Rewrites and Cul-de-Sacs

It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?

I especially like it when the robot appears to have realistic musculature which operates via contraction, suggesting some sort of fluid-driven or shape-memory-based actuation, and then it gets dismembered and a bunch of random gears and sprockets go flying everywhere.

I went with "mostly hollow" just because I love the consumer trend of electronics that are substantial exteriors and then you crack them open and is a single circuit board soldered to one side and a couple of LEDS.

Alas, OP missed doing the funniest thing possible by making all these resources up.

Every so often I'm struck again by what an incredible job Whoopi Goldberg does playing Guinan. She was 33 when she first played her yet I have never once doubted that Guinan is a mysterious alien who is hundreds of years old. The effect even holds in screengrabs. How does someone manage to do that with their face.

I think it's both a shame that Goldberg largely gave up on acting and that Guinan feels completely underutilized in Trek.* On one hand it does save Guinan from being overexposed: there's no 'let's completely explain Guinan' because in an era before lore poising became endemic it was understood that you didn't need to know every single second of a character's life for them to be engaging; indeed, mystery can itself be a character trait. On the flip side, though, you just want more Guinan just hanging out and being a part of things because she's so much fun. It doesn't have to be a Guinan episode, just let Guinan bring a snack tray up to the bridge to the sucker on night shift, or cater the diplomatic reception, or visit Deep Space Nine to challenge Morn, the Nagus, and a Renegade Prophet in a high-stakes poker game for the fate of Bajor VIII, trading cocktail recipes with Quark, fixing O'Brian's love life, and telling embarrassing stories about Worf. Goldberg is a fantastic actress, can do comedy and drama, and we should have had more of her. (She even gets one of the only good scenes in Star Trek Generations. Do you know how hard it is to have a good scene in Star Trke Generations?) *Let's just ignore ST Picard's fumbling 'young Guinan even though that doesn't make sense' because like so much else in Kurtzman Trek its dumb and doesn't get why the original worked but not in an interesting way worth talking about, because franchise zombism is all about empty signifiers that are just there so they can be The Thing You Know From Before and that's the beginning and end of the creative process of their inclusion)

Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing

Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression

the horse is so fuckable