#vulcan-salute

[aragarna]

Can you do the Vulcan salute?

Please reblog to spread this beyond my teeny tiny blog.

[radishrainbowfarm]

My dad is a trekkie, always has been, he has gone to conventions, knows some klingon, taught his children the vulcan salute, would try introducing star trek to us through all of ours childhoods and has been constantly rewatching all the star trek series

All that to say that I recently decided that I would get into star trek for real, I've always enjoyed what i saw with my dad, so yeah it makes sense, but i am a fandom person, i am a very online person, things my dad is not and so it can be kinda funny to talk star trek with him because i am seeing a great amount of gay jokes and interpretations about amok time and then i have my dad asking if i have watched it yet because it's one of his favorites episodes and one of the greatest and this is just the kind of thing i dont talk about with my parents so i feel giggly

[dlasta]

I may be stressing my hair out but also, Lower Decks is just as great as people said it was. Extra points for being 'adult' but not in an edgy grimdark way just beeped over swearing and cartoon violence.

It's a modern Trek with things to say and new point of view. Likeable characters, good writing, good pacing, beyond ridiculous but still poignant and so fucking *fun*.

[dragons-in-spaceee]

This is the influence I have on people apparently

[mysticum-draconis]

Little sketches I drew in my diary last year for Star Trek day! 🖖

I meant to do more with the page, such as colouring in the hands and writing all the Trek shows I'd watched at the time around them (all of TOS, tiny bit of TNG, most of DS9 and most of VOY), but then kind of gave up on it. I hope to do more with that idea this year when I (eventually) decorate today's page for Star Trek day ✨

Please don’t use or post on other websites without credit or permission, thanks 🙏

[glimblshanks]

Hmmm... Mariner and Ransom mirroring each other's poses in the season 5 promo poster

[superlinguo]

New Research Article: From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture

In this new article I get to bring together three of my favourite things: gesture, science fiction and working with the best collaborators. I teamed up with genre author and creative writing expert Dr Peta Freestone and corpus whiz Jess Kruk to look at the different ways scifi gestures also have lives in the real world. 

We used emoji evidence to look at the ways use of the Vulcan Salute (🖖) on Twitter references Star Trek, as well as nerd culture in general. There’s no emoji for the Three Finger Salute from the Hunger Games (...yet?), so we used a newspaper corpus to see what we could learn about this gesture. It has become a gesture of protest by younger people against a variety of regimes across South and South East Asia, and is becoming untethered from its narrative origins. For this gesture, newspapers provided a good, nuanced understanding of the meaning and function of this gesture.

This article partially started out of a blog post where I was pondering fictional gestures in scifi and fantasy. The article is part of a special issue of Linguistic Vanguard on the linguistics of scifi, with a special focus on corpus methods, which was edited bySofia Rüdiger and Claudia Lange. It’s fun that this article stands alongside lots of great articles including work on the sociolinguistics of Firefly, the lexical influence of Star Wars and changing gender dynamics on Star Trek.

Abstract

Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulcan salute from Star Trek and the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games. Firstly, a Twitter corpus of the Vulcan salute emoji shows that it is used to represent Star Trek fandom and wider nerd culture, alongside its use as a greeting. Secondly, a global news corpus shows the three-finger salute has come to be used as a pro-democracy protest gesture across political and cultural boundaries in South East Asia. These corpus studies show different trajectories for the two gestures, with the three-finger salute escaping the confines of its fictional world, while the Vulcan salute has come to stand in as a reference to the media it originated from. We conclude with a reflection on the opportunities, challenges and limitations of bringing corpus methods to gesture studies.

Reference

Freestone, P., J. Kruk & L. Gawne. 2023. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistic Vanguard. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0006

See also

Fictional gestures in scifi and fantasy

How I made the Aramteskan language for P.M. Freestone’s Shadowscent

Gesture emoji: contributing to the Unicode standard

[pixelwixard]

GIFs from Lower Decks S01E04, "Moist Vessel" (again, sorry if you hate that word)

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x7 - "The Gone Fishin' Job"

[alexismusictrek]

I got 2 points… NERD ALERT🚨

[commander-quack-to-the-bridge]

"Live long and prosper."

"Peace and long life."

all i want in life is for someone to bring this kind of energy my way.

hit me with that, "i hope your life is good bro, i hope it's long and everything you could ever want"

so that i can hit you with that "i hope peace for you, ultimate comfort for all your years and i hope that you have many more years ahead of you"

this is the kind of energy we should be bringing each other, it really is that simple

[speakvulcantome]

"Guys, this is my new study buddy!"

Tendi + T'Lyn, Lower Decks, 3x10

[firstofficernims]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 😁🖖

[ladyjuliapearle]

The Vulcan Salute!

Here is inktober word number 6, 'Trek'.

I love how a franchise like Star Trek has been going for over 50 years. And weirdly I like all the classics. I've been watching Doctor Who, Star Trek and Star wars for a long time, and all three have been around since 1963, 1977 and 1966!

[mostly-natm]

Can you imagine choosing not to attend a college because there are Star Trek fans there?

[chaotictomtom]

omg. would i make the bear lino cut print i've been wanting to make since like last year around that time of the year