De Lancie invited the local bronies in my area to attend an opera he was narrating. I attended and he came and hung out with the bronies afterwards, saying he wanted to thank us for sharing our thing with him by sharing his thing with us. He stayed late after, signing autographs and chatting with people, for so long that I think he may actually have missed his flight. He was a super sweetheart. Maybe he needs to vent about the nasty fans behind closed doors sometimes, but I can’t begrudge anyone that. I recognize that it’s only one data point, but he made the effort to do something nice for us on his own initiative, was incredibly generous with his time, and was kind to me, personally. I will always appreciate that.

EDIT: Also, it was a free event so it’s not like he was trying to sell tickets or anything, and there were less than a dozen of us so I doubt it was a self-serving PR move.

Captains are actually fully autonomous, admirals just exist to make sure they feel like cool badass maverick rebels.

Queercoding villains to make them seem dangerous and deviant to the people of the time (and those that are still stuck in that time). Admittedly, the people making that decision probably weren’t conscious of that being why they thought eyeliner made him look villainous.

Be the change

Babe turns around and starts recking them too

Great filters are strictly hypothetical anyway.

We SHOULD put up a statue to Avery Brooks. Why not? He’s a dang treasure.

Ah but they’re non-temporal. If Q ever did that, they wouldn’t be present when we see them in ds9, therefore Q does not and can not!

And then once you’re a captain you can pretty much violate the prime directive as much as you want with impunity.

Section 31 actually knows about all the infiltrators, but at least in early stages of their infiltration when they’re trying not to arouse suspicion they end up doing a better job than the human admirals would have anyway, so they’re allowed to do their thing.

Ya made me look bad!

Someone’s about to get warcrimed

No joke though, I would looooove to see a series about the adventures of Beverly Crusher, Captain of the Pasteur.

She complains about having to use her ration on coffee in one episode. Presumably that’s why they divert to the coffee nebula.

I do love watching shuttle launches, but I’m not sure I’d call a bunch of public domain NASA footage the best opening sequence ever.

I feel like some of that was on purpose. Like, the whole point of the show was our bumbling first steps into space, there’s gotta be mistakes. And it gives some latitude to explore plots that aren’t all “Flawless Space Hero Saves the Day”

I think a lot of atrocities come from our need to be accepted by the people around us. Especially with fascists, whose group identity is based around excluding and hurting the outgroup, they’re stuck in a constant cycle of egging eachother on. One fascist says “lets beat up a black guy”, the others nod, and the person who feels most vulnerable to getting kicked out of the group tries to prove he belongs by saying “Nah, let’s KILL a black guy” repeat ad nauseam.