Aa!

Yeah in that frame he really should be talking to Odo anyway.

Because the whole situation really was Odo’s dumbassery by accident

It really bothers me that Odo didn’t choose to be the same plastic blue barrel that nearly killed Worf

That was the reason, but it was a full field commission, as a captain is allowed to do.

Paris did. Then he got demoted and then promoted again.

And I want to say Tuvok got a promotion also

I know those words, but that doesn’t make any sense

Pretty sure Darkwing Duck was part of the Disney Afternoon, and showed after school on weekdays

There most certainly is a Federation President. There is definitely government, authority, and laws, with Starfleet appearing to be the law enforcement.

It’s not “nothing else”, you just ignored the rest of what I said. Literally everything in your last post was already addressed in what I said

If you took that as an insult, well… I’ve already said it.

Fire at Will!

I guess your attention span ran out after four words, so you ignored the rest of the explanation

But that’s a you problem

Neelix drip sounds like a gastrointestinal condition. Probably brought on by too much leola root

You got Jadzia’s kiss, you got Riker and the androgynous species, and all of Intendant Kira.

I’m not saying those few cases are enough representation (Kira being arguably a bad example, making her sexuality into a more “evil” trait), but they were definitely overt. On the other hand, there’s zero basis for saying Prime Kira was bi, and Doctor Twink was quite straight, no matter how gay Garak was.

Honestly, I thought Julian and Garak was perfectly executed. Garak may have been flirty, but Julian was obviously more enamored with the spy scenario and intrigue (as we delved deeper into in Our Man Bashir and to some degree, the Section 31 episodes).

This is my problem with this meme whenever it comes up.

There are so many direct occasions to bring up representation and acceptance in Star Trek, so why do people always jump straight into platonic erasure and make up sexualities that aren’t there?

I for one always loved the ability for people in Trek to work and live close to each other and develop deep friendships without resorting to coupling up. Turning every friendship into something more romantic just seems disrespectful, because people are perfectly capable of being friends without needing to make something more of it

It used to be at the same time, so you’d have to choose between the two

You know which one I was more interested in

See, I preferred to save that for the end, so it ended on a high note. Being stuck with boring ice in the end just left me feeling like the whole thing was a bummer.

Like chewing a stick of Fruit Stripe gum

That’s a whole other question. The replicators of TNG era weren’t protein resequencers like they were in Enterprise. They were simple matter/energy conversion. They would reclaim the matter and store any remaining energy in the ship’s reserves.

In Voyager they said the holodecks ran on a completely separate power supply than the rest of the ship, so maybe they never really intermingled with the replicator systems

That’s what I mean, I didn’t!

The plastic wasn’t a danger unless you were doing something absurd like putting plastic in your mouth and then tightening your lips to a dangerous degree. And that would be very easy to stop doing, you just… Don’t hold so tight with your mouth.

It’s not like you eat these like drinking a thick milkshake. You suck too hard, you pull all the flavor out and are left with flavorless ice. I would always rather have flavored juice left over

It’s not a person, the holodecks are just designed in a horrifying way. We learned from an early TNG episode that when the holodecks do an uncontrolled shut down, they reclaim all the matter within them. It requires a special intentional function to leave the people behind.

So don’t worry about it, they’re self-cleaning

I can’t be the only one who didn’t hurt himself on these as a kid.

Like… I wasn’t the smartest kid in the world, but learning to be careful with anything you put in your mouth, that was a lesson I learned early.

Wtf were you people doing with these, anyway? It took me only like 3 tries before I decided these weren’t worth trying to open with my teeth. It was scissors from that point on.

Sounds like something a Herbert would say