Yes, Jizz.
One preaches hope for a better future.
One preaches a never ending cycle of ambition, corruption, and cruelty.
Who would have ever thought time would prove Star Wars more thematically realistic 😂
If your interstellar society has slavery, I’m not interested. Didn’t the Jedi free Luke and just leave his mom in captivity?
Way too many Star Wars fans like the Empire for my taste. (And the rebels aren’t much better, if they’re better at all.)
Unfortunately the last few pieces of SW media I saw the only interesting characters were imperials.
That was Anakin Not his son Luke. And Qui-gon tried to free Shmi as well but Watto was too resilient.
Total stranger in a Stargate T shirt. They probably have way more firepower, and enough C4 to solve all my problems.
Especially this one:
Either you’re into Star Trek and understand the self-burn vibes here or it’s just a random not-overly-nerdy shirt.
I just applied for my UK passport and the photo I gave to them was me in a red T-shirt with the TOS delta on it. I’m guessing the delta will be cropped out, but here’s hoping.
Depends. Are they wearing an Empire shirt or a Rebellion shirt?
I’ve been watching star trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager) and still don’t get the red shirt reference. I know it’s about them getting killed all the time but I just don’t see it.
Its a TOS thing. They swapped the red and yellow colours for the following series.
D’oh, just saw that this was already said. I should read more.
They swapped the red and gold job responsibilities between TOS and TNG. In 90s trek, it’s the gold shirts dying most often
The meme is from TOS. Not as many people died in the newer ones.
A simple pie chart reveals 55 total deaths and, yes, red shirts perished in frightening numbers. A whopping 24 died, compared to 9 in yellow/gold command and 7 in blue, with 15 crossing into the final frontier in unidentified colors
https://www.startrek.com/news/did-redshirts-really-die-more-often-on-tos
In TOS, there were more characters in red shirts than any other color. So of course most deaths were characters wearing a red shirt. Proportionally, I believe it was actually yellow with the highest mortality rate.
It’s a running gag more than anything. The idea is Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Ensign Smith in a red shirt beam down to the dangerous planet. Who dies?
Cause you didn’t watch the series the meme is made upon (TES)
The edgy series? The excellent series? The ecstatic series? The evil series? The Elvin series? The e-coli series? The epinephrine series?
:p
I had to.
StarTrek all the way, actual REAL peaceful space communists or religious Knights with magic powers? That’s not a hard choice
Everyone thinks I’m super into star wars cause I enjoy building Lego space ships and star wars is the option in that regard. Mind you I’ve just noticed a Chinese brick company have dropped a giant Enterprise and there’s a Rocinante on the way too!
Does it come with a LEGO man polycule???
Alas, I don’t believe so, though a few of the retailers have an awesome selection of third party minifigs, so maybe it could be done 🤷
Space explorers … or … authoritarian space soldiers fighting religious space fanatics
Stranger in a Farscape shirt: knows how to party… possible cast or crew member.
I never pass up a chance, no matter how small, to get my hands on a dose of translator microbes.
did they even bother making farscape shirts when any bdsm attire would work?
Might be a Muppet.
stargate shirt
I’d suspect you of having a snake in your belly.
eyes briefly flash white in acknowledgement
kinda makes sense to me
one is an attempt at a hopeful, logical view of humanities future… the other has laser swords and magic.
The Expanse: space will always try to kill you, humanity still sucks, everything still hurts, everything is still dirty.
Far superior option. Mostly because it has real space physics with minimal hand waving.
One is a broad base for story telling, the other is one long story about how a single family and their granddad’s hetro-lifemate can fuck over an entire galaxy,
And politics, and wealth disparity, so basically the opposite of a utopia.
But they’re mostly right about the hopeful part. When it isn’t shown that the Federation is super corrupt and being controlled by evil outside forces, of course.
That article about magic talks about religious ritual and advanced technology. No actual magic, except in one alternative universe.
In 2364, when the USS Enterprise-D was unexpectedly thrust millions of light years into a realm where thoughts became reality, Kosinski described this explanation of the phenomenon as akin to being asked to believe in magic. Captain Jean-Luc Picard felt the explanation made sense, however, as only the power of thought could explain the strange events that were manifesting aboard the vessel, such as his own apparent meeting with his maman, Yvette Picard. (TNG: “Where No One Has Gone Before”)
There’s also a regular invocation of Clark’s Law, producing a rich surplus of “Space Wizards” - from TNG’s Q to Gabrielle Burnham, the Red Angel, in Discovery.
That’s before you get into hyperdrives and teleporters and replicators and holodecks and other very naked violations of established science. Functionally no different than characters casting spells and using magic items in a game of D&D.
Invoking Clark’s Law is saying “there’s no magic, just stuff we don’t understand yet”.
But yeah, no answer on Q’s species, that’s literally magic.
the other has laser swords and magic.
And it always sucks no matter who wins.
When people conjure mental male representation of Star Wars, they think of fat neckbeard Lucas and the lizard. When they think of Star Trek, they imagine sly silver fox Picard and Datas most probable mechanical prowess.
This tracks.
I have never watched even a single episode of Star Trek, but I like you guys for your memes.
I have never watched even a single episode of Star Trek
but I like you guys for your memes.
Okay, call off the mob!
The mob is carrying DVD copies of DS9 … the dogs are strays they found along the way and they’re taking care of them … the torches are there because they drained the batteries on their smartphones downloading ‘Wrath Of Khan’ for you to watch.
They’re yelling, “LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, DAMN YOU!”
Nah, just convert it into a party!?:-P🥳🎉
A watch party!
A watch party at Quark’s!
Come to Quark’s, Quark’s is fun! Come right now, watch reruns!
Start with Star Trek: The Next Generation, and move on from there. The first season has some quirks, but by the second it’s solid gold.
Well, there’s a bit of everything in the fandom. What sort of series and movies do you like? I’m sure we’ll be stumbling to recommend you specific episodes Abe possibly even a movie or two.
(TBH I don’t care much for the movies, expect for the Kelvin timeline, for which I’m sure I’ll burn at the stake.)
Probably because of the virtues that each fan seem to seek with their choice…
Are you sure Riker doesn’t perform jizz?
There is no sound tho
Riker got that taken care of before even joining the academy.
All crew report for mandatory jizz-ectomy
I have both tshirts, my trustworthiness also happens to fluctuate wildly based on my apparel.
I have this T-shirt. People have no idea what to do.
I need that.
I was trying to figure out where I got mine from, but I can’t find the store. That image was from Etsy. I know there are others in similar styles for sale, but mine is just the outline like that.
Edit: also, the outline on mine is yellow.
