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May 18

Jo's talking: SPOILERS! Who is villain? Who is victim? First 10 min. of Star Trek Into Darkness - SPOILERS! -

itsjoja:

vesryn:

itsjoja:

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What we see: two guys who obviously did something so terrible to others that they are hunted down.

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What we see: good-looking guy offering help to devasteted man, giving him his own blood to save an innocent child.

What we should think: Those hunted down are the good guys, the…

Well… you’re right that parts of the movie and Kirk’s actions were morally dubious at best, but it probably makes more sense if you’ve seen the episode, Space Seed, where the original Khan came in. It’s mentioned in the movie but it goes into more detail in the episode, why Khan is a villain. 

Khan and his fellow genetically modified “crew” started WWIII because they believed that they, being superior to unmodified humans, should be in charge and everybody else should serve them. They were awaiting trial for war crimes when they escaped on their ship into space where they drifted for ~300 years. So he’d already willingly committed plenty of atrocities before he was woken up.

I know that story, but we’re in a new timeline, remember? Khan/Harrison says in the movie that he and his crew were created to end the wars on earth with superhuman power, but that the time was not right back then. And then that he wished he had not been awoken because obviously, the time is still not right. And he was brutally used and abused by Marcus, having been created to make peace possible and then forced to create weapons for a war with the Klingons! Everything else we know about his motives is mere hearsay from Spock Prime! No trial would found Khan/Harrison guilty - well, maybe one in the US, they have Guantanamo for guys like Khan there, with no trials at all. And when they made the prisoners there angry enough to “respond in kind” they claim they are too dangerous now to be released..

So my hope for Star Trek 3 is that Benedict has time to do the movie, is awoken, stands trial, gets a mild sentence of having to show hindsight and remorse for 5 years on joining the team of the Enterprise for their journee…. Well, girls can dream.

The timeline didn’t diverge until Kirk’s birth; WWIIII would have been the same.

Maybe that was Khan’s attempted justification, but he and his band had been convicted of war crimes; they escaped before the sentencing was carried out.

I see what you’re saying, but I just don’t think Khan is as innocent,  naive, or helpless as you’re making him out to be.

(…also I don’t know if the US was really a coherent country by the end of WWIII. In that one Next Generation movie it seemed mostly like ragged bands of survivors. But I don’t know the Star Trek timeline well enough to say for sure.)

Jo's talking: SPOILERS! Who is villain? Who is victim? First 10 min. of Star Trek Into Darkness - SPOILERS! -

itsjoja:

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What we see: two guys who obviously did something so terrible to others that they are hunted down.

image

What we see: good-looking guy offering help to devasteted man, giving him his own blood to save an innocent child.

What we should think: Those hunted down are the good guys, the…

Well… you’re right that parts of the movie and Kirk’s actions were morally dubious at best, but it probably makes more sense if you’ve seen the episode, Space Seed, where the original Khan came in. It’s mentioned in the movie but it goes into more detail in the episode, why Khan is a villain. 

Khan and his fellow genetically modified “crew” started WWIII because they believed that they, being superior to unmodified humans, should be in charge and everybody else should serve them. They were awaiting trial for war crimes when they escaped on their ship into space where they drifted for ~300 years. So he’d already willingly committed plenty of atrocities before he was woken up.

sarahgoestostanford: I just thought it was really cute when Uhura was mad at Spock and he looked so oblivious.

sarahgoestostanford:

I just thought it was really cute when Uhura was mad at Spock and he looked so oblivious.

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420blazeitmisfire:

All I really want from IDW is Spotlight: Swerve and Spotlight: The Scavengers

That’s it.

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May 17

Women in science: Sexism in Science...and this is just last week. -

chronicsci:

1) A male classmate asking if he could take the BART with me over a few cities (I was going form Oakland to Berkeley),
though it was completely out of the way for him, to “protect and guard me”… In broad day light.

2) Attending the SUDOROOM (Oakland, CA) and meeting a female…

May 16

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eschergirls: When one superheroine falls in love with another, the traditional mating dance must be completed! (The superhero mating dance can also be done with heterosexual pairings)

eschergirls:

When one superheroine falls in love with another, the traditional mating dance must be completed!

(The superhero mating dance can also be done with heterosexual pairings)