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mirror_slap, in Nothing good

I was rolling laughing at this, and then I had to try to explain it to my wife. It is basically unexplainable.

doctorcrimson, (edited )

So basically, it’s a meme originating from Star Trek wherein a species communicates exclusively through idioms and descriptions of events, making it impossible to translate without an understanding of their overall culture and history. Shaka When the Walls Fell probably means failure, it can be translated as “wow” in best case or “this is devastating” in the worst case.

If my Ink Tank Printer suddenly posted SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL then I would be taking a few steps back and grabbing some towels.

mirror_slap,

Now If you had said towel, I would have assumed it was the ultimate Douglas Adams reply, lol.

Floey,

This almost sounds like a prediction of contemporary meme culture where every situation or emotion is conveyed though a shared collection of phrases and images.

Blamemeta, in You can always count on Garak ...or can you?

Fuck it, Im blocking this sub. Garak is not gay, men are allowed to have friendships with other men. Yall are worse than ao3 with your fanshipping.

charonn0,
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The actor who played Garak is on record saying that he played the character as bi, with a crush on Bashir.

ThrowawayPermanente,

Friendship is for chicks, I have rivals and subordinates

Stamets,
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Blamemeta,

What I find funny is I blocked the sub, and I still see the replies. I can reply from my inbox, but I can’t go and see the post itself. Interesting how it all works.

Zorque,

Would a straight man bring a disruptor to their first date with a woman?

gregorum,

Andrew Robinson himself has said in many interviews that he played the character as “Omnisexual,” and initially attracted to Bashir. In fact, he was originally written that way until Rick Berman put an end to it out of nothing more than homophobia, but Robinson continued to play him that way regardless.

porthos,

I love when actors do this out of a genuine love for the potential of a character, star trek would be so much worse if it wasn’t for so many actors challenging the ethical and visionary failings of the script both through their acting and directly speaking up. It matters less that the script never ships bashir and garak (I thinkkk I haven’t finished though… hahaha) because the acting makes it true no matter what the narrative says on paper or what dialog happens between them.

It is always about what is implied by what we are being shown isn’t it? Especially if you don’t quitteeee take the words the actors are literally saying at face value as the only dimension of truth.

Nothing is more fitting for garak in a way, though that is more sad than anything because the show would have been richer with an openly queer garak.

JWBananas,
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I love when actors do this out of a genuine love for the potential of a character

Frakes and Sirtis did this with their characters as well in TNG.

Aside from the initial introduction to their past relationship, the writers wanted to leave it in the past so that they could explore other stories. But the actors played it up every chance they could get.

That still didn’t stop the writers from pushing Troi and Worf together toward the end for some bizarre reason. But if not for the actors’ efforts to keep things alive throughout the run of TNG, Troi and Riker may not have ended up together in the end.

Holyhandgrenade, in It's so cold out.
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

-30 °C here in Norway. Going outside hurts

IAmHisBiggestSpoon,

Look on the bright side, you’re almost to the magical temperature where “°C or °F” is unnecessary!

nightwatch_admin,

These sands are cold, but Khajiit feels warmness from your presence.

CubitOom, in It's big! It's heavy! It's wood!

Did anyone else just hear the twin peaks theme music in their heads?

groucho,
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“Who’s the guy in the back with the captain’s insignia and the log?” “We call him the Log Captain.”

EdibleFriend, (edited ) in For real though, I think about this at least once a day
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They didn’t talk about it because crazy shit happened to that fucking ship every day. I could just imagine some ensign going home to his wife like ‘The ship gave birth today’ and she just rolls her eyes and goes back to her book.

paddirn,

“Oh god, what did Riker stick his dick in this time?”

USSBurritoTruck,
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“Actually it was La Forge!”

EdibleFriend,
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The funny part about that is, even though he was the one who got the shit over it, the fucking ship came on to him. He just wanted to talk about the goddamn warp drive.

USSBurritoTruck, (edited )
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It is wild how much shit Geordie gets for the Leah Brahms hologram.

It is also wild that no one ever interrogates the fact that the computer essentially made a hologram so it could hit on Geordi, either.

EdibleFriend,
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I forgot that part! It made the god damn hologram in the first place!

Telodzrum,

We can set aside how Geordi conducted himself after the hologram had been made as well, if you’d like. That doesn’t even begin to address how he acted when the real Dr. Brahms came on board the ship. Dude’s a certfied incel creep.

USSBurritoTruck,
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The way he acts towards the read Doctor Brahms certainly does not cast the character in the most flattering light, but what did he do in “Booby Trap” that was so bad?

RootBeerGuy,
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“Riker stuck his dick in La Forge? Huh, you know what, I am happy for those two, they had it a long time coming.”

Strayce,

Wait, Riker fucked LaForge?

flatplutosociety,
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My favorite example of this is from The Chase, where they discover the origin of all humanoid species in the galaxy, probably the most important discovery made in the history of Starfleet, and it’s never mentioned again.

FlyingSquid, (edited ) in Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and-
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I love that she’s such a Trekkie that she doesn’t even know how to do the Vulcan salute properly, despite probably having seen images of it her entire life even if she never watched a single episode of Star Trek.

What is that, the Vulcan shocker?

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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Showing the back of the hand makes it look like she’s flashing some Vulcan gang sign, haha.

FlyingSquid,
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FlyingSquid, (edited )
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Ok, now it’s time for @ummthatguy to make a meme of him giving that salute and saying, “live short and fuck you.”

ummthatguy,
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FlyingSquid, (edited )
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You’re always there for me.

Edit: By the way, that actor was also in the Twelve Monkeys TV series and he’s really good in it.

emptyother,

Don’t you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!

theinspectorst,
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It's Mariner's sarcastic salute!

https://youtu.be/VnqLFjZD9pg

TWeaK,

/sigh time to rewatch yet again

Who am I kidding, I’m excited to have the excuse.

Poggervania,
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$50 says she’s just doing that old Volkswagen handsign from those commercials in the 2000s

psycho_driver,

Far from groovin

TheGiantKorean,
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The Spocker

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

It’s right after the shocker, but well before the minivan.

TheGiantKorean, (edited )
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The Minivan is def the final boss.

GenderNeutralBro,

Vulcan gang sign.

Taleya, in Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives.

Just ran a B5 marathon and ooooof

PrinceWith999Enemies,

Now do Space 1999.

Taleya,

After my Blakes 7. Avon’s just about to go off the rails.

MrJameGumb, in Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives.
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I can’t be the only person who watched The Head back in 94 lol

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/76f26f05-a487-41f8-90ec-84b611058246.jpeg

Dud,
@Dud@lemmy.world avatar

I shouldn’t have, I was only 7 or 8 at the time but man that show was a trip.

MrJameGumb,
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I was about 13 when it came on MTV and it was my favorite show lol

andyburke, in The origin of starfleet combat training.
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For real something was wrong with the TOS stunt coordinator or something.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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It looks a lot like stage fighting. Something that would still be clear to viewers sitting really far away (or I guess with tiny, blurry 1960s TVs in this case).

dejected_warp_core,

It’s basically that. These have a lot in common with pro-wrestling moves. They all carry some element of risk (like the drop kick), but the physicality isn’t impossible to achieve with some coaching.

sirblastalot,

There is a huge stage influence. Just look at how 90% of the planets are a couple of boulders in front of a cyc.

KnightontheSun,

Nothing wrong at all. Nearly everything is overdone in the OG series. That’s why I love it.

AntiOutsideAktion, in Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives.
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Your friend sounds like a wet blanket

The_Picard_Maneuver, (edited )
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TotallyNotSpez, in When a friend tells you they want a t-shirt featuring Shran, there's really only one thing to do

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  • USSBurritoTruck,
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    When I first posted this to reddit, a couple t-shirt bots immediately stole it and posted it to some shady webstores. I tried to make an account with a more reputable site, because I figured if anyone was going to make money off my dumb bullshit, it should be me, but for whatever reason they wouldn’t accept it.

    So, to answer your question, if you see it online, I would not have any hard feelings about your purchasing it, but I personally wouldn’t trust the seller with my credit card info.

    Flyberius, in When a friend tells you they want a t-shirt featuring Shran, there's really only one thing to do
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    I’ve got a TNG one of these with the entire main cast. It’s great

    USSBurritoTruck,
    @USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website avatar

    That one may have been the inspiration for this one, if I’m being perfectly transparent.

    Rom, in What women want
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    This is Morn erasure

    Corgana,
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    Holy shit …am I a bigot?

    1stTime4MeInMCU, in It's big! It's heavy! It's wood!

    That kind of log floating behind ships was where the term log comes from. They’d throw them overboard and let them drift out over some interval and they’d mark down “log took 30 seconds to drift out to end of rope” to determine their speed.

    BorgDrone,

    TIL

    OlinOfTheHillPeople,

    I’ll be damned:

    www.etymonline.com/word/log

    randomuser38529, (edited )

    Oh my log

    FTFY

    name_NULL111653,

    See also: knot (literally how many knots in the rope were pulled overboard by said log in a given time).

    EmpathicVagrant, in Especially this meme

    On Voyager the whole image appears in the feed

    lolcatnip,

    Same for Boost.

    Infynis,
    @Infynis@midwest.social avatar

    And Connect

    spacecowboy,

    And mlem

    onion,

    And Eternity

    caseyweederman,

    And Sync

    CrayonMaster,

    And Racoon

    sag,
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    And Jerboa

    Jaccident,

    And Avelon.

    alphafalcon,

    Ironically Sync does, too, and zooms to full width on tap, hiding the Rick roll.

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