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I mean Bajor doesn't really represent one country, it represents tons of stuff, that's sort of the point, you can connect it to any real life political issue you want to write a story
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tactlessbastard posted:Doesn't check out, the federation didn't move in and finish what the cardassians started That's what the "root beer" speech was about 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arisT3U-SSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EuTevxL3rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvBVvUC8LOE these are still the best
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Intel&Sebastian posted:*extremely weyoun voice*
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Unrelated but my fav frontier story was in Ken Burns' doc "The West" where they talked about the chinese gold miners in the area who were kept to themselves, didn't learn english, didn't try and become citizens but were just killin' it left and right with the gold mining....so the racist rear end white miners got the local govt to force them off their prime locations into extremely lovely ones....where the Chinese guys just worked harder and kept making mad money, so the govt forced a special tax on the Chinese miners....who worked even harder and were still making a ton of money, so much that their tax revenue made up half the state of California's income....so the other miners just gave up and started attacking their mining sites and killing them. See also: Australia.
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guys i was jk about the civil war analogy and i always thought the poland one was the most accurate although i think some of the writers said they were also influenced by bosnia or something
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3v_Oytj-yg Continued proof that Patrick Stewart is a treasure.
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Mar 7, 2018 04:20
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look, THE SISKO...is of Bajor
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Johnny Aztec posted:It did more harm than good because they treated the South as a conquered vassal state and bled it of any resources. The North didn't give two shits about anyone, white or black. Fine then let me rephrase that. Have dukat become president after Lincoln and then burn the southern states to the ground and kill everyone.
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Mar 7, 2018 05:19
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I will never stop loving how Wesley Crusher failed the Starfleet Entrance Exam but loving Nog passed first time
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Mar 7, 2018 09:14
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simplefish posted:I will never stop loving how Wesley Crusher failed the Starfleet Entrance Exam but loving Nog passed first time Hardly surprising, Wesley's a spoilt brat and Nog worked his lobes off.
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Mar 7, 2018 09:19
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Nog got a perfect score on the personality part of the exam, Wesley kept getting zeros.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Hardly surprising, Wesley's a spoilt brat and Nog worked his lobes off. Yeah, Wesley had everything handed to him on a plate. His dad was an ex captain in starfleet who died in the line of duty, his mother was a senior officer on the Federation flagship, and he even had a recommendation from Captain Picard, one of the most famous captains in starfleet. His life was easy mode, basically guaranteed to get into starfleet. Nog on the other hand comes from a race viewed not entirely unfairly as greedy and cowardly that has never entered starfleet before. His only recommendation is from someone who, at the time, was just a commander of some backwater station (Sisko hadn't rose to prominence during the dominion war). His dad, while an engineering genius, was an uneducated sewage system repairman, and his uncle owned a bar. Nog is positively a working class hero and Wesley is a spoilt rich kid brat.
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Then of course Wesley full on rebels against his privelage and just runs off with a crazy dude promising to show him the galaxy by ascending. Then in the, let's not forget, canonical movies, he's just loving back like "lol hi guys, being am ascended being was cool for a bit but I'm back now. No one bother me about it please i don't like talking about it". As if it was a loving year backpacking around Asia. Nog on the other hand get assigned to a loving warzone, gets one of his legs blown off, and suffers from crippling PTSD.
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Nog may have been let in precisely because it represented an inroad into further dominance of a race up-to-then uninterested in the federation.
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basic hitler posted:Nog may have been let in precisely because it represented an inroad into further dominance of a race up-to-then uninterested in the federation. With most other races I'd agree but let's face it the Ferengi aren't exactly normally compatible with Federation values.
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Mar 7, 2018 09:48
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the federation is so smugly superior that they think everyone will come around to their way sooner or later
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Mar 7, 2018 09:57
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Nog outright says that if he was brought up in the Federation, Rom would be chief engineer on a starship, and might well have taken over from O'Brien if the Nagus hadn't made him the new Nagus solely because it'd be funny. (which, to be fair, it was) The Federation may well be outright brain draining from neighbours who don't want to join it.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the federation is so smugly superior that they think everyone will come around to their way sooner or later Liberal fully automated gay space communism tends to make those living in it seem insufferably smug to outsiders. I should know, I've met a lot of folks from the Nordic countries in my time.
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Mar 7, 2018 10:15
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Cardassia in the Federation would be hilarious
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we should kick the poo poo out of the TVIV thread GLORY TO THE EMPIRE!!!!! 
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L'il Wesley giving the D.A.R.E talk in a series that's repeatedly talked about roving "Rape Gangs" Yar really was Prototype Kira, wasn't she? simplefish fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 11:26
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simplefish posted:L'il Wesley giving the D.A.R.E talk in a series that's repeatedly talked about roving "Rape Gangs" No that would literally be Ensign Ro. (Kira exists because Ro's actress didn't want to be a series main in DS9)
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I haven't got far enough to have met Ensign Ro yet, but I'll bear it in mind
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Mar 7, 2018 11:48
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Ensign Cardassian watches a Federation captain give the end of episode speech and furiously takes notes
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Mar 7, 2018 12:33
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Inescapable Duck posted:Ensign Cardassian watches a Federation captain give the end of episode speech and furiously takes notes In the next episode he points out that the captains orders this episode completely fly in the face of their orders from the last one. Uses his notes to prove it. No one cares, and the captain upbraids him for questioning her orders. That's when he realizes, to his horror, that he is on Voyager.
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sweet geek swag posted:In the next episode he points out that the captains orders this episode completely fly in the face of their orders from the last one. Uses his notes to prove it. No one cares, and the captain upbraids him for questioning her orders. That's when he realizes, to his horror, that he is on Voyager. He probably feels right at home.
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sweet geek swag posted:In the next episode he points out that the captains orders this episode completely fly in the face of their orders from the last one. Uses his notes to prove it. No one cares, and the captain upbraids him for questioning her orders. That's when he realizes, to his horror, that he is on Voyager. I actually just watched a clip where Voyager is celebrating first contact day. I watched this after watching a clip where Archer, Tucker, and T'Pol discuss human ambition/nature. Archer tells T'Pol to eat bread sticks using her fingers and T'Pol refuses and continues to struggle with a knife and fork. While Tucker extols the virtues of humanity and attributes their rapid successes to it, T'Pol says the jury is still out but that with enough discipline anything can be accomplished, and as she says that she neatly saws through a breadsstick, and eats the piece delicately on her fork. The point of the scene of course is to highlight cultural differences and lessons we can learn from each other. On Voyagers First Contact Day Nelix peer pressures Tuvok into saying "Live long and prosper" in a way that's like forcing the one native American in the room at thanks giving to say Hi in Cherokee or something. Then Nelix says "let's dance!" and no one dances so he invites Tuvok. Tuvok insists vulcans don't dance, and when Janeway hears this she threatens to order him to dance. Voyager truly is the worst time line. Kitchner fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Kitchner posted:I actually just watched a clip where Voyager is celebrating first contact day. I watched this after watching a clip where Archer, Tucker, and T'Pol discuss human ambition/nature. Janeway's method of telling her closest friend happy birthday is to make him actively fear for his life by inferring she's found something truly damning in the ship's records that are gonna get him put in front of a firing squad.
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Mar 7, 2018 14:47
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It is not logical to refuse nourishment because you don't like the utensils, goddammit.
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It is logical to confuse the humans and keep them guessing.
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sweet geek swag posted:In the next episode he points out that the captains orders this episode completely fly in the face of their orders from the last one. Uses his notes to prove it. No one cares, and the captain upbraids him for questioning her orders. That's when he realizes, to his horror, that he is on Voyager. oh so that's why Seska defected to the goddamn Kazon of all people
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In the midst of a DS9/Dinner watch and just got to the Orb of the Emissary... If I was as suave as the guy playing Damar I'd be mad they had me under all the Cardi makeup that whole time.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:oh so that's why Seska defected to the goddamn Kazon of all people Not sure it was worth banging one of the many weird hair people, though. Or "klingons, but lovely." Pick your favorite.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Not sure it was worth banging one of the many weird hair people, though. favorite scene with the kazons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZtXYnOCtjY
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Mulaney Power Move posted:favorite scene with the kazons: Hyperdrive is really underrated.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:In the first and second seasons, sure, but by the third season any iota of of personality that wasn’t surface deep and obvious had been ironed out in favor of a blank slate that had trouble with even the most basic of human social concepts. Goons like to repeat this until they forget it's not true. Just off the top of my head, The Most Toys.
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