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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 23h

There's only so many Nobel Peace Prizes we can give out. Try again next year - unless Gail gets nominated again. Then forget about it.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't run on my machine! I see everything to "low" and it still hangs. I'm devastated.

Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Pulaski also just puts on cat ears (or maybe a witch's hat) with her uniform because she's not that interested in the party.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Beverly is The Bride of Frankenstein. The outfit is medium effort but her hair is absolutely incredible. She keeps helping Barclay touch up his make up, because he's constantly rubbing his face.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Data, Geordie, & Barclay show up in a group costume inspired by The Wizard of Oz - Data is the Lion; Barclay the Tin Man; Geordie the Scarecrow. Data has Spot with him, dressed like Toto. Geordie's brought a date as Dorothy but she wanders off and doesn't talk to him for the rest of the party.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Troi just puts cat ears and some face-paint on her normal day-to-day tights.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Riker's outfit is Dracula but it's a very casual party costume - so he seems approachable and keeps the party vibe relaxed. He makes a show of his plastic teeth.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Guinan is with Picard, dressed as a queen to match. She doesn't seem to like wearing a barbette.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

It's easy to think Picard wouldn't show up to a Halloween party - but if he can dress up for Worf's promotion, he can dress up for this.

Picard is dressed as a king from a Shakespearean play. His costume is professional grade. He occasionally drops a line from Shakespeare, albeit awkwardly.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Sisko is a baseball player. 'nuf said.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Worf is dressed as a Samurai. Keiko ripped into him when she saw his costume a few days earlier, since it had a lot of historical inaccuracies, so what he's wearing now is absolutely authentic. He talks a lot about the significance of the armor and the weapons.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Miles OBrien shows up as Falco from Julien's holodeck programs, after discovering the outfit is recoverable from the transporter buffer and geeking out about it. Keiko has a sleek Bond girl dress with a floral pattern, but he seems insecure about the attention she's going to get.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Kira shows up in a white sheet wanting to be a classic halloween ghost. But with her arms under the sheet she has trouble holding her drink. Flustered and annoyed, she soon just tosses the sheet aside - it looks nothing like a ghost anyway. She spends the rest of the party in her everyday clothes.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Rom is dressed as a Kirk-era starfleet captain. "Wait 'til Nog sees me - _a starfleet captain_!" Leeta is his yoeman, in a miniskirt.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Bashir shows up in one half of a two-person costume, something from a great cardassian work of literature Garak shared with him. He thought Garak was going to be the other half, but Garak insists he doesn't remember agreeing to that.

Garak is dressed in a gimmicky devil costume.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Odo wasn't interested until he stumbled upon the Halloween films - Michael Meyer's mask with its lack of facial definition, sparks his interest. Seeing Michael credited as "the shape of evil" convinces him that it's a costume meant for a shape shifter.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Quark complains about hoo-man traditions & doesn't have a costume but Jadzia straps some dangling thing on his nose, held in place by visible elastics. He asks what the hell he's supposed to be and she says he's an elephant - an earth creature with enormous lobes, just like him. He keeps it on.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Jadzia shows up dressed as one of the half black/white Cheron natives. She tells the story of how Curzon once broke up a fight between two of them in a bar during his younger days, heavily implying that they all went home together.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

Someone on reddit asked what the characters from TNG and DS9 would wear to a halloween party and I really enjoyed answering so I'm going to share my opinions here.

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 1d

"Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the Moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth." -Al Worden

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 2d

"I feel like the world isn't filled with enough conflict these days" -Gail Simone, 2025

Brenda Song's character from The Social Network setting a fire in a hotel room

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 2d

You're the hero we need

Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 3d

Exact same for me

Infuriating

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Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 4d

_sick_

Richard JP Le Guen @richardjpleguen.bsky.social · 4d

Some day I'll find my way back on this list

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