#star trek speculation

[fetlockflowers]

Alien Anatomy

[vaguely-concerned]

one of the funniest things about garashir are all those times when julian bashir -- not unequivocally the most autistic person in the quadrant only because odo and worf are also here -- steps in to function as garak's emotional support social skills. 'garak this isn't helping/garak this isn't the time/garak baby if I can read the social writing on this wall it's time to get out let's go go go'

[meonea]

I happen to see many redesigns and reimaginations of star trek aliens, but very few about humans if any.

WE ARE ALIENS TOO

[discoonthegrass]

I’m just curious since most of the old married Spirk fics I have read don’t really touch on Bones’s situation. I once read a really intriguing one where he was married to Natira!

[hot-frog-stew]

really important star trek question: can vulcans smoke weed?

cause they can’t get drunk by alcohol but chocolate has an equivalent effect so is it the same for weed?

what mundane human substance should be vulcan marijuana?

i think catnip is a fine option cuase vulcans are evolved from felines i think but it’s also kinda boring

i cant think of anything better than catnip so suggestions welcome!

[n0ahsferatu]

A few thoughts on Trill xenobiology :)

[bardicious]

Lmao, old habits die hard.

[sweetsourteeth]

Fake magazine cover for Kirk because I love fake covers/posters for characters. Umm ignore that he looks a little funky I haven't rendered in forever.

[boo-trekking]

I’ve been turning this idea over in my brain, basically it sums up too, would cuteness aggression be like a real thing for Vulcans?

Like that feeling you get when something is so cute you wanna take a bite because of the surge of affection. Would a Vulcan child, a little too young to fully grasp their emotional control, take a bite out of their toy because the cute aggression won? (Insert bite proof toys for Vulcan kids).

Would Vulcans be surprised humans experience this too? Like I’m imagining a Vulcan on an exploratory mission, maybe with Star Fleet or just working adjacent with star fleet officers. And they run into some cute, harmless unknown creatures. And a human science officer sees the creature and is like “Oh it’s so cute, I want to squeeze it til it pops.” But then notices the Vulcan scientist also observing the creature and sees their eye brows raise, but as she’s about to explain herself the Vulcan goes “I wasn’t aware that humans also experienced this affliction, but I understand where you are coming from.”

And idk something something they bond over their love for cute shit.

[leohtttbriar]

We no longer reveal totality within ourselves by lightning flashes. We approach it through the accumulation of sediments. The poetics of duration (another leitmotiv), one of the first principles of the sacred, founding books of community, reappears to take up the relay from the poetics of the moment. Lightning flashes are the shivers of one who desires or dreams of a totality that is impossible or yet to come; duration urges on those who attempt to live this totality, when dawn shows through the linked histories of peoples. Sediment then begins first with the country in which your drama takes shape. Just as Relation is not a pure abstraction to replace the old concept of the universal, it also neither implies nor authorizes any ecumenical detachment. The landscape of your word is the world's landscape. But its frontier is open.

Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation

[ansonmountdaily]

Anson Mount in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Exploring Season 2" interview

Not being allowed to reveal much about Season 2, Anson was asked safer questions: he talked about loving Star Trek since he was a child, what makes Star Trek different from other sci-fi shows, the various genres episodes in s1 and s2 are exploring (the cast mentioning "taking big swings" in s2 and pointing to episode 9 in particular), and what it was like sitting in the Captain's chair for the first time.

Source: Official Paramount+ clip, June 9 2023

[fetlockflowers]

🦎Speculative Biology animation for the Cardassians.🐊

[hypertechnica]

i know that there’s been many blue eyed actors who have played vulcans, but i’d like to think that the blue eye mutation just doesn’t exist for them. there are no blue eyed vulcans. all brown, actually. maybe a little hazel as a treat.

when they first saw zefram cochrane they said fascinating with .2% more vigor than the standard intonation

[meonea]

“They walked quietly down the corridors of the Enterprise. Only the noise of their bumpy steps distracting them from certain thoughts and certain fears”.

(I’m obsessed)

[discoonthegrass]

I asked this about Kirk earlier, but I’m curious what you all think McCoy would do if he wasn’t a doctor for whatever reason! (Also not including nurses or paramedics)

[thelesseroftwoweevils]

It's cool people have embrace the Sito connection and the TNG Deep cut it entails and people are wondering how well Mariner knew Wesley Crusher.

Is it wrong that I think being a year or so behind Sito and Sito having graduated in TNG s7 well that makes Mariner a contemporary not of Crusher but of Harry Kim.

Not as much as a deep cut but it'd have been hilarious if Mariner were friends with him instead: "My idol was on his first mission. He never came back, lost in the badlands. I had to tell Libby! I swore as long as Harry Kim remained an ensign so would I!!!"

Just me? Okay then.

Tangentially, I kind of want Harry to be on Admiral Janeway's staff in Prodigy Season 2 and either have been promoted a hilariously excessive number of times... or still be an Ensign and barely out-rank the Prodigies.