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gwydion* "Trump privately says he wants to withdraw from WTO:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/trump-world-trade-organization/index.html
* "Trump's IRS nominee didn't disclose properties were at Trump-branded hotel:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/irs-nominee-chuck-rettig-trump-hotel-659313
* I would like to thank in advance everyone who goes out to protest today.
* "Trump admin ran 'pilot program' for zero tolerance at border in 2017:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/trump-admin-ran-pilot-program-separating-migrant-families-2017-n887616
* "More than a dozen Ice agents call for agency to be disbanded:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/ice-abolish-letter-agents-trump-immigration-crackdown
* A better way for trans men to bind: http://star-anise.tumblr.com/post/175225160749/things-i-need-to-fucking-know-why-every-fuckin
* His Dad was tortured and thrown in a concentration camp by the Gestapo for being Norwegian resistance: http://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/175395914468
* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:
- 2.10 Journey to Babel: Ambassador Sarak arrives for a diplomatic conference. This is the episode that really sets up Spock's family dynamic. Spock and his father are still estranged over Spock joining Starfleet, to his mother's distress. There is the exchange of words in the diplomatic reception designed to show us the murder victim and other suspect in the upcoming murder. During the rewatch I have come to loathe Bones for his racism and nastiness. Approaching Spock's mother in hopes of stories to humiliate Spock wit is a particularly low and cruel tactic. They spot an unknown vessel. Sarak rebukes his wife for embarrassing Spock. There is an argument and the murder victim threatens Sarak before turning up murdered. Sarak has no proper alibi; he collapses due to a heart valve issue which requires surgery. Someone is in contact from the ship with the strange vessel. Kirk tries to sympathize with Spock; Spock continues professional. Sarak says he had a third heart attack during the murder, but there is no proof. The surgery would require a large amount of a rare Vulcan blood type, which only Spock has. The whole thing is super risky and Bones has never operated on a Vulcan and they need to use an experimental Rigilian drug which likely would kill him. Spock volunteers to take the drug and they then use the drugged blood. The humans all refuse to help; Spock logics at them. Kirk fist fights the real murderer an collapses after knocking him out and calling security. Sarak is dying; Bones gives in; Spock refuses on the grounds that he is now in command and can't risk the safety of the vessel in a security situation like this. The Andorrian Ambassador denies knowledge of the murderer and tells Spock to throw out logic and look to motive. His Mother pleads with him. We get more of his backstory and their dynamic together. When she leaves after another refusal, he touches the closed door in a lovely understated display of emotion. Kirk comes to; Bones brings him up to speed; Kirk decides to pretend to be well so Spock will give the blood and then turn command over to Scotty. Spock is suspicious but goes. The strange vessel approaches and the prisoner is signalling it. Kirk stays in command. Spock figures out a thing mid-operation, but they don't let him leave. The prisoner fights, but they stun him and take the devise in his antenna. They fight and the results endager the Vulcans. The Prisoner says destroying the Enterprise was part of the goal. He's a fake Andorrian. Enterprise plays dead to lure in the enemy ship and destroy it. The prisoner kills himself to avoid questioning. The Vulcans live; Spock says the assassin must have been an Orion. Sarak: One does not thank logic. The men then gang up on Spock's mother for having emotions. What charmers. Not. Anyway, Kirk and the Vulcans are confined to sick bay and Bbones shushes them.
Nothing really takes the shine off Tos the way actually watching it does. I loved this one as a kid.
- 2.11 Friday's Child: we start with a briefing about the Capellans who appear to be extreme social Darwinists. Like modern Republicans, they are totally against providing their people with health care. The Feds want to get them to agree to a mining treaty, but Klingons. Scotty is left in charge in case of trouble. Kirk, Spock, Bones, and a red Shirt beam down. The Klingons are already there. Red Shirt draws his weapon on the Klingon. A local kills him immediately. Is this the record for fastest red Shirt death? That must have been less than a minute on planet, but I'm too lazy to time it. Anyway, this causes a diplomatic incident and puts the Feds in the wrong. They have to turn over weapons and communicators or else prove all the things the Klingons said about Federation Duplicity to be true. Kirk is inexplicably angry at Bones when it was clearly Kirk's fault for bringing a blockhead who couldn't keep it in his holster for even a minute in a diplomatic situation. One would think not drawing weapons without orders or provocation in a diplomatic meeting would be standard protocol anyway, but one would wish that for terrestrial police here in the real world too, so.... I guess the Feds are as bad as 21st century American police?
Anyway, a lovely woman turns up and Kirk thinks it a seduction, but Bones stops him explaining it's an offer of combat. If he touches what she offers, her nearest male relative will try to kill him, fighting being more fun than sex. Kirk saying no disappoint her nearest male relative. *waggle brows* Kirk protests the just killing of the idiot red Shirt. Local: Is it not his privilege to die for you? The Klingon mocks kirk's manliness. Bones takes over because he actually knows what he's doing. He does a culturally appropriate insult of the Klingon. The Klingon calls on their shared Social Darwinist ideals and insults offers of knowledge and medicine by the Feds. Kirk counters with an offer of Federation Law that forbids Colonialism, and points out the Klingons will colonize them. This sets off a leadership challenge amoung the locals.
The Enterprise piks up a distress signal from an Earth Vessel; the locals are killing each other. They Klingon searching the tent; the Klingon draws a knife but the subdue him; the klingon admits he's there for the same mineral rights. The pro-Klingon locals intervene, having killed the old leader. The Klingon demands the death of the feds; Kirk points out it would be more amusing for him and the Klingon leader to fight. They Klingons are attacking a fed freighter. They are going to kill the old leader's very pregnant wife; the Feds intervene and are subdued. Apparently touching her is taboo and she demands they kill Kirk first. Meanwhile, the Enterprise can't reach the landing party, so Scotty decides they must abandon them for now to go save the freighter convoy. Bones determines to fix the lady's arm as they can only kill him once for touching her. in the resulting scuffle the Feds overpower the guards and talk her into fleeing with them back to the ship. The Feds are terrible at diplomacy. Meanwhile the Klingon is not impressing the new leader and also demanding his weapon back. the Feds take their communicators and flee in hopes of reaching the ship later. Bones violates the woman by doctoring her by force. Medical ethics? What medical ethics. Only after she seems kind of into it?!? Eww. Kirk and Spock use communicators to start a landslide to stop their pursuers. Apparently this is where "I'm a Doctor, not an escalator" comes from. The woman won't let anyone but Bones touch her. The distress call was a decoy. The woman doesn't want the child, but is giving birth. Bones tries to get her to say "the child is mine." She thinks he's claiming it in place of her dead husband. Kirk and Spock make bows while the baby is born. This culture doesn't have bows or space flight. Is the Prime directive even a Thing? Spock does NOT want to hold the baby. I sympathize. Scotty ignores a second distress signal and finds a Klingon Warship waiting for them as they try to return to the planet. Space is vast, can't they go around? The woman clocks Bones on the head with a rock and flees, leaving the baby behind. The local hunting party is enjoying the level of challenge the Feds are giving them. Wait, if they are a knife/tent/travel on foot level culture, they can't possibly have planetary government. Seriously, why are the Feds negotiating with this particular tribe nd not some other and why doesn't the Prime directive apply? The woman turns up and claims the baby and the Feds are dead, which the Klingon challenges. She shuts him down, asking if he dow=ubts her word. she was the wife of a tier and she's going to die in her tent. The klingon breaks his word and goes running up to the hiding cave. the Feds shoot him in the leg with an arrow. how much archery do they do on earth and Vulcan in the far future. How do they know how to make goo working bows, a skilled craft? i used to target shoot with bow and arrow and was the best in my group of kids. Hitting targets is much harder than it looks and also takes practice and skill. Just saying. Somehow the Feds are better with the homemade bows and arrows and their complete lack of practice with this type of weapon than the men who've been using throwing knives their whole lives, so they kill a bunch. The Klingon starts killing locals with a beam weapon, showing his true colors. The New Leader gives the woman back her life before sacrificing himself so they might kill the Klingon. Bones is weirdly into the whole baby thing. Anyway, the woman is now Regent for her baby and she signs the treaty.
I really don't remember this one much at all and I'm wondering if it had less rotation in syndication than the more famous ones. (I'd clearly seen it a few times before growing up, as I remembered the decoy distress calls, and some other bits, but it was as close to new as any Star trek could be given my upbringing). It is a hot mess, but I'm a sucker for culture clash stories and I actually rather enjoyed this episode in comparison to most of the ToS run. Also, the Widow's costume was legitimately good and I kind of like how goofy some of the men 's outfits are.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/
* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call
* 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
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Have something you want to tell your congress Critters? 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/
* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* 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
* "Trump's IRS nominee didn't disclose properties were at Trump-branded hotel:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/irs-nominee-chuck-rettig-trump-hotel-659313
* I would like to thank in advance everyone who goes out to protest today.
* "Trump admin ran 'pilot program' for zero tolerance at border in 2017:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/trump-admin-ran-pilot-program-separating-migrant-families-2017-n887616
* "More than a dozen Ice agents call for agency to be disbanded:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/ice-abolish-letter-agents-trump-immigration-crackdown
* A better way for trans men to bind: http://star-anise.tumblr.com/post/175225160749/things-i-need-to-fucking-know-why-every-fuckin
* His Dad was tortured and thrown in a concentration camp by the Gestapo for being Norwegian resistance: http://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/175395914468
* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:
- 2.10 Journey to Babel: Ambassador Sarak arrives for a diplomatic conference. This is the episode that really sets up Spock's family dynamic. Spock and his father are still estranged over Spock joining Starfleet, to his mother's distress. There is the exchange of words in the diplomatic reception designed to show us the murder victim and other suspect in the upcoming murder. During the rewatch I have come to loathe Bones for his racism and nastiness. Approaching Spock's mother in hopes of stories to humiliate Spock wit is a particularly low and cruel tactic. They spot an unknown vessel. Sarak rebukes his wife for embarrassing Spock. There is an argument and the murder victim threatens Sarak before turning up murdered. Sarak has no proper alibi; he collapses due to a heart valve issue which requires surgery. Someone is in contact from the ship with the strange vessel. Kirk tries to sympathize with Spock; Spock continues professional. Sarak says he had a third heart attack during the murder, but there is no proof. The surgery would require a large amount of a rare Vulcan blood type, which only Spock has. The whole thing is super risky and Bones has never operated on a Vulcan and they need to use an experimental Rigilian drug which likely would kill him. Spock volunteers to take the drug and they then use the drugged blood. The humans all refuse to help; Spock logics at them. Kirk fist fights the real murderer an collapses after knocking him out and calling security. Sarak is dying; Bones gives in; Spock refuses on the grounds that he is now in command and can't risk the safety of the vessel in a security situation like this. The Andorrian Ambassador denies knowledge of the murderer and tells Spock to throw out logic and look to motive. His Mother pleads with him. We get more of his backstory and their dynamic together. When she leaves after another refusal, he touches the closed door in a lovely understated display of emotion. Kirk comes to; Bones brings him up to speed; Kirk decides to pretend to be well so Spock will give the blood and then turn command over to Scotty. Spock is suspicious but goes. The strange vessel approaches and the prisoner is signalling it. Kirk stays in command. Spock figures out a thing mid-operation, but they don't let him leave. The prisoner fights, but they stun him and take the devise in his antenna. They fight and the results endager the Vulcans. The Prisoner says destroying the Enterprise was part of the goal. He's a fake Andorrian. Enterprise plays dead to lure in the enemy ship and destroy it. The prisoner kills himself to avoid questioning. The Vulcans live; Spock says the assassin must have been an Orion. Sarak: One does not thank logic. The men then gang up on Spock's mother for having emotions. What charmers. Not. Anyway, Kirk and the Vulcans are confined to sick bay and Bbones shushes them.
Nothing really takes the shine off Tos the way actually watching it does. I loved this one as a kid.
- 2.11 Friday's Child: we start with a briefing about the Capellans who appear to be extreme social Darwinists. Like modern Republicans, they are totally against providing their people with health care. The Feds want to get them to agree to a mining treaty, but Klingons. Scotty is left in charge in case of trouble. Kirk, Spock, Bones, and a red Shirt beam down. The Klingons are already there. Red Shirt draws his weapon on the Klingon. A local kills him immediately. Is this the record for fastest red Shirt death? That must have been less than a minute on planet, but I'm too lazy to time it. Anyway, this causes a diplomatic incident and puts the Feds in the wrong. They have to turn over weapons and communicators or else prove all the things the Klingons said about Federation Duplicity to be true. Kirk is inexplicably angry at Bones when it was clearly Kirk's fault for bringing a blockhead who couldn't keep it in his holster for even a minute in a diplomatic situation. One would think not drawing weapons without orders or provocation in a diplomatic meeting would be standard protocol anyway, but one would wish that for terrestrial police here in the real world too, so.... I guess the Feds are as bad as 21st century American police?
Anyway, a lovely woman turns up and Kirk thinks it a seduction, but Bones stops him explaining it's an offer of combat. If he touches what she offers, her nearest male relative will try to kill him, fighting being more fun than sex. Kirk saying no disappoint her nearest male relative. *waggle brows* Kirk protests the just killing of the idiot red Shirt. Local: Is it not his privilege to die for you? The Klingon mocks kirk's manliness. Bones takes over because he actually knows what he's doing. He does a culturally appropriate insult of the Klingon. The Klingon calls on their shared Social Darwinist ideals and insults offers of knowledge and medicine by the Feds. Kirk counters with an offer of Federation Law that forbids Colonialism, and points out the Klingons will colonize them. This sets off a leadership challenge amoung the locals.
The Enterprise piks up a distress signal from an Earth Vessel; the locals are killing each other. They Klingon searching the tent; the Klingon draws a knife but the subdue him; the klingon admits he's there for the same mineral rights. The pro-Klingon locals intervene, having killed the old leader. The Klingon demands the death of the feds; Kirk points out it would be more amusing for him and the Klingon leader to fight. They Klingons are attacking a fed freighter. They are going to kill the old leader's very pregnant wife; the Feds intervene and are subdued. Apparently touching her is taboo and she demands they kill Kirk first. Meanwhile, the Enterprise can't reach the landing party, so Scotty decides they must abandon them for now to go save the freighter convoy. Bones determines to fix the lady's arm as they can only kill him once for touching her. in the resulting scuffle the Feds overpower the guards and talk her into fleeing with them back to the ship. The Feds are terrible at diplomacy. Meanwhile the Klingon is not impressing the new leader and also demanding his weapon back. the Feds take their communicators and flee in hopes of reaching the ship later. Bones violates the woman by doctoring her by force. Medical ethics? What medical ethics. Only after she seems kind of into it?!? Eww. Kirk and Spock use communicators to start a landslide to stop their pursuers. Apparently this is where "I'm a Doctor, not an escalator" comes from. The woman won't let anyone but Bones touch her. The distress call was a decoy. The woman doesn't want the child, but is giving birth. Bones tries to get her to say "the child is mine." She thinks he's claiming it in place of her dead husband. Kirk and Spock make bows while the baby is born. This culture doesn't have bows or space flight. Is the Prime directive even a Thing? Spock does NOT want to hold the baby. I sympathize. Scotty ignores a second distress signal and finds a Klingon Warship waiting for them as they try to return to the planet. Space is vast, can't they go around? The woman clocks Bones on the head with a rock and flees, leaving the baby behind. The local hunting party is enjoying the level of challenge the Feds are giving them. Wait, if they are a knife/tent/travel on foot level culture, they can't possibly have planetary government. Seriously, why are the Feds negotiating with this particular tribe nd not some other and why doesn't the Prime directive apply? The woman turns up and claims the baby and the Feds are dead, which the Klingon challenges. She shuts him down, asking if he dow=ubts her word. she was the wife of a tier and she's going to die in her tent. The klingon breaks his word and goes running up to the hiding cave. the Feds shoot him in the leg with an arrow. how much archery do they do on earth and Vulcan in the far future. How do they know how to make goo working bows, a skilled craft? i used to target shoot with bow and arrow and was the best in my group of kids. Hitting targets is much harder than it looks and also takes practice and skill. Just saying. Somehow the Feds are better with the homemade bows and arrows and their complete lack of practice with this type of weapon than the men who've been using throwing knives their whole lives, so they kill a bunch. The Klingon starts killing locals with a beam weapon, showing his true colors. The New Leader gives the woman back her life before sacrificing himself so they might kill the Klingon. Bones is weirdly into the whole baby thing. Anyway, the woman is now Regent for her baby and she signs the treaty.
I really don't remember this one much at all and I'm wondering if it had less rotation in syndication than the more famous ones. (I'd clearly seen it a few times before growing up, as I remembered the decoy distress calls, and some other bits, but it was as close to new as any Star trek could be given my upbringing). It is a hot mess, but I'm a sucker for culture clash stories and I actually rather enjoyed this episode in comparison to most of the ToS run. Also, the Widow's costume was legitimately good and I kind of like how goofy some of the men 's outfits are.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/
* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call
* 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
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Have something you want to tell your congress Critters? 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/
* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* 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