• Stamets@lemmy.worldOPM
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    So I found the panel in question. Heres the link to the specific time stamp but it starts at 13:29. I was wrong on the name. IT wasn’t named after all the captains. It was “Patrick James Tiberius Kirk”. But you can hear the audience groaning almost immediately. The whole interaction is awkward as fuck. Patrick Stewart is trying not to laugh at Marina making fun of her too.

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      Fans can be nuts for sure. Did you ever see the Trekkies documentary? There’s the lady who can see Brent Spiner’s house from her balcony and has a “Brent break” when she’s feeling bad where she goes out and watches and the lady who was dismissed from the jury in the Clinton Whitewater case because she only ever wears a TNG uniform and insists on being called ‘commander.’

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          Unfortunately, she was like that all the time. She wore the uniform at her screen printing job and everyone there called her Commander.

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            I dunno, that sounds kinda rad, she’s got something figured out…

            I gotta take my uniform to get tailored or something 'Cause I’m hanging mad knuck every Halloween

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              I can see where you’re coming from, but it looked kind of uncomfortable at her job to be honest. Everyone else was in short sleeves, meaning it must have been hot, and she wore a belt with a tricorder and a phaser all the time. And expecting everyone to call you Commander is not cool IMO. I don’t think this is a deadnaming situation, she wants to be referred to by a military rank she does not have and did not earn.

              I don’t want to discourage someone’s fandom, but there’s such a thing as going too far.

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                Oh, absolutely. You simply can’t bring that kind of fantasy to every part of your life and impose it on others. It’s not only rude, it could be a sign of issues understanding reality in a functional way.

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                  Yeah, I won’t deny this is clearly the story about a crazy person but…eh. Fun and harmless crazy. Sounds like she’s functioning. She has her job. She gets by.

                  Life is short. Let her be the commander.

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        I have it downloaded and I’ve been meaning to but I didn’t realize it was that insane. I also thought it was like a mockumentary thing. You’re telling me that’s fucking real?!