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• Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just as an aside, my dad died horribly after 6 months of cancer gradually destroying him and everything he’d worked so hard for. He was one of the most fit people I knew until that. He grew up skiing and was a junior patroller at 15 in colorado. By the time I was born, he was patrolling as a doctor and took me everywhere he could, and when he couldn’t, he just told me to go to the patrol shack and wait. Anyways, I was with him for those last 6 months, but I curled up in a ball and did nothing to try to make his doctors do anything or find alternative treatment options like the Mayo clinic. I just curled up in a ball of fear and anxiety and did nothing. I was just paralyzed. My dad would have gone to the ends of the earth for me, and I didn’t even try to save him. I don’t know how to live with that.

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry for your loss. Unless you were going to work out a cure for cancer on your own, there was nothing you could’ve done, except just be there. My Dad died about four years ago now after he had a massive stroke, he was in hospice for about a week or two. And all I could do the whole time was just sit there and watch my Dad die in front of me. Him physically dying was a release more than anything, mentally though I think he had been gone awhile before that. He had had a previous stroke two years earlier and little by little parts of his personality started dying off. By the time his body died, the person I’d known my whole life had already been gone, he was just a shell. It was like watching him die in slow motion, little by little, day by day.

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    • Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I seriously appreciate your response and your willingness to be vulnerable in sharing your own loss. I am sorry. I’m so deep in sadness that I am having a hard time processing anything.

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  • Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He also raised me on Star Trek, if that helps bring it back to why I’m here.

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    • Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know why I’m sharing this. I am just a piece of shit and sorry for contaminating a good ST thread with my own BS

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• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And how funny is it that there’s an episode of Star Trek named after a Batman movie?

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• Corgana@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think it’s entirely fair to say Sisko was out of options, is impossible to predict the future, but he saw an opportunity, he took it, and it paid off. In a parallel universe the Romulans discovered the plot and joined the Dominion.

  That said I totally agree with you about it being a great example of what makes Star Trek great. The fact that the episodes that get debated decades later are consistently held up as “the best” by the same fans really says a lot.

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• ButtBidet@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I often listen to TNG or DS9 or VOY as I know many of us do to fall asleep

  Fuck, I’m not the only on who does this?!?!?

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  • Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are literally dozens of us! Dozens!

    (but seriously, I constantly read posts from people about how they need star trek to make them feel ok enough to fall asleep. Or even just the thrum of the Enterprise-D’s warp drive).

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not yucking your yums, but this is the first I’ve heard of falling asleep to the show itself. The Sleep with me podcast has some absolutely soporific TNG retellings, though.

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• Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And no need to tell me how fucking stupid I am. I am well aware. I just wanted to share my love for this episode. I recently became aware of how I completely failed my dad and sat by while he died of cancer, so no need to pile on any more.

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