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gwydion* "For Karachi's Water Mafia, Stolen H2O Is A 'Lucrative Business':" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/10/645525392/for-karachis-water-mafia-stolen-h20-is-a-lucrative-business
* "“[The] camera should be in my hand.” That’s what...:" http://npr.tumblr.com/post/177977978289/the-camera-should-be-in-my-hand-thats-what
* "Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign:" http://prospect.org/article/trump-launches-aggressive-poverty-disinformation-campaign
* "Manafort uniquely positioned to offer insight on Russia and Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-uniquely-positioned-to-offer-insight-on-russia-and-trump-1321026627948?v=railb&
* "Letter accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault roils confirmation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/letter-accusing-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assault-roils-confirmation-1321024579758?v=railb&
* There is still time to protest before Thursday! Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition.
Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* "Texas Conservafools Snatching Beto Yard Signs:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/texas-conservafools-snatching-beto-yard.html
* Note: Texas is a major market for history textbooks, so American textbook publishers tend to cater to their standards. Basically, they have the biggest say in what goes into the newest textbooks, so it matters to the quality of everyone's education.
* "After public outcry, Texas unlikely to ax references to 'heroism' of Alamo defenders from history curriculum:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/11/texas-probably-wont-ax-reference-heroic-alamo-defenders-history-class-moses-slavery
* "In Texas public schools, it’s out with Helen Keller, in with Dolores Huerta:" https://thinkprogress.org/in-texas-public-schools-its-out-with-helen-keller-in-with-dolores-huerta-4c9523e16c80/
* We need massive protests on this one. "Why You Should Actually Be Terrified Right Now:" https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a23010174/stripping-american-citizens-passports-genocide/
* I am furious about this. "These Cancer Patients Wanted to Get Rid of Their Breasts for Good. Their Doctors Had Other Ideas.:" https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a22984204/breast-cancer-survivors-mastectomy-sexism/
* "Trans, Muslim and Living In Malaysia:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/trans-muslim-and-living-in-malaysia.html
* "The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/whose-farm-is-this-anyway/569227/
* "Category 6? Climate change may cause more hurricanes to rapidly intensify.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/09/11/category-climate-change-may-cause-more-hurricanes-rapidly-intensify/?utm_term=.e879f89510cd
* "Tropical Storm Florence batters North and South Carolina; 12 deaths reported - live updates:" https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/tropical-storm-florence-path-power-outage-flooding-latest-weather-hurricane-rain-2018-09-15/
* "Yellowstone hit by global warming, increased visitation: report:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yellowstone-climate/yellowstone-hit-by-global-warming-increased-visitation-report-idUSKCN1LR04P
* "Secrets of early human ancestors could be unlocked by African rainforests:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-secrets-early-human-ancestors-african.html
* Today I was super short sleeped as I had an afternoon guest. I made tea and we chattered and did a bit of Gothmas prep. After we went and looked at the Target display for fun, as they had put out the housewares since Monday. It was rather disappointing, to be honest. They usually have way more cool things. They did have some lights and filigree black pumpkins adored and would have bought if I were rich. (Look, as a poor person, I must take my pleasures where I can get them and looking at black skulls with purple bejeweling and pressing buttons on sample electronics is fun). Then I dropped them off at work.
Thanks to strong though sporadic rain I was able to solve the allergen vs. pathogen quandary in favour of allergens, as I woke up dramatically improved. no way could my sluggish immune system shrug of anything respiratory that fast. I'm not up to as good as it gets for me, but this is a level of for reasonable that noticeably improves with each passing hours. Rain tamps down allergens as I'm basically allergic to outside, but not inside things like mold, dust or cats.
I got my flu shot on the way home as a result. I think this may be one of the better ones, though odds are I'll be running a sporadic low grade fever soon enough. The vaccine is very, very worth it. I trade a sporadic low grade fever for a couple days to a week, plus maybe a wee bit of injection site itching depending on the shot make up for two weeks to a month of influenza which for someone with my set of genetic horrors is potentially dangerous. The partial immunity for similar strains in Spring is also very worth it. There is a reason my medical team is emphatic about me getting them and why I try to get them a early as I can each year.
Vaccinate yourself and your kids if you don't have medical contraindications such as allergiies to the injection or an illness precluding. It is safe and it HELPS.
Tavy let my friend pet hi again, a sign that they really do now count as adjunct clowder members in Tavy's mind. Today I wore one of the trousers I pulled out of storage. They fit as well as they did before I went on the medication that I went off to cause the subtle weight loss. This is actually better than expected. It looks like I need to do a repair to one of the chains, but other wise everything is good. Unfortunately, Livia is scared of the,. No really. The chains jingle softly when I walk. It is nowhere near as loud as the keys, but of a similar type. I am practicing walking softly and we'll see how that goes. She hid from the guest as usual, but I came home from dropping them off and knew she had been napping on the bed from the loud thump of her landing and a glimpse of her moving in the shadows. Tavy was still on the bed and being smaller, it's a lighter thump. She kept coming out when I wass doing plants/tank/food/lung, but whenever I started walking, she ran back to my room. The hope is she'll come out now I'm more still and I've worked out a way to minimize jingle. I don't plan to wear these trousers every day anyway, but only when I go out. The patched together silent ones, I'll use on days I stay home.
Update: Livia came out again while I was typing this entry. We'll see how she does.
Update 2: Even after I changed my trousers, Livia avoided me for hours. She eventually came around, luckily and is fine.
LM's been out and about since noon. This is not just the most social I've seen her since her cohort died, but this is the most physically active she's been since her brother and Mache went. Pretty good for a cranky old lady, I think. She even's been nibbling at the kibbles on her forays into the apartment proper, and tried one of the junior beasties crunchy treats, despite her having perfered to starve rather than eat kibbles anymore over a year ago, hence Squirrel switching her to an all goosh diet despite her still having her teeth. She still hisses at the junior beasties when they come to close, but I think she's finally accepted that the others are gone for real and these are the cats she has to hang out with. I am terribly proud of her. She came and got pettins on Mache's old pettin throne thrice! (The pettin throne is a footstool I found at a second hand store that is padded on top and was the exact right height for Mache to get on and off of herself easily even with her arthritis. It was perfect for her to nap on next to my desk, and whenever she woke, she'd get pettins on demand. The junior kitties mostly use it as a stepping stone for jumping on the desk, though both have used it now and then for things like short pettins or in Tavy's case, attempting to eat the arm of my chair.) Anyway, I have hopes that however many years LM has left will be better than the last few have been.
* I am about $200.00 behind on bills. If you'd like to chip in towards helping me pay my bills Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion
* Wow, this week's Killjoys was hardcore! O.o
* "Revisiting Chapters: Dany X, ADWD :" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/176906196017/revisiting-chapters-dany-x-adwd
* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:
- 7.1: Descent. We pick up with Picard, Geordi, and Deanna surrounded by Borg being lead by Lore and Date. Lore monologues about how he found Hugh's ship after the Enterprise rendered them individuals and "gave them a purpose," I.E: Serving Lore. I do like that he's not wrong about abandoning the new individuals to flail about was not okay, but that doesn't make Lore any better for having manipulated them into becoming his genocidal army. Meanwhile Dr. Crusher is commanding the Enterprise and Riker and Worf are searching the planet for Picard. The Borg ship comes back. They try to grab away teams before leaving, but they don't have time to get back 47, including Riker and Worf. Of course. Meanwhile they try to talk Data down, but all he feels is hatred and anger and he reasons back at them. He takes Geordi's visor. The Borg don't follow the ship; Riker orders the ones left on the planet to hide. Crusher and the B Team crewfolk come up with a risky plan to try to buy enough time to rescue the rest. Lore plans to experiment on humans. one of the Borg doesn't want to stay linked and prefers to think for himself, but Lore talks him out of it. Geordi could see a carrier wave comming from Lore before they took his visor and he thinks that's how he's manipulating Data. They decide to generate a pulse in hopes of reactivating Data's ethical sub-routine, but Data takes Geordi before they work out the details. Riker and Worf are taken to a cave of rebel rebel Borg who are Pissed. Hugh calls the Feds out on abandoning them to be used by Lore. He's not wrong. Anyway, when Lore started experimenting horribly on Borg to try to make them wholly artificial, that's when Hugh and the others fled. He asks after Geordi and on discovering he's being held by Lore, agrees to help with a rescue. meanwhile, Data is planning to replace Geordi's brain cells with an experimental neural net, a process that will likely kill him. Deanna and Picard try the old "he's sick" trick, which fools the guard, but Data turn's up with injured Geordi. Picard palmed a thingie from the guard they took down and Picard tries to make the pulse thingie with Geordi talking him through it. They beam as many up as they can in the time they have, but six are missing still. Crusher sets course towards the sun. They try an experimental shield Geordi designed. Geordi tries to get Data to be more Data by talking about shared memories. He gets data to delay killing all his brain cells by pointing out how data will likely see his actions if he ever is himself again. Data pretends he's not doing it for sciencey reasons. Lore victims blames; Data realizes if the humans die he will be responsible so looks like the pulse thingie works. Lore punishes Data by manipulating his emotions. The just out of the academy B Team crew woman saves the ship. Picard makes ethical arguments at Data to try to save Geordi. Lore orders Data to kill Picard; Data refuses. Lore monologues about he is making a sacrifice by killing Data. Hugh risks himself to save him and a Borg brawl breaks out with Riker and Worf sniping. Lore pretends he's going to give Data and emotion/Memory chip, but data sees through him, shooting nd deactivating him. Lore says he loves data just before he's deactivated. Hugh becomes the rebel Borg leader. Data's emotion chip was damaged. He says he is relieved as he doesn't want to risk hurting Geordi again. Geordi reaffirms their friendship, but also says "Someday when you're ready." This one had a lot of good ethical meat in it about unintended consequences. It was good to see Geordi's importance was repeatedly emphasized here. he's so often under utilized
- 7.2 Liaisons. Worf is procrastinating while insisting Klingons don't procrastinate, because he doesn't like diplomating. Riker teases him a bit. Apparently they are having a cultural exchange. Picard is going back with them while some exchange officers are paired up with enterprise crew. Riker's guy wants Worf instead so Worf is stuck with him. Deanna corrupts hers with Chocolate; Worf's is an asshole who orders him about. Data tells Worf to "build on your similarities." Ouch. Meanwhile Picard is on a really long trip with a man who doesn't small talk, but there is an emergency forcing them to land on a random planet. Picard's guy is injured and there is too much interference to get help from enterprise. Picard goes out to see if there is help at a nearby structure and gets electrocuted and dragged off. Back on the enterprise Worf is still being insulted. Deanna's diplomat is not completely obsessed with sweets, he's also fascinated by the existence of children since they wake from the pod fully grown. They take the child for dessert, Deanna's patience wearing thin. Picard wakes in a shelter with a mystery woman who says the pilot's dead. Mystery lady feeds him. She says she was a passenger on the ship they are sheltering in. She' been here seven years in turns out to her horror. Three of his ribs are broken. Her speech is halting from the years of not using her voice. He gets her to get stuff from the other ship. Worf is struggling not to kill asshole diplomat. Deanna admits the pleasure loving diplomat is getting a bit too much for her. Riker suggests poker, because of course he does. Picard discovers he's locked in; she claims it's to protect him from wild animals. He has only her word for what's really happening and it looks like the equipment's been phasored. He has only her word for anything. She is already claiming she loves him. Picard keeps working on his escpe and tries to explain to her she doesn't really love him. She is not best pleased to be rebuffed. The Ambassador steals Worf's chips during poker. They end up yelling and then fighting physically. Riker restrains Worf; the Ambassador thanks Worf and goes off to document the experience. Anna tries to stop Picard going back to the ship. he takes off the restricter and the ribs turn out not to be broken after all. He calls her on a whole list of lies. She sexually assaults him while demanding "Love me!" She sys she failed and leaves, locking him in. he hears the pilot calling and calls to him for help. The ilot claims to have been in a deathlike state and to have come looking for Picard when he woke. He claims he saw "Anna running" for the precipice. We only have his word for any of this. They split up to look for her at which point Picard conveniently finds her on the ledge, necklace that was broken fixed. She says she'll kill herself if Picard doesn't love her; Picard calls bullshit and she transforms back into the pilot. Apparently the first they knew of humans was Anna's logs in the crashed freighter. The pilot is the real Ambassador. The real Anna found the survivor of another crash and nursed him back to health, falling in love. They wanted to experience human emotions. Deanna's was to experience pleasure; Worf's was for anger and antagonism; Picard's was for love. They set up the conditions under which love had occurred previously. Picard explains that what the Ambassador has done is considered a crime in Picard's culture. Worf and his guy spent eleven hours sparring on the holodeck. Picard forgives the Ambassador.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232
* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0
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* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
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* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
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* "“[The] camera should be in my hand.” That’s what...:" http://npr.tumblr.com/post/177977978289/the-camera-should-be-in-my-hand-thats-what
* "Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign:" http://prospect.org/article/trump-launches-aggressive-poverty-disinformation-campaign
* "Manafort uniquely positioned to offer insight on Russia and Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-uniquely-positioned-to-offer-insight-on-russia-and-trump-1321026627948?v=railb&
* "Letter accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault roils confirmation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/letter-accusing-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assault-roils-confirmation-1321024579758?v=railb&
* There is still time to protest before Thursday! Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition.
Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* "Texas Conservafools Snatching Beto Yard Signs:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/texas-conservafools-snatching-beto-yard.html
* Note: Texas is a major market for history textbooks, so American textbook publishers tend to cater to their standards. Basically, they have the biggest say in what goes into the newest textbooks, so it matters to the quality of everyone's education.
* "After public outcry, Texas unlikely to ax references to 'heroism' of Alamo defenders from history curriculum:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/11/texas-probably-wont-ax-reference-heroic-alamo-defenders-history-class-moses-slavery
* "In Texas public schools, it’s out with Helen Keller, in with Dolores Huerta:" https://thinkprogress.org/in-texas-public-schools-its-out-with-helen-keller-in-with-dolores-huerta-4c9523e16c80/
* We need massive protests on this one. "Why You Should Actually Be Terrified Right Now:" https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a23010174/stripping-american-citizens-passports-genocide/
* I am furious about this. "These Cancer Patients Wanted to Get Rid of Their Breasts for Good. Their Doctors Had Other Ideas.:" https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a22984204/breast-cancer-survivors-mastectomy-sexism/
* "Trans, Muslim and Living In Malaysia:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/trans-muslim-and-living-in-malaysia.html
* "The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/whose-farm-is-this-anyway/569227/
* "Category 6? Climate change may cause more hurricanes to rapidly intensify.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/09/11/category-climate-change-may-cause-more-hurricanes-rapidly-intensify/?utm_term=.e879f89510cd
* "Tropical Storm Florence batters North and South Carolina; 12 deaths reported - live updates:" https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/tropical-storm-florence-path-power-outage-flooding-latest-weather-hurricane-rain-2018-09-15/
* "Yellowstone hit by global warming, increased visitation: report:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yellowstone-climate/yellowstone-hit-by-global-warming-increased-visitation-report-idUSKCN1LR04P
* "Secrets of early human ancestors could be unlocked by African rainforests:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-secrets-early-human-ancestors-african.html
* Today I was super short sleeped as I had an afternoon guest. I made tea and we chattered and did a bit of Gothmas prep. After we went and looked at the Target display for fun, as they had put out the housewares since Monday. It was rather disappointing, to be honest. They usually have way more cool things. They did have some lights and filigree black pumpkins adored and would have bought if I were rich. (Look, as a poor person, I must take my pleasures where I can get them and looking at black skulls with purple bejeweling and pressing buttons on sample electronics is fun). Then I dropped them off at work.
Thanks to strong though sporadic rain I was able to solve the allergen vs. pathogen quandary in favour of allergens, as I woke up dramatically improved. no way could my sluggish immune system shrug of anything respiratory that fast. I'm not up to as good as it gets for me, but this is a level of for reasonable that noticeably improves with each passing hours. Rain tamps down allergens as I'm basically allergic to outside, but not inside things like mold, dust or cats.
I got my flu shot on the way home as a result. I think this may be one of the better ones, though odds are I'll be running a sporadic low grade fever soon enough. The vaccine is very, very worth it. I trade a sporadic low grade fever for a couple days to a week, plus maybe a wee bit of injection site itching depending on the shot make up for two weeks to a month of influenza which for someone with my set of genetic horrors is potentially dangerous. The partial immunity for similar strains in Spring is also very worth it. There is a reason my medical team is emphatic about me getting them and why I try to get them a early as I can each year.
Vaccinate yourself and your kids if you don't have medical contraindications such as allergiies to the injection or an illness precluding. It is safe and it HELPS.
Tavy let my friend pet hi again, a sign that they really do now count as adjunct clowder members in Tavy's mind. Today I wore one of the trousers I pulled out of storage. They fit as well as they did before I went on the medication that I went off to cause the subtle weight loss. This is actually better than expected. It looks like I need to do a repair to one of the chains, but other wise everything is good. Unfortunately, Livia is scared of the,. No really. The chains jingle softly when I walk. It is nowhere near as loud as the keys, but of a similar type. I am practicing walking softly and we'll see how that goes. She hid from the guest as usual, but I came home from dropping them off and knew she had been napping on the bed from the loud thump of her landing and a glimpse of her moving in the shadows. Tavy was still on the bed and being smaller, it's a lighter thump. She kept coming out when I wass doing plants/tank/food/lung, but whenever I started walking, she ran back to my room. The hope is she'll come out now I'm more still and I've worked out a way to minimize jingle. I don't plan to wear these trousers every day anyway, but only when I go out. The patched together silent ones, I'll use on days I stay home.
Update: Livia came out again while I was typing this entry. We'll see how she does.
Update 2: Even after I changed my trousers, Livia avoided me for hours. She eventually came around, luckily and is fine.
LM's been out and about since noon. This is not just the most social I've seen her since her cohort died, but this is the most physically active she's been since her brother and Mache went. Pretty good for a cranky old lady, I think. She even's been nibbling at the kibbles on her forays into the apartment proper, and tried one of the junior beasties crunchy treats, despite her having perfered to starve rather than eat kibbles anymore over a year ago, hence Squirrel switching her to an all goosh diet despite her still having her teeth. She still hisses at the junior beasties when they come to close, but I think she's finally accepted that the others are gone for real and these are the cats she has to hang out with. I am terribly proud of her. She came and got pettins on Mache's old pettin throne thrice! (The pettin throne is a footstool I found at a second hand store that is padded on top and was the exact right height for Mache to get on and off of herself easily even with her arthritis. It was perfect for her to nap on next to my desk, and whenever she woke, she'd get pettins on demand. The junior kitties mostly use it as a stepping stone for jumping on the desk, though both have used it now and then for things like short pettins or in Tavy's case, attempting to eat the arm of my chair.) Anyway, I have hopes that however many years LM has left will be better than the last few have been.
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* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:
- 7.1: Descent. We pick up with Picard, Geordi, and Deanna surrounded by Borg being lead by Lore and Date. Lore monologues about how he found Hugh's ship after the Enterprise rendered them individuals and "gave them a purpose," I.E: Serving Lore. I do like that he's not wrong about abandoning the new individuals to flail about was not okay, but that doesn't make Lore any better for having manipulated them into becoming his genocidal army. Meanwhile Dr. Crusher is commanding the Enterprise and Riker and Worf are searching the planet for Picard. The Borg ship comes back. They try to grab away teams before leaving, but they don't have time to get back 47, including Riker and Worf. Of course. Meanwhile they try to talk Data down, but all he feels is hatred and anger and he reasons back at them. He takes Geordi's visor. The Borg don't follow the ship; Riker orders the ones left on the planet to hide. Crusher and the B Team crewfolk come up with a risky plan to try to buy enough time to rescue the rest. Lore plans to experiment on humans. one of the Borg doesn't want to stay linked and prefers to think for himself, but Lore talks him out of it. Geordi could see a carrier wave comming from Lore before they took his visor and he thinks that's how he's manipulating Data. They decide to generate a pulse in hopes of reactivating Data's ethical sub-routine, but Data takes Geordi before they work out the details. Riker and Worf are taken to a cave of rebel rebel Borg who are Pissed. Hugh calls the Feds out on abandoning them to be used by Lore. He's not wrong. Anyway, when Lore started experimenting horribly on Borg to try to make them wholly artificial, that's when Hugh and the others fled. He asks after Geordi and on discovering he's being held by Lore, agrees to help with a rescue. meanwhile, Data is planning to replace Geordi's brain cells with an experimental neural net, a process that will likely kill him. Deanna and Picard try the old "he's sick" trick, which fools the guard, but Data turn's up with injured Geordi. Picard palmed a thingie from the guard they took down and Picard tries to make the pulse thingie with Geordi talking him through it. They beam as many up as they can in the time they have, but six are missing still. Crusher sets course towards the sun. They try an experimental shield Geordi designed. Geordi tries to get Data to be more Data by talking about shared memories. He gets data to delay killing all his brain cells by pointing out how data will likely see his actions if he ever is himself again. Data pretends he's not doing it for sciencey reasons. Lore victims blames; Data realizes if the humans die he will be responsible so looks like the pulse thingie works. Lore punishes Data by manipulating his emotions. The just out of the academy B Team crew woman saves the ship. Picard makes ethical arguments at Data to try to save Geordi. Lore orders Data to kill Picard; Data refuses. Lore monologues about he is making a sacrifice by killing Data. Hugh risks himself to save him and a Borg brawl breaks out with Riker and Worf sniping. Lore pretends he's going to give Data and emotion/Memory chip, but data sees through him, shooting nd deactivating him. Lore says he loves data just before he's deactivated. Hugh becomes the rebel Borg leader. Data's emotion chip was damaged. He says he is relieved as he doesn't want to risk hurting Geordi again. Geordi reaffirms their friendship, but also says "Someday when you're ready." This one had a lot of good ethical meat in it about unintended consequences. It was good to see Geordi's importance was repeatedly emphasized here. he's so often under utilized
- 7.2 Liaisons. Worf is procrastinating while insisting Klingons don't procrastinate, because he doesn't like diplomating. Riker teases him a bit. Apparently they are having a cultural exchange. Picard is going back with them while some exchange officers are paired up with enterprise crew. Riker's guy wants Worf instead so Worf is stuck with him. Deanna corrupts hers with Chocolate; Worf's is an asshole who orders him about. Data tells Worf to "build on your similarities." Ouch. Meanwhile Picard is on a really long trip with a man who doesn't small talk, but there is an emergency forcing them to land on a random planet. Picard's guy is injured and there is too much interference to get help from enterprise. Picard goes out to see if there is help at a nearby structure and gets electrocuted and dragged off. Back on the enterprise Worf is still being insulted. Deanna's diplomat is not completely obsessed with sweets, he's also fascinated by the existence of children since they wake from the pod fully grown. They take the child for dessert, Deanna's patience wearing thin. Picard wakes in a shelter with a mystery woman who says the pilot's dead. Mystery lady feeds him. She says she was a passenger on the ship they are sheltering in. She' been here seven years in turns out to her horror. Three of his ribs are broken. Her speech is halting from the years of not using her voice. He gets her to get stuff from the other ship. Worf is struggling not to kill asshole diplomat. Deanna admits the pleasure loving diplomat is getting a bit too much for her. Riker suggests poker, because of course he does. Picard discovers he's locked in; she claims it's to protect him from wild animals. He has only her word for what's really happening and it looks like the equipment's been phasored. He has only her word for anything. She is already claiming she loves him. Picard keeps working on his escpe and tries to explain to her she doesn't really love him. She is not best pleased to be rebuffed. The Ambassador steals Worf's chips during poker. They end up yelling and then fighting physically. Riker restrains Worf; the Ambassador thanks Worf and goes off to document the experience. Anna tries to stop Picard going back to the ship. he takes off the restricter and the ribs turn out not to be broken after all. He calls her on a whole list of lies. She sexually assaults him while demanding "Love me!" She sys she failed and leaves, locking him in. he hears the pilot calling and calls to him for help. The ilot claims to have been in a deathlike state and to have come looking for Picard when he woke. He claims he saw "Anna running" for the precipice. We only have his word for any of this. They split up to look for her at which point Picard conveniently finds her on the ledge, necklace that was broken fixed. She says she'll kill herself if Picard doesn't love her; Picard calls bullshit and she transforms back into the pilot. Apparently the first they knew of humans was Anna's logs in the crashed freighter. The pilot is the real Ambassador. The real Anna found the survivor of another crash and nursed him back to health, falling in love. They wanted to experience human emotions. Deanna's was to experience pleasure; Worf's was for anger and antagonism; Picard's was for love. They set up the conditions under which love had occurred previously. Picard explains that what the Ambassador has done is considered a crime in Picard's culture. Worf and his guy spent eleven hours sparring on the holodeck. Picard forgives the Ambassador.
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