the best part of the klingon bachelor party was bashir and o’brien’s reactions
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Victorian Postmortem Photography
Painting the dead was a common occurrence for centuries, so it’s no surprise that in the Victorian era, postmortem photography became standard practice.
The beginnings of memento mori photography can be traced back to the invention of photography. During the 19th century, postmortem portraits were used to announce and mourn the death of a loved one, especially a baby or child. All social classes engaged in the practice, which became more widespread after the introduction of the daguerreotype photo in 1839. The subjects of the photos were generally arranged to appear as if asleep or even in standing positions.
For the poor during this era, many peoples only photograph was taken after they died. Families would scrape together enough money to have a memorial photo of the deceased family member with surviving members. For many, these staged photos were the only family portraits ever taken. These photos were kept in the family’s memorial album.
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learning languages is fun until i gotta do it for a grade
Learning new things in general is fun until I have to do it for a grade
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do you ever just meet someone who you think you wouldn’t really get close to but then like a year later they’ve become very close and dear to you and you just kinda think, wow im really glad i met this person i don’t know what i’d do without them
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AH, I HAVE DISCOVERED WHY I HATE YOUR GUTS.
He acts like Star Trek is no longer needed for its ability to address social issues, so now why not just turn it into a bright and shiny action flick and nothing else? Dizzy bastard.
He took a project on without really realizing what it meant to so many people. I’m not just talking about those “crazy” nerds that stand in lines at conventions for hours. I’m talking about Martin Luther King Jr., who begged Nichelle Nichols not to quit the show. I’m talking about the hundreds of men and women that joined the navy or airforce, worked in the space industry, or became astronauts because of Star Trek. He’s forgotten all those people. He didn’t have faith that Star Trek in its purest form could reach all people– because it never reached him. So he molded it into something very different to fit a societal standard of action movies that pervades Hollywood today.
He missed that mark. And he pats himself on the back for it.
it’s the mlk / nichelle nichols bit that really hammers things home for me where jj dropped the ball on this franchise.
like, he wants it to be accessible popcorn entertainment without as much heady philosophy, i can get that, i can even get behind it to a point, except it’s also completely ridiculous coming out of his mouth bc //what do you think lost was jj//. also this and the other gifset misses out the part where he says he finally got way into star trek during production and now loves it. (though the preponderance of enterprise references and the dip in ambition between movies does remind me more of voyager playing it safe than ds9 taking risks, but paramount stopped believing in the idealism of the franchise themselves about fifteen years ago so that’s not even surprising.)
no, it’s the fact that uhura even //existing// was revolutionary in the eyes of martin luther king jr. in //nineteen sixty seven//.
in 2009? chekov being a russian dude wasn’t diversity. five of the seven main cast being white males wasn’t diversity. less than a third of the characters with names and dialogue being not-white-males wasn’t progress. //half of the female characters dying// wasn’t progress. the female uniforms being sexy sexy where the men get practical clothing was the //opposite// of progress.
and hey, they didn’t bother to mix up the core seven by making chekov a russian //girl// genius or bones idris elba or spock sendil ramamurthy or kirk katee sackhoff or whatever. but it’s okay, that’s only seven characters out of an infinite canvas. and they did another movie, they levelled up, they added nothing but diversity to the cast, right?
replaced tyler perry with peter weller. kirk wakes up in bed with //literal japanese catgirl twins// who aren’t named or seen again. all the poc and aliens are (still) background scenery. there are women wearing something other than the sleeveless gogo skirt //but only in the background//. the new villain, who was a man of color as strong, smart, and capable as kirk back in the 60s / 80s, is now a white man with a desi name. 8/10 of the major characters are still white men. and the only character written as a person of color is //still// zachary quinto.
jj, this is my problem. you have officially failed to represent the future as //better//. you’ve adopted a ridiculous colorblind ideology that amounts to ignoring the varied experiences of not-white-males, but failed to pair it with //casting mostly or even just 50% not-white-males//.
in the future, men are still disproportionately represented in the workforce? //white// men still dominate all the hierarchies of power? the only important places on earth are in the usa and great britain? less than half the named characters are women? we have transfer students from other planets but there are only terrestrial minorities in crowd shots? white people are a demographical minority worldwide //today// but don’t tell the future that?
in 2004 edward james olmos, talking about new galactica, commented that that was the first time we’d seen latinos in space. //that shouldn’t still be true//.
white people’s ideas of the future are TERRIFYING.
fuck nu trek
this is why i never gave a shit about it and will continue to not give a shit about it
Honestly, the whole “But now that I’ve made a Star Trek movie, I love Star Trek!” thing has always rung false to me as damage control for the fact that he said “This was Star Trek for people who don’t like Star Trek” one too many times during the press tour for the first one.
I think Paramount was worried that the Trekkies wouldn’t turn out and (more importantly) buy the ultra-mega-exclusive blu-rays, comics, and other merchandise.
He’s just always seemed a little bit too adamant about how much he didn’t like Star Trek and then the whole “liking it now” bit always seems like a tacked on footnote.
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[DS9’s finale was nice and I like it a lot, but it was severely unsatisfying.]
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[DS9’s finale was nice and I like it a lot, but it was severely unsatisfying.]
That’s the point of it though. No one gets what they want, and those who do don’t get it the way they wanted it.
- Benjamin is forced to succumb to his religious destiny, leaving his still teenage son behind in the Alpha Quadrant.
- Kira and Odo are separated by thousands of lightyears after confessing their undying love to each other with no certainty of ever breaching that void. She finally had someone who valued her for herself and not just her military expertise and connections. She was finally Nerys in Odo’s eyes - not the distillate of what it was to be the consummate Bajoran in those of Dukat.
- Dax is a completely different person entirely - yet fate would have it that she falls back into Worf’s arms at least once, and then both decide that isn’t right. They’ve still lost each other somehow.
- O’Brien goes home to Earth in order to rebuild his family, which has been broken by distance and phenomenal happenstance, as well as care for himself after enduring years of imprisonment and also torture - all without his best friend in existence:
- Julian Bashir has become the exact thing he swore he would not - a soldier and military intelligence agent. His engineered intellect has been exposed and then used against his will to cause destruction and death, the exact opposite of medicine.
- Quark is left holding onto the shreds of his old Ferenginar - and everything he lived for - still stuck at his bar on the Station.
- Garak did get back to his beloved Cardassia, but it was unrecognisable due to the Dominion’s strafing. The very Cardassian spirit that had kept him alive through all those years of exile and did so even after the real reason for that exile had died had been broken. Garak did not go back to his Cardassia. He went back to the bombed-out husk of his own vital dreams.
- Nog did become the first Ferengi in Starfleet, yet his cadet and early officer years were filled with traumatic experiences. From Empok Nor to the Valiant, to crashing on an unknown planet and the siege of AR-558, Nog paid the price for his Starfleet enrollment with his innocence.
- Rom and Leeta are the only two people in this saga who end up getting a truly happy ending, yet it’s not what they wanted either. Rom would have been content with keeping DS9 in working order, yet now he has to do the same for the entire Ferengi Alliance. Engineering skills could come in handy there somehow, though.
All that, right there, is why the DS9 finale is the most poignant series finale to ever exist.
It illustrates perfectly how life can take you in the most unexpected of directions in the span of just a few years, and how vastly you yourself can change with the circumstances.
And that’s just so beautiful.
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you are all totes jelly now that I have this extremely stylish DS9 backpack complete with pencil case
only the best stuff will travel in this vessel of awesome
i covet that pencil case
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