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We as a fandom should collectively storm into heaven, throw aziraphale at Crowley, then like beat the shit out of the metatron

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pornbots are so annoying like I’m not gonna fall for this I’m not an idiot I know sex isn’t real and its just something made up for spirk fanfiction

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It's funny how the writters from Star Trek knows what we think about a Vulcan and a Human shaking hands, specifically Spock and Jim shaking hands and still they go and put this idiots to make out in front of everyone

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I want to see something, if you ship Qcard reblog this

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Star Trek TOS : S02-E20

McCoy can't handle them anymore

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the quickening is such an underrated episode but i think that my favorite thing about it is that it never would’ve worked in season 1. that julian was so obsessed with making a name for himself and using his practice to stroke his own ego that it wouldn’t have been believable to have him confront his arrogance and push past it in order to find a cure for those people at that point in his development. he still has that idealism and optimism, but his experiences so far: with garak and the wire, vedek bareil etc. have given him a selflessness and pragmatism that dr. “frontier medicine” definitely didn’t have coming in. so even though that episode is brilliant as a stand-alone, it’s poignance is significantly heightened when you place it in the context of julians progress

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Get you someone who looks at you like Julian looks at Garak.

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Lost plot of DS9: A changeling infiltrates the station and mimics different crew members. Sisko becomes suspicious when O'Brien says he's well rested. Dax and Bashir experience a rift in their friendship after Bashir watches four episodes of The real housewives of Andoria without her.

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from a doctor to the doctor, here’s my concepts for a fourteenth doctor as played by alexander siddig! i’m sure the chances of him being cast are slim, but i figured i put this out into the universe before we actually get an announcement

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having now seen all of ds9 i feel like i can fully articulate my thoughts on jadzia’s death within the context of the whole show. obviously, jadzia’s death made me sad and emotionally i wish it didn’t happen. but that’s the point of her dying. i should feel something. just because the death made sad doesn’t mean it’s bad thematically.

i think in the context of what the show is building towards, it makes sense. there is a war mounting and it’s coming closer and closer to home. giving all of our main characters plot armor doesn’t fit with the themes of ds9. people suffer and people die. political actions have moral, mortal consequences. the show is heightening the losses. our most recent was odo, briefly, betraying kira and siding with the female founder. the next step up from that is to kill one of our main cast.

i also think it would’ve had to be jadzia or jake. sisko’s faith as the emissary also keeps being tested, and for him to end up where he ultimately does, the losses ultimately need to get worse for him. his latest test was to let jake fight the battle of the prophets and the pah-wraiths and trust the prophets wouldn’t let him die. and kai wynn, in the end, took that choice away from him. so it has to be dax who dies. she’s one of his oldest friends. the loss has to be so great that he’d leave ds9 and try and find himself again.

ultimately, the thing that gets me about jadzia’s death is she gets shot in the back. it feels so disrespectful and it’s so counter to jadzia’s character as a whole. she’s a fighter. she married a klingon! and i think her death would’ve had even more impact if she’d fought pah-wraith!dukat and lost. dukat tries to take the orb and jadzia, despite not believing in the prophets, knows how important this ritual object is and defends it. it would’ve been a strong and tragic emotional gesture, it would’ve showed us how powerful the pah-wraiths made dukat, and it would’ve given jadzia the opportunity to die on her feet. i think that would’ve been a much more fitting goodbye to this character.

so ultimately i think the death makes sense but i think they did her such a disservice in the way they killed her

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Scenario: All in one

Sometimes I headcanon, that the Q Continuum exists outside the Multiverse. 

Which means 

a) Q gets to pester/annoy/flirt with a (near) infinite number of Picard, with whom he is on different terms with. Which could give a new meaning to Q calling them ‘pals’ in that one scene, because in Verse C137c they are pals, and he confused it with the verse he was currently in (C138c).

b) Becoming a Q essentially means that you become all the different versions of yourself all in one. Which is something the Qs generally leave out when extending the offer because they know it will freak the lesser beings out and may dissuade them from making the ebst choice in their otherwise miserable existence. 

and

c) Q essentially only has to find the one version of Picard who trusts him enough and who is willing enough to become a Q to get all of them. 

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They look like they are getting married by the captain

They Are

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Virtually nothing about Damar is gay coded whatsoever but he still does not come off as straight at all I can’t explain it

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There are actors that have played more roles in in Star Trek than Jeffrey Combs, but I think the reason he stands out is that he just so blatantly plays the same character in all his roles. The other actors do great with their multiple roles but they are all different and the fandom mostly doesn't notice them. Jeffrey just keeps playing the same sassy bitch over and over again, sometimes even simultaneously, and we all love it.

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First and Last

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if quodo isn’t real explain THIS

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So like I get that people have this issue with Star Trek taking so long to have a canonically queer principle character, and I get that people kind of take issue with there being a sort of ‘qualifier’ on Jadzia/Lenara as they were husband and wife in their previous lives, but I also feel like a lot of people don’t appreciate how incredible this story was?

The Jadzia/Lenara story revolved around two characters who were forbidden from being together by the taboos and laws of their culture. And it wasn’t just a metaphor - they actually used two women. This is a queer story about two women who aren’t allowed to be together because of their cultural norms. Any signs of affection between them were seen as inherently wrong, risky, dangerous etc. Lenara works under the constant, watchful eye of her brother, who continually makes his opinion about his ~concern~ for her known. And eventually Jadzia has to choose between the woman she loves and the life she wants because she won’t be allowed to have both - if she begins a relationship with this woman, her life as she knows it is over and shew ill be ostracized from her society, never allowed to re-enter it. And every moment of it is believable and full of beautifully painful affection…

In 1995 they shamelessly presented a wlw love story complete with longing, affectionate looks, confessions of love, and kisses. And like Kira Nerys says “I don’t understand how two people who’ve fallen in love and made a life together can be forced to walk away from each other because of a taboo!” Like… they weren’t be subtle about this at all.

As for the “qualifier” that somehow makes it less queer….? These two people carry the memories of a man and woman who used to be married, so I guess a lot of people saw this story as a second-hand het love story, but to me that was a really important part of the story because it presented this wlw relationship as totally equal to a het marriage. Their love is intense, believable, and on par with a male/female relationship.