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Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Funny you chose Dolores Umbridge for Kai Winn when she's literally Nurse Ratched, but maybe that just dates me.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I was on season 6 before I realized where I recognized her from and it was a 'whooooaaaa holy shit that actress is good at making people fucking hate them' epiphany and I went from despising the character to enjoying watching her just embody evil bitch power... talented lady, impressive ability to literally draw ire.

this was during the broadcast run before everything in the universe was documented on wikipedia heh.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why you have to do Odo dirty like that

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

When Odo came out as anti union I stopped respecting him.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

But, Is the "police" inside fully automated gay anarchism, the same as in capitalism 🤔 don't get me wrong, the ST universe is frustratingly and unrealistically hierarchical for a post-scarcity society, but I do have to wonder if the bastardness of the space-police would be on the same level when they're not protecting capital and the plutocracy.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You might like this article about 24th century law enforcement and whether Odo is a bastard.

The summary though is... yes.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

I should have also mentioned the article is from StarTrek.com so... it has some authority lol

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice article! Thanks for sharing.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Startrek.com is a source of some great articles

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's post-scarcity about it?

DS9 demonstrates clearly this isn't the case. Even TNG had mention of rations.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I haven't delved into the lore as much, I was always under the impression that The Federation is post-scarcity, due to replicator technology. This is reinforced in the "Shades of Green" Lower Decks episode.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Earth is post-scarcity, but it’s not very clear how much this applies to the whole of the Federation. We’ve definitely seen Federation colonies deal with famine and even societal collapse (in Kirk and Yar’s backstory and elsewhere).

But regardless of all that, DS9 isn’t a Federation station, it’s just managed by Starfleet officers on behalf of the Bajorans.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago

Yar wasn't from a Federation planet AFAIK

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I wasn't talking about odo specifically

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh you probably misunderstood rations are rat-ions. They're the things that cations chase.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the Culture books I've read (still got a good ways to go, I've been slacking). That's a pretty common theme in the series - how far can Contact go to do its job? Who will it throw under the bus to accomplish its goals?

I need to get back on that series, its really fun to compare and contrast it to Trek.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the Use of Weapons was pretty brutal in exploring this theme.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

*dismissive grunt*

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This desperatelly needs to be expanded with Garak and Rom

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Keiko should be in the square beneath O'Brian with an angry face looking up.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll see if I can think of something

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rom can be easy since this applies for most of the series.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Fair point lmao

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

The guy who just won’t shut up