this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
519 points (99.2% liked)
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
3803 readers
379 users here now
/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Honorary Badbitch:
@[email protected] for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I always feel weird about these, like that dril quote. Shakespeare, Hobbes, Dril, and the people who worked on gargoyles all share the same thing: THEY ARE WRITERS. They know how to write good. They got paid to write good. They built their lives around writing good. These amazing quotes like "face god and walk backwards into hell" don't happen by accident, they are intentional creations by people who are doing their absolute best to write something memorable, and occasionally succeed.
They know how to write well. They got paid to write well. They built their lives around writing well.
They wrote about heroes saving the world, therefore they wrote good.
That what they wrote is so memorable to us means they wrote well.
Thanks for the clarification, Tracy
They know how to write. Well, they got paid to write. Well, they built their lives around writing. Well, ...
Now this is well writing!
Are you 16 getting an A in English class?
Yes?
Well, when you get to college, they'll teach you that writing can have intentional errors, including grammar errors, to achieve a specific effect in the mind of the reader. In your mind, the effect was "I gotta correct this guy on the internet. I won't bother checking his comment history, I'm just gonna assume he doesn't know what an adverb is."
Oh, your choice was bad then.
Whooosh
Not to mention they got deep in the lore of King Arthur and Macbeth and what not for information to write that show.