#Khaaaaaan

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

Oh no you don’t, you need to spend a bit of time studying Montalban’s eyelashes

He made a pretty great silver fox too

And here’s a random pic with some lady so you can admire his back muscles

Propaganda

Tyrone Power (Nightmare Alley, Witness for the Prosecution)—he has an intense madman quality to him. i feel like he might chew glass

Ricardo Montalbán (Two Weeks with Love, Neptune's Daughter)—no propaganda submitted beyond the pics below

This is round 2 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

"Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in the best cinematic sword fight of all time imho"

Ricardo Montalbán propaganda:

[paininmyass-ometeicphotons]

The REAL plot hole of SNW S2E7 “Those Old Scientists” is that neither Boimler nor Mariner freaked the fuck out when they heard La’an’s last name

[thebluestockingfirefly]

Spock's Death and Funeral

If William Shatner ever doubts his importance in the Star Trek universe, look at this. The genuine emotion here is gutwrenching.

This is why the Pine/Quinto films didn't work. I like the cast of those films and their portrayals, but those films tried to hyper speed the relationships and pretend they had the same impact, and it didn't work. Spock shrieking KHAAAAAAN and Kirk sacrificing himself felt meaningless, firstly because there was no real logic to that swap, and secondly because Kirk's sacrifice felt hollow. He was barely the captain. He was still building a relationship with his crew (I love Karl Urban as Bones, though).

And regardless of anything else, magically bringing Kirk back to life with super blood dramatically undercut everything from the TOS movies. They killed off Spock because they didn't know if Leonard Nimoy was going to be back for the fourth film, and dammit, that loss felt real. By the end of Wrath of Khan, Spock was dead, and Kirk had real feelings about that. There was a damn funeral and everything. New Trek was just all lol we stuck Kirk in Sickbay and gave him super blood and he's totes fine now.

I enjoy SNW because they actually spend time on developing the crew's relationships. Spock would hijack the Enterprise to take Pike to Talos IV and it would be believable because the show has spent that time with the two men.

Anyway apparently in my spare time I actually want to write a whole lot of analysis about Star Trek, so let's mark that one on the 'future career goals' bingo card.

[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Jonathan Frakes guest stars in "Queen of the Boston Bruisers," a segment of episode 6 of the second season of Fantasy Island (original air date October 28, 1978).

Frakes plays the future son-in-law of a roller-derby queen (Anne Francis!) whose fantasy is to appear as a proper lady in front of the well-to-do family her daughter is marrying into. NB the alternate spelling "Jonathon;" I don't know if that was a typo or just something he was trying on.

Other Trek connections: KHAAAAAAN!

[kyliafanfiction]

It's not just you, I sometimes get Tumblr not letting me go any further back while on desktop too. I usually just take it as the hellsite telling me I've had enough for now.

But the Hellsite doesn't get to tell me I've had enough. I'm on TUMBLR, where do they think I am, a bar where the tender can cut you off?

TUMBLR! YOU DON'T GET TO TAKE MY KEYS, DAMN YOU!

*rages at the heavens. Screams TUMBLRRRRRRRRRR Like I'm William Shatner screaming KHAAAAAAN*

[eleftherian]

KHAAAAAAN

[the-firebird69]

KHAAAAAAN! - YouTube

And yes the max are kind of after our son but not to do stuff to him right now controlling the situation they say this is hilarious cuz you're not in control and everyone's messing up their plan and their money and a code and all sorts of stuff is messed up and he is a certain race they don't like and a certain giant race they don't like and they're called the nephilim although he's not the clan they still call him that and he is a certain kind and he's our kind it's like a few strikes there. In certain races they don't like and he's a mixed race of all of them and it's very sharp and they don't like that. Here's in a nutshell there after him silently and they try and bother him all the time it's very annoying and we have to stop them. We're gaining power soon we will be extremely powerful. And apparently Jen is going to train him. This is huge it's not saying this funny stuff to her so it's two mutants together and she never answers them. Till later it's completely clueless so just wait a minute someone always helps me with the answers that's you because I'm simply not going to tell you you stupid idiot. She had a good laugh today when he said that to her we heard of laughing in a room it's kind of loud. It's a nice healthy laugh and everyone said what was that and said he's asking her to check up on her. There's a few more things happening and John Riva Lord has had it he's going to get fired but my son says hiring him to do it to take one ship and everybody will try and compete without orders and stuff and they're going to try it, but using Starfleet command and that's the gig and the trick and Mike is going ahead with it and he gets it. It did a bunch of work today and our son didn't see it it's looking around since I don't see anything and see his idiots bothering me the other people are off doing jobs and monitoring them and picking them up it's a bunch of them picking them up there's a huge amount of work going on today and it's preliminary stuff and it's going to start everything off and it's going to be nice because it's so damn boring here watch something happen and they're going to get a stuff to him and the missing stuff and it's going to be better it's got a contract today and he's got the whole thing good he says and it is good now there's other stuff for doing and we're going to notify everybody now.

-we have 10 gigantic companies coming down here of ours that are newly ours and their construction companies Morrison condition is one of them floor Daniel no not Bechtel Turner construction and no not perini, and a few others that you might recognize and bar and bar is not one of them there's a few companies that are big and we have them there are others that are big that we don't truthfully but we have about 65% of the industry and we're trying to acquire the rest and we do own 95% of the equipment companies and factories and more. There are a couple more companies out west people might recognize but he can't think of it right now he went up against him a lot and bidding. They're coming down in the to do work and they're coming down to do a lot of work huge projects okay giant apartments and they won't let us do the upside down stuff and so nuts and they said we're nuts and they wouldn't let us do it with it right side up either and it's a stupid idea to form up the building so forms in the dirt and cast the roof it's like a solid very thick roof and then raise the building up using the concrete for the footers and the wall really for the wall I'm not sure if that would save time or take more time and you leave the you leave the forms in and you can attach stuff to him and somehow get the dirt out which should be able to suck out pretty quick there's two ways to do it and you can put forms on the inside and you could use a structure to hold them and we just reuse them an oil filter and using the forms on the inside as fast but not that fast use the dirt and just put forms in the dirt is extremely fast and the building would rise so we have to test it and the stupid idea works and it doesn't break the building because it forces the building up at the same time you just want your pressure it's almost effortless and it looks so damn weird you would not believe how stupid it looks with this building coming up out of the ground solid walls you just cut windows in I guess this is all you can put the pump house and it works another block outs, it pops up and some of the concrete springs out and you lock it up there on the form and it sits on the concrete for a couple days and then you fit the whole thing out the only problem is they said it's sitting on concrete that's not cured at least said no you lock it out and it's resting on a structural form and they said why the hell would you do that and it became obvious that they don't get it you're for me the building and you're raising the building using one set of forms that you don't have to move relocate or do anything else with and we got it up to eight stories and it's got eight stories below for a parking garage and we're going to use it and you can block out and have these big beans you just reuse the beans and it takes to take some part in a day while you're doing the finishes on the upstairs oil is curing even now he can't wait yeah you can you can take out most of the forms and it takes really half a day to cure so we did it and we tested it and it takes 1/3 of the time of a regular building and you have to put some bracing in and some steel in the building but it doesn't take long it comes out really well cuz it's like one piece even the foundation is kind of melded to the building and you have to put stuff in it so it comes together but that's another story so we figured out how to do it and there is nothing wrong with our son okay these things are crazy but if you make the system and you make the forms modular everything is the same size you can add and track the track to it easy enough just add another panel but really make it in 10 ft sections and you don't stress about it and somebody said they want one right now and it was actually Jason he said I could make apartments like crazy and you think it's a crappy technique when it's like very high tech.

Jason said the meeting he wants five city blocks as her son was showing him and he wants to have a viewing position and everything so they showed him where and he said here yes and we gave him the price tell him how many inhabitants it says can you have more than 80 stories but you're going to have that many below in there our son says it's not really necessary you can just add to it and we said okay you just keep pumping it up like Plato wait a minute does that make sense yes the way to get those in there so we decided something there's a way to do it you pump it up and you put the locks in but then the windows would have to be in already so you'd have to block a section structurally and how did you do that well I figured out how to do it and you just keep pumping it and putting a section in pumping it there's a way to do it and you're right so we know how to do that and it's a technique and he said no way so they go up to like 80 stories and if you wider like about half mile wide and then they go up 80 more and they go to 80 storey lifts and the wall will get thinner no and then you go to about a maximum of 300 stories which is about 4,000 ft high it's almost a mile and he liked it and we said we can build about 10 cities in about 3 days all at the same time they go up and they come out of nowhere and even considered to be like a God. They're all about maybe about a mile almost a mile and he said no s*** and he said now so over there and we're getting ready to build and we're doing it with one of our sons favorite building construction companies floor Daniel cuz they wouldn't let him in and this is going to be a huge achievement for him and us and me and Hera and Freya and several others are helping design silently it's spring Castle hardcastle obviously and Duke Nukem Blockbuster and I'm not telling him how he did the lift after the lift but he will have to find out and we know what to do with the cold joint too

Thor Freya

They're arresting tons of these people here for tons of crimes, it's the real one for tonight

Wow this is awesome we're getting a lot of movement we're getting a lot of help and we're building a lot of stuff and we're doing a lot of things and we're also getting their weirdos out of our hair and we're getting to the meat and potatoes and we're doing lots of work and I love it it's awesome I got Mac on the line so I'm going to take it

Duke Nukem Blockbuster

I know what his role is he started saying when I just keep going with it and you're thinking in it anyways but he knows how to do and be our technique and it's different this is awesome it's a new way of doing up down and it's really down up if you want to think of something you can do that and you can dig down and drop it down in now because you can dig the dirt out in the middle of a huge bunker and just build the walls and the Indian Castle floor in and the roof he said why don't we do that and you can do that without doing the funky design sort of because you have the forms on the outside edge and you just drop the forms down as it drops in the same why the hell do that cast it and then drop it cast It drop It cast it drop it then they said this why would you do that in the first place so I don't know if people would see where it is I said yeah that's one problem but you could you can make a tunnel and suck it up suck the dirt out they said okay you have to have openings in somewhere like you can do it in the top so then started to say something you just keep dropping it down and what you're doing now is they support it and they build under it and when you say is you just suck it all out at the same time and it slides down so the last thing I'm thinking it comes up with one piece it can go down with one piece

There's a number of people who think he's nuts it is like building bunkers there's a way to keep the foundations normal sized and it's a way to keep the buildings going up but really we're going to say what's going on here

Frank Castle hardcastle

I said the last part but we're going to get back to it Thor Freya

[fexalted]

finishing off season 1 let's gooo

1x21 - the return of the archons

things i know about it:

brainwashing episode (‼️‼️‼️)

spock nun outfit

fun outfits for everyone really

but most importantly Brainwashing Episode 👁👁

i'm gonna be so normal about this i prommy

thoughts:

what do you mean i've been mentally pronouncing archons wrong for years

"they're the sweetest, friendliest people in the universe" oh yep they're a cult

ah i see they've learned from their misadventure at the airbase, they got their disguises ready before they beam down

what is this?? the purge???

[miette voice] "you MOCK the lawgivers?" "you SCORN festival??"

jim has no right to look as good as he does in that silly little outfit

hi landru i love your shiny robes

fascinated by this place being called a paradise free of crime and evil or whatever. bro you just had everyone going buckwild in the streets and breaking windows and shit

oughhg brainwashed bones :((

the fight is heartbreaking, don't make jim fight his bestie,, neither of us wants this

man i wish it was that easy to break down cults irl, trying to argue with them usually ends with *you* being the one to explode

i'm glad there's crew staying behind to like help them establish a normal society 🙏 i was fully expecting them to be like "well anyway bye" and leave all those people with no guidance after they'd spent their entire lives under mind control

oh so we don't get to see bones un-brainwashed huh? you're just gonna do that to me?? end the episode without letting me see my little buddy??? :'(

1x22 - space seed

remember:

KHAN

KHAAAAAAN

forgot:

"the last vessel of that class was built in the 1990s" you guys sure were optimistic about how much space travel we'd be doing in 30 years lmao

oh okay maybe not that optimistic considering we were supposed to be having a world war then

convenient that they wrapped all these people up in fishing nets before putting them in suspended animation

bones with a knife held to his throat being like "hey make it quick and cut the carotid" agdjsgdj man's got balls of steel

god, khan is such a good looking man. i'm still mad about into darkness btw they did him so dirty, hashtag not my khan

yknow it always did bother me that there's only one exit on the bridge. this is the exact type of emergency situation where you need multiple escape routes. what kind of building codes are they operating on in the 23rd century. someone get me a job with space osha

they're compressing jim like a jpg in there

shatner stunt double moment

kinda wild that jim gave mcgivers the option to be exiled with khan and his crew and even wilder that she said yes lmao, like girl i know he's beautiful but he's a war criminal dfjdhfksj

1x23 - a taste of armageddon

what i know:

haven't seen this ep and don't recognize the title so i'm going in blind!

thoughts:

right off the bat we've got an ambassador in the ugliest outfit i've seen all season

oh good they have better fashion down on the planet

"i am mea 3" and this is my friend logan 6

omg i was making a joke but it kinda is a bizarre logan's run situation

hell yeah you can't trick scotty that easily

hey why don't we ever hear more about the fact that spock can telepathically influence people thru walls, seems like that would come in handy a lot

"sir there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder" LMAO i love that that worked

oh i got so caught up in it i forgot to keep writing here lol

anyway good episode, love to see scotty get more screentime and enjoyed watching jim do the kirk karate chop several times 👏

when i had first started the ep i thought it was gonna be the birth control one (haven't seen that one either, can't remember the title), and like. can you imagine if the two plots were fused? government dealing with overpopulation manufactures a fake war where casualties are calculated by computer so people will be perfectly willing to walk into disintegration chambers and die

would that be fucked up or what

well anyway, moving on

1x24 - this side of paradise

remember:

sex pollen episode

spock climbs a tree

bones makes a mint julep

on another note, for personal reasons i find it v funny that the episodes with "armageddon" and "paradise" in the titles come right after one another. a little joke for the exvangelical in me

forgot:

"mr spock and i have met before" cut to spock standing there completely deadpan and silent lmao

oh these people are creepy

spock pollen allergy real

girl stop touching him you're being weird

"i've never seen a dragon" "i have" oh so we're just gonna drop that fun little factoid and never address it again huh

jim you were like one step away from getting pollen blasted, put a mask on or something

oh cool we've got plants on the ship already, this'll be fine

jim all alone on the ship :'( he looks so sad

OH SHIT HE GOT POLLENED

jim: gotta pack my cute green shirt

"aroused, his great physical strength could kill" shfjshfjksfkd

SPOCK WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

bones and his exaggerated southern drawl is killing me and i can't tell if it's in a funny way or a cringy way dhfjshfj

"would you like to see just how fast i can put you in a hospital?" fuck him up bones!!!

bones coming up on the bridge just to show off how good his eyeshadow looks in this final scene, i see you my man 👏

1x25 - the devil in the dark

things i know:

horta episode!!

bones is a doctor not a bricklayer

but by golly he's beginning to think he can cure a rainy day

thoughts:

remarkably flat floors in this cave

this poor guy's gonna get eaten

called it, rip schmitter v_v

sweet purple jumpsuit my guy

pondering that orb (egg?)

man i wish i could go explore some caves rn (real) (without monsters in them)

one redshirt down, rip

THERE IT IS

and it's gone

oh whoa the piece they cut off of it is still moving. also looks kinda like a meatball pizza

kirk you fool don't split up to check the tunnels, has scooby doo taught you nothing

okay genuinely, Extremely Cool vfx when it burns a hole in the rock and comes out of the wall

oh well well well, mr shoot to kill kirk isn't so quick on the trigger now that he's looking at the thing is he? (meanwhile spock's like "kill it kill it!" now that it's jim's life in danger lmao)

ough that mind meld. spock going thru it

the eggs :'(

spackle that thang, doctor

aw i wanted to see baby hortas

a+ trio banter at the end, i wuv them

1x26 - errand of mercy

what i know:

klingons in it

jim wears a cute shirt

the title is familiar but i think it's only bc i recently watched a tng ep where they were like "we're on an errand of mercy" lol (s3 ep "the high ground", aka the one with "the irish unification of 2024" line)

you would not believe the ordeal i've gone thru just to watch this one. the google drive i'd been using had a problem with the file for this ep and i couldn't play it, so i rented a dvd box set from the library. plugged in my dvd player that's older than some people on this website, then spent like 15 mins fighting with it bc i couldn't get the audio working (no dialogue, only bg music), and then i could only get it to play in spanish. finally got it sorted, but there's no english subtitles for these dvds so i've gotta use the transcript site 😭 i will press on but i'm upset and need everyone to know about my woes and miseries

thoughts:

jesus christ the music surprised me as much as that attack surprised them

this looks like the same place they beamed down to at the beginning of arena, just less exploded

was that goat green

how did they even initiate contact with this planet when they're like. fully living medieval times down here dhfjsjfk

"8 space vehicles have assumed orbit around our planet" okay how do you know that my man

aw spock gets a fun outfit too :')

boy that tos klingon makeup sure was...... something

"i have a tongue" "good, you will be taught how to use it" 1) did not realize that bit was from this ep, 2) goddamn the gifs / screenshots were not exaggerating the vibe of that moment at all shfjhdfkd

don't like the sound of the mind-ripper

KIRK FLYING SQUIRREL ATTACK

okay kirk and kor need to stop looking at each other like that shfshfkf

ngl i was getting some cult vibes about the organians at the start but i feel like whatever's up with them is in fact weirder

oh so they can just. force them to stop fighting. well hey that's a solution

"no one has died here in thousands of years" what

me when spock says "pure energy": omg he said the thing he says in that one song!! ("what's on your mind" by information society)

at the risk of sounding like spock i'm trying to hold back from saying it's fascinating, but i really love the variety in the types of extradimensional beings they've encountered, yknow? like:

every other episode: we're the fuck with you aliens and we're here to fuck with you this episode: we're the stop fucking with each other aliens and we're here to make you stop fucking with each other

anyway interesting ep, however mccoy wasn't in it so was it really worth the journey i had to embark on to watch it? 🤔

1x27 - the alternative factor

what i know:

nothing! let's go!

thoughts:

ooh pretty galaxy overlay effect

they've totally filmed at this location before lmao

omg look at that cute lil saucer

nice beard, guy

these special effects shfjshfks

bonessss i missed you :')

"i'm a bright young medic with a miraculous touch" hell yeah you are, babygirl ❤️

okay so. is this guy the thing? and he's like. fighting half of himself every time the phenomenon happens??

my brother you did not have to fall off the mountain like that, there had to be other ways of climbing down

bones: "he's not going anywhere, not this time" *bones immediately leaves the room, lazarus immediately gets up to leave* okay good effort team djsjfkshf

ohh it's a parallel universe, i see now. so you're saying we need to kill him

"he must be stopped, destroyed if necessary" ahfjsgkfsh i didn't expect spock to agree with me

bro i don't think handling those high voltage things with a little piece of cloth is gonna protect you. or at least, it shouldn't

OH SHIT JIM GOT ZAPPED TO THE NEGAVERSE

oh okay sending him back was easier than i expected

lmao the way jim fully gets lifted off the ground when he's fighting lazarus. stay back everyone your captain's got it handled

rip to the two lazaruses tho, time to move on and forget all about them

1x28 - the city on the edge of forever

remember:

bones accidentally injects himself with cordrazine, goes a little crazy, beams down to a planet, and throws himself back in time. just a regular tuesday

Edith Keeler Must Die

world's best hug immediately followed by world's most tragic car accident :(

forgot:

these transporter techs gotta stop standing with their backs to the door

lmao spock's offended face at "your science knowledge is obviously primitive"

agdjshfjsj jim trying to lie to the cop

spock you're taking over the whole room with that machine

the thing about this ep is that in my mind it's like "bones episode! :D" but in reality he spends half the time missing in action lol

anyway he's here now and just ripped the hat off that man's head shfkdjdk

oh. that guy just vaporized himself. well that surely won't have any impact on the future

oouugh edith leading bones away right as spock comes in so they don't see each other 😭 (real talk those type of moments agitate me so much in movies, i'm glad they only did it once here)

the ending continues to be sad as fuck. not even a little aftermath scene on the bridge to reflect about it, just "let's get the hell out of here," roll credits :(

man they don't even address like, what to do with the time portal. like you can't just leave it there for any random person to stumble into, but at the same time it's like, would you destroy the only machine of its kind?

well actually considering they did that to landru, i guess the answer is yes lmao, moving on!

1x29 - operation -- annihilate!

what i know:

spock gets blinded by mccoy and his big bright flashlight

but it's cool bc he has a third eyelid just like a kitty cat

do we meet sam kirk in this one? i can't remember if he's actually in the ep or if he just dies offscreen

thoughts:

not me mentally pronouncing "deneva" like "geneva" for the past decade agfjshfjsk

rip icarus

oh my god i've been pronouncing aurelan wrong too. why does this keep happening

aw man rip sam too v_v

goddamn they're dropping like flies in this ep

oh shit we got metroids

"captain, it doesn't even look real!" [shot of slime pancake on the ground] agdjsgfjhs yeah you're not wrong

YOU FOOLS YOU TURNED YOUR BACKS ON IT

they needed like four people to take down spock and they really thought those bed restraints were gonna hold him? lmao

spock is such a funny character, like "oh they're not letting me beam down to the planet, clearly the logical thing to do is knock them out so i can just go"

"what other properties does the sun have?" "it exists physically" so do most things spock that can't be the first and most important thing you have to say about it shfjdjfjfk

mcspirk squished into the doorway moment uwu

say goodbye to your eyeballs, boy

"bones it wasn't your fault" :'(((

AUGH the angst of it all, i'm biting my arm off

and of course when spock gets his sight back he just shrugs the whole thing off like it was no big deal, like sir we all saw how shaken you were, you can't downplay this

"please don't tell spock i said he was the best first officer in the fleet" personally i think all three of you should just admit you love each other and kiss already sgdjshfksmd

SEASON 2 NEXT TIME WAHOO GET READY FOR PON FARR NIGHT FRIDAY

watching tos for the first time since like, roughly 2012/13-ish? i don't remember what year it was, or why i only got thru most of season 1 before stopping

it's been fun to refresh my swiss cheesed memory with this tho so here's a semi-liveblog of the first 10 eps that i watched over the past couple weeks

1x01 - the man trap

things i remembered beforehand:

salt monster

"plum" uwu

that gay little run and crawl jim does when he's taking cover (it fills me with such delight)

things i did not remember:

how many people died, good god man it's only the first episode

1x02 - charlie x

things i remembered:

jim's bright red exercise pants

that stupid fucking face charlie makes when he uses his powers

not liking this ep at all when i first watched it, possibly due to me being around the same age as charlie at the time

additional thoughts: i enjoyed it more this time and felt more sympathetic for charlie. poor kid needed some parents, and also, like, a hug

1x03 - where no man has gone before

things i remembered:

bones isn't in it :'( (bored) (sad) (missing my bestie)

"James R Kirk"

that post i saw on here recently about how their contacts were made of glass

the only thing i could think about while watching:

their contacts

were made

of GLASS

(yes i understand this was how contacts were made back then. still freaked out by the concept of people putting glass in their eyes on purpose)

1x04 - the naked time

things i remembered:

sweat disease

sulu fencing

oh kathleen

"ONE-MORE-TIME!!"

"love mankind"

spock breakdown (extremely uncomfortable to watch)

bones casually ripping jim's shirt sleeve to jab him in the arm (extremely hilarious every time i think about it)

did not remember:

anything about them almost crashing into a planet lol

jim's little monologue when he gets infected (lmao)

time warp???

additional thoughts: hey remember when they reused this plot in tng and tasha and data fucked (<- literally the only thing i can remember about it) ((edit from future fex: i rewatched that ep. it was wild. tos did it better tho))

1x05 - the enemy within

things i remembered:

unicorn dog :)

evil kirk and poor little meow meow kirk

"I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!!!"

things not remembered:

dog dies :(

evil kirk's killer eyeliner

additional thoughts: say what you will about shatner / his acting but this ep is Peak shatner performance and a lot of fun to watch. he put his whole pussy into it, as the kids say these days

1x06 - mudd's women

things remembered:

could not forget harry mudd if i tried

the women are color coded like the powerpuff girls lol

they're also like, on some kind of drug that keeps them looking young or something

cool costumes tho

i don't have much to say about this one lol, harry's a fun character but the rest of the ep wasn't super interesting to me. did finally learn how to pronounce "ophiuchus" tho so i'll thank it for that

1x07 - what are little girls made of

things remembered:

is this the penis rock episode (it is)

uhhh i think kirk gets put into some kind of spinny machine that makes androids (he does)

more cool costumes (debatable)

things i find funny:

the number of planets we've encountered so far that are populated by like. 2-4 people

the way ruk (the big guy) just picks up and throws kirk like he weighs nothing

so much buildup with kirk and the penis rock and he doesn't even get to hit ruk over the head with it smh

also not a funny moment but i liked the way kirk was able to get a message to spock thru the android kirk, v clever

wait i just realized bones wasn't in this ep either. deducting 1/4 of a star from my mental rating bc i missed him (but apparently not that much)

1x08 - miri

remembered:

planet of children (bc everyone else died of terminal puberty)

"no blah blah blah!"

bones tests his newly discovered, untested cure on himself, in true mad scientist fashion (also spones moment <3)

saw this ep on a "what's your fave 'bad' episode" poll here recently and i can't remember if i thought it was good or bad when i first watched it lol

forgot:

another earth?? there's just a second, identical earth floating around out there?? and (of course) they don't mention it at all for the rest of the episode

300 year old children

oh these kids are so much more annoying than i remembered, however i may just be biased bc i don't like kids shfkshfk

1x09 - dagger of the mind

remember:

absolutely nothing! oh boy!

thoughts:

wow this ep is fucked up!

okay actually i don't think i've seen this one at all before?

usually there'll be moments that jog my memory but the only thing even slightly familiar to me was kirk going "helen don't go!" while in the neutralizer chair, but i could've just seen a clip/gif of it before

i remember skipping episodes in season 1 (i was impatient and wanted to get to city on the edge of forever) but i thought i'd at least made it to halfway thru the season before skipping any

anyway did i mention this ep is fucked up? (star trek really does love to drop an absolutely haunting 50 minutes of television on you and then never address it again, i understand this now. roll credits!)

1x10 - the corbomite maneuver

remember:

uhh

there's a thing out there

it's in the way

preventing them from boldly going, even

looks like an old windows screensaver

i might've skipped this ep too now that i think about it

thoughts:

cute mckirk moment in sickbay :3

i love that this cube has its own theme music whenever its on screen

oh shit it's the sequel to cube: orb

jesus christ that's a big orb

man they really said "okay we've got 3 music tracks and we're gonna get our money's worth out of them"

i gotta say this ep slaps tbh—WAIT HE'S A BABY???

LITTLE BABY MAN

LMAOOOOO

honestly great episode tho i'll stand by that

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Khan: I think you underestimate the... sympathetic nature of Dr. McCoy

Kirk: well, then, you underestimate Bones

[noridoorman]

Khaaaaaan!

@khan-loves-doors

hey

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Repercussions II: Wasp’s Nest

Yen’to wandered up to the library with a sense of foreboding. The reason for the meeting was unclear, but with Khan anything was possible. As he entered the library proper, he spied Strega and Khan already present. Damn... thought I would have some moments of peace to prepare for the drunken rambling that is sure to ensue. They engaged in a bit of small talk as they waited, much to Yen’to’s annoyance, but it was not long before the others who saw the posting started filtering in. Annoyance shifted rapidly to surprise at the steadily increasing number of attendees: Alyona, Alaric, Kouronne, Silf, Luka, Ghost, Lalatua, and Ramius. A mixture of new and old employees.... but Alaric does not even work for Lady Faye, does he? How did Khan rope him in? 

The lingering questions were soon cleared up -  Ramius indicated that he was the one that called the meeting rather than Khan. Oh good... maybe this time the briefing will actually be coherent. A strange screen popped out of a device on Ramius’ back, some sort of video feed from one of his drones that apparently captured sight of a suspicious person frequently loitering in the hills around the Shroudrose. Ramius wanted everyone to go out and attempt to find, capture, and interrogate the suspicious target. There were transmissions that potentially linked him to Garleans. I would say this sounds easy enough, but every time I have said that the complete opposite was true. Nothing involving Khan is every that simple.

As they began leaving the Shroudrose grounds, it was not long before Ramius spotted someone suspicious on a path up a nearby hill, leaning against a tree. At his suggestion, they split up to approach from different directions and hopefully catch the person in a pincer. Yen’to took about half of the group while Ramius took the remainder, and upon his signal they approached a visibly panicking miqo’te. He could not be more suspicious even if he was trying...

The unlucky miqo’te was sweating and fidgety, and cracked under pressure almost immediately. As he was not so gently prodded for answers, some in the group began remarking that they smelled smoke. That is odd... did something spark out in the forest? It is not storming, though. The sounds of bells clanging and shouts from Wood Wailers began filtering in from the south, where smoke was streaming into the sky. What in the... that looks like houses are on fire! Before anyone could figure out exactly what was happening, the twang of bows being drawn nearby forced everyone to take cover. Arrows loosed found their target easily - the poor panicking miqo’te spy. Strega and Alyona attempted to keep him alive while Yen’to and Kouronne returned fire with their gun and bow.  Their targets were dressed like Wood Wailers, complete with wooden masks. Oh no... saboteurs?!

The two saboteurs went down quickly, a bit too dead to question. Ramius began picking up strands of chatter from the wounded spy’s linkshell, prompting him to scan for aether currents with his goggles. I swear, that man has a gadget for every occasion. The linkshell chatter made it clear that they were dealing with Garlean infiltrators. Yen’to barely had time to absorb this information before Ramius pointed them north. The band cautiously made their way forward before pausing at a bend in the path.

Half a dozen arrows whizzed by, forcing everyone to press up against the hill just before the bend in the path. Yen’to, Ramius, and Kourunne ran out to fire back at the archers, easily cutting the ambush short. Or so they thought. A shout came from the bushes nearby to “cut down the savages”, and more ‘wood wailers’ leapt out, flanking the party and trapping them in the middle of the path - lancers in the rear and more archers in the front. Damn it -- with the actual guards distracted by those fires we are on our own!

The fighting was brief but brutal. Yen’to yelped as an arrow embedded itself into his leg above the knee, avoiding the armored greaves he hoped would have protected him. Buckling down, he managed to level his rifle and return fire, felling his attacker. Most of the others managed far better, and the Garleans soon came to realize that underestimating tea house employees was a surprisingly bad idea. Lalatua used both fire and ice magic to great and terrifying effect, while Luka ended up burning and melting one of the wooden masks into a hapless soldier’s face. 

The other Garleans fell one by one, but they managed to also injure Alyona before being defeated. Most of the ambushers were dead, but a few laid wounded and moaning. As with the spy, Alyona called Khan over the linkshell to gather the wounded Garleans. Hmph, I say let them bleed out... but the dead do not give up secrets. Once again, Ramius utilized his goggles to pick up the trail and the group rushed in the direction of the ferry docks. Or all but Yen’to rushed, who could only do a hurried limp at this point.

As they approached the docks, they could see the Garleans’ sloop shrinking in the distance as it sped away. There was only one remaining boat at the docks,  with a goblin skipper drinking away the day nearby. He seemed wary at first of the anxious group, but a bag full of gil changed his tune. He promptly called over his own linkpearl to Khan that he was taking a break and that Khan could go fook himself. Oh gods -- this is Khan’s ship?!

The little sloop had seen better days, and seemed to be held together by little more than rusty nails, rotting boards, and pure hope. ... Do I also smell liqour? It had a black flag emblazoned with red glasses, reminiscent of the pair worn by Khan. A kobold on deck gave them a happy little wave and nonchalantly returned to swabbing the deck.  This... both makes complete sense and is utterly stupid. At the urging of Lalauta and Strega, Yen’to sat down to take the weight of his injured leg. Strega once again took the opportunity to stab him with a magitek medical device, despite their previous discussion about advance warnings. At the direction of Ramius, the others grabbed what they could to use as oars and employed aero magic in an attempt to catch up with their targets.

‘Their’ ship came within a few dozen yalms of the Garleans before a shout came from behind some rocks in the river, and another boat slipped out and sped in their direction. Seven hells, how many ambushes are we going to stumble into?! The party braced for impact, and the two boats soon collided and locked into place. Belting out war cries, the Garlean boarding party swarmed onto Khan’s floating coffin.

Yen’to had managed to stand by this point, and upon seeing a saber swinging his way he managed to block it with his armored gauntlet, then returned the favor by slamming the butt of his rifle into the man’s head like a club. Alaric had ripped off one of the boards from the deck to use as a makeshift weapon; a vhan below deck looked up through the hole and simply returned to whatever it was doing.  Uh... I hope that bit was not important. Ramius finished off the remaining Garleans with his quick-firing pistol, and managed to free the boats by cutting entangled ropes. 

Upon arriving at shore, they were met with a scene of carnage. Dockworkers and a few Wood Wailers were crumbled on the ground, seriously wounded but not yet dead.  A jumble of tracks led deeper into the woods. Alyona once again used the linkshell to inform Khan that there were wounded that needed tending, but his response was a complaint that it would take a while because someone had stolen his boat. ... Oops? Well, that is what he gets for being sloppy! One of the injured workers confirmed where the Garleans fled, and the group was soon hot on their heels.

The party caught up to the remaining Garleans soon enough, who were busy at work doing something near a patch of trees. They did not have long to observe the enemy before being spotted, and a Garlean officer called for his troops to form up. They did so with alarming speed and precision, and soon let loose a fusillade of bullets from their gunblades. Thankfully, their aim was not as precise as their formation but a few in Ramius’ group were still hit. Damn it... if I die here I am killing Khan!

The gloves were off now, and no mercy was to be given. Yen’to finally activated his machinist aetherotransformer and spewed a gout of flame from the end of his rifle towards an unfortunate clump of Garleans. The others did not hold back either, letting loose with their fiercest techniques to utterly obliterate their targets in a storm of explosions and fire. I almost feel sorry for the bastards.... almost. As the smoke cleared, it was made apparent what the Garleans had been concerned with - a secret door leading underground. 

Cautiously, the group made their way into the underground store room. It was unlit and barely any light made its way inside. Yen’to’s moon-keeper eyes quickly adjsuted to the darkness, but few of the others were so lucky. Lalatua used some aether to light up her staff, and what it revealed gave everyone pause.

There were numerous desks and cabinets filled with papers, and posters and flyers covered the walls alongside maps. Almost in a stupor, they fanned out to dig through the papers to figure out exactly what they were dealing with. It was worse than suspected. On the largest desk, there was a stack of flyers with names and brief descriptions, many from previous missions with Khan:

Faye Covington, Silf Silverwood, Mocking Bird, Yen’to Tajaan, Elyn Merielle, Mako, Strega, Deccan, Ramius Raske, Khuron Khan.

By the Twelve.... these are signed by tribunus Lucian. He knows so much! How?! Aside from Lucian’s signature, there were directives commenting on multiple phases and local assets. Some of the other posters had vaguely familiar sketches, but were lacking descriptions. Sensing time was of the essence, everyone gathered whatever they could carry and made haste back to the Shroudrose to disseminate the information later and lick their wounds.

All this from one little information gathering mission that went sideways almost a moon ago. If the Garleans do not kill us, Lady Faye just might.

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I was inspired, pls enjoy

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So I was looking at the cover for 'Trial of the White Worm'

And all I could think of...