The real secret is turning disadvantage into advantage.
tng is so frickin good, man
The bearded actor who plays Riva, Howie Seago, is deaf, and pitched the idea of doing an episode about a deaf mediator to the producers of ST: TNG.
People forget that Old Trek wasn't just progressive talking points, there's some definite pro life messaging going on in the show and it handled the topics much more nuanced than what new trek does.
Worf struggling with his culture staring intensely at a computer screen searching the starfleet database for if targ is kosher
World's first Jewish Klingon finding this is a problem literally nobody else has had before and having to get more specific like "targ hoof structure" "targ number of stomachs"
Spock Reflections: Picard’s Message For Spock
Star Trek: Spock Reflections Chapters 2 & 3
Captain Jean-Luc Picard decides to inform a sole individual about what transpired with himself and James T. Kirk on Viridian III: That person is Spock.
“ … It turns out that James Kirk had not died on the Enterprise-B … As the world already believed him to be dead, and explaining the mysterious properties of the Nexus would prove difficult, I instead thought it best to lay Captain Kirk to rest on Viridian III, where he gave his life to save millions … But I felt that you above all should know.” - Jean-Luc Picard’s message sent to Spock informing of Jim’s passing.
Spock promptly leaves his duties on Romulus to carry out a personal solo mission on Jim’s behalf. Spock embarks across the neutral zone to visit Jim Kirk’s grave on Viridian III upon receiving Picard’s message.
Spock then carries Jim’s remains across the galaxy back home to Earth, and buries him on the Kirk family’s farmland property in Riverside, Iowa where Jim grew up.
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Spock Reflections Scans Part 1: Spock Remembering Jim | Part 3: Spock Carries Jim Home to Iowa (coming soon)
Source: Star Trek: Spock Reflections Comic Series by IDW (personal scans)
he waits
Let him in
If I let him in he’ll just want to go out again
The real secret is turning disadvantage into advantage.
[ID: Several screenshots from Star Trek: The Next Generation, showing Geordi, Riker, Picard, and several new characters standing on the bridge. The main new character is Riva, a Deaf man wearing a blue cloak, with red hair and a red beard, and the people known as his Chorus--three telepaths who all wear white. Riva does not speak out loud, so his Chrous reads his thoughts and translates for him.
The screenshots begin with Geordi speaking to Riva: “It is my pleasure to meet you, sir.”
The Chorus speaks Riva’s thoughts, saying: “What is that you’re wearing?”, while Riva puts his hands on either side of Geordi’s face to gesture to his visor.
Geordi responds, “A visor--it interprets the electromagnetic spectrum, and then carries the readings to my brain.”
Riva asks, “And without it, can you see?”
Geordi: “Without it, I’m as blind as a stump.”
Riva: “Then your visor serves the same function as my Chorus, which interprets my thoughts and translates them into sound.”
Geordi: “Yes.”
Riva: “And you don’t resent it?”
Geordi: “The visor or being blind?”
Riva: “Either.”
Geordi: “Well, no. Since they’re both a part of me, and I really like who I am, there’s no reason to for me to resent either one.”
Riva: “What is your position on this ship?”
Geordi: “I’m the chief engineer, sir.”
Riva: “It’s a blessing to understand that we are special, each in his own way.”
Geordi: “Yes, that’s the way I feel exactly.”
Riva lowers his hands from Geordi’s visor, and Geordi places his hand over Riva’s heart while they both smile.
End ID.]
(thank you @y-that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick and @rjalker for thinking to caption this post!)
how to delete someone else’s reblog
The BEST SNW character is Blade. Please it would be so funny if he won.
i'm caCKLING, i have never heard of this, i follow gar-trek how have i missed blade????
I have never before seen a more accurate representation of SNW
"hi welcome to McDonald's what can I get for you?"
"Yeah can I get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?"
"absolutely, do you want the Meal or just the sandwich?"
"uuuuuh hold on"
*fishes my wallet out of my pocket*
"miles what do I do."
"get the fries, lad. youll need the energy in the coming days."
*stuffs wallet back in my pocket*
"uhh yes please the meal would be great"
tossing around ideas for a spirk fic where kirk is turned into an alien cat
honestly if you HAVE to die at 23 then slumping forward in your brother’s warm arms while he holds you and pets your hair and cradles your face and rocks you and speaks softly and sweetly to you isn’t that bad a way to go and once the pain from the stab wound fades to a sort of numb distant throb while you bleed out the sensation of falling against your brother who loves you is the last feeling you have and it really isn’t so bad after all as far as deaths go and i don’t think dean ever realized how comfortable he made it
sorry not to keep posting about spock and t'pring deadly but semi amicable divorce situation but in my vision of things. sometime post tmp they meet each other again at some science conference where they're both giving papers or something, and since they're both much more comfortable and settled they keep in touch. kirk finds this very weird bc he still feels vaguely defensive on spock's behalf about the whole rejection/divorce/fight to the death situation even if spock doesn't care, but he lets it be. they end up calling regularly once a month to talk about their research & t'pring is like 'you have my strongest respect but I'm very pleased I divorced you' & spock is like 'agreed it would be a most unfortunate state of affairs to be married, your logic was irreproachable' & kirk's sitting bemusedly in the living room listening to this like. well what can you do. anyways then spock invites t'pring to their eventual wedding and it becomes apparent at the reception that he's been the vulcan equivalent of a godfather to her daughter for years now, which in true spock fashion he hadn't told anyone including his husband. their first argument as a married couple is whether it was logical to tell him when he wouldn't even want to be a co-godfather due to his petty resentment over the small matter of having to fight each other to the death more than a decade ago, which kirk adamantly refuses to admit to
