It's a good time to be a nerd

Should I watch this Yes or No

nobody said anything so im just gonna watch it anyways, gotta say this is some high budget porn even the set is accurate

this actually looks like a screenshot from tos, incredible

Spock is British 😭

She's sucking his dick and he's checking his tricorder??? im gonna cry that's so spock

wow just like in Space seed

i'm so charmed by the fact that you can tell some of the actor has watch star trek before lmao, Spock says illogical and he does the vulcan finger kissing with the girl, Kirk does the patented shatner pauses and still eyefucks spock

Khan released a virus into the air system and Dr McCoy learns that a spike of adrenaline will cure the sickness, the dialogue is incredible.

incredible leap of logic Christine

Kirk and Spock got infected with the virus so they have to double team Uhura ✊😔 but spock is reluctant which gave us the awesome line

oop! turn out spock WASN'T infected? he just wanted to fuck Uhura with kirk

They even did the star trek happy ending 😭

with the Spock and McCoy bickering too hfjkrahgjkslbuelgw

Surprise! There is a sequel, should I watch it?

PLEASE DO

Im going to try! they made three of these but I can't seem to find videos of the 2nd and 3rd one I only found posters of it aaaaaaa

This is the sequel and I can't find it anywhere!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

remember when Jim introduced Spock to his own parents lmao we stan a legend

They definitely brought this story up during the wedding.

Sarek did it.

“Not so many know, but once James introduced me to my own son…”

Funny as that is, this reads as an absolute POWER MOVE to a father not proud of his son. “Look at that, he’s my First Officer because he’s AWESOME. You know who isn’t? You.”

No no no. You don’t understand. Kirk DOESN’T KNOW that this is Spock’s father. He’s talking up his first mate to the Vulcan Ambassador that Spock never bothered to mention is his DAD because their father-son relationship is THAT BAD. This is a power move but it’s not Kirk’s, it’s Spock’s XD

You take one look at that vulcan salute and tell me it isn’t the BIGGEST shit-eating grin

🖖 (derogatory)

live long and fuck you

hey guys do you ever think about how kirk is married to his ship (a noble and logical machine that has a heart that burns as hot as a star) and spock is married to starfleet (the idea of facing the vast and unknown universe with kindness, fairness, and courage)?? I do. I think about it. I think about it a lot.

@sirwormbell-the4st ms egonkula would like a word

rendezvous

You know one of the most delightful things about being in the spirk fandom for so long is that people just keep inventing new and stunning ways to portray these two. I've been on this fandom for like I dunno 10 years and even though the fandom itself is like what 60 or 70 years old the killer art just. Keeps. Coming.

At Shatner Q&A and he was asked for a story about time on the Star Trek set, which started a story about him gaslighting De:

They filmed really late, and one shoot at 2 am, Deforest told Bill he’d been worried about his memory lately and thought he might be starting to lose it. Of course, Bill decides to fuck with him the next morning at breakfast.

De fixes himself a bagel (first mistake, cause Bill thinks it’s funny that he’s not eating grits cause he’s a ‘southern gentleman’) and after De presses it down in the toaster, Bill asks Leonard to go distract him. Leonard pulls De to the side, saying somethings in his eyes, and while they’re gone Bill steals the bagel out of the toaster, shoves it in his pocket, and puts the toaster back down. De comes back, waits in front of the toaster, and it pops up with nothing inside. De starts mumbling to himself, and gives up and fixes another bagel.

Bill sends Leonard to distract him again, but no longer has a pocket for this bagel and shoves it in his mouth to eat it. De comes back, toaster pops, no bagel. Then he starts to get pissed off, and he whips around in time to catch Bill furiously trying to eat his bagel in time, and shouts,

“YOUUU SON OF A BITCH!”

Trektober prompt day 5: time travel

“Spock, what are you doing? Stay out of sight… Spock? Spock, what’s wrong?”

“I… do not recall most of our fight. To witnesses its barbarity is… unsettling.”

“Spock, look at me. I’m fine. You couldn’t help it. Now I need you to focus. Why would the Guardian send us back to this time? What are we missing?”

it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows

12. Spock's Greco-Roman Garb

“I don’t go for that innocent routine”

As a visually disabled person myself, one thing I wish TNG had done with Geordi is show his disability actually affecting how he functions in his daily life. For example, I can’t remember a single time in TNG where Geordi is shown as needing accommodations in his work environment. You might say that’s because his visor means that he can basically “see” normally and so he wouldn’t need accommodations, but I find this explanation frustrating.

For one thing, real life visually disabled people absolutely require accommodations to do most jobs, so if Geordi’s meant to be any kind of accurate reflection of the experiences of blind people, he should require some accommodations. For me at least, it isn’t some kind of wish fulfillment fantasy to see a visually disabled character who can do anything a sighted person can with no accommodations whatsoever. Instead, it feels like a denial of everything that being disabled has meant to me over my life. Disabled people are disabled. We have more difficulty doing certain tasks than an able-bodied person would – that’s what makes us disabled. We require changes to our environment in order to function well.

Also, literally just based on the in-universe information given about Geordi’s visor, it doesn’t make any sense to me that he wouldn’t require accommodations. Geordi’s visor is not really described as simulating vision, it is described as providing completely different sensory information about the physical properties of the world around him. I like to imagine the visor’s input as a kind of enhanced spatial awareness with a precise knowledge of where certain objects are, what their shape is, and what they’re made of. As TNG mentions several times, Geordi’s visor provides much more information than human eyes do, but, importantly, in the few episodes where the details of how Geordi’s visor works are discussed at all, it’s never described as providing purely visual information such as the color or reflectiveness of an object. I think that if Geordi faces a mirror, his visor will tell him there’s a piece of glass in front of him and he’ll know about how large it is and what material it’s made of, but he won’t be able to see his reflection in it, because the visor doesn’t provide that kind of visual information. This distinction is important to me, because it means that Geordi is still functionally blind with the visor, and it should mean that he interacts with the world differently from a sighted person.

For example, I would have loved if Geordi had been shown to be unable to recognize particular people until they spoke. All his visor tells him is that there’s a person in front of him and about what size and shape they are, but this isn’t generally enough information to determine a person’s identity. He canonically perceives Data as looking very different from an organic person which makes sense because Data is made of fully different material. And maybe Geordi can generally tell different species apart based on different body temperatures or something like that. But I really wish that Geordi had been shown at least a few times to need the sound of a person’s voice or some other cue to tell him who they were.

I also think it doesn’t make sense that Geordi can apparently read text on computer screens. How can he read if the visor doesn’t really provide visual information? A computer screen should just register as a flat piece of material. Geordi should have required some kind of accommodation to be able to use the computer screens. For example, maybe Geordi could use the computer entirely through voice commands, something that obviously already exists in the star trek world. Or he could use some kind of tactile display. The Voyager episode The Year of Hell shows that computer terminals on starships are able to utilize a tactile display that I’m guessing is somewhat similar to braille. I loved this mention in Voyager of tactile displays, because it indicates that Starfleet ships are probably automatically equipped with such accessibility devices. Geordi needing an accommodation as small as this would have gone really far in terms of making him feel like a genuine representation of a disabled character, at least to me.

Such an interesting take

According to the episode where Geordi transmits the input from his visor to the main viewer (the ep where we learn that Data has an aura), it seems like Geordi can percieve a general shape of a person but doesn't really "see" their faces (like, i think he can, for example, tell apart Will from Deanna just by their height difference) and this detail alone could make a difference in how Geordi navigates the world. Like, if he doesn't really see faces how does he read facial epxressions? I wish it was adressed in the show.

And also i always wondered how he reads computers. I think maybe every federation computer somehow shows informarion in a way that visors can pick up? Maybe it emits like a wave or something... but it would be cooler if he just used a tactile display, yeah. Also i've noticed that Geordi is frequently shown talking to the computer, like when he's investigating a problem or doing research, he has full conversations with the computer instead of just reading the screen. So, they sorta show him using this option but not all the time?? It's weird. Like, if he talked to the computer all the time, it would be more consistent and make more sense.

I think there's a lot of ways in which the show could've adressed Geordi's disability more

You gotta understand: TNG debuted in 1987, three years before the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) got passed. Public awareness of disabled people was terrible. Simply having a blind character on TV who wasn't depicted as helpless was an astonishing win at the time.

Add to that Gene Roddenberry's utopian attitude regarding technology... he strongly believed there was a technological answer to all of humanity's problems. For better or worse, Roddenberry wanted Geordi to be depicted as "normal" thanks to his visor.

It wasn't his first stab at that, btw.

In the TOS episode Is There in Truth No Beauty? we're shown a blind character who "sees better than a sighted person" thanks to her magical sensor shawl. Note that this was 1968, nearly 20 years earlier, and the message was basically identical.

I'm not saying that's okay. Not at all.

I'm saying that our attitudes about disability have shifted, and viewing media made 40 years ago is sometimes gonna be uncomfortable.

As far as how the visor itself is supposed to work, all the concern about mirrors & flat surfaces is unfounded. It's well established that Geordi "sees" various forms of radiation emitted by his surroundings, in a much broader spectrum than human vision. Even into subspace.

Visible light is just a form of radiation. Geordi can perceive that.

Mirrors work by bouncing rays of light around. Geordi would definitely be able to see light reflected from a mirror and discern his reflection. The same also applies to computer displays & control panels, otherwise he'd be unable to operate effectively as bridge crew.

The idea that starship controls & displays emit meta-information via Subspace Bluetooth (or whatever) has merit, and he probably can use Starfleet equipment more effectively than a regularly sighted crewman. But it's also been demonstrated (constantly!) that Geordi can "see" and interact with alien technology just fine. There's no reason to expect Romulans or Pakleds to make special accommodations for a Federation visor.

It just struck me how unusual it is that Star Trek TOS had no smoking. Not on the Enterprise. Not while people are relaxing on shore leave. Not by desk admirals. It was the 60s and this was actually pretty unusual. Go under-the-radar accurate predictions!

(after reading through the notes) Leaving aside the concept of Roddenberry purposely having thought about this and ruled smoking out of the show (which is absolutely possible): it strikes me as likely that if they had ever wanted to depict smoking in an episode, they’d have had to have fire marshals present on the set. Which would have cost extra… and ST: TOS was already routinely the most expensive TV show shooting in LA at that point.

Anyway, I’m curious about this now. I’ll go ask David Gerrold: he might very well know.

#star trek#fan: 'hmm. i wonder this about star trek'#famous writer who has written star trek novels and an episode: 'good question. i'll ask the guy who wrote the tribble episode he might know'

That's some very important context that shouldn't be left out.

thats how it goes

Gender is entirely made-up and I don't understand why some people are so fixated on it being "true" in the sense of like...are trans women women? Of course they are, insofar as "a woman" can be said to exist in the first place. But people have gotten obsessed with proving objectively that a trans woman is a woman, when the actual core of trans liberation is that anyone forcing their preferred gender on you is fascist. It's missing the forest for the trees. When all you do is play the "I am [x] really truly deep down just like everyone else" game you're meeting the transphobes on their level and accepting their premise that "man" and "woman" are distinct, tangible things.

To be clear, it's not that you CAN'T feel gender is a kinna spiritual force within you, or something to that effect. I think we all do on at least some level. But my point is that trying to rip that spiritual force out of our bodies to dissect it and prove all the haters wrong because look it was here all along is just a waste of time and effort.

The truth of the matter is that the goal is not to get people to see trans women as women, it's to get them to stop feeling like clothes and pronouns and names and locker rooms should be dictated by what some asshole wrote down on your birth certificate.

A fantastic addition! It's wild to me how people can't see they're just duplicating the same binary when they go so far as to insist AMAB non-binary people are "transfem" and AFAB non-binary people are "transmasc," and then treating them exactly like they treat trans women and trans men*. Stop reinventing inviolable gender assignment!

*so fetishization and pointless bullying, respectively

This is how pornos start

SOMEONE WENT TO A STAR TREK CONVENTION IN THE 1980’S AS SPOCK AND KIRK’S PENISES I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP

THEY PERFORMED SPIRK THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE

If you haven’t read the fanlore page yet, here’s an excerpt from the founding mothers of our fandom constitution. KF: Well, four of us in Phoenix saw that. And, it was PJ, Carol, Donna and I, and thought, well they are so wonderfully entertaining to us, we have to do something back for them. But, y'know, we’re really not singers, we’re really not dancers, what can we do? So we sat around with a bottle of wine cooler. And, I don’t drink, and I said, well, how about if we distill down the basis of the cock of the, ahum, Kirk and Spock— (laughter) KF, MS: —Freudian slip, Freudian slip! (laughter) KF: Yes, ah, down to their basics, and how ‘bout if we do a cock show? And— MS: I have that on tape, too. KF: I have it too. Luckily Dixie Owen would come with her video machine, and I ended up putting together a video from the two years. But the first year we ended up going there, and we had a huge seven-foot, and a six-foot cock. Kirk of course was a little shorter and thicker, Spock was taller and thinner— MS: Was very green— KF: —very green with two, with a double ridge on the top. What we did basically is, we took this foam that was used in couch cushions, very dense foam, and we’d sculpt it with an electric knife— MS: Electric knife— (laughter and coughing) KF: —so that we had the proper shapes. Carol, who—a little insider—ended up working doing the— In the beginning, for the Barney TV show? She actually did the animals and things and the costumes for Barney. Anyhow, she was our designer who— MS: (laughter) Sorry. KF: —made the fabric that came down from the head all the way down— And then for the balls, we’re thinking, “Well what are we going to use?” And I said, “Well, listen, we gotta carry ‘em on the plane. How about if we use beach balls covered in fabric, ‘cause then we can deflate them.” MS: Yes. KF: And then of course we had pipe cleaners for the hair and furry bits. MS: I remember when you brought them. Oh my god. KF: And we figure, so we— And I put together a list of songs, and we had little snippets of songs. We started out on the stage with Spock all kind of bent over and just kinda hunched. And he had the little song, y'know, “I am a rock, I am an island.” And of course you hear from off-stage the signs of “Macho Man.” All: (laughter) (indistinguishable shouts) KF: —Pick one— MS: “Macho, macho man"— KF: —and on the stage Spock goes “Huuunh?” and immediately his two balls come out— (squeals) —yeah, from underneath— MS: —from underneath, boing! KF: —and his head starts coming up a little bit, and coming up a little bit, and then the Matt Davis song, “I want you to want me, I want you to need me.” MS: The entire auditorium was in hysterical— KF: And then of course the finale is the 1812 Overture climax with the cannons going off! MS: Complete with, was it— KF: It was, it was— MS: —did you use confetti that time? KF: No, it was white candies wrapped in plas— in cellophane which I then threw up by the handfuls for— MS: Yeah. Woooo! Multiple overlapping voices: —for the climax. KF: For the climax, yeah. And, the audience was hysterical.

“Kirk of course was a little shorter and thicker, Spock was taller and thinner-“

I have read this description in a fic on AO3 THIS WEEK. I love fandom.

Fandom has always been fucking bananas, and I’m so grateful for our foreparents in the Star Trek fandom for launching what fandom’s become today.

It is nothing, nothing compared to the above… but I remember being at a convention masquerade (I think it was even a Worldcon…?) and two people came down the runway dressed as the Enterprise and a Klingon cruiser… and then they got into a brilliantly staged fistfight, wound up grappling with each other while shouting insults, and fell off the runway into the audience.

I don’t think anyone in that room could breathe for a good while, they were laughing so hard. It’s astonishing to me to this day that ambulances didn’t have to be called.

…But yeah: Trek fandom. For half a century and more, willingly going where no one has ever, EVER gone before. :)

There’s a surviving video of this, and yes, this is what it’s called

Oooh, Fanlore didn’t have a link to the video! Fixed, now!

i am LOSING MY FUCKING SHIT OVER THIS. folks of fandom’s past: fucking thank you for always being insane and hilarious

Nothing could’ve prepared me for that video, even this post. AMAZING.

UM

@aimmyarrowshigh @idontgettechnology @thisweekinfandomhistory

The woman conquered fear himself what the fuck is a Borg gonna do to her? Woman intentionally allowed herself to be assimilated at least twice.

i got into star trek as a bit and now unfortunately ive realized its one of the most beautiful shows ever. its about love and family and exploration and warmth and possibilities and a hopeful and wonderful future. and its also so so fucking stupid

I have had this tweet screenshotted for literally years because it never stops being true. You’re enjoying your critically acclaimed scifi show and then suddenly whammo: just the dumbest shit you ever saw in your life

Again, I maintain that Star Trek is only as good as it is because it's not afraid to be terrible.

Risk...risk is its business.