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Flying Squid @lemmy.world

11mo ago

People still manage to get it backwards.

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Re: the last bit:
- Even T'Lyn thought Spock took things way too far.
  Basically, he's lucky Sybok is his brother or he'd look awful.
  
  The fact that he was offered Kolinahr probably helped a bit.
  The fact that he rejected it probably hurt a lot more:-P.
- Those boots are the originals tho
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEwJRqGxVc8

riker fucking anything that moves and playing trombone checks out. life on a starship is just extended band camp for him

Jean-Luc Picard is Indiana Jones... fight me. :-P
- Doubly funny bc of the title of this post: "People still manage to get it backwards." 😜
- Good call. They totally played on my Indiana Jones love in those episodes, but I ain't even mad.
  
  As did Lower Decks

I think it’s proof that much like actual people, well developed characters are complex and do not fit neatly into boxes.

*stabbed in the heart, run completely through, and fucking laughed about it!

I think this applies to their youths, but the pendulum definitely swung on both characters and it is the "casual" perception by the time the shows take place I think
- Yeah, there’s a reason every bullet point is in the past tense. Also I feel like “cheated and got away with it” is being counted as a point in the wrong direction here…

Yeah but...
- Go watch Picard. Even beyond Picard making alcohol, now that he's off the clock he drinks a lot.

Picard: Broke more hearts than he can remember.
Also Picard: Had his heart broken. Literally.

I think part of the difference is also who they were during academy years and who they are at the time of the shows.

Can’t they both have washboard abs?
- It would be bold of us to believe that they did not?:-)
  
  Oh, captain. My captain.

I’m laughing at this since we are mixing Prime Timeline Kirk with Kelvin Timeline Kirk.
- I think the Kelvin timeline is someone vaguely remembering star trek and explaining it to a toddler, who then goes on to explain it to her grandma.
  
  Okay, I actually had to explain something to my grandma: that Dax wasn’t trans, it’s a symbiont species.

I really love the way SNW is filling in that transition period where Kirk’s this hard driving, blue flame, academy nerd, who’s out be youngest captain ever, but he’s also deeply head over heals in love with Carol. And how it becomes obvious that when Carol breaks his heart soon he’s going start acting out and pretending he’s some kind of slut during the TOS period. But we all know he’s just crying inside because the love of his life has dumped him.

Lol what if Shatner played Picard and Stewart played Kirk
- That's a fun thought experiment. Weird to think about Kirk's lines delivered in Shakespearean actor English instead of his iconic halting delivery.

Picard also told the federation entirely to go fuck itself on synthetics' rights.

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