midnight surprise visit;
What's your embarrassing trek related story, I'll start. I actually thought, until not that long ago, that root beer wasn't a real thing and they invented it in ds9. I thought it was supposed to be an Earth thing but from the future. I wasn't until "Mug Root Beer" became a meme like a year ago that I realised it actually existed LMAO
Americans in my notes being like "whaaat where do you live" well it's not my fault you didn't include root beer in the marshall plan
Star Trek: Voyager 7x05: "Critical Care" x The Delta Flyers
You’re saying I should go? I don’t want you to go… but it’s not my right to tell you what to do.
do people today understand how revolutionary the three part episode (homefront/the circle/the siege) at the beginning of deep space nine season two was? do they KNOW what it was like to hear majel barrett say the words “and now: the continuation” for the first time??? i literally did not think you were allowed to do that on television i was like a baby seeing a soap bubble form for the first time in my life.
Even more amazing is it was before Ira Behr was showrunner. That shit happened under Berman and Piller! Truly shocking.
It took eleven years for Star Trek to do another 3 parter (although apparently "Future's End" was originally conceived as a four-part episode, and the 1990s astronomer lady was supposed to join the crew).
W H A T ???? rain robinson was going to pull a dr. gillian taylor??????
"i want to go to the future with you."
"but we're stranded on the other side of the galaxy!"
"AND i get to go to the OTHER SIDE of the GALAXY??"
i want this to have happened so bad. her just constantly, relentlessly critiquing tom's retro cool guy attempts. it's a crime she didn't get to meet harry kim. except it's voyager so all of this would happen off-screen because we'd never see her again, but we would just KNOW that sarah silverman was somewhere on deck nine or whatever just constantly going "that's s o f u c k i n g c o o l" every time literally anything space-related happened.
as far as ds9 goes though we got "and now the continuation" again at the beginning of season six to kick off that block of station occupation episodes, so i'm going to count it even if we had to wait for a complete trilogy again.
STAR TREK VOYAGER 6.20 “Good Shepherd”
SEVEN: This mission could be better served with a more experienced crew.
JANEWAY: No, not this mission. Ever hear the tale of the Good Shepherd? If even one sheep strayed into the wilderness, the shepherd left the safety of the flock and went after it
SEVEN: So you’re intending to rescue them?
JANEWAY: In a manner of speaking. Maybe all it will take will be some personal attention from their Captain. Maybe something more.
Star Trek: Voyager - Someone To Watch Over Me
When your friend won't let you kill someone for the woman you love
i am legit crying here
[ID: A tweet thread by Sean Kelly @/StorySlug that reads:
Something I think about a lot:
In Star Trek (2009) Spock Prime, who has accidentally traveled back in time 130 years into a parallel reality, hiding out in an ice cavern, accidentally runs into Jim Kirk and his first thought is, “How did you find me?”
Mind you, Spock hasn’t seen Jim in a hundred years.
In Spock’s reality, Jim died a hundred years ago during the christening of the Enterprise-B, and then again several decades later in events his acquaintance Jean-Luc Picard certainly told him about.
So in Spock’s life, Kirk is double-dead. And he knows he’s in a parallel universe, so reality isn’t progressing the way it did in his memories. The galaxy is branching out, becoming ever-more-different than the one he knew.
Spock is a man who values logic above all else, a man of science and intellect, and all of that combined and his first thought is still, in essence:
“I’m in my darkest hour, so of course Jim Kirk is here to save me. Or at least, to be with me:’
No entertaining “coincidence.”
The really interesting thing is, we have a second data point on this.
In “Relics,” the episode of TNG where they find Scotty trapped in a transporter buffer, Riker mentions he’s from the Enterprise.
Scotty responds, “I bet Jim Kirk got the ol’ girl out of mothballs to find me”
Scotty stood on the edge of a massive hole where the Enterprise-B’s hull used to be, staring into the void that claimed Jim Kirk. He was there the day he died. He knows that the Enterprise-A is a museum piece, that there have been other ships since then.
Now, in reality its because “Relics” aired long before “Star Trek: Generations,” and the writers didn’t yet know the fate of James T Kirk, or that Scotty would be there (most of his lines were originally intended for Spock, Chekov’s lines for McCoy).
But I like to think that, deep down, every crew member of the original Enterprise believed this, deep down. No matter where they went, what dangers they faced, how long they lived, in their darkest moments, they believed, “I bet Captain Kirk is going to show up to save me.”
Imagine how they held on, how they pushed themselves to be better, smarter, braver, because they believed that all they had to do to see another day was to hold out long enough for James T Kirk to find them.
That if they just kept moving, the Enterprise would warp in.
I don’t think this is unique to the original crew, either.
Worf once said to O'Brien that when he was aboard the Enterprise, he felt like they were the heroes of the old stories he learned as a boy, that there was no trial they could not face together.
A couple of years later, Worf is captaining the Defiant, getting ready to ram the thing into a Borg cube, when his helmsman says “Another ship is warping in… it’s the Enterprise!”
And the look on Worf’s face says it all: “Of course it is.”
To serve on the Enterprise - any Enterprise - is to believe in the Enterprise. To believe in the Captain. To believe in your friends.
Hang in there. Do your best. We’re coming to save you. End ID]
