Trivia Moments For Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

hey y'all! I did a poll in august asking you to pick a poster for me to make a collage out of and I finally got around to it!

it's on a 10x20 inch cradled wood panel. my new thing has been to leave the paint that gets on the sides/back and varnish over it! my materials other than the panel were water-based satin finish varnish, acrylic paints, acrylic medium as an adhesive, gel pens, scrapbook paper, and a poster from a vintage TNG magazine. my tools used were a craft knife, a rubber brayer, brushes, and a squeegee!

this collage is $230 + shipping and you can contact me through tumblr messenger or I have an email in my pinned post. you can also check out my pinned post for more info about me, commissions, what else I have to buy, and where to find me!

This is Sisko and Jadzia Dax erasure

(still beautiful and so much work though zomg)

@starfleet: when

(Image ID: a drawing of several different Star Trek uniforms, each with a matching hijab. /end ID)

why are all the star trek games based on war and ship command and galactic fighting and war. i want diplomat simulator. i want skyrim for star trek. i wanna talk to a bunch of aliens about their farming rivalry and then go to the planet where everyones an italian mobster. i dont give a shit about upgrading the torpedoes on my battle cruiser to level up and destroy other ships in the New Online MMORPG. i want my entire ship to malfunction because an alien laid an egg in the nacelles and then i want to fix it by raising the alien as my own and then tossing it into space. what’s so hard to understand.

i want to play the equivalent of papa's pizzeria/overcooked but set in quark's bar

Oh my gosh you're so going to love it when I tell you...

There's A TTRPG For That!

Poutine: Deep Dish Nine, by The Kinematic Cafe, is a free version of their game Poutine, a game about a little diner in Montreal and the people who go there. Each character will have their own personal struggles and story-lines that will be resolved through picking items off a menu - and not just any old items! Your waiter can offer up plost twists like an acceptance letter from Starfleet, scandalous gossip, a romantic subplot, or even the death of a loved one.

A Complicated Profession, by Always Checkers Publishing, is a game about retired bounty hunters turned into cruise ship employees, and is all about the wacky hijinx you'll need to embark upon if you want to keep your guests happy. You'll have invading aliens, surprise clones, and a shitty hot-tub that somehow gives the ship it's charm.

Shitty Ensigns, by Litza Bronwyn, is all about the red-shirts that exist purely to serve as cannon fodder and plot devices. Your stats are actually a measure of how bad you are, rather than your apitude, and one of the ways you can deal with a bad outcome is to blame it on your fellow ensigns! Absolutely great for a high camp game.

(and if you want a more serious tone, long-form game about alien diplomacy, might I recommend Endeavour?)

so my grandma died recently, and my parents have been dealing with the quantities of Stuff accumulated over the course of her and my grandpa’s lives, which could be interesting on its own as a family matter, but, well, grandpa was a science fiction writer, and they knew a lot of science fiction writers, which means a lot of the stuff is classic sci-fi and fantasy. books, artwork, that kind of thing. what i had not realized, but perhaps should have predicted, was that knowing a lot of science fiction writers in the ‘60s meant that they knew people who had written for this one TV show in the ‘60s that some science fiction writers worked on, and these people liked to share stuff.

what i’m saying is that i have now held in my hands one of the original, physical scripts for the star trek episode “amok time”.

it was like holding a piece of history. my own hands, carefully cradling the origin of sex pollen and fuck or die. a work whose influence went far behind what the writer could have expected–sacred, almost, in its way. who knows how much spawned from this episode? how much fanfiction would never have existed were it not for this holy text? indeed, the very concept of slash itself? an artifact, a priceless relic, sitting on my parents’ couch.

i haven’t seen the entirety of the episode itself, so i don’t know if there are any real differences between the script and what was aired, but i had to skim it anyway–and i did find something that is perhaps worth mentioning, whether or not this actually counts as canon. but hey, hard to get more canon than an Actual Official Script, right?

VULCANS BLUSH YELLOW, BITCHES, IT’S CANON

also, this:

thanks for specifying “karate-type”, theodore sturgeon. coulda gotten confusing, that.

anyway, it was a deeply surreal experience and i’m pretty sure the script is getting donated someplace with a lot of the other stuff, but man, my grandparents were cool

Going through my parents' family photos and found some old convention photos

George Takei - Star Trek Convention 1976

Nichelle Nichols -Star Trek Convention 1976

Klingon Ship - Star Trek Convention 1976

Some Cosplayers from Star Trek Convention 1976, don't know who they are.

I believe these are either Walter Koeing or DeForest Kelley, plus a random lady. circa 1981-1982

Leonard Nimoy at the Wrath of Khan Premiere.

Battle of the Captains

Semifinals 2a

No antipropaganda on my polls please

Tribbles have picked the wrong man to mess with

[[*TNG theme song plays* *Patrick Stewart runs outside and shouts* YOU MOTHERFCKERS ARE GONNA KILL ALL MY LILIES *shoots guns twice* PEST CONTROL! *TNG theme song*]]

Best. Thing. Ever.

I can’t express how to ecstatic I am to find this video again in the depths of tumblr. It might be one of my favourite posts

Reblog every time

THERE'S ART NOW?????

THERE’S ART NOW?????

[ID: Image one is a tweet by @WlwSpirk that reads “it is so satisfying to know that spock and leonard nimoy would probably be best friends and play the lute together or something but jim kirk would absolutely beat the shit out of william shatner in an applebee’s parking lot”.

Image two is a two-panel comic drawn in black and white on a notebook. In panel one, Leonard Nimoy and Spock sit together, smiling slightly at the viewer and playing string instruments. Leonard Nimoy is playing a guitar, and Spock plays the Vulcan lute. In panel two, Jim Kirk prepares to launch himself back-first onto William Shatner, who has fallen down. They are in the parking lot in front of an Applebee’s. End ID]

You know how in tng/ds9/voy they're always comically juggling different padds?

And like, okay, that's probably because writers in the 80s-90s couldn't fully accept huge amounts of information being zipped between one or two smart devices that everyone has on them at all times. Same for like, why padds, combadges, tricorders, and personal computers were all seperate instead of everyone having a space smartphone, right? Because seeing technology that looks less advances than what we're used to really makes the scifi unbelievable to the modern viewer, right?

Well, I have an alternate, in-universe explanation. Studies repeatedly show that the way we use our devices is objectively bad for us. We can't ditch the tech completely because of all its benefits, but our mental and physical health is taking a toll. It's at a point where some companies are making "minimalist" phones and tablets that are intentionally dumbed down, giving only what's nexessary to participate in society without all of the harmful side effects.

Then you have companies like freewrite making digital type writers so that people can get the pros of typing on a laptop without the everything else that a laptop comes with:

And these devices just strike me as so Star Trek? And it made me think that maybe the future of technology isn't about one super powerful device that you feel obligated or compelled to have on you at all times even if it's shit for your wellbeing, but about starting to simplify our everyday technology so it works for us.

Considering the state of technology today, I think it makes perfect sense for a socialist utopia to start cracking down on what industries are allowed to churn out and for people to start using devices similar to these new phones and personal writers described above. Someone in trek can still do and access everything that we can do and access today, but breaking down these devices by function does seem to make them more grounded in reality. Does social media exist in trek? Tbh I hope not, and if it does, it seems to have a much loser grip on everyone's time and wellbeing, presumedly because it's not being run by giant corporations desperately trying to sell and exploit all our information. I think that the way technology — personal computers, communicators, and padds — are used in Star Trek to be ultimately comforting. The idea that we can advance technology without becoming devoted to and exploited by it is so, so soothing.

Anyway, the irony doesn't escape me that I'm writing this post on a smartphone and posting it on tumblr, but oh well.

Star Trek 1x11: The Menagerie Part I, 1966.

"for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky" is usually agreed to be the most beautiful star trek episode title (at least in tos) but what i think is funny is that's just literally what happened in the episode. it's actually not poetic or metaphoric in any way. a guy says this after realizing they all live in a literal hollow sphere because he touched the fake sky. it's giving shakespeare but it just does what it says on the tin

the only new trek vs old trek discourse i wanna hear is about the aspect ratios

i am BEGGING us to talk about how the 4:3 aspect ratio meant that actors were literally four inches from each other’s faces at all times in order to be caught in the same frame

NO. They are four inches from each other because they are GAY and LOVE EACH OTHER.

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Modern Difficulty with Flip Communicators Knows No Bounds! 😂