Fuck Jackie Marks and the appropriating grift he rode in on.

I'm sure that you feel like you're saying something very profound, but for most people that's just gibberish.

You also violated Starfleet protocols which require us to not interfere with developing cultures.

Right, but what is the image saying that's false?

• ”Have you noticed their references are weirdly specific?” Number One is also concerned about my going way over the character limit on this post.”

• Boimler power walks away after being startled by Number One. He claimed that power walking is more efficient in “Envoys”. Apparently Section 31 does it.

• Mariner tells Uhura that while she’s known for being a super-translating space adventurer in the future, part of that reputation is that she’s carefree. In episodes like “Charlie X” and “The Man Trap” we see Uhura singing in the recreation room, and flirting with Spock.

• Mariner performs the Picard Maneuver when standing up.

• On her PADD, Uhura is looking at examples of the Bajoran and Cardassian alphabets, which are labeled as such. This is the first indication that the Federation had made contact with either civilization prior to the TNG era.

     • There is a comatose Cardassian being held by the automated shipyard in “Dead Stop”, but no one actually really sees him.

• Starbase Earhart was first mentioned in “The Samaritan Snare” when Captain Picard tells Wesley the story of his being stabbed through the heart by a Nausican, and we first see the base in “Tapestry” when Q sends Picard’s consciousness back through time to that event.

     • “Tapestry” is also the first mention of dom-jot.

     • Mariner describes dom-jot as “A billiards game that Nausicans are terrible at, but love to bet on for some reason.” We see Mariner playing dom-jot against Nausicans at Starbase Earhart in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”.

• Pelia and Boimler share a moment staring at the warp core. Boimler has a long established history of being a fan of warp cores, going back to his first episode, “Second Contact”.

• Pelia’s quote, “I always pretended to be someone I wanted to be, until finally I became that someone…or he became me,”* is paraphrasing Cary Grant.

• ”Don’t yell Q, they haven’t met him yet.” Q first reveals himself in “Encounter at Farpoint”

     • ”They had kind of a Trelene thing going on.” Trelene appears in “The Squire of Gothos” and, so far no where else.

• The Enterprise crew starts expressing enthusiasm for the past, specifically the NX-01.

     • Pike mentions that he would be excited to set foot on Archer’s Enterprise. In “These Are the Voyages…” we learn that he is the one who wrote the parameters for a popular holo-simulation where the user plays the role of the NX-01’s chef.

     • La’an says she loves grapplers, which first appeared in the ENT premiere, “Broken Bow”.

     • Ortegas claims, ”I’m a huge fan of Travis Mayweather. First pilot of the NX-01*.” Presumably there had to be at least one.

     • Uhura mentions Hoshi Sato having spoken 86 languages. In “Two Days and Two Nights” it’s established that Hoshi learned 38 languages before having left Earth, and that she knows ”about 40” as of that episode.

• I believe this is the first time the Fleet Museum is referred to as the Starfleet History Museum, but both locations have the NX-01, as per “The Bounty”.

• We learn that Number One is featured on a Starfleet recruitment poster, including the words “Ad Astra per Aspera” which was the motto of the United Earth Starfleet and, we learn, of personal importance to Number one in the episode “Ad Astra per Aspera”.

     • The poster featuring Number One was not seen among the recruitment material Mariner and Boimler took when they set up their booth on Tulgana IV in “Reflections”.

• It was established that Tendi is the Mistress of the Winter Constellations in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”.

• It’s Jack Ransom! From Star Trek! Ransom is voiced by Jerry O’Connell.

• “Oh, Numero Una, hottest first officer in Starfleet history.” Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell are married.

• Drinking the Orion delaq causes the Enterprise crew to experience visual hallucinations similar to what Mariner, and Boimler went through after being exposed to nitrous oxide in “Room for Growth”. Tendi was immune.

My reading -- and what appears to be the interpretation of others who've commented as well -- is that the transphobe thinks biology agrees with them, while the biologist are explicitly saying they do not align with transphobes.

Depends on the episode.

When Quark is abducted from Deep Space 9 in "House of Quark" he's taken clear across the entire Federation and into the Klingon Empire in about a day. And then D'Ghor sends someone to the station to grab Rom and get him back to Qo'noS the next day.

Trek moves at the speed of plot.

• Dak’Rah speaks of a chancellor who asked him about a Klingon speaking on behalf of the Federation, and he uses masculine pronouns while doing so. The title of chancellor has been used to describe a variety of positions, but I suspect that I am not the only one who initially assumed Dak’Rah was speaking of the chancellor of the Klingon Empire, their head of state. Last we saw, L’Rell was still chancellor, after having taken over in “Will You Take My Hand?”

• ”tlhIngan maH taHjaj.” Ortegas recites the rallying cry of T’Kuvma’s followers from “The Vulcan Hello”, ”Remain Klingon.”

• Uhura learned about Aenar philosophy from Hemmer in “Memento Mori”, and we learned that they’re pacifists in “The Aenar”.

• Doctor M’Benga and La’an have been practicing Mok’bara, a Klingon martial art Worf taught aboard the USS Enterprise D as seen in “Clues”. As per “The Vulcan Hello”, prior to the Federation-Klingon War, there was effectively no contact between the Federation and the Empire for 100 years, which does raise the question of how two Starfleet officers would have been able to learn Mok’bara.

• The red martial arts uniforms Doctor M’Benga and Dak’Rah wear for their Mok’Bara sparing session resemble the ones we see worn in “Charlie X” when Kirk is showing Charlie Evans some throws in the work facilities. Except those uniforms had tight leggings, an a Starfleet delta on the chest.

• In the flashback to J’Gal, we see the Klingons there all wore their hair long. Every Klingon we saw in season one, from heads of Great Houses to guys urinating in back alleys, was bald, and in “Point of Light” we learned that it was specifically because they were at war, first with other Klingons, and then with then with the Federation. We also so that each House had individual customs for dress and body modification, so unreasonable to assume that whichever House Dak’Rah and the other Klingons who held J’Gal were loyal to did not engage in such tonsure.

     • The Klingon warlords we see Doctor M’Benga kill in the flashback are wearing the same armour as D’Chok in “The Broken Circle”.

• The D’k thag dagger was introduced in “Star Trek: The Search for Spock”.

• According to Doctor M’Benga’s service record, he was born in 2223, meaning he would be 36 years old.

• The subtitles for the episode call the Klingon homeworld ”Kronos,” but fortunately the map Number One gives to Pike has it labelled ”Qo’noS,” as it should be.

• ”How can we represent a Federation that believes in peace if we say some people aren’t allowed to make up for their past.” For example, Pike will probably be very grateful that during the events of “The Menagerie, Part I” the Talosians choose not to display the moment where he claimed, “It's just that I can't get used to having a woman on the bridge.” Look how far he’s come in only five years!

• Doctor M’Benga tells Dak’Rah, ”You turned me into a monster.” In “The Wounded”, Chief O’Brien tells a Cardassian officer, “It’s not you I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became because of you.”

• Dak’Rah accidentally stabs himself during the struggle with Doctor M’Benga. In “The House of Quark”, a Klingon named Kozak accidentally stabbed himself while fighting Quark, an in “The Vulcan Hello”, the Klingon Torchbearer stabbed himself after ambushing Michael Burnham.

Jeepers, this is fucking clown shit. Have a time out.

“Actually it was La Forge!”

While I appreciate the addition, I feel like Weyoun would command Damar to return the cart.

Damar would then drunkenly push it into the cart return and not pick it up when it fell over.

Yeah, there's a lot of little touches in there, like the "Delta Flyer 3" on the car that really elevate it beyond the standard slapdash meme. I prefer to post my own OC, but when I saw this one, I knew it had to be shared.

Yes, it’s from a season three episode, “Alter Ego”, where Kim and Tuvok both develop feelings for the same holodeck character (who, spoiler, may be more than she initially appears).

"No cops at pride" is not about the prejudices of individual cops, be they fictional future shapeshifters from half a galaxy away, or real police here and now. There are LGBTQ+ cops out there.

The issue is the fact that cops enforce the law regardless of how just the law might be. Odo was the chief of security aboard Terek Nor while it was under Cardassian control, and while in that role rushed three innocent Bajoran workers to execution so he could maintain order aboard the station.

Even once the station became Bajoran owned and Starfleet operated, Odo was still willing to conduct illegal surveillance, lock people in the detention facility on trumped up charges, and impose a strict curfew. Personally I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to assume that Odo would be willing to lock up people participating in a Pride event for no other reason than that he was told to do so, and they were causing a minor disruption on the Promenade.

• La’an bluffs a Broken Circle weapons buyer with an ”antimatter detonation switch,” something she tells Uhura she made up on the spot. In “Surrender” Jack Crusher pulled a similar trick on Vadic, implying a personal forcefield was actually an unknown weapon.

• In the dilithium mines, Doctor M’Benga and Chapel see what appears to be a mostly constructed Starfleet ship.

  • When the ship enters space, Mitchell says she thinks it’s a Crossfield-class, like the USS Discovery. The ship does have a Crossfield-class saucer, but the secondary hull is very different.

  • Motion graphics art director for the series, Tim Peel, has confirmed on twitter that it is not actually a Crossfield-class.

  • The Crossfake’s transponder has its registry as NCC-1729.

• Doctor M’Benga and nurse Chapel inject themselves with a serum that that makes them slower and weaker so that when they attack their Klingon captors they don’t completely overwhelm them. Not doing so would be considered a war crime, as Klingons are extremely bad a fighting as seen in many, many episodes including, but not limited to:

  • “The Trouble with Tribbles” - Klingons provoke Scotty, Chekov and other Enterprise crew to a fight, only to lose

  • “Star Trek: The Search for Spock” - A Klingon lord gets the jump on a Starfleet captain, and ends up dumped into a pool of magma like he’s trying to steal the One Ring

  • “House of Quark” - The head of a Klingon House attacks a small Ferengi and ends up stabbing himself to death

  • “Marauders” - A group of malnourished colonists fend of a group of armed Klingon warriors after only a day’s worth of Vulcan martial arts training

  • “The Vulcan Hello” - A Klingon Torchbearer attacked an unarmed Starfleet officer with a bat’leth and stabbed himself to death

• Apparently in the Klingon Empire they do call them Klingon disruptors.

• The D7-class battlecruiser we see appears to be a reuse of the CGI model introduced in “Through the Valley of Shadows”, perhaps with some updated textures.

• Doctor M’Benga was able to use the Crossfake’s transponder communicate with the Enterprise in Morse 2. Morse code has been previously used in:

  • The SS Botany Bay’s call signal in “Space Seed” was broadcast in morse

  • Scotty tapped out ”stand back” before destroying the wall of the brig in “Star Trek: The Final Frontier”

  • The SS Mariposa’s distress beacon was an SOS in “Up the Long Ladder”

  • In “The 37’s” the *USS Voyager” discovered an SOS coming from a planet in the Delta quadrant

  • Harry is able to alert Tom Paris of sabotage aboard the Delta Flyer using morse in “Drive”

  • In “Mindwalk” Dal was able to send an SOS to the rest of the Protogies, but they assumed those were the only letters he would have memorized so they couldn’t use it to communicate back to him.

• ”They thought it worth their lives to prevent another war. Logical.” This follows Spock’s reasoning from “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” where he first says, ”Logic dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

• The maneuvering pack Doctor M’Benga finds looks to be of the type introduced in “Brother”.

• We see the D7’s nacelles reconfigure to ready weapons; “Elaan of Troyius” established that the nacelles also house disruptor cannons.

• Spock is able to revive Chapel using CPR. We’ve previously seen Kirk use the technique to save the life of a child in “The Paradise Syndrome”, and Tendi do so with Boimler in “First First Contact”. It’s not entirely clear if Chakotay actually performed CPR on Janeway in “Coda” or if that was only part of a hallucination inflicted upon her by an alien entity.

• Captain D’Chok’s armour has a similar design to the Klingon armour introduced in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and used all through TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and the TOS and TNG movies, but is gold, like the tunics Klingon soldiers wore during TOS.

  • D’Chok’s baldric bears a House symbol first seen in the DIS episode “Point of LIght” one by one of the members of the High Council.

  • Both House D’Ghor and House Kol wore gold armour in season one of DIS.

• Spock states he ”[has] been known to” drink bloodwine. In “The Conscience of the King” Spock tells Bones that his father’s people were *”spared the dubious benefits of alcohol,” which might imply that they are not actually capable of becoming drunk from it. And in “Cease Fire” Soval declares that Vulcans do not drink, but he himself immediately makes an exception. Also, T’Pol, Sakonna, Tuvok, and Spock are all seen drinking at one point or another. And both Vulcan port and Vulcan brandy were introduced in “The Maquis, Part I” and “Repression” respectively.

  • Despite his claim, this is the first instance of Spock drinking bloodwine on screen.

  • Spock is hungover during his call with April, so perhaps even if Vulcans are spared the benefits of alcohol, they still experience the drawbacks, which could explain why they don’t drink. Except when they do.

• When the map in April’s office resolves, a few locations can be made out

  • Deep Space 2

  • Galdonterre - The planet where Kang, Kor, and Koloth were able to track the Albino to in “Blood Oath”

  • Cestus - Cestus III is introduced in “Arena” as the planet where the Enterprise beams down to have dinner at an observation outpost only to find it’s been razed by the Gorn

  • What is a probable Gorn attack ship - in the Gorn Hegemony they just call them ships.

Q exists outside of time, so the iteration that visits DS9 could have been prior to the scene in the comic.

Who said you can’t critique Disco?

This is about a very specific, very silly objection, levelled by people who have found themselves indoctrinated into a mode of thinking that alienates them from the people around them, because of a manufactured fear preying upon alienation many of us experience in our modern world.

I’ve had plenty of objections to aspects of Disco, especially during season two, but scattered throughout the series, and no one has ever called me a bigot for my hot takes. If you’re presenting your critiques in such a way that people are assuming you’re bigoted, perhaps you should reevaluate how you’re constructing your criticism.