For all its “Bonk bonk on the head,” and “No blah blah blah,” I think we overlook the fact that Miri actually does a pretty good job of presenting each of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy with what turns out to be a worst-nightmare scenario, given what we find out in canon.
Kirk has to convince a group of children to stop resorting to violence and mob mentality before they starve to death. He tells them there’s only six months of food left, if they don’t let Starfleet help.
“And the little ones. What’s going to happen to them after you’ve gone, after you’ve turned into creatures like Louise? Oh, they’ll still be here, but not for long, because the food’s all gone. You’ve eaten it. Maybe six months left, that’s all, and then nothing left to eat, nobody left to take care of them. They’ll die, too.”
Kirk has seen children starve.
Spock, by virtue of his unique heritage, doesn’t seem affected by the disease. This gives him an advantage. However, he’s a carrier, and unless they solve the problem, he can’t go back to the ship. Not only that, but if the problem is never solved, Spock could conceivably be left completely alone.
“I am a carrier. Whatever happens, I can’t go back to the ship, and I do want to go back to the ship, Captain.“
Spock’s heritage puts him between worlds in a liminal space, out of place on a parallel Earth, not successful enough to go back to the ship.
McCoy’s caught in a race against time to find a cure. It’s a disease that will cause “great pain,” make each one of them lose their humanity, and will make him violate his Hippocratic oath.
“Only a matter of time before we all go mad, destroy each other, till the last of us finally destroys himself.“
The worst part is when he believes he’s almost got the cure, but the communicators that would let them contact the ship have been stolen. The concoction could very well be “a beaker full of death.” He’s so close, and yet so far. If that sounds familiar, remember that McCoy was unable to save his own father, releasing him from his own extreme pain - only to find out that the cure had been found, just too late.
MCCOY: We can’t wait for those communicators any longer. SPOCK: We must. The vaccine could be fatal. MCCOY: The disease certainly is. How long do we have left? Hours, minutes? How much longer do you want to wait?
McCoy performs an essentially suicidal action, choosing to end it for himself, one way or another, just so he won’t be too late one more time.
Why do the XO and CMO have to come down to every planet with the Captain, depriving the ship of three of its top officers at once and putting them all in constant peril?
You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you’re just like. Oh ok
I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn’t a broken leg would mean you Die because you can’t. Do things
And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn’t properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps
So basically I have connected the two dots (“you didn’t connect shit”) I’ve connected them
And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh
Really makes you think
Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I’d love to see where crows are going with this
no you’re wrong, immortality would rule. i would trade any agony and every loss to find out what happens. maybe they’ll discover a fourth heat. maybe crows will found crowtopia on a garbage patch in the pacific ocean. maybe the mushrooms figure out interstellar travel and jump the mycelial network 40 thousand lightyears in an instant. i do not care. i simply want to be the lil brain in a jar they bring out every now and then with a hey so this is a weird one and we think we know what’s going on but you humans had some good insights every now and then and we’re curious about what you’d think. and i’d be like hey, really appreciate y'all thinking of me, here’s where i’m at.
Nicknamed “Earendel” (“morning star” in Old English), this star existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang. Earendel is so far away from Earth that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach us, far eclipsing the previous single-star record holder whose light took 9 billion years to reach us.
Though Earendel is at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright, we’d normally be unable to see it from Earth. However, the mass of a huge galaxy cluster between us and Earendel has created a powerful natural magnifying glass. Astronomers expect that the star will be highly magnified for years.
Earendel will be observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s high sensitivity to infrared light is needed to learn more about this star, because its light is stretched to longer infrared wavelengths due to the universe’s expansion.
A Ds9 episode from Garak’s perspective. The episode is him trying to finish this one big order for some dresses while also stopping an assassination attempt in secret.
We see him get some secret information that Sisko is about to be murdered but he can’t tell Sisko for secret reasons. So he has to thwart the assassination attempt himself. We see him make subspace calls to his contacts, sneak around on the station after closing and eventually follow and take out the assassin just as they’re about to murder Sisko.
We ALSO see him deal with Quark being a difficult customer, Bolian customs issue for a button delivery and also Julian Bashir being clueless about what is happening right in front of him at all times.
While Garak is dealing with this very stressful day we get hints about some regular A plot business going on. We see Kai Winn pass the shop talking to Sisko. Garak and Julian have lunch and we hear Julian say stuff like “Quark shouldn’t have bought that mango in the first place” but we never get any details.
At the end of the episode Garak closes the shop early because obviously he’s stressed OUT. Of course Julian says something like “I guess you had a slow day today”. Garak smiles and nods and say “Indeed Doctor, I was bored out of my mind” and they walk away smiling, as we pan to the shop storage room where the body of the assassin is shoved inside a box of discarded wrapping paper.
All I want is that one perfectly comedic scene where Garak is in the middle of getting the dead body into the shop when he hears Julian on the promenade outside. Garak, always thinking on his feet, passes the body off as a mannequin while Julian comes in to chat away about racquetball or whatever.
This is funny to me because of all the times Garak is walking around looking like your harmless, gay lizard uncle whose only concern is your atrocious outfit but the whole time he’s high as balls on drugs and thinking about murder.
Two publicity stills from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Quickie publicity sheets like this were sent to newspapers to drum up interest in the first free cable viewings of movies. The actual quality of the images is pretty abysmal; they’re definitely a copy of a print instead of being printed from a fresh negative. Still, an interesting artifact from a time before you could email 8mb .jpgs to everyone in your contacts list.
