Star Trek

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ilzolende:

an-animal-imagined-by-poe:

audible-smiles:

radicalhufflepuff:

badconlangingideas:

Have your “merchant race” mark nouns for how much they would value that noun on the market.

“My best friend(not for sale)’s house(300,000 credits) has great views(50,000 credits) of the ocean (1,000,000 credits), but I don’t like their neighbors(20 credits).

I bet this is how Ferengi works.

BEST FRIEND (NOT FOR SALE) OMG

In Ferengi, (not for sale) is either wildly complimentary or unbelievably insulting. 

Wouldn’t insulting be attaching a negative value, as in “I would pay someone to get rid of this for me”, like you could say about garbage or water from flooding or something? (Wikipedia says those things are called “bads”.)

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Anonymous asked: DS9’s wormhole aliens saying “that gum you like is going to come back in style.”

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tinsnip:

kittyknowsthings:

tinsnip:

Delicious side benefits of being the Emissary:

–dictating fashion trends

–”the colour of the season will be… FUCHSIA”

–time for a hazelnut revival, hazelnuts in ALL THINGS, the Prophets HAVE SPOKEN

I see Garak tearing his hair out in frustration as more and more Bajoran youths (and some of the elder people) start to copy Jake’s clothing – because after all, he’s the son of the Emissary – trying to sneakishly improve the poor boy’s fashion sense to stop the constant assault at his retinas. Then he figures that the moment Benjamin compliments somebody on anything, it is sold out within hours – but so has Quark, so a war of strategic product placement begins. 

‘GOOD MORNING COMMANDER DO YOU LIKE THIS JUMJA STICK’

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last-snowfall:

defectivevorta:

ppl on ds9 angrily blogging about problems with the plumbing, the electricity, that one corridor that’s always full of debris because it’s the first to go whenever the station is attacked. “@staff you can move the fucking space station closer to the wormhole by somehow making it lighter but my bathroom still has a cardassian toilet”

“@staff i just want to be able to use a replicator without it destroying my ability to process language is that so much to ask”

“@staff i just found a pocket of anti-gravity in the habitat ring??? bug or feature?”

“@staff-”

“I AM WORKING ON IT” types Miles O’Brien, his communicator blowing up with notification after notification. so many notifications. Miles O’Brien thought he knew what he was getting into when he joined @staff. Miles O’Brien just wants to sleep. “I LIVE HERE TOO YOU KNOW”

Sisko assigning the account to that one Vulcan intern, who writes a program that assesses the messages, current repairs status, and fakes replying.

At first everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

Six months later the program has created itself a holographic form and can be found drinking heavily with Vic.

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flatandsassy:

Eventually the 20th Century History class at Starfleet Academy stops being a fringey elective and becomes a required course, and all the cadets are like “this is so irrelevant, why do we have to learn this” and anyone who’s been around for a while is like “there is an 812% chance that you will time travel to the 20th century during your Starfleet career”

“but the temporal prime directive” 

“At the very least you will get trapped a holodeck program based on the 20th century, and you will need to know all these weird idioms”

“But why is it only the 20th – ”

“We don’t know why it’s only the 20th century we have a whole corps of scientists trying to figure out what’s happening with that it seriously makes no sense but in the meantime, knowing how to work a combustion engine is pretty much guaranteed to save your life so get the hell on that.”

#maybe there will just be a 20th century truck #waiting for you in the delta quadrant

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