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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I just spent roughly 15 hours in a car over the past couple of days listening almost entirely to sesame street music. I can hear it in his voice.

Get out of my head.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

15 hours in a car over the past couple of days listening almost entirely to sesame street music

You are either a loving parent .....

or a victim of state sponsored illegal imprisonment and psychological torture

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

No, that would be Barney

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

Or both!?! 🤣

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But why do you think there are so many songs about rainbows

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who gives a shit

Edit: omgrofl i know what's on the otherside but just didn't juxtapose as well

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Cookie Monster: nods for his aids to leave

Elmo: …

CM: “It’s underbaaaaaaaaked!!”

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the best thing I've read all ~~day~~ year.

Faith in humanity: restored.

(Now time to break it again! 🤪)

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[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Oh man, everybody opening up to elmo was the best.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is great. Love it.
But why's it in ten forward?

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Dude. Elmo got hard.

(Thank you. I could never get into ds9)

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Give it another shot. I hated (hated) hated it in the beginning.

There are character arcs that will confound you, but there’s others that are humanizing and beautiful.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think, like next gen, if i skip a season i might get into it easier

[–] damdy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd use a skip guide if you're struggling, season 1 is basically just the opening 2 partner and 'Duet', which came out of nowhere.

But it's so so good when you get into it.

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Personally I like season one a lot but I understand this stance. However, you should never sleep on In The Hands of the Prophets. An amazing ep just as good as duet in my book.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

As others have said, it starts kinda aimlessly. But it gets really good as it goes. It's my favorite series in the franchise.

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

DS9 is the best version of Star Trek

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 1 week ago

Echoing what EmpathicVagrant said. DS9 takes a bit to get going, and there are a few early episodes which don't hold up, but once you're into late S1, it goes hard and keep going.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Don't feel bad ... I think I tried starting and restarting it about four times over the past ten years ... I only just recently finished watching it about two months ago ... and as others have said, it takes a while to get into it but when you do, you really get into it.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just want to second everything everyone here says ds9 is a great minivan

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Everyone needs a good minivan once in a while

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's a line from Sisko.

"I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing: a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it... Because I can live with it... I can livewith it...
-DS9, In the Pale Moonlight.

Say what you want about Sisko, he's the best captain in ST; for three reasons.

  1. he was morally complicated. His ethics were both uncompromising and dubious.
  2. he wasn't the kind of captain you'd give a starship to. Before getting sent to DS9, he had gone ROAD, was just coasting, designing half-baked warships (the defiant,) that the Feddies were ever going to produce (because it didn't have enough kids on board.)

and 3), he's the only captain to ever KO Q. .. and Q never bothers him again.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sisko's a badass, but he's no Janeway.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Genocide for coffee Janeway

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

see #3. Janeway entertained Q's bullshit and he kept trying to hook up with her. shoulda just kicked him in the balls.

edit: in a slightly more serious tone, Janeway wasn't trying to make moral decisions, per se. the argument, for example, with Scorpion and the fight between 8472 and the Borg, wasn't about being ethical or moral. It was about getting home. she said it herself... "We're a federation starship, with a federation crew.... but how do we do that so far from home, cut off from everything the Federation stands for?" (paraphrasing.) If a decision came down to getting home or being 'morally justifiable', she was choosing 'getting home'.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Not the only male she had to fend off.

In fact, the only one she persistently pursued was the holographic Irishman.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She don't lose sleep over nothin.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

With exception to drinking too much coffee.

She ain't got coffee. She's so sleepy.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Janeway is great, but she's also kind of a tyrannical psychopath. Which, while perfect for the mission she was given.... doesn't compare to The Sisko.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because we don’t have a Quark’s for DS9-specific memes.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago
[–] mercano@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I can just picture Oscar holding up a data rod proclaiming, “It’s a faaaaaake!”

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Delete this entire episode if sesame street

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Dang. I’d pay good money to see Elmo bitch slap Garak. Follow it with Elmo’s trademark giggle.

[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Kind of related, I just discovered this and thought I'd share: https://youtu.be/ZDaHt51qHEo

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

This feels like a reference to the most recent episode of The Last of Us.