#Cave Trekking

[transcarcinization]

i think he would kill it on space tiktok

[trek-tracks]

all our yestertweets

[chaosdoodles]

"Lieutenant, you are injured."

"I'll be fine, Seven."

[he-gul-on-my-dukat-til-i]

Gul Dukat dying in a glue trap

You know how it is

[twlvie]

the hanged man, or, alternatively- send me an angel

[catsharkie]

FINALLY settled on a jadzia design thank god

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek: Lower Decks "Caves"

[unhumanrights]

From Lower Decks S04E08, “Caves”

The most genuinely shocking moment I've experienced watching Lower Decks. I'm also rarely more interested in Rutherford-based stories (no offense, Lieutenant), but this one was the star of the show. Well, except for Tendi's story. Cuddle pile!

[urghblergh]

Star Trek TOS Screenshot Redraw VI, but make it gay(er). 🌌

[bumblingbabooshka]

Was watching random clips of Jennifer from The Lower Decks and came across one where she was apparently delighted by and encouraging of Mariner knocking all her friends unconscious - Jennifer Sh'reyan what's going on in there???? [Patreon | Commissions]

[star-trek-dumb-comics]

God dammit I've reached the stupid pah-wraith shit in my ds9 rewatch..... I'd forgotten about that

[astoriachef]

[favvn]

Spock attempts a degree of malicious compliance to get out of having a physical examination. Technically speaking, all Kirk ordered of him was to report to Sickbay. That order did not explicitly include submitting to a physical examination. (And yes, Spock's right to decline is gone after he ordered the ship to Vulcan. Between his emotional outbursts, threats of violence (even if only to McCoy), and now not recalling giving a command order as he had the Comm, Spock is a risk to the safety of the crew and the ship.)

And McCoy! I specifically did a clip for this scene owing to his expressions and the way that DeForest Kelley will convey so much of McCoy's thoughts through them. McCoy will have none of Spock's Vulcan logic. He cuts right to the quick by pointing out that he is under his own orders to Kirk. At any other time, the remark to, "yield to the logic of the situation," would be a joking rib to Spock being a Vulcan. In this context, of McCoy already having Spock under medical surveillance owing to his concerns that opened the episode, McCoy is earnestly trying to reach out across their differences to help Spock, and he is trying to meet Spock for who he is. This care shows in McCoy's face as you can see the anger of working with an uncooperative patient (and the living embodiment of his philosophical opposition, how McCoy and Spock act as Pathos (Feeling/Love) and Logos (Logic), respectively) leave him before reaching a hand out to Spock's arm.

"Examine me, for all the good it will do either of us."

Spock might as well say, "You can observe me all you want, translate me into numbers, charts, and readouts, but nothing will explain me. No amount of science will enable you to see what is truly me." Do you think Spock spent the past three days doing much of the same? That he tried to understand his changing body the way a scientist would examine a specimen they found, and found that none of it helped him? That no amount of science and knowledge can enable the full understanding of feeling, desire, need, hunger? (Hence why Spock and McCoy are as divided as they are. Strict logic of the kind that Spock adheres to is limited in understanding feelings and experiences owing to their subjectivity. No two people truly experience the same emotion in the same way, truly hold the exact same experiences, etc. Spock's logic operates from the assumption of objectivity and absolute truths, something that stretches back to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. One can laugh at this idea now, perhaps, in our postmodern if not meta-modern era which argues that everything even science is tied to the subjectivity of one's perception, but the belief in something Absolute, something that exists truly beyond one's perception and subjectivity is a powerful idea that has formed the basis of human thought and civilization. To overlook it now is to overlook the past that enabled you to exist right now, in this moment.)

The hand shaking! Again! Always the hands! Do you think if they had a larger budget, the production crew would've made the side of the medical table crumple slightly as Spock grabs at it, to show that he is losing more and more control?

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #159

"If there's anything the episode "Caves" taught me, it's that Lower Decks should end with the main four characters being in a polyamorous relationship since they all have great chemistry with each other."

[old-type-40]

I love how very Star Trek this episode was. You have 4 different instances with the characters establishing empathy and understanding with others. Rutherford established communications with the fearsome cave creature. Boimler established a rapport with Leavy, the conspiracy theory nut that no one can tolerate. Mariner came to understand and bonded with the delta shift members. And the foursome made friends with a sentient moss that would have eaten them otherwise.

BTW, the Vendorians were introduced in TAS.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Trek: Prodigy - Solum Cave Concept Art by Wardenlight Studio