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melorapazlar:

I saw a post complaining about the lack of Hanukkah-themed stuff during the spate of holiday (= Christmas) fanworks that start appearing ‘round this time, and I realized that sadly, in the Star Trek universe this makes sense. because Christmas has produced far more commercial and secularized traditions that non-Christians are well aware of; so Starfleet officers would have a vague knowledge of mistletoe but not dreidel. (wait a sec, is there really NO RELIGION among Federation members? damn you, Gene.)

but then I was like “okay who among the DS9 humans would be most likely to have Jewish heritage, even if it’s wayyy in the past” and well — not the O’Briens, not Bashir, so the most likely contenders are the Siskos.

and then I imagined SISKO MAKING LATKES and GRANDPA SISKO LIGHTING THE MENORAH and this is the story of how I died

Sisko making latkes = best thing ever.  GODDAMMIT I MIGHT HAVE TO WRITE A ONESHOT ON THAT NOW.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Benjamin Sisko #Judaism #…yes #Sisko making latkes #yes I like that #I bet Sisko would make awesome latkes

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pervocracy:

Why are ghosts scary?  Shouldn’t seeing a ghost be literally the best news you can ever receive?

“Oh my god, proof that the soul does survive death and that my consciousness will not be totally extinguished when I die!  Aaaah, run!”

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#ghost #death #pretty much #on a related note #I’m always confused when fictional characters first enter the (non-hellish) afterlife and their response is distress #okay yes you can never go back to your home plane of existence #and a fair portion of your loved ones think you’ve ceased to exist #and yes that sucks #but dude you’re *fucking immortal* #and so are those loved ones too for that matter #(yes it’s horrible that they live in ignorance of that fact) #(yes they deserve to know) #(but regardless it’s still *true*) #what greater relief could there be? #never again having to worry about ceasing to exist? #other concerns pale in the face of that #tag rambles

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southerndrawlinmypants:

Episodes of star trek that should have happened

  • Musical episode
  • Translators are broken and everyone hears everyone’s native language for the first time
  • Silent episode, no dialogue, only background music and expressions
  • Interpretive dance episode
  • Alpha quadrant cook off/ sports day
  • the gravity controls are off for the day and we’re just going to have to deal with it and float

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#Star Trek #so much #especially the first two #I’ve wanted the first two for quite a while

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audible-smiles:

I love that Sisko is the lone human on DS9 who doesn’t get nostalgic for 20th/21st century Earth*, not out of some vague sense of moral standards but because he’s been there and cops beat the shit out of him.

*with the exception of baseball, of course

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#Star Trek #DS9 #pretty much #Sisko’s reaction to Vic made *so* much more sense once I factored in ‘Far Beyond the Stars’

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ultralaser:

The most basic mobile phone is in fact a communications devices that shames all of science fiction, all the wrist radios and handheld communicators. Captain Kirk had to //tune// his fucking communicator and it couldn’t text or take a photo that he could stick a nice Polaroid filter on. Science fiction didn’t see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn’t see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make amazing things happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.

Warren Ellis » How To See The Future

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#oh my god everything about this article is hitting me where I live     #forsake manufactured normalacy and look at how extraordinary the world is right now     #there are six people living in space and we can /print/ organs and control satilites with apps     #”Voyager 1 is more than 11 billion miles away and it’s run off 64K of computing power and an eight-track tape deck”     #the internet itself is a goddamn miracle in the making in that humanity—vast swathes of otherwise unconnected humanity—gets together     #to watch cat videos and talk about television and laugh at each other’s jokes     #if the world isn’t thrilling you YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION     #god     #I’m all     #yeah  (via notbecauseofvictories)

Don’t forget the fact that two robots on another planet have Twitter accounts and people here on Earth can follow them and their discoveries. Astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield—my favorite Canadian—has a Tumblr and posted images from space so that we could see what he was seeing. We can watch videos of galaxies merging on YouTube. And we are making so many scientific discoveries that there’s actually a blog called World Science Festival that details discoveries made each WEEK.

Yes, the world is still fucked up in any number of ways, and the problems need to be fixed. But the world’s also amazing.

(via gehayi)

 

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#yes this #proud citizen of The Future

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vrabia:

I mean, dystopian stories about revolutions and redefining social order in the wake of worldwide catastrophes are cool, but you know what’s #1 on my list of wasted post-apocalyptic plot devices?

The Global Seed Vault. 

This is a thing that exists right now and was created as a safeguard against accidental loss of crop diversity. 700,000+ seed samples from all over the world are stored inside a giant concrete vault in a remote location in permafrost conditions so in case we fuck up everything like we’re probably going to we’ll be able to re-invent agriculture from scratch.

Also it looks like this

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and it might as well have FREE PLOT DEVICE TO GOOD HOME written all over it, because can you imagine a bunch of exhausted, discouraged, hungry and injured kids travelling thousands of miles in search of this place they weren’t sure even existed, coming up a frozen slope and finally seeing it

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walking through this tunnel in stunned, reverent silence because they’re afraid to let themselves believe this is real

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coming inside the actual vault that’s lined floor-to-ceiling with the stuff that’s going to feed what’s left of humanity and jump-start new ecosystems.

If you know about this place and can’t imagine a fantastic post-apocalyptic story of hope and discovery and spiritually-tinted science about the equivalent of present-day millenials pulling the world out of darkness by learning to grow kidney beans

I don’t know what to tell you, man.

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#my thoughts exactly