#and star trek

[homoquartz]

a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.

edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count

[artistmarchalius]

Floyd and the newly named Billie the service bat!

[demonicseries]

ppl on tumblr be like: omg I love that show! no, I haven't watched a single episode

[sofiadragon]

My dash did not have to go this hard when I am this sick.

[emo-protagonist]

how to i make friends on here

[probablyprobablydefinitelynot]

hello it is me, Bridgerton opinion-haver (listen I didn't think this was who I was either); I think they should let Cressida do some murder, as a treat (to me). I think Francesca and Michaela will be cute as hell, and I think Eloise needs to pull her whole head out of her ass. Also would love more Kate on a horse For Reasons.

[degenderates]

Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICOLE DOLLANGANGER

[stupidlytiredstudent]

Has appeared in so much fan content that it's become unclear if this is fanon or just buried somewhere in the mountains of canon/semi-canon/retconned content

levels of headcanon:

This is heavily supported by text/subtext and is likely what the creators intended for me to get from this 

this is sort of supported by the text and could, conceivably be what the creators intended for me to get from the text/subtext

there is no evidence either way

there is slight evidence against my headcanon, but I don’t care

I’ve stopped giving a crap about canon

[galactic-dragoness]

[geekysteven]

Example art from Tumblr users @poltergrease @teenageclown @randomationality

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

[purple-iris]

765874 Unification - Short Film from The Roddenberry Archive, OTOY, William Shatner and the Nimoy estate, in commemoration of 30th anniversary of Generation being released.

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[flappielxx123]

This brings me back to the many world theory (with every decision you make the universe splits/another reality opens) which means that there is certainly a reality it did happen

The Thing About that Unaired Kiss in “Hunters”

The thing about that kiss in “Hunters,” filmed but never aired, is that if it had aired as originally planned, every single episode after that point would have played out differently. Every single one. Every interaction between Janeway and Chakotay after that point, whether consciously romantic or not, would have had a subtext. To be honest, every interaction pretty much did have a subtext, which is why there were so many J/Cers in the first place. But after that point, the subtext would have been an acknowledged subtext rather than one we fans were reading into the scenes whether RB and KM were playing it that way on purpose or not.

Just think about that for a minute.

How different would “Unforgettable” have been if there had been a J/C relationship on top of it? How different would “Night” have been, and “Timeless,” and “Counterpoint?”

How much more powerful would “The Fight” have been if we knew, if it had been acknowledged instead of built up in our heads, that Janeway was asking her lover to possibly sacrifice his sanity to save them? And how much more moving his quiet and courageous acquiescence?

Would “Equinox” have brought them closer together, or would it have broken them?

Would “Fair Haven” and “Spirit Folk” even have happened, or would we have gotten a much more in-character holoprogram for the Captain? Maybe one in which she is a pirate queen, or an early 20th Century adventurer? Or a super hotshot WASP pilot in WWII, maybe one with a handsome lover in a different branch of the service?

Would the clasped hands on the Bridge in “Unimatrix Zero” have meant even more? Would “Shattered” have ended very differently?

Would the series have ended very differently?

I think about these things. I wonder, and I wish, and I think about these things.

There’s an alternate universe of stories to be told here, from the farce of the crew finding out one by one, to the drama of the moments that almost tore them apart for good, to the powerfully uplifting ending, in which they realize that their reliance on each other, their love and care for each other, kept them alive and sane and human in a part of the Universe that would have irrevocably changed them if they hadn’t had each other to keep them grounded and healthy.

So many possibilities.

Intriguing, isn’t it?