#trek thoughts

I have definitely seen someone post about this before but I genuinely love the thing where every time Star Trek has tried to create a Group Who Are Ontologically Evil, from Klingons to Romulans to Ferengi, they have realized "Oh wait, we are Star Trek. This goes against what we believe about unity and compassion and there being no people who can't be good" so they give us a character who is one of the Evil Ones but isn't evil and then eventually there are more of them and they're just another group who have capacity for good and bad like everyone else so they create another Group Who Are Ontologically Evil and the cycle repeats. And some people see this as a problem but I honestly love how they just keep accidentally proving over and over that there is capacity for good in all of us.

professors love me because of my swag! (brings up star trek at least once per class, but is it really my fault that star trek is such a large body of work that so much of it can apply to so many places)

My boss has been thinking of changing the name of the department we work in (The Collaborative for Community Engagement) because no one knows what a Collaborative is, and I've been trying really hard to soft launch "The Collective for Community Engagement" because I'm an awful nerd who thinks it would be super funny to tell people I work in the collective. On account of well... The Borg.

Kathryn Janeway alpine skier AU but it’s really self indulgent because I’ve had a huge crush on Lindsey Vonn since childhood and also have a crush on Kathryn

Tom would be a furry I think

Voyager time travel Au where tom goes back and stops the parents of harry’s love interests from getting together so his love interests won’t be born but not because tom is gay or anything