode again, where everyone acts like Trip Tucker having his bodily autonomy violated in a horrendous way is The Funniest Shit™. That has seared itself into my brain so much that when I was rewatching all of TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT to take notes for the holo-tech database, it's actually the only episode I wanted to skip.

There are also some real bombs in season 1 of TNG, and some of the Ferengi episodes in DS9 are firmly on my "no thank you" list. But yeah, I think the involuntary mpreg takes the cake, honestly.

Now for the much funner part: There are SO MANY episodes I truly love! DS9's "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" and "Badda-Bing Badda Bang", PIC's "Broken Pieces", VOY's "Concerning Flight" (which is apparently controversial?), "Drive", "Bride of Chaotica!", also any VOY episode that has Naomi Wildmann in it...

There are also A Ton of Deep and Dramatic episodes I love, but from my instinctive answers I'm realizing that what draws me to an episode as a "favourite" is apparently "It's fun!" (and likely involves the holodeck? 🙈🤣) So yeah, if we're talking favourite, not best, it's probably something along these lines.

39. You have to relocate to a planet other than Earth, which do you choose?

Hm, that's a tough one. I feel like not that many planets readily spring to mind, so I'll have to really think about this.

It'd probably be near the centre of the Federation for that sweet, sweet post-capitalist utopia (and also because my family is presumably still on Earth and I want to be able to visit Very Frequently.

Vulcan is a big No, because my body does not function above 25° C🙈 I love snow and ice, though, so Andoria might be a real option (though not technically a planet, I guess 😋).

Beyond that, I'm honestly drawing a blank. I think I haven't seen enough TOS/TNG in a while, so I don't remember too many worlds they visited. But yeah, probably somewhere that's close to the Sol, close to the centre of the Federation, has good temperate-to-colder climate to live in... In the end, it would probably very much depend on why I'm relocating and whom with.

40. If you got a Trek inspired tattoo, what would it be?

Another tough one 😅 I don't have any tattoos and don't think I'll ever get any. For one, I'm way too scared of that kind of long-term commitment, but also my skin has Issues™ and I don't know how long a tattoo would look decent.

If I were to get one, though? Let's be honest, it would be some version of the Sirena logo. That little ship has shaped my life in ways more profound than I can even say. Sirena and her crew got me to write again after over a decade, gave me so, so, SO much joy, not to mention all the incredible, wonderful friends I foud along the way (that's you!)

I think for me, Sirena stands for found family, friendship, healing, creativity, allowing myself to feel joy in my nerdiness and head for new adventures. So yeah.

If not that, probably some variation of IDIC, either the symbol or the saying in Vulcan script 🤔

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a-lilacsong · 2 years

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Lesser Dog has gone where no Dog has gone before.

[Comic script: Panel 1: Tendi (as she pets lesser dog’s ever extending neck): Aww you're such a good guard dog! Yes you are! Panel 2: Boimler: Uhhh..do you think it's neck is supposed to do that? Mariner: Ehh, we've seen a dog do weirder.]

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starship-imzadi · 3 years

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S5 E21 The Perfect Mate

I hate Ferengi.... They always seem to be a stand-in for the worst qualities for the sake of contrast. They act as the most greedy, sexist, and uncouth, people in the room so Starfleet looks sophisticated and progressive in comparison.

Sounds like Brent has a head cold

"not too close to mine" damn. Riker makes it clear he hates the Ferengi too.

Ferengi are never as stupid as they act but they're so annoying no one cares to pretend otherwise.

How did they learn about this cargo?

"have you had chance to see the dolphins yet? This is something you really don't want to miss" Dolphins? Quantum dolphins perhaps??

It's a really odd line....

It's Famke Janssen! You might know her as Jean Grey or the Phoenix in the X-Men film trilogy, in which Patrick Stewart was also cast as professor Charles Xavier.

Riker in the background is checking her out.

prevarication: to deviate from the truth

"I'm a gift" slight red flag. At least Picard and Riker see it.

So they have male metamorphs...but this story is about a female one, why? Don't we already have enough women who change to be what a man wants, without the man reciprocating the same ability to change?

"oh, think you're more empathic than you admit, at least when it comes to women"

"i think you have me at a disadvantage"

Okay, hold, stop for a moment and appreciate the restraint Riker shows here. This woman becomes the most arousing and attractive she can possibly be for whatever man she is with, and Riker turns her down.

"Riker to bridge. If you need me I'll be in holodeck 4" so clearly this is meant as a joke. How dirty that is, is up to your mind. Maybe he's going to a jazz club, maybe he's going fishing. Why the holodeck instead of his quarters?....

Yasss Beverly!! Call out that misogyny! But also, I freaking love that Beverly and Jean Luc share breakfast.

Aww, poor Picard. That might have been a little harsh. But he takes it well. It makes me glad Beverly is in his life. (That scene makes me want a croissant 🥐)

Her Dutch accent is surprising soft considering this was her first TV role and second role as an actor.

"And now, to this day, I’m not comfortable with how fast television and the writing of it changes. So every night or morning before we’d start shooting they’d have new pages for me. And my English wasn’t that good at the time… and I had all these strange things to say (laughs). It was strange for me, and very difficult for me to memorize, but it was probably normal in the world of Star Trek. So I was very nervous about the entire experience, but it was good."

- Famke Janssen startrek.com

"I'm independent, forceful, brilliant, and adventurous. Exactly as you would have me be, captain." This is interesting because Picard's sexuality always seems to be overshadowed by Riker's, and while Riker certainly seems more comfortable with his sexuality, Picard, in equal measure, has his own, different preferences in a companion. The difference is Riker has explained what he wants to a few different people (for example in "The Vengeance Factor" and "The Outcast") but no one asks Picard his preferences, and he is most likely less forthcoming. So here we learn what Picard really wants, but from someone else who can read him, proverbially, like one of his beloved books.

Star Trek's other cultures....have such a distinct flair. They kind of all look the same but I'm not sure which elements are cause for that stylistic consistency.

"every man on the ship will be fighting over her"...so, aside from the obvious message about women conforming to men's desires, there's a fair amount sexism in the depiction of the male reaction to her. Every man might find her attractive but in declaring that every man will be fighting over her suggests men have too little control over their sexual desires. Riker's previous reaction to some extent would seem intended to display just how alluring she is, but he also shows restraint. Plus, "fighting" over her suggests there's a prise to be won, her. So all of these men think "winning" a fight against his peers would be enough to claim her as his own?

Data reaffirming his android-ness

I understand that this scene in ten-forward is meant to display Kamala's ability to adapt to the men around her, but the growling at Worf cracks me up. Also, in the midst of her adapting to the men around her, and their enthusiasm for her, she's an absolute flirt. Does she have no control over her own behavior either? She can read the men around her but are her subsequent actions involuntary?

"a man of deep passion and conviction. So controlled, so disciplined."

From this performance I wouldn't guess that Picard would go on to play the flute...

Fact I forgot about Picard: he took piano lessons as a child

"do you find me unattractive?" surely she would know if he did.

Woah....so the music as Kamala walks towards Picard right before she says "in a day I will bond with a man I've never met" is a variation on the theme played in "The Host" as Beverly looks across ten forward at Odan/Riker.

When she says "please don't leave" it's so heart-wrentchingly earnest.

Their relationship seems very genuine and tender.

I've seen some fans ask if Picard and Kamala slept together and I see no reason to think so, in fact I have reason to think the opposite. They're relationship, though they are attracted to each other, is not about sex. The intimacy they develop is specifically non sexual and that's what makes it important. For so many other men she is a sexual object of desire, and because Picard refuses to see her this way or treat her this way, he is who she wants to be with; not as an emotional, passion driven decision, but as an active, conscious choice. The one event her entire life as been prepared for, her "destiny" is undone because for the first time she has been afforded agency. (Also, until the next morning Picard is oblivious to the fact that she has bonded with him)

There is a sort of parallel between Picard and Beverly with Riker and Troi. Regardless of the shifting winds of romance, they are each good and supportive friends to each other.

I really wish Troi had been in this episode. An interaction between her and Kamala could have been really interesting.

"I like myself when I'm with him." This is actually some of the best advise for relationships: find people that being with, encourages you to be the person you want to be. (Not people who will fix you, people who naturally bring out the qualities you want in yourself.)

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defconprime · 5 years

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TREKMATCH! # 269 - Voyager's "Fair Haven" vs 2008's Futurama: Bender's Game

FUTURAMA: BENDER'S GAME

Bender starts using his imagination to a dangerous degree while playing Dungeons & Dragons, putting everybody in danger. There's a lotta fantasy gags that I don't get because I'm more of a sci-fi person, but I'm sure they're probably quality. Once in high school I borrowed a book from the library called "Coping With Satanism," and it featured warning signs that your loved ones may be dabbling with the devil such as playing D&D, dancing, listening to rock and roll, or playing pinball. I couldn't believe anybody'd actually believe all that Satanic panic malarkey, but I guess enough people did that they published the book and also that my high school would keep a copy of it on the shelves.

GRADE: D+

STAR TREK: VOYAGER - "Fair Haven"

Tom Paris creates a new holodeck videogame where the crew cosplays as people in a small 19th Century Irish village. Sounds boring as heck but I guess when your regular life is fighting the Borg and time traveling and alternate universes then maybe you need to unwind with something bland. The problem (?) here is that Janeway starts having an affair with a character in the holodeck (after she programs him to be her perfect man). Like, what's the big deal, anyway? Don't be a dang prude!

GRADE: C

Victory to Trek, putting Trek back up 135-134!

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