• teft@lemmy.world
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      That’s what makes it tense. One etiquette faux pas and next thing you know you’re bathing the playset in ketchup and pepto bismol.

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    That kid and the toy General Chang is giving me 80s flashbacks of something I barely remember

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        1995!? … that’s also surprising because I really felt like it was the 80s. All I remember was that it was all on fuzzy over the air channels on a 20" CRT, which we were still watching in the 90s.

        Man that feels like a hundred years ago.

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            From this point on … I guess we can just generically say ‘in the last century’ or ‘the previous century’ … fewer people understand 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s and just see it all as ‘the last century’ … which makes it sound and feel like ‘a hundred years ago’.

            God I feel old … I guess I am :(

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      Fun fact, Marc Okrand designed the Klingon language intentionally without the verb “to be” before Star Trek VI came out and it caused him a massive headache.

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        That line always annoyed the fuck out of me. They couldn’t make up an equally vitally important Klingon author and then compare them?

        Nope, just a throwaway joke.

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          I interpreted it as cultural appropriation and how primitive Klingon diplomacy was that they’d make the claim directly to the people they’d appropriated from.

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            That’s really nice, I like that interpretation a lot! Sort of “This man wrote so well he might as well have been a Klingon.”