#star trek story

[foldingfittedsheets]

One time I was ringing up this sweet older gentleman at the sex shop. I no longer remember what he was buying, just that he was in his fifties and radiated a bumbling gentleness that I had enjoyed.

He was chatting with me as he pulled out cash to pay, “You know, I always thought it would be so much easier to meet ladies. But then you meet a girl and you start chatting and they’re never as impressed that I know Captain Kirk’s middle name as I expected them to be.”

I took his payment with a grin and said, “I dunno, Tiberius is an amazing middle name, it was their loss.”

He looked at me with utter awe, radiating a disbelieving joy that I’d parried his quip so effortlessly with Trekkie lore. “If I were thirty years younger…” he’d said, absolutely delighted.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him I was gay to boot, so I just beamed and wished him a good day. He went out the door with a spring in his step and I still smile to think about it.

[homoquartz]

a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.

edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count

[star-trekster]

ST@CEC 4: Deep Space Nine; In Charles’s Shadow

[lichqueenlibrarian]

That it’s clearly habit for them to divide up whatever food they’re given according to who can eat what is such a great little moment.

[whorta]

"Jimmy and the Federation Gang" is how Star Trek TOS (with the original special effects) is titled on archive dot org

[wizardinahole]

Everyone say thank you Andy Robinson and Alexander Siddig

[vaguely-concerned]

can't believe garak went from 'hope you have fun following my little breadcrumb trail of maybe-truths doctor it builds character ;)' at the beginning of the show to '*sigh* fuck it here's the whole loaf. the entire fucked up bakery of my soul. if you somehow still wanna have sex with me after this you know where I am, yours in infinite longing etc.' in a stitch in time. has anyone ever been so pathetically horrifically enduringly down bad as garak is for julian (laudatory)

[andyoullhearitagain]

Literally they could have stopped making Deep Space Nine and made seven seasons of this show and I would have been happy.

[rubbertplant]

I'm the fan accounts

[lizzie-jones]

Doug Jones and Tara Rosling on the set of 'star trek discovery season 5'

[perlukafarinn]

this was published in 1976

(The Winged Dreamers by Jennifer Guttridge, published in Star Trek: The New Voyages)

[spirkbitch]

tos spirk fic writers you know i love you

and i do hate to break it to you, but i really don’t think that these chairs

would allow for very much straddling to occur

[lizardsfromspace]

Star Wars Land: We're paywalling all the aliens at our sci-fi park :( And by aliens we mean we have one alien you have to pay $6,000 to see :( And you can't wear Star Wars costumes to our park bc that's too confusing :( Or come in character to our LARP hotel bc that's weird :(

The Star Trek Experience: *looking at somebody's dad who came in an Admiral costume* Everyone, the admiral's here!

[abluescarfonwaston]

Trekkies do I have the cookbook for you

I cannot stress enough how cute this book is. Not ideal if you like pictures of your food but fantastic if you love little recipe stories like one about a meal Neelix made for Seven after she'd joined the crew.

Find it at a library near you. Really. It's adorable.

[spirk-trek]

Nightvisions Fanzine & Novel | Merle Decker, Signe Landon (1979)

Nightvisions, by Susan K. James and Carol A. Frisbie, is one of the first standalone k/s novels published in a zine. It can be read in full here!

[wizard-dax]

Still thinking about the moment in the finale where they're showing shots from around the ship of the crew and when I really lost it is when they showed the lower decks bunks and I just realized how much the characters have grown.