#but what if it was Picard

[yourbuerokrat2]

I know, Picards relationship with his family is quite the source for angst, but maybe for a time the persuasion of trying to keep Picard in La Barre was actually more like the song ‘Under the Sea’?

[sharkchunks]

Star Trek: The Next Generation

“The Drumhead" 1991

[strawberry-tofu]

This is so awful but I had so much fun making it

[manmadedonut]

Q is so gay for picard its disgustingly obvious

[pepperchipper]

sweet dreams are made of this...WAKE UP, Q

[sirellas]

That pilot's hailing us, JL.

STP 1x04

[ireallyamabear]

The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.

Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits. Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict. Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-

[trekkie-polls]

For bonus points share one thing you wish would have happened in that extra season

Edit: So many comments about Prodigy not being on here! Well, I am a Prodigy fan too. But I left it off because last I heard Netflix picked it up. Now I don’t have faith it will happen, but nonetheless there is at least one more season planned and maybe more.

On the other hand, even though the last seasons of discovery & lower decks haven’t finished airing, they both have planned end dates.

[nobigneil]

Astarion is not "banned" from Olive Garden!

source: teamneilnewbon

[thymelessink]

Mon capitaine~ ♡

[dataisms]

Pictures of Data and Lore that are on my mind 24/7

[artseuki]

Four puffballs walk into a con...

comiccon_captures was kind enough to take some absolutely Stellar photos of our group last SDCC! The heat may have been killer but at least so were the fits!!

Morpho Knight: @aseuki || Kirby: @nymphofnovels || Meta Knight: @alagaesia-overlord || Galacta Knight: @humming-fly Photography and Editing: comiccon_captures

[dataentryspecialist]

Ok so you know how there's this promo photo of Data for Picard s3?

Brent has this at his table for autographs.

I maaaay have told him that he's serving cunt in it.

To which is assistant said "I don't think he's allowed to say that" 😂😅

I don't know if he was amused or appalled but he let me lay my head on his shoulder for a selfie so excuse me while I ride that high as long as humanly possible

His assistant also agreed with me that the photo has some Lore poking through hehe

[this-simplefeeling]

david tennant is to doctor who what brent spiner is to star trek.. every time the show needs new life they rope these poor bastards back in