#about uss!

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[thisshrimpisfryingrice]

I’ve never heard of threshold day until 30 min ago and I’m about to watch an Emmy awarded episode of Star Trek

[mobydyke]

a house is a home but a house is alive but a house is a prison but a house is a graveyard but a house is a caregiver but a house is an emancipation but a house is a monster but the house loves you and the house will not let you go

[saguaroooo]

[blessyo4]

Mr and Ms Browneyes ☕ - IG - Phee shirt pattern made by @lornaka

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, interrupting himself mid-live stream: Oh, babe. Got you some ice cream

Steve: What flavor?

Eddie: Butterscotch

Steve: From where?

Eddie:

Eddie: Steve, I can’t get you limited edition ice cream from a shop that hasn’t existed in thirty years. USS Butterscotch is dead and it’s never coming back.

[paddysnuffles]

The fact that the Enterprise crew calls Spock "Mr. Spock" is so funny to me.

Spock's his name, not his surname.

Everyone else is referred to by their rank and/or surname except Spock.

It's like if you were in the Navy and referring to a coworker (possibly even your commanding officer!) as "Mr. Brad".

[vonnebenan]

✨ boldly going ✨

oils on paper, A5

[isagrimorie]

Janeway: I never realized you thought of me as reckless, Tuvok. Tuvok: A poor choice of words. It was clearly an understatement. Star Trek Voyager - Scientific Method Part 1, 2

Seven Feeling Some Kind of Way for Janeway.

[curator-on-ao3]

Thinking about her.*

*The USS Voyager, the ship that flew farther than any other, sent to the Fleet Museum to rest. But can she? Can the ship that never knew the safety of harbor find peace as an exhibit, a display, a starship that can no longer explore the stars? Is she okay? Is she depressed? Are her gelpacks that healthy blue or have they turned sickly green and no one can figure out why, languid processing and connectivity, organic circuitry behaving erratically and sometimes failing to perform even basic tasks? Do her darkened corridors echo with the memories of a crew that celebrated and mourned and fought and made up and cared about the journey, cared about her, their home? Do the other ships know what that was like — to be a home, not a posting? The other ships don’t have bio-neural circuitry, so they don’t seem to register where they are or what’s happening. But Voyager does. Voyager knows where she is and why. Is she okay, though? Is she?

[fuimustroes]

(in boston) *touches ground* stephen maturin beat a man to death with a penis statue here

[udaasibharikoihaseendaastan]

Gujia khaane se zyada banane mai maza aati hai meko

[thisshrimpisfryingrice]

Birdblorbo encounter

[conflictofthemind]

Whenever I mention Montauk, I need to re-iterate that Will drew the rainbow ship. Will has memories of Project Rainbow / Project Philadelphia and the USS Eldridge that he should not have because that happened in 1943 and the amount that this goes under the radar drives me nuts!!! In a show where the basis of this lore is that time travel and body swapping events happened at the event of the USS Eldridge's disappearance! And Will is involved!!

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#684 by @psycho333

I think my brain made an OC that's "The first Gorn in Starfleet" who is the descendant of the Gorn that caught Kirk and joined to help out and annoy his family. A Gorn that loves Earths "Pro Wrestling" shows and frequents the holodeck with a program where he became a world champion. One that serves on the Ceretos (I love Lower Decks) The best name I could think of is "Flexes Proudly" though... All that started with the question in my head "What if the descendant of the Gorn that faught Kirk joined Starfleet" I have another concept of "What if a Cardascian (I hope I spelt that right) was born after the events of DS9 but still feels a personal guilt over what his ancestors did" but I'm not sure how much time passed between DS9 and Lower Decks.

[mothmans-cumrag]

HEY QUICK QUESTION DID I MENTION MY DAD WAS CRAZY?

BC HE GOT ME FUCKING THE REAL ACTUAL PLAYMOBIL ENTERPRISE FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND WTF FIRST OF ALL THAT WAS LIKE 500€ AND SECONDLY AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH