right it’s a play on words around fantasy and delusion and whatnot

oh that’s excellent! that sounds like as comprehensive of a solution as i could desire

While we’re at it, is there a way to export subscribed communities too? Or even to open them via db0?

and they don’t support voyager

how dare you

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.

sounds useful! hope we fill that niche

oh man his holo-addiction is out of control!

never heard of lemmy one

wait, Brunt and Weyoun were the same actor??

“why be happy about good things when bad things can still happen?” - the voice of trauma

It is NOT foreign policy that they try to enforce against other warp-capable civilizations.

But this is not about foreign policy! This is about developing planets within Federation space. Federation space is a specific region of the Alpha and Beta quadrants and I’m assuming may refer to both members and non-member worlds within that region.

The only reason I ask is because the Fan page for the Federation says they enforce the prime directive on any invaders in fed space. I think False Profits is probably the only example that I can think of! Enterprise is pre-federation and pre-prime directive unfortunately.

which series

does this have anything to do with the girl in the picture? or is this just “GIIIIIRLLL!!!” moment?

but either way you’re saying dude!

Qapla’!

Man in woods smiling, slowly begins to nod

hey he was making a ring symbol with his fingers!

Dog sips coffee, his house ablaze

Yeah, linguistics is always an absolute abomination in Trek. i’m just getting through Enterprise now and despite the idea of the development of the universal translator being done by a hot korean linguist of my dreams, you’d think this show would culminate in everything i love in the world, and yet it’s tacky, poorly thought out, and leaves so much unexplained. yeah, okay, she can communicate in a brand new language if she just believes in herself. right, that’s how it works. they just can’t handle linguistics in Trek. i wish they just overlooked it altogether and attributed it to narrative limitations.

BUT that said, the Darmok people communicate via allegory. you’re right that allegory would need something to be based on, which indicates that the proto-language for the Allegorical Language was something that did have more familiar semantics. but over time it evolved to only use the allegories as signifiers themselves, thus words like “welcome” fell into antiquity while “his arms wide” came into common usage. honestly this episode was one of the rare times when linguistic questions were handled with somewhat appropriate depth and care! there’s a lot of cool questions we could look at from the idea of an allegorical language.

also props to Enterprise for at least suggesting something cool in the Risa episode of S1: “i can’t say it any slower; it’d change the meaning”. i have never heard of an Earth language with this property. do you know if there is one? what other Trek episodes do linguistics well?