Xariphon

I have to imagine she had an absolute blast playing this character.

I thought it was a person, witnessing the fall of his city.

I always thought of “Shaka, when the walls fell,” as indicating a state of shock, disbelief, or otherwise not understanding what you’re witnessing, more so than failure.

Honestly I love interpreting Tamarian meme-speak…

… Anyone else first remember this actor as Samson from Carnivale?

That episode was hilarious though.

I forgot he even directed that one. I was more thinking of Frame of Mind.

So, what I’m hearing is, we’re in for some really awesome / utterly mindfuck episodes.

My wife and I spotted your username and we have to wonder: are you aware of the character named Nougat from the game “I Was a Teenage Exocolonist”?

She is adorable, and if you are not familiar you should look at some of her scenes. Your day will be cuter.

Funny thing: Data’s cat was played by a different cat in every or almost every appearance. None of them looked remotely alike.

Thus, my fan theory is that in the course of his career Data actually had a series of cats, all of them named Spot.

I bet the AI version looked more coherent, though…

Yes. Kes was artificially put into it and made a point of saying it happens only once.

As to them having a tendency to single births, I don’t remember. There do seem to be few enough of them to indicate a population in decline, but…

If each couple can only have one child ever, their population would halve every generation, wouldn’t it? That’s… Isn’t that wildly unsustainable, biologically?

I suppose they could represent an evolutionary dead-end…

The thought just occurred to me: they talk about it being a big deal that the Ocampa only live nine years and… We assume they mean nine Earth years. But they never actually establish how long an Ocampan year is. If they have an orbital period similar to, say, Saturn, she could easily outlive Tuvok while lamenting that she “only” gets nine years.

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Serious Answer:

It doesn’t “stand for” anything in that it’s not an acronym or acrostic.

It’s the name of Star Trek “tropical resort planet.” People go on shore leave there in the way that people go on vacation to Bermuda or the Bahamas; it’s kind of the default “iconic tropical paradise” location.

On one notable occasion, Captain Picard went on vacation there.

Before he left, Commander Riker asked him to pick him up a certain souvenir from there.

You see the wooden statue in the sidebar over there? —>

That thing. It has a name. I don’t remember what it’s called.

What Riker didn’t tell him is that displaying one of those statues openly is basically Risan shorthand for “I’m cruising for casual sex.” So Picard was just like “yeah, I finally got around to buying Will that ugly statue he wanted; can’t be arsed to take it back to my room right now though.” So he just kinda carried it around with him for the day, had it hanging out on the table next to him while he was reading and such. With predictably awkward/hilarious results.

So yeah. This community is named after a low-stress tropical tourist trap that was occasionally spiced up with adventure and trolling. The perfect place for Star Trek related memes and shitposts.

OMG I can’t believe I forgot that! He was fucking AMAZING as Puck.

Who was Brent Spiner?

He was Coldstone, the cyborg gargoyle.

Yeah this scene scared the hell out of little me when I first saw it.

Those invisible blue aliens that transformed Geordi got me worse though; legit nightmare fuel those things.

I doubt that more and more every year. I’m not young, just clueless about a lot of media.

…what?