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Committing to the bit so hard you actually start thinking all the technology on the set is real

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DS9 as a show dares to ask the important questions, like for example “would Star Trek still be good if it was set at the food court at the mall??” and the answer to that is “yes, and actually it will somehow be better”

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Tell me you don't understand what Section 31 is without telling me you don't understand what Section 31 is.

S31, as introduced in DS9, isn't just Starfleet black ops who get to do some light murder as a treat. It's a top secret organization that serves Federation interests by any means necessary. S31's founding principle is that the ends justify the means. S31 is willing to kidnap, murder, even commit genocide if it will protect Federation interests. (This is explicitly shown to be a bad thing, by the way.)

Most importantly, S31 exists outside of all official Federation oversight. Most people don't even have a clue that S31 exists. The entire point of S31 is that they will do the dirty work that the Federation cannot be seen doing, and if a S31 member is ever caught, the Federation can plausibly disavow. If it were ever to come out that the Federation had full knowledge of S31's actions, and even sanctioned them? All hell would break loose. In fact, it's debatable if S31 ever had any official affiliation with Starfleet, or if it's an entirely rogue operation run by Sloan.

And then we get to the modern Trek shows, where literally no one understands any of this. Discovery made S31 not only common knowledge, but gave them special black combadges so its members could be recognized on sight. And now the upcoming S31 movie has this abomination of a line. "Starfleet is here to make sure no one commits murder" -- what!? Again, S31 does not work if Starfleet is there to keep them in check. That is literally against the entire point of the group.

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Honestly the Equinox survivors being a running Thing in Voyager instead of never being mentioned again after they're assimilated into Voyager's crew is something I never thought of before but that has SO much potential. Both in showing how far the Maquis and Starfleet crews have grown (they are now a united front!) and also having new blood in the water when it comes to 'crew vs crew' storylines. (Voyager barely did anything with the Maquis v Starfleet thing in the first place but y'know) Ex: Are the Equinox crew held in contempt by the rest of the crew? Unlike the Maquis, their motives are far less sympathetic, and yet there's a core of dark relatability to them. They all want to survive. They were all thrown into this quadrant without wanting to be. If they were in the same position as Equinox's crew, not a captain or commander - but an ensign etc. Would they have stood up and said something? Does the introduction of this new blood stir up old grievances with the existing crew? (They are a Starfleet crew turned Criminal, there are parallels to both sides of the crew) Does it unite them into a larger 'us' to vs 'them' - and is that unity coming at the expense of these new crew members? Are there people that are sympathetic to the Equinox crew under these circumstances and do they too start being treated with contempt? Is the Equinox crew is being treated poorly, does it stir up resentment amongst them? Does it lead to them isolating themselves further, giving the crew even less chance to get to know them? Do people feel less inclined to protect and stand up for these crewmembers? How culpable are the members of the Equinox crew? Should they be forgiven, can they be forgiven? Do the Equinox crew feel like actual members of Voyager? Do they suffer from any trauma from what they went through and what they ended up resorting to to survive? What can be done to help them, should we help them? Do they deserve to suffer? Are some of the Equinox crew resentful? On all sides: Do they mean us harm? Can we trust them? Can we trust them? Can we trust them? Picture an episode where an Equinox crewmember is sent out and gets injured. That Equinox member then claims that they were sent out intentionally by a member of Starfleet with intent to harm them. We then see an investigation carried out - multiple people with varying complicated allegiances all within the crew talk about what they saw, what they think happened, etc and as we slowly shift focus to the crew itself (shifting focus from our main characters - this is Voyager's 'Lower Decks' episode) we see that crew relations are not as blandly positive as the senior staff think. In the end, it's determined that what happened was a normal accident with no ulterior motives. But we the audience aren't sure, and we're left with that uncertainty.

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i may be becoming a spirk girlie

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I'm on some kind of gayass journey

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happy last same year as it was yesterday 2024 tuesday

todays the only/last day you can reblog this lol

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While I do love the concept of the Mirrorverse in Star Trek being the sexy evil parallel timeline of the normal trek universe. It does have some funny implications, like are the regular non main character people in the Mirrorverse evil and sexy too?

This is our star base cook, but in the Mirrorverse, he's a sexy evil chef that makes cafeteria food (but in an evil and sexy way). James works in sanitation in the normal universe, but in the Mirrorverse, he's also a sanitation worker but sexy and dark and evil (he doesn't restock the toilet paper). The starfleet seamstress/uniform designer is sexy and dark and evil, which is why they only make skimpy clothings because they're skimming the funds for buying fabric (evil). This is Samantha she is an accountant (but evil and sexy)

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I think Spock could hang out with Squidward because they're the same type of cultured faggot but Squidward would get petty and mean about something and Spock would be like honestly mr tentacles I find this type of outburst very distasteful. & he would fix him

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trek show following Kasidy Yates called Star Truck

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Star Trek: Lower Decks | Recording Studio Behind-The-Scenes [x]

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happy holidays from the s’chn t’gais!

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sometimes in garashir fics, observers are inexplicably Really Happy for the couple, and Garak (used to being generally untrusted and ostracized) is like. hmm. that's unexpected, but i appreciate it! and doesn't really question it further

but i also think it would be funny to have people be super supportive and for Garak to go full paranoia-mode about it. "They must be lying, there must be a plot. They would never be this pleased to see the Doctor dating a former member of the Obsidian Order otherwise. Bashir is part of their plan, clearly, but is he in on it? What is their plan? Why is it so important that I date Bashir?" And then Garak starts desperately looking through all of the station's classified information and spying on officers, trying to find what bit of information he missed

In my heart, this fic is silly in spirit with a happy ending (and perhaps a very stunned and confused Garak, who is still trying to process the fact that people were genuinely happy for them and bashir really truly does want him), but it could also make for something very angsty, if people so pleased

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I know Lwaxana was originally written as a horny cougar joke but I kinda love the idea that betazoids have a different reproductive curve than humans and reach peak fertility in their forties or fifties. There would be a whole cultural idea around having to have at least a few decades of life experience and a well established career before you're even considered ready to raise a child.

All this to say that Lwaxana having Deanna in her twenties was probably a huge scandal. Like, this girl from this incredibly prestigious family having the equivalent of a teenage pregnancy and then, because the father is a human the child is basically disabled as well. Prime gossip material.

I believe that is why Lwaxana is like that. She had to learn to not give a shit about other people's opinion very young and she became the legend of a federation ambassador and the woman who will live her best life no matter what just to show them.

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so i've been slowly introducing my girlfriend to star trek tos. we're gonna watch twok soon, and i mentioned offhand the atrocious khan recast from into darkness. her reaction:

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tbh I feel like there was a lot of wasted comedic potential in the fact that Dax had been joined to a cold blooded killer