This Week's Culture Round-up

[tea_drinker77]

Before we get to the epic barbarian art and horror movie posters, I thought I’d start with some serious links about writing.
Although I enjoy a bit of writing (as my several blogs attest), I’m not sure that I’d like to do it professionally, but for those of you who do have such ambitions, via @HarriKay on twitter we have Chuck Wendig’s, 25 Things I

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[angevin2]

I have spent way too much of my life watching TNG, so I can give a reasonably detailed rundown of the Worf video! I'm obviously not going through it piece by piece, because WAY TOO MANY CLIPS, but the bits they showed fall roughly into the following categories (from most to least frequent):

1. Worf's suggestion is reasonable but more aggressive than Captain Picard wants to be
2. Worf's suggestion is reasonable given the information available at that point in the episode but later events demonstrate it would have been a bad idea
3. Worf is serving the standard Star Trek function of Overprotective Subordinate
4. Other crew members eventually accept Worf's suggestion, but the clip is cut so that that part isn't shown
5. Worf is acting out of emotional pressure or distress
6. Worf turns out to have been right but listening to him would have prevented the plot of the episode from happening
7. Worf is weighing in on other people's choices that are not his to make
8. The scene turns out to be not real (dream, holodeck, alternate reality, &c

[tea_drinker77]

Ha ha! That is brilliant. I've noticed No. 6. a couple of times.