#vulcan ships

[n0ahsferatu]

my dear friend @marlenacantswim asked me to draw the TOS yaoi polycule and i want you to know this is what the whole show is like to me

[auradaparanormal]

Okay but what if a Betazoid and a Vulcan had a child? Itd probably be like

Child: I can feel everyone's emotions except my own.

Person: i don't think that's healthy...

Child: Most likely

[icantspellthings]

Spock has literally the worlds most crazy extra as hell bedroom for absolutely no reason. The extravagant velvet drapes hanging from the ceiling, the vulcan artefacts, weapons on the walls, dramatic mood lighting and a fucking gargoyle(?) statue with it's own spot light.

And the funniest part is that only the bedroom is dramatic his living room/office space looks totally normal, and standard issued. Just imagine being Chapel and walking into your vulcan bosses' room and thinking it looks pretty normal just to look to the left into the bedroom and have it look like some kind of gothic museum collection.

[jennelikejennay]

The question is not "why do Vulcans kiss with their fingers?"

The question is, why do humans NOT?

The human fingertip—EACH fingertip—has over three thousand nerve endings. It has more touch receptors per millimeter than any other part of the body, including lips, tongue, and genitals.

Obviously the type of sensation we get from our fingers isn't typically a sexual one. But this is also true of lips and tongues. We just think of our lips as romantic and sexual but we don't put finger touching into the same context. We probably could though.

The real reason Vulcans kiss with their hands? It's because they don't touch with their hands very often. Something you don't do with everyone becomes significant and intimate. Like (switching universes for a minute) when the Radchaai take off their gloves. You wear gloves 24/7 around everyone you know, pretty soon taking them off will feel like stripping. Same concept.

Context is everything. Sure, it's no big deal for Vulcans to type with their fingers, just like it's no big deal for you to put chapstick on or lick an ice cream cone. But when a person you've never touched before very carefully brushes your pinkie with their pinkie while your hands are under the table.....you gonna tell me that's not first base? It could be.

[havi-fart]

this was my main takeaway from star trek enterprise s1e14 "sleeping dogs"

[mistylacrimosa]

I'VE REACHED THE EPISODE.

(I had forgotten how funny this scene was).

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I do think it would be very funny if, instead of sonic showers, vulcans cleaned themselves via sandblasting. every starship shower has two modes: "water" and "get pelted with rocks," and woe betide poor ensign who doesn't notice that someone changed the settings in their shared bathroom.

[phoannix]

folks you are not ready

none of you are ready for the spirk first meeting

[purple-iris]

Shore Leave of the Enterprise on Vulcan

Two vulcans looking in the distance:

"Who do you think that is", the first one says, pointing at another Vulcan standing near another humanoid figure in a Starfleet uniform.

"Hard to tell from this distance", the second one responds, just as the Vulcan they were observing grabs the hand of the figure they now could tell was a human man.

"Ah, Spock son of Sarek." They both conclude at the overly open PDA.

[seraph5]

"I'm so nervous about how much emotion Spock is showing because that means that something is going to have to close him up tighter than a clam at the end of this series so Kirk can spend the next 10 years shucking him like an emotional oyster" - my review of episode 1 season 2 of Strange New Worlds

[papercranesong]

Season 3 Episode 5 Impulse

[crownedinmarigolds]

Indulgent sketch of a pulp-esque cover for one of the "episodes" of our Star Trek AU. The crew of the USS Antumbra must get information from the Orion Syndicate - SPACE PIRATES - and will do whatever it takes to get it! (Like... use one's Orion heritage to help sneak in the security officer - a hot dad-bod Romulan. By dressing him up in bondage gear like we're about to sell him. It's part of the wooing process you guys.)

[bumblingbabooshka]

While everyone else thinks Workforce's wasted potential is that Chakotay and Janeway didn't have a brainwashed what-could-have-been-romance *I* know that Workforce's wasted potential is that Tuvok wasn't there as a much more vocal irritant/unintentional cockblock to Jaffen. Who hates him the whole time but is trying to act like he doesn't because Janeway REALLY likes him.

[sesamestreep]

“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???

And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??

[whatelsecanwedonow]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS S02E10 | Hegemony

[rabbitcruiser]

Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry debuted on September 28, 1987.