TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Klingons are amazing. Another example:

Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were... more trouble than they were worth.

Maybe just one of the many reasons Klingon's often seem ridiculously awesome. When you reject ancient gods because they were "troublesome" you're choosing to build a world where the world having no meaning becomes liberating instead of suffocating.

No wonder things like this are so easy for them to understand. No religious baggage!

NOOO BUT SHE ISN'T TRANS SHE'S A TRILL WHICH IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S STILL DAX JUST FROM.....

• Real people who don't understand symbolism.

Because their masculinity and confidence in themselves is so impeccable that nothing that anyone any where can say or state about any other sexuality will ever effect them.

They are so comfortable and sure in who they are that nothing they ever see, no matter how different, will ever affect them.

To me, someone who accepts everyone else while maintaining their own surety on themselves is the height of masculinity.

Honestly, I’ve gained a whole new level of appreciation for Jadzia’s character in recent years, largely in light of how absurdly politicized gender identity and trans rights have become.

I've spent too much time on computers.

I don't see people as their age, gender, color, name, whatever. To me, a person is a construct, that construct is immutable. You, as a person, exist, only your variables change. Your name, age, gender, sex, personality, political views, culture, race, skin color, etc, are all properties of the immutable object that represents you.

In this way, your name, gender, age, political views, etc, can all change, and the human object that is you, never changes.

Technology does this already. A good example is with user accounts for something like active directory (the windows domain login thing). Your user object isn't assigned by name, or login ID or whatever. You have, what is referred to as a UUID inside of the system. To that UUID, you have parameters like your name, email, phone number, etc, attached to it. When permissions are given, they're given to your UUID, not to your name.

Because of this, the administrators like me, can update your name, phone number, login, email, etc, without changing what you have access to. Your email account is tied to your UUID as well, so your user object has permission to access that mailbox, and it's listed in the parameters as your primary mailbox (for stuff like auto configure).

It's all very basic object oriented stuff.

What you identify as does not matter, as long as you die in battle with honor!

wait, so if someone tells you to refer to them in a different way, you can just go "ok" and move on without the smallest hitch in your life? without losing your shit and foaming at the mouth?

nah... no way.

are we sure this particular Klingon didn't start a podcast later to cry about this for months?

Wow, I saw that episode, for the first time, like an hour ago.

Honor to you and your house!

Kaplah!

Now I feel bad that perhaps her best friend kept calling her "old man".