LovableSidekick

Does anybody srsly not take it for granted that when Bonespurs says anything it just means he thought of saying it right then?

One change of clothes for a 2-week trip... now that's a man's man!

Twitter/X should be called Twix and a tweet should be a twext.

I'm embarrassingly proud of this.

But horse-apotamus makes no sense (unless "apotamus" means "big fat") - I'm not the most cunning of linguists.

I agree. But in general ranking TV series or episodes or characters or arguing that one of them was the best or worst never seems worthwhile to me.

I know right? Who cares about basketball?

"I'm a workaholic, and anybody who isn't needs a good horse-whippin' to knock some sense into 'em!"

As somebody who isn't much on social media, I often have to look up slang terms I don't use. It's actually kind of relatable when an explanation doesn't convey the nuances people feel when these terms are just part of normal speech. Also tbh the general idea of mocking people for not knowing something doesn't really seem that cool.

"Somebody disagreed with me! Conservatives are a persecuted class just like Christians and black people and those other races!"

Easy technobabble fix - the visor suppresses the optical neurons, or it simply acts as a blindfold so the real eyes see only darkness. LaForge's pain was because the tech wasn't fully developed. I forget if he still had the pain with the prosthetic eyes. Hackability is another problem we probably won't have in the real future because of quantum encryption or whatever, but it's still a good plot device present-day people can relate to - no matter how unrealistically it's portrayed - click-click-click... "okay, I'm in!" LOL.

There's always the rationale that a medical problem can't be fixed because of individual traits - for example, in the Wrath of Khan movie, Kirk needs reading glasses because he's allergic to the drug they normally use to treat vision problems.

I never saw LaForge as a "disabled person" at all. In my view he had superpowers. What puzzled me was why other characters didn't wear similar visors. I mean why would blindness be a prerequisite for getting the ability to see in infrared, ultraviolet, etc? Seems like everybody would want that. Especially if it could be ocular implants like he eventually had.