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nausicaaharris:

i think a far better metric for sci-fi is not “hard” or “soft” or “science fantasy” or whatever but the ease with which one can fuck aliens

from one end to the other, the scale is:

  • it is impossible to fuck aliens because we have not found any
  • it is technically impossible to fuck aliens because we have not found any, but you can fuck a wide variety of genetically-modified humans
  • it is impossible to fuck aliens because no alien species has anything resembling sex
  • it is difficult to fuck aliens due to divergent anatomy, but with great care and dedication it can be done
  • it is difficult to fuck aliens due to travel difficulties
  • it is moderately difficult to fuck aliens, as they are down to clown, but it requires a degree of courage
  • it requires no special effort to fuck aliens, because that’s hotter than reasonable levels of biodiversity
  • it is easy to fuck aliens, and you are cross-fertile with them because this is a universe with the Strong Hodgkin’s Law
  • it is easy to fuck aliens because you are all descended from ancient bullshit progenitors

(obviously there are intermediate stages but i do think this is a useful rubric)

star trek canon goes through 5 of these depending on era and species

Salia being a shapeshifer is a selling point. Imagine being able to satisfy your fantasies with the one you love and in your bedroom rather than having to employ the jizz mopper of the holodeck. Def about the dishonesty.

wilwheaton:

Oh, there’s no jizz mopper on the holodeck. It’s all automatically collected by the ship’s computer (in a subsystem that is beyond the scope of this post) and then processed directly into the food replicators.

trek-tracks:

So people make fun of the Kirk shirt rip in Shore Leave because it is so blatantly independent of the fight with Finnegan

See:

then:

But what most people fail to acknowledge is that the Shore Leave planet is there to suddenly create things you are thinking about, rather than obey the laws of reality.

Which means that Kirk was thinking about fighting Finnegan, so he appeared:

Which also means, in the middle of the fight, Kirk must have thought: “Man, it would be so cool if my shirt ripped off right now,” leading to the inevitable:

So since we’re fairly certain now exactly what Kirk thinks about during fights, we can continue to laugh at his shirt rip in Shore Leave, but make sure it’s for the right reasons: not so much continuity error, more actually being Exactly In Character.