data1701d (He/Him)

“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

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  • At the same time, I can’t imagine how many knives are to Grand Nagus Rom’s throat, so Nog might have it relatively good. I’m sure someone would be bound to try and kidnap him at least once, but he’s an experienced Starfleet officer and can probably make it clear early on how foolish taking him hostage actually is.

    Like, it’s kind of a miracle Rom made it to 2381 without at least ending up exiled from Ferengi society.

    I guess Ishka may have used Zek’s social influence to keep Rom in power.

    Still, I think it would be fascinating to have “autobiograp



  • Oh, yeh! In the CD pregap that’s really hard to rip and didn’t make streaming!

    It was supposed to be on a compilation, but it got scrapped after he left Prophet Records for Pah Wraith Entertainment, unfortunately.

    Jaresh-Inyo, Sylvia Ront, Cardassian Union, Vic Fontaine
    Gamma Quadrant, Jake Sisko, Buck Bokai
    Norah Satie, Benny Maxwell, Miranda class, Holoprograms
    The Maquis, the Federation, Deanna Troi
    
    T’Pel, Photons, Chakotay, Deep Space Nine
    Kullnark, “Frame of Mind”, and “Something for Breakfast”
    Chancellor Gowron, Voyager, Bajor’s got a new Kai
    Ben Sisko, Sonny Clemmons, Sarek of Vulcan, goodbye
    
    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, like the Bajoran Fire Caves
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
    




  • Who the heck came up with “Fek’lhr”?! Like, it’s clearly it intended to be a Klingon word and not an Anglicization, but they failed miserably to actually follow the rules of the language.

    • “F” is not used for that sound in any major Klingon Romanization system (“f” corresponds to “ng” in xifan hol mapping); “v” is the closest thing.
    • “k” is also not used; that should be a “q”.
    • The apostrophe usually only comes after vowels, as it denotes a glottal stop.
    • “h” is not pronounced silently like it is here; it’s a weird consonant kind of like a soft g.

    It’s so bad it looks like Okrand had to fix it in one of his Klingon audio tapes - the official Klingon word is “veqlargh”, leaving the TNG onscreen versiob as a very weird Anglicization with a pointless apostrophe.





  • Yeh. Really, I hope this takes full advantage of the 31st century setting, because I feel like there’s so much to explore, even in existing Star Trek societies.

    While some might see the Klingons here as beating a dead horse, I really have wanted to know how the Klingons handled the burn. I hope it’s not something dumb like, “My race turned to civil war.”

    I think it would be kind of awesome if instead, we had the homeworld Klingons have a cultural shift where they choose to avoid civil war and instead embrace unprecedented collaboration in the hopes of one day attaining their former glory. Of course, this doesn’t mean they quit being warriors; my thought is to keep their teeth sharp, there is a gladiator set up using holodeck and transporter technology where two combatants enter. Then, the computer randomly selects, with the result unknown to the combatants, whether it merely streams the combatant’s presence to each other and prevents lethal blows or actually puts the combatants in a duel to the death (about a 1/20 chance).