Tom Wright

TNG 5x17 'The Outcast': An androgynous race prohibits any expression of gender, as it is viewed as 'primitive'.


TOS 3x15 'Let That Be Your Last Battlefied': Two members of the same species view the other as inferior because of which color is on which side of their body.


VOY 7x13 'Repentance': Voyager rescues passengers from a prison ship whose prisoners are on their way to be executed.


TNG 2x9 'The Measure of a Man': Data's sentience is brought into question when he is forced by Starfleet to undergo an undesired procedure.


TNG 7x20 'Journey's End': The Enterprise is ordered to relocate a population of Native Americans from their planet of 20 years because of a treaty with the Cardassians.


ENT 2x14 'Stigma': T'Pol is recalled when it is discovered she has Pa'Nar syndrome, a disease transmitted through mind-melds conducted by an unaccepted sub-culture of Vulcans.


DS9 6x13 'Far Beyond the Stars': Benny Russel is fired from his writing job when his story about a black space station commander receives scrutiny from the publisher.


TNG 7x9 'Force of Nature': Two Hekarans board the Enterprise to convince them that their warp drive is damaging their home world and the space around it.


TOS 1x23 'A Taste of Armageddon': The Enterprise discovers a 500 year war on a planet that is run by computers that calculate the fatalities and force those people to die.


VOY 3x6 'Remember': B'Elanna experiences the memories of a telepathic woman's youth, where her lover and his people are relocated and murdered without repercussion.

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THIS is what the original Star Trek TV series and films were about. Not just about blowing up things in space and snazzy lens flares with a side order of casual sexism -.-‘.

dude do you know how many people I have pissed off by saying the exact same thing?

Not enough people.

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an end-of-year card I made that you can share with your teachers.

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Some grains just want to watch the world burn.

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I wanted the one sentence explanation at best. You’ve already gone four sentences too far.

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Today commemorates a special and tragic day: After dinner a few minutes ago, I ate the last scoop of ice cream. Her name was Gelati.

Gelati was no ordinary scoop of ice cream, mind you. My relationship with her started over 4 months ago when I bumped into her at Gelati Celesti in Richmond, Virginia, when I was there for the holidays.

I didn’t expect anything to come of it, we grew close in a short amount of time. Very close. Before I left town, I took Gelati in my arms–all 11 quarts of her–packed her in a cooler with some dry ice, and transported her across state lines back to St. Louis.

I knew my time with Gelati would be fleeting, and I wanted to enjoy every last drop of her. I’ve spent nearly every evening with her over the last 4 months. She’s been the inspiration for several blog posts, including the one about licking and spooning.

This love story ends today, my friends, but with every dusk there comes a dawn. I appreciate the time I had with Gelati, and I will miss her dearly over the next few months until I see her again. Sparks will fly, waistlines will expand, and we will grow old together.

Goodbye, dear Gelati. We will meet again.

Selected for the Society Of Illustrators annual, and hanging between now and June 11 in their gallery in New York. Now I can share which cartoon was chosen.

Mine now.

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if you ever feel like you’re too obsessed with something, just remember that, according to plutarch, alexander the great slept with his prized copy of the iliad under his pillow alongside a dagger, presumably so that he could murder anyone who tried to take his copy of the iliad away from him