#trek musing

[smartsmears]

Absolutely shocked this didn't show up in Lower Decks. Like, Boimler is wearing it as an homage to Kirk but everyone thinks he hates Kirk and he's stressed out over everyone thinking he hates one of the most beloved captains of his time.

This is the B plot in an episode where the A Plot is one of the most serious stories of the season btw

[snoji]

she'd stab me and I'd be so thankful if I'm being real

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[walkingstackofbooks]

And here we see baby Julian definitely not checking out the weirdly forward alien Miles just brought past the infirmary:

Look at him! The way he does a little double take. The look of wonder in his eyes. The surrepititious down-up glance as Tosk walks away :3

[keodraws]

yeah so theres this android in my brain. hes not paying rent.

[bumblingbabooshka]

I love Vulcans we need to get more into the emotional lives of Vulcans without imposing Human standards onto them. "The way you feel is wrong/repressive because it's not the way it's "supposed" to be from my perspective as an alien called Human" is boring to me especially when it's treated as correct. I wanna know how the aliens feel about their alien way of life. Vulcans are so interesting to me when written AS aliens and not as analogous to repressed Humans. I think about Tuvok's description of attachment to his family and how that isn't the emotion 'love' but something else, something that he feels no shame about having and sees as normal, as naturally Vulcan and I love it and I love it because there aren't any Humans there to go "Um actually checkmate you Vulcan s.o.b - that's emotion!" and he isn't being influenced by anything. These are his authentic thoughts. He sees his children, his family, as part of him. They were at times illogical, incomprehensible, and it was extremely rewarding to be in their lives. He thinks about them every day. They were well behaved. As teens they were contemptuous of authority and convinced of their own superiority. His youngest son loved one 200 verse story so he sang it to him. He'd rather die than betray his wife even in spirit. He's incomplete without them. It's obvious through Tuvok that Vulcan life is not inherently devoid of pleasure, comfort, or love and thus Human life (I think) should not be portrayed as inherently having something greater, deeper, more meaningful. I'm not talking here of society but of...emotional life. Interiority. There's this sense that all Vulcans are the same and miserable for it. That they hold themselves back and are indistinguishable and antagonistic to the self, repressed and wrong. That to be Vulcan is to suffer endlessly and Humans are all about Freedom Man and I don't know, I like that Tuvok's existence sort of challenges this as much as I acknowledge that Vulcan society is in fact repressive and unwelcoming to those who don't fit neatly into it. I'm not saying Vulcan society is a utopia, I'm questioning the perception of Vulcan emotional control - that way of life - as being inherently bad, devoid, or lacking. That Vulcans walk around with 'empty cups' and are only deluding themselves that to be that way is good. If only, Humanity moans, they could taste how delicious life could be! Tuvok is an average Vulcan. He does not struggle with emotion, he is not mixed species, he was not raised atypically, and yet he has a family he cares about and a wife he's loyal to and friends he values and none of these things seem to be Un-Vulcan to him. If Vulcan life was truly devoid of love and care, Tuvok wouldn't think of his family. They're not here, so why bother? When his pon farr came, he'd be trying to find the most compatible mate rather than risking his life by trying to meditate through it out of loyalty to T'Pel. T'Pel would also have just given Tuvok up for dead instead of waiting and his children wouldn't have traveled all the way to the most holy temple on the planet to say prayers for his safe return. I think these things are interesting and I wish they'd been explored more. The fact that caring about your family, caring about your friends, is not Un-Vulcan. The fact that Tuvok at no point longs for Humanity, sees nothing better or of interest to him in it. (Even in his teenage rebellion he only says he's sorry he was born Vulcan which reads less as Vulcan v Human and more like 'I hate this goddamn family' ykwim?). I want to know more about how Vulcans interact with each other, how they care for one another, what it means and what it's like to be Vulcan in more of an everyday way rather than what it means to be Vulcan vs Human.

[iamnmbr3]

why do i feel like so often in Star Trek the dynamic is:

[thicc-astronaut]

Tumblr wasn't lying. Star Trek: Enterprise really does have scenes with egregious close-ups of the cast oiling themselves up in their underwear

[dustykneed]

i saw a post that was like "the reason bones is always frowning is bc whenever he smiles, everyone in a 3 mile radius falls madly in love w him" and i think that is so true tbh

(anyways bonus spones scribble. ur welcome:

[space-dog-from-space]

An Odo/Lwaxana fake marriage ploy was not on my DS9 bingo card

Especially not in the same episode where a different psychic milf slurps Jake's life force through his brain but ok

also, missed opportunity to force Worf to deliver another baby

[smartsmears]

I can only imagine the version of this show where Shaxs stayed dead and we missed out on 4 seasons of arguably the best member of the bridge crew. Just think about the classic moments we wouldn't have gotten with him.

Say thank you Shaxs for coming back from the Black Mountain.

[therealsubobscura]

Unpopular opinion- Captain Bashir of the mirror universe is not rakishly unlikeable in a charming way, he's just unlikeable, period. I can take or leave most mirror universe episodes anyway, but it's disappointing that Julian's mirror counterpart is pretty underwhelmingly written compared to most of the other main characters.

Prime Julian in contrast is occasionally endearingly unlikeable and cringe in a secondhand embarrassment kind of way (that I as a fellow bi autistico find incredibly relatable).

[walkingstackofbooks]

AU where Julian's been a little more open about his family - like, far from everything, but at least they all know the vibes aren't great. So when they come to the station he's like "Help can anyone be my fake date tonight for dinner? Don't want to do this on my own..."

Jadzia's obviously like "Here for you, but let me check with Worf" - but then to everyone's surprise, Worf replied with. "No. I shall fake date Doctor Bashir. Your parents would not dare belittle the mate of a Klingon."

And that's that.

(alternatively, Worf says "Lying is dishonourable. But Jadzia and I are willing to enter into a relationship with you" - I'm not sure which option I like better)

[age-of-moonknight]

“Reborn,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (Vol. 2/2024), #2.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[my-t4t-romance]

dr. mora is such a #AutismWarriorMom. literally everything about what he says about and to odo, down to talking about him as a project that he's invested so much time and effort into. also his incessant commenting on his "progress" in "social integration" and willingness to humiliate him in front of his peers in order to make himself look better. and then he triggers a meltdown (in every sense of the word) to convince odo that No One Else Will Understand Him and Look What A Scary Oddity You Are To Normal People. frankly I commend odo's self-control in not wrapping a slime-appendage around mora's throat

[keodraws]

you've got to be the best, you've got to change the world

[thicc-astronaut]

I forget that Odo isn't the only Security officer on DS9 and that ugly brown thing he wears is a station-wide security uniform and not just his personal fashion sense