• @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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      Which is funny because during my formative years, those desktop avatars were either the purple gorilla or dancing nude women

    • @Z3k3
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      Can’t remember if it was before or after but I liked her in pet cemetery

      • Flying SquidM
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        Pet Sematary was after she left Star Trek.

        As a teenager at the time, I liked her a lot more in The Red Shoe Diaries.

        Looking back, quite the step down.

    • @LovableSidekick
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      Was that the name of her next show? I never even heard of it. Unfortunately Denise Crosby joined the ranks of McLean Stevenson (Henry Blake on MAS*H) and other actors who quit popular shows they thought were holding back their careers so they could move on to not having one.

      Bringing her back as a Romulan in the Yesterday’s Enterprise arc was pretty awesome tho.

      • Flying SquidM
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        She was on it a few years later, but considering it was basically soft porn, it’s not exactly stuff I think she wants to be remembered for.

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    It’s so sad that, technically, she was ahead of her time. We want to see a thoughtful future world, but the writers were failing her as to writing her as a real character in that world who experienced growth. Worst loss of the first season, in my opinion, because it showed how even people trying to be on the cutting edge of acceptance and inclusion can still fall short.

    Which is why I turn my nose up at anyone who calls themselves “an ally” of any struggle. Sorry buddy, it’s up to those struggling to name you as an ally, that’s not a label you get to self-apply. Never call yourself an ally, and maybe someday your actions will show you really are an ally. (Much like the whole “Any man who must say, ‘I am the King’, is no true king.” quote)

    • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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      "Any man who must say, ‘I am the King’, is no true king.” quote)

      Any grown man with a shirt or car decal that says alpha, is not an alpha.

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        Especially since that whole alpha/beta nonsense was literally debunked by the same guy who originally created the theory.

        So gross that it continues to persist.

        • Sundray
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          Some people love hierarchies, no matter how fake or untenable they are.

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        Any grown man with a shirt or car decal that says alpha, is not an alpha.

        (I’m trying to encourage idiots to run around shirtless in the polar vortex like it’s a Packers game.)

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    Rosalind Chao (Keiko) was the lead to get the role of Tasha Yar before the auditions. Denise Crosby auditioned for Troi.

    I’d love a TV show that was made up of sketches of actors playing the roles they didn’t get.