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OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THIS KNIGHT is a funny little adventure that sees you playing a well meaning (but totally inept) knight who tries to help people, but usually just ends up making things a whole lot worse!
“There will be no immortality. You will grow old and, finally, die.”
“That’s been happening to men and women for a long time. I’ve got the feeling it’s one of the pleasanter things about being human, as long as you grow old together.” -Zefram Cochrane, Metamorphosis
do you ever think about how lucky we are that Stark Trek happened in such a way and along such a timeline that we get to watch these characters grow old together?
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman’s fascinating tome is an eye opener covering recent research into the intelligence and capabilities of our avian friends that enriched my perspective and made me see what is around me on a daily basis in a different light, which to me is the whole essence of what constitutes a good book. For many decades birds were dismissed as dumb and ‘bird brained’ due to the small size of their skull contents and it was thought that brainpower had been sacrificed during their evolution in the quest for lightness and flight.
Anonymous asked:
Things I want in S2: an ep with the entire plot playing out from the perspective of the background characters (preferably Random Communications Guy from E7). Not a normal day, all the same crazy stuff goes down, but RCG gotta deal with a space whale and a giant teleporting space tardigrade.
soap-brain answered:
and as a bonus: confused conversations of rcg with other random crewmembers while the actual crew is doing stuff in the distance.
with bonus appearances by merkin, of course
things i also want in s2: a musical episode. PLEASE @ star trek discovery!!!! you’ve got at least two actors who i KNOW can sing, so please!!!!
OST || rated R for holographic violence, guns & shameless 20th century nostalgia
one of my fav scenes in discovery is the lorca-cornwall interplay where she tells him she’s gonna take his captaincy away… because there isn’t a pre-established star trek captain who hasn’t had to put up with a cartoonishly evil or incompetent admiral, or straight up defied orders from one. (rn i’m only coming up with the search for spock and improbable cause but there’s probably more.) so discovery not only subverts a well-worn star trek cliche (the audience finds itself agreeing with the admiral for the first time) but incorporates the cliche into the characters’ worldview.
the way lorca sees the world has himself at the center as its maligned savior. that’s what separates him from other star trek characters who’ve done morally wrong things. take in the pale moonlight as the most famous example: sure, sisko ultimately decides that “two lives and the self respect of one star trek officer” are outweighed by the safety of the alpha quadrant, but he still ACKNOWLEDGES that cost. he says he’d do it again, but he doesn’t feel good about it.
lorca may know his actions are morally wrong but he’s come to believe so firmly in their necessity that he views the cost with near-total disregard. even more than that, though, he believes in his own heroism. when cornwall calls him out, the way he sees her is “annoying incompetent admiral who doesn’t understand that the protagonist NEEDS to do this”. where sisko’s actions in ‘pale moonlight’ make him feel awful, i’d argue that lorca gets a thrill from his actions in… every episode. he’s come to view the world in such a way that dissent and even horror prove to him that he’s doing something right. he’s the lone ranger, the single defiant captain who understands the way the world works. and he’s carrying out his vision at any cost.
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