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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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Transcript: The character Gul Dukat from Deep Space 9 on a video screen with the top text: "ATTENTION BAJORAN CITIZENS"

Bottom text: "YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO EVACUATE TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE"

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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] electric@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

To me, it's a marathon. One I'm losing. 🫡

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oof.

Is Janeway going to send them billions of credits?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, this guy will.

Janeway's been sent to "monitor" the situation with 2 starships though.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's funny here

Not so funny in real life

[–] electric@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does Bajoran come before or after Brazilian? Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions, Bajorans, Brazilians, bajillions?

Is there even anything after a bajillion?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Your brain on Ketracel White.

[–] orthen@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Equating Israelites to the space Nazis is a bit harsh and also ironic, isn't it?

[–] electric@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The intent was to portray Netanyahu as Dukat, not to disparage a nationality. But yes, the irony is dangerously sharp.

[–] orthen@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see. I agree that the middle east would very very likely be far better off without Netanyahu. It's just that so many people seem to oversimplify the situation -for one side or the other- and I'm somewhat wary of that.

[–] electric@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Risa is a safe place. I would hope that a Star Trek fan is capable of understanding nuance.

[–] simpleTailor@startrek.website 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DS9 writers modeled the Cardassian occupation of Bajor (in part) after the Israeli occupation of Gaza. The book A Different Trek goes into detail if you want direct sources and a fuller discussion of how the Jewish-American writers and actors involved with the show didn't think it was "ironic" as you put it.

[–] orthen@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting, I'll have to look into that. So far, I have rather identified Bajorans as the "space jews" and Cardassians as the "space nazis".

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

If the STATE of Israel (note: not the Israeli people, not the Jewish faith or people) would stop acting like Earth Nazis then maybe this joke wouldn't have been immediately recognized as that by you and everyone else.