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@sweet-peppermint-candy

she/her || 20s
I like Star Trek and PJO and gay shit.

[image description: a still shot from Star Trek voyager made into a meme with white text at the top and the bottom of the picture. The image is of Janeway and Paris’s lizard forms from the episode threshold. They look like large brown salamanders. They are hiding in a rocky landscape dotted with green bushes. The text reads: “if you’re cold, they’re cold. Being them on board, chakotay”. End description.]

wait today’s the anniversary of threshold

#why do trekkies love commemorating the worst things #is it some strange form of self awareness

It's so we don't get lost in hubris. If the trekkers did this then they wouldn't complain on twitter about how star trek is "ruined now" because it "used to be good", because like. Hey. No it didn't. We don't come to this show for perfection, we come here for lizard sex.

If there’s a main message about the goal of Starfleet in Star Trek, I think it can be summed up as “Keep Striving for Better.” That is, we need to keep reaching and working for achievement and growth. (Even if, I suppose, that growth and evolution leads to becoming salamanders.) Threshold is an example of both those aspirations, and a glaring reminder that we can probably, at least narratively, continue to do better.

Or, possibly, we are all James T. Kirk in The Final Frontier: