#I know I know there’s no prodigy and no Picard

[t0ast-ghost]

If you could serve with any star trek crew what one would you choose?

Feel free to explain why below

[trekkie-polls]

For bonus points share one thing you wish would have happened in that extra season

Edit: So many comments about Prodigy not being on here! Well, I am a Prodigy fan too. But I left it off because last I heard Netflix picked it up. Now I don’t have faith it will happen, but nonetheless there is at least one more season planned and maybe more.

On the other hand, even though the last seasons of discovery & lower decks haven’t finished airing, they both have planned end dates.

[thresholdbb]

With how much Voyager plays with the concepts of reality and illusion, there's an argument that they never actually escaped the Caretaker

"When your only reality is an illusion, then illusion is a reality."

[quasi-normalcy]

The Borg Queen has now been killed at least 4 times on screen. 5 if you count the time that Agnes shot her. She has become the Davros of the Star Trek universe

[xchronicles]

Brett my beloved, you deserve the world... but everything else ... help

Listen, we all know Janeway's not going anywhere since she's alive in Picard S3, but I always had this dread that the reason why no one mentioned Chakotay is because he's.................... And I am very much going to NOPE that. There is a reason people weren't big fans of Picard and it's because it was heavily leaning on tragedy in a franchise that's supposed to be about a bettter future.

Brett deserves S3 and beyond. Kate deserves to take time off from giving (outdated) ideas.

Read the full interview here.

[cantsayidont]

If I seem overly harsh about STAR TREK, a big part of my problem with it has less to do with my criticisms of its values than with the franchise's attitude toward its own ideology. From a storytelling standpoint, the fact that the franchise's stated values (optimism, tolerance, diversity) are often at odds with its actual values (colonialism, American nationalism, assimilation) is not necessarily a bad thing, and the franchise is often most interesting where these contradictions are clearly expressed and examined. Where it becomes galling is when the franchise and its fans become so invested in those stated values (which are sometimes admirable, but often threadbare even on their own terms) that they elide or outright deny the obvious contradictions and hypocrisies the actual narrative presents.

In the recent shows (DISCOVERY, PICARD, LOWER DECKS, STRANGE NEW WORLDS), this has begun to manifest in a peculiar kind of heavily sentimentalized faux-nationalist propaganda, where simply depicting the symbols associated with Starfleet or the Federation is expected to produce an emotional reaction the narrative doesn't necessarily support. The way "We are Starfleet!" has become a rallying cry throughout all four of those shows is particularly unsettling to me. Obviously, Starfleet is a fictional military organization in a fictional interstellar empire in a pop sci-fi postapocalyptic future that hopefully won't come to pass (at least not the way modern TREK says it does, which involves, among other things, the nuclear devastation of our world and the systematic extermination of every single Jew and Muslim on Earth), and even within the narrative, Starfleet's actions and motives have never been without stain, up to and including the very recent canon. So, who or what does that slogan really serve, and why are the writers and producers pushing it so hard? My perhaps cynical assumption is "to promote real-world military recruitment," but at best, it's indicative of a weird determination to sell the idea of STAR TREK rather than STAR TREK itself.

[mascara-pyjama]

My one compliant with Prodigy is that Zero said math.

They are British! They smoke fags behind Tesco! They won't drink tea made in a microwave! They eat beans on toast!

They'd say maths! They know it's a plural word, they know mathematics contains multitudes! They wouldn't say math!

[aceofwands]

idk man I just think of all the franchises you could try to make the Next Big Thing by creating a bunch of new shows and movies, maybe don't pick the one with the notoriously nitpicky obsessed with canon fandom ?? if you don't plan on applying any sort of consistency to the world, characters, alien cultures, entire ethical and moral framework of the universe, etc etc ????

[a-demonic-duck-of-some-sort]

“Hey, boss, we’re finalizing the scripts for the new season of our family-friendly Star Trek show. You know, the one that’s meant to be accessible to people who have never seen a Star Trek show before?”

“Did you remember to include a pivotal plot point pulled from each season of our least family-friendly, least-accessible show? It has to be a discreet, unrelated thing from every season, remember?”

“Of course, boss, and we threw in a whole bunch of characters from and callbacks to a 170-episode show from the 90s just to make sure it’s extra-accessible to the kiddies!”

“Great, now just put it on a different streaming service from literally every other Star Trek and we’ll be good to go!”

[comradecowplant]

*sniffle* well, that's that then. voyager has made it back to the alpha quadrant (albeit i'm not the biggest fan of the "timey whimey antics save the day" means utilized but i've seen similar plots play out far worse so i'll accept it with minimal brow furrowing), my mind & heart are full with a new sci-fi obsession, and while i know i said i'm diving into TNG asap, i do think my little ticker needs a minute to process & say goodbye to the star fleet captain who-- no matter how good picard/other captains i can't wait to meet are-- will now forever be My Captain(tm), and her intrepid crew (i'll even miss the doctor!) of the U.S.S. Voyager o7

[youngpettyqueen]

been thinking about the viewing order for my remaining Treks and I think ive settled on

Discovery

Strange New Worlds

Voyager

Prodigy

I have seen Voyager, but only most of it. I havent seen all of it, so I want to do a rewatch so that ill have seen everything, like I did with TOS leading up to TAS + the movies. I also need to watch Nemesis at some point because ive been avoiding watching that movie forever but if im gonna be true to my goal of watching every single Trek, I need to watch it, so maybe once im done Enterprise ill put that on and then move on into Discovery

[autismtrek]

Upcoming Poll!

Hi everyone! I’m going to be running a bracket in the format of other tumblr character polls for the best autistic Star Trek character.

Please tell me your favorite autistic-coded Star Trek characters so they can be added to the bracket! I will wait a couple days to start it because I want people’s input, especially since I have only watched golden age Trek but want to include characters from all series if possible. You can submit characters through asks, replies, reblogging the post with a comment, or submissions.

The ONLY RULES FOR SUBMISSION are that the character has to be in Star Trek at least once and you need to consider them autistic-coded. You are welcome to submit characters that aren’t widely considered to be autistic but you think they are. Side characters and one-time characters are also welcome - I will include as many of them as necessary to have a big enough bracket.

I went ahead and made a sideblog for this so that people who want to see the poll won’t have to see other posts too.

Characters I have already decided to include in the bracket are under the cut, so if you don’t see your favorites here, make sure to submit them!

Main Cast (Definitely Will Be Included):

B’Elanna Torres

Benjamin Sisko

Data Soong

Deanna Troi

Elnor 

Emergency Medical Hologram

Geordi La Forge

Jean-Luc Picard

Julian Bashir

Katherine Pulaski

La'an Noonien-Singh

Odo

Samanthan Rutherford

Seven of Nine

Spock

Sylvia Tilly

Tuvok

Worf Rozhenko

Zero

Important Side Characters (Next In Line For Inclusion):

Lwaxana Troi

Reginald Barclay

Rom

Side Characters Who Appear Rarely (Included If There’s Not Enough Other Characters):

Jack

Lauren

Patrick

Sarina Douglas

Tam Elbrun

[acatwithstockings]

One of my favorite things to do is to talk to fellow Trekkies on the english side of the internet and just sprinkle in some agressive german pronouciation of names .

It's not that i like the german pronouciation quite far from it, i just find it hilarious.

[northern-spies]

Star Trek

Has always

Included

The arts!

Star Trek: TNG is like "We built a perfect future thanks to the wondrous powers of STEM"

And then DS9 is like "Yes but without the humanities you can't actually maintain any of it"

[xchronicles]

If you want to feel good about J/C in Prodigy, I suggest listening to this interview which is great and has the completely opposite vibe from what's Kate been saying.

[a-fistfull-of-datas]

I am very curious about how people go about watching star trek since there is so much of it

I am also curious about the order in which you watched the series as a whole, so let me know!

please reblog for a larger sample size