star trek actors are so strong for doing technobabble with a straight face. if you asked me to talk about how the technicron particles are mainlining the quantum blorbonator I would fall apart immediately

— “The 50 Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman

tumblr users getting right to the point in the tags

star trek writing platonic relationships between two guys: he is the most incredible man i know. i can’t help but feel a sense of loyalty towards him deeper than any i have ever known. i will lay down my life for him and possibly already have. he is the light in the darkness, the warmth in the cold, and none of the wonders of the galaxy can compare to him.

star trek writing heterosexual relationships: ugh my annoying bitch wife says i spend too much time on the holodeck 🙄 women amirite 😂

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i hate star trek because every time theyre like “oh my god the skringles have broken the crankus treaty with the skronglies which mean the flongles are starving because they cant get binkbonk berries” and every time im like “oh my god they cant get binkbonk berries…”

data really hits right in the autism because he doesn’t intrinsically understand interactions and social cues and often thinks differently than others, but wants to be loved by the people he loves. spock really hits right in the autism because he learned to suppress his feelings in order to not be shamed for them and then spent much of his adult life struggling to get back to being able to fully feel emotions and allow himself to make connections with the people he loves.

Bashir hits right in the autism because he spends half the show badly masking and he does classic Gifted Kid Self-Sabotage and his parents sent him to Space ABA and he’s justifiably still mad about it. Seven hits right in the autism, because she’s Doing Her Best, but she really can’t express how few fucks she gives about a lot of the supposedly-intrinsic-to-being-a-human behaviours she’s supposed to be learning, and the crew member she vibes with the most is the Vulcan.

Tuvok hits right in the autism because he spends most of his time interacting with people who Do Not Get Him and want him to be more like them but he has to suppress his frustration about it and just deal because there’s no way off the ride.

deanna troi hits right in the autism bc she fundamentally processes sensory and emotional information differently from the rest of the crew and socialises differently, a fact which everyone seamlessly respects and is supportive of

scene from star trek discovery season 3

[scene: we are transported into the daring post-federation future. ideals are being questioned. things are tense. michael burnham has just met up with some trill.]

some trill: yeah i’m any-kinda-trill-name dax. i’m explaining what a trill is to you because the joining thing is still a secret where you’re from

michael: oh cool tell me about your hosts

any-kinda-trill-name dax: well the most important thing to know is that i had one past host from the 25th century whose name was ezri. she was a cool lesbian therapist. she’s the one who broke up with julian bashir so he could date his lizard ex.

michael: with all due respect sir i don’t know who these people are

any-kinda-trill-name dax: [looks directly at the screen without saying a word] as i was saying. my past host ezri. dumped julian bashir.

Someone: Star Trek is set in the future, why would disabilities exist? me, a disabled trekkie remembering that tng had a disabled character in the main cast, had an episode about a ‘genetic utopia’ in which that disabled character finds a solution to their problem BECAUSE he’s disabled, and that star trek has shown multiple people with some kind of disability: in the grand future, disabilities are ACCOMMODATED for, not erased.

some dumb bitch: in star trek all the disabilities would’ve either been cured at birth or wiped out long ago

me, thinking about geordi, julian, tilly, barclay, etc: oh, haven’t you heard?

Ableists: why wouldn’t they cure disabilities at birth?

Me, knows that eugenics is strictly against the code of the United Federation Of Planets: lol fake nerd boy

How to upset Gene Roddenberry

Look, I knew Gene. We talked many times about the idea of Jim and Spock being lovers. He had no problem with it at all.

But you know what he did have a problem with?

Zippers.

He was adamant that by the 23rd century humans would have a better solution to fastening their clothes than zippers and buttons. And I mean, he felt passionately about this.

Passionately.

It’s because of this that those first gold shirts the crew wore in Where No Man Has Gone Before got scrapped in favor of shirts that didn’t show the fasteners. And also why the cast were sewn into their environment suits while filming Tholian Web and could only use the bathroom at lunch before being sewn back into costume til quitting time.

And it was the reason for Gene speaking quite sharply to me once—the only time he ever did — and I hung my head and felt like a kid in trouble with her dad. He read a slash story of mine and got on my case for writing zippers & buttons into the undressing scene. Really kind of chewed me out.

Didn’t bat an eye at a fairly graphic description of Jim and Spock having sex — but boy was he upset about those buttons!

reblog if you too think that rick berman is an old clay pot with mold growing inside it

I really hope most people are aware of why Amok Time was made in the first place

I should start off by saying that Star Trek was made with a female audience in mind. It’s why Captain Kirk’s shirt rips and why he’s shirtless a lot, since the makers of the show were expecting to draw in a female audience with the good looks of William Shatner. Star Trek was even considered fake sci fi for girls by most male sci fi fans.

I have to mention that first because the show was banking on the female audience to fawn over Captain Kirk, and many of the women watching did, but they soon realized that even more women were fawning over Spock. When the show got renewed for a second season, they wanted to make sure they could retain the same female audience, most importantly the Spock fangirls, so they decided to treat their female audience with Amok Time.

Every single decision involved in the plot of the episode was made with “how do we give these ladies what they want without hurting his likability?”. Pon Farr was made up so Spock would have a reason to act super horny while still being the same alien everyone knew and love, T’Pring leaving Spock while Spock was planning on being loyal to her to show off how loyal he is to romantic partners, and his Pon Farr being cured without actually having sex was to keep him single.

The reason why this is all hilarious to me is because they made this episode to appeal to straight girls, and they did, but they inadvertently created the first and oldest shipping fandom ever. 

TL;DR Amok Time was made for straight girl wank bank but instead they created the K/S community

I don’t think it was inadvertent at all - Theodore Sturgeon, the writer of Amok Time, was openly gay and was known for constantly trying to slip gay shit past the censors. He also wrote the backrub scene and lots of other k/s moments. Lgbt people in the 60s wanted to see themselves represented in media just as much as we do, but because of censorship laws it all had to be subtextual.

Always reblog Star Trek history. 

thinking about how klingon courting works by the female roaring and throwing heavy objects and the male reading love poetry

gay klingons:

lesbian klingons:

Do gay Klingons ever get frustrated/dejected because their gentleman caller hasn’t so much as kicked a pebble their way or uttered the slightest growl?

Do questioning Klingons ever show their crush their poetry, only to have their crush assume that he’s helping them proofread or something?

Is there ever an issue where a lesbian Klingon tries very awkwardly to recite poetry to her lady love? 

Or instances where two lesbians are basically beating the shit out of each other and both thinking “I know she thinks this is just a regular old gal fight, but no, seriously, I’m trying to declare my intentions here”?

Are there euphemisms for LGBT Klingons? “Don’t try to win her over, Riker. She reads poetry.” 

This one of the best things I’ve ever read

I love star trek because everyone is gay and loves space and that speaks to me on a personal level

Why don’t we ever talk about the fact that leonard nimoy had to walk off set because of tooth pain and show up at his dentist dressed as spock

Also Brent Spiner broke his mandible during the filming of ‘The Game’ and had to be taken to hospital dressed as Data

an earthquake happened near the DS9 set once and Armin Shimerman went racing home to his family in full-on Quark makeup

Andy Robinson also went home after that earthquake in full Garak makeup and the traffic lights weren’t working so people had to make eye contact at the intersections and he says everybody always let him go first

This post has been circulating around for a couple of years and this is the first addition that I genuinely didn’t know about and gOD HOW DID I NOT KNOW

I am always here for Trek Trivia.

Headcanon:  Reptiles calm down when you cover their eyes, so Julian covers Garak’s eyes with his hand when Garak is having a panic attack.

He also tries to do this when they’re fighting.  Garak is not amused.

Star trek characters will be like "is anyone gonna get stranded on that desert planet?" And not wait for an answer

Star Trek characters will see a desert planet and immediately crash their ship on it

One Day at a Time Season 4 Premiere on March 24, 2020:

Star Trek: Picard Season Finale on March 26, 2020:

This is literally an once in a lifetime prophecy.

Star Trek Pet Peeve explained:

 whenever the show refers to species as “humanoid” or “not humanoid” - I tend to make an assumption that it’s a universal translator thing, because why would other species also refer to themselves as humanoid???

soooo:

 - Julian learns Kardasi and discovers that the Cardassians have been saying the equivalent of “Cardassian-lite” the entire time (essentially “like Cardassians, but worse” folded into one word)

- Benjamin realises that Bajorans call non-Bajoran bipedal beings the “acceptably unfaithful” (it sounds better in Bajoran)

- Klingons say “weaker than Klingons.” B’Elanna takes offence, Worf is like “this is reasonable” (B’Elanna and Worf arguing Klingon linguistics based on their own relationships to tho)

- Betazoids and Vulcans independently of one another coming to the conclusion that they’ll call the other species “the talkies” (Betazoids for obvious reasons, Vulcans because humans just talk too much for no reason???)

- Dax once told Benjamin that the Trill phrase is roughly the same as “why don’t they have spots?” based on the alleged first words uttered when they encountered spotless species

- Ferengi call other species “fools.” Occasionally also “tall.”

I’m just gonna assume it’s as follows:

Due to recent history, Bajorans have developed a tendency to call Cardassians “the rude unfaithful” or even “the unacceptable unfaithful,” Cardassians probably have three or four levels of “Cardassianesque” depending on how the comparative status of the species in question, ranging from “almost Cardassian” to “sort of Cardassian if you squint” and they’re all condescending but some of them are worse, and the Ferengi have a more intimate, accepting word that makes no differentiation of Ferengi vs non-Ferengi; it translates to “potential source of profit.”

love this addition

I have questions (as always) about how this would affect children of Cardassian and Bajoran parentage post-war, with the way language has evolved around them to signify their being unwelcome in either cultural sphere.

also how do Bajorans deal with people converting to their faith - probably they’ll develop language around the idea of conversion/becoming honourably Bajoran or something (and vice versa of course: Bajorans who don’t have faith, like Ro Laren)