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Made an impulse purchase. Going back tomorrow to buy the big enterprise with money I don't have because there is something wrong with me.

Glass houses you guys.

Also there's something to be said about the way they approach the doctor striving/demanding for people to recognise his autonomy and rights and the way they approach the same thing with, for example, data.

Everyone who treats data as less than human is portrayed as clearly wrong and often downright evil and while the doctor does also get his fair share of plotlines that affirm him being an equal to the humans around him, for every such plotline there are multiple throwaway jokes and off hand comments that basically read as "look at the silly hologram, he wants to be treated like the sentient being that he clearly is", often by characters that the narrative wants us to like and see as morally righteous and while I'm sure that was never intentional it does seem like a reflection of real life attitudes towards disabled people and other minorities.

Namely the shockingly pervasive Notion that, in the case of disabled people, they only deserve accommodations if they're nice and kind and happy and never ever do anything to even mildly offend or disgruntle any given abled person they interact with.

To use datas portrayal as an example yet again, if data offends someone it's almost always due to his lack of understanding of social norms and never portrayed as bad or malicious by the narrative, only misguided. Because data is "nice" the only people who deny his rights or autonomy are villains or quickly proven wrong. The doctor on the other hand, while not a bad person, can be conceited, rude, snarky and sometimes even a bit of a dick and while, again, I'm sure it's not intentional it does feel like the fact that he dares to have an attitude that's anything other than beyond reproach is part of the reason why the narrative doesn't seem to want to grant him his rights quite as easily as other characters both within and outside of the franchise.

Yknow I really wish voyager didn't treat the doctor's frustration with his limited mobility & being treated like a non-person like he was being ridiculous because. He was right. And nobody ever took him seriously what the hell was that about

This is one of the worst things I've ever made.

Call me Will pronouns are They/Them :)

Currently trying to overcome my anxiety and finally populate my empty blog. It's a work in progress.

Compensating for being stuck in niche fandom hell by posting about popular stuff.

This will most likely be a live report on my everchanging interests. (Star Trek right now, currently rewatching tos)

I try to use alt text in all my original posts and tag them as such so feel free to point out if I ever forget.

Pfp and Header IDs under the cut<3

[Header ID: a gif of a scene from the star trek the original series episode "wolf in the fold", it shows kirk standing in the transporter room with scotty and McCoy in the background kirk is smiling holding his hands up and gesticulating slightly while saying:"mr spock, this cafe has women that are so-" he cuts himself of as the scene cuts to spock to show his unimpressed, slightly challenging expression, it cuts back to a wider shot from behind spock's back as kirk stands awkwardly with his hands still up seemingly considering something the gif loops again here /End ID.]

[Profile Picture ID: a screencap of the star trek the animated series episode "the practical joker" it shows a close up of kirks uniform shirt from the back reading in "kirk is a jerk" in bold black capital letters /End ID.]

“Well Mr. Columbo—”

“Actually, it’s Lieutenant Columbo.”

“You’re Starfleet?”

“Star who now?”

(thanks for the caption @brookbee!)

thank you to @brookbee, @gay-spock, @twinkboimler, and @spocksautismdiagnosis for your ideas! writing a vulcan gossip mag was a group effort

my favorite characters from each of the series i have watched. i find it incredibly interesting that these are also the characters who have a big focus on finding/understanding their humanity. idk what that says about me but it's probably important

You know you're in for some grade a goo man shenanigans when there's a random rat having way too much focus put on it.

For your consideration.