#thoughts about trek

[100pizzas]

Random thoughts on my TNG rewatch:

So neat to see the costumes in more detail than on the crappy tvs of my childhood — so many pleats and textures! My favourite are Picard’s casual clothes (like his outfit in “Starship Mine” and Riker’s shiny blue shirt.

Love the dynamic between Crusher and Picard in the middle/late seasons. She enjoys teasing him so much. It’s great.

Poor Data has to deal with Riker putting his leg up on his work area right at eye level. I laugh every time.

I finally realised that the theme music for the first season (or two ?) of Picard is based on one of the flute pieces from “Inner Light”

Trying to imagine what it would be like to work on the Enterprise and having to go to all those classical music concerts and poetry recitals— not to mention getting roped into one of Dr. Crusher’s dramatic productions. Like you can’t really escape your coworkers and have to take part in their weird hobbies because you’re all on the ship together.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[calocera]

based on this awesome post about how if a vulcan and betazoid accidentally touched hands it’d be like a flashbang going off for the vulcan. sorry for ocifying the idea 🫡

[forecast0ctopus]

they shouldve had a tos episode where they had to wear tuxedos for whatever reason.. i love it when they have to wear funny disguises….

[tellofunni]

So I started watching tng

[emilinqa]

big into taking that 60s retrofuturism utopian future that’s also got an inevitably dated sensibility that’s presented in tos and running with it. like sure we can cure nearly any physical ailment with ease and without any cost to the patient but we still call ptsd symptoms shell shock. we’re all free love but we’ve got a space navy so people can make up weird complexes about homosexuality for themselves. it’s the juice that tos remakes are missing i think. that and all the chunky buttons and beeping booping sounds

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

kirk will never beat the "gays can't drive" allegations

[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.

[vaguely-concerned]

So much of Garak as a person starts to make sense once you know his childhood was a fucking gothic novel. His main playground was a graveyard and he'd play pretend by perfoming improv eulogies to an imagined audience. For a long time his main touchstone for most important figures from recent history is 'oh yeah I know about that guy my dad buried him. great flower arrangements for that one'. He finds out later his 'parents' are actually a brother and sister who had to get married to avoid the utter shame and social devastation of having a child born out of wedlock, and they live in the basement of his biological father's house. (the madwoman in the attic vs. the tiny elim in the basement.) His biological father calls himself his uncle and locks him in a closet whenever he fails to live up to his insane and unpredictable expectations and everyone just has to act like that's normal and expected, and his will hangs over everything at all times, unseen but always felt keener than anything else. The father who actually raised him grows the world's most beautiful (and as it turns out, most poisonous) orchids and keeps the mask of a god hidden in a box in his work shed. Everyone in the house is choking down secrets like it's the only air they know how to breathe anymore.

What I'm saying is that right from the get-go this guy never had the faintest shot at turning out normal, so I'm glad that by middle age he's found a way to get a bit silly with it as he continues to be deeply deeply not normal about anything ever <3

[100pizzas]

Allamaraine!

Some of these I would classify as just mediocre rather than bad— like Armageddon Game and The Storyteller (two chapters in the O’Brien/Bashir Bromance).

But I remember Profit and Loss as being the first Star Trek episode that I turned off mid-way through and never watched the rest. And it aired at a time when I would watch literally anything Star Trek related.

[daftmooncretin]

imagine being scotty in tos. every day your friend group goes on dangerous yet exciting adventures to new planets but you can never go because they always make you babysit the ship. also you have to stay on facetime with them the whole time in case they need a lift. you are the eternal designated driver. the seventh wheel. you dont mind as much as you should though because you sort of want to fuck the ship

[100pizzas]

Strange New Worlds season 2 episode 9

Was not looking forward to this episode, but I liked it way more than I thought I would! I’m a musician but I don’t love musicals— I would almost always prefer to see a regular play than a musical.

But! I think this episode was really well done, and the music was really clever. I like the way the musical theatre conventions were kind of woven into the story in a way that made sense. And the orchestral arrangements were really nice and colourful; I loved the variety of music styles.

Loved the quote from the original TOS theme near the end! And of course, the Klingons!!

[rubbertplant]

I'm the fan accounts

[catgirljaneway]

i'm sorry about this one guys

[forecast0ctopus]

[mylittleredgirl]

i will always love the original version of the deep space nine theme song best, but i do understand why they put more zip to it in the later seasons. breathtaking musical composition, but yeah it's kinda slow for an action/adventure tv theme song, so if you're already remaking the opening sequence to add the defiant, go ahead and punch it up. good idea, good execution.

fully hilarious though that enterprise tried to do the same thing ten years later, because as memeable as faith of the heart is the Skip Intro era, it's really hard to overstate how much vitriol people had about the theme song in real time. i will say that fandom history overstates this a little because it wasn't universally treated as a sin against god, there were at least twelve diehard trekkies out there (including me) who looked at this gorgeous intro sequence paired with a mediocre cover of a rod stewart song and went "hmm. weird choice, but you make a good point, i would like to have strength of the soul and reach any star."

but the star trek fans who like being mad about star trek were frothing at the mouth. it wasn't just silly and bad this was the rallying point for how enterprise was an affront to star trek. they were NOT going to take it lying down, they had torches they had pitchforks, they were nailing a list of grievances to the church door and THE FUCKING THEME SONG HAS LYRICS was thesis #1.

(followed by "why are the vulcans jerks :(" and an itemized list of every single canon inconsistency)

so it is so, so fucking funny to imagine the network meeting that must have taken place sometime in late season two when they were bleeding audience numbers and UPN started making the worst previews of all time ("tune in for next week's SPECIAL ENTERPRISE EVENT: ✨Canamar✨!") (the previews also spoiled the ending of every episode for months, like they weren't just bad they were actively damaging) (it was soooo so hard to have a good time as an enterprise fan in 2003).

so this meeting happens and they go okay. we know what to do here. first up. put "star trek" back in the name (it was just "enterprise" for the first two seasons to "attract a new audience"). next. is there a way we can make this about 9/11. great great good job. can we put jolene in a different catsuit? and then some intern whose job it is to monitor the forums on television without pity timidly reminds them about the torches and pitchforks and they're like oh yeah we should remix the theme song! and the intern is like WHEW so should i book an orchestra for like an hour to do an instrumental version of the closing credits and then bermaga or some clown at UPN is like no no no you're not getting it. the lyrics aren't the problem. they just don't understand our vision because there weren't enough bongos.