#Chapel St

[markgraffiti]

Local graph Chapel St, Melbourne

[0livdocx]

Pride month has ended but it doesn’t stop me from making a rainbow out of the tos crew

[bogwarg]

Nurse Chapel and Doctor McCoy!

This was another dynamic that I wish was explored more in Star Trek TOS.

[kaffkanya]

characters i think should be allowed to say fuck in tos

uhura

all the other women (especially fuck you)

bones mccoy

spock (but hes paraphrasing mccoy to jim) (example: “And then, Captain, if I remember correctly — which I do — Doctor McCoy proceeded to say: 'Please go fuck yourself, Spock.' It's unknown to me, however, why the Doctor would be so eager for me to engage in intercourse with myself.”)

jim, but only ONE time

christine chapel (shes alr included in the women, but working with mccoy cant be easy. same thought process w uhura)

[medlilove]

(Edited to add headshots because tumblr hates detail) I've etched away at this is a lovely few weeks, so click for full res and all the little details, okay? It's my love letter to the journey I've found myself on

This is long-ish, so its under the cut (but worth reading...)

I had been thinking a lot recently about that double feature episode, you know the one? I half remembered it then, when they chased a bunch of alien spies so fast through the solar system they all got thrown back in time. Half the crew went on a little undercover adventure in Toronto in 2024. It was great because they got completely cut off from the Enterprise, so half of them, well mostly Uhura and Spock if I recall correctly, spent their time collecting as many radios as possible and worked on building their own communications. Uhura and Spock were basically taking turns constantly tweaking radios by the window with wires everywhere. Oh yeah, their base of operations was the whole top floor of a worn out old building looking over a big square. They ended up in the really arty/queer part of town full of art galleries and thrift stores.....??

Chapel and Chekov were sent out to those shops to find disguises for everyone. I loved the joke that Chekov was puzzled and slightly alarmed that Christine just knew everyone's clothes sizes and measurements with no explanation. Later on, they ended up getting separated from the rest of the group and getting held up by B story shenanigans, mostly getting lost and running into culture shocks. It was fun to see them having their own adventures and made for a pretty interesting combo. Spock and Uhura spent most of their time with the tech, accidentally listening to the times most popular music while changing frequencies. Jim and Sulu paired off to search for clues, and getting supplies and spent a lot of time talking to the locals setting up for a Pride parade. McCoy, feeling paranoid and irritable that he had practically no equipment, wandered around with Dr Alfred Nahdi, the Botanist, who kept picking random weeds and talking about how extraordinary the little dandelions were. Oh and together they stole a whole medical bag out of an ambulance?? It was pretty funny.  Anyway, the main issue was they couldn’t risk leaving the area because all these alien spies had assimilated into the population and they had to track them all down and bring them back with them so as not to disrupt the timeline or something. They had to track down the aliens while making sure the aliens didn't pick up on who they were or that they were also out of place. They ended up being there for around two whole ass months, I think. The spies were spread out all over and there were about 30 of them, but it ended up being the Botanist, Alfred (Alfie) Nahdi who found the enemy base of operations by complete accident. Alfred, who had spent most of the time studying all the common flowers and weeds that were so ordinary at that time but were extinct in their time, figured out where the aliens' base of operations was because the big plant shop at the end of the square had a few succulents that could not have existed in 2024. It was a big "woah" moment. And there was this whole thing where he had to act like he hadn’t just figured it out because the florist, who was almost certainly a spy, was watching him and McCoy. But soon after, it all went to hell anyway when a fight broke out and Sulu was straight up shot with the aliens' weapon that had bullets made from alien metal. So then Bones had to perform old school surgery on him in their HQ, with only 2024 equipment. Jim, Spock, and Uhura were out fighting and ran into Chapel and Chekov and were able to finish them off, but it got really crazy because there was a Pride parade in the square at the same time so they had to make sure no one noticed them. While Bones was pulling bullets out of Sulu, with the botanist assisting him until Chapel (who had been sent by Jim) appeared and took over. McCoy said something like, “Christine, I’ve never been so glad to see you in my life,” and they sewed him up all old school. And it worked out! But Bones was a mess because he had to do messy surgery with none of his kit, and so much pressure, and more blood than he was used to... Chapel stayed with Sulu, and Bones and Nahdi went to sit on the fire escape stairwell and had a sweet scene of Bones just full of adrenaline, his hands couldn't stop shaking. They sat hand in hand for a while listening to all the people on the streets below. Then Spock, Jim, Uhura, and Chekov appeared at the stairwell and they all had a happy, albeit exhausted reunion. After a day of everyone recovering from all the excitement, Uhura and Spock used some extra tech they got from the aliens and finally made contact with poor Scotty who was up on the Enterprise losing the will to live. Anyway, their outfits were iconic tbh.

I invented this whole thing to draw Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy in a sweater. I lost control of the situation. I spent a lovely two weeks etching away at this with the support of my lovely ST server, I love you guys. This ones for you.

[freylaverse]

Her hair was so much fun to paint

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[onwhatcaptain]

Meta: SNW's Chapel doesn't fix her character in TOS, it makes it worse.

I see people blaming any and all criticism of the writing and development for Christine Chapel on misogyny. But if anything, I feel like a full defense of her characterization is worse.

If SNW's interpretation is truly who Christine is, TOS tells us her wings are clipped. She becomes desperate, pines for years for a man who no longer returns her affections, loses her self-confidence and power. Retconning Nurse Chapel into this fiery, war-time, fighting badass with flirtatious energy and commitment issues makes her look utterly regressed in TOS, a mere shell of her former self that never returns.

She is nervous, quiet, keeps to herself, no longer fights, doesn't go after what she wants. Confined to sickbay, forever lonely. Is her development on SNW supposed to be some kind of win? Because to me it looks like they changed who she is into someone she's not, and damaged her more in the process, underscoring all the mistakes TOS made with her rather than railing against them. They could have given us Christine Chapel who was quietly competent, intelligent, kind, gentle, all the traits she still had in TOS but with real development, but they just had to make her into someone whose personality seems utterly destroyed by TOS. I find no enjoyment in that. I'm not going to celebrate that when they could have given us a new, original character to be that badass fighter.

[retrogeographie]

Carrières-sur-Seine, la chapelle St-jean.

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: The Original Series // S02E16: A Private Little War

[starberry-cupcake]

feelings got intense in return to tomorrow

1. yearning spirk

2. anxious bones (I had to make a gif for this one)

3. scotty can't believe these people

4. jim is fine risking spock until spock is at risk, then he isn't fine (had to gif this as well)

5. god alien asshat of the week ships spirk, so it's all good

6. chapel had to keep spock's consciousness in her to save him so basically spock had to spend some time hiding in whatever spock fangirl shrine chapel's got going on in there

thank you for your service, chapel

[ebonysolcum]

One of my friends and I have come to the conclusion that Strange New Worlds seriously missed out by not having Number One and Nurse Chapel be played by the same person. Yeah, it would have been a lot of work for the actor, but it would have been hilarious if a) they made it very clear the two characters were not related in any way and b) they never EVER called attention to the fact they looked exactly the same (except maybe in a passing comment from an alien about how "all you humans look the same").

[laney-rockin]

"These Old Scientists" was a gem of an episode and an instant top 10 of my all-time favourite episodes.

I also do have a few thoughts about it!!

So in the SNW era, red/maroon is usually for red shirts/security officers, notoriously known for dying faster than carnival goldfish. In the LWD era red shirts are for the command division, meaning that Pike the entire time probably thought that Mariner and Boimler were just red shirts.

Which is so funny to think about, these two capable command division ensigns getting mistaken for being in the worst career path of Starfleet at the time.

What also was quite fun was the constant making fun of Mariner and Boimler's constant casual and very specific references in their conversation. And Boimler's failings in keeping future events to himself through these references.

My favourite part however was when Boimler basically insinuated that comphet Spock was just a fad and that Spock and Chapel are doomed to fail. I love Ethan Peck and Jess Bush but I cannot stand Spock and Chapel together it just feels weird and wrong.

Mariner being obsessed with Nyota Uhura was also so valid, Uhura is so cool and one of my favourite characters I too would only care about her.

OOH- and the fact that Boimler called the Enterprise out on their xenophobia when talking about the Orions was so iconic. Defending his friends and their backgrounds/cultures is such a Boimler thing to do.

All in all- 10/10 episode. I have been waiting for this episode ever since it was first announced and this episode was the only reason I started to watch SNW. I was not disappointed!!

[discoonthegrass]

I can’t include Spirk for obvious reasons (it’ll win, because it wins every poll it’s put in.) I’m also not including McSpirk since it has Spirk in it.

Besides those two, I tried to include as many major ships as I could (and no, I don’t mean ships as in the USS Enterprise!) If you pick the “other” option, say in the tags who you like better!

[kaffkanya]

there are some star trek headcanons i believe with such force whenever im actually watching the show i find myself shocked they arent real im just delusional & insane

[fruitifrog]

My take on TOS crew being qweer (note: this doesn't apply to AOS or SNW)

Kirk: In practice, aligns more with pansexual but vibes more with the Chaos Bi label and prefers the bi flag colours

Spock: You fool to think that a vulcan would conform to human notions of gender and sexuality. It's all about the mind and the katra. That being said, Gay. His mind, katra and body are gay for Jim.

Bones: Prefers a leggy fem, but won't knock it if the vibes are right

Uhura: Sapphic. She likes to kiss and flirt with men for the vibes, but that's really it

Christine: Lesbian. Korby and Spock are comphet. How convenient that the men she's into are a man that's missing and an emotionally unavailable man that have no expectations for romance and intimacy from her.

Scotty: not a machine fucker actually. Hopeless romantic on the ace spectrum

Sulu: Gay. Sorry, George Takei, he's a homo

Chekov: Gender, I hardly know her. Bases pronouns based on the weather in Moscow at any given moment