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Damn so 196 is where all the Expanse fans are?! Because they're certainly not on tumblr and I don't wanna go back to ~~reddit~~ just for some Expanse memes

I saw this movie in cinema when it was released and I can tell you that I haven't see it since so I haven't got a clue ^^'
What I can tell you is that I was 13 at the time and I had probably watched most of TOS and seen a few movies with the TOS cast tho I also can't pinpoint which. Most of the plot of Into Darkness eludes me and I know even 13 year old me thought it felt like a very generic action sci-fi film, almost like Star Wars, and that my dad was disappointed by it for similar reasons.
But I definitely wasn't as disappointed as him; you can impress a 13 year old with explosions and I think that Leonard Nimoy's obviously old appearance made me realize just how long ago TOS was filmed, but it also prompted me to research the actors of TOS a bit (I usually don't care much for actors or celebrities in general).

Seeing Into Darkness in cinema also lead to me believe that Star Trek as a franchise was still alive and well and I only realized later that these movies came seemingly out of nowhere. It's probably also why my English teacher was so taken aback when I, a 7th grader, could explain a comic with a joke or pun of some kind about William Shatner's toupee that was printed on one of her outdated worksheets a year prior to the release of Into Darkness (English isn't my native language, otherwise this might sound pretty normal). But my parents just had their children rather late and my dad is a nerd who grew up with TOS, of course I know Star Trek.

TL;DR: I think for me personally it helped me connect to a fandom I thought was dead; I'd have to see it again to give any actual analysis of the plot.

I appreciate the advice but don't worry too much about me; I'm currently doing one, max. two episodes per day and while it's still semester break at my uni right now I don't even manage to watch one every single day and when classes start again it'll be even worse :') Plus I (presumably, still on the search for a doc to diagnose me) got ADHD so I gotta make the most out of the obsession while it lasts, the last time I was this obsessed with something it only took 2 years for the obsession to wear off...
But I've been more or less (mostly less for the past 8 years) invested in Star Trek since I was like 10 so I assume this is gonna be a life long thing for me :)

While I'm not able to help you with the setting up part, I'd use it and I like the idea :)
Though I don't think it's mainly the missing abilities that keep me from creating memes myself; it's the fact that I feel I have too little knowledge compared to everyone else, but I'm on my way to change that, currently trying to watch all of Star Trek that I haven't seen and rewatching the part I have seen.

I'm probably far from the first person to make this connection, but Noonien seems like a pretty obvious phonetic misspelling of Nguyen to me. I last watched TOS and a lot of material related to Khan as a kid and I don't know too much about Roddenberry as a person, but given his other stances I think it's not impossible that this is his "hidden" commentary on the Vietnam war. And even putting all of that aside for a moment; his "friend" (if he really existed) might've been ethnically Chinese, but born in a different Southeast Asian country and the native language there then adapted his Chinese name to fit their phonology. But I don't know, I'm not a professional linguist, I might be way off here... (Ah I just saw Deceptichum had pretty much the same thought as me but was faster in writing them down ^^')

I'm curious what made season 2 low quality for you, can you elaborate on that? I also finished season 2 yesterday, currently giving Discovery another try on my journey to watch all of Star Trek since I watched it as it was releasing but I stopped halfway through because the Terran Empire thing was difficult to keep track of for me at the time (probably because it helps my memory if I can watch an episode a day and don't have to wait a week for the next one to keep track of the storyline). My rewatch made me a pretty big fan though and don't really understand the hate it got/gets in the fanbase.

The SNW courtroom episode made me cry so hard, I loved it.

An episode of Star Trek after a long day.

My friends/sibling.

Researching my niche interests/finding out I share a niche interest with someone.

Taking a mental health walk.

Snacking unhealthy amounts of camembert, drinking black tea and Berber (green tea with spearmint) tea, snacking cucumber.

Eating good Falafel/Sushi/Asian/Middle-Eastern cuisine.

A good workout/feeling completely exhausted after doing martial arts.

Being able to help other people.

And because of your username: playing TotK.

I think it's just that trans people will find it easier to transition from one dying platform to a beautiful new one. (I'm so sorry, but you basically set up the punchline for me, I'll show myself out now.)

OP are you making these yourself? Or do you know where they come from? This really tickles my funny bone, I love them Claire's memes.

Let me preface this with the fact that this is no way meant to hate of Star Trek:
I can't remember if it was season 1 or 2 of SNW, but there were multiple episodes where Uhura spoke about different dialects of a language. And I think that's technically what aliens would consider all languages that are spoken on earth as well; dialects of each other. So the in-universe explanation is that the Federation was founded by humans and therefore thinks of languages on earth as languages and every other planet only has different dialects, not languages. Linguistically it's rather vague what constitues as a language and what is a dialect.
The 'normal' explanation is one of the imperialism of the English language and American exceptionalism (Aliens of one planet all speak one 'weird' other language, while we all speak very 'normal' English on our planet).

... which is almost the same number of times "Pump up the jam" is being sung in the 1989 one-hit wonder of the same name by Belgian duo "Technotronic".
*cue Pump Up The Jam*