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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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Transcript: The character Gul Dukat from Deep Space 9 on a video screen with the top text: "ATTENTION BAJORAN CITIZENS"

Bottom text: "YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO EVACUATE TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE"

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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] electric@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

To me, it's a marathon. One I'm losing. 🫡

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oof.

Is Janeway going to send them billions of credits?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, this guy will.

Janeway's been sent to "monitor" the situation with 2 starships though.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny here

Not so funny in real life

[–] electric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Bajoran come before or after Brazilian? Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions, Bajorans, Brazilians, bajillions?

Is there even anything after a bajillion?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Your brain on Ketracel White.

[–] orthen@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Equating Israelites to the space Nazis is a bit harsh and also ironic, isn't it?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The intent was to portray Netanyahu as Dukat, not to disparage a nationality. But yes, the irony is dangerously sharp.

[–] orthen@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. I agree that the middle east would very very likely be far better off without Netanyahu. It's just that so many people seem to oversimplify the situation -for one side or the other- and I'm somewhat wary of that.

[–] electric@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Risa is a safe place. I would hope that a Star Trek fan is capable of understanding nuance.

[–] simpleTailor@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DS9 writers modeled the Cardassian occupation of Bajor (in part) after the Israeli occupation of Gaza. The book A Different Trek goes into detail if you want direct sources and a fuller discussion of how the Jewish-American writers and actors involved with the show didn't think it was "ironic" as you put it.

[–] orthen@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I'll have to look into that. So far, I have rather identified Bajorans as the "space jews" and Cardassians as the "space nazis".