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Just me and my best frenemy making soulful eye contact. Nothing to see here.

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happy Beheading Wednesday [screenshot from nocontexttrek1.bsky.social]

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The older I get the more I relate to this.

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“The Starfleet Gazette will not be endorsing a candidate in the upcoming election for president of the United Federation of Planets. This decision was not made lightly, but neither of the two candidates—decorated Starship Voyager Captain Kathryn Janeway or The Borg—has shown us a real path to endorsement, and we must stay true to our priorities: journalistic integrity and not pissing off The Borg.

“Sure, The Borg have been a bit of a problem. Their tendency toward mass assimilation and the stripping of individuality and personal freedom doesn’t exactly jibe with our idea of what makes a great leader. But let’s be honest. Kathryn Janeway hasn’t been perfect.”

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Random Star Trek smiles for a better day

Bonus

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Before every decision ask yourself, "Would Worf do that?"

Don't base your actions on the answer, though. Worf made terrible decisions. It's just something fun to think about.

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I texted my husband about the TV, and my phone tried to autocorrect it to T’Vel.

A Vulcan name, which, to my knowledge, I have never typed on my phone.

Which means that even my phone assumes I’m just always talking about Vulcans instead of common household objects.

Call it conSpockuous consumption…

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unrestrained summer fun

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I just started watching Star Trek Next Generation. I met this guy for a total of 5 seconds and already know he's a slut.

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Data, Star Trek The Next Generation

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hikaru sulu comforting his plant

star trek tos s01e01

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TNG Original Costume Tests: Geordi La Forge

I don’t have the actual documentary, just the Trekcore caps, so forgive me if I miss anything, and feel free to add on if you have more info!

The VISOR here looks a lot more like a plain old visor to me, what with the smoothness and shininess. Though it still looks rather futuristic. Maybe I’m just attached to the VISOR the way it ended up! Interesting that it still has the silver frame and gold middle color scheme! It just doesn’t have the tines.

Straight-up ICONIC look right here. Not only does the VISOR look fantastic, the whole outfit combo is just so happy. I usually don’t love the colour yellow. This is a major exception. LeVar Burton made a fantastic choice of clothes and I’m so glad it’s enshrined for posterity. I have an irrational love for this look. I think about it all the time. (Also: this is the source of a fantastic gif by @star-trekster)

Nice close up on the two different colours for the ocular implants of his VISOR! They ended up going with the red one, but the multicoloured one also looks cool! It looks more like Data’s inner workings.

There are also a few tests that are obviously not on LeVar Burton (I don't know who this actor is, but I think they also screen tested some general crew uniforms), but are still interesting. This one has a black frame and some sort of sparkly thing going on. To me, the middle looks weirdly recessed to me, because it doesn’t have the tines filling it in.

The on screen visor designs tend to have the tines more significantly overlapped (season 1, they’re almost all the way across, and in later seasons they’re connected to both the top and bottom of the frame), so the half overlapping tines combined (com-tined?) the slightly taller frame make it look a lot larger. However, it doesn’t reach all the way to the ears like the on screen version does.

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Ensign Beckett Mariner