I read everything, what’s wrong with everyone else?

Now we know why there are no longer any cats in Middle-earth.

Call me Ishmael.

Kassia Nox needs a spinoff. That character was great.

It’s a matter of quality of life. If someone without conventional hearing can have the same quality of life through other means, then there is no need to “fix” them, unless that’s what they want.

Obviously debilitating illnesses and pain are still dealt with, but stuff like missing limbs or other traits that we might call handicaps are not the same impediment in the future as they are to us, because there are so many possible paths for every individual to choose, and many of those might even be better suited to someone with a unique physiology.

The point about accomodation is the key here.

If being born without functioning legs isn’t actually an impediment or challenge because society makes allowances for people without legs, then it’s no longer a handicap!

If a blind person has options beyond merely having their sight “restored” to that of the baseline “normal”, then they have options that might open up paths that regularly sighted people don’t have, in which case their unique trait of being blind becomes an asset.

There’s the secret to the utopia Star Trek positsv not that we try to “cute” everyone born different, but that we instead create opportunities for them to thrive as they are. In the future of Star Trek, the word “disability” is probably alien to them. Rather, they would describe someone in our time with such challenges as “disenfranchised” because we don’t offer them opportunities.

Hell, I’ve been waiting for 99942 Apophis to swing by us since Stargate was still on the air. Still got five years left on that one, but 2004 when that was first called out as a concern was the first time I really started contemplating the idea of the actual end of the world, in a bang not a whimper.

Sure, Y2K was supposed to cause some chaos, and 2012 was fun from a “what if magic is real” sort of angle, but everything else has been a gradual dawning realization that the world as we know it is probably going to be gone in my children’s lifetimes – not over yet, but profoundly changed, more difficult, the slow closing of the book on a golden age for humanity we didn’t fully appreciate while we were in it.

There’s a trope out there that Gen Z has to do everythingbfor themselves because the older generations have failed them so thoroughly.

That’s all just snoke and mirrors.

Edit: I’m leaving that typo because it’s funny, and would make for a great Star Wars character name, like Greedo.

Computer, reactivate Emergency Engineering Hologram

Holo’brien: Fuck off! Computer, delete program, command override O’Brien six-six-gamma-seven.

I can understand not vibing with the song, but the montage and what it represents is peak Trek to me. I love it to death.