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Geek connoisseur, amateur philosopher and creator of #SexyShelob. Queer mess Theistic Humanist CW: May contain unironic Christposting
My fav is the way Star Trek treats Padds. Like, what are you even doing here, JL?
Counterpoint: Over 80% of Americans are somekinda theist. Believing you can build anykinda viable political movement W/O including religious folks in your coalition is pure Magical Thinking.
Last night, I dreamed the Gorn from Star Trek guest-starred on Coronation Street.
And don't even get me started on Control or Vadic. In conclusion: "the Federation needs Section 31 to survive" is in-universe propaganda from an incompetent fascist death-cult trying to justify its own existence. 5/5
They infect the Great Link with a genocide virus which not only has no material effect on the Dominion War but only drives the Salome Jen Founder to basically attempt interstellar murder-suicide. 4/5
They engage in convoluted nonsense to replace a pro-Fed Romulan senator with a slightly more pro-Fed Romulan. 3/5
They try to recruit Bashir, exposing their centuries old secret cabal. He tells them to fuck off. 2/5
STAR TREK HOT TAKE Every time we see Section 31 on DS9 they either accomplish nothing or actively make the situation worse. 1/5
What's your unpopular Star Trek opinion? I actually like the more monstery Klingons on Discovery. I just headcanon that they're looksmaxxers.
Which will eventually lead to a recreation of this scene from TNG's "The Chase" where we learn that they're all descended from an extinct race of alien crab progenitors* *Except the humans, which'll be pretty awkward for Picard and Crusher.
It's always kinda weird when people describe Ben Sisko as half-Prophet, given that both his biological parents were fully human, making him fully human, ironically just makes him even MORE of a Space Jesus allegory. 1/3
Thinking about how the Prophets of Bajor kinda mirror St. Thomas Aquinas' speculation on the nature of angels.
Sometimes I think about how infamous 15th century serial killer and child predator Gilles de Rais canonically exists within the universe of Miraculous Ladybug.
Bit of a theological hot take, but as a big believer in Universal Salvation, I'm actually kinda fine with letting folks who were - historically speaking - objectively awful keep their official sainthood.* *To the extant Sainthood is something that any human authority has any real say in.