c/tenforward · by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 338d

Space malls

Does this make the Jem'Hadar the local crack heads that like to ransack the place?

Does this make Rom's minefield just a bunch of speed bumps?

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 338d (26 replies)

Why is there a picture of DS9 in a post about Babylon 5?

daikiki@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 338d (13 replies)

Okay, so there's two shows from the nineties about shopping malls in space. . .

marcos@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 338d (12 replies)

What's to say... people in the 90s really liked shopping malls. And space.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 338d

If I had a nickel for every 90s show about a shopping mall in space, I’d have two nickels. That’s not a lot, but it’s funny that it happened twice.

untorquer@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 338d (8 replies)

Shopping malls were pretty cool back then though, an actual place to hang out! Nothing like the bleak liminal wastelands of today.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d (5 replies)

we could make local spaces cool to hang out in, but like that takes committees and shit. you gotta organize and right now a lot of us got bigger things to build than parks.

untorquer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d (4 replies)

Yes absolutely! And hopefully when there's time again to work on the smaller things we can build third spaces that don't rely on proximity to consumerism and capital.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d (3 replies)

that don’t rely on proximity to consumerism and capital.

my dude, i was part of organizing and filling the first few years of a concert series that was our city park a better third space. ten years ago they started charging admission. it was just $3 a concert this year, but still we fundraised for that stage so it would be free this is bullshit.

untorquer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d

They're so threatened by socialism they compulsively require the performance of consumerism.

I'm guessing the $3 basically only covered the cost of having an admission/ticket system in the first place?

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 336d (1 reply)

That's nostalgia talking. Back then we thought of them as dystopian examples of hyper capitalism.

untorquer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d

For me they had the ice rink and the theater and you could take to bus to them and they were open. They were also pretty central so they were a good meet up point.

I agree there are absolutely better options for restoring third spaces that again, don't rely on proximity to consumerism.

HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au · 12 pts · 338d

Lived through the nineties. Can confirm.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d

Sweet strawberry preserves, did the 90's like space.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 338d (4 replies)

Zathras is confused about which show he’s watching.

hamFoilHat@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 338d (1 reply)

The one with this lady in it

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 14 pts · 337d

VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 338d (1 reply)

The one that guest stars Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, of course.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 337d

The one where Robert Foxworth plays a high ranking officer

PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 338d (3 replies)

The Zocalo! The only place to get official Bear-nylon 5 merch 🧸

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d (1 reply)

I love how they removed Londo’s “attributes”

VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 338d

He was symbolically cast- uh, in a bad light.

bored_boar_onboard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

And Zima!

Grabthar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 338d

You. I like you.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 338d (1 reply)

You know that whole s3 opener about "it failed."

Well someone had to pick up the slack. Those stembolts ain't gonna sell themselves

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d

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hperrin@lemmy.ca · 55 pts · 338d (20 replies)

How dare you. It’s not just a shopping mall. It’s a shopping mall and casino.

mikenurre@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 338d (4 replies)

Bar and casino with a part time tailor spy

TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d (2 replies)

A tinker tailor soldier spy?

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d

Rom, Garak, Nog, Garak again?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d

That was the other show.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 338d

Yes, you definitely don't want to confuse it with all those dry casinos out there.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 12 pts · 338d (9 replies)

Excuse me… it’s the gateway to the Celestial Temple!

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 338d (8 replies)

so it's an airport

hopesdead@startrek.website · 4 pts · 338d (1 reply)

More like a way station.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 337d

It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d (5 replies)

I was gonna go with drug den, but yeah.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 338d

We're not sure how we mean it but they're gonna get you high.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 2 pts · 338d (3 replies)

Drug den? Since when have we known anyone to traffic illicit drugs?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

Quark traffics everything,

But also, how do you explain why pretty much every time we see some one going in the bajoran temple…they hallucinate?

Oh you thought it was the glowy hourglass thing? Naw.. that’s just to anchor the trip.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Bio-memetic gel?

hopesdead@startrek.website · 1 pts · 337d

That was for making explosive.

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d

Don't forget a bar, there's literally a whole episode about how much trouble everyone on the station is willing to go to in order to continue having a place to drink.

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 337d (1 reply)

You just know there was a red light holo corridor on DS9 that was never shown on the show.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d

There’s plenty of references to the X rated shit in Quark’s holosuites, he blames it on the Klingons but there’s a program for everything behind that bar.

ooterness@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 338d

It's also an ore processing facility.

sunbytes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

It's one hell of a intragalactic truck-stop.

sundray@lemmus.org · 48 pts · 338d (8 replies)

chargen@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 338d (2 replies)

This is such a minivan inspired spaceship design

sundray@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 338d (1 reply)

A literal Astro-van!

grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 338d

Chevy Luminas are more shuttlecraft-looking than Chevy Astros.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 337d (3 replies)

Fun fact: the nose of the Defiant is packed with explosives

rainwall@piefed.social · 9 pts · 337d (2 replies)

And all the sensors for the ship. And it's detachable!

Also, the defiant has 3 shuttle craft. A working medbay on a combat ship? Nope, but 3 shuttles.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 337d

Yeah but they could never actually detach it because then it would be too obvious that the Defiant is actually just a Star Trek branded Millennium Falcon.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

I’d never thought about it but now that you mention it, not even an EMH when they’re trying to sneak around the Gamma quadrant with a cloak that works half the time at best

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 4 pts · 337d

Oh my god, Shran, you can't just ask people why they're pink.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 338d (5 replies)

That kid is back on the turbo lift!

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d (3 replies)

My cousin Ensign Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a shuttle to Terra Luna when all of a sudden the impulse engines went. The shuttle started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other ensigns take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the ensigns are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of a sudden, snap! The impulse engines kick back in. The shuttle rights itself and it lands safely, and everyone puts their pieces or whatever, you know, away and deboards. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Well did he cum or what?!?!

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d

By the Prophets, man! There's just some things you don't talk about in public!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d

dude please don't lie we all know your cousin Ensign Walter never got promoted off SolHole and that's because he loved it. "Rafter un coded" he'd say. Everyone wanted that job i wanted that job.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 337d

Garak tried to screw me somewhere very uncomfortable once.

What, like the back of a Type 2 shuttle?

negativenull@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 338d (2 replies)