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I may not understand any of what’s going on in the show, and I may still believe that Algernon is a kind of furniture polish, but hearing you guys talk about Betterman always brightens my day.

I feel not good but I did manage to record Anime Club with @plumerium 

Pour one out for all the stories you'll never find again, that you barely remember in totality, but that left an impression on you that you'll never forget.

The short stories from standardized tests that you only had a few minutes to read, but those minutes will last a lifetime.

The books on the library display shelf you used to occupy time until your mom could come pick you up from school.

The graphic novel you picked up when you were first getting into comics and could never find again.

The single lines or themes from stories you otherwise don't remember, save for the one thing that you saw and internalized as a new part of your personality.

Let's pour one out for the books that built us, even if we never could find them again, and couldn't of we wanted to.

Fun fact: in the early stages of production for “The Pegasus”, the script initially called for the titular Pegasus to be a new ship design that was essentially a Ambassador-era take on the Miranda/Nebula-class hull profile. However, budget and time constraints led the TNG team to go with an Oberth instead. All that exists of this original Pegasus is an quick sketch Rick Sternbach did, and it’s neat to see it come to life in a roundabout fashion through this model.

Apollo-class for Star Trek Bridge Commmander

RULES: answer 30 questions and tag 10 blogs you are contractually obligated to know

@coppermarigolds​ tagged me for this a few days back, so here we go!

Nicknames: My dad used to call me “Booder” (”Büder”?) when I was a little kid, but I haven’t heard that in years. I suppose either a contraction of my first name or my middle name could be used as nicknames, but I’m a stickler for my full first name. Gender/pronouns: He/him.

Star sign: Taurus.

Height: About 5′ 8″, or 173 cm.

Time: 1904h.

Birthday: April 24th. Favorite bands: mind.in.a.box, VNV Nation, Nine Inch Nails.

Favorite solo artist: Moby.

Song stuck in your head: “Hell March 2″ by Frank Klepacki. Kicks as much ass in 2018 as it did in 2000.

Last movie you watched?: The Prophecy, a weird movie about a second war in Heaven from 1995 that spawned a bunch of crummy direct-to-DVD sequels. It’s not very good, but it’s worth it to see Christopher Walken ham it up as the Archangel Gabriel along with Viggo Mortensen as the malevolently prissy Father of Lies himself.

Last show?: I actually don’t remember, it’s been that long since I’ve watched a series.

Why did you create your blog?: I wanted to get in contact with someone on Tumblr and find a way to keep track of all the nice pictures/meta I found.

What do you post?: I’m more about collecting than creating on this platform, so I really only post the occasional reblog.

Last thing you googled?: “Cryostasis digital download.” Still no longer available. I fortunately bought it on DVD when it was still in stores, but it kinda sucks to not have a backup option. :(

Other blogs: I spend most of my time on a more traditional blog, but since it’s in my real name I won’t be linking it here. I am thinking about starting up some other tumblrs in the near future just to organize all my likes into something easier to sort.

AO3: “karakhan,” with only one story (for the moment).

Do you get asks?: Nope.

How did you get the idea for your URL?: There’s a Ukrainian horror shooter called Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason set on a haunted Soviet icebreaker that I like to play this time of year. My URL is a combination of the protagonist’s last name, meteorologist Alexander Nesterov, and the year the game takes place, 1981 (or 1969...it’s complicated).

I follow: 99 tumblrs and 28-30 blogs.

Followers:  1 person and 3 invisible pornography robots. :p

Average hours of sleep: Between 6 and 11, which really isn’t very good.

Lucky number: 4.

Instruments: Back in middle and high school, I moved from the French horn to the clarinet, and then to the piano, and for the longest time I was working on the bagpipes. Unlike my siblings, I eventually drifted away from music entirely, and in retrospect I wish I had taken drama instead.

What are you wearing?: Ratty blue sweatsuit.

Dream job: Seriously, a novelist who can support himself through writing. Less seriously, revolutionary autocrat who is both worshiped and feared by all. ;)

Dream trip: Oh, so many. There’s the trip to Moscow, because it’s Moscow. There’s the trip to Minsk, just to see a place that looks a little more like the old Soviet Union. And finally, there are trips to see the tundra and the desert which don’t have set destinations, though the desert will probably be

Favorite food: A tossup between ribs and burgers, with deviled eggs wedged in there somewhere. I have very proletarian tastes.

Significant other?: I wish.

Last book I read: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, because it was Christmas.

Top 3 fictional universes: I’ve always found the strange totalitarian world George Orwell built for Nineteen Eighty-Four to be fascinating on an intellectual level, even though I’d never want to live there. On a more optimistic note, I also love the TNG-era Star Trek universe and the world of The Legend of Korra, even if my opinions and ideas about that one differ wildly from Bryke’s. :p

Once again, I will forgo from tagging because, as I’ve said, I don’t know anyone here.

And yes @dumnhpy​, that is indeed Charles Napier, who returned to Trek with the DS9 episode “Little Green Men” as Lt. Gen. Rex Denning.

What a difference twenty six (or negative twenty-two) years makes.

TOS costume design really said “men in thigh highs with tits out”

The X-Files is interesting in this context, since even though Mulder and Scully are our heroes and we love them, they are still FBI agents, actual official representatives of the greater American monoculture who are tasked with going to the backwaters and forgotten places and dealing with the strange and deviant for the good of the whole. To their credit, the people writing The X-Files recognized this, and there’s plenty of episodes where they depict their monsters-of-the-week with some sympathy, or handle Mulder and Scully’s incursions with a note of ambivalence.

Old tv shows where the hero visits the 'town of the week' and identifies then solves a unique problem before moving on are so weird to watch now. "Route 66" to "Touched by an Angel" and etc. Any town in North America that still actually has a unique local culture wouldn't be receptive to an outsider pushing their nose into the local affairs.

Who even still thinks of turning to a pack of kind-hearted outlaws when the bank comes to foreclose on their orphanage?

I’m a big boring nerd who likes uniforms, so I was always Templar. 'Course I do have a soft spot for both the Kingdom (mummy gangsters!) and the former Red Hand (communist magic!).

Time for the hard question: Templar, Lumie, or Dragon?

Illuminati, real meme hours.

“Who killed Palpatine?”

I’m just reblogging this to tag on a recommendation for Gemma Files’ novel Experimental Film, a horror story about Lady Midday and the forgotten world of hobbyist silent filmmakers at the dawn of the 20th century. (Plenty of female characters to boot as well!)

The ray of blazing, scorching, devouring sunshine.

The important thing to remember about the Star Trek universe is that the formula for Coca-Cola was lost during the Eugenics Wars, while PepsiCo was forcibly nationalized in the 2050s by Colonel Green, who dismantled their bottling plants and had much of the workforce executed on the grounds that they produced, quote, “an impure beverage”. (RC Cola still exists in the 24th century, but nobody drinks it.)

The most unrealistic part of Star Trek Deep Space Nine is the idea that root beer is exceedingly popular. Root beer is gross and a hyper-advanced humanity isn't going to embarrass themselves by drinking that in front of the aliens