Also loved this classic cameo

Such a classic scene and a fantastic sequence … spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (and if you haven’t, you should definitely watch it) … I especially love that Brunt old woman scream

I linked to your original image! … I knew someone had done this image and album cover referencing NWA and Straight Outta Compton before so I just did a quick search for it … first one I saw that linked to a Lemmy image and I just ran with it … turns out it was from your original post.

That was also a hilarious thread with lots of great images.

I am certain that the show producers and camera people were specifically thinking of all those westerns images and that recent image of album art from NWA when they shot this scene. It would have been recent to everyone at the time because the album came out in 1988 but everyone was still talking about it and playing for about five or ten years after and this DS9 episode was from Dec 1997.

The Magnificent 7

I’ve heard of ‘7 Samurai’ and how it inspired a lot of westerns such as The Magnificent 7 … which later on inspired space westerns such as Star Wars.

7 Samurai is on my long list of must see movies during my lifetime (I feel like I have to live to be 200 years old to complete that list).

I remember seeing the original The Magnificent 7 with Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson … it was a mainstay of late night pirated illegal broadcast movies in our town in the 80s for a while. I can’t say my kid self appreciated it much … all I remember is being fascinated by western cowboys like Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson (and that’s coming from a Native guy … we all loved westerns just as much as anyone else, although we always cheered on the Indians even if they were losing … lol)

In the case of the Ferengi … I was cheering them on the entire way … even Brunt, that bastard of a liquidator for the Ferengi Commerce Authority.

Didn’t that last guy eat shit for breakfast?

Network Suits: … OK fine … you can have your Dax sexy time stuff with Vanessa Williams on swimsuit planet … but you’ll have to cut out all the Quark holosuite suggestive pornography episodes with Vulcan sex slaves, Klingon women in bikinis, Orion sex dancers and Bajoran orgies.

As soon as I saw that character on DS9 and heard her name … this is all I could think of.

Uhura seems to be on the same page

I have a friend who witnessed a plane crash at the Toronto air show in 1995.

Every time I watch an air show with him (we used to go to it every year) he’d remind me of the moment of that crash. They were out on a sailboat over the water watching the planes. A huge four engine navy aircraft flew over and everyone was quiet. The plane roared overhead, turned into a steep turn and dove into the water in front of everyone. He said the amazing thing at that moment was the collective GASP of thousands of people all doing the same thing at once. Then a split second later was the noise of the crash and explosion.

I can only imagine what would happen if millions of people collectively screamed at the sky.

This is why the Borg never kept Janeway in the collective … the caffeine hit severely affected every Borg individual in the collective across the galaxy

I have these conversations with an older friend of mine who was born in the 50s … yes a boomer but one who is more socially minded and open. He keeps telling me how the world is falling apart and things are getting worse than before. I keep reminding him that that perfect world that people talk about was only a perfect world for a very small percentage of the global population … the majority of the world is poor, was poor and will stay poor and to them, the world has never changed. The leaders have changed but the situation hasn’t. I grew up poor as an Indigenous Canadian … hell, my family didn’t even have indoor plumbing until I was 12 … in first world Canada! in the 1980s!

I’ve always seen the world as an oppressive difficult place to survive … so for people like me, the world hasn’t degraded … it’s never changed.

As far as the fediverse is concerned … I’ll ride this wave for as long as it stays here. Digital rebels always find a way of surviving on the internet with their own systems. We don’t need to drift back to corporate media … we have to work at it but I’ll always look for alternatives for as long as there are alternatives.

And as far as flatulence is concerned … you’ve hit a nerve with me … it’s part of my culture and one of the stupid things we liked to do when we were kids alone at camp in the wilderness was to compare farts … even the adults would try to ‘out-disgust’ one another … so when I hear a little toot in public, I’m never surprised, upset or even concerned … I just think of it like ‘meh, you should have heard my older brother let out a 20 second long interlude that gave off a stench of the rotted remains of a dead animal’

It’s a matter of perspective and confidence … when Chris Farley does it, it’s sexy and funny … I’m not as pudgy as Chris but if I did that, I would look disturbing and even frightening.

The older I get (I’m not that old yet tho) … the more I realize that most people of all ages, including who we see as wise old folk are all just people doing the best they can to try to figure out this strange reality we live in. Those old wise people get it wrong much of the time but get it right enough of the time for younger people to think that older people actually know what they are doing.

I don’t think our instance is that terribly large or popular enough to warrant any kind of shut down from the authorities any time soon. Lemmy on any instance right now just feels like the early internet and it is just simple, easy and has a decent community of good people having free conversations without being directed by bad actors, bad algorithms or the influence of manipulated corporate content or controls - which is what social media should be.

I’m really happy to meet you here … in a digital world full of negativity, its like a breathe of fresh hopeful air when I get to talk to people like this. Stay well my friend … and don’t step into a space suit after Taco Tuesday.

I’m a middle aged man and more and more, I’m starting to act or speak like some wise old sage like the Elders I remembered as a kid. The funny part is that I am starting to realize that those wise old sages I remembered were probably just as confused, unaware and dumbfounded by the world as I am now.

I used to get mad about it all, shake my hands in the air and get frustrated … but now I really don’t care. I live my life, treat others nicely and with respect, hold my ground against those that want to spread hate or fear and generally try not to disturb the waters too much - they are already disturbed enough as it is … lol

It’s good to just talk about these things and to have a caring, respectful, kind and sympathetic person such as yourself to listen to it all. That makes me feel far better than any kind of magic solution to these complex problems.

Kitchi-Meegwetch doodem … naspeeteh neeseekeenehsin … ehkooteh

It means ‘Thanks very much my friend … I am very grateful for your kindness … that is all’ in northern Ojibway or Oji-Cree

I was going to debate you on that … but seeing as you are 0.04% Vulcan … I have already lost

I’d love to have the voice of Data giving me navigation directions and LaForge interrupting on a regular basis feeding me endless technobabble about everything that was wrong with my vehicle while the ‘red alert’ siren plays in the background

It’s far weirder than you think … being Indigenous is more often just glorified, fantasized or placed on some strange pedestal that doesn’t mean much to actual Native people.

I left my home community years ago and I’ve lived most of my life now in the city. Although I was born 100% Indigenous on both sides of my family, people from my home community look down on me as being less than Native because I don’t live there any more or practice the culture like they do. Meanwhile, I’m obviously a big brown long haired Native guy living in the south and I’m never treated as a normal member of society … everyone just automatically thinks of me as a drunken uneducated Indian from the north that doesn’t know anything about living in the south. Although I have full status, I don’t get the benefits because I live off reserve … I get some tax off on things but doing my taxes at the end of the year is a nightmare. I have to fight for any kind of basic benefits and if I talk to my home community, I’m placed at the bottom of the list because I don’t live there. It’s messed up.

Meanwhile I keep running into people working at big organization making a ton of money who only have 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 … even 1/16 or 1/32 blood ancestry and get full Native benefits and live in the city. I actually know a few blonde haired blue eyed full status Native people that live with more help than me. It’s so weird because I’ve also known people with full ancestry like me but for all kinds of historical reasons either lost or couldn’t get their full status recognition.

At this point … the identity or identifying is more important than the actual people who have majority Indigenous ancestry. I also don’t enjoy discussing it with people because then it starts sounding like advocating for Eugenics or racist ideas of who should or shouldn’t be Indigenous or identify as Indigenous.

But whatever the conversation or debate is … it always feels like actual indigenous people, especially those living on their territories in their own communities on their own lands are the ones who get the short end of the stick.