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Very cool, very strange TMP poster, from ArtofTrek on Twitter

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The animated Star Trek crew (minus McCoy and Chapel)

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Enterprise-D, Defiant, and Voyager departing from an Upper Pylon

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Voyager Week - Day 1: Favourite Episode

movie-style poster for Barge Of The Dead

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COULD YOU TWO ACTUALLY BE ANY WORSE AT LOOKING INCONSPICUOUS

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The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual

Memory Alpha • Full text online

You know what startles me? Discovering that this manual made it into Memory Alpha. That means it’s not a “licensed product”—it’s considered core canon. And supposedly its creation was overseen by McCoy! “I’m a doctor, not a writer,” but here he is, writing a medical reference manual. Good job bro.

Features:

The full text of the Hippocratic oath

Hot Vulcans all the time, everywhere

Valuable insight into how to intubate a Gorn

No recognition of childbirth, despite noting that Tellarites don’t do it the way everyone else does

No really, are there no women who might possibly get pregnant in Star Fleet [sic]?

Anatomical diagram of a Tribble

Book design and typesetting that I can only describe as “someone typed out their notes on a typewriter, and we bound it, and now we have a book”

No, really, a lot of hot Vulcans

I think this may be my favorite of all the Star Trek items I own. It takes itself so, so seriously and simultaneously is so, so laughable and also super valuable for fanfic research somehow all at once. Do yourself a favor and go read it, cause yes, the full text is available online!

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That time Christine was so done, her uniform came out the replicator with a red sleeve and she just wore it.

That time McCoy wore yellow and just waited for someone to say something.

That time Scotty turned out to be a Pandronian all along and just floated his torso at his station.

Backstory for TAS' animation errors😝

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So, there's a thing I've noticed about Karl Urban's Leonard McCoy.

But it's better starting from the beginning.

I found this gif from the third film, and I've noticed that Bones wears a ring - but since when? And he wears it even in the other film? It's a mistake?

The answer is yes, and no.

(Probably some screenshots won't be so easy to see, sorry for that)

Star Trek 2009

At the start of the film, when he's a broken man and a cadet he doesn't wear any rings.

Or, until he wears the red uniform. Because right after he puts on the classic blue uniform in which we see him like for always.

He starts wearing this silver ring, flat on top, and wears it until the end of the movie.

Star Trek: into darkness

Again, at the start of the film he doesn't wear any rings, most because of the disguise he's wearing, I think.

(It can be seen here, but I assure you he isn't wearing any rings)

Then, when he's again in his blue uniform, he wears it again, but this time a different type of ring.

This like, all flat? I don't really know what it's called. Sometimes more silver, sometimes almost black, it depends on the light.

Star Trek: Beyond

Here, from the beginning he wears the ring.

(I know the photo is dark, but zooming on the hand you'll see the reflection of the low light on the ring)

And, he wears for the rest of the film.

And at the end, when we have that much bro moment between him, Jim and Spock? Well.

It's hard to say because his hands are not shown (the typical close up shot) or it's his other hand, which he uses to hold his drink and we have a full picture, his hand is in his pocket. So yeah, I can't really say if he's wearing a ring or not.

But he wears a necklace, never seen before.

It can't only be a coincidence, but something planned.

A theory is that Karl Urban decided to make a tribute to DeForest Kelley (the original Bones), who usually wore a ring on his pinkie all the time. That ring was his mother's wedding ring, and after her death he used to always wear it because it was his only memory of her - this thing has given quite a few problems in the production of the first film, because Gene Roddenberry wanted him to remove it but the answer he received was "Or me and the ring, or neither."

But honestly, I think it's only a part of it. Yeah you do it for an accurate reproduction, but. Why doesn't he wear it every time? And why at the end there's that necklace (that thinking about it he could have always worn it under the uniform, but at the beginning of the first film he doesn't wear a necklace)?

I have only questions, not answers.

To boldly go, pals.

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According to the 1975 Paramount blueprints, Bones and Scotty share a bathroom:

Additionally, McCoy’s quarters and Spock’s quarters share a wall, and of course now I’m imagining early-mission Spock innocently plucking a melancholic tune at like 2 a.m. and McCoy angrily banging on the wall with a slew of curse words to get him to shut the hell up.

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Star Trek, being set hundreds of years in the future, gives their stories a sort of timeless quality. The future is a wonderful place.

Then you read a fanfic from the 70's and McCoy is smacking an unruly child and you're like,

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You know what I wanna see up close? Those photos on Uhura's back wall.

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Uhura's entry in Star Trek Reader's Reference: Novels 1970-1979, compiled by Alva Underwood.

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One of Uhura's uniforms from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, from the London Science Museum Science Fiction exhibit. Check out those wedges.

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Who is David Uhura and why haven’t I seen or heard of him ever??  And also they don’t mention the whole mind wiping and complete re-education thing from “The Changeling” (USS Enterprise Officer’s Manual by Geoffrey Mandel, 1980)

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Uhura's Simstagram

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Check out all the people Starfleet named ships for in the 24th century.  USS Peter Preston??  And there’s the USS Samara Uhura, long before Nyota was made canon.  Some awesome easter eggs in there too for fans of the novels, Spock’s son Nathaniel Zar from the novels Yesterday’s Son and Time For Yesterday; Samantha Piper from Dreadnought! and Battlestations! and Mandala Flynn from The Entropy Effect.  From FASA’s Next Generation Officer’s Manual (1988)