It’s like people forget that young Kirk walked around with a stack of books so tall his classmates couldn’t see his face over it, and young Picard got stabbed through the heart in a bar fight
Picard, talking about the history of the Federation: “Kirk? That nerd.”
Saying young Picard got stabbed in bar fight doesn’t quite capture that Picard’s energy. He got stabbed in the heart in a barfight, andwas laughing about it as he collapsed.
i once wrote an entire academic paper with the central thesis of ‘everyone is kind of a dick to Data and it honestly kinda reflect how people treat neurodiverse people, which is also why we neurodiverse people relate to him so hard’
the original post was missing a line, so here’s the full poem!!