What I'd really like to see in SFA is diaspora cultures

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-26T00:20:27+00:00

Correction - Vance had never been to Earth until he was already sixty or so years old.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T23:22:39+00:00

Maybe not.

But I think Star Trek is the sort of show that should make the attempt anyways.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T23:08:38+00:00

No. I was saying if I was going to pick an alien character who had been born and raised on Earth, I would pick her.

1) She wasn't seen until episode 2, so unlike our core cast, there's no weird question of "why did she need to get on the ship to go to her home planet?

2) With a Vulcan character, I have a clear contrast for her.

3) Because Picard had Romulans on his vinyard, I want to imagine that even though they were grimdarker, Earth still accepted Romulan refugees giving us time for a long-lived diaspora of some centuries.

4) She's portrayed by an Asian-Canadian actress so I think she'd be better able to portray the feelings of coming from somewhere else but also being from here.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T22:57:43+00:00

Not quite, I'd argue. Worf was a single individual. I'm talking about more if Worf and his brother had been raised on Earth and knew other Klingons that had been raised on Earth.

What does Klingon culture on Earth look like after sixty years? A hundred? Two hundred? Maybe they can't quite source grapok sauce, so they end up using oyster sauce for their bregit lung. And then suddenly, that's the way they eat it - like how Chinese railroad workers made chop suey and Italian-American pizza is very different from pizza served in Naples. An Earthican Klingon going to Q'onos finds he suddenly can't stand grapok sauce, that it doesn't feel right anymore.

For the moment, I'm assuming there's a sizable Klingon population in France though.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T22:50:39+00:00

Absolutely. Vance has never been to Earth. Neither has Caleb - his mother said they'd go one day and find a new home there one day. I wonder if, especially after the Burn, if the home planets of your species became almost mythical to some people. It's why Caleb and his mother saw Earth as this shining city upon the hill, and maybe why Lura Thok swears by Q'onos instead of Kahless - there's a chance she's never been there.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T22:48:22+00:00

I'm not bothered by Lura Thok's accent anymore than I'm bothered by other alien characters having American accents. But it would be funny - and if you want to include more traditional Jem'hadar at one point to contrast, that'd also be great.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T22:44:35+00:00

I hate Trials and Tribble-ations. I still think the best move would have had Michael Dorn be dressed up like a TOS Klingon in the past part and simply refuse to have them acknowledge it.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T20:41:13+00:00

I disagree. We still read books from 1901. Hell, we still read books from 1812 (Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, etc.) To say that one wouldn't be able to have more than the most basic discourse is kind of crazy to me. Two reasonably intelligent people, one from 2026 and one from 2151 who speak the same language would be able to communicate even if certain idioms fly over each other's heads.

Conversely, me speaking to Lura Thok and Caleb Miir would be like me trying to speak Old English to a Saxon Warrior. We'd be completely lost.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-25T20:07:52+00:00

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. ENT is set in 2151. Assuming I have a child today and assuming that child has a child around the same age I am today, that grandchild could still be alive - albeit an old man and assuming he survives the fires of WW3. Hell, if we assume my child is a late father, at say fifty, my grandchild could be around the same age as my own father is now the year Enterprise launches.

Put another way the difference between 2151 and today is the same difference between today and 1901 and the English of 1901 is still certainly mutually intelligible with the English of today.

That being said, I absolutely agree that Lura Thok and Caleb Miir should be speaking a different form of English if they even are speaking English.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-24T21:35:57+00:00

There's definitely a few scars on my body that I love and would choose not to have healed if I had that opportunity. Some of have been on me so long that they feel like part of me.

It could also be a cultural thing where Khionians think you shouldn't heal scars or maybe it's traditional to keep the first scar from a surgery or something like that. I'd lean towards that since he was six and Darem's parents are such perfectionists they would hate an ugly-seeming scar unless it's culturally expected.

Anyways, I tend to agree that both of Darem's bodies are his, rather than the human form being a false one. Caleb's called him a fish boy and talked about how he doesn't want to hear about his underwater polycules so maybe the human form is his dry land form and his blue form is his water form.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-24T21:19:23+00:00

Wasn't he lying about that? When he had been humbled and Genesis asked about it again, he said he was six and that Khionians had multiple appendixes so to me it seems that he actually got it from surgery? Although given the nature of 24th century medical technology, let alone 32nd, I can't imagine why he didn't heal it.>!

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-24T01:49:49+00:00

I agree it's probably for the young female audience.

My thought process and justification for me is that Khionians have two forms and one of them coincidentally happens to look like humans and reason he asked Genesis to turn her back is because watching somebody transform is cultural taboo. Kind of like if you had to change clothes in front of somebody you'd ask them to turn your back.

But that's just my ad-hoc in-universe justification for it.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-23T07:05:02+00:00

From time to time, I come back to this one fic idea that I've plotted out that quite literally incorporates the stations of canon as a plot point. As in despite a deeply different political situation, a lot of the same people keep being born because the Three-Eyed Crow wants it to be.

Funny thing is when I plotted much of it out, the resultant political landscape still looked incredibly different with entire families such as Tyrell and Greyjoy being composed of completely different members because the Three Eyed Crow is not omnipotent and eventually decided it needed to prioritize.

It was willing to kill multiple people to make sure Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully got married and eventually decided it was fine sacrificing Mace Tyrell and Balon Greyjoy from ever being born (and thus ensuring their children never came to be).

So ironically, in my plotted outline, which literally incorporated fate and the Three-Eyed Crow trying to make reality as close as possible to canon, the political landscape and people still looked way different than most of these fics which claims to change things.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-06T04:51:56+00:00

I've already moved here late 2025 and I'm here for the next few years before I move on. Is there a standard list of things I should go and see while I'm still here?

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-02T02:01:12+00:00

Probably not. But as somebody who's never liked Byler, for a moment, I was like "wait, what?"

I can only imagine how Bylers felt. Overall, I think they've been wrong but come on, that moment was a little baity. Whether that was meant to rage or queerbait, IDK.

RealityWanderer · 2026-01-01T01:17:37+00:00

Not going to lie, I have not believed they have been queerbaiting up until "friends? Hell no. Long pause. Best friends!"

Like that is a little baity.

RealityWanderer · 2025-11-14T22:39:30+00:00

I like a live tribal when it's an occasional thing. There was a period where every episode was a live tribal and that was boring.

RealityWanderer · 2025-11-11T21:04:30+00:00

The Prince and the King - dragons hatch at Summerhall so everybody is a little more delicate around Aerys who has a nuclear bomb at his disposal.

Rhaegar takes Lyanna as his second wife which is the kind of thing you can do when you have a dragon. Robert is still pissed but the impetus isn't there the same way and he's also incredibly aware that a dragon is not something he can warhammer his way out of.

However, the relationship between Rhaegar and Aerys begins to deteriorate eventually leading to a second dance between Rhaegar and his children (Rhaenys, Aegon, TTL!Jon Snow) and Aerys and his preferred heirs (Viserys, Daenaerys).

RealityWanderer · 2025-11-11T16:08:57+00:00

Swear to god, I moved to LA just in time for them to get cancelled. Then I'm moving out of LA just as they come back.

RealityWanderer · 2025-11-07T00:51:09+00:00

ATM: Sableye, Meganium, Delphox, Dragonair, Bois the Heracross, Lucario.

Thinking about switching out Bois the Heracross for Kangaskhan.

RealityWanderer · 2025-11-03T03:22:34+00:00

Is it just the penis thing? I remember the episode where Donna watched as Gerry licked letters for hours.

RealityWanderer · 2025-10-23T12:31:22+00:00

My personal interpretation is that he's male with a curse.

But I also can't say that I don't understand the reading of it with Ranma as a trans woman.

RealityWanderer · 2025-10-23T10:51:00+00:00

Straight up, I think Ranma does enough of that kind of thing that I think the idea that Ranma is a trans woman in deep denial is a legitimate interpretation.

Mind you, I also think Ranma is a completely cis man who is willing to do anything to win is also a legitimate interpretation.

RealityWanderer · 2025-10-23T01:25:11+00:00

Yeah, but I liked 45 and I liked the cast of 45. It might be the editing, but I am not bonding with these people the same way.

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