you’d think the Star Trek fandom would be a very intelligent and philosophical fandom but instead we all just sit here like

star trek heritage post (August 20th, 2013)

there was just something so genuine about kirk realising they’d need money in the 21st century, spotting a chess table and .. just .. sitting down and playing random strangers for a few spare notes at a time. no competitivity, no real sense of urgeny, no hard feelings, he just spends the whole afternoon betting strangers he can win and winning every time because of course he can. ‘one dimensional’ chess is a cake walk compared to the chess he’s used to.

and no one leaves that table feeling like they’ve really lost out. it was a good game, kirk wins fair and square, they enjoy their time with him, he even gains a crowd as people get invested in the matches. he shakes their hands and they move on. it was such an endearing way of showing us the kind of person kirk is. charming, easily personable. he finds a fair way to get by in a completely alien situation that still matches his skillset.

I don’t know, it was such a short scene but it showed us so much without any dialogue. They could have shown la’an and kirk figuring out how to grab some quick cash in a bunch of different ways, but they chose one with a lot of heart and that’s why I really love this show.

whiteout

Beyond Belief with Jonathan Frakes except it’s tumblr posts

“And Oppa Homeless Style? Never happened, it was invented by a writer.”

“Do you like the color of the sky?”

“Ever had a girlfriend? What about three girlfriends?”

“What if you had a bar of chocolate that never ended?”

“They said it was the greatest mafia movie ever made. There’s just one problem: It never existed. Or did it?”

Tom replicates a pair of heelies, but Janeway and the Doctor agree that they’re a uniform violation and a safety hazard. As a joke, B'Elanna asks to add heelies to her own uniform. To her surprise, the request is approved! Soon, almost everyone but Tom has permission for heelies.

B'Elanna’s request is predicated on the idea that she’ll use the heelies to get from one engineering emergency to another more quickly in a tactical situation, but mostly she wears her standard-issue shoes and uses the heelies to make fun of Tom. 

Harry and Seven are the only ones who actually use their heelies to be more productive. Seven pretends not to understand the situation surrounding Tom and his lack of heelies, but taunts him by saying that he couldn’t handle “the immense responsibility of wheeled work-shoes.”

Georgiou: Never for a second worried about losing a single student, everyone followed her and listened to what she had to say with rapt attention. (She did lose Michael briefly, but Saru hauled her back before Georgiou noticed she was gone.)

Michael: Lost Tilly .5 seconds in, spent the rest of the day Burdened by this knowledge. At the end of the trip, found Tilly waiting cheerfully at the entrance, having memorized every exhibit placard and corrected several errors therein. The museum hired her.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about the titles of the AOS soundtrack songs and I feel compelled to bring this up. MICHAEL GIACCHINO ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

These are great! 😂 Some of the ones from TOS are pretty fun too. These ones are just from amok time

the once and future captain

who is the most famous person you’ve interacted with either online or in person?

A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

It’s years before anyone explains it to him.

People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.

The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That’s a word, it’s his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they’re putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.

It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.

Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.

Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).

And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.

The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down. 

Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city. 

And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families. 

There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride. 

YES IT’S BACK ON MY DASH AT LAST

For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.

Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”

A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.

Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.

Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.

And he’d probably remember them too. “Welcome back, Eliza.”

“…Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so logically happiness must slow it down…”

Will reblog every time it crosses my dash 🖖🏾

Fuck Geordi be careful

[ID: A quote-retweet. The first quote is by Thad @/Tyranicus and says in quotes “‘I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship’” above a picture of lizard!Janeway and Tom from the Voyager episode “Threshold.” The retweet is by Kate Mulgrew @/TheKateMulgrew and reads: “😬.” End ID]

Happy Threshold Day!

“Our Lady of New Frontiers, Nichelle Nichols”

My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.

Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.

Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.

prints can be found through my site: www.lindsayvanek.com

Man, I fucking love Star Trek V.

Screenshots dedicated to me and the other fans with great taste :D

And yet he'll do it anyway

He’s going “OOUUGH”

guys what shoe size are you and how tall are you!! make sure to say mens or womens

THEY GENDERED FEET?

You didnt know that marlin???

We... Do not do that

That must be so straightforward… i wish we did it that way.