Christian Simmers

@Xuelder

Indie Game/Narrative Designer

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Christian Simmers @Xuelder8/18/2023, 8:41 PM

dante, personally @dante

Natalie @nex38/18/2023, 3:30 AM

list of religions in Star Trek whose mystical claims are canonically actually real

the Bajoran faith (the central Prophets are real although the true complexities of the faith have much more to do with the interpretations of prophecy than this particular fact)
whatever the hell Chakotay has going on (can magically speak to his dead ancestors because he's Fake Native)

#star trek #deep space 9 #star trek voyager

eevee @lexyeevee8/18/2023, 7:45 PM

this is because, for some reason, indigenous american beliefs are always true in all fictional settings. if a character has so much as a single indigenous great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent then they will have straight up magical powers, and moreover no one is surprised by this, it is just accepted as an obvious birthright. i am pretty sure john redcorn could lift a truck with his mind if he wanted to

Christian Simmers @Xuelder8/18/2023, 8:41 PM

Man, I feel cheated. All I inherited from my Lenape Grandpa was a love of motorsports and generational trauma.

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Ryan @fools-pyrite8/18/2023, 4:17 AM

whatever the Vulkans have going on, considering their space magic works (reincarnation, long-distance soul communication, mind-melds, etc.)

Natalie @nex38/18/2023, 4:20 AM

afaik Vulcans consider that scientific rather than mystical, so it's not really different than Betazoid telepathy or whatever

Ryan @fools-pyrite8/18/2023, 4:37 AM

Ah that’s fair. I think the talk around katras/souls reads fundamentally religious to me, but it is a studyable scientific phenomenon in the show

eevee @lexyeevee8/18/2023, 7:42 PM

we did get a look at an early vulcan-like civilization in TNG who were just shedding religion, so it might be vestiges from a bygone era, reinterpreted through being legit psychic

JcDent @JcDent8/18/2023, 6:20 AM

What about Who Mourns For Adonay? Also, wasn't there an episode with the actual Devil?

Kit @kitkat8/18/2023, 10:26 PM

Yeah, there was a TAS episode where Lucifer turned out to be an alien who travelled to (and then fled from) Earth. A bunch of his people were executed during the Salem witch trials and his species was quite upset about it.

Brian Danger Hicks @ckape8/19/2023, 12:20 AM

The devil thing was just a grifter. And she would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those lousy kids, er, Starfleet officers.

chronos @chronos-tachyon8/18/2023, 7:57 PM

Missing: the people of the sex planet who try to execute Wesley in TNG S1.

Christian Simmers @Xuelder8/18/2023, 9:23 PM

The Aztec god Kukulkan.

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Devour @Devour8/18/2023, 7:48 PM

Honestly, even if Chakotay is based on made up shit by a white man who pretended to be native, Indigenous people deserve to have mystical powers.

@Linkshot8/18/2023, 8:10 PM

he sure did lift Nancy's dumptruck with just a glance

Christian Simmers @Xuelder8/18/2023, 8:36 PM

Now I feel cheated that I didn't inherit magic powers from my grandpa, just generational trauma.

@AndrewJPlant8/18/2023, 9:33 PM

Sorry about all the colonialism and genocide, by way of apology we have made your belief system canonical in all fiction going forward.
Research? No, none, but we’re pretty sure we’ve got the gist of you guys’ whole thing.

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