Steve Sparrow

Is your body in balance when there’s an equal number of cancerous cells? Is your garden in balance with an equal amount of weeds and crops?

This question pops up seemingly regularly among fandom hubs, and it never considers that balance in The Force isn’t an algebra equation. Even with the Rule of Two limiting their numbers, the Sith steadily fomented corruption, fear and misery in the Galaxy building into all out war and fascist oppression.

The Jedi’s failure to respond had nothing to do with their numbers, but with their rigid adherence to dogma robbing them of the tools necessary to address the threat. Dozens of Jedi had spoken up about the rising corruption and might have been effective in fighting it were the Council not obsessed with protocol, optics and precedent–just letting Anakin access the restricted texts would have made all the difference.

Sidious was uncommonly powerful, but he didn’t collapse the galaxy on his own–a string of Masters before him used a philosophy centered on aggression, deception and abuse. They take power by making things worse for others meaning their presence is a net negative for the Galaxy at large.

The Sith are a cancer, and you don’t leave cancer in a body if you want it to stay healthy.

We definitely didn’t get enough of his reaction to the human reveal.

Poor guy! Imagine being married to someone like his wife…

Bold of you to assume that her domineering personality isn’t exactly what he likes about her.

They’re like GLaDOS if she was… decent.

This guy doesn’t have the lobes for Starfleet apparel.

It’s such a tragic moment because both their responses were reasonable.

T’Pring is about to be Spock’s wife, and it’s not simply a business union–she’s very much in love with him. She’s eager to be his partner and keeping changes in his life from her compromises that partnership.

The thing about Spock is that up to the end of the episode he’s still wrestling with the isolation that being bi-racial has come with–he’s aware that T’Pring should be let in but emotionally he’s never come around to that, having grown up at odds with other Vulcans.

What saddens me is that if Spock had communicated how his status affects his approach to full-blooded Vulcans (indeed if had even known to communicate it), I have no doubt T’Pring would have been much more forgiving… alas we sometimes figure out ourselves too late.

So wouldn’t a human Spock (with biologically human nature, but the nurture that Spock carries from his life experience being raised as a Vulcan) actually be super rational and logical?

I reasoned that whatever tools Spock employed failed for one of two reasons:

1. Vulcan responses to emotion are extreme: surprise isn’t just surprise it’s abject terror, happiness isn’t just happiness but absolute mf hype, disappointment is more like a spiral of depression. Since human response to emotion is much more measured by comparison, he’d need time to recalibrate… time he didn’t have.

2. The procedure that removed his hybrid nature removed whatever moderation was done to him. As a normal human he may not even have a katra anymore, so it’s possible that whatever physiological changes that take place after kolinar aren’t there because not all of the physiology is there.

Me and @siewyuk, @psychothumbs and @YoBuckStopsHere

Asking the hard-hitting questions.

T’Pring’s pop wins the award for chillest Vulcan and most loyal malewife.

The simple answer is they’re attempting to insulate themselves from consequence or challenge.

Free speech doesn’t work like that (it only protects you from gov’t retaliation, not other private citizens), but it doesn’t stop them from trying because as some of the responses here exemplify, people will fall for it and let them continue saying whatever, regardless of whether it’s true or harmful to the vulnerable.

I saw the writing on the wall when they dropped the occasional free awards.

But nothing would have gotten me to purchase premium so shrug

I really feel like any feeling of divergence is the result of Kirk’s image in popular culture; Steve Shives did a segment on Kirk as we remember him and how accurate that memory is to the actual depiction in TOS, and over time certain traits were magnified in the mainstream.

Wesley’s Kirk feels honest–that is to say he resembles Shatner’s Kirk, through Wesley’s performance.

Meanwhile, the Klingons put the nacelle inside their BoP. I guess they just YOLO it.

Which honestly fits for the Klingons, who probably consider safety as an afterthought.

Holy shit, I forgot about Ketwolski.

Hope they’re safe and well.

Yeah, I think Roddenberry’s initial vision, the nacelles were set apart from the living areas because constant close contact with the source of the warp field was hazardous (and who knows, in time the Alcubierre drive may prove him right).

I think over time there’s just been this implication that the risk was reduced/eliminated thanks to advances in technology (spurred mostly by the narrative), and they stuck with the look basically out of Aesthetic^TM.

Jessie Gender, Steve Shives, TriAngulum Studios, Junkball (when he uploads), and he isn’t strictly Trek but I also like Certifiably Ingame.

Naturally Trek Culture is pretty cool too.

Ngl it was kinda satisfying.

SNW really is a masterclass in balancing episodic and narrative storytelling.

I’d love to attend a workshop/lecture with Goldsman, Myers, et al.

My headcanon is that the radiation had already begun affecting his decision-making.

It’s a stretch, I know.