#r: star trek

[shigeoreum]

saw the cutest wedding photobooth-esque pic and had to draw it as spirk :,)

[c-schroed]

Ira Steven Behr, during season six of Deep Space Nine: For this season, I invented Section 31 as a cautionary tale.

Current Star Trek producers: At long last, we have created a lovely little action flick based on Section 31 from the classic DS9 episode Don't Make a Lovely Little Action Flick About Section 31.

[who-dat-homeless]

[rhinexstone]

Jim realizing his partner is not asexual but in fact deeply, earth shatteringly horny every once and awhile and he might be in over his head in the realm of sex for the first time in his life:

[therealstreebojones]

[tvictrix]

My turn!!!

Spin The Wheel for a Star Trek TOS era character :P

Please leave who you got in the tags and what you are... doing to them

[artfulacrostic]

the original series of star trek is absolutely my favorite thing bc every episode is like:

-kirk manhandles a penis shaped rock prop for a very long time

-spock dances flamenco

-sulu fences down the hallway shirtless

-episode plot is kirk v massive sentient lump

-kirk tries to explain spock's ears as a childhood accident where he got his head caught in a mechanical rice picker

-on an unrelated note, spock starts wearing a beanie

-redshirts get turned into like. cubes of salt

-uhura defeats a giant green hand by hotwiring the entire comms console

-spock and kirk hold hands

-scotty stops chekov from starting a bar fight with klingons only to immediately start one himself bc the love of his life (the enterprise) gets insulted

-mccoy's fantasies involve meeting characters from alice in wonderland, including a giant anthropomorphic rabbit

-spock's alien sex drive episode

-kirk gets bodyswapped

-gladiator fight episode (1)

-gladiator fight episode (2)

-gladiator fight episode (3)

AND YET, every episode is ALSO like:

-war cannot be reduced to numbers from an outside perspective, because that makes it easier to stomach without change; the horror that is war must be acknowledged in order to make room for peace

-more types of life can be extant than we can conceive, and just because they are different forms of life doesn't make them incapable of prospering

-love cannot be programmed or controlled, and discriminatory hatred is a tool only for death and pain

-cultures that are different than our own are valuable and can be vibrantly rich with history, and judging them before we try to understand and empathize is not only reductive but contemptible

-happiness is something that we have to allow ourselves, and actively seek out, because it can't come to us without work and acknowledgement of our own state of being

-genocide can never be justified, and certainly not even to supposedly save the people that are more "valuable" by any given metric over those who are not, because all lives have worth

anyway the balance of absurdity and meaningfulness gives me life, and we haven't even gotten started on the whale movie lmao

[jvlianbashir]

would they have a driver's license (ds9 edition)

sisko: yes. overall a good driver. serious about "defensive driving" and believes everyone should know how to drive manual in a pinch. gets annoyed when people don't respect zipper merging

kira: she got one as an adult after a few attempts, but was definitely driving both cars and other vehicles/equipment illegally as a young teen and had to rein in some of those "seat-of-the-pants" driving habits

jadzia: yes and is a pretty good driver but has collected a few speeding tickets over the years

o'brien: yes and somehow ended up de facto driver's ed instructor for other ds9 folks trying to get one. it is very stressful

worf: yes and is a solid driver overall but the road rage is crazy when people cut him off or drive like assholes

bashir: yes. aced the written exam and knows all the rules well, but you CANNOT talk to or argue with him while he's driving or he becomes a distractible terror on the road

odo: yes and abides by traffic laws and speed limits perfectly (some may say pettily) which ironically makes him a bit of a hazard at times

ezri: no and she's scared to get one, but wants to eventually

quark: license chronically suspended

nog: similar to kira. got one later (after instruction from sisko and o'brien) and is a very good driver now but was an absolute menace on the roads as a teen

rom: yes but drives slow as hell and causes traffic jams that make him anxious so he drives even slower

[chitinleg]

got him off-balance!

[rebisrot]

did i ever tell you guys about the time i ranked star trek characters based on what menstrual product they'd use

[sadiowaboy]

i feel like quark is always going around like delivering fruit baskets and handing out hot cocoa with no personal gain and then going "im only doing this for profit" and everyones like "are you sure you aren't just a little bit nice quark" and quark is like

[shigeoreum]

I FORGOR TO POST THIS ONE younger earlier 20’s t’pring and spock not gaf-ing AT ALL at their betrothal picture ^_^

[scampizoid]

spocktober 4: catsitting

[nonbinaryriker]

best and worst TOS eipsodes according to fans from 1974

bonus

[spocks-kaathyra]

garak at stsf :))

[lemonlimestar]

a glimpse into my mind palace (photographer tim who has kon model for him)