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Husband: "So you have your controversial fandom thing right now, but just so you know, I have my own. For instance, on the Costco Facebook group--"
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I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for
#star trek: ds9#julian bashir#benjamin sisko#jake sisko#s1 Julian being so young and eager to prove himself and latching onto Sisko as this mentor figure to look up to#seeing Sisko with Jake and low-key seeking that fatherly figure connection which he won't even let himself think about#Sisko seeing this young brilliant doctor who's got all the makings to be something great and he's just GOTTA help him along#I think he would also catch on pretty quick that Julian's got Parental Issues#he tries to ask one day all casual like 'tell me about yourself :)' and Julian talks about nothing but Starfleet and med school#any attempts to ask about his family are met with awkward brief answers and redirections#and then theres the way Julian's eyes light up the first time Sisko invites him to watch a baseball game#like he Knows. he's a dad he Knows somethings up#but he doesnt pry#I also think it makes their dynamic more tragic towards the end of the series#where we have Sisko asking Julian to compromise his morals again and again#Julian's trust and respect for him gradually deteriorating#and then at the end of course Sisko is gone and they have no idea when he'll be back#which I think Julian would have a lot of complicated feelings about#but of course theres also Jake#I imagine they'd get closer#very brotherly dynamic#you know that scene in TNG where Wesley goes to Riker for girl advice and Riker and Guinan start flirting?#absolutely happens but with Jake asking Julian for girl advice and Julian wooing a girl at Quark's and Jake absolutely loses the plot#makes the events of ...Nor the Battle to the Strong more intense as well I think#also I like to think there'd be an episode where the B plot is Jake gets mad at Sisko and impulsively decides to move out#ends up at Julian's because he did not think this through#Julian is now very much caught in the middle of this family drama and he Fucking Hates It#also him and Jake are NOT compatible roommates but he's trying so so hard to be nice#eventually they have a talk and Julian cryptically hints at his own home life and tells Jake he's lucky he has a dad who cares so much#them being closer would work into what Alone Together sets up for them
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I know liking Spirk is the basic bitch of Star Trek but she’s like a sister to me. Intuitive. 7 year old me who knew nothing about Star Trek knew those men were in love. In every possible Star Trek universe across time and space they find each other, reach for each other. She’s basic bitch Trekkie for a reason and it’s because Kirk and Spock Just ARE in love and anyone with eyes can see it.
#Also now that I'm not a teenager I appreciate older romantic couples#Those are grown men. Established in their careers. Dancing around the fact that they love each other.#I don't even like... want to do the shippy thing where you smush your barbies together and make them kiss#they just are to me. And that is enough <3#and there's something extremely comforting in that. IDK what it is but <3 <3 <3 Spirk is family to me#star trek#spirk#star trek TOS
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shout out to the very distinct feeling of 'oh god i'm going to become at least mildly annoying about this aren't i'. binging ds9 season 1 and i outright giggled at a very small mannerism julian did. got hyped when o'brien showed up. grinned widely at kira just Being There. felt the urge to yell and cheer and scream at the slightest hint of whump. the character dynamics and friendships are beginning to interweave like strings in a tapestry and i almost detonated upon realising this. uh oh.
#listen if you chuck any hint of found family or close friendships into a show ill go rabid#i can feel myself getting attached#i almost yelled and had to pause and take a second to stare at the ceiling#it is 2 in the morning#not equipped for rambling#ds9#star trek ds9#star trek#granted idk if im gonna feel the same soul crushing love for ds9 that i did for tos cause tos is my first love and it aches me to leave kir#however#i love you sisko.#deep space nine#julian bashir#miles o'brien#etcetera etcetera#theyre so SILLY theres so much tomfoolery i uovee themmm#for those interested (hello??) this post spawned because i watched julian tilt back and smile slightly awkwardly but kindly as an alien guy#got in his face and assessed him out of curiosity#and that small acting mannerism coupled with o'brien fucking Being There just made me go insane fsr#the way hes slightly blurred and in the background#theyre all just chilling on this starbase and theyre weaving together and it makes me want to cry a little#IM ON EPISODE FUCKING SIX
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I’m thinking about how administrative leave requests would work in starfleet and it’s gotta be a huge pain in the ass right. vulcans would probably need a special expedited leave request process for pon-farr, because they become violent/die if they don’t excuse themselves to have sex asap, but this is probably a narrow accommodation only granted to vulcans, so if they were dating a non-vulcan who had to go through normal, slower leave request procedures that would cause logistical issues cuz emergency pon farr admin leave only works if both parties can do it at the same time, so if you’re a non-vulcan dating a vulcan you would have to probably apply to get that accommodation extended to you, and because I’m assuming starfleet operates on the same punitive logics as contemporary bureaucracies do, they’d be paranoid about non-vulcans “cheating the system” by falsely claiming they were dating a vulcan to get their leave request expedited, so they’d probably require proof of marriage or long-term cohabitation with a vulcan in order for a non-vulcan to get approved for that kind of thing, meaning casual or otherwise non-normative vulcan/non-vulcan couples in starfleet would be administratively marginalised and (re)produce a culture deriding interspecies dating, especially because humans seem to be kinda default racist towards vulcans in star trek in general, so they would probably view a human dating a vulcan as getting “special privileges” for administrative leave even though it’s just a basic accommodation. this is a classic example of how administrative apparatuses operating on a liberal conception of equity can reproduce systems of racial discrimination
#tos.txt#also would probably need recorded proof of your species since humans and vulcans can have kids together so that would be a whole other thin#which would also definitely be racist#watching tos -> experiencing untold bureaucratic horrors at uni -> wondering how spock and Kirk would get approval for pon farr ->this post#like racism appears to be a systemic thing in star trek! perhaps if I use gay sex as an example racist tos fans will finally understandthis#+ also this is a vector of liberal acceptance eg gay couples being able to participate in the nuclear family so u would get institutional#normative acceptance predicated on exclusion of the non-normative#anyway .
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 DVD sneak peek: Anson Mount's first day
Anson Mount and Ethan Peck appear in a preview clip for the DVD release of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1.
Season 1 DVD is out March 21 2023 with all 10 episodes and several special features, including a glimpse into Anson's portrayal of Captain Christopher Pike with intimate footage throughout the season.
Source: Yahoo!Entertainment clip
#star trek strange new worlds#strange new worlds#star trek#anson mount#ethan peck#captain pike#christopher pike#spock#strangenewworldsedit#*edit#from 'PIKE'S PEAK' feauterrette on the dvd#we're getting FLOOFY HAIR content#the playful mood & the laughter#and the cast and family just chilling out#going skating together#it's all beautiful#when the pic of anson#on the little horse came up#it made me laugh <3#can't wait to see all the extras!
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I need a whole fic where the Cerritos is mistaken for the Enterprise by some type of alien with very high intelligence but very poor visual recognition, for whatever reason.
And Freeman either can't or is too scared to convince them that they're not the Enterprise, so she starts desperately assigning everyone to various roles. Boimler gets assigned as Data, and since he and Mariner are the only people on the ship who play string instruments, the captain orders them to put together some sort of "symphony" because the aliens have heard that that's a thing on the Enterprise.
And it's just Mariner and Boimler frustratedly trying to figure out how to combine her electric guitar skills and his traditional violin skills into something suitably "symphonic" (i.e. thematically trying to combine her more lax/modern way of doing things with his more strict/traditional way).
#star trek lower decks#marinler#lower decks#I NEED these two playing music together#also Stevens gets assigned to play Picard and is way too into it#goes a little mad with power and ends up being the episode's main antagonist#they forgive him in the end though#Ransom is Riker obviously#Mariner gets assigned to play Troi and has a fun time pretending to read people's thoughts and they just have to go along with it#Rutherford is obviously Geordi due to his implant#T'Ana plays Crusher on the basis that she is *technically* a redhead and refuses to elaborate further when questioned#Shaxs is Worf and insists that his nose ridges are forehead ridges#Freeman is Displeased (TM) about having to pretend to be a lower-decker since there isn't a part for her#Tendi works the duty-shift with her and ends up helping her work through her issues about not feeling respected as a Cali-class captain#basically pointing out that success is relative and that she didn't succeed according to her family's standards either#but it doesn't matter because she loves what she does#who knows maybe I'll write it one of these days
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what if i drew myself stress relief musical sapphics.... what then....
can you tell i've been. hmmm. stressed this week LMAO (anyways if you recognise these pairs like that's awesome and you're so cool genuinely! but this is so self indulgent who am i kidding xDD)
#six the musical araleyn#araleyn#araleyn fanart#six the musical#six the musical fanart#anne boleyn#catherine of aragon#lydia deetz#beetlejuice#ship: hello little girl#i love making things up about side characters as always... it's awesome. enrichment in my little artist cage#not trek#so happy with the first araleyn one!!#also can you tell im hugely sappy. theyre wearing each other's colors..... OUGH#oh and each other's imagery. im a SUCKER for that ok#ive also like NEVER in my life felt the urge to draw any of my blorbos getting married. but apparently skydia is just that powerful#lydia x sky#rarepairs keep me together mentally tbh where would i be without my little finger puppet gays#btw it's a reference to that scene from the addams family where mortricia cuts off the flower blossoms and leaves the thorny stems#lydia falls in love all over again on the spot and i think that is very nice#that is also lydia's mom's old dress but altered!#and beej gave her the overcoat. sky's dress is a family heirloom that she adores#semi headcanoning that both of them are nonbinary btw i do what i want#yay
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Vulcans do the chirrup thing. Luring prey Instinct. And yet...It's mostly used for romance. Get Over Here - I'm Gonna GET You. [Patreon | Commissions]
#Tuvok#Neelix#Tuvix#Tuvok/Neelix#bee doodles#Vulcan urge to bite your lover [embarrassing.] <- this is like baby talk to a Human. It is...lovie-dovie in a cringe way.#but sometimes when you're deeply in love you gotta ask 'aww are you eepy seepy?' or [if you're Vulcan] start nipping at each other#Tuvok: -chirring- / T'Pel: -lured over and begins chirring as well- <- they will start cuddling and biting#I'm thinking about how Vulcans have that 'attend me' gesture. I think it'd be cute if they had more things like that.#'Get over here. Come over to me.' and having that obeyed is sweet and affectionate to Vulcans.#<- Not necessarily romantic either. Family units will do this too#star trek#st voyager#Vulcans love sticking together its their new favorite thing after nuclear war didn't pan out#Tuvok may not feel lovie dovie towards Neelix but he still wants to bite him. That's something. <- Another Vulcan Thing.#Secret Vulcan Instinct/Feeling. 'You are SO irritating. Get OVER here.' and then the biting
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Handshakes as rebellion: Star Trek Discovery thoughts
So I’m watching Star Trek: Discovery (finally) and I just watched the episode where Sarek nearly dies and keeps going back to the moment Michael was supposed to be admitted to Vulcan Science Academy, and at the end she’s pushing to be more human and reintroduces herself to Ash Tyler with a handshake and a smile. Up until this point she’s been very no to handshakes cause Vulcan raised, and while it’s not logical, it is fun to imagine what her hand thought process is.
Star Trek loves to back track the Vulcan hand shit they built in, ya know to make Spock and Kirk less in love, but it’s there and Michael’s whole resistance/aversion to handshakes is so stark. Like you could argue she grew up with touch telepaths so it’s just polite to not touch hands, but touching hands is also an intimate thing (See Vulcan kisses) for Vulcans, that the mind tends to wander.
After learning her Dad (fuck you Sarek, blood or not, that’s your daughter you fuck ass) basically did a big betrayal, and then nearly let himself die rather than show her, AND LET HER THINK FOR YEARS THAT SHE LET HIM DOWN, one of the first things she does (after giving Sarek what I like to call, the oldest daughter shake down), is go talk to the new cute boy and offer to shake his hand again with a smile.
If we’re talking text that was definitely a rebellion for Michael. She’s shed some of her Vulcan conditioning because it doesn’t serve her healing process, she realizes now that her and Sarek were never going to live up to what the other wanted from them, and she’s embracing her humanity.
But if we’re just little gremlins for a second it looks like Michael went up to a cute boy and asked to make out after her dad almost died.
It’s fun to imagine, in a cracky sense, Michael holding hands with boys in her teens and Sarek finding out and giving lectures about propriety and shit. Amanda walks in from picking up Spock from school and the vibes are tense, Spock immediately knows whats up because he’s the one whose been keeping look out for Michael (idk if that’s accurate to them yet but I hope it is) when she sneaks off and meets with idk Salvir, the neighbors son who she really thinks is boring but has nice hands.
Amanda hears what the problem is tries not to laugh but truly thinks this is dumb, and can’t help but be brought back to her own dad chiding her about going around with that Vulcan boy (they were full grown adults, but still) and how it looks unseemly. And she says as much and Sarek goes green, and Michael and Spock are watching and he drops it. Michael doesn’t hold hands with Salvir anymore…she holds hands with Chu’lak, who lives two roads over and studies at home so Sarek never finds out.
#is this something?#idk#I haven’t seen enough to fully understand the dynamics#star trek#star trek discovery#michael burnham#s'chn t'gai sarek#spock#amanda grayson#family drama#family dynamics#vulcan culture#holding hands on Vulcan is basically making out#don’t even think about threading your fingers together#don’t even imagine running your thumb over the knuckles that’s what loose girls do#star trek disco spoilers
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Preschooler asks: but why isn't Costco preparing for Voyager Week?
Me: Well, most people don't really know about Voyager. You just think it's mainstream because we talk about it at home a lot. Like, your friends probably don't.
P: Even the kid Star Trek?*
Me: I don't know actually. Maybe. But it's for older kids.
P: *considers this*
P: Even when I'm older I'm only going to watch Voyager. Even if the other Star Treks are okay I'm just going to watch Voyager forever. Over and over and over and over.
P: Except for the one with the whales.
Husband, from the other room: What an amazing conversation you're having with your daughter.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRK!!!!!!!!!
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memory, death and life as komerex zha, the perpetual game; klingon culture as depicted in the final reflection, by john m. ford
#star trek#web weaving#klingons#im normal about this. i swear.#please read the final reflection. 99 cents on kindle right now. i read it in one sitting very fun very entertaining very insightful#and spocks in it. if you even care#is that last quote not soo sarek coded. 'im gonna destroy you in this game son. every time until you learn not to lose so badly#but you will still lose. <3'#house gensa forever house rustazh foreverrr#klingonaase my darling i love you you're sooo latin coded#i really liked the singing and the idea of like gestures vaguely house gensa being three hundred kids with no formal houses or lines#to belong to. <- and so you will all be together. yayy new family!#i also liked the acknowledgment of like. other cultures existing on klinzhai (qo'nos) vulcans and orions living with klingons and such#this book really had it all im not done posting. theres more songs and looks at their food; daily life; clothing and how they decorate#houses. more examples of klingonaase lol of course cuss words and such. they also talk about battle language which if i'm not mistaken is#like clipped tlhIngan?#but they call it battle language and translate it for the reader. fun!#and of course the klingons end up on earth so theres insights on how they feel about coffee and human food. apparently the air on earth is#very thin and dry to them; every scene where they talk about klingon comfort standards they mention making it dark and humid and hot.#red lights and such! for inside#and they say the thin air on earth makes it hard to hear for klingons! i thought that was very cool#nobody:#me: they like salt water baths and dark ale and they wear silk and they eat pastries with butter. if you even care.#they mention human chair designs being uncomfortable for klingon anatomy too; there was a description i remember of house khemara#having cushions on the ground around a fireplace instead of chairs#its such a pretty description too; they have high ceilings and wooden beams along the roof and and sky lights for an indoor garden#iron railings for the staircases. mwah i love this book i really recommend it#theres something (gestures) here that reminds me very strongly of worf but i cant put my finger on it to be honest with you. not even like#the komerex zha specifically either like the vibes of the whole book.....
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S7's The Void is vaguely reminiscent of s5's Night, but they show Janeway in a much better mental state, and how much she has learned to ease up on the distance she maintains from her crew as captain.
The openings of the two episodes have a much different tone. In Night, there's a distinct lack of Janeway. She's MIA, and crew is anxious and antsy because of their situation and missing leader. In The Void, they open on a scene of the senior staff enjoying their time together. They're laughing and sharing a meal, teasing each other like a family. Then they're thrust into the anomaly. Both instances of "the void" lack stars, both are potentially long-term situations without a clear means of escape besides getting through it. Night has a tone of uneasy calm, but there are other ships and adversaries in The Void, adding an element of urgency.
When we finally see Janeway in Night, she is kicking herself for her decision making:
CHAKOTAY: We were faced with a difficult choice. We had the means to get home but using it would've put an innocent people at risk, so we decided to stay. JANEWAY: No. No, no. I decided to stay. I made that choice for everyone. CHAKOTAY: We're alive and well, and we've gathered enough data about this quadrant to keep Starfleet scientists busy for decades. Our mission's been a success. JANEWAY: The very same words I've been telling myself for the past four years. But then we hit this Void, and I started to realise how empty those words sound. CHAKOTAY: Kathryn. JANEWAY: I made an error in judgment, Chakotay. It was short-sighted and it was selfish, and now all of us are paying for my mistake.
In The Void, Janeway and Chakotay have a similar conversation, but she accepts her error and her support network with less resistance and less self flagellation. With the urgency of the other attacking ships, there is less mental space to become concerned with mistakes, but her dialogue shoes that it is still a thought that is ever present in her mind.
JANEWAY: Impulsive and self-righteous? Is that what you think? CHAKOTAY: You did what you had to do. JANEWAY: Still, I made a mistake. ... JANEWAY: Maybe not. But if I'd listened to my doubts in the first place, we wouldn't have lost the other two ships. ... CHAKOTAY: B'Elanna and the other engineers are working around the clock to build one. She thinks they'll be ready to test in a couple of days. JANEWAY: So everyone's pulling together to make up for my mistake. CHAKOTAY: They have to. It says so in the Federation Charter.
Granted, it helps that she has some rules to point to for accepting Chakotay's insistence that they're in it together, but the situation in The Void very well could have had her fall back into old patterns we saw in Night. One of the reasons she fights so hard to create and alliance and get the ship and crew out of their situation and back into normal space is because there is an "echo of the void." This time, she isn't as inwardly focused. She is listening to her crew, even when they're being critical. You can see the impulse towards blaming herself for the whole situation, but she's pulled out of her pattern of thinking much easier this time.
#desperately hoping someone else had already written about the parallels but a cursory search didn't turn up much#ok i threw this together very fast and i have more thoughts but i need to go be productive for a bit#star trek voyager#night#the void#my favorite dysfunctional found family#the two episodes always remind me of each other and they do have kind of similar aliens taken into sick bay#someone more eloquent than me make it better thank you Ilu
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when i first watched Voyager, i really liked the finale and it felt satisfying to me (despite the Seven/Chakotay thing out of left field) and was kind of surprised that it seemed to have a bad reputation in the fandom and i wanted to test if that was true and if it's because of the two reasons i've seen cited (the C7 thing and that we never actually get to see the crew on Earth).
tag your opinion if you want!
#star trek#voyager#polls#i feel like ideally Endgame would have been like 3 or 4 episodes to give everyone more screentime#but given the length they had i think it was pretty great#i don't like c7 at all but i'm willing to ignore it#because there's no chance they stayed together longer than 2 minutes after getting back to earth#i don't mind that we don't get to see the crew getting to earth because#1) part of the point of the finale was realizing that Voyager is home. to the journey and all that#2) imagining everyone getting home and reuniting with their family is so much better in the imagination than in reality#my posts
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Me, attending the latest in a ridiculous number of funerals this year in the place of a childhood friend who couldn't be there, watching the lifeless body of an old lady who used to make me snacks in the kitchen when I was a kid be carted away forever while my friend's mother cries and tells me she's grateful I could be there because it felt like having the support of her own daughter, hugging her and talking reassuringly and not processing a single one of these emotions: ... I am going to write soooo much fanfiction about this
#''this'' being collective grief. because tbvh it's the main reason I haven't written very much this year (but will slowly start to)#I write to remind myself I am lucky. I keep telling myself this but even now when I feel awful I am so lucky#I am lucky that none of these funerals have involved very close family members or friends of mine#and I am lucky to be living in conditions with the space to write and space to grieve#and space to come together to mourn with dignity while people not that far away from me are not receiving the same privilege rn#I am lucky my dad was with me today and I spent the evening chatting with him on the terrace I am lucky he is alive I am lucky I am lucky#(apologies if this sounds like a robot malfunctioning lmao writing is just how I process things)#(and apparently I just don't seem to feel like I have the right to feel bad about any of this anywhere except my st@r trek blog hehe)#anyway. To stay on theme I shall say something about Trills :D#I imagine loss and grief must register very differently to them. very Non Linearly in the literal sense but also a highly abstract one#even I feel this massive sense of time warp between all these funerals; and this chest-crushing distance between me and my friends#how do Trills even exist#how do they wake up every day remembering all those friends and children and parents who loved them and they loved and are gone now#and still function#how does Ezri feel walking around with memories of parents that aren't hers (but were soooo much better than hers) taking care of her#does she feel comforted by them? does it feel like the people in those memories were always comforting HER specifically?#does it even matter who it belonged to originally if a memory is HERS now?#does Ezri mourn for any parents of past hosts more than she knows she will mourn for her own mother one day?#does having all this lived experience bring her reassuring amounts of perspective for a 20-something or just overwhelm her all the more?#idk; but I hope she learns to take comfort in her past hosts' memories of family eventually...#(...again. I am going to write sooooo much fan fiction about this lmao)#cw death
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