#lokai

[puppyfail]

i know the hate sex goes crazy

[deeronthehighway]

MY LOKAI SWAG>YOUR LOKAI SWAG

[raurquiz]

#otd #startrek #letthatbeyourlastbattlefield #kirk #spock #mccoy #bones #uhura #sulu #chekov #scotty #Bele #Lokai #Chapel #startrek57 @TrekMovie @TrekCore @StarTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus @WilliamShatner

[glittergutts]

I got a lokai bracelet :)

[octoberboy1031]

My #ValentinesDay outfit came in tonight! I can’t wait to wear it! #flagandanthem #plaid #shirt #hollister #tee #jeans #lokai #enviormentlokai #bracelet #jewelry #clothes #shopping #fashion #teenwolfmovie #wolfpack #january #winter #night (at North Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoEdJTpuU4m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ihavelionhaircc]

my current sims family adopted a pit bull puppy named lokai

[thesmilingfish]

Getting a lot of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" vibes off this little guy.

[gorgugplushie]

i finished . coughs

[personalswtorheadcanons]

Could you share an interesting story about one of your ladies' hobbies?

Teeubo: My time to shine! Remember how I said I like Pazaak? Well, I also like playing Sabacc! It's definitely interesting to play against Lana but it's also no fun when she tried to read your mind to cheat. Playing with Gault on the other hand? Now that's fun. Not only do we share smuggling stories, but we come up with awesome schemes to get rich.

[zutalorsihavemissedone]

Bele

[electronickingdomfox]

USS Enterprise decks

Updated part 1 here

Updated part 2 here

This post got me thinking about the actual location inside the ship of several areas. Sure, there are many blueprints and reference books that have published complete and detailed layouts of the Enterprise. But ultimately, they're interpretations of different authors, filling in the blanks, and they often disagree with each other.

So this is a list of the bare minimum of facts. All the deck locations that can be gleaned from TOS episodes. Beyond that, it's up to anyone's imagination.

*Feel free to make additions or corrections to this post. This is only in reference to the original ship as seen in the series, not taking into account the refit ship from the movies, or alterations/retcons introduced in later series.

Saucer section (primary hull)

Most locations seen in the series belong to this section (as deduced from the curved corridors). The first version of the Writer's Guide tell us it has 20 decks. The later edition (season 2 onwards) reduced the decks to 11.

Deck 1

-Bridge: Obvious from a simple inspection of the ship's exterior. And also confirmed by the Writer's Guide to be in this deck.

Deck 2

-The Romulan Commander's "guest" quarters: Spock tells the turbolift to bring them to this deck, before leaving her in detention, in "The Enterprise Incident". I don't think we ever see other location said to be here (maybe she got the whole deck for herself; lucky!).

Deck 3

-Recreation room 6: Rand offers Charlie to come here, in "Charlie X".

-Recreation room 3: Spock says Bele is chasing Lokai in front of this place, in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield".

-Crewmen's lounge: Same as above.

Deck 4

-Environmental control: Scotty says power's been shut down here, in "The Ultimate Computer".

-Living quarters: Kirk confirms this, in "The Ultimate Computer".

Deck 5

-Sickbay: Kirk brings Spock to this deck after ordering him to report to sickbay, in "Amok Time". He does the same with Elaan of Troyius. Strangely enough, most blueprints place sickbay in deck 7 instead.

-Kirk's quarters: Confirmed in "Journey to Babel", which also shows the cabin number (3F 121). The same number was first seen in "The Conscience of the King", but without specifying the deck.

-Recreation room 3: Spock says Bele is chasing Lokai in front of this place, in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". May be a script error, since a moment ago he had said this place was in deck 3.

-Transporter room: As Lokai seems to run directly here, we may assume it's also in deck 5 (though there are probably many more transporter rooms throughout the ship).

Deck 6

-Briefing room: Sargon calls McCoy from here, in "Return to Tomorrow". May be the same briefing room from other episodes.

-Guest rooms: Bele and Lokai are assigned quarters here, in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield".

-Living quarters: Kirk confirms this, in "The Ultimate Computer".

Deck 8

-Auxiliary control: The android Norman hijacks the controls here, in "I, Mudd".

-Evaluation laboratory: Seen on a plaque, in "And the Children Shall Lead". Kirk and Spock arrived on this deck in search for Auxiliary control, so it should be in deck 8 as well.

Deck 12

-Janice Rand's quarters: In "The Enemy Within", after seeing Rand attacked by evil Kirk, a crewman reports they're in deck 12. The number of her cabin is also visible (3C 46).

-Kirk's quarters: In very early episodes ("Mudd's Women" and "The Enemy Within"), Kirk's quarters were here, instead of in deck 5. Since the number of saucer decks was reduced to 11 in season 2, the change makes sense.

Deck 14

-Transporter room: In "Dagger of the Mind", Dr. Van Gelder is locked in this deck, after arriving inside a cargo box.

-Personnel Director office: Seen on a plaque during Van Gelder's escape.

-Science Library: Same as above.

Unknown deck

These are some locations, likely from the saucer section, but with unspecified deck. There are plenty of such examples, so this isn't an exhaustive list.

-Impulse engines: The Writer's Guide confirms that the impulse engines are in the primary hull, in case of saucer separation. I think the impulse engines are only seen in "The Doomsday Machine", when Scotty is working aboard the identical Constellation. Though they look just as a reused set from Engineering.

-Spock's quarters: The cabin number is seen in "Amok Time" (3F 125). Possibly, it's in deck 5 near Kirk's quarters, considering the similar numbering.

-McCoy's quarters: Only seen in "The Man Trap" (I think), which also shows the number (3F 127). Again, it's probably near Kirk and Spock's cabins.

-Mudd's quarters: The number is barely legible, but looks like 3F 125, in "Mudd's Women". This happens to be the same as Spock's cabin. The likely explanation is that they didn't have a design for Spock's quarters so early in the series. The fun explanation is that they evicted Spock just to make room for Mudd.

-Uhura's quarters: Seen in "The Tholian Web", and adapted for Elaan in "Elaan of Troyius".

-Scotty's quarters: Seen in "By Any Other Name".

-Life Science Section - Botany Department: Seen in "The Man Trap".

-Gymnasium: Seen in "Charlie X".

-Officer's mess: Seen in "Space Seed".

-Botanical garden: Seen in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".

-Briefing room: Different from the usual briefing room, it's seen in "Space Seed" when they decide Khan's fate.

-Biochemistry lab: Seen in "The Deadly Years".

Since I've reached the picture limit, the continuation with the Engineering hull sets will be in another post, here.

[raurquiz]

#otd #startrek    #letthatbeyourlastbattlefield #kirk #spock #mccoy #bones #uhura #sulu #chekov #scotty #Bele #Lokai #Chapel #startrek56 @startrekonpplus https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPa69DO6ce/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ribroses]

Blogmas Day 2

Black Friday Haul !!!

i got a lot of cute 2014-esque things for Black Friday so I wanted to do a little haul for you!! 💝

Vacation by VACATION Perfume Sample i enjoyed this scent, i bought it because everyone was saying it smelled exactly like a summer day on the beach. it’s not my favorite summer scent, but it does smell good!!

VACATION Classic Whipped Sun Screen

Bath and Body Works Strawberry Snowflakes Body Wash I can’t find a link to the link to this specific product, but they do have a cute little set of the lotion, fragrance, and wash :) i’m very excited to use it this winter after Christmas, it smells delicious!

Victoria’s Secret Body Shimmer Oil, Pomegranate i looooove this, it is such a good shimmer oil , not to think like some body oils and the SMELLLLL it takes me back to the early 2010s, totally recommend, I can’t wait to use it in the summer!!

Victoria’s Secret Body Shimmer Oil, Coconut can’t find a link :(

Bath and Body Work Hand Sanitizer Set in true 2014 fashion, I needed to get a hand sanitizer set since I only have one, I wish they would bring back the old bottles!! 😩

Bath and Body Works Sanitizer Holder this is soooo cute, i feel like the pink camera design is so 2014/16. It also makes a clicking sound when you press the picture button!!

Victoria’s Secret Lip Gloss Set since they don’t have the philosophy lip glosses anymore, i though the VS one were very similar! i already have 3 and now my collection is at 12 (i wear these everyday, so I’m not just buying these to have them lol)

Single VS Lip Glosses; Berry Flash Sugar High Pink Mimosa Candy Baby

Lokai Bracelet veryyy summer of 2016/17

Victoria’s Secret Perfume Set i was going to buy multiple bottle of VS perfume, so instead i bought this perfume set of mini perfume, they’re so cute. specially the whole top row smells veryyy like perfume scents in 2014/15

Clinique High Impact Mascara Black Honey Black Mini

Clinique Take The Day Off Makeup Remover

Wet and Wild Liquid Brown Eyeliner bought this to practice my 2016 sharp ass cat eye lolllll

Essence Black Liquid Eyeliner

COVERGIRL Tinted Lip Balm Life Is Pink You’re The Pom i already had on of these and looove the color, totally recommend if your doing a no makeup makeup look!!!

Elf Lip Stain Cinnamon Dreamz

Elf Cream Eye Shadow Sand Dune

Elf Liquid Camo Liquid Blush Berry Well my favorite liquid blush

[octoberboy1031]

So, @paramountplus sent gift sets to the casts and crews of @teenwolf and @wolfpackonpplus and one of the things was this #EnvironmentLokai! Proceeds of each one bought goes to #reforestation! I had to get it for my #ValentinesDay outfit!! 🌳🌕🐺🥍🌀🌲#lokai #bracelet #jewelry #shopping #fashion #teenwolf #teenwolfmovie #wolfpack #werewolf #werewolves #scarymovie #horror #horrorgeek #spooky #creepy #january #winter #night #terrorverse (at North Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5lpcYut6t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ihavelionhaircc]

lokai dump

[cantsayidont]

I keep seeing people point to the STAR TREK: TOS episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" as an example of STAR TREK's progressive bona fides, which really gets up my nose because "Battlefield" is, along with "A Private Little War," "The Omega Glory," "The Paradise Syndrome," and a couple of others, among the half-dozen or so most politically unsavory TOS episodes, a statement of unvarnished white liberal contempt toward the civil rights movement.

First, like a lot of TREK, and like the superhero comic book stabs at "relevancy" in this period and afterward, the episode is, at a structural level, constructed to let the white middle-class liberal hero sit in judgment on contemporary social issues that only incidentally affect him, but which he is privileged to weigh from a position of presumptive neutrality. This is a common feature of the series, but it becomes especially pointed here because when this episode aired in January 1969, no viewer over the age of about 6 would be likely to miss what it was talking about; the episode originally aired just a little over nine months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

It is noteworthy, then, that the script goes to particular lengths to distance Kirk and the other Enterprise regulars from the racial conflict between the black-and-white aliens Lokai (Lou Antonio) and Bele (Frank Gorshin). Spock goes so far as to insist that they are wholly outside known standards of "genetically possible" "gradiations of color" in humanoid beings! At no point does any of the crew express any sympathy or identification with Lokai; Chekov and Sulu regard racial persecution as an historical curiosity with which they have no experience, and even Spock, who experiences racial persecution on the regular, dismisses both Bele and Lokai as hopelessly irrational.

This is curious insofar as Lokai clearly describes conditions of material oppression that any Black person in America would immediately recognize: He says Bele's people "raided our homes, tore us from our families, herded us together like cattle, and then sold us as slaves," and that after slavery ended on their world, Lokai's people continued to be second-class citizens, "denied the simpest bit of decency that is a living being's right." They were even drafted into "a war on another planet," a clear reference to the then ongoing Vietnam War; this was the era when Muhammad Ali nearly went to prison for refusing conscription. Notably, Bele doesn't deny most of this except to chide Lokai's framing of it, telling Kirk, "They were savages, Captain. We took them into our hearts, our homes. We educated them."

Nonetheless, Kirk's primary reaction to both Lokai and Bele is annoyance. Kirk is not concerned with justice, or addressing historical injustice; his sole concern is the maintenance of Federation civil order. As is often the case on TOS, this is framed in economic terms: The Enterprise is supposed to be heading to a medical decontamination mission on the planet Ariannus, whose urgency is underscored by its importance "as a transfer point on regular commercial space lanes." (Kirk notes that the bacterial contamination he's supposed to address may "render it lifeless unless checked," but he presents that as an afterthought to the commercial urgency of the situation.) Kirk is also concerned with Lokai's appropriation of a Starfleet shuttlecraft, which appears to completely undermine any sympathy he might have otherwise had for Lokai. This also seems to be the position of Kirk's superiors; Uhura reports that Starfleet is entirely sympathetic to Bele and is likely to grant his request "after a hearing at Starbase," once the legal formalities have been observed. (Significantly, the possibility that Lokai might have a claim to political asylum, even temporarily, is never suggested.)

Kirk is SO preoccupied with maintaining economic, civil, and legal order that he's prepared to destroy the Enterprise himself rather than concede any ground even rhetorically. There is an apparently unintended parallel here with the revelation at the end of the episode that Cheron is now lifeless, its entire population wiped out by the racial conflict of which Lokai and Bele are the sole survivors, but the episode pretty obviously expects the viewer to find Kirk's position sensible and principled.

The episode's obvious thesis is that Black Power and Black protest are just as bad as the bigotry Bele represents, a kind of racial horseshoe theory underscored by Spock's eventual declaration, "To expect sense from two mentalities of such extreme viewpoints is not logical." Presumably, the "correct" course for Lokai's people would have been to accept their second-class roles in post-slavery Cheron society, work toward the furthering of economic order, and patiently wait for the "normal" forces of social evolution to bring about justice through legal means, and the episode unequivocally indicates that their failure to do so bears equal responsiblity for the apocalyptic genocide Spock says has taken place on Cheron. (There's an ugly parallel here with the racial politics implicit in the 1968 film PLANET OF THE APES, which kicks off what is at its core a very racist series.)

Throughout the episode, the script tries to play up the irrationality of Lokai and Bele by emphasizing that their conflict has taken place over thousands of years, but because we don't have any idea what their normal lifespan may be (there's no indication that their survival over the course of 50,000 years is due to suspended animation or time travel), or even how long they consider a year, this carries little weight, and it can't overcome the obvious familiarity of the conflict. In the real world, the American Civil War had only passed out of living memory about two decades before this episode was written, and until the passage of the Civil Rights Act less than four years earlier, it was still perfectly legal in many parts of the U.S. to refuse to hire, rent to, or sell to people of color, or to pay them less or charge them more based on race.

That Kirk's crew considers this ancient history is not the problem with the story; the problem is that the episode takes the obvious position that Black Americans should just get over still recent — and still ongoing, now as well as then — injustice and persecution. That's not a progressive viewpoint — it smugly exemplifies what Martin Luther King had called "allies more devoted to order than to justice." I imagine it was infuriating then except to the most self-congratulatory white liberal viewers, and it has not aged well at all.