#@threshold

[annikasevenshots]

So today is the Lunar New Year of the Snake.

It is also, incidentally, Threshold Day.

Therefore, may I suggest

✨ The Year of the Salamander 🦎🧧✨

[maliciousalice]

It could change the very nature of our existence! Happy Threshold Day Everyone!

[jone-slugger]

Kate Mulgrew, the woman that you are

[lilvoyagercomics]

Happy Threshold Day to all who observe!

[theartmeg]

It's that magical day of the year—Happy Threshold Day! 🦎🦎🦎

I'm celebrating with very silly crossover art. Don't ask me for the logic behind these, because I don't even understand it myself.

[terristre]

floyd is my dad now

[captaincrusher]

Happy Threshold Day Eve!

[tuttle-did-it]

THRESHOLD DAY HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

[intermundia]

in retrospect i'm enjoying imagining the brainstorming meeting where they were like "our userbase is full of introverted, nervous, and annoying people doing parallel play, they all love bothering each other, but they also don't want to be overly familiar with strangers, let alone the people they've been hanging out with for literal years, how do we add enrichment to that antisocial social enclosure" and the correct answer was to let us socialize like a feral cat colony and nonverbally and impersonally yet lovingly smack each other lol

[great-and-small]

If tumblr was a school we’d get the day off from classes for this

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

When her strap game is so good she gets you lizard pregnant

[headphones-lifeform]

I made a salamander for Threshold day.

[wormnamedwax]

"average star trek fan posts about lizard sex all year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average star trek fan posts about lizard sex once a year. ds9 fans, who live in caves & posts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[jone-slugger]

IT'S THRESHOLD DAY

[kedreeva]

What on earth is going on in the Star Trek fandom today, it's like my dash exploded

lol 28 years ago today, the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" aired. The premise of the episode was that humans cannot travel at or faster than warp 10, because if they do, they would be traveling at "infinite velocity" and would exist in all points of space time simultaneously. Tom Paris found a way to travel at this speed, and doing so accidentally hyper-evolved him and his captain (Janeway) into giant salamanders, whereupon they immediately reproduced and created 3 baby salamanders. They were then turned back into normal humans, and forced to leave their salamander babies on the planet they had escaped to.

The episode was long held as the worst star trek episode. Not just the worst Star Trek Voyager episode, but the worst episode, period, because it was extremely weird and people turning into salamanders greatly annoyed a lot of people who don't know what fun is. Tumblr, having discovered this episode like excavating an exciting fossil, has taken a shine to this episode and many people now produce art and memes and eat pepperoni pizza in celebration of its air date, mostly to annoy the episode's creator, as in a very Arthur Conan Doyle way, he hates this episode and wants it de-canonized.

Anyway, happy Threshold Day!

[overseer-picard]

his cat got transmogrified into a lizard.