• @clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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      591 year ago

      For all the sex appeal she was supposed to add to the show, she really is an extraordinary actress and a fascinating character.

      The episode where she shifts between all the species the Borg have assimilated shows her exceptional range.

  • @AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure what’s stranger in an enlightened future.

    People still being shamed for having sex for pleasure, or people still being ashamed of having sex for pleasure.

    If sci-fi tends to agree on anything, and it’s right, it’s that our religiously based, puritanical sexual hangups are hilariously stupid vestiges of ignorant times.

    I always assumed the lower rank, younger crew on Star Trek fuck like rabbits with abandon on their off hours, with rank appropriate and/or holo partners. They’re isolated co-ed ships how could they not? Might as well just surrender to the borg if you’re ashamed of pleasure.

    The Warp core isn’t the only thing that needs to have its pressure regularly relieved to operate at peak efficiency.

    • @CeruleanRuin
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      311 year ago

      What’s strangest to me is that they still haven’t figured out soundproofing. You’d think isolating compartments on a space vessel would be given higher importance on one of the most advanced ships in the fleet.

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      241 year ago

      I don’t think it’s prudish of me to not want to hear people grunting and ham blasting.

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          Wait, if you were in a hotel, or in your office at work, and you heard someone fucking loudly in the next room, you wouldnt be distracted or at all annoyed by that?

          It’s not that I think Jesus is displeased or some shit like that, it’s that I don’t want to hear other people.

          I wouldn’t want to hear someone loudly shitting either, much as I understand everybody poops. It’s not that it’s obscene, it’s that it’s private. The noise isn’t for general consumption.

          • @AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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            I chuckle a bit if I hear sex in the room over at a hotel or where ever. I have headphones if I need to focus on something/someone’s taking a loud shit, I genuinely don’t care.

            I don’t think it’s a person’s job to live quietly so others can pretend they don’t exist, especially when we have control over our own ears.

            • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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              141 year ago

              Oh no…are you a music-on-speaker-on-a-bus person?

              “If you don’t like my tinny cellphone music, just put headphones in bro!”

              • @CeruleanRuin
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                One of those playing music loud at a campground or the beach people. The worst kind of people.

                • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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                  51 year ago

                  Wow what a careless person you are.

                  Effectively you: " If you don’t want to be hit by my hands, move out of the way while I swing by arms in circles on the bus"

            • @CeruleanRuin
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              51 year ago

              I don’t think it’s a person’s job to live quietly so others can pretend they don’t exist

              Oh I do. I don’t want to hear your dog.

        • @Signtist@lemm.ee
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          Nah, noise in general is annoying when I’m trying to work. I like listening to music, but I’d be annoyingly distracted if a radio was on in the office.

    • @Routhinator@startrek.website
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      So… no one was being shamed in the context of that scene though?

      Seven was “researching” - B’Elanna was confronting her for spying. And Seven was being her usual blunt socially naive self.

      Full context from the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0o3ADTJVlo&ab_channel=MyRandomUploads

      Edit: Just to be clear - I agree with your point about shaming, I just don’t understand the relation to this which was meant as more of a joke in the context of the situation.

    • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      111 year ago

      Privacy and secrecy aren’t the same thing.

      What I do on the toilet isn’t a secret. I still don’t want to find out you know any specific details.