Lieutenant Harry Kim, Lieutenant B'ellana Torres, and Ensign Eaurp Guz sharing the title of women enjoyager of the starship voyager. Ensign Guz and crewman Seven of Nine sharing the title of autism girlie.
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Mellanus joins the Federation in 2360 when it first develops warp drive, rather than waiting until the Dominion War.
Guz was born 8 years earlier and never worked an internship in the space program, having made the decision to leave for Starfleet earlier. starts off in engineering but eventually shares Operations Officer duties with Kim, as Kim's role increases. She also builds models of the alien ships encountered throughout Voyagers' journey... a slow hobby that's excellent at passing time.
Harry Kim gets promoted in season 2 and in season 4.
Seven of Nine holds the rank of Crewman in season 4 and wears a teal uniform. She might get a provisional field commission as an officer later on. She has more visible implants, both borg and starfleet designs. Instead of heels, she has Advanced Knee Replacements.
Maybe Slamtha is a Maquis who ends up on Voyager? That's a whole different story...
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Dauphin County Prison (DCP) Inmates Going to the Mess Hall
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"Selfportrait of the Artist on His United States Navy Meal Ticket"
digital collage & digital painting by Mick Mather
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The Prospect-- Pt. 02-24: "Really Nice!"
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Dull in appearance it might be, the replicator is one of the most common and most useful pieces of remnant technology. First discovered back in 8201 remnant replicators were put into use onboard capital ships as a means of recycling waste organics into more useful foods. While this alone was considered very helpful for long-term voyages across space, research suggests that the containers these food products are dispensed in are shelf-stable for possibly hundreds of ship-years; permitting a ship with a well-maintained hydroponics system can operate in the void nigh-indefinitely at the cost of a surprisingly small amount of energy. Because of the extraordinarily complicated coding system for these remnant devices, the only available recipe databases have either been recovered from ruins or copied themselves. Acquisition and maintenance is still an expensive process so most replicators in public use are a novelty item to attract planet-dwelling tourists and individuals with expensive culinary tastes.
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I'm going to have to really figure out how to handle the painting stuff. This one once again took too long.
Still, I like Clinton's happy light in this page!
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Love me an espresso martini 🥰
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Another fine mess
With apologies to Laurel and Hardy, today’s Word of the Day is another fine mess you’ve gotten me into. I can’t recall what I was reading, watching or listening to that made reference to a bunch of military folk dining in a “mess hall.” So what makes a mess hall, um, messy?
Now, you might think they call it a “mess” hall because, after a long day of marching, standing at attention and saluting, tired soldiers can get pretty sloppy while chowing down. Or perhaps you think the mess refers to a big, gloopy ladleful of, say, creamed chipped beef being plopped onto a tin tray. And, of course, you’d be almost completely wrong.
We may not know which came first, the chicken or the egg (It’s obviously the egg, but that’s an argument for another day), but we know for sure that the mess in “mess hall” came first and general messiness came later. Much, much later.
The word “mess” came into English around 1300 and originally meant a portion of food, enough for one meal. In modern French, “mets” means “dish, or dishes.” (Insert your own “Let’s go mets” joke here.) But once upon a time, old Frenchmen speaking Old French spelled “mets” as “mes.” And both “mets” and “mes” trace their roots back to the Late Latin word “missus,” meaning to put or send (which is where we get the word “mission”), but also “a course at a meal; something put on the table to be eaten.”
By the early 1500’s, “mess” came to mean not just the meal, but a group of people (usually numbering four, we’re told) eating at the same communal table. Those folks were your mess-mates, and the meal was eaten in the mess-room. It took until the early 1800’s for the mess-room to join the military and become a “mess hall.”
And it appears the mess wasn’t just any food - it was usually a semi-liquid meal, like a stew or thick soup. That’s where we get the Biblical tale of Esau selling his birthright for a “mess of pottage.” Pottage is another word for soup or stew. Today, a “mess of pottage” can refer to anything that is “valueless or trivial or of inferior value —used especially of something accepted instead of a rightful thing of far greater value.” (Merriam-Webster). But I digress.
That semi-liquid mess – the term was also applied to mushy animal feed – is what finally gave rise to the mess we know and love (and probably live with) today. The animal slop gave “mess” the meaning of “a jumble, a mixed mass” as well as a “state of confusion, a situation of disorder…condition of untidiness.” (Online Etymology Dictionary)
It only took 500 years to go from “a portion of food” to “a dirty or untidy state of things…a state of affairs that is confused or full of difficulties.”
What a mess!
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Deej and I have both been super busy recently, so we haven't been able to spend as much time together as we'd like.
To make up for it, I decided to treat her to a nice candlelit dinner in the mess hall after everyone else had cleared out. Even paid one of my students' grandmas to make a lovely meal for us.
Sadly, I managed to forget to bring the candles.
Fortunately, Cookie had made some of his signature brownies for dessert that night, so I found a couple of leftovers he'd stored and lit those on fire, since they're about 90% hair and wax, anyway.
Date saved!
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