Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 118

Jì City (Jìchéng, 薊城) -> Zhūo Commandery (Zhūojùn, 涿郡) -> Yōu Prefecture (Yōuzhōu, 幽州) -> Fanyang (范阳) -> Yān Capital (Yānjīng, 燕京) -> Youzhou -> South Capital (!) (Nánjīng, 南京) -> Yānjīng -> Yān Hill (Yānshān, 燕山) -> Yānjīng -> Middle Capital (Zhōngdū, 中都) -> Yānjīng -> Big Capital (Dādū, 大都) -> North Peace (Běipíng, 北平) -> North Capital (Běijīng, 北京) -> Běipíng -> Běijīng -> Běipíng -> Běijīng

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of…

Beijing has been a capital multiple times not mentioned above, and had a few other names too. Same for Nanjing. They have both been capitals on and off for the last two thousand years, so they must both be good places for it.

It makes sense. If you look at the day map they're both in the big green blobs where the food is, and if you look at the night map they're both in the big blobs of light where the people are.

Two hundred years later out in the Pacific, Japan renames their capital East Capital (Tōkyō), not for any Chinese reasons, but because it too is east of an old capital Kyōto.

Still, it feels nice and consistent to know there's an East Capital east of North Capital and South Capital. There is no West Capital today, but Xi'an has from time to time been named that (Xījīng) and it is indeed west of the others.

So to sum it up and to skip a bunch of dynasties and capitals that are no fun for the purposes of this summary, there was the capital of Ji (not of a unified China, just of Yan).

Then there was a Lower Capital, because it was "below" Ji.

Much later Yuan renamed Ji to Middle Capital because it was between Lower Capital and a new (secondary) Upper Capital.

Next up, Ming had a capital, but moved to old Ji again, and now it was North Capital because it was north of the old one. And the old one was renamed South Capital (Nánjīng) because it was south of the new one.

TIL how Beijing ("North Capital") could previously (well, one of the previous times) have been Zhōngdū ("Middle Capital"). Sounds obvious, there must have been some other capitals in at least two directions, but I never looked up what those cities were.

The summer capital of Shàngdū (Xanadu! Yes! That one!) ("Upper Capital") was north of it, in today's Inner Mongolia.

In contrast to my assumption above though, there doesn't seem to have been a Lower Capital at the time. There was a Xiàdū during the Yan dynasty in the Warring States Period, but that's over 1000 years earlier, so that must have been lower than something else.

*looks it up*

Xiàdū was below Yan, which was the main capital of the Yan dynasty. That was *also* yet another name for Beijing. Beijing must be a *really* good place for a Chinese capital, huh.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongdu (中都)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangdu (上都)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiadu (下都)

I re-watched Lower Decks S2E09, "wej Duj", where we get to see simultaneous Lower Decks action on the Cerritos, a Klingon ship and a Vulcan ship. Wonderful stuff! One of the best episodes.

#StarTrek #LowerDecks
#StarTrekLowerDecks #STLD
#LowerDecksS2

"we ain't found shit", 34 years later

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7TnQBSV0…

I knew Tim Russ, Tuvok on Voyager, was "we ain't found shit" guy in Spaceballs, but now I learned he also played multiple roles and species on DS9, TNG, films and even The Orville.

Got some catching up to do. I loved his Tuvok, he was one of the saving graces of Voyager.

#StarTrek

> Let's have
> Hamberger
> Together

#TShirtSpotting

I enjoyed 2009, it had fun stuff, good acting, in particular Quinto, but the space drill thing ... didn't see Into Darkness and I don't know if I will. I'm considering it. Beyond was fun but I don't remember the story.

I agree that if they revitalized interest in Star Trek it was all worth it. Blessed SNW is here.

Robert Meyer Burnett, who worked on the remastered Star Trek TNG Blu-Rays:

> For me, as a Star Trek fan, the imagination and the thought that was on display in [Star Trek: The Motion Picture] – of the Star Trek universe itself – was wondrous [ . . . ]

> The greatest thing about [Abrams Star Trek] – I will say this – it made a lot of money, it brought the franchise back from the dead, and now new Star Trek is viable and lucrative; people are going back and rediscovering the original show, which is really the most important thing. I just wish it were a lot more intelligent.

Longer quotes:

> As a life-long Star Trek fan [ . . . ] when Star Trek: The Motion Picture came out and I saw the design of the new Enterprise, which you could tell was bad-ass, it was souped up, but it all made sense. [ . . . ]
> But when you saw the interior – this is what blew my mind the most – [ . . . ] when you saw that, you realized that the entire internal makeup, the internal design of the Enterprise had been incredibly well thought out. You looked and that and just thought, “Oh my god!” [ . . . ]
> For me, as a Star Trek fan, the imagination and the thought that was on display in that movie – of the Star Trek universe itself – was wondrous.

> One of the things about the Abrams Star Trek that irked me to no end is how they just haphazardly put into that movie whatever they particularly wanted. [ . . . ]
> I’m sorry, but the Starship Enterprise was simply not built on a planet. It just wasn’t. [ . . . ]
> The greatest thing about it – I will say this – it made a lot of money, it brought the franchise back from the dead, and now new Star Trek is viable and lucrative; people are going back and rediscovering the original show, which is really the most important thing. I just wish it were a lot more intelligent.

blog.trekcore.com/2013/01/excl…
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#StarTrek #StarTrekTheMotionPicture #STTMP #StarTrek2009 #KelvinTimeline

👆 "T’Pen and Marmalade - a Vulcan adopts a cat" is kind of a #HumansAreDocBrown story, or perhaps one in reverse.

#StarTrek #HumansAreSpaceOrcs

Source and followup stories from the author account linked in the Mediachomp post:

"T’Pen and Marmalade - a Vulcan adopts a cat"
azzandra.tumblr.com/post/18211…

- "with reblog additions!"
tumblr.com/blog/view/uberguber…

- "another long version"
tumblr.com/blog/view/your-sove…

- "the one that also includes Sivok"
azzandra.tumblr.com/post/18349…

Author page: tumblr.com/azzandra

"Ugh, why do these characters keep being so immature, making stupid decisions?"

It's so we can get a shared language to navigate life, sweetie.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Ross and Rachel on the break.