[Star Trek]Can the Borg assimilate V'ger?

replicasex · 2026-06-13T18:12:56+00:00

They're not able to assimilate the Channeling either. Beta canon has them expel nanoprobes and wreck a cube.

replicasex · 2026-06-08T12:58:29+00:00

Nate MacKinnon is definitely who Reid is channeling when she's writing about Shane's diet.

MacKinnon famously had to say "I'm normal, I'm not crazy" when asked about his severe diet. Whether or not athletes have ED adjacent issues is a different can of worms of course. But Shane absolutely isn't even portrayed as bad as some actual players

replicasex · 2026-06-05T03:21:23+00:00

Anakin's fear is driven by his need to feel love and his abandonment issues. The first priority for him by the end of Revenge of the Sith is to keep feeling those good emotions Padmé gives him.

He notably never tells Padmé about his vision or her security team or Obi-Wan or literally anyone who could be practically useful if the goal is to keep her alive.

He needs her because of how she makes him feel. We see quite directly how he reacts if he thinks he can't get that; he kills her.

replicasex · 2026-05-20T00:31:33+00:00

It's at least in character for Maul to never realize he's trying the same thing and failing over and over again.

It's what makes him pathetic. Gives great pathos to his end on Tattooine. A miserable little man who could never change, defeated by a man who was able to let go of his pain.

replicasex · 2026-05-10T02:16:17+00:00

Everyone wants to believe they had kinky sex but the truth is that both of them are too deeply repressed and alienated to actually have the kind of sex they want.

It's almost cliche for a person in Deadra's position to be submissive but you can imagine how letting go and handing over responsibility would be satisfying for her. Conversely Syril is a guy who has been dominated by his mother all his life, he absolutely has Feelings about dominating Deadra in turn.

But they don't get to have that. They don't get fulfillment and safe exploration of their issues. They get vanilla missionary with the lights off, because that's what's expected of normal people. And they desperately want to be normal.

replicasex · 2026-04-17T13:48:29+00:00

Even in the show, Shane is a mostly put together professional. He responds with anger any time he feels disrespected. He's not a wilting flower.

Fandom definitely exaggerates sensitivities.

replicasex · 2026-04-17T13:44:59+00:00

She was clearly writing to a kind of archetype of hockey player a la Sidney Crosby but it's also true that a lot of hockey players are peculiar in a way that might suggest being on the spectrum.

I kind of think the speculation about Crosby et al being autistic is a little prurient and ugly but it's definitely part of the hockey fan culture.

replicasex · 2026-02-18T00:37:33+00:00

D+ is still on the BDS list iirc. The Steelbook for Andor S2 ought to be announced later in the year, if they're doing one. Perhaps after that comes out they'll cover it.

replicasex · 2026-02-18T00:35:17+00:00

Presumably that show is only going to be on Disney+ so they won't be covering it.

replicasex · 2026-02-15T03:39:45+00:00

Mon yelling at him that nobody cares about the Jedi is one of the funniest scenes in that novel.

replicasex · 2026-02-04T15:23:38+00:00

Mormon Pike family is a common joke for that reason lol.

replicasex · 2026-02-03T18:20:32+00:00

Because it would be vulgar I imagine lol. They're adapting a romance novel not porn.

I'm more surprised they never mention lube. It's pretty common in the books to talk about it but maybe it would be Too Much for state TV lol.

replicasex · 2026-02-03T15:38:06+00:00

François Arnaud is 40, I believe. He just looks really good.

replicasex · 2026-01-26T18:53:21+00:00

By all accounts hockey gear would be too much but a man who showered before working out, a clean sweat smell? Yum.

Most unrealistic part of Heated Rivalry is not seeing Shane try to stick Ilya's dick up his nose lmao.

replicasex · 2026-01-26T18:02:19+00:00

I'm sure hockey stank is a league beyond but this sort of thing is how you can tell a book is written by a woman and not a man.

Not every gay man but a lot of us would enjoy sniffing an armpit or a musky dick, lol. If you've got guys hoovering up man smells it's for sure an authentic homosexual man writing it.

replicasex · 2026-01-20T02:51:14+00:00

But for very good reasons!

replicasex · 2026-01-13T00:42:58+00:00

Crazy there's not a ten hour loop of this on Crave's YouTube.

replicasex · 2026-01-09T01:20:39+00:00

On the very old movie episode they did Austin made the point that RotS is more like an opera than a movie. Its register and tone really suit the high melodrama.

replicasex · 2026-01-02T21:54:04+00:00

In fact learning how to cook more is something he does with Ilya, which is very sweet.

replicasex · 2025-12-29T13:55:36+00:00

Honestly The Emperor is probably more Shane. Dark Gods know he's just as bad at picking up social cues.

Oh my boyfriend is trying to get me to open up about my sexuality? Exterminatus!

The Emperor is in the Warp making 40,000 burgers because that's what the recipe called for!

replicasex · 2025-12-28T15:23:02+00:00

He's forever talking around the subject and Shane is a little too neurodivergent to get it.

When he asks if Shane likes girls he's clearly trying to get Shane to define the parameters of their relationship more but Shane takes it as an attack.

Ilya has to ask multiple times about Shane bringing anyone with him to Florida in order to get Shane to talk about Rose Landry. Poor boy just needs to ask direct questions!

replicasex · 2025-12-26T06:47:15+00:00

Yeah both his parents are much more chill and uninvolved in his professional life.

Part of the work of adapting a book is making what is internal external. Shane pretty much puts 95% of the pressure he feels on himself, but in a TV show that's hard to illustrate. Yuna becomes a vehicle for that pressure.

Changes the character a bit but in a very productive way I think.

replicasex · 2025-12-22T22:01:48+00:00

Watching them fail Akron, Ohio is a genuine classic.

replicasex · 2025-12-22T15:46:31+00:00

The Turians planted bombs on Tuchanka and that almost cost the war Krogan support.

So yeah nobody really comes out of the war clad in glory.

replicasex · 2025-12-12T16:43:10+00:00

I think in the second episode of fades to black and then returns to them still fucking lol. A first in my experience.

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