here’s the thing:

Obsessed with characters who’ve memorized a numbered list of rules that the follow and will recite when situationally appropriate. 99% of the time it’s painfully bland characters going “rule number 71, never fall in love with pretty boys” ands it’s so sucks. The only time I’ve seen it work was for Star Trek ds9 Quark.

Like yes, tell about how rule of acquisition number 53 is never trust anyone taller than you. I fully believe that you have memorized this 431 rules long list, I am completely immersed go on.

“my body is a temple” well MY body is the USS enterprise and let me tell you there are some inconceivable situations happening on board

They say science fiction never really predicts the future, and yet Captain Picard says “tea, earl grey, hot” in that meticulous way observed only in someone with a slightly unusual accent who’s finally figured out the exact cadence and phrasing their voice activated smart-whatever actually understands and suspects if they allow their tone to vary even one iota it’s going to interpret their drink order as a request for a live ocelot.

i am feeling autistic frustration at the way daforge fics seem to focus a lot on data being human enough for geordi and less on geordi liking data the way he is.

like the thing is. he likes him that way. he meets data where he is and is patient with him and likes him that way. he doesnt need him to be human. he doesnt need him to be normal. he doesnt need to have data framed in relation to something hes not. he knows hes an android. he likes him as an android, not because an android is kind of like a human. right? am i making sense

This comic was inspired by a post that I cannot find [redacted rant about how much tumblr's search function is the closest there is tho pure evil]. So you know, if anyone has that post hand it I will actually make you a silly litltle doodle.

The lack of song repeats even on the very specific nouns???? The caps for emphasis and long pause????? The shifting between speakers in this format? This is a masterwork.

Genuinely like so funny that Pikes room in SNW is gigantic and so extra with the fancy couches, a queen size bed with fluffy pillows and blankets and impeccable interior design with all the matching decorations and colour coordination. Plus he had a whole kitchen and grill and a whole dining room separated from the living room.

Meanwhile, Kirks room in TOS makes it feels like he lives in an appartment the size of a shoe box and shops at Ikea. The tiny twin bed with a mattress that I can tell feels like sleeping on rocks and possibly the scratchiest looking sheets known to man NO blankets btw. The pillow looks like it's made from concrete and a chair that looks like it would hurt to sit on. Zero interio designers were consulted for this room

It literally looks like before Pike gave the Enterprise to Kirk, they did an entire ship refit and rearranged everything. Pike really said idgaf about my protege Kirk give me back all my fancy furniture he can't have any of it yeah and make his room smaller too he look my job, my ship and my favourite science boy, he deserves to sleep in a tiny room.

I think it'd be fun if Vulcan (the planet) is home to just Screaming hot spicy peppers but Vulcans don't eat them. How long after first contact do you think it takes for humans to start eating them

Solkar: the fruit of these plants is not toxic, exactly, but it is considered inedible due to the extremely unpleasant burning sensation it produces when-- Zefram don't eat that

Zefram Cochrane, eating it, eyes watering: Hoo boy you're not kidding lol

Maybe they're kept as, like, ornamentals. Solkar has a potted Space Pepper plant in his quarters and Cochrane just saw a shiny red thing growing on it & heard "technically not poisonous" and immediately ate one. Humans haven't even come to Vulcan yet

Vulcans: it will take time for the humans to accept us. They are a volatile species- too emotional for their own good. Our planet is hostile to them- we can only hope that their ability to empathise allows them to find some similarity between us, even when we seem-

Humans, on the first ship that could reach warp five: HI

Vulcans: wh-

Humans: WE HEARD YOU HAVE SPICY PEPPERS??????

Vulcans: um. Do you mean *holds up a pepper*

Humans: *HOOTING AND HOLLERING* PLEASE LET US EAT THEM!!!!!

Vulcan A: ...did you know they do that?

Vulcan B: I did not know they do that.

A ds9 episode where every shot pays way too much attention to random set pieces in a manner that heavily implies it may be Odo while the action happens in the background. Odo does not appear or feature in the plot of the episode at all.

star trek's like 'what if god was real but he was kind of a dick'

'not like big evil or anything just kind of annoying'

an underrated funny Star Trek moment: the part in “Mirror, Mirror” where McCoy is like “If we’re here in the evil universe, what are our evil counterparts doing in our universe?” And then it immediately cuts back to their universe, in which Spock is wrestling the evil counterparts into the brig because he’s already figured out exactly who they are and what happened

Oh btw I'm reading another star trek novel and chapter 1 just opens like this

Trill medical officer who's had just about every profession conceivable over various lifetimes.

The rest of the crew keeps trying to get them to Say The Line every time a crisis comes up and it never works.

"I'm a doctor... and a physicist. And a historian. And a pretty decent engineer. My fifth host was a renowned architect. It's been a while since I did anything in the pottery line, but that kind of thing tends to come back to you."