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gwydion* "Hyenas, wolves and disease 'welcome' Yemenis fleeing war:" https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/hyenas-wolves-disease-yemenis-fleeing-war-180319102515240.html
* It's looking that the Mass Murderer in Toronto was one of those MRA extreme misogynists calling himself involuntarily celibate in a posting to Facebook just before his terrorist attack in Toronto. He also openly admired that California MRA terrorist in California a few years ago and the misogynist terrorist who murdered all those women in the École Polytechnique massacre, though Canadian police haven't confirmed it.
* "Russia likely targeted more than 21 states before 2016 election: official:" http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/384585-homeland-security-official-says-likely-russia-targeted-more-than-21
* "Iran warns Trump it might withdraw from Non-Proliferation Treaty:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-rouhani/iran-warns-trump-it-might-withdraw-from-non-proliferation-treaty-idUSKBN1HV0MY
* "GOP senator: Trump should have invited Dems to state dinner:" http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/384560-gop-senator-trump-should-have-invited-dems-to-state-dinner
* "AG Sessions will not recuse himself from criminal probe of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/ag-jeff-sessions-will-not-recuse-himself-from-michael-cohen-case.html
* "Prosecutors defend searches of Manafort's storage locker, condo:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/23/mueller-prosecutors-defend-storage-locker-search-547472
* "Sean Hannity's real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/24/sean-hannity-real-estate-property-dealer-jeff-brock-fraud-foreclosures
* "Scott Pruitt expected to face ethics questions in front of Congress:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scott-pruitt-expected-face-ethics-questions-front-congress/story?id=54677129
* "Scott Pruitt Proposes ‘Transparency’ Rule To Limit The EPA’s Use Of Public Health Studies:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pruitt-epa-transparency-rule-science_us_5adf44a8e4b07560f395fb16
* "The Latest: Trump urges VA nominee to keep fighting:" https://apnews.com/58ec3f582f94460a9fd30aa7eee527d2/The-Latest:-Watchdog:-VA-nominee-Jackson-was-unprofessional
* Clearly, he should have been fired ages ago. "Trump burned again by failure to vet nominee as VA pick surprises:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-burned-again-by-failure-to-vet-nominee-as-va-pick-surprises-1218502211679?playlist=associated
* "Allegations against Ronny Jackson grow more serious and specific:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/allegations-against-ronny-jackson-grow-more-serious-and-specific-1218522691507?playlist=associated
* The Republican won in Arizona.
* "Arizona GOP blocked from changing rules on filling McCain's seat:" http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/384540-arizona-gop-blocked-from-changing-rules-on-filling-mccains-seat
* "Bush 41 responding to treatment:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/george-hw-bush/index.html
* "People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
* "Racism Is NOT Going To Die Off:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/04/racism-is-not-going-to-die-off.html
* "Pennsylvania golf club apologizes for calling police on black female members:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/24/pennsylvania-golf-club-apologizes-for-calling-police-on-black-women-members
* "Homework assignment asks students to list positive aspects of slavery:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/us/homework-assignment-slavery-trnd/index.html
* "Racial Profiling on the Green:"
* "Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron: A True Bromance:"
* "Strippers vs. Bartenders in New York City:"
* "Ireland's Abortion Ban:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/rtjm3d/the-jim-jefferies-show-april-24--2018---ireland-s-abortion-ban-season-2-ep-205
* "Trump's Counsel Of Doom Adds A New Member:"
* "Trump Is Flipping Out Over Rumors Cohen Is Flipping:"
* I stayed up to do morning phone calls, and discovered amoung other things that half a decade+ ago when I changed my gender marker with social security, they actually didn't change it, and lied to my face that they had. I just discovered my birth certificate is not where I thought it was (with the other gender paperwork), nor in the other place i keep important records I need ready to hand, nor in the other likely locations. Fuck! I'm staying up to get drilled again Monday morning, and I suppose I'll take the gender paperwork, my state ID and my pass card to the office, assuming I am done before they close at noon, which I assume they will be. I'll need to keep looking for the birth certificate. Did it come back from the feds with my passport? I can't remember. I do not want to pay for/battle Pennsylvania for another copy if i can help it.
Tonight after dinner, the screamers went off again. I'd made my dinner in the micro wave nd eaten it. the stove was stone cold. Squirrel was showering again. This was never a problem before, but now it is, it seems. When I suggested it Sunday he swore up and down it couldn't be shower steam. Me: could you set your fan up in the door of the bathroom to circulate the steam out when you shower? We'll see.
* ...And I lost connectivity for a couple wildly inconvenient hours tonight. On the upside, I made and ate a complex salad, bathed, and went through and put away the picture box. Next step: organize the sandman comics. I really was wanting to catch up on internet tonight given how horrible tomorrow will be, but really, I'm lucky it finally reset without me having to wait for Squirrel to come home so he could phone for a pulse to rest the router.
* "Westworld, Season 2, Episode 1: Journey Into the Night:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/04/westworld-season-2-episode-1-journey.html
* I love that nearly everyone is queer on Killing Eve!
* Thismade me laugh out loud for real. http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/173266595370/thefingerfuckingfemalefury-katswenski-a#notes
* Look, I don't speak Spanish, but I know what "puta" means, and I have to ask, why are the people in the Babble commercial sitting on a beach talking about whores? Can someone who does speak Spanish tell me WTF?!?
* An Epic AU in which McGonagall transforms Scabbers all the way back from tea cup to man: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/173285374007/peaceheather-avoidakedavra-kitrazzle
* I am doing National Poetry Month again this year, but I'm confining it to Tumblr on the grounds of tired. What the poems I selected? Five or so should turn up daily over here if you want to look them over: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/tagged/Poem
* I used all my money on housing and insurance last month, and this month it's all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $400 to stay afloat. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* One+ Day left, two no bid as of this writing. Ebay BPALs for sale:
BPAL: Krampus 2007 (Yule, LE) & Halloween: San Francisco 2010 (LE) : https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Krampus-2007-Yule-LE-Halloween-San-Francisco-2010-LE/302706531555?hash=item467ab71ce3:g:0H8AAOSwcNxa1DfN
BPAL: The Convocation 2008 (Neil Gaiman) & CHAOS THEORY VII: Woods #100 2015: https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-The-Convocation-2008-Neil-Gaiman-CHAOS-THEORY-VII-Woods-100-2015/302706536792?hash=item467ab73158:g:8~MAAOSwZMZa1DzM
BPAL: KOITO AND SASHICHI 2014 (Lupercalia, Shunga, Novel Ideas): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-KOITO-AND-SASHICHI-2014-Lupercalia-Shunga-Novel-Ideas/302706541511?hash=item467ab743c7:g:nXcAAOSwAXZa1D8w
BPAL: WHISPERS OF MONSTROUS THINGS 2013 (LE, Yule): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-The-Convocation-2008-Neil-Gaiman-CHAOS-THEORY-VII-Woods-100-2015/302706536792?hash=item467ab73158:g:8~MAAOSwZMZa1DzM
BPAL: A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS 2013 (LE, Lupercalia): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-A-THOUGHT-FROM-PROPERTIUS-2013-LE-Lupercalia/302706547525?hash=item467ab75b45:g:SI0AAOSwY5Ra1EIM
BPAL: Go to Sleep, Darlings 2013 (LE, Yule): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Go-to-Sleep-Darlings-2013-LE-Yule/302706551915?hash=item467ab76c6b:g:a8QAAOSwANpa1EPA
* TNG: Season 6 Rewatch:
- 6.18 Starship Mine: They are evacuating the Ship. That never goes well. Data is learning small talk. I do like the race to get Picard to excuse people from doing social. Is Hutch flirting with Riker? Oh Gods! Data's imitation of Hutch. Picard spots a chance to flee social to grab his saddle in hopes of a ride. Inevitably, he spots something wrong. Is that Tuvac playing a pirate? Pirates inevitably slow him down, so of course he is trapped aboard with them. Picard must take on the pirates single handed. Data imitating Hutch and Hutch talking at each other is magic. I have to ask why they suggested imitating Hutch since they all hate him. Anyway, they are all rescued from doing social until Geordi spots something odd about the table with his visor and the hosts attack, injuring Geordi and taking them hostage. They make a plan to turn Geordi's visor into a sonic weapon. Meanwhile, Picard is captured and pretends to be a barber to lull his captors who are "draining the trilithium," which sounds like a euphemism, but isn't. They are short a set of hands as Pirate Tuvac is still missing, Picard having hidden him while he was unconscious. Picard now being inefficiently guarded does a little sabotage, which causes a distraction allowing him to escape. The blast doors come down, so now he's being chased by the guard while the others dealing with the leak in engineering. Picard runs into a dead end in the tube he's fleeing through, as the beam sweep is coming that way. He leaves the tube put hears the pirate screaming. The leader insists they drag the incredibly volatile fuel through the ship. Picard is listening in and tries to talk them out of doing the incredibly dangerous thing. They found his communicator, so know he's not a barber, but an officer, though why she'd guess Lieutenant, given his age I don't know. The pirates find the rungs cut on the tube they were climbing. Riker gets them to beat him up as a distraction; Picard gets one with an arrow, but they capture him again. The leader shoots an accomplice. Crusher uses the visor to knock out everyone but Data. Picard makes his move, stealing a thingie, but she beams out. Picard calls for them to deactivate the sweep, which Data does at the last moment, a deus ex machina. The ship blows up because he took the thingie. He tried so hard not to kill anyone, but he killed everyone on the ship and his acting sells how much he wishes she'd just listened and stopped instead of forcing his hand. The resin could be used for terrorism and she was going to sell it to the highest bidder.
- 6.19: Lessons. Communications, Replicator, and Library systems are offline for an Experiment in Stellar Cartography. Picard goes to check as he's bored with all his plans disrupted. He ruins four hours of work. Cartographer knows her teas, apparently. I like her; Picard likes her so much he is babbling about her to Beverly of all people. Data is having a concert in which the Stellar Sciences head is playing and he clearly was listening carefully. She stops by and they play a duet. She talks to Beverly of all people about their duets (still not a euphemism). She takes Picard on a date to the most acoustically perfect spot on the ship: a Jefferies tube intersection. People can hear them in Engineering. Doh! Then there is kissing, but in front of a crew woman in the elevator, he is all professional understandably distressing her. He goes to Deanna for advice. How is there "no protocol" around captains dating within their chain of command? O.o Deanna give him the thumbs up. He explains about that probe from the long dead planet and the music being from there and the sharing of sometyhing so private is taken as the gift it is. Meanwhile stallar Lady tries to poach one of Riker's department without asking him first. He must go to Picard because he's uncomfortable for obvious reasons whether he says yes or no, which is why dating people in your chain of command is usually forbidden RL. Picard brings it up with Stellar sciences Lady their next date. They need to rescue an outpost in an extreme heat environment. The heat shield is stellar Lady's idea and she is of course on the away team to set things up and she nearly dies. They saved all the colonists, but 8 crew died. She watched one die. They have a good talk. She worried he'd blame himself; he can't bring himself to order her into danger again. She applies for a transfer. I like that that at least they didn't fridge her as I was expecting and as they always did in ToS, that instead they had an adult conversation rather like the ones I've had in real life at mutual parting.
- 6.20: The Chase. Picard's archaeology professor turns up, and presents him with an ancient highly symbolic figurine, then tries to lure him onto an expedition. He hints at mysteries but won't say exactly what he's up to unless Picard joins. Old man gets nasty when he says no. he leaves in a huff and his shuttle is attacked by Irrillians. The old man lives just long enough to say, "I was too harsh." He left mysterious data blocks. Picard diverts the ship to figure out WTF, sipping a peace conference. I guess orders in Starfleet are just suggestions. Kirk did this for Spock's panfar; Picard does it in memory of a dead father figure. They work out that DNA is a for billion year old code. Someone is destroying whole planets to hide the program. They find the Cardassians already there. The Klingons arrive. Picard tries to reason; threats are exchanged. Reason wins out. Mostly. The Klingon tries to start a fight with Data, who is unimpressed. The Klingon tries to bribe Data, who is unimpressed. The Cardassian is treacherous as usual. The Klingon stays with he Feds. They all race to the next planet, where the Romulans turn up for more exchange of threats. Meanwhile, Beverly solves the puzzle and runs the program, which is a message from the civilization that did the seeding because they were sad about being alone and wanted to make descendants. Hence the whole illogical cross breeding, which honestly still makes no sense. There is a moving message of hope, which everyone but the feds reject. Of course. Sigh.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.
* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* It's looking that the Mass Murderer in Toronto was one of those MRA extreme misogynists calling himself involuntarily celibate in a posting to Facebook just before his terrorist attack in Toronto. He also openly admired that California MRA terrorist in California a few years ago and the misogynist terrorist who murdered all those women in the École Polytechnique massacre, though Canadian police haven't confirmed it.
* "Russia likely targeted more than 21 states before 2016 election: official:" http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/384585-homeland-security-official-says-likely-russia-targeted-more-than-21
* "Iran warns Trump it might withdraw from Non-Proliferation Treaty:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-rouhani/iran-warns-trump-it-might-withdraw-from-non-proliferation-treaty-idUSKBN1HV0MY
* "GOP senator: Trump should have invited Dems to state dinner:" http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/384560-gop-senator-trump-should-have-invited-dems-to-state-dinner
* "AG Sessions will not recuse himself from criminal probe of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/ag-jeff-sessions-will-not-recuse-himself-from-michael-cohen-case.html
* "Prosecutors defend searches of Manafort's storage locker, condo:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/23/mueller-prosecutors-defend-storage-locker-search-547472
* "Sean Hannity's real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/24/sean-hannity-real-estate-property-dealer-jeff-brock-fraud-foreclosures
* "Scott Pruitt expected to face ethics questions in front of Congress:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scott-pruitt-expected-face-ethics-questions-front-congress/story?id=54677129
* "Scott Pruitt Proposes ‘Transparency’ Rule To Limit The EPA’s Use Of Public Health Studies:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pruitt-epa-transparency-rule-science_us_5adf44a8e4b07560f395fb16
* "The Latest: Trump urges VA nominee to keep fighting:" https://apnews.com/58ec3f582f94460a9fd30aa7eee527d2/The-Latest:-Watchdog:-VA-nominee-Jackson-was-unprofessional
* Clearly, he should have been fired ages ago. "Trump burned again by failure to vet nominee as VA pick surprises:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-burned-again-by-failure-to-vet-nominee-as-va-pick-surprises-1218502211679?playlist=associated
* "Allegations against Ronny Jackson grow more serious and specific:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/allegations-against-ronny-jackson-grow-more-serious-and-specific-1218522691507?playlist=associated
* The Republican won in Arizona.
* "Arizona GOP blocked from changing rules on filling McCain's seat:" http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/384540-arizona-gop-blocked-from-changing-rules-on-filling-mccains-seat
* "Bush 41 responding to treatment:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/george-hw-bush/index.html
* "People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
* "Racism Is NOT Going To Die Off:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/04/racism-is-not-going-to-die-off.html
* "Pennsylvania golf club apologizes for calling police on black female members:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/24/pennsylvania-golf-club-apologizes-for-calling-police-on-black-women-members
* "Homework assignment asks students to list positive aspects of slavery:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/us/homework-assignment-slavery-trnd/index.html
* "Racial Profiling on the Green:"
* "Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron: A True Bromance:"
* "Strippers vs. Bartenders in New York City:"
* "Ireland's Abortion Ban:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/rtjm3d/the-jim-jefferies-show-april-24--2018---ireland-s-abortion-ban-season-2-ep-205
* "Trump's Counsel Of Doom Adds A New Member:"
* "Trump Is Flipping Out Over Rumors Cohen Is Flipping:"
* I stayed up to do morning phone calls, and discovered amoung other things that half a decade+ ago when I changed my gender marker with social security, they actually didn't change it, and lied to my face that they had. I just discovered my birth certificate is not where I thought it was (with the other gender paperwork), nor in the other place i keep important records I need ready to hand, nor in the other likely locations. Fuck! I'm staying up to get drilled again Monday morning, and I suppose I'll take the gender paperwork, my state ID and my pass card to the office, assuming I am done before they close at noon, which I assume they will be. I'll need to keep looking for the birth certificate. Did it come back from the feds with my passport? I can't remember. I do not want to pay for/battle Pennsylvania for another copy if i can help it.
Tonight after dinner, the screamers went off again. I'd made my dinner in the micro wave nd eaten it. the stove was stone cold. Squirrel was showering again. This was never a problem before, but now it is, it seems. When I suggested it Sunday he swore up and down it couldn't be shower steam. Me: could you set your fan up in the door of the bathroom to circulate the steam out when you shower? We'll see.
* ...And I lost connectivity for a couple wildly inconvenient hours tonight. On the upside, I made and ate a complex salad, bathed, and went through and put away the picture box. Next step: organize the sandman comics. I really was wanting to catch up on internet tonight given how horrible tomorrow will be, but really, I'm lucky it finally reset without me having to wait for Squirrel to come home so he could phone for a pulse to rest the router.
* "Westworld, Season 2, Episode 1: Journey Into the Night:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/04/westworld-season-2-episode-1-journey.html
* I love that nearly everyone is queer on Killing Eve!
* Thismade me laugh out loud for real. http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/173266595370/thefingerfuckingfemalefury-katswenski-a#notes
* Look, I don't speak Spanish, but I know what "puta" means, and I have to ask, why are the people in the Babble commercial sitting on a beach talking about whores? Can someone who does speak Spanish tell me WTF?!?
* An Epic AU in which McGonagall transforms Scabbers all the way back from tea cup to man: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/173285374007/peaceheather-avoidakedavra-kitrazzle
* I am doing National Poetry Month again this year, but I'm confining it to Tumblr on the grounds of tired. What the poems I selected? Five or so should turn up daily over here if you want to look them over: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/tagged/Poem
* I used all my money on housing and insurance last month, and this month it's all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $400 to stay afloat. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* One+ Day left, two no bid as of this writing. Ebay BPALs for sale:
BPAL: Krampus 2007 (Yule, LE) & Halloween: San Francisco 2010 (LE) : https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Krampus-2007-Yule-LE-Halloween-San-Francisco-2010-LE/302706531555?hash=item467ab71ce3:g:0H8AAOSwcNxa1DfN
BPAL: The Convocation 2008 (Neil Gaiman) & CHAOS THEORY VII: Woods #100 2015: https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-The-Convocation-2008-Neil-Gaiman-CHAOS-THEORY-VII-Woods-100-2015/302706536792?hash=item467ab73158:g:8~MAAOSwZMZa1DzM
BPAL: KOITO AND SASHICHI 2014 (Lupercalia, Shunga, Novel Ideas): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-KOITO-AND-SASHICHI-2014-Lupercalia-Shunga-Novel-Ideas/302706541511?hash=item467ab743c7:g:nXcAAOSwAXZa1D8w
BPAL: WHISPERS OF MONSTROUS THINGS 2013 (LE, Yule): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-The-Convocation-2008-Neil-Gaiman-CHAOS-THEORY-VII-Woods-100-2015/302706536792?hash=item467ab73158:g:8~MAAOSwZMZa1DzM
BPAL: A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS 2013 (LE, Lupercalia): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-A-THOUGHT-FROM-PROPERTIUS-2013-LE-Lupercalia/302706547525?hash=item467ab75b45:g:SI0AAOSwY5Ra1EIM
BPAL: Go to Sleep, Darlings 2013 (LE, Yule): https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Go-to-Sleep-Darlings-2013-LE-Yule/302706551915?hash=item467ab76c6b:g:a8QAAOSwANpa1EPA
* TNG: Season 6 Rewatch:
- 6.18 Starship Mine: They are evacuating the Ship. That never goes well. Data is learning small talk. I do like the race to get Picard to excuse people from doing social. Is Hutch flirting with Riker? Oh Gods! Data's imitation of Hutch. Picard spots a chance to flee social to grab his saddle in hopes of a ride. Inevitably, he spots something wrong. Is that Tuvac playing a pirate? Pirates inevitably slow him down, so of course he is trapped aboard with them. Picard must take on the pirates single handed. Data imitating Hutch and Hutch talking at each other is magic. I have to ask why they suggested imitating Hutch since they all hate him. Anyway, they are all rescued from doing social until Geordi spots something odd about the table with his visor and the hosts attack, injuring Geordi and taking them hostage. They make a plan to turn Geordi's visor into a sonic weapon. Meanwhile, Picard is captured and pretends to be a barber to lull his captors who are "draining the trilithium," which sounds like a euphemism, but isn't. They are short a set of hands as Pirate Tuvac is still missing, Picard having hidden him while he was unconscious. Picard now being inefficiently guarded does a little sabotage, which causes a distraction allowing him to escape. The blast doors come down, so now he's being chased by the guard while the others dealing with the leak in engineering. Picard runs into a dead end in the tube he's fleeing through, as the beam sweep is coming that way. He leaves the tube put hears the pirate screaming. The leader insists they drag the incredibly volatile fuel through the ship. Picard is listening in and tries to talk them out of doing the incredibly dangerous thing. They found his communicator, so know he's not a barber, but an officer, though why she'd guess Lieutenant, given his age I don't know. The pirates find the rungs cut on the tube they were climbing. Riker gets them to beat him up as a distraction; Picard gets one with an arrow, but they capture him again. The leader shoots an accomplice. Crusher uses the visor to knock out everyone but Data. Picard makes his move, stealing a thingie, but she beams out. Picard calls for them to deactivate the sweep, which Data does at the last moment, a deus ex machina. The ship blows up because he took the thingie. He tried so hard not to kill anyone, but he killed everyone on the ship and his acting sells how much he wishes she'd just listened and stopped instead of forcing his hand. The resin could be used for terrorism and she was going to sell it to the highest bidder.
- 6.19: Lessons. Communications, Replicator, and Library systems are offline for an Experiment in Stellar Cartography. Picard goes to check as he's bored with all his plans disrupted. He ruins four hours of work. Cartographer knows her teas, apparently. I like her; Picard likes her so much he is babbling about her to Beverly of all people. Data is having a concert in which the Stellar Sciences head is playing and he clearly was listening carefully. She stops by and they play a duet. She talks to Beverly of all people about their duets (still not a euphemism). She takes Picard on a date to the most acoustically perfect spot on the ship: a Jefferies tube intersection. People can hear them in Engineering. Doh! Then there is kissing, but in front of a crew woman in the elevator, he is all professional understandably distressing her. He goes to Deanna for advice. How is there "no protocol" around captains dating within their chain of command? O.o Deanna give him the thumbs up. He explains about that probe from the long dead planet and the music being from there and the sharing of sometyhing so private is taken as the gift it is. Meanwhile stallar Lady tries to poach one of Riker's department without asking him first. He must go to Picard because he's uncomfortable for obvious reasons whether he says yes or no, which is why dating people in your chain of command is usually forbidden RL. Picard brings it up with Stellar sciences Lady their next date. They need to rescue an outpost in an extreme heat environment. The heat shield is stellar Lady's idea and she is of course on the away team to set things up and she nearly dies. They saved all the colonists, but 8 crew died. She watched one die. They have a good talk. She worried he'd blame himself; he can't bring himself to order her into danger again. She applies for a transfer. I like that that at least they didn't fridge her as I was expecting and as they always did in ToS, that instead they had an adult conversation rather like the ones I've had in real life at mutual parting.
- 6.20: The Chase. Picard's archaeology professor turns up, and presents him with an ancient highly symbolic figurine, then tries to lure him onto an expedition. He hints at mysteries but won't say exactly what he's up to unless Picard joins. Old man gets nasty when he says no. he leaves in a huff and his shuttle is attacked by Irrillians. The old man lives just long enough to say, "I was too harsh." He left mysterious data blocks. Picard diverts the ship to figure out WTF, sipping a peace conference. I guess orders in Starfleet are just suggestions. Kirk did this for Spock's panfar; Picard does it in memory of a dead father figure. They work out that DNA is a for billion year old code. Someone is destroying whole planets to hide the program. They find the Cardassians already there. The Klingons arrive. Picard tries to reason; threats are exchanged. Reason wins out. Mostly. The Klingon tries to start a fight with Data, who is unimpressed. The Klingon tries to bribe Data, who is unimpressed. The Cardassian is treacherous as usual. The Klingon stays with he Feds. They all race to the next planet, where the Romulans turn up for more exchange of threats. Meanwhile, Beverly solves the puzzle and runs the program, which is a message from the civilization that did the seeding because they were sad about being alone and wanted to make descendants. Hence the whole illogical cross breeding, which honestly still makes no sense. There is a moving message of hope, which everyone but the feds reject. Of course. Sigh.
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