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could not capture quinto here to save the life of me. truly was losing my mind.

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deleted scene from empire strikes back

(based off of this)

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James T Kirk would fistfight William Shatner on sight but he would give Chris Pine a kiss on the mouth

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JUST SAW FINAL FRONTIER FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WILL BE MY PERSONALITY FOR THE NEXT MONTH!!!!!!!!!! OHHH MY GOD!!!! SPACE HORSES!!!! GO CLIMB A ROCK!!!!!!!! BEAUTIFULLLLL VULCAN ROBES!!!!!!!!!!!!! TERRIBLE CHEESY DIALOGUE AROUND A CAMP FIRE!!!!! OH MY HODHB

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“ Please, please, just stay. “

Done for the newest chapter of A Second Chance (Sounds Fake) by Bibarian ! @bakewrite

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i know that uhura’s role in tos was written to be like a radioman (the guy in wwii movies who carries the phone on his back sometimes) meaning that the “communications officer” role evolved from radioman to linguist in the time since tos aired. but that makes uhura in tos really interesting with a retrospective read of her character, applying things novels and later iterations of her have fleshed out, because she doesn’t do any visible linguistic work in any tos episode. she does security and navigation and piloting and engineering which sort of makes her seem like a valuably flexible sort of many-skilled officer.

it was probably both enterprise with hoshi and the 2009 movie that really cemented the idea of “communications officer means linguist or at the very least polyglot” instead of it just being an uhura-quirk. uhura in the 2009 movie does a lot of engineering/operating work of comm equipment and is implied to speak a lot of languages on top of be able to interpret subspace “noise,” so to speak (like, there’s no way it’s radio. it can’t be radio. star trek takes place across distances of lightyears—when they say “signal,” i’m assuming it’s not radio). and of course strange new worlds has run with the linguistics angle and made it even more explicit that yes she studies linguistics, linguistics is a core part of starfleet academic infrastructure, to the point where whole episode plots are written around the act of translation.

the retrospective addition of this expertise to uhura makes what she is in tos a character even more focused on leadership and, idk, becoming something like a captain, because she doesn’t seem all that specialized. she’s more of a kirk-like character, or janeway or sisko, characters that have a specialized skill but have set it aside mostly to pursue some sort of command. obviously this wasn’t the intention of her character. writers of uhura have mostly just stumbled on the idea of her as a polyglot (according to wikipedia, first introduced in the novel uhura’s song, so) and been like “neat idea! makes sense! explorers need to learn languages!” and kept doubling down on that idea until we get to an origin-story uhura in snw that (wildly) speaks 37 languages, for whatever definition of speak or language, i guess.

what all this overthinking on my part has generated is this idea of uhura very much like a futuristic-captain aubrey or a captain sisko not nailed down to one station, hanging off the shrouds of a solar-sail ship’s rigging, looking beyond, in the most romantic and idealized version of an explorer. i think a lot of people read/write female characters as being more down-to-earth than the whimsical leader-on-the-sea or more nurturing than than the hardened captain-of-a-ship, partly why janeway and burnham are so wonderful to me. but it’s fun to imagine tos uhura being the exploring-captain archetype, amongst the political structures of the 60s. like the additions to her character over the years have solidified that romantic adventurer portrait of her in tos, when the idea of her in command would be the least welcome.

and the fact that she was shown to be excited about a solar sailing ship in snw, like sisko was in ds9 for that one episode, i think emphasizes this read of her—and that her character-journey in snw is going to be how she goes from bookish linguist to “hanging-on-a-shroud-on-a-sunsail-ship” looking out to “sea”.

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idk how to be active on here anymore. It’s just me and my 257 drafts

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I was gonna make a post that was like “I know the sally beauty hates to see me coming” but it simply is not true. they love to see me coming. walked in today and my favorite employee and I somehow made the choice to do our blonde chunky highlights ginger on the same day. my queen. so we gabbed about that for like. 10 minutes. I love the sally beauty.

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beautiful gorgeous lady alert!!!

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It's hard to believe this isn't a butch lesbian but is infact William Shatner at 18 hitchhiking around American

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I present to you all very quick watercolour studies of kirk and spock!!:-)

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Star Trek Beyond (2016)

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get it because he brought him back from the dead

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saw requests r open u should make us make out sloppy style

WARNING! it’s pretty HEATED! PREPARE YOURSELF! ITS CRAZY WORK!

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uh oh. is that an unhealthy obsession I feel coming on?

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trying to integrate a kofi button on my abt me post but the button is so fuckin huge im gonna kill myself. GIVE ME MONEY@!!!!!!i! is what it looks like lmao.

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uh oh. is that an unhealthy obsession I feel coming on?