outnumbered and unafraid

deep space nine is space found family but they all mostly love and choose each other and voyager is space found family but they are all clinging to each other to survive and form really fucked up "I hate this guy but he cooks for us and tries to make us smile even if it just makes me annoyed" relationships and I think that's beautiful

The fact that deep space nine is a shopping mall and gas station is SO charming to me

Not to be extremely American but it’s one of those massive truck stops you find along the interstate that’s always open and has a place to do your laundry and shower and play video poker and buy audiobooks and 30 different kinds of jerky and a new seat cushion for your rig because it’s been bothering you for a while and there are other travelers shooting the shit around the coffee machines just to get some social time in before the road’s calling you back because you aren’t supposed to stay forever. You pick up a hand pie and a fidget spinner and maybe a new pair of sunglasses because god only knows where the your old ones are in the cab, consider buying a carton of cigarettes or that dang horrible nicotine gum and somehow when you roll back through 6 or 8 months later the folks at the inset all-night greasy spoon greet you and everybody else like you’re a regular just there the other day.

just found out that according to the audios peri is from maryland. now I know the writers are brits but I think if she’s from maryland she should be more obnoxiously from maryland. she needs to be putting old bay on everything and have at least one item of clothing with the flag pattern on it (preferably also with a crab) 

bringing this back bc I saw someone in old bay pajama pants at the burger joint yesterday and I think peri should wear these

the key to understanding kermit is that line from the original muppet series where lesley anne warren is like "i thought you were the only person here who wasn't crazy" and kermits like "me not crazy? i hired the others" that guy loves chaos. he loves crazy shit, and he loves being the guy who has to handle the crazy shit. he deliberately creates these circumstances! he puts himself in these positions! and then he's like "i cant believe youre making me do this." anyway that frog is more human than any of us

i just know at some point on voyager tom and harry started a bad podcast together. like the classic guys talking about nothing for an hour kind of podcast. they’d keep bugging people to guest star but the only person who wants to is the doctor (the only person they don’t want guest starring)

they eventually manage to get seven to guest star because janeway thinks it’ll be good for exploring her humanity and it’s an hour of harry and tom debating whether leola root belongs on pizza and ranking their favourite holodeck programs and every time they ask seven for her opinion she’s like “i fail to see how any of this is relevant.” it’s their most popular episode by far

sitting there like a tyrannical king while my court jester marc platt presents the craziest lore he has to offer and if i like it i nod silently and if i don’t like it i gesture to my guards who beat me over the head until i forget i heard it. then we continue and when we’re finished he is thrown to the lions

AAAAH

You know the biggest loss of the decline of physical media and the rise of streaming? DVD special features.

I love you DVD commentaries I love you making-of documentaries I love you behind the scenes footage I love you bloopers I love you deleted scenes I love you silly little videos of the cast dicking around 💖

please never stop talking passionately about the things you love

I. HATE. IN-TEXT. CITATIONS.

Not just when I'm writing a paper, but when I'm READING a textbook it looks SO messy (Rick-Astley, 1969, p. 420) and it's SO distracting, (Morbius, 2022) and SO disruptive (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, & Rudolph, 1964.) to my reading and (Bird, Grouch, Monster, & Monster, 1997 ) learning process. And why are some of them SO FUCKING (According, 2007; To & All, 1991; Known, Laws, & Of, 2378; Aviation, 57 B.C.E.) LONG???

can't believe how much this website lied to me! had me believing tom paris was a one dimensional pathetic joke whose relevance is relegated to one episode in which he turns into a lizard. disgustaeieng!!!!! he's a gangly captain america!! a casual bisexual! a wife guy!! an utter and complete best friend to 6 people!!! a man who unironically enjoys margaritaville!!! a giggler!! a papa!! my sweet cheese!! my rotten soldier!! my good time boy!!!!

charley pollard in the sixtieth this is not a request it is a threat

so interesting how the no option is winning. its so curious how life will make us live in a parallel line to people we wouldnt have otherwise ever been so close with. its so radiantly poetic and beautiful.

One of the many many reasons I will always adore Tegan Jovanka is her utterly pragmatic willingness to Commit. Like, from her perspective, she’s just been kidnapped and she finds herself on another planet, but once it becomes clear that there’s A Lot Going On, she drops all of that for later, and decides that if we’re doing this, I’m going to Do It Properly. The guy in the frilly collar is the bad guy? Right, she’s gonna hurl herself at him. 

The weirder shit gets, the more Tegan commits to Just Accepting It and being pragmatic. The man she’s been traveling with falls to his death and now he has a new face? Better steal an ambulance to help him get away. Zero hesitation, just does what needs to be done - and if she doesn’t know what needs to be done because she’s traveling in a time and space ship and how the hell would she know? Well, she’ll find something she knows how to do, and she’ll damn well do that until something better comes along.

ohhhh my god

the thing about tpk is that while harry’s the well-adjusted one in the polycule in terms of interpersonal issues the moment it comes to something like performing major acts of self-sacrifice it’s tom and b’elanna who have to be like babe please can you be normal about this

remember that time when they had to restrain the doctor and he's screaming "I HAVE TO SAVE THE SHIP, I HAVE TO SAVE THE SHIP" because his delusions have manifested as a warp core emergency that only he can solve?? Harry broke out in a COLD SWEAT during that briefing because how many times has he woken up in his quarters screaming "I HAVE TO SAVE THE SHIP" ???? He thanks god he's not a hologram and that Tom and B'elanna just sleepily pull him between them and go "shhh go back to sleep, Starfleet. The ship's fine."

there should’ve been a line in endgame where the borg queen’s like “you people are the MOST obnoxiously co-dependent hyper-collectivist starship crew i’ve ever encountered. and i’m the borg queen”

Star Trek Voyager + text posts