Centauri: Alex! Alex! You're walking away from history! History! Did Chris Columbus say he wanted to stay home? Nooooo. What if the Wright Brothers thought that only birds should fly? And did Galoka think that the Ulus were too ugly to save?
Alex: Who's Galoka?
Centauri: Never mind.
"Sci-fi stories love listing two real historical figures and then one future one. It’s always like, “Who can forget the great civil rights leaders: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Xorgel Prime”"
"If this works, you'll be joining an elite group of pilots. Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong, Zefram Cochrane and Tom Paris."
—Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager "Threshold"
my favorite trope is the thing star trek does where when a character lists something and they’ll list real things/people but add 1 thats fictional, like “great writers such as shakespeare, robert frost, edgar allan poe and zaxar the giant rat man“
—Roxy Ashley-Wednesday Ristar, viral tumblr post
"In our homeland, an innocent girl was kidnapped and, over the course of a month, tortured to death by homegrown thugs. In our homeland, the government systematically slaughtered dozens of men, women, children, even babies, for science, and escaped consequences. In our homeland, a terrorist cult successfully brought around the borderline end of the world."
. In our homeland, the government systematically slaughtered dozens of men, women, children, even babies, for science, and escaped consequences. In our homeland, a terrorist cult successfully brought around the borderline end of the world."—Junpei Ichikawa, Danganronpa: Paradise Lost
