March 1, 1973 – Astronaut Pete Conrad tries the “Human Vestibular Function, Experiment M131” during Skylab mission training at the Johnson Space Center: “The reference sphere with a magnetic rod is used by the astronaut to indicate body orientation non-visually. The litter chair in which he is seated can be rotated by a motor at its base or, when not being rotated, can tilt forward, backward or to either side.” (NASA)
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Captain’s Logs (real-time watch-notes)
Season 1 - Vol. 1, an extra
Season 2 - Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
Season 3 - Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6
Season 4 - Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5
S1 & S4 - This business with Dax and Bashir
Season 5 - Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6
Season 6 - Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, more to come
Season 7 - coming soon
Tarra recaps stuff (full recaps)
S1 ‘Move Along Home’
S2 ‘The Wire’
S3 ‘Civil Defense’
S4 ‘Our Man Bashir’
S5 ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’
S6 ‘Far Beyond the Stars’, more to come
S7 - coming soon
Deep Space Mine (loose meta, one-offs, jokes)
Star Trek: Collected Recs (episode guides from ~the community~)
All of it, including replies: Tarra Treks
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Update on the “What We Left Behind” – the DS9 doc. As summarized in this little video here (click to view on Twitter), with just about a week left to go in the Indiegogo campaign, they are looking to reach a “stretch goal” that would allow them pay CBS TV Studios to access and use high-def DS9 footage for use in the doc. This kind of thing, pure rights access for clips, costs more than a lot of other basic stuff combined. But think how much better a documentary it would be if they can show actual scenes and in high-def to boot. (And yes we all want our own high-def video too, I get that.) Anyway, so if you have NOT contributed yet, check out the campaign. There are perks even for contributions as low as $5. I went in for the “Freedom Fighter” pack + Quark T-shirt and I may do another contribution too if I get impulsive. -Wendy
Anyway I checked S2′s ‘Armageddon Game’ as that and ‘Rivals’ were my back-to-back ur-texts for O’Brien hating Bashir, and after the sir business in ‘The Storyteller’ I was wondering just what O’Brien was calling him then. Turns out he was alternating between Doctor and Julian, sliding into only Julian by the end, and nary a one of the sir’s that began and concluded ‘The Storyteller’. Meanwhile, Julian was still only, and frequently, calling him Chief.
Incidentally, I didn’t start regularly referring to him as Miles until S4, and my suspicion is that I started when Julian did. A point of interest: Julian was still calling him Chief even when drunk and emosh on his sofa in late S3′s ‘Explorers’.
Alright I’m too intrigued by this now, c’mon let’s keep going:
First episode of S4, our guys are hanging out in Quark’s bar catching sandpeas in their mouths. Dialogue, representative of many things about their relationship:
“Aw Chief, I’m beginning to think there’s no limit to the wonders you can perform.”
“That’s what I like about you, Julian — you’re easily impressed.”My notes: “honestly how did O’Brien & Julian gradually become….This”
So they are clearly “This” by now, but he’s still O’Brien for me, as Julian isn’t calling him Miles and I APPARENTLY take my cues from him. Perhaps why I’ve always used Julian far more than Bashir, since he introduces himself that way.
Ok now ‘Hippocratic Oath’ a few episodes later, which holy moly how much was that one my thing! But yes this is the one where, since I’d skipped ‘The Storyteller’, I first heard Miles call Julian sir. And of course I did here, since this episode goes from them exaggerating their difference in rank as cover, to Julian actually pulling rank a bit later, and aaaalll manner of a specific sort of NCO/CO relationship that I fully lost my cool over. Julian only ever calls him Chief throughout. Miles: Julian, and sir.
Going into this, I had this singular emotional memory of Julian protesting “But that’s Miles” when Garak advised he shoot the hologram of Falcon in ‘Our Man Bashir’. If you’d asked my heart, that was the first time I’d heard Julian call O’Brien by his first name. Turns out that might have been right???
Anyway in the immediate next episode they are LARPing as WWII pilots and calling each other mate, but then in ‘Bar Association’ and ‘Accession’ — two of my very favorite episodes of this series honestly — Miles is back to Chief! That’s even with the entire plot of them moping around pining thinking they can’t hang out anymore since Keiko’s back, until eventually she’s like “I’m surrounded by idiots, YOU HAVE MY BLESSING, go, please.”
Even ‘Hard Time’ is mostly Chief’s, though Julian refers to him as Miles when he’s talking with Keiko, and uses one Miles and one full Miles Edward O’Brien during the two scenes where he’s trying to talk him down. In related news, I’ve been watching nothing but isolated O’Brien & Bashir scenes for the last however long, and with that priming, my god is ‘Hard Time’ a dark adventure for those two! WOW, Deep Space Nine.
Moving into S5, it’s become this thing where Chief has begun to feel almost like a nickname, the way Julian uses it. He’s breaking into the occasional Miles more often though, maybe at a 2:1 ratio. And so far in S6, Julian’s ratio has actually crept up to an almost even Chief/Miles split. Which, given the history, is quite a lot of first name action, and probably why it feels like Miles Miles Miles.
And that is where we are so far. Name nerd out.
Wait hold on I forget to analyze MY OWN BEHAVIOR.
Ok so just in my watch notes, here’s the breakdown over time:
Well that sure tells a story.
Anonymous asked:
Not quite, it is a fan game. Well, it was since they announced the rebranding of it a few minutes ago. You can find all about it in the Mother 4 subreddit and all the rest in just a google search away friend! - Pilori
hobby: pretending episodes and entire plot points i didn’t like in star trek never happened
I’m going to Floridaaaaaaaaa~~~
I hear y'all gots oranges!
I mean obviously.
A coupla suits arrive in Ops, announcing they’re from the DEPARTMENT OF TEMPORAL INVESTIGATIONS, good god yes.
Dax grins. “I guess you boys from Temporal Investigations are…always on time.”
Kira laughs, the space bureaucrats do not, and I am flipping my shit because no one told me that Deep Space Nine’s love letter to The Original Series was also their tonally perfect homage to the X-Files comedy episodes?? BUT IT SO IS. [Update: SO VERY IS]
Kira shows the suits in to Sisko’s office, where Ben, eager to share Deep Space 9’s bounty of space bevs, the glue that holds this society together, asks, “Are you sure you don’t want anything?”
“Just the truth, Captain,” Suit One responds.
Sisko:
Ok here’s some elements essential to the BRILLIANCE of the meta-tastic comedic episodes of The X-Files, which would have been in its own fifth season at this point, and clearly known and loved by the Star Trek: DS9 writers:
- suits, whose demand for explanations provides narrative framework and ballast — check, just brought those in by turbolift
- outlandish supernatural plot devices — born ready
- diegetic jokes — Jadzia Dax has us covered, now and always
- genre jokes, always with the ~feel~ of puns even when they’re not, delivered straight BUT
- with this pervading sense that everyone involved, actors fully but on some level even characters too, are playing it Extra Straight as their way of having as much fun with it as possible
- basically, everyone holds their stares for one hilarious beat too long to leave space for the imaginary *wink*
It is HEAPS OF FUN because the sense of everyone being in on the joke includes us, the audience, and so we love these episodes for their sense of community and affection as much as we do for their creativity and cleverness in taking a break from form to comment on the form. These kinds of episodes are the best and bounciest and all silliness in the service of sincerity and I’M SO HAPPY and we’re only just starting, ahh, AAHH.
I completely missed this episode recap for “Trials and Tribble-ations.” AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Like all of these, ON POINT.
Meanwhile, a fun paragraph I enjoy from the beginning:
“It’s barely noon and Worf is already wondering once again how he ended up spending his life with these bewildering humanoid puppies. He departs to his quarters blast Klingon opera through his brain on his Beats by Dre headphones, probably.”
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Information for Gyakuten Kenji (Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth) from Tokyo Game Show 2008.
Nintendo Power
Issue 236, Page 50
