Captive Pursuit
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Captive Pursuit
No. He deserved so much better and I hate that they made Worf such a bad father.
thoughts cause things to happen. The analogue of the Traveller is a sentient crystal spider called K’Tlk who invented the drive. There’s no real equivalent to Kosinski though. I can’t recommend the book highly enough, and K’Tlk makes some appearances in her other Trek novels.
I don’t know if they considered it but the episode, written by Diane Duane, is basically a rewritten version of her TOS novel “The Wounded Sky” where the Enterprise tests a “creative physics” engine which takes them first very far in our universe and then into another where
(I mean different in a wholly positive way.)
I think it was this episode that really cemented for me how different DS9 was. In TNG, someone would’ve made a rousing speech and Mullibock would’ve given up his home for the common good. Instead Kira has to make a choice that has a “clear” but difficult right answer and he hates her for it.
Ooh, that is a very terrible combination indeed. Hope you feel better soon.
One of many awful, awful parents in Star Trek, which I know is For The Drama but it makes me sad. Thank goodness for Miles O’Brien, Ben Sisko, and (I’m absolutely positive) Tom and B’Elanna.
The DeafBlind funding being counter to the DoEd's goals for fairness and excellence may well blow my head up yet. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/20/w...
I love the Traveler (and this episode; I used to have a “if there’s nothing wrong with me…” shirt) but part of me always wishes he were the sentient crystal spider he could have been.
“City of Ember” is a really well-done adaptation of the novel, except for two things. 1. There were no giant rat things. 2. The book explicitly says Lina’s name is pronounced with a long /I/ sound and they use a long /e/ I the movie.
For those of you just joining us, because of all my health issues last year, a huge portion of my hair fell out in the space of a couple weeks. It’s been slowly growing back and for the first time today I was able to put it in a (tiny, kinda pathetic) ponytail. 🎉
Ugh, muscle memory is such a thing. iOS26 changed the podcast interface just enough that I hit “mark as played” instead of “play next.”
We haven’t gotten past the first half of S1 of VOY in my airdate rewatch with my brother yet so this might be recency bias but his scene with Seven at the end of Picard was so, so good.
It won’t solve things but let’s all commit to an act of kindness, empathy, love, or compassion everyday. For our own souls or, if you prefer, because the Other Guys With the Hats HATE kindness, empathy, love, and compassion.
"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien #TheStateOfWellEverything
I’m so sorry. You’re not worthless; the job market just really really sucks right now.
The new long term para sub who started today was great and is willing to stay and it’s such a relief! …until she has knee surgery in November. Win some, lose some, I guess.
Wait, really? (To be fair I honestly think the only thing I’d ever seen him in is that awesome episode of The Twilight Zone.)
I don’t know that I’ve ever actually seen a Robert Redford movie, now that I think about it, but his Twilight Zone episode is a masterpiece.
Dear para sub who made that snarky comment and spent all day with the judgey face: I promise you I’m judging myself at least ten times harder than you are and if I had a magic wand, don’t you’d think I’d use it? We’ve had ONE fully staffed week all year. It’s been rough, okay?
“A sub is coming for your sub but he’s running late” is an actual thing someone said to me today if you were wondering how my staffing situation is going. 😑
I realize this is extremely far down the list of priorities but “Liddle’” is an affront to grammar, spelling, and apostrophes.
…about to begin? I’ve been following social media posts for at least an hour now.
That apology? It’s not even a real apology. He says, “So many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.” Implying that some unhoused people *don’t.* He probably doesn’t even realize what he’s implying because I don’t think he means his half-hearted apology anyway.
It’s not even a real apology. He says, “So many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.” Implying, of course, that some don’t.
As someone who can be very awkward and really has no idea how small talk actually works…I adore Data trying to figure it out. The scene is so funny but the premise behind it hits very close to home.
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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I appreciate that they switched courses, at least a little, on portraying Pike’s eventual disability as a death, which has troubled me all along. As Batel said, his life will continue, just in a different form.
The relative calm of the decade that included Waco, Oklahoma City, Columbine and the LA Riots. (My school cancelled two days of classes for the LA Riots even though we were worlds away from where the violence was occurring.)
Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But at least there is symmetry. (I love that he, deliberately or not, looks a little bit like the Downers that are native to Pell in CJ Cherryh’s Downbelow Station.)
“The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to be fought against the darkness; only the name changes.” - Delenn, “War Without End, Part 2” (Babylon 5)
I always have trouble deciding between “Coming Home” and “Species Ten-C” because they are SO interconnected but together they are just the absolute epitome of Star Trekness.
OMG there is library book repair tok 😍
Yikes! So sorry
The thing about “No One Mourns the Wicked” is that its very lyrics question wickedness. There’s at least one person (Glinda) mourning Elphaba and Glinda the Good is going to die alone, which the song says wicked people do. “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” should be the go-to.
Oh my gosh THAT is who SNW’s Sam Kirk reminds me of! It’s been bugging me since the beginning
I did say that line early in the season was foreshadowing. #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
My childhood also included selective mutism (which is a form of anxiety disorder anyway) but otherwise? Absolutely spot on.
…an Instagram reel just explained my entire childhood 🤣 (An instagram reel that’s a screenshot of a tumblr post because that’s how the internet works now 🤣)
I know you said “guess” and not “theory” but I just thought you would like to know my brain is now screaming about bunnies
I know there’s so much important stuff going on in the world but the district is shaking up my classroom staff AGAIN and I might cry. My kids need consistency. We keep seeing glimmers of progress and then have to start from scratch all over again and it sucks. Okay, whine over.
Two things can be true at the same time: he was a terrible human being who worked to make life measurably worse for a lot of people AND gun violence is a problem in this country and should be condemned.
“Spock’s Brain” is not that bad. It’s not great but it’s not terrible. Also “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” is wildly racist/speciesist and does not reflect well on the Vulcans OR the DS9 crew. Which is a shame because the baseball practice is hysterical.
TOS The Doomsday Machine TAS The Terrarin Incident TNG Q Who DS9 Tacking Into the Wind VOY Blood Fever (I’m sorry) ENT North Star DSC Species Ten-C PIC Nepenthe LDS wej Duj (it’s just that good) PRO Cracked Mirror SNW Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow MOV Beyond
Favorites from 59 Years of #StarTrek TOS The Corbomite Maneuver TAS Yesteryear TNG Best of Both Worlds I DS9 The Siege VOY Living Witness ENT Similitude DSC Coming Home PIC Farewell LDS wej Duj PRO Time Amok SNW Those Old Scientists MOV The Voyage Home Honorable mentions below
I haven’t listened yet but if this thing redeems her character after the sexist approach to her in “Space Seed,” the whole thing will absolutely be worth it.
To be fair, I was 5, but my dad wisely started me with his new VHS of The Trouble With Tribbles. I was also a weird little nerd, even then, so 🤷🏼♀️ (Plus kids’ tv was way different in 1983.)
…I have never been a Lego adult (though if they greenlight the Full House set I think my brother will be 🤣) but I was a Lego kid and I’m almost certain to buy whatever this is when it exists. How is it meaningfully different than, say, a model?
(1) I was introduced to TOS at five and loved it. (2) I was a weird nerdy kid, children’s tv was way different in 1983, this looks cute and will compete favorably with the stuff kids watch on YouTube. (3) If it gets kids in the door, we get more Star Trek for decades.
*whispers* Calculus was my favorite high school math class
That awkward moment when your hair, which must be pulled back for both sensory & student behavior reasons, has grown back enough to be too big for the clip you’ve been using but isn’t thick enough to be an actual pony tail. (I have another clip. Supposedly non-slip. It’s not.)
I want someone to ask him if his phone is working since it’s not plugged into anything
(My brother would love that shirt. The louder the better as far as he’s concerned. I’d be happy to wear shades of blue every single day. 🤣)
That is certainly a shirt Ethan Peck is wearing
I wrote a long thread over at the other place last year for #StarTrekDay that I apparently never cross-posted over here. But if you’re interested in my Star Trek origin story, it’s here: x.com/spoowriter/s...
I enjoy Dawn and Dusk teaming up
I felt this a lot during PIC S3 too but episodes like this make me mad that the women of the cast weren’t given more interesting stories and meaty acting roles on a regular basis. This is really the only main Troi-focused episode that doesn’t revolve around a poor romantic choice, which sucks.
Wild that Bren gets more parental affection from an alien who can’t technically *love* him than he did from his own mother.
Also, fully knowing the word “love” is being used as a loose equivalent to “strong man’chi,” I love seeing how much Banichi has grown to genuinely love Bren as a person. When he says affectionately something along the lines of “your aishid knew you’d say that?” Ugh.
Obviously the chance of the Phoenix humans or the Mospheirans ever meeting humans from Earth is virtually nil…but is the Earth of Phoenix the same Earth as the one in the Alliance-Universe series, or is this a separate universe? Has she ever said?
BTW, I have now officially made it past where I last left off CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner series. I cannot believe I’m gonna say this, but Uncle Tatiseigi has grown on me. Also, adult Cajeiri is gonna change the universe. Speaking of which: a relatively pointless question.
I am, thanks. And only slightly poorer since - knowing my new tire curse - I bought the warranty, so I only had to pay for labor.
This is, disturbingly to this gal who hates hot weather, blessedly cool compared to the last couple of weeks. It doesn’t usually meaningfully cool off here in SoCal until after Halloween.
We’ve done several cross country road trips (my mom wanted my brother to see all 50 states…he hates flying so I’m not sure how I’ll pull off Hawaii, LOL) and most small motels are actually pretty nice - especially the ones in the middle of nowhere. But the bad ones are terrible.
I would have rather we’d had a brief aside with the Metrons talking to each other or something rather than messing with Ortegas’s memory for Prequel Reasons. I liked it, but the Metron thing felt unnecessary. (4/4) #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
That said, I have the same problem with this episode of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds as I did with several ENT episodes where we meet an alien race without knowing who they are (Borg, Ferengi, Medusa’s) through various Plot Logic Reasons. #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds (3/4)
This is especially true of “Star Trek,” whose main ethos is finding humanity in others. (I’m actually kind of surprised Discovery never did one, because that was a huge theme of the show overall.) It’s a perfect Trek story because it’s such a Trek thing. (2/4)
Pretty much every sci-fi show back to at least “Galactica 1980**” has done an “Enemy Mine” episode and because of the plot of “Enemy Mine,” they are always very good. ** this episode does not justify “Galactica 1980” but it *is* very good (1/4)
Swahili! #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
I didn’t like this one too much when it first aired (so when I was about 14) but I’ve come to appreciate it with age. A rare O’Brien-focused episode that doesn’t totally clobber the poor guy.
So now the question is: does the new tire curse apply to warranty-replacement new tires or just actual new tires? Because I’d rather not be back in that waiting room in a month or two. 🤣
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Or maybe people sometimes take Tylenol because pregnancy is hard and that’s the only thing they can take and then some of their kids who would’ve been autistic anyway are autistic.
So here’s the thing. Even if there is correlation with Tylenol use there’s no way they can prove causation. Maybe there’s a genetic link between low tolerance for pain in pregnancy and autism. Maybe there’s a genetic link between back problems and autism.
I guess I’m glad it’s not just unique-to-me bad luck but definitely not how I planned to spend my Saturday afternoon
Happens every time I get either a new car or (in this case) new tires: within weeks I poke a hole into one of them. Waiting for AAA in 84 degree heat 😑
Looked up the lyrics to “As Long as You’re Mine” because it’s stuck in my head and I wanted to double check something. The first suggested question underneath was, “Why does Elphaba say she feels wicked at the end?” How…how is that a thing that needs explaining?
Shout easy play.
The only problem with having migraines with auras that I can stop on their tracks if I can take medication fast enough is when they start in the middle of the night and I sleep through the aura and then it’s 2 am and my head wants to split in two for half an hour or so. 😑
Mind you, I absolutely adore CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner series and I personally have a terrible time naming characters. But, I mean…Haikuti? Really? At least he’s not a poet, I guess? 🤣
Dear internet youths: what on earth does “crispy” mean in relation to sodas?
How come the episodes of SNW that get the best buzz happen on days when I *start* the day exhausted and probably won’t be able to watch until at least tomorrow? 🤣🤦🏼♀️
Thread, up and down. But especially this. Prompting the thought: *How many recipes* call for this step and we’ve never stopped to wonder why?
…you know, that would be a fun challenge. Film something like that but make it interesting.
I suspect so, yeah. I’ve read a lot of classic scifi so it’s not like that type of style is a dealbreaker but I just never could read the novels but I’m really enjoying the show so something must be working better (at least for me).
It was hard on my students, all of whom have moderate to severe disabilities and who crave structure and routine - which they didn’t have for four months. The other day a kid sneezed and this kid immediately barked, “YOU HAVE TO COVER YOUR SNEEZE OR WE’LL HAVE MORE SUBS AND I *HATE* THOSE SUBS!!” 🤣💗
I’m sorry. Here’s a quick story to hopefully give you a smile. One of my students has the tendency to say the sweetest things in the most hostile way. Last year I missed four months after suddenly developing perforated diverticulitis and needing surgery. 1/2
We read both Frankenstein and Dracula in high school. I was not expecting Frankenstein to be so moving. Seeing this review so thoroughly miss the point is just wild.
HOWEVER This review is bonkers and if you’re going to knock an adaptation for choices that are fully consistent with the novel it’s adapting, don’t act like it’s the MOVIE whose plot you don’t like.
I can’t speak to the “fidelity” of the adaptation of the Foundation novels because I’ve never successfully managed to read them (turns out if we’re talking scifi classics, I’m a Clarke girl not an Asimov one) but I’ve seen people say the best part of Foundation is the new stuff.
Different genres have different “needs” for lack of a better term. What might work in a book might not work on screen - for instance the centuries-long descent of the Numenoreans would require multiple characters to know and care about if not for the time compression in Rings of Power.
Look. The “faithfulness” of an adaptation to the source text doesn’t always mean a better product. See, for instance, the two Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movies. Dentist dad backstory aside, the 2005 version is far more “faithful” to the book. But I know few who’d call it a better movie.
Seven of Nine is one of my favorite fictional characters ever. They might have hired Jeri Ryan last minute but they hit the jackpot when they did.
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It was the kind of day where I genuinely forgot I got bitten this morning till I took my jeans off (I wear denim every day for just such an eventuality…it doesn’t stop everything but it helps) and couldn’t figure out why my leg was sore. 🤦♀️
Those look great! I very much did not inherit my mom’s green thumb. I tried one of those hydroponic garden things and even with “feed me” and “water me” lights I was unable to keep any plants alive long enough to produce vegetables.
Today in SpooWriter uses Disneyland as an exercise/recovery spot: we *walked* into the park from the parking structure into and through Downtown Disney to the main entrance without stopping. Weird to think at one point I was excited about walking to a table at a restaurant here.
We were raised Trekkies from the very beginning. He’s 9 months older than TNG and could point to the characters before he could talk. To this day he calls “The Next Phase” “Walk Through Tables.” Here he’s trying his very best for LLAP fingers
