MalikMuaddibSoong

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[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For most of Star Trek’s history, the Prime timeline holds together no matter what happens to it.

I respectfully disagree.

James Kirk of the united earth space probe agency or whatevs sends his regards to the united federation of planets 🙃

Later in Disco we see… many anachronisms, which makes it hard to write of earlier inconsistencies as just errata.

My own conclusion is that star trek is like a jigsaw puzzle both with some pieces missing and some pieces from other puzzles entirely.

Edit: as a counter point, I would say that statement is true of other (smaller) franchises, like planet of the apes.

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Harumphs intensify

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We call it Hatuey day in my house 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatuey

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me watching twilight for the first time with my daughter and seeing this scene:

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vandal Kingdom of St Augustine fame feels way less obscure than Land of Punt or Garamantes, but who cares I gotta find out about that Roman coin!.

Trying to think of it in terms of the real world is senseless.

It’s can also be fun 😎

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since Picard 3 it’s canon that the transporter is a meat printer that relies on cached DNA to do shallow copies.

Hacking that cache was the big plot reveal of how the borg-changelings infiltrated starfleet.

Me reading a backstabby medieval german story that ends in sweet uncle Attila’s court: is this a scourge of god?

ENT 04x07 The Forge might be the earliest human mindmeld and the recipient is brain damaged and comatosed:

SOVAL: He's comatose, brain-damaged, and he's human. A mind-meld is dangerous under the best of conditions, but under these…

Later

SOVAL: I don't know if this has ever been attempted with a human before.

SOVAL: My mind to your mind. Our minds are one. Our thoughts are joined. Yes.

SOVAL: I see what you see. The embassy. I'm at my station. At your station. So many new people arriving for the summit. I don't recognise them all, but some I know. A package. That's all right. I don't need to see it. Go right through. Who are you? Who?

Oh ya sometimes I forget about that. 🙃

It’s a reference to a Star Trek villain “Malik Soong” from ENT whose actor is also played “Paul Muaddib Atreides” in the syfy Dune miniseries.

Fun fact. Malik meaning king is the dead giveaway that “Malik Soong” was always a cheap copy of “Khan Singh” from Wrath of Khan.

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Haha yes, thanks for a breath of fresh air.

It’s been eye-opening to read up about history in that area of the world 🤓

Thanks fam, I’m gonna check it out. Love me some ENT 😎

 

I swear I remember they cut directly to Obrien and Data with incredulous "did he just say saucer sep" looks on their faces.

 

One of my absolute favorites and I'm hoping folks want to talk about it.

Hands down my most reread book. Me, an atheist, never imagined a twisty/puzzly novel about the life and times of future space jesus would speak to me so deeply.

The prose is multidimensional and layered with meanings that only come into focus once you know where it's going.

Some of my favorite examples:

  • The title of chapter 1
  • Severian first finding his dog.
  • Thecla's story of a fortune teller predicting she would sit on a throne.
  • The ending of book 1
  • The ending of book 2

Any other trek fans delighted by Group of Seventeen in book four, realizing it was 10 years ahead of the TNG episode "Darmok"?

 

My personal journey of crawl > walk > run > slap

 

Yall got any of that hitbox porn?

 

still not worth watching subrosa

 

I really like the beginning, but it’s all downhill from there

 

I actually read somewhere that Archer did nothing wrong and afterward I began remembering all these scenes haha.

 

They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my ~~pain~~ privacy taken away. I need my ~~pain~~ privacy!

 

Also, Engineering: divert all life support to shields and Helm: initiate attack pattern alpha 💪

 

House of Quark is a high point where he saves Quark’s life and allows a Klingon woman to inherit her own house.

Tacking Against The Wind is a low point where he is reduced to a cartoonish mustache-twirler.

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