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Hell yeah

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cowritten by  @rubbertplant !

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The core of Star Trek is optimism about the future, and this is why one of the quiet, ongoing themes of every show is adults spending their free time engaging in table top games, pretend play, sports, music, art, and other hobbies. No matter what crazy space conflict or reality-warping improbability they've gotten wrapped up in, someone is still running around, pretending they're robin hood. Someone is painting a sunset. A pair of friends are playing cards. A group has formed a chamber ensemble. This is utopia.

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Star Trek: Enterprise // S02E14: Stigma

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here he comes

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spocktober day 17: mind meld

i love those fics where the first time they meld properly kirk's mind goes "omg it's spock! hiiii!!"

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mewhen i finally datapost on main Hey Guys :3

plus some other Digitals i rly like :p

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Happy Captain Picard Day, everyone!!

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Picard always pulling his shirt down cause he's actually readjusting his binder. It's really annoying but he can't get surgery cause that'd mean Bev sees him naked (mortifying)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 4x10.

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From my TNG Animal Crossing series! I think they’re all so cute!! I have more than this but I’ll post them later!

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just riker things

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Wesley is 100% scrolling a shitposting meme page.

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IDIC: Star Trek and LGBT+🖖🏳️‍🌈

In case anybody needed to hear this reminder today:

Let’s not forget what long time Star Trek writer (TOS, TAS, TNG) David Gerrold had to say about Star Trek and the LGBT+ community:

“ Well, here’s a little message for the pearl-clutching drama queens … 

Get over yourselves.

I was there when Gene Roddenberry promised to include gay people in Star Trek. I heard him say it to fans. I heard him say it to staff.

It was a promise he was never allowed to keep because of studio homophobia.

I know why it didn’t happen. I know who’s responsible for thirty years of keeping gay Trek characters in the closet.

But I know what Gene intended. He intended to include everyone.

If Star Trek hadn’t been all-inclusive, not only would there not have been tribbles,

There wouldn’t have been George Takei,

There wouldn’t have been Bill Theiss’ costumes

Or Mike Minor’s art direction.

There wouldn’t have been Merritt Butrick,

and at least a dozen other people who’ve made major contributions to the show.

But you don’t get to define Star Trek, that’s Gene Roddenberry’s job.” -

🖖🏳️‍🌈 IDIC

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I wrote a little thing about Spock playing kal-toh last night and I have to say I love the concept of that game so much. For anyone unfamiliar it's Tuvok's "Vulcan chess" from Voyager and it's played by arranging these metal rod things into a perfectly ordered pattern.

I love this because a) I would be all over that shit I just know it and b) you know Spock is so bad at this game.

The point of the game, in the Surakian sense, is to train the Vulcan playing to create order from chaos. A metaphor for the well-lived Vulcan life, where the playing rods are the pieces of one's life.

Do we think Mr. "I'm running away from home to join Starfleet, I'm falling in love with my human captain, I'm refusing to tell my doctor about a medical issue until I'm moments from death, there's no mutinies on record, sir" Spock appreciates the spiritual message of kal-toh? Do we think he resonates with the idea of reducing chaos?

(No. He does not.)

Anyway, this is why Spock plays human chess.

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Star trek episodes where a character gets introduced and one of the main ones falls in love with them are very funny because at the end its like. Uh oh the love of my life just got blasted exploded in space!!! Ah well anyways. Space, the final frontier, these are the