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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Consider starting with the TOS movies. They’re a great introduction to the original cast, using a higher budget and better writing than the show. They’re set after TOS, but don’t require you to know anything about it to watch them. The quality of the movies follows the playground rhyme “first the worst, second the best”.

    My personal favourite series, by a country mile, is Lower Decks. You are in for an absolute treat whenever you decide to start on them. Unlike the others, though, Lower Decks massively rewards familiarity with other Star Trek series. The more of them you watch before picking it up, the more you will get out of it.







  • I read this and immediately thought “well, that’s completely wrong”.

    I’m British, so to me “Asian” usually means from the Indian Subcontinent. Some of those guys can be very beardy!

    Anyway, the answer to your question is a phenomenon called Neoteny.

    Basically, it’s the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood. It occurs almost exclusively through sexual selection.

    In East Asia populations, there is a mutation in the EDAR gene which is associated with the specific differences you’ve mentioned (along with thicker head hair, less prominent chins, smaller boobs, etc).