#Star Trek Alternant Original Series

[hjbirthdaywishes]

June 19, 2024

Happy 46 Birthday to Zoe Saldaña.

[blanc-ci]

Just watched John Wick so take another lil movie redraw!

The dialogue fit so perfect with Spock running Kahn down to avenge Kirk’s death, I couldn’t help myself

(movie: John Wick)

Shitty reference photos I took of my tv

[a-most-beloved-fool]

AOS Kirk, drunk: Hey Uhura... Spock takes good care of you, yeah? He treats you right?

Uhura, who isn't dating Spock anymore but does Not want to flirt with Jim Kirk: Yes. He does.

Kirk, wistfully: I'll bet he does. He seems like the type to really know how to treat a person. He's caring, y'know? You're lucky. Lucky. *he trails off into drunken mumbling*

Uhura, who is rapidly coming to a realization: ???

[wwillywonka]

i just. imagine outliving every single person you've ever loved. every. single. person. not only that, but because of the simple fact that you're in the goddamn space navy, a lot of these people die pretty tragically. your father, overcome with a disease that strips him of his dignity as the ambassador to a race that relies on calculated pride. your mother, always so warm and caring, falling to memory loss until she doesn't recognise you, her favourite person in all the galaxy. your first captain, your first friend, disfigured until he's near recognisable and it's your responsibility, yours, to get him to a place where he can die at least a little more happy than he otherwise would have. your two best friends, the only two people in your entire almost 200-year-long life that you trust completely, are only around for less than a quarter of said life because they're human and you're not (well, half) and you knew the whole time they would die way before you. and one of them, the one you call soulmate, brother, lover in your native language, disappears and dies far before his time, without any time for you to prepare for it. and the other? you rely on him for so long and then, without warning because he was healthy until the day he died because he's a doctor goddammit, he's gone.

and now what? what else do you have? so you dedicate the rest of your days to saving a planet destined to die. all of your hard work, and still, romulus falls to political destruction anyway. and in your attempts to save it, you go to the one place the universe thinks you need to be, but it hurts, it hurts so damn much because they're all back, and they're all so young, and things aren't quite right, and even though part of you is happy to help them along the same wonderful path you experienced, part of you also grieves for the repetition of the losses you have faced. you don't want your younger counterpart to have to endure it, but he does because that's just the will of the universe, and you are powerless to stop it.

imagine that.

[uss-spirk]

I’m still freaking out about Spock Prime’s TOS crew photo from Beyond

Yes, I know this is 8 years old at this point but my Autistic Brain decided to freak out about this again today for no reason at all so hear me out bc it drives me absolutely NUTS every time I think about it.

So basically, the circumstances required for Reboot Spock to find this photo in Spock Prime’s possessions after he died are absolutely wild. Let’s walk through it shall we:

First thing to remember is that this photo does not exist in the Kelvin timeline. At all. The characters all look different and even if they’re supposed to canonically grow up to look exactly the same as the TOS characters, Spock Prime went back in time from his own universe so the photo cannot exist in the Kelvin timeline, at least yet.

Second thing is that Spock Prime must have carried this photo on his person when he went back in time in the jellyfish ship.

This is because Nero captured Spock (and his ship) and stranded him on Delta Vega, presumably with nothing but the clothes on his back and whatever else he might happen to have been carrying in his pockets.

Also, he couldn’t have stored the photo on his ship to retrieve later because Reboot Spock blew it up to ignite the red matter and destroy Nero’s ship. So whatever Spock Prime brought with him from the Prime Universe must have been on his person when he was stranded on Delta Vega.

Now, when Spock first sees Reboot Kirk in the cave, he says the classic “I have been and always shall be your friend” along with “It is remarkably pleasing to see you again, old friend.”

If we take a peek at the timeline for a sec, Kirk Prime disappeared into the Nexus in Star Trek: Generations in the year 2293, when everyone presumably thought he died. Now, Kirk did reappear into ‘normal space/time’ in the year 2371 when the rest of Generations takes place, but only Picard really saw Kirk before he died for real—so basically, the last time Spock could have seen Kirk Prime was in 2293. In the Prime Universe, the Romulan star went supernova in 2387, which is when Spock Prime goes back and creates the Kelvin Timeline.

SO: all this means that it has been at least 94 years (2293-2387) since Spock Prime has seen a Kirk in any universe. THEREFORE: this means that Spock Prime was carrying THAT TOS CREW PHOTO on his person 94 years after the last time he had seen Kirk. Whether he had been carrying it on his person for the entirety of those 94 years, or just during his mission to try and save Romulus, or something in between is anyone’s guess. But basically, even almost a century later, Spock thought those people and that photo were important enough to take with him on his body when he was sent to save Romulus. (A mission that required extreme speed and efficiency, if I might add).

ANYWAY: the photo in Beyond is shown as a rather small, yet touching, moment of nostalgia for fans of the original Star Trek show, but when you really start to think about what was required for that photo to exist in Reboot Spock’s possession at that moment, it just starts to drive me a little bit absolutely bonkers.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Have a nice day.

[barely-getting-bi]

heyyy does anyone wanna be parted from me but never parted, never and always touching and touched???

[dustykneed]

good luck, babes! 💙💛

maybe i should write a fic. hmm

(edit: if you wanted to know my personal interpretation... watch the can in bones' hand. and the colors mean things loll. i think i'll make an explanation tomorrow just for fun)

[assassinbugs]

Neither of you can leave before the entire shelf/table/whatever is finished. (It can't be the easiest/tiniest furniture though. It has to be kind of complicated and/or take at least an hour.)

There's also versions for: ds9, lower decks, voyager, tng

[kingof-the-crossroads]

[akendara]

to space 💫

[blanc-ci]

I watched the 2009 movie fight scene again and.. good heavens

Some screenshots I took of the scene- purely for reference you understand, yep, nothing else

[a-most-beloved-fool]

the thing with the Kobayashi Maru test is that Kirk's solution is 100% the type of thing that professors just. eat up.

Like, they've got this Test. It's designed to show what Command students will do under the biggest sort of pressure: a no-win scenario. It's Important. They know that these kids are going to have people's lives in their hands, and they need to know that they can handle it. What do they do, when death is the only possible outcome?

And then they get this kid, who takes the test. He does well! Excellent, really. He's clearly command material.

But then he takes it again.

This is not a point in the kid's favor. It suggests that he hasn't internalized the lesson. It's concerning, but not the end of the world. Lots of students take it again, especially if they're doing well everywhere else.

Until he takes it a third time.

And cheats.

This, of course, results in a hearing. They demand to know what he was thinking. Why would he throw away his career like that? And James T. Kirk just looks at them, and smiles.

"You wanted to know what I would do, if given a no-win scenario," he says. "This is what I would do. I would take risks, break the rules - I'd do everything in my power to make this no-win scenario into a win scenario. I would never give up on the people under my command."

Which is - a good answer. But, they still need to know, "Why didn't you just tell us your plan, Kirk?" The speaking professor shakes their head, exasperated. "You didn't need to cheat, and kick up all this fuss just to prove a point."

Kirk just laughs. "With all due respect, I did have to, sir. It would hardly be a good example of 'taking risks for my crew' if I'd just safely given you a report of what I 'would have done'. It's action that saves lives, not talk. Giving a report won't do me any good out in the black."

Of course the professors are going to be thrilled. They just got someone with strong convictions and the guts to back them! That's, like, the dream. They take one look at Kirk and go, "this kid is gonna be a phenomenal Captain." And, y'know what? They're right.

The only time a professor does Not eat that up is if that professor is. well. like aos spock. young and a stickler for rules and, to be blunt, a little insecure.

so anyways rip aos kirk. you had the right idea, and the wrong professor. and your reputation probably didn't help.

[spirk-trek]

S1E28: The Alternative Factor ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

[woman-of-many-fandoms]

Shout out to Gaila. Who has approximately one minute of screen time and is still in 85 pages of FF.

[t0ast-ghost]

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

Feel free to explain why below

[vvulcanprince]

kirk & spock out in the town as cadets :) - art by me @ vvulcanprince on instagram