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!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

STAR TREK // S1E1 The Man Trap The creature was trying to survive, it has that right, doesn't it? They needed salt to stay alive, there was no more salt. It's the last one. The buffalo, there is no difference.

During the runup to Star Trek's premier, Gene Roddenberry emphasized that [unlike other stupid TV sci-fi shows] his show would NOT be a "monster of the week" affair.

But alas, when The Man Trap premiered, September 8th 1966, it featured a monster-of-the-week.

This was only because production was behind schedule and this episode's special effects were completed first, so it was the only thing ready to broadcast.

Imagine Roddenberry's impotent rage. His biting clawing screaming white hot fury that interested new viewers might tune in for some brain-expanding gosh darn Science Fiction... only to be treated to yet another a rubber suited monster, like goddamn Lost In Space.

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

It's also fun to remember the context, here. A deranged starship captain (just out of shot, pointing a phaser at Kirk) has just demanded that Kirk call the Enterprise and order his crew to do something illegal, or he'll shoot Kirk. Kirk makes the call, knowing his crew will refuse. And they do.

The other captain's practically got his phaser up Kirk's nose at this point, trying to push Kirk into putting more pressure on his crew, and Kirk just coolly says to his people, "...Nah, nothing serious going on down here, talk to you later..." and "hangs up." And then does this wide-eyed, innocent, butter-wouldn't-melt thing: "You heard them, it's not my fault...!" Which maybe will still get him shot... but maybe not. Gambling, as always...

A good script is half the battle in serial drama. "Omega Glory" wasn't all that great a script. But these offhand moments of business, dropped by an actor working deeply enough in his character, can make stuff work regardless. :)

I don't understand why Star Trek is so reticent about using the Tholians. Everyone seems to like them and they would actually be able to do them well in CGI or animation now. Also, they could actually appear on Strange New Worlds without breaking continuity, like the Gorn.

They were depicted well in Enterprise, the mirror universe two-parter.

I think their high CGI cost coupled with the fact Tholians cannot exist in a human atmosphere without special considerations makes them less useful to showrunners than (say) Gorn, who despite being 100% CGI in SNW, breathe our air.

The one adult Gorn in SNW was actually a guy in a suit

Holy shit, I had no idea. Whoa

I don't understand why Star Trek is so reticent about using the Tholians. Everyone seems to like them and they would actually be able to do them well in CGI or animation now. Also, they could actually appear on Strange New Worlds without breaking continuity, like the Gorn.

They were depicted well in Enterprise, the mirror universe two-parter.

I think their high CGI cost coupled with the fact Tholians cannot exist in a human atmosphere without special considerations makes them less useful to showrunners than (say) Gorn, who despite being 100% CGI in SNW, breathe our air.

17. High Priestess Natria Attire

@spirk-trek you might be amused to learn that Roddenberry was so pissed off about NBC censors denying him belly buttons that in a future pilot for a new TV series, his female protagonist had TWO NAVELS. Both proudly displayed.

Because in the future, 'enhanced' humans have two circulatory systems. Naturally.

once every blue moon I watch an episode of star trek made over 20 years ago that makes me think to myself: no network would allow this today, not because it's aged badly but because it aged so well. Just a very decided argument about a morality of something. Voyager did an episode on privatised health care in "critical care" and the Voy's Doctor shut it all down and called it an affront to medicine; and here in "Detained" i see people (even whole families) in detention camps just because other people of their species are terrorists. What does captain Archer do? Helps them break out and provides them cover while they escape. Because there was a time when blaming a whole nation for actions of their most extreme members was considered a terrible thing to do.

“Arena” was a story from 1944 where Earth was about to have an apocalyptic final war with a hideous, unseen alien race known as “the Outsiders.” On the eve of the titanic battle, advanced alien artificial intelligences teleport one human and one Outsider to a planet to fight it out, man to man, and the loser will have their entire battle fleet and planet destroyed. 

It was very common in the 60s to turn an award winning scifi short story into an episode of the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits (as Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson can attest), but “Arena” was adapted into an episode by none other than the famous Star Trek, in one of their most famous episodes (aka the one where Captain Kirk fights a big lizard by the famous Vazquez Rocks), with Frederic Brown paid and given an author credit on screen. This is one of the only times that Trek would adapt a non-Trek short story.

As far as I know, there are three times that it happened: “Arena,” here; Larry Niven’s short story “The Soft Weapon,” which was adapted into the TAS episode “The Slaver Weapon”; and a novel called Tin Woodsman, by Dennis Russell Bailey and David Bischoff, which was adapted into the TNG episode “Tin Man.”

It’s worth noting that the Star Trek episode actually changes the ending in a way that completely changes the message of the story. In the original, the hero actually kills the alien and its entire race is wiped out. In the Trek version, famously, the ability to show mercy is the key.

The Niven contribution to Trek lore really pisses me off.

His Known Space is a fine, stand-alone universe. It is coherent & logical. There are many good and interesting stories & novels set in that framework, and even today Ringworld stands as a masterpiece [if you ignore the casual misogyny & horniness Niven is also famous for because yes, Larry Niven is a shitty human being].

HOWEVER

Niven should be convicted of war crimes for trying to smash-fit published Known Space IP into Trek. Thanks to him, we got half-digested lore such as:

And why oh WHY did Larry Niven do that?

Because he's a lazy sack of shit. In 1972 or so, when DC Fontana contacted him to submit a script for the Animated Series, instead of writing something new & interesting he reached into his moldy old 1960s era grab-bag of published stories and dusted off The Soft Weapon.

"Nobody will ever see this," he chuckled to himself, while cashing his paycheck, thinking this saturday morning kiddie cartoon show would fade quickly into obscurity.

Fuck you, Larry Niven. Just. Fuck you.

Can’t explain it but they’re really cunty in this photo

Art grad student answer: it's the contrapposto.

This is a counterbalanced pose where the weight is rested on one leg and the hips and shoulders are tilted in opposite directions. It emphasizes the curves of the body.

Cuntrapposto.

Sarek secretly has an alert set up that lets him know whenever McCoy publishes a paper so he can read it immediately. An anonymous Vulcan always writes in to the journals to critique and (sometimes) praise McCoy’s papers and McCoy keeps accusing Spock of making fun of him, but Spock genuinely has no idea because it’s his dad doing it. Sarek shows up on the Enterprise once again and manages to start a conversation about like four of the topics Bones has published papers on, and Bones still doesn’t figure it out.

I love this. Sarek demonstrating his gratitude & affection for the flagrantly emotional xenophysician who, once upon a time, saved his life. The amount of respect Sarek has for McCoy is immense, because despite how busy the Vulcan Ambassador must be, he always makes time to interact with McCoy's writing. It is so very Vulcan.

Here's why I think DS9 is so fucking good: Most of the time, in Trek, there's a Right Choice, a Wrong Choice and an Expedient Choice. The Wrong Choice is Out, because our characters are Lawful Good.

So that leaves Right vs Expedient. And many times the characters make the Right choice and suffer the consequences (like Janeway destroying the Caretaker phalanx), or make the Expedient choice and come to regret it.

And there's stories like that in DS9, too. But there are also so many stories where the choices are Bad and Worse. Or Bad and Equally Bad in a Slightly Different Way. Many times it's Moral Choice vs Survival, but so, so many times both choices are equally valid, or equally bad.

Examples: The episode where Juilan and Miles are stranded with the Jem'hardar and Julian tries to cure them of the White addiction while Miles works to escape. And the thing is, they're both right. Miles saves their lives, but Julian, as a doctor, thinks of his first duty to his patients (and also the strategic advantage it would bring them to be able to break the Jem'hardar dependency on the White). They're both right, and they're both wrong.

Kira and Odo during the entire Dominion occupation arc. Kira wants to resist to aid the overall war effort, Odo prioritises Bajor and the safety of the people under his direct care. They're both right, and they're both wrong. Odo is collaborating, Kira is being a terrorist and endangering Bajor. They're both wrong. And they're both right.

Or when Miles and Julian go after Section 31 for the Changeling cure. They do some SHADY SHIT to Sloan, and Julian doesn't blink once, even though he's a doctor and definitely Doing Harm. And then they DON'T give the cure to the Founders, even though they could prevent their genocide, but they don't do it because they're at war. And you can't honestly blame them, but for Starfleet, that's rough.

And the thing is, DS9 isn't saying that our heroes are always right. They want you to question their choices. They want you to ask yourself, what would I do? Who's right here, who's wrong? What's the right thing to do if there IS no 100% moral choice? What do you do to survive? What price are you willing to pay?

And it's not always comfortable to watch, but it's compelling, and it's riveting, and it's real.

GET BOOPED

episode of the day

episode of the day!!!! 🎃🐾

I’m calling in “gotta watch Young Frankenstein” to the rest of the work day.

Oh dear. I'm so sad.

Oh no

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

A friend of mine is having some Lower Decks commemorative plates custom-made using Shutterfly. I'm doing the artwork for him and he's making extra plates for me to say thanks.

That's my own Carol Freeman artwork on that one.

9. Romulan Commanders Uniform