#gunsmoke in the stars

[fabiansociety]

my favorite episodes of star trek are the ones that are basically sitcoms but with some particular alien twist, like luwaxana troi shows up and she's going through betazed menopause and is making everyone on the station horny, except for odo, who she starts aggressively flirting with

then they get trapped in an elevator and she drops the act and he turns into good and she holds him in her dress because he can't get to his bucket

or quark gets green card married to a klingon woman and solves financial crimes for her

or sisko and quark crash land and are forced to go camping on an alien planet together

i don't care about the borg, i don't care about the dominion, the klingons and cardassians and everyone else is only interesting when the cold war stays cold and things can't be resolved with guns and torpedoes

star trek is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me it's never ever an action movie

[cod-dump]

Price: What kind of movies do you like anyway?

Graves: I dunno. Westerns?

Soap: Predictable. What about sci-fi? Star Wars is basically a space Western.

Graves: Never seen it, actually.

*whole room goes silent*

Graves: What?

Price: Get your Yankee arse on the couch, Phil.

Soap, yelling down the hall: MANDATED STAR WARS NIGHT!!

Gaz: AGAIN????

Ghost: We just had one last week because Garrick called the guns phazers instead of blasters!

Price: GET ON THE COUCH.

[needle-noggins]

I wanna be a cowboy babey

Fanny Paine my fucking beloved. Trigun OC who lives in my head.

[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Leonard Nimoy guest stars in "A Man a Day," episode 14 of the seventh season of Gunsmoke (original air date December 30, 1961).

Nimoy plays one of a gang of outlaws who threaten to kill one townsperson each day until Marshal Dillon agrees to look the other way while they rob the Dodge City Bank. Nimoy plays the main gunman of the group, and he's delightfully sleazy.

Other Trek connections: Garry Walberg, who played the doomed commander of Outpost 4 in the Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror," plays a ranch hand who's in cahoots with the bank robbers. I love the word "cahoots."

[neddea]

My fellow Trigun enjoyers, assemble 🙌🏻

If you had to guess, which planet/moon do you think would most likely be Noman’s Land/Gunsmoke?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while (because my latest obsession is astronomy, although it’s also a long running one). In both animes and manga there are two suns, but I’ve been generally looking at exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System) within the habitable zone of their stars, thinking it would be complicated to find a two-star (binary) system that could have any kind of habitability. Yesterday though I found THIS OFFICIAL ART FROM NASA:

(Look at this, it’s so pretty!)

Turns out, NASA has a whole site that is… kind of an AU in which space travel is viable, and they explain how these planets would look like and what events would be cool to see in them and whatnot. They even have some 3D rendering from the surface of those planets so that you can see how it would look like! When I say this website is cool, I’m underselling it:

ANYWAY, back to Trigun shenanigans! When I saw the poster for Kepler-16b, I realized that yes, you could actually live on a planet of a binary system! These are called circumbinary planets, and a funny detail when you read the Wikipedia page:

A quick note on nomenclature: from what I’ve gathered, the name of the star system is followed by a letter or two. If it’s in caps, it’s a star, with A being the primary one and B the secondary; if it’s in lower case, it’s a planet. The planet counter always (?) starts at b, so if there are seven planets in the system called TRAPPIST-1 they would be TRAPPIST-1b, TRAPPIST-1c, TRAPPIST-1d…

Another important note is that there are two types of planetary configuration: If the planet only orbits one star, it’s called S-Type (or non-circumbinary planet); if it orbits both stars, it’s called P-Type (or circumbinary). Hope this didn’t get too confusing!

So I’ve made a list of binary systems that could potentially host human life. Which one do you think would be the best choice?

Kepler-16: the NASA poster one, its planet unofficially called “Tatooine” amongst scientists (good for them). 16b (the planet) is, however, a gas giant like Saturn, so it would be impossible to live there. If it has a moon with an atmosphere though, that could host life! And we’d get to see in the sky two stars and one bigass planet covering a good chunk of it. Pretty neat 🪐

Kepler-35: The planet discovered here is not within the habitable zone, but there is a high chance there might be other rocky planets in it. We can just make it up however we want it to be ✨

Kepler-38: Same as 35, but also the mass of the planet is unknown (I think? Wikipedia says one thing and NASA another, so idk)

Kepler-47: It has 3 planets, which is very cool 🪐🪐🪐 The second one, 47c, is within the habitable zone, but it would be the same case as 16b (living on a moon). The other two planets would also be perfectly visible, I think.

PH1/Kepler-64: First circumbinary planet found in a quadruple (FOUR STARTS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) system, and the discovery was made by citizens! How cool is that!? The planet orbits two of them, but the other system is fairly near and probably influences the planet?. They’re probably perfectly visible from the surface.

ROXs 42: Not much known about the planet, but it orbits the secondary star and has an atmosphere💫 That’s because it’s a gas giant, so it’s not habitable and we’d have to use a moon. Would be cool to see the stars wandering the sky on different paths though, since it’s the only S-Type system in this list!

Kepler-453: I’ve gotten confusing info about the habitability zone on this system, but we know that there’s a gas giant half the size of Jupiter 🤔

Kepler-1647: Same as Kepler-16 and 47. Apparently the system would be capable of sustaining an Earth-sized moon! 🌑

A quick sketch of how each of them would look like:

[tayryn]

A little less than a month ago, my website (tayryn's tower), where all my older fics (Princess Diaries, seaQuest, The Nanny, Star Trek [TNG & VGR], Gunsmoke, and a few others) were housed was taken down.

I am now in the process of slowly uploading them all to AO3, under the tayryns_tower pseud.

So... if you're one of the rare few who are subscribed for notifications, I apologize for the sudden barrage of notifications. There are only 70 more fics to go. And most are single chapters...

Had been wanting to take the Tower down for some time, and finally just did so, thus giving me that push to get the fics up on AO3.

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @DavidRSoul #DavidRSoul #actor #Makora #StarTrek #TheApple #HereCometheBrides #StarskyAndHutch #Hutch #gunsmoke #magnumforce #terrorinthemall #hightide #murdershewrote #partnersincrime #SalemsLot #theconjuring2 #Pentathlon #Farewell #Filth #startrek56 @TrekCore

[someguywriting]

bones and doc adams would kiss I think

[kwebtv]

Alan John Scarfe (June 8, 1946 – April 28, 2024) Stage, film and television actor, stage director and author.

Scarfe played NSA member Dr. Bradley Talmadge, the director of the Backstep Project operations, on the UPN series Seven Days. He also had guest roles as two separate Romulan characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Magistrate Augris in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Resistance". In 2003 he co-starred with his son Jonathan in Burn: The Robert Wraight Story.

Other TV credits are Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994) – Sean Devlin, Seven Days (October 7, 1998 – May 29, 2001) and Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007) – Father Cassidy. (Wikipedia)

IMDb Listing

[fishfilletinacan]

Streaming services should put old shows from the 60s-80s on there. I think it would uhhhh be cool haha (SOMEONE WATCH THESE OLD SHOWS WITH ME PLEASEEE J NEED THERE TO BE A FANDOM)

[thesconesyard]

Yeehaw!

When the Cactus Blooms

28. Gunsmoke

Jim threw a glance over as Spock twitched in his chair. The other man had turned to look out over the darkness. In another moment Spock was up and walking towards the darkest corner of the porch.

“What is it?” Jim asked quietly as he got up and moved next to him.

Spock held up a hand to silence him. Jim raised an eyebrow, but held his breath. Besides Keenser, Spock was the best at knowing the lay of the land and what was happening around them.

“The doctor was not wrong,” Spock nearly whispered. “We are being watched. Listen— there are voices near the cabins.”

Jim stared into the darkness in the direction Spock indicated, and finally he saw a hint of movement. His heart sped up slightly.

“You, me and Chekov can get to our guns easy, but Sulu and Keenser are out of luck,” Jim whispered. “How many you reckon?”

“Three minimum,” Spock replied. “Two voices at the cabins and one movement that way.” He gestured towards the front drive.

Jim rubbed a hand across his jaw.

“Bones!” he hissed out. “He and Scotty—”

“They might already be in trouble Jim,” Spock said. “I don’t think we can count them unfortunately.”

“Lord, I hope they aren’t. Ok,” Jim swallowed, “we get armed in case. Think one of us could get a horse and ride for help?”

“We may have to try.”

“You keep watching, I’ll get us armed.” Jim moved back to the rest of the group.

“What’s going on Jim?” Christine gave him a curious look.

“I’ll tell ya in a minute,” Jim said lightly. “Pavel, come give me hand.”

“Ok,” Chekov said and followed Jim in the house.

“Get your gun,” Jim whispered to him once they were inside. “And any other weapons you may have.”

Chekov’s eyes had gone as wide as dinner plates.

“What—”

“Just do it and be quick. We’ve got at least three people out there in the dark watching us.”

Chekov hurried away to his room and Jim strode to his own. He strapped his gun around his hips and slid his knife in the sheath at his boot. Then he went to Spock’s room and grabbed his.

Chekov came down the hall as Jim stepped out of Spock’s room.

“You tell Keenser and Jaylah what’s going on and I’ll tell the others. We have to be prepared. It might be nothing, or we might be defending the ranch.”

Chekov nodded solemnly.

“Thanks for the help Pavel,” Jim said as normally as he could as they rejoined the others on the porch.

Jim took a seat next to Uhura and beckoned Christine and Sulu close. He looked back over at Spock, then told them what was going on.

“How do you know it wasn’t just Scotty and the doctor that Spock heard?” Sulu asked. He grimaced. “They aren’t exactly the quietest at night.”

Jim made a sour face and he saw both women exchange a look. “Ok. Didn’t need that information. It’s Spock. He knows what our friends sound like; how they move.”

“Where are they? Scotty and Leonard?” Uhura asked. “If someone is out there why haven’t they hollered?”

The door closed and they all jumped. Keenser had gone inside.

“Jim.” The word was a whisper across the porch, but Jim got up instantly and returned to Spock’s side.

“Leonard and Scotty will be no help,” Spock said grimly. “They’ve already been caught. I heard the voices whisper it.”

“Hell,” Jim said.

The door opened and Keenser returned with a shotgun bent over his arm.

“Where the hell—? No, not now,” Jim said. “What are we going to do Spock?” Jim handed him his gun, and Spock slipped the belt around himself.

The moon rose at that moment and Jim’s heart jumped to his throat. In the newly moonlit yard a dozen men came out of the shadows. He took a deep breath, then straightened up. He walked back to the porch steps and stopped at the top.

“I’m James Kirk and this is my ranch. Who are you and why are you here?” he demanded in a loud voice.

Another tall figure stepped out of the shadows.

“You know, I quite liked it here,” the figure said in a deep voice. “So much so that I think I’m going to take it for my own.”

Jim frowned at the familiar voice. After a moment of thinking it came to him.

“John Harrison,” Jim said flatly. “What are you doing?”

“The name is Khan actually. And this is my ranch now.”

Jim scoffed. “Over my dead body.”

“Yes. I think so.”

Khan lifted his arm and Jim felt the pain before he heard the noise. A loud bang and someone screamed. One of the ladies. Christine maybe. Jim couldn’t be sure. He was falling backwards. It seemed like forever before the hard boards of the porch hit his back. The sharp scent of fired gunpowder drifted over him. The light from the house mingled with the stars and the moonlight and then everything went dark.

[thatsprettylane]

Love when you’re watching an old tv show and you can tell they just got new camera equipment because they keep using the same weird, new type of shot.

[huescs]

short little summary for bones’ plant verse because i’m at work:

divergence from the event of the cave-in. in turn, the cave-in happened further into the tunnels; when izan and the crew accidentally burrowed into the city’s underground PLANT storage that had been used to power the consumptions of solely the richer citizens of their city.

the storage caved in not long after. the PLANT, smaller than most, and stored in a container that could not hold under the pressure, was saved by izan’s quick thinking. stored in a mineral containment vessel that, in turn, shielded izan from death. from that point on— in the boundary between death and life, izan and the plant connected. neither one could survive without the other. literally. as long as the plant (named ursa) lives, so too does izan; and the same for ursa, as izan survives. abandoning his duties at the mines, izan has continued to survive with ursa for the past 11 years on the run. carrying the plant on their back, steadily changing and shifting from the plant’s otherworldly form attaching to their own.

izan in this verse has a slightly younger appearance, looking to be in their early twenties rather than late; with long, long black hair that falls to their thighs— constantly growing, enough that the effort to cut it has stopped. their connection to ursa has given them limited access to ursa’s angel arm, which manifests as small marble-shaped molecular concessions. often used as flash bangs, smoke bombs, or, for the unfortunate, explosives. in general, plant! verse izan is far more inclined towards violence to protect ursa and themselves— and has earned their name not for their pursuit to gather bones, but for what they leave behind of the less fortunate.

[faline-cat444]

Whatever TV era this is if it's a decade definer or "classics" as a whole

[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Leonard Nimoy guest stars in "I Call Him Wonder," episode 28 of the eighth season of Gunsmoke (original air date March 23, 1963).

Nimoy plays one of a trio of cowboy assholes who lose a poker game to a trail hand and spend the rest of the episode trying to get back at him. They get him drunk, beat him, rob him, terrorize and attempt to kidnap his Arapaho foster son, and finally try to lynch him in a barn before Marshal Dillon finally comes and puts a stop to it.

Other Trek connections: Bill Zuckert plays a rancher who won't give the trail hand a job because of his foster son, and he went on to play the sheriff of the Wild West simulation in the Star Trek episode "Spectre of the Gun."

[retrocgads]

UK 1985