29 Days of Star Trek - Day 28 - Your favourite friendship in Star Trek?

The obvious one to go for is Kirk, Spock and McCoy. I don't know how deliberate it was, but they're very much a version of 'the heart, the head and the hand' in the way that the epigram of Metropolis has it 'The mediator between Head and Hands must be the Heart', with McCoy being the hands, Spock the head and Kirk the hands. The interesting thing is that, despite their deep disagreements, they are friends, and it's very rare that they threaten to stop this friendship because of their disagreements.

Then there's Geordi and Data, and the interesting thing is how Geordi is the crewmember who most often sees that Data is a robot (there being a difference between knowing, and having to check his wiring), but he's also the one who is most determined that he is not a toaster.

I have a soft spot for Odo and Quark's Odo and Quarkiness, because they're fun. And O'Brien and Bashir's friendship which is every man who has golfing buddies (or tennis buddies, or squash buddies ...), and it's one of the examples of taking something everyday and turning it just slightly sci-fi with the addition of the holodeck. But I <3 Dax and Sisko's friendship because yay, cultural depiction of a friendship between a man and a woman where neither party is attracted to the other, and also it draws on who she was in the past, while it's still clear that Sisko is friends with Jadzia as well as Curzon.

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Links

Graphic Design:

From Psycho to Jurassic Park: exploring iconic movie poster typography - http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/design/214457-movie-poster-font-guide via @TwistedSifter on twitter.

Miscellaneous:

Visualizing Africa's Progress in Health, Food Provision, Political Freedom, Poverty and Education. - http://ourworldindata.org/VisualHistoryOf/AfricaInData.html#/title-slide via nwhyte

The climb that left me frozen with fear - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32814403 Actually, I'm more interested in the history bit of this >>All this is a far cry from the club's origins. It began in the Soviet era when Vystejn and other teenagers gazed at the numerous 100m-tall chimneys around Prague and dreamed how liberating it would feel to climb them.
In the early 1980s, they decided to make the dream into a reality. What initially was a solitary adventure to defy the Communist authorities developed into a regular pastime.<<

Politics:

MPs Have Launched Their First Ever Inquiry Into Transgender Equality To Help Eradicate 'Unfair Treatment' - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/27/women-equalities-committee-mps-maria-miller-transgender-inquiry_n_7877464.html?1437992941&utm_hp_ref=uk&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067 This is good news.

Science:

Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - http://www.wired.com/2015/07/crispr-dna-editing-2/ via @TwistedSifter on twitter.

Sports:

Snooker:

Stuart Bingham: World champion donates cash to tournament - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/33600559 In which Stuart Bingham wins forever.