James, meet our chief science officer, Mr. Spock.

My dad, who is in his 70′s, discovered what slash was and then proceeded to write a sonnet to my mom about it.

star trek heritage post (March 23rd, 2015)

Santiago Cabrera as Cristóbal ‘Cris’ Rios in STAR TREK: PICARD (2020 – 2022)

#he’s just like me fr STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | 3.19 “Captain’s Holiday”

star trek/treasure planet au god help me

someone started a challenge of putting romantic music on top of star trek clips to see how gay it gets. couldn't find the op so in courtesy of all that is spirk, challenge accepted.

*cough* ahem

edit: y'know, if you listen to it with your eyes closed it just adds a WHOLE DIFFERENT feeling to the thing.

EVERY fucking stupid liberals university in the star trek future their fucking student sketch comedy group OF COURSE has at least one Vulcan and it's like their thing where they're like "haha I bet you wouldn't expect a VULCAN in an IMPROV group!!!!!" as if this hasn't become such a fucking tired cliche like literally since 2063 every fucking comedy show has the token Vulcan to be the straight man. you're doing nothing. call me when you guys make an effort to actually include tellarites in the writing room instead of confining them to punch lines. and to be honest with you guys your Vulcan isn't even that good. his performance was highly derivative of T'min's work in the big bang theory 3 (the third big bang yheory. they make a lot of sitcom sequels in the future)

The last thing you said cannot be true because star trek is supposed to be a utopian future.

star trek is very demonstrably not a utopian future it's a broken society playing at paradise. we see hints of this earlier in the post when I mention university improv comedy groups

i think the funniest possible star trek viewing order might be strictly chronological.

you’d have to start with that Voyager episode where they go to before the Big Bang, then work your way through every other time travel episode, the one with the whales, and First Contact before you even get close to anything approaching a normal viewing order.

at some point you’d have to watch “City on The Edge of Forever” followed by “Little Green Men” followed by “Far Beyond the Stars” which is about the most tonal whiplash you could possibly get from three consecutive episodes of star trek. I think I want to try this now.

HEY THATS ME IM DOING THAT I HAVE A SPREADSHEET FOR IT AND EVERYTHING

The episode where Data leaves Spot with Worf should have had a scene where Worf comes into Data's quarters, replicates Spot's dinner, feeds him and turns to go... then turns back, looks at Spot for a moment with his jaw clenched, and finally growls, "You are a pretty cat and a good cat" before leaving.

STAR TREK: PICARD (2020-2023) “Võx” (3.09)

no more characters who are nonbinary just because their species doesnt have gender. more characters that species dont have gender but still read up on human gender theory and realized they were still not into this shit

alien character who decided to give this gender thing a try and ends up detransitioning back to nonbinary

once i came out as nonbinary to this old lady i was doing volunteer work with and i explained what it was and she was like "oh! you're like the reverse of this one lady from star trek! her whole species was nonbinary but deep down inside she felt like she was a woman and she decided she wanted to be a woman. and they weren't happy with that but she was a woman inside and nothing would change her mind."

You can't leave these crucial details in the tags

star trek heritage post (June 24th, 2022)

You’re a goddamn genius

i am constantly thinking about the part of the city on the edge of forever script that didn't make it into the episode

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY | 2.08 “If Memory Serves”

Ok I've been trying to figure out how to word this, but I cannot get over the fact that when Spock says "Let me help"-- an episode after Jim claims that that phrase is "recommend[ed]... even over 'I love you'"-- Jim tells Spock he needs him.

[ID: A gif from Star Trek: The Original Series where Spock is lying on a checkered red-and-gold pillow, wearing sick patient garb. He is facing up (towards the camera) seeming to stare at the ceiling; his eyes appear especially reflective. In the gif, he is captioned saying "Let me help." End ID]

When this scene happens, before the grand solution, everyone kinda thought Spock was going to die. We know he won't (because TOS plot armor), but at this point Spock is infected with the very thing that killed Jim's brother and sister-in-law. And yet, he's extending his metaphorical hand to Jim. Unambiguously, too, because he is declaring himself for help, as opposed to asking it in a manner where his question could be denied (like "can I help you?" or "do you need my help?"). I can understand why Jim thinks it may be superior to "I love you", since its usage is choosing to care for/love the person wholly, even with and including whatever they may be going through.

Which makes Jim's reply of "I need you, Spock," especially interesting.

[ID: A gif from the same scene as above, but this time showing Captain Kirk (left) and Dr. McCoy (right). They are standing in a green-tinted room with a screen/monitor behind them. Bones' arms are crossed, and Jim's are at his side. In the gif, Kirk words are captioned as, "I need you, Spock." End ID]

The scene itself seems to imply that this is all under the guise of professionalism and moves on, but Jim never clarifies that here. There's no follow-up about needing Spock as a First Officer, or even as a friend. It is just, for lack of better words, needing him. We know this is true from the following episodes and movies-- where Jim repeatedly sacrifices himself and his career for Spock-- but this is a rare instance where he actually says the quiet part out loud. And this context makes a later scene in this episode, where Bones talks to Jim about his "affection for Spock," seem more like a confrontation, since he was in the room when those words were exchanged.

[ID: A gif from Star Trek: The Original Series, where Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy are in a lab. They are in a room with white walls and green carpet, standing by what looks like a small computer monitor. Dr. McCoy is facing Jim as he states, "I understand your concern... your affection for Spock...". Jim seems to be looking at the ground distantly, while Nurse Chapel turns in to listen in the background. End ID]

I don't think people consider Operation: Annihilate a particularly slashy episode, but this has been driving me insane.

Friends, strangers, I want to share with you something I long thought I’d hallucinated, but which today I have discovered was absolutely real.

In the 90s my mum went to a number of Star Trek conventions and would often come home with a fan made tshirt. I need you to understand that my mother, barely 5’ tall, a catholic who to this day goes to church every Sunday, who was never heard to utter a swear word until I was in my twenties, who taught Grade One for decades at the local primary school. This woman, pure and innocent, went to a Star Trek convention and not only saw this tshirt but PURCHASED IT and now it’s been rediscovered in the garage and I’ve never been happier in my life.

I asked her what she was thinking and she said that she thought it was funny but when she brought it home my dad was (aside from side splittingly amused) absolutely adamant that she couldn’t wear it out in public because SHE WANTED TO DO THAT!! Grade One teacher, church on Sunday mum wanted to wear this around town! Who IS this woman I thought I knew??

Anyway now I have this awesome tshirt and I sort of want to frame it.

For Anton