Haggis (tame)

Stratt trying to recruit the molecular biologist who cursed out a man at a UNESCO conference and finding mild-mannered Dr. Ryland Grace stumbling all over his words and himself, and there's this split second where she's, like, "yeah, fuck, i don't know about this" and then she realizes. this guy. all fun facts and fiddlesticks, believed in his theory so staunchly that he'd curse out a man at a UNESCO conference. it's not much of a backbone, it's a small but very sturdy backbone, and it's just enough that having him and his politeness around will comfort all the right people and his mild eccentrics will piss off all the ones Stratt doesn't care for. bonus, he's a teacher, so she can delegate the task of keeping everyone around her informed to him--and he'll do it, too, because he's nice like that. he's perfect. there has never been a more perfecter guy to just have around for convenience's sake. get that nerd in the back of a van right this second.

no revenge because I forgot what you did #memoryloss

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

The God-Emperor isn't special, I too am a dehydrated and desiccated corpse suffering on a 'throne' because of the mistakes of my past (Ate something last night that my tummy disagreed with)

never let the fact that you were born a girl stop you from being the gayest man alive

SAM REID CALLING OMEGAVERSE "VERY URSULA LE GUIN"

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

After watching some of DS9 I've come to the conclusion that Tuvok and Odo would in fact not get along well. Tuvok would be like why don't you kick that criminal out of the promenade and also why aren't you turning your reports in on time and also here's twenty uniform violations I counted among your security team in the time I've been here - this is unacceptable. And Odo would go to Sisko like "If you want me to quit just say so, I can't work with your Starfleet goons breathing down my neck about these insipid 'rules' and 'regulations'!" and Sisko would have to bring Tuvok into his office and say this is HIS station and if Starfleet doesn't like the way he runs it they can talk to him DIRECTLY instead of sending someone down to harangue his chief of security and Tuvok raises an eyebrow and says he's sure they'll keep that in mind. Then he leaves with ominous music but doesn't appear again. By the end of the episode it's revealed by Garak or whomever that he wasn't even there to check up on Sisko or the station, he was doing some unrelated Starfleet intelligence business.