Actually, Timmy never fell in a well.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2022/05/08/did-timmy-ever-actually-fall-down-a-well-on-lassie/?amp
I hope you didn't waste too much time fact checking that joke.
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I hope you didn't waste too much time fact checking that joke.
Nah. I had actually come across that article a couple days ago. I follow the articles author, Brian Cronin, on facebook.I hope you didn't waste too much time fact checking that joke.
And yet you're the only one with that for a name, so I guess you're King of the Tragic Backstory Hill.
To be fair, tragic back story is pretty much built in to Trek:
Kirk: witness to a massacre.
Spock: Bullied as a child due to his mother being human.
McCoy: euthanized his father.
The comics didn't didn't any favors to any of the TOS characters, reveling seemingly in dysfunctional relationships.
Even Chekov was given an imaginary tragic backstory in "Day of the Dove(TOS)" when the Beta XII-A entity made him believe the Klingons had killed a brother named Piotr at the Archanis research outpost. Trek gives almost everyone a tragic history if you're patient.
Oh I know. I was just pointing out the silliness of picking that name. Like if I were to go with "ENTlover4ever."
People who don’t like tragedy in the lives of Star Trek characters must really despise the most frequently traumatized, manipulated, captured, battered, beleaguered, abused, long suffering character ever, Miles O’Brien.
The main reason for backstory in drama is to create...drama. In the story-present. Backstory needs to carry the seeds of conflict. This generally means - brace yourself - past experience that carries a negative charge. If the backstory is about love, best if the relationship had a bad end even if that end is simply that it was cut short.
When characters start reminiscing about good things that happened to them in the past? Well, that's a luxury - nice if you have the time, rarely crucial to motivation.
Backstory that's crucial to story-present motivation: The disappearance of Sheridan's wife. Pretty traumatic, and brought dramatically into the present when she reappears.
Backstory that's kinda-nice-to-have-but-doesn't-matter: Sheridan's memory of his father spraying the garden hose over the roof above his room to make rain-sounds to help him sleep. Nope, no trauma there, no bad feelings, nice memories - and however much you like that scene, you can cut it without impairing the story one whit.
When characters start reminiscing about good things that happened to them in the past? Well, that's a luxury - nice if you have the time, rarely crucial to motivation.
Backstory that's crucial to story-present motivation: The disappearance of Sheridan's wife. Pretty traumatic, and brought dramatically into the present when she reappears.
Backstory that's kinda-nice-to-have-but-doesn't-matter: Sheridan's memory of his father spraying the garden hose over the roof above his room to make rain-sounds to help him sleep. Nope, no trauma there, no bad feelings, nice memories - and however much you like that scene, you can cut it without impairing the story one whit.
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I'm still waiting for the reveal of whatever truth he purports to champion.
I'm still waiting for the reveal of whatever truth he purports to champion.
Indeed.
I'm still waiting for the reveal of whatever truth he purports to champion.
Perhaps he was once hit by a Tesla.
Confession. All of these mayfly shitposters are actually me, posting under an infinity of sock accounts.
By day I am mild mannered Richard S. Ta, but when night falls I post under a variety of pseudonyms about how the latest episode was trash/garbage, lazily written and God… GOD! Won’t somebody please think of the
They need to stop using their franchise to politicize. Picard is egregious with this but this episode says something like , "It began with a fight for freedoms (Trumper sings prominent in background) and ended up a nuclear war. Well! Either the Trump movement CAUSED all the trouble or the trouble was a punishment for daring to oppose certain parties. This strikes me as silly and childish of the writers.
No they don't. That's built in to Trek's DNA.
There's also a time and place for opinions on modern day politics. It's called The Neutral Zone.
Good luck finding the time machine to go back to Los Angeles in 1964 and stop Roddenberry from starting it all.
Welcome to September 8th, 1966.
No.
They don't have to stop doing anything they're doing.
Because most of the audience likes what they're doing.
And what they're doing is...pretty much what they've always done.
Are you under the impression that successful movies and TV manage that these days by disguising or downplaying their political content?
Because, if so, you're not paying much attention.
It was such a pleasant day, then one of them had to go and gnaw through their restraints again. 
Dr. M'Benga says the restraints should finally arrive on Tuesday.It was such a pleasant day, then one of them had to go and gnaw through their restraints again.
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