“This Place Is Someone’s Memory Of A Town...and The Memory’s Fading.”

Esther, speaking as a big ol’ Star Trek fan, your friends were right. Season 1 was rough. A lot of the time it comes off as an attempt to make a 1960s-era Trek show in the 1980s, and it does not work at. all. Production was also a nightmare, to the point where the TNG writers’ room gained the reputation as one of the worst places a writer in Hollywood could work at. There’s a documentary called Chaos on the Bridge that discusses some of what went on, but it has its own biases and axes to grind. Still, Season 1 TNG did give us this incredible moment. (cw: more gore than you’d ever expect to see on an episode of Star Trek) If you ever want to give the show another shot, I’d recommend just watching any episode whose summary sounds cool. TNG was made with an eye to syndication, so the writers were discouraged from any heavy serialization. Anyway, great podcast, and I hope Madiha has recovered from finally seeing the Super Best Friends stumble their way into one of the worst (in all senses of the word) endings for Detroit: Become Human.

Transmediacrity Episode 23: You Deserve To Be A Space Kid

I'm not down with the catholic church; I just want to dress this way.

Please do not listen to this episode on full blast volume earbuds, there’s A Thing.

Topics include: Heart to heart about being depressed all the time; Madiha reads HAKAIOU ~ GAOGAIGAR VS. BETTERMAN; 2017, a year of closure for Betterman; the story of GGG vs Betterman; a brief, confused summary of GaoGaiGar; combining the tones of GaoGaiGar and Betterman; Linker Gel Dyalisis; THE POWER; Esther is back into Shin Megami Tensei Apocalypse; masters of reusing assets; god’s toilet; sexy nun; it all sounds like a doom level; SMT Mobile, why the fuck would I play that; did you get the dick chariot; CAN’T ESCAPE FROM CROSSING FATE; BACK IN to Honkai Impact; but first the masocore gacha hell of Bang Dream!; 29:00 warning for volume; this is like hell; NOT EVEN A FREE ROLL; thank you Honkai Impact; Sakura Samsara, the open world content; Theresa, the old small nun; Mihoyo storytelling; FGO is a demon monster gacha game; PUT HONKAI ON STEAM MIHOYO; honkai impact is warframe for lesbians; warframe anxiety; impossible to progress; FUCK DAVID CAGE. Send us timestamped suggestions for the Transmediacrity podcast sampler for newbies!!!

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Ah, the decommissioned Enterprise-A from that Ashes of Eden comic. I wish they’d adapted The Return into a comic. That book did some weird things with the Borg (that were way cooler than what First Contact and Voyager ultimately did with them) that’d make for pretty freaky visuals.

Tullio Crali’s Nose Dive On The City, 1939 (via here)

This is excellent commentary, but I would argue about your interpretation of Mirror Garak. In her series of blog posts about DS9 @abigailnussbaum argued that one of Garak’s central tragedies was that he was someone who believed in the ideals of his society, but was smart enough and cynical enough that he could never believe in them wholeheartedly. I would say that Mirror Garak is someone who either never had those doubts or taught himself to ignore them, becoming the good little soldier who steadily advances in rank even if his society marches him off a cliff. It’s not for nothing that Mirror Garak is a boilerplate Cardassian military goon instead of an Obsidian Order agent. (Additionally, Andrew Robinson noted in the DS9 companion that he played Mirror Garak as a “toady opportunist,” and he never had that much affection for that iteration of the character.)

One thing I treasure about this parallel in TOS is that it reminds us that being a “good person,” while it can ultimately become part of our being, is a series of constant, difficult choices. We are shaped by our experience and circumstances, and choosing to do good is more difficult in some situations and for some people than others.

It’s much more admirable knowing that Jim makes the choice over and over again to do the “good” thing, despite everything that has happened to him, so that he becomes the person the people who know him best think of as having an unassailable goodness, rather than just making a simple claim that some people are born to goodness and some are not. This extends to every character on the show, and into our own lives.

Goodness is not who we are, it’s what we do. Eventually, those actions become “what kind of people” we are. Knowing the other choice was possible makes the decision more meaningful.

I wonder where this one came from. I want to say from the Allied front in Murmansk/Arkhangelsk, but given logistics I imagine it was probably shipped in through the Black Sea to aid Denikin’s armies and got captured and shipped to Moscow later. Reminds me of a story I read in a book on the RCW where the Whites in the south lost something like 3 tanks because they weren’t secured properly at the docks and just slid into the sea.

Captured British tank Mk IV, in the service of the red Army, during the parade on red square.1920.

He likes his boxes.

He sat in this container like this for 20 minutes.

Can and should! All those polar bears sitting around up there, thinking they’re better than me! I’ll settle their hash!!!!

Madiha, the truth is...you never stopped watching Betterman. You’ve been watching Betterman this whole time. You’ve been in your room since March watching Betterman. Your family misses you. Please wake up. Please.

im reading a light novel literally called gaogaigar vs betterman. idk whether im blessed or deeply cursed by this

With 3 “a”s, even!

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