#STTOS

[rainbowresurrection]

The very fact that every TOS reboot is afraid to depict the closeness between Kirk and Spock in the same way it was depicted originally is a devastating reinforcement of how gay that shit was

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: The Original Series // S02E01: Amok Time

[the-minty-pick]

Doctor and is the ANNOYING TALL friend

[cobragardens]

For me personally, this was my lifetime's Kirk/Uhura kiss.

When this happened I literally said, out loud, "Holy shit, this is happening onscreen, this is canon," because I was born during Reagan's first term and was in high school when Matthew Shepard was murdered and my hometown's only gay bar got shot up last year, and seeing two famous, marketable male movie stars sharing an on-screen kiss with each other on the streaming platform of the world's most powerful business? This was the moment I thought,

Something in my culture has changed.

[asiserco]

Chekovs

Your honor, he is just a little guy

[blogquantumreality]

When 1960s Trek unintentionally becomes 3l33t :P

[petrasplaylists]

star trek spotify playlists!

links: kirk. spock. bones. triumvirate. t’hy’la. oms. bonus: sarek.

please heart my playlists on spotify if you like them!

[matthikins]

What am I looking at here, friends? Obviously a fan-made Monopoly-themed tribute to STTOS and STTNG, but I can't find any mention online other than a reference to the UC Riverside archive of Catherine Clark's papers/collection. Anyone know any specifics? If this is at all rare, I'd like to get it into the hands of a fan who will enjoy it.

[magpieandpossum]

who wants to see all the star trek doodles I do during lectures when I should be taking notes 👀

[frogshunnedshadows]

Get a closer look at the newly conserved Star Trek Enterprise model at the Smithsonian museum.

[rainbowresurrection]

So funny how Spock is like "affection is alien to me, love is unobtainable, I have no idea how I would ever approach a woman" and then you see his parents and their comfortable open PDA, that is the first FIRST thing you see about Sarek and Amanda. It just really puts into perspective how broken and queer Spock really is. Bro is FUCKED up. Spock my black metal queen

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) // Dir. Leonard Nimoy

[owlsounds]

I’m in a Simpsons/Trek themed mashup group and there’s not a lot of use for these things outside of that, so I’m going to share them here too in individual posts. 3 of 4

[blogquantumreality]

dduane:

quietoceanlove:

laughingsloth:

quietoceanlove:

I have nothing more to say.

LOL, I love Bones’s version - it’s so true!

All true, for all three. And this is why I spent years of my life writing them. :)

[asiserco]

Star Trek Grimace Comic From Last Year!!

This is from last year when the Grimace shake trend was big!!! I wanted to post it here though bc we're all nerds here right

Close-ups under the cut!!

[blogquantumreality]

Suggested ST: TOS Episodes to Watch

If you really don't want to go through all of the original series' episodes, here are fifteen I would suggest watching to get the big picture of the major aspects of TOS that feed into TNG, DS9 and so forth:

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" - as the pilot, this is self-explanatory. It shows us many of the major characters who we'll see over and over through the series, and shows how they react to a new phenomenon that threatens the mental stability of two crew members.

"Balance of Terror" - introduces the Romulans, one of two principal antagonist powers in the TOS era and which still has a sizable rivalry with the Federation in TNG/DS9.

"The Menagerie, Pt. I/II" - along with the original pilot "The Cage", this two-parter is noteworthy for giving us a look into the Enterprise's past when it was commanded by Captain Christopher Pike. It also establishes one of the few crimes for which the Federation has imposed a death penalty.

"Space Seed" - introduces Khan Noonien Singh and establishes one of the major cataclysmic wars of Trek's 20th century, the Eugenics Wars, with Khan as one of the principal instigators.

"Errand of Mercy" - introduces the Klingon Empire as the second of two principal antagonist powers in the TOS era, and also introduces the Organians who impose an armistice between the Klingons and the Federation, promising that one day they would come to see each other as allies.

"Metamorphosis" - introduces Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive which is the foundation upon which TOS era spacefaring rests upon.

"The City on the Edge of Forever" - for sheer feels this episode cannot be matched. We meet Edith Keeler, a woman who strikes a chord with Kirk beyond friendship, and see the potential cost of accidentally changing history.

"Mirror, Mirror" - here, we see an alternate universe in which a different set of conditions took hold, especially on Earth. In this universe, humanity's darker traits are admired and upheld, leading to the Federation morphing into an aggressively expansionist empire that brooks no opposition. Noteworthy for the way it explores the differences and similarities between mirror and canon Kirk as well as mirror and canon Spock.

"Amok Time" - this episode gives us an in-depth look at Spock, some of his life story, and the planet Vulcan and its customs.

"Journey to Babel" - introduces Spock's parents :P

"Patterns of Force" - rather topical in today's world, it is an interesting exploration of how any fascist movement inevitably drives towards extremism and only heroic efforts can usually stop one once it has taken hold.

"The Trouble with Tribbles" - tribbles. 'nuff said. :P

"The Paradise Syndrome" - introduces the Preservers, which serve as a canonically convenient way to explain the wide variety of similar biospheres on many planets as well as the tendency for human or human derived cultures to show up in places known to not be warp-capable. It can also tie into TNG's "The Chase".

"Day of the Dove" - introduces the last in the trio of Kor ("Errand"), Koloth ("Tribbles") and Kang, and gives more perspective on TOS-era Klingon perceptions of the Federation.

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" - somewhat anvilicious as an allegory for the arbitrariness and futility of racism.

Honorable mentions include "The Savage Curtain", which introduces (Kirk's idea of) Kahless the Unforgettable, as well as "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" and "Assignment: Earth" as a loosely connected pair of 1960s Earth centered episodes in which unintentional interference by the Enterprise could cause severe temporal issues.