The comments about the event are great over here. The initial poster talks about 8 invited racist speakers, but you could argue there were more like 10 or 12. The owners/organizers then talk about how the confrence had 60 speakers. They later say they would have backed off the “edginess” (i.e racism) by 5%.

So even by their own take, instead of having 15% racist invited speakers, they would prefer 10% invited racist speakers. We want 5 racists next time, not 8.

Other way around. Odo breaks his leg and Quark won’t leave him behind.

Later Quark gives up and Odo grits forward, inspiring Quark to finish the trek.

Fundamentally, pride is not just a party, it is a protest.

Rainbow parades or Rainbow bricks.

Ain’t no one going to let Stonewall happen again without a fight.

They’ll stop being atheists and start fully being “tradwivies” the very instant their ingroup requires it. Give or take 7 seconds after the purges begin.

They aint nothing but disengenious.

A boy almost gets murdered for catching a ball.

Riker and the boys go to Vegas.

Stardates should be a standard calendar at least amongst themselves.

So it’s not “the loss” but it is a loss.

Losses all the way down, boys.

I think both charectors are supposed to be workaholics, people that lose themselves in their job and basically spurn family dynamics. Miles has engineering and Keiko has botany. Both technical and demanding disciplines.

I think the writers wanted there to be that “we are both focused on our work and not each other” dynamic to their relationship, and wanted Keiko to be frustrated as a workaholic denied, being pushed into both the family role for their daughter and having no plant life to study on DS9, with Miles always forced by the rickety ass station to be absent in workaholic mode. Its a situation that breeds real resentment.

The “become a teacher for the kids” was a sublimation that worked for a while for her on the station, letting her do useful work and watch their daughter, but that of course fell apart.

The other hand of it to is that theirs is one of the few relationships where you can feel the strain of competing needs on Trek. Most relationship issues in star trek are pretty low stakes, even the ones played up like worf/jadeza wedding. Like, it is all going to be wrapped in a tidy bow and we know it. Keiko/O’Brien felt like real people under relationship strain.

Miles and Kieko were both driven people, and Kieko was being stalled out and was frustrated by it. There was no easy answer, just like the real world. Sometimes relationships, even otherwise healthy ones, have issues. Both actors were able to show that well, so they leaned into it.

Unfortunately, it makes for unlikeable people at times, and i think Kieko takes that brunt because she was much more of a side character so she was less fleshed out as a person, and to be blunt, because she was a she. The “shrew” wife is a centuries old trope in literature, and unfortunately the Trek writers left her in that trope too long and too often.

Also the show is worse in some ways. They were forced into camps that they could not leave, with no medical care, limited food, no jobs/etc.

That would definitely be some peoples preference for the current homeless, forcing undesirables into internment camps instead of dealing with the issue systemically, but that was part of the horror of the “show” setup.

“Pulling pigtails.”

O’Brien constantly breaking good cardassian engineering with infernal federation secondary backups.

Everyone wants to dance with the pretty girl at the party.

I assume the spore drive is in a wood box in section 31s “neato beans” warehouse next to Rikers “phase through matter and I guess go invisible whatever do what you want bro” cloak.

Dr. Becket is in for a wild ride this leap.

Look like this. They stack them in the little freezer section shelves sometimes, but Ive found them all over.

Grab their habanero chili oil the next time they get it in too. The oil is great and its stuffed with crispy little Hab slices. Amazing, and like $5 from TJ. Apprently are a repackage of this brand.

Trader Joe’s has crispy jalapenos that are equally good. That shit does not survive in my house.

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The cheese cometh…

Duplicitous lies, tricks and deceit are the basis of the Centauri governmental system.

Changelings are just another flavor in their everyday broth. Deception carries little merit in a system built entirely on lies.