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“spirk is canon 2024” in 1966 jim kirk got a back massage from a yeoman, in front of the entire bridge, and he thought it was spock doing it. and when he REALIZED it wasnt spock, but was in fact a young beautiful woman, he MADE HER STOP. IN 1966

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william shatner being the oldest human being to go to space makes canon spirk infinitely funnier. he, at 90 years old, looked out into the vastness that he described as a “deep, enveloping, all-encompassing death” against the warm earth, and then went “yeah actually i think they did kiss”

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were y'all aware that andrew robinson kept a diary written in character as garak to help him develop his acting. were you aware he turned it into a full length novel and published it. were you aware the entire "diary" is actually a series of letters each formatted as "my dear doctor,"

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star trek has always handled trauma/mental illness well imo but sisko explaining to the prophets in the first episode that humans live in linear time and can't ever go back... and then the prophets are so confused and show him his wife dying and ask "but you exist here?" that was. that one.... hit

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andrew robinson deserves an academy award for conveying the most homosexual behavior ive ever witnessed through 7 layers of makeup and 40 layers of homophobic writing and directing

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the kirk vs picard war rages on when sisko is right there. he's cool dad he's black space jesus he's a 20th century novelist he's a loving husband he's lied he's cheated he's bribed men to cover up th

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the first time i heard bashir say "you're not my father, you're my architect" i had to pause the show and sit down and look at the wall. ate a dry cracker

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ok unleashing this one after a month in the drafts lets see how it goes

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my spirkies we need to talk about this lower decks episode- boimler and mariner find out that kirk and spock once bailed on a captain's party to hang out in this little space station bar and carved their names into the counter like some kind of cheesy twin peaks teenage couple

i can feel in my bones that slightly tipsy kirk was like "yeah spock its an ancient earth tradition for strictly platonic bros" and spock is all "thats logical jim" and then back in the ship he googles it and goes catatonic

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the exact moment i fell in love with ds9 was ten episodes in when jadzia is trapped in a cave trying to convince sisko to leave her so that he can survive, and he says "how could i live out that life knowing i left you behind, old man?" dax tells him, "if you were hurt, i'd leave you behind." and sisko just goes "then i'm glad i'm not the one who's hurt." and yes its just star trek and yes it was 2am in my dorm but... that is love to me. complete disregard of survival of the fittest.

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i love julian and data together but i so desperately wish it had been garak in the crossover instead. solely for the garak picard interactions because they are the two most polar opposite characters i can imagine personality and genre wise. poor jean luc is fighting for his life in the diplomat's ring giving his daily speech on the inherent rights and dignities of all living beings or whatever and little does he know garak already solved the issue 45 minutes ago with a weapon of mass destruction he just so happened to have had in his purse

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that interview where andrew robinson and siddig el fadil are talking about how they wished garak and bashir had been made a canon couple ... dont worry mr robinson. i saw your chanel boots

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everyone reblog with a star trek headcanon you refuse to give up. for me i know in my soul data and geordi regularly played 4D minecraft in the holodeck

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i couldn't live in star trek world bc they'd check my replicator search history and see Chunk of Cheese, Cold at 3am daily

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i have this theory that data can feel emotions, but he's unaware of it because he cant feel the physical symptoms of emotions. like when we're anxious we sweat, hands shake, we get nauseous, face flushes– if i couldn't feel those physical symptoms would i even be able to tell the difference between anxiety versus sadness versus excitement etc etc...? i would feel very robotic about it too. i dont know, our thoughts are filtered through a body and they expect data to have those same body filtered emotions. i think he has the capacity to be even more in tune with his emotions and wants and needs than a biological human because he cant rely on the physical symptoms, he has to truly know whats in his brain.

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modern trek's decampification of the ferengi is the worst thing to ever happen to us