I love Riker so much. He could be facing a serious moral dilemma, a matter of life and death, but his face would never tell you that. I look at him and see a being free from the burden of conscious thought.
Oh there’s nobody home
Oh. My. God.
“This human emotion, love, it’s a dangerous thing, Picard. And obviously you’re ill-equipped to handle it. She’s found a vulnerability in you. A vulnerability I’ve been looking for for years. If I had known sooner, I would have appeared as a female.”
cat hair gets into everything. EVERYTHING!
savage
Christopher: A woman? Kirk: A crewman.
OH LOOK AT THAT THE 1960S
AND SHE’S IN COMMAND GOLD FUCKERS.
She’s not in Medical blue, a caretaking, feminine role.
Those in Gold were either OFFICERS, NAVIGATORS, PILOTS, TACTICAL OFFICERS, or WEAPONS SPECIALISTS.
This is the Kirk everyone likes to forget.
Y’all, if you care about feminism, then you ought to care about the history and context of the miniskirt. The 60s were an era of rebellion against the 50s, and the skirts were part of it. They were literally cutting edge fashion, and a statement that women made against the more housewifey style of skirt from the decade before. It was Grace Lee Whitney herself who suggested to Roddenberry that they wear them, and Nichelle Nichols has said she never had a problem with them. They are a product of their time yes, but the women chose to wear them because of the context of that time.
Also some men in Starfleet ware miniskirts and dresses:
And some of the women wear pants:
They’re given the power of choice, regardless of gender or sex.
Shit ‘-’ None of this even clicked to me - Thats fucking glorious :D
Picard in that dress is so good. Look at him! He looks formal and serious and dignified! He looks like he’s captain of his ship and he’s got some important business to do. And he’s in a dress and tights. And it’s not a joke. It’s not a joke about a man in a dress! It’s just, you know, a man who is wearing a dress, and that’s normal and appropriate. It’s part of the uniform. It fits him. It’s totally unremarkable and that is so rare and I’m so happy.
Actually, the fact that any alien race communicates with another is quite remarkable.
tHIS WAS THE ONE TIME STAR TREK GOT PSYCHOLOGY RIGHT, actually!!!
Humans are biologically programmed that during the acquisition of language if something is pointed at and a word is said, we assume that word is a NOUN. Every human in every culture and every language does this. But there’s nothing to say in an alien language their biology would be the same. That word could just as easily be an adjective or a verb or the objects location in space or a million other things.
Good job Star Trek. Just this once, you managed to not piss off every psych student to watch your shows.
In linguistics, this is known as the gavagai problem:
Quine uses the example of the word “gavagai” uttered by a native speaker of the unknown language Arunta upon seeing a rabbit. A speaker of English could do what seems natural and translate this as “Lo, a rabbit.” But other translations would be compatible with all the evidence he has: “Lo, food”; “Let’s go hunting”; “There will be a storm tonight” (these natives may be superstitious); “Lo, a momentary rabbit-stage”; “Lo, an undetached rabbit-part.“
Star Trek: TNG | Season 3 Gag Reel
[x] Gates McFadden on the role of women in Star Trek (1993)
Tribbles have picked the wrong man to mess with
[[*TNG theme song plays* *Patrick Stewart runs outside and shouts* YOU MOTHERFCKERS ARE GONNA KILL ALL MY LILIES *shoots guns twice* PEST CONTROL! *TNG theme song*]]
star trek: the next generation + text posts
when your friends are all from different timezones but youre online
God i don’t even like TNG that much but unquestionably the best parts of TNG are the bits where everyone else on the fucking starship is constantly googling klingon culture to make Worf feel at home and accepted and Worf constantly reacting to this by being like “ARRRRGH STOP KNOWING THINGS ABOUT MY CULTURE”
“HI Worf we saw on your official starfleet paperwork that it’s your birthday today so we are throwing you a Traditional Klingon Combat Party! :)” “WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL KLINGON COMBAT PARTY”
