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[planetlongjourney]

Is is worrying that this is a list of pretty much every main female character? Yeah??? Very worrying??? Extremely worrying???

[miryalle]

"Wrestling"

[mistermistyyy]

Anyone else got the headcanon that gendered locker rooms and bathrooms aren't a thing anymore in Trek? After meeting several species without sexes, better rights for non-binary people, and sexism no longer being a thing, I feel like they wouldn't see the need anymore

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Vulcans take everything seriously. Especially looking good for a date with their Captain.

Originally published in the 2024 KisCon Zine.

[mullomohiam]

Guy who’s only watched Star Trek: The Original Series watching another show about a naval discovery mission: getting a lot of Star Trek: The Original Series vibes from this

Bonus: me reading about jcr

[1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt]

Excuse me?

Ice cream glued cone dog was a saint.

Rick Berman? Not so much.

I'll take less money per episode and more respect for your staff on set for 200.

'90s Trek had the ideal budget for a Star Trek show. TOS had no money and had to make do with an ice cream cone glued to a dog. Disco has too much money and you can tell they don't have to control themselves at all. the happy medium is a show that overspent on sticking tubes to a guy last week so this week there's something creepy and mostly invisible happening in the same room we always go to

[bubumdles]

spones 💥 spones 💥spones 💥 spones 💥spones 💥 spones 💥spones 💥 spones 💥 spones 💥

[spirkbitch]

she <3

[snek-of-eden]

girl if i made a critically acclaimed TV show that developed one of the largest and most beloved non-canon ships in history, you just KNOW i'd be on my deathbed at the end telling my grandkids to pull out the iphone and record me making that shit canon. yes dear children, it was yaoi all along. they were deeply in love and fucked nasty. spock topped. and then i would post it and die happy as the whole internet lost their shit

[fabuladorah]

This gif is how i feel bout anything ever

Someone posted this in a Trek group:

Counter theory:

"My theory was always that Spock was the unhinged and wild one -- a rebel by Vulcan standards -- and he radicalized "stack of book with legs" Jim Kirk.😂

Spock was the one out there mind melding with every Horta, Nomad and V'Ger while Jim and Bones absolutely panicked in the background.

Then Jim usually ended up being the one to get Spock out of it, too. The Apple, Operation Annihilate, A Private Little War, The Infinite Vulcan, TMP . . . How many times did we see Kirk have to carry Spock body and limb and slightly on fire back to the ship after he got into it?

The amount of shit Jim has to do for Spock in Star Trek III alone.

Spock is like the Enterprise housecat who stubbornly insists on being an outdoor cat and keeps escaping, later having to be carried back indoors. He keeps causing mischief but everybody loves his ass anyway.

Kirk and Spock were chaotic messes who loved their frontier first contact work in TOS and onward -- they deserved each other.😂👌

Shit, cat got out again.

[awkwardtrekphotos]

[tprings-hair]

credit to @spirk-trek for the edited screencaps I used!

more lockscreens

[animentality]

it's really odd seeing conservative star trek fans because don't you know that from the very beginning star trek has been nothing but DEI hires 😔✌️ as if a Russian would ever be hired for any purpose other than a diversity quota.

[tpols-fluffy-sock-collection]

A mysterious nebula, with HARRY MUDD??!?! Might have a terrible time, but might get up to some shenanigans? Unclear

You are dropped in a Star Trek location. Spin this wheel to find out which location and this wheel to find out who you are with.

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I desperately want more fics where the t'hy'la bond forms between Kirk and Spock from birth soulmate-style exclusively for the sake of making Spock, 16, feel the pain of starvation during Kirk's time on Tarsus IV.

There's maybe... two? fics I've read that used a similar concept, but there should be MORE.

Like, picture a Spock who knows that he's bonded to his t'hy'la, but has never met them. This bond is the one thing which makes him "acceptably vulcan" in the eyes of his peers. Surely he can't be a failed vulcan if he's got a t'hy'la, the rarest of all vulcan bonds, right? So, to Spock, this bond isn't only an honor, but a lifeline. His whole life, he's taken comfort from it, because it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there IS someone who will truly love and care for him and that he IS vulcan enough (and if he has some suspicions that the one he is bonded to isn't vulcan, well, he keeps them to himself).

And then, at some point, Spock begins feeling... oddly anxious. A little hungrier than he should be, most of the time. At first, he writes it off as simply another aspect of puberty, but then it continues. Then it gets worse. The sense of never getting quite enough to eat grows, and the anxiety builds, and eventually, Spock realizes that it's not him. His t'hy'la is the one who is hungry and afraid.

He brings it to his father, then, deeply concerned. "They are hungry," he says of his t'hy'la. "It is persistent and... palpable. I believe they are in danger."

Sarek is sympathetic, but unable to do anything save offer advice: "Be with them. If you meditate and focus on your bond, you may be able to reach them, to offer some modicum of comfort."

And so Spock does. He spends his days deep in meditation, projecting calm and comfort and gentleness into the bond, and he hopes that it is heard, though he can't help but feel that he isn't doing enough. He wishes that he could reach into their mind and find their location so he could help them, but even with the aid of T'Pau, it would be impossible.

And still, the fear and the hunger grow worse, gnawing away at his t'hy'la until Spock wonders if there is even anything left of them, on the other side of the bond.

"I fear they are dying," he confesses one night, emerged from his meditation for just long enough to eat a meal. "They are... so weak, now, and filled with such despair. I -" Spock's voice breaks. "I have not even met them. It is unfair!"

Amanda holds him, and he, for the first time since he was seven, allows it.

"Their mere presence in my mind has done so much for me, and in return, what good have I done for them? I wish..." He swallows, throat aching with suppressed grief. "I would take their place, if I could."

He wonders, almost, if it would be better for them, to die. Their pain was so intense, and their terror so strong - surely death could be nothing but release.

Still, selfishly, he wants them to live.

He wants to get a chance to know them, to love them as more than just a warm link in the back of his mind.

So, still, he meditates, and tries to press as much warmth and affection as possible through the bond, saying don't give up, I'm here, I'm with you.

And, eventually, slowly, the hunger goes away. The fear takes longer, but it, too, eases over time. It never goes away entirely, of course. Sometimes, starvation plagues his t'hy'la's memories, or disembodied terror strikes them out of nowhere. But still, they are healing, and Spock is grateful for it.

Someday, he hopes to have the chance to hold his t'hy'la in his arms, but until then, he offers his mind. Every time he meditates (and every time he feels his t'hy'la's distress) Spock presses love and warmth into the bond. He still doesn't know if he's reaching them, but he hopes - and sometimes, hope is all you need.

(Jim, for his part, thinks often of the gentle warmth and reassurance which filled his mind during his darkest days. He wonders if he could have kept going, without it. He wonders, too, where it came from, and why he can still feel it sometimes, brushing lovingly over him. He hopes that someday he'll find out, to thank them for staying with him, for granting him a light in the darkness.)