My idea of Amanda Grayson is this double nature because she needs to be in a certain way to enjoy life on Vulcan but she also becomes much more fun as a character if you imagine her as being very human in certain aspects of her life and personality. Having that garden full of gnomes, occasionally calling Sarek “babe” and wearing party hats etc.
What I’m saying is: She made finger guns at Spock all the time while he grew up and he always viewed it as a strange and embarrassing yet seemingly necessary part of human culture. Which caused some initial confusion the first time he visited Earth.
Odo said he'd always felt an unshakable intrinsic sense of justice, so inherent that it must be a trait of his species as a whole, making it the one thing he could trust, the one thing he knew about himself: that he is just, that there are others like him who are also just. But when he meets the other changelings, he realizes he was wrong, that they don't care for justice. "I've devoted my life to the pursuit of justice, but justice means nothing to you, does it?". The other changeling replies to him that "it is not justice you desire, Odo, but order, the same as we do", leaving there a question. If she is right, then Odo has misunderstood himself completely all his life. If she isn't, then he is different from the people who are supposed to be his equals, his family, his home. This question should tear him apart, but he doesn't hesitate for even a second. He knows the answer, and even if the implications and consequences are bound to be devastating, he replies: "I already have a link... With these people". His family. His home
the religious storylines on ds9 are crazy if you really think about it. imagine being in the mall and seeing the gates of heaven open outside auntie anne's pretzels
the first episode of star trek tng:
hi everyone! meet the crew! wow, this guy's got a temper. this one's an android! uh-oh, a spooky alien has appeared!
the first episode of star trek ds9:
post-traumatic stress disorder
There's something so charming about a stack of PADDs in star trek because you know tablets didn't exist yet back then but they didn't want to use paper because it's not futuristic enough but they also want to show that they have a lot of paperwork to do thus the stack of PADDs which presumably was like a hybrid of stack of paper + floppy disks of the future. The retrofuterism of it all, I love it.