Star Trek: Year Five by Greg Hildebrandt
If the TOS crew had mobile phones
Disclaimer: this is just for fun, and my opinions
Scotty: something samsung, in one of those extreme heavy duty cases that make the phone like an inch thick and able to withstand being inside the warp core (not that he put it in there on purpose...) watches videos about warp cores on full volume on the bridge
Chekov: a very beaten and battered leather flip open case, maybe in navy blue, probably an older iPhone, has a Starfleet sticker on the case, never answers his messages. Got removed from the group chat one time for spamming facts about Russia, and things that were allegedly invented there.
Uhura: Her background is a tribble, shes got an iPhone with a clear case and a photo of a tribble in the back. Her ringtone is her favourite song, but its in a different language for each of her contacts. The languages are not based on the languages that the person speaks, but just "vibes".
Sulu: the latest iPhone, with one of those cases with the glittery liquid in the back, Chekov sometimes steals it to play with the glittery liquid, unicorn dog background. Doesnt text back unless you message him between 1 and 5am. Has never heard his ringtone because his phone has never been not on silent.
Spock: a Google Pixel, hes got one of those leather flip open cases in black. His background is the IDIC symbol. His texts are always grammatically correct (except for the pon farr texting incident, but we dont talk about that)
Jim: an iphone, not the newest one but from within the last few years, his background is a selfie of him, spock, and bones. Neither spock nor bones look like they want to be in the photo. Its his favourite photo, and the only proof he has that spock and bones have ever agreed on something (that selfies are "illogical")
Bones: flip phone. Its blue and it matches his uniform, hes always got the notification sound on full (for emergencies)
hey. don’t cry. 350 dollar star trek the motion picture trashcan. plus $19.99 shipping okay?
i feel like this is an underutilized reaction image in the ds9 community
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast on storylines they’d want for their characters
Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Christina Chong and Jess Bush talk about what sort of Star Trek episodes or storylines they’d want to do → Wales Comic Con, Telford, England, December 3 2022
Source: Panel video (via Geektown, Thank You!)
MUSICAL EPISODE! MUSICAL EPISODE!
Source: youtube.com
“James Tiberius Kirk has never seen a salad before and in fact has no idea what a salad even is” is such a GODTIER TAKE thank you for your service
I’m just reporting the facts!
and since this is actually the most important part of the TOS food document, I’ll reiterate the theory here for those who don’t wanna read the whole thing:
I think kirk just kinda tried to play it cool after he realized everyone knew what salad was but him, but really eating it with hands is a dead give away (especially considering we have seen him eat his colored food cubes WITH A FORK AND KNIFE)
i am losing my MIND at how he’s holding the lettuce leaf like a cigar
I think people are greatly underestimating how far James T Kirk will go to fuck with his crew.
There’s exactly one person in the universe that can make James T Kirk do something. There’s a lot of people who can convince him to do things, encourage him to do things, trick him into doing things, sure, but the only one who can make him do anything is Bones.
If Kirk is eating salad, it’s because Bones is making him.do it because the ultimate authority of the ship’s doctor is the only starfleet regulation that Kirk will not break. So when Bones puts him on a diet, he can’t say “no.” The Kirk/Spock/McCoy relationship is a rock/scissors/paper situation, essentially.
So Kirk asks himself “What would Spock do in this situation?” and the answer is obviously “pretend you’ve never heard of the Earth-thing in question, play it 100% straight, and wait for McCoy’s head to explode.” He’s going to pretend he’s never heard of salad, and eat his lettuce like a cigar in front of McCoy’s face.
This is malicious compliance.
The Vulcan version of “thanks I hate it”
DeForest’s pinky ring. Anytime there was a shot of that piece of jewelry, my eyes zoomed right to it.
The final shot is a rare photo of him with a wedding ring. This movie (Tension at Table Rock) was made the year before his mother died (wonder if it’s his own wedding ring). You sure don’t see a lot of cowboys/gunslingers with wedding rings.
At a late 80’s Star Trek convention in Los Angeles, a fan asked about his pinky ring, he held up his hand to show the ring and said he had never taken it off all through Star Trek.
He explained that it was his mother’s ring, and as a child he used to admire it. He said the prongs of the ring used to set up way high with a small diamond in it. He said his family was poor, so they raised chickens, and one time, his mom was feeding them and the diamond came out and was lost. The family was heartbroken. Then one day, she was preparing a chicken for a meal and she found the diamond inside the chicken.
When his mother died, he was asked what he wanted of her belongings and he said “I don’t want anything, except one thing and that is the ring she wore.” He said that from all the work his mom did like washing and ironing, the ring was smooth— it no longer had the high prongs.
He said it was a very sentimental thing and when he went into Star Trek, they said “You’ll have to take it off,” and he said “You’ll have to take me off with it.” The convention audience clapped like crazy and he held up his hand again (turning it this way and that) to show off his ring.
When De died, his pinky ring was passed on to his nephew.
DeForest Kelley, Tales of Wells Fargo, “Captain Scofield” (1961)
This is a great one as far as De content. Scofield (De) is an army captain with problems, including a painful brain injury, being wanted by the army and the law, and a robot fiancée (kidding, I think she’s human, her acting just makes June Cleaver look like Peggy Bundy).
Scofield’s injury affects his memory to the point he doesn’t know who his fiancée is here (aw). She gives him some meds and asks him if he remembers anything about murdering people for $5k. (I get the feeling this is like a daily routine for them, which…hm.) This leads to more vapors and swooning from him, so she decides to go to town and fake more headaches to get him his scrip (which probably is 50/50 lead and mercury, but anyway).
Stay tuned for a much more lucid and sweet Scofield in Part 2, though. 🥰
baseball?? that game from twilight?
princesshamlet
baseball?? that game from star trek deep space nine?
Star trek - Strange New Dumb Comics #27
I’ll never get enough of theses two
(Unrelated but - do you have any star trek tos novel recommendation ? I’ve already red Killing time (uncensored version ofc), I just finished Doctor’s order (I need more good McCoy books if there are any!), and I’m about to start the TMP novelization)
