Mystery tribbles™

Just laughed myself into a coughing fit. I can't

@brangiojite

Uhura would slay in those pants

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@brangiojite

Jesus fuckinG CHRIST

Daforge as Starfleet cadets?

@tinsnip

such cutes 8′D

I don’t know…

Majestic.

Cartoon: Pooh & Piglet at Tanagra. With thanks to Michael G. Munz @TheWriteMunz for tweet inspiration.

I only just now get this. And my heart is filled with feelings.

Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?

The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo

How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”

Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS

James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Yep.  That episode is exactly what you think it is:  pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose.  And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.

It was written and aired in 1969.  

It probably couldn’t air today.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?” 

@judicialmistrangementorder

It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.

The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.

For a summary of those points, see “Star Trek’s Underappreciated Feminist History” by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Becker’s “Space and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininity”.

And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

other reason We Love Lucy

they like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales

macpye:

i mean

really

current aesthetic: young & fresh season 2 data

bonus:

@tinsnip

Such a hoopy frood.

I don’t know what suddenly caused me to get so into star trek again, but I’m currently suffering from an extreme love for data and I want you all to feel my pain

oh no he’s cute

My ladies do it well.

I just realized that every metaphor or example i use  to explain anything is TNG related.

This isn’t a problem on tumblr, but irl i dont have any Trekkies to communicate with on a daily basis. Everyone thinks i am weird.

But to them i say.

//We didn’t choose the Trek life, the trek life chose us. 

#oh yeah #they see me warpin’ #they phasin’ #borgin’ #tryin’ to catch me ridin’ trekkie (via cmdr-beverlycrusher-md)

REBLOGGING BECAUSE OF THE TAGS OMG

i lost it at borgin

//I’m just picturing Worf, Data, Wesley, and Geordi in a purple shuttle with huge chrome plated nacelles. Someone with amazing photoshop skills needs to make this happen.

You say your every metaphor is TNG related, and thus you cannot communicate with non-Trekkies?

SShaka, When the the walls fell!

Perfectly accurate.

 If i am Dathon and my sister is picard. Then my friends are the first visitors from the federation who left because of their inability to learn the language.

Darmok on the ocean