They are definitely doing this without Starfleet approval. Pike's ship prioritizes individuals over regulations, an ethos that carries forward when Kirk takes the chair.
Well that's pretty rude. Kathy Bates is an attractive person and doesn't deserve this kind of slander.
Technically it was a train, and they were experiencing a transcendent connection across time with their older selves, in a deliberately unsettling and transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror -- an eldritch carrion-eater who feeds on destroying the souls of children -- as a way of reclaiming strength from vulnerability. At any rate, depiction is not endorsement.
But yes, considering how many actual adults misinterpret and mischaracterize that scene, I don't recommend that particular book to children -- not because they'll be damaged by it, but because they won't have the wisdom of age to understand it.
If you use language like "beta" unironically, you may already be a beta.
It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.
Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and... just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.
The truth is he can't control what pops out of his mouth and he knows that.
Untreated mental illness supplemented by fame-induced yes-men syndrome.
What he needs is a good slap and a kick to the groin.
Dax would beat the ass of anyone putting dumbass words like that in her mouth.
What do you want to bet that the code for "female students" is at least three times as long and contains the words "leg skin"?
Groomers hate sex ed, because it eliminates the ignorance they need to exploit in order to lure in their victims.
If kids don't know they're being abused, they can't tell on their abusers. Gotta ask why the right wing is so vehemently against empowering children.
Bringing up AOC every time Boebert shits the bed is unfair and degrading to AOC.
I suspect Batel's fate is foreshadowed in her mindmeld with Spock. The hybridization will give her a Gorn aspect that she can't live with, but it will also grant her the ability to communicate with the Gorn, and she'll wind up sacrificing herself.