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happy fuck or die 15th of september to all who celebrate. on this day, a bajillion years ago, amok time served the most cunt no one has ever served before. and then slash fanfiction was invented. it is the sacred texts 🙏
ID: gif from the iconic "wrestling" scene in Star Trek: "Amok Time." Kirk straddles Spock, who is on his back in the sand; they are both wriggling in a very suggestive manner, groin to groin.
I had to google "ways to ask someone to lunch" for this and so now the fbi thinks i have no bitches i think
I don’t have the actual documentary, just the Trekcore caps, so forgive me if I miss anything, and feel free to add on if you have more info!
The VISOR here looks a lot more like a plain old visor to me, what with the smoothness and shininess. Though it still looks rather futuristic. Maybe I’m just attached to the VISOR the way it ended up! Interesting that it still has the silver frame and gold middle color scheme! It just doesn’t have the tines.
Straight-up ICONIC look right here. Not only does the VISOR look fantastic, the whole outfit combo is just so happy. I usually don’t love the colour yellow. This is a major exception. LeVar Burton made a fantastic choice of clothes and I’m so glad it’s enshrined for posterity. I have an irrational love for this look. I think about it all the time. (Also: this is the source of a fantastic gif by @star-trekster)
Nice close up on the two different colours for the ocular implants of his VISOR! They ended up going with the red one, but the multicoloured one also looks cool! It looks more like Data’s inner workings.
There are also a few tests that are obviously not on LeVar Burton (I don't know who this actor is, but I think they also screen tested some general crew uniforms), but are still interesting. This one has a black frame and some sort of sparkly thing going on. To me, the middle looks weirdly recessed to me, because it doesn’t have the tines filling it in.
The on screen visor designs tend to have the tines more significantly overlapped (season 1, they’re almost all the way across, and in later seasons they’re connected to both the top and bottom of the frame), so the half overlapping tines combined (com-tined?) the slightly taller frame make it look a lot larger. However, it doesn’t reach all the way to the ears like the on screen version does.
How did these attach to the actor's face?
Memory Alpha says they used a clear filament that went around his head! I'm guessing they hadn't worked that out in the very early tests though, because you can see the actor just holding it up. For when the VISOR was off and the connection nodes could be seen, they glued little lights to the makeup, which connected to a battery pack under the costume. Thanks for asking!
brent spiner and his descendants, brent spiner, brent spiner, brent spiner, brent spiner, brent spiner, brent spiner, brent spiner, bren
reminds me of this image
[Image description: a fake movie poster for a movie titled "Brent Spiner", showing Data, played by Brent Spiner, surrounded by various other Star Trek characters, all of them also played by Brent Spiner. The tagline reads "From the Brent Spiner that brought you Brent Spiner". Bottom text reads "A film by Brent Spiner, of Brent Spiner productions ltd. All visual effects by Brent Spiner. Music and soundtrack vocals by Brent Spiner. Stunts by Brent Spiner. Catering by Brent Spiner. Costumes, editing and cinematography by Brent Spiner. A Brent Spiner production. Special thanks to Brent Spiner." End ID]
The really funny thing about Data playing poker with the rest of the senior staff is that, like... with the way his brain works he's constantly aware of numbers and calculating probability but he would also know that counting cards is against the rules so does he just try to ignore it. Does he pretend not to. Can he like actively choose to discard that information as it comes in so he just forgets every .005 seconds
Data trying his absolute hardest not to accidentally rain man his coworkers. I'm autistic I can make that joke. Data sitting there not so much "playing poker" as "playing playing poker," as in, doing his best approximation of a human playing poker. He has an algorithm figured out for it. Semi-random to appear more natural, like how his blinking is timed. He is having fun btw. Data loves playing humans
He isn't trying to win at poker he's trying to win at being in a social situation & he has found that people like it more when they win a certain percentage of the time. The game Data's playing in his head is not the same as the game everyone else is playing
i will never be over the fact that during first contact a human offered their hand to a vulcan and the vulcan was just like “wow humans are fucking wild” and took it
Humanity’s first contact with Vulcans was some guy going “I’m down to fuck.”
Vulcans’ first contact with Humans was an emphatic “Sure.”
#iiiiiiiiiiiiii mean vulcans had been watching humans for a long time#they knew the significance of a handshake but still#they had to find some fast and loose ambassador#willing to fuckin make out with a human for the sake of not offending them on first contact#lmao#star trek give me the story of this fast and loose vulcan
“sir…these…these humans…they greet each other by…” *glances around before furtively whispering* “by clasping hands…”
*prolonged silence* “oh my…”
“sir…sir how will we make first contact with them? surely we…we cannot refuse this handclasping ritual, they will take it as an insult, but what vulcan would agree to such a distasteful and uncomfortable ritual??”
*several pensive moments later* “contact the vulcan high command and tell them to send us kuvak. i once saw that crazy son of a bitch arm wrestle a klingon, he’ll put his hands on anything”
Elsewhere, w/ kuvak: “….my day has come.”
The vulcan who made first contact with humans is named Solkar guys. Y’all just be makin’ up names for characters that already have names.
Bonus: here’s a screencap of Solkar doing the “my body is ready” pose right before he shakes Zefram Cochrane’s hand:
I swear Vulcans only come in two types and they are “distant xenophobes” or “horny on main for humanity”. Also apparently this guy is Spock’s great-grandfather and frankly that explains everything.
Hey so I looked into this at one point and that handshake literally created a lifelong telepathic bond between the two of them, and basically all of Solkar’s descendants were later obsessed with humans, including freaking SPOCK, so I’m not saying that handshake was so gay and good that it created an intergenerational telepathic bond between Solkar’s descendants and humans, but I’m also not….not….saying that.
The slow deliberation with which Solkar takes Cockrane’s–I’m sorry, Cochrane’s–hand… The sheer sensuality witch which Solkar infuses an otherwise borderline impersonal social ritual… It clearly shows a very conscious knowledge, on Solkar’s part, of what the significance of the handshake is in Vulcan terms and of how affected he is by it.
That’s why he’s so slow in doing it, and so sensual. A part of Solkar can’t believe this is happening, despite it being a perfectly logical thing to expect from a human, and the rest of him can’t believe how good it is.
I bet that if the camera zoomed in any further we would see the dilation of Solkar’s pupils and a quickly-repressed shiver of delight. Cochrane’s firm, businesslike clasp is probably (in sexual terms) being perceived as a deliciously carnal display of dominance.
No wonder Solkar is all like, “TAKE ME, YOU WILD-MANNERED BARBARIAN WITH ENTICINGLY ROUGH CALLUSES.”
And so we find out that yes, there is such a thing as bottoming in Pon-farr.
Every time this post comes round my dash, it just gets better.
#somehow the idea of vulcans being Horny On Main always gives me the giggles#like literally all they had to do#was be like actually#hand contact is very intimate for our species#and im p sure humanity as a whole would not find that insurmountably weird#there are human cultures that dont shake hands#vulcans are logical enough to think that through on their own#so clearly that vulcan was just down to fuck#down to fuck in a public#professional diplomatic situation no less#and he did not fucking care who knew it (via kittykatthetacodemon)
Some Vulcan: we could probably just explain that handshakes are intimate in our culture
Solkar, rubbing lip gloss on his hand: don’t tell me how to do my job
[ID: a screenshot of Solkar, a Vulcan with short dark hair, wearing a silver turtleneck top and a dark coat, adjusting the collar of his coat. He has a somewhat excited look on his face, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape. /end ID].
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E02: Way of the Warrior, Part II
After a long shift in a Cardassian hospital Dr. Bashir is finally home.
were y'all aware that andrew robinson kept a diary written in character as garak to help him develop his acting. were you aware he turned it into a full length novel and published it. were you aware the entire "diary" is actually a series of letters each formatted as "my dear doctor,"
goop!!!
(ID - A digital painting of odo from Star Trek: deep space nine. He’s a pale smooth faced man in a beige uniform, drawn in profile from the side, with his neck bent forward placing a shadow on his face, and his hands held behind his back. The drawing is done in jewel like colors, with a dark background making the pops of brighter color against the brown & beige stand out. A glitchy smear effect has been added in random places. End ID.:
[ID: Artwork for Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode Our Man Bashir.
Bashir is in the centre running across wearing a suit and sweat is dripping off his head. He's holding a gun with blood splatters coming off it.
Behind him, is Garak, enlarged looking upwards. There's a wound at his neck. There are four drawings of Miles, Jadzia, Sisko, and Kira done in blue tones as their characters in the episode put in squares with light green bolder surrounding Bashir and Garak. The title is written in bold red at the bottom. End ID]
