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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 1h

“That’s what ‘they’ say.”
“‘They?’”
“Amateurs.”

Bloodsport (Idris Elba) in THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021)

Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah “The Wounded” is still *aware* that it’s wedging itself into the general TNG narrative, but the freakout over the Maquis a couple years later belies the idea that the Cardassians are some minor inconvenience like the Talarians. They just kept building on top of it!

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 2h

“The Wounded” goes “remember that interstellar war Starfleet was fighting up until last year? Which has filled our ranks with embittered, bigoted veterans? And remember these Cardassians that our next decade of storytelling will largely revolve around?”

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 2h

A pretty core concept of the early TNG episodes was that there had not been an interstellar war for decades, which is why the situation with the Romulans is so concerning and the Borg are so threatening that the Feds re-start playing war games on a slow, experimental basis.

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

Gul Macet is a bit chastened throughout by Starfleet tech; Gul Dukat scoffs at Runabouts being “years behind” Cardassian tech and Cardassians mulch a Nebula in the teaser of “Waltz.”

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

“The Wounded” actually presents the Cardassians as a second-tier power that’s threatened by a Nebula-class starship, its “Chain of Command” and then DS9 that establish them as a really formidable military power, albeit one that sacrifices its people’s well-being for it.

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

But it just *happened* to UNO-reverse the entire concept of Starfleet and the show in the opening five minutes in order to make its own plot work

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

“The Wounded” is one of the greatest episodes of Trek ever made and it sowed the seeds for DS9 for everything from casting Alaimo to rebuilding O’Brien as a haggard veteran who can beam through shields if he feels like it yet not have a normal conversation with his wife

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

Lmao I just cracked myself up reading this again I be cooking here

Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

NOPE

“The Wounded” was originally meant for the ROMULANS

The Cardassian War makes complete nonsense out of several previous episodes, notably “Peak Performance.”

And it’s why the teaser has Picard “reminiscing” about fighting Cardassians on USS Stargazer.

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 14h

Omg how

Crown Prince of Stankonia @cpofstankonia.bsky.social · 15h

The #1 trusted comforter of the 90s 😂😂

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · Dec 7

I GOT ANOTHER ONE

The most consequential story decision in Star Trek’s entire history was the retconning of the “Cardassian War” into the setting’s history in TNG S4’s “The Wounded.”

It totally changed the PURPOSE of Starfleet in the past, present, and future of the fictional 24th century!

Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · Dec 7

I have a converse hot take—

While the move toward ships packed with uniformed officers only and devoid of plants/carpets/wood was probably inevitable, it also made starship interiors crushingly boring and same-y for the rest of the 24th century and beyond

Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Dec 7

Every parent* who brought their kid aboard the Enterprise D is guilty of child abuse.

THEY ALL TURNED INTO APES & SPIDERS & FROGS! SOME OF THEM ATE EACH OTHER!

*except Beverly Crusher, her kid is a demigod, she could've (and should've) thrown him into a black hole and he'd've probably been fine

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 15h

Peacemaker from THE SUICIDE SQUAD saying “Who knows why mad men do what they do?”

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah this is extremely bad (as in tyrannical) behavior from Trump and Hegseth AND YET every ounce of power that Trump has effectively claimed has been freely abdicated by Congress over the last 50 years

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19h

I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 17h

He looks very smart there!

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 17h

Oh I love him, he came in an AoE exclusive 2-pack. Repaint of DOTM Prime that came with a repaint of FoC Grimlock. His weapons are FoC Grimlock’s shield and a silver repaint of one of the G1 Predacons’ swords (?!?)

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 19h

The most famous piece of Soviet cinema, Battleship Potemkin, depicts the the major instigating flash point of the 1905 Revolution when navy sailors on the eponymous battleship mutinied over maggots in their rotten food. This fact is disconnected from the RT below bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 20h

Iirc yes

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 20h

They really shouldn’t be making me think this hard about how I have a Starscream that’s at least 90% as good at home

He’s a character I’m more than prepared to be unreasonable about but price increase + target exclusive…meh

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 22h

I know I’ll get yelled at if I say “nobody cares about Thundercracker*” but I’ll at least go out and say nobody cares about TC in the context of the 1986 movie, except for vaguely wishing he hadn’t been killed OFF-SCREEN and his corpse expended to make Scourge

*IDW TC is a real one

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 22h

Kind of an obnoxious Trojan horse for a Seekers redo honestly

Just release a second Studio Series 86 Starscream and admit you fucked up

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Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social · 22h

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Some books are just meant to be, ya know? Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong. ✨

Cover reveal for STAR WARS LEGACY with Leia, Rey and Kylo Ren

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Set between Episodes VIlI and IX, Rey and Leia embark on a quest to repair Rey's lightsaber and rekindle the legacy of the Jedi.
After barely escaping the First Order on Crait, Rey and the Resistance are struggling to rebuild. Her friends need the last Jedi more than ever, but Rey feels alone and overwhelmed: Jedi tradition is built on masters and apprentices, and Rey's teacher is gone. Leia Organa tries her best to train Rey in the ways of the Force as Luke did for her so many years ago, but Leia's knowledge is limited, Rey's lightsaber is broken, and the specter of Kylo Ren and regrets from the past haunt them both. How can Leia pass the torch, when she herself is unsure of the way?
But then, the ancient Jedi texts offer a glimmer of hope: a long-forgotten Jedi temple on Tython that might hold the key to repairing Rey's saber. Rey leaps at the chance to journey there - and to her surprise, so does Leia.
Rey and Leia's nascent mentorship is put to the test when they discover the temple on Tython is filled with obscure clues to decipher and arcane trials to complete.As they work to unravel the temple's mysteries, they encounter a group of refugees living in its shadow, hiding from a First Order officer hot on the trail of two freedom fighters in their midst: With the threat of the First Order looming and the secrets of the temple yet to be unlocked, the newly forged master and apprentice must confront their pasts, reach each other in the present, and decide what it means to carry the legacy of the Jedi into the future.

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 23h

TRON is particularly held back by being specifically about computing technology from, again, FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

“Arcades are scary” not holding up as a premise

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 23h

You just need *more* to be a mainstream multigenerational hit. Something more than mere competence must be on offer.

Some things aren’t going to have the momentum to lever out of cult status

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