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And after Spock wildly emotionally beats up the monster, we find out the truth and the episode ends. What a way to start the show (by airdate, anyway).
Night one of over 900 done.
#AirdateStarTrek
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Credit where credit’s due: Janice does NOT scream or react in an unfortunate over-the-top manner when seeing the dead body.
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This is why I love watching TV with my brother: he’s seen this before several times. And yet when the salt monster reaches towards Uhura, he gasped and whispered, “No, no, no!”
#AirdateStarTrek
#BestBrother
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Janice Rand being spunky and putting off creepy guys who are actually salt monsters: great.
Other crewmen immediately with the innuendo: blech
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Janice Rand being spunky and putting off creepy guys who are actually salt monsters: great.
Other crewmen immediately with the innuendo: blech
#AirdateStarTrek
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And there it is. The first over-the-top hysterical screaming. Naturally the MEN never react that way. 😑
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Funny how we never see the Enterprise stop in on another science expedition to do their yearly checkup. 🤣
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Ironically the show’s first redshirt, Crewman Darnell, is not wearing a red shirt.
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One episode per night will take us YEARS but it will be fun. We tried this once before and left off when life got busy.
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It’s all so senseless.
youtu.be/BJP9o4BEziI?...
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I don’t recall from the liner notes but Julia Ecklar wrote this in response to either “The Day After” or “Threads.”
youtu.be/NwP34rKDFWw?...
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Because of how it aired in the US, “War Without End, Part 2” has always felt like the season 3 finale. We didn’t get “Walkabout” through “Z’ha’dum” till the following fall.
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It is, very much so. Just wish the seasons were longer.
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But also maybe (MAYBE) this will finally quiet the folks who were so gleeful about DSC being cancelled after the same amount of time.
(Spoiler: it won’t. They’ll argue DSC deserved it and SNW didn’t. *sigh*)
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I mean, she DID change my life. But she would have CHANGED Kid Me's life.
(Apologies if I missed any other typos…I had to click "cancel" to see what I'd written.)
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* characters like Urkel (sorry, Bluesky for IOS is making me type this wihtout seeing it…some weird bug). Anyway, Sylvia Tilly would have changed my life. She was Like Me and her friends loved her for who she was. They supported her in her anxious moments. She would have changed my life.
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I adore Tilly more than I can possibly say. When TNG premiered in 87, I was a nine-year-old anxious, plus-sized, probably neurodivergent kid and the closest thing I had to "myself" on screen was Wes (who the fandom hated) and haracters like Urkel.
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(Meanwhile the oldest piece of my schoolwork my mom saved was from 1st grade was a story about Greg Brady going to college. It was just line after line of characters saying, “Goodbye, Greg,” because I was an awkward six year old who didn’t know how that would work for real 🤷🏼♀️)
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*wouldn’t want
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Pardon me, Richard Manning. Also an executive producer of Farscape. I misremembered which FS person it was but I remember it being a topic of discussion in one of the commentary tracks.
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The only Trek script written by Farscape’s Rockne S. O’Bannon. Ben Browder snuck a “Who Watches” Easter egg into the first Farscape episode he wrote (“Mintaka III sounds boring to me anyway,” he tells Aeryn when she questions how he names stars).
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* My *actual* first political disagreement with him was when he made an exasperated comment in a Carl’s Jr. about how he wished life was like it was in the 50s. I pointed to my 3ish year old brother and said, “but then he’d be in an institution.”
It did not go over well.
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I was scared during the LA riots — though even then (as a naive 8th grader) I thought it was a “dream deferred” moment more than anything (which was one of my very first* political disagreements with my dad) I’m not scared of the protestors right now. I’m scared FOR them.
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I’ve said this before — I think maybe even to you — but the name alone is the reddest of red flags.
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I was so mad. All over a comma. And it’s not like the paper was getting published or anything. Clearly I knew the right way, but, no, I had to fix every single citation before she’d accept it.
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done wrong, then gave the paper back to me so I could fix them.
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Not nearly the same scale but in my teacher prep program, I once had a professor tell us we had to use MLA citations, told us how to do them wrong, didn’t listen to me when I — fresh off four years of writing center tutoring in undergrad — said they were wrong, had me submit the paper with them
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That quote was my first thought.
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Anyway, I am beside myself with pride for this kid that kinda reminds me of my shy anxious past self and I’m so grateful I was able to be a safe person for them to the extent that they managed this special event.
I’m gonna miss them terribly.
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So this kid sat with their peers (and me for assisted self-regulation reasons) and listened to a friend from a general education class read the short speech they’d written. They were the first kid from my class to ever give a speech at culmination.