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another-normal-anomaly asked: 1: What is the best and worst purchases you’ve made? And 3: What is the craziest thing one of your teachers has done?

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another-normal-anomaly:

brin-bellway:

another-normal-anomaly:

evolution-is-just-a-theorem:

1: What is the best and worst purchases you’ve made?

Already answered, but I’ll add that deciding that whenever I think of something it would be useful to have I will just buy a bunch of it on Amazon has been an incredibly good decision that hasn’t cost me much money. Strongly recommend to anyone with an income, moderately recommend to anyone with good runway / expectation of an income.

Some example purchases: a ton of zip ties, a set of screwdrivers, a set of small plastic drawers to keep things organized, a bunch of power strips, various cleaning supplies that I needed at least once, a large pack of pencils and pens.

3: What is the craziest thing one of your teachers has done?

Asked me, and I fucking quote: “But what about the possibility of a collection consciousness”.

Fuck you and your shitty off-brand new age continentalism.

Maybe they just wanted to talk about the Borg :(

In the Voyager episode “Drone”, the Borg (or rather, disconnected Borg nanoprobes acting autonomously, but presumably with standing orders from the Collective) create a drone using a genetic sample and whatever tech they could scrounge up and convert into implants and a gestation vat. The being comes into existence already Borg-ified (still without a live connection to the Collective, but with a homing beacon).

I think this indicates that the Borg *can* have kids if pressed, though prefer to reproduce via assimilation.

(yeah, the kid was made with heavy technological assistance, but they’re *Borg*, they do *everything* with heavy technological assistance, so I don’t think that stops it from counting)

That probably means they could be a self-sustaining civilization without assimilating people, which is enough to put the borg on the “dickbags” side of the dickbags/tragic axis.

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#(July 2018) #conversational aglets #Star Trek #Voyager

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ds9vgrconfessions:

brin-bellway:

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startrekgifs:

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[Does anyone have a list (or better, a gif set?) of all the silliest lines from Voyager over the years? You know, like “get the cheese to sickbay” and “I feel like we’re being pecked to death by ducks” and “there’s coffee in that nebula!” so on and so forth? Cause I need such. Because of reasons.]

This would be a good idea for a GIF set…

Anyone ever make this?

There’s this one?

Yes, yes. Good.

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#(September 2016) #conversational aglets #Star Trek #Voyager

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vulcanwlw:

memeoryalpha:

i want someone who’s never seen star trek try to make sense of this.

the replies to this post are the fucking funniest thing:

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#Star Trek #DS9 #god kiwilapple is extremely close though #good job kiwilapple #(ftr: man is realising that he’s just contracted a bioterrorist virus which) #(causes your attempts at linguistic communication to come out as gibberish) #(and you perceive others as doing the same) #(also a couple days later it kills you for good measure) #((you know what really weirds me out about this episode?)) #((when Patient Zero turns up everyone leaps straight to ”holy shit what’s wrong with O’Brien?!”)) #((rather than ”*sigh* great‚ now we have to fix the *translator* too”)) #(((also why *didn’t* the translator mask it?))) #(((a given patient spouts the *same* gibberish when trying to communicate the same thing through speech and through writing))) #(((which suggests a consistent verbal remapping that you can just treat like a new language))) #((((of course thinking through the implications of stuff has never been Star Trek’s strong suit)))) #((((and especially not in a season one)))) #illness tw #death tw #tag rambles

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jadzeanna:

princekaisuncannyhotness:

jadzeanna:

silverelfmage:

jadzeanna:

I still can’t get over the entry in the ds9 sexy firemen calendar that’s just like that one photo of putin shirtless on a horse but recreated with dukat

There’s a calendar?

xjzbdkdb no but it exists in my mind. January is just Sisko standing at a stove cooking in the Starfleet vest and undershirt with his sleeves pushed up, but it degenerates and by December it’s just Quark naked except he’s covered in ice cream

do you want to share the other months? i’d like to know

This whole project is organized by Jadzia, of course.

January: Sisko cooking, sleeves pushed up. He looks relaxed and his smile can warm your heart.

February: Weyoun??? Like five of him

March: O’Brien posing stiffly next to a replicator

April: Odo in liquid form (the only time anyone could get a picture of him)

May: Morn, at his seat in Quark’s, clothing(?) unbuttoned.

June: Bashir doing the Anaconda pose in his silver onesie

July: Captain Boday. His skull isn’t the only thing that’s transparent.

August: Rom, hiding his nsfw bits w the communist manifesto

October: Garak in lingerie (nsfw link)

September: Putin!Dukat

November: A gorn, draped sensually on black silk sheets. (Its not ds9 but whatever)

December: Quark, naked and covered in ice cream. There’s a cone on his [redacted].

I didn’t forget Worf. There’s no force in heaven or earth that could have gotten him to pose for this calendar.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”hiding his nsfw bits w the communist manifesto”) #nsfw text?

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trekgate:

 

nenya-kanadka:

weareallmedie:

nenya-kanadka:

brin-bellway:

nenya-kanadka:

Agh, did I miss this episode? I need this scene in my life.

Maybe “Human Error”?

Hmm, possibly! *reads recap* I definitely remember the red dress from that one. In general I just grave all the Seven in uniform instead of catsuit scenes. <3

Nope, not Human Error. That’s a scene from Relativity I believe. AWESOME Seven (and Seven & Janeway) episode

Ah, thank you! 

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#(November 2013) #conversational aglets #Star Trek #Voyager

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badsciencejokes:

Live Long and Prosper!

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#hey sorry I’m late #I originally had this in my queue #but I removed it a couple weeks ago because I heard about bugs in the censor causing queued posts to be published too soon #(also if I ended up leaving I didn’t want my queue to go and publish something on a blog that was supposed to be abandoned) #it is still technically the right day in my time zone so I guess it still works out #solstice #Tumblr traditions #Star Trek #TOS

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lenyberry:

dingonato:

My post of just two hands touching also got flagged as explicit which pretty much confirms this flagging is being done by the Vulcan High Council. Let me post pictures of hands touching, T’Pau.

hand photos confirmed NSFV (Not Safe For Vulcans)

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#Star Trek #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse

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nossik:

uniunibros:

starfleet medical’s proudest moment

this man won medical awards

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#Star Trek #DS9 #it’s so weird to me that Odo never tried to get more information on how his own body works out of the Founders #not even before he knew they were evil #like #to name the most blatant example #if you’ve spent your whole memory-span among beings with lifespans of 1 – 2 centuries or so #and you finally meet a member of your own species #and she greets you with ”oh you’re early we weren’t expecting you for another 300 years” #would you not then *immediately* ask about your life expectancy? #like I get that there’s a zillion questions to ask but #I feel like that would be near the top of my list in general and *especially* after she says that #but he doesn’t ask about his life expectancy at *all* during that visit! #not even off-screen! #(we know this because he *does* ask on-screen *years later*!) #((the answer is live-until-killed by the way)) #tag rambles #death tw

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kiranerysismyhero:

Odo, if I wrote Deep Space Nine

Odo switches around his gender presentation whenever he feels like it, and pretty much everyone is nonplussed. He’s comfortable with pretty much any pronouns besides “it” so there’s a lot of different people around the station who use different things. Some always use he/she/ze/they etc, some switch around depending on how Odo’s presenting that day. Sisko usually uses the binary pronoun that most closely fits that day’s presentation when introducing Odo to temporary visitors to avoid getting off track with explanations, but he often uses “they” among station staff. For one species “odo” actually sounds very similar to a pronoun in their language so they basically view him as a French speaker would view a woman named Elle, and to everyone else it just sounds like they never use pronouns for him. Kira is most used to using “him” because that’s what was used exclusively during the occupation (Odo didn’t feel comfortable being as free with his form under the Cardassians) but sometimes she’ll use a Bajoran pronoun that doesn’t specify gender but rather respectfulness [those actually do exist in some human languages!!]. Starfleet’s files officially list him as genderfluid because the first time an officer asked his gender he said “…I am a fluid.”

Bonus: he likes to take on a hyper-feminine form when arresting Quark, to annoy the little misogynist

@maryellencarter

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#I feel like you would appreciate this #Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #gender #(I personally tend to headcanon him as having gotten attached to his maleness in much the same way) #(he gets attached to his patrol schedule and furniture placement) #(but I like this version too)