i think generally humanoid robots in fiction are pretty much never really robots, in the sense that their plotlines have nothing to do with robotics, they're thinly veiled metaphors for autistic and/or traumatized people. that's why they always want to "become human"
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i gather at some point it became a popular internet pastime to rag on wesley crusher but in season 1 at least i feel pretty protective of him. he just wants the adults to listen to him and take him seriously you guys!
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beardless riker is actually growing on me. he has a very charming smile!
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omg there's an episode where picard gets to see what geordi's vision looks like with his visor and he's all confused and asking questions this is actually amazing
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picard's actual dedication to the prime directive is legitimately inspiring. it feels somehow very fresh and unusual to see someone so straightforwardly stand up for both 1) rule of law and 2) cosmopolitanism
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"what he might say with irony, i say with conviction. what a piece of work is man! how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty...!"
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we’re at the parasite episodes this shit lowkey fucked me up as a kid 😰
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very few things really freak me out but BODY HORROR IS ONE
why was there so much of this when i was a kid. did i ever really properly freak out about the yeerks from animorphs. what did it do to me for that to be one of the foundational stories of my childhood
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i suppose it’s been helpful to have such clear fictional reference points for the concept of brain worms
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[chanting] beard riker beard riker beard riker beard riker
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picard: counselor deanna troi is pregnant. she… she’s going to have a baby
riker: bAbY???
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they got rid of crusher and replaced her with some asshole who is racist against data whyyy 😩
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"star trek" more like "running into your exes in space" lmao i live for these episodes
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boy season 2 sure does have a lot of episodes where some asshole is like "data you're not a human so you don't matter" and data is like "but i do matter tho" and i gotta say these are actually the plotlines i feel the most affected by
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riker on the klingon ship and then riker flirting with guinan were both legitimately amazing. i think i am becoming a riker and data stan
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ayyy more TNG discourse
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Some episodes are decent science fiction. But the core emotional appeal is this: Teams of actually different people working together to overcome problems.
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RIKER’S GONNA FIGHT HIS DAD LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO
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