Hey guys, um. Can we talk abt the TAS episode where everyone gets a dose of love potion and Kirk and Spock are suddenly really affectionate??? And Kirk is implied to be jealous of Christine??
Star trek TOS gives us the hope that everything in the medical industry will be shiny and glittery as fuck in the future. Knowing this I can sleep well tonight.
i have finally FINALLY finished my star trek tos crew lps customs! i will be posting close-ups individually but here’s a group shot of the bridge crew :]
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.
On January 8, 2024 an American moon lander Peregrine was launched into space, it was supposed to reach the moon’s surface. Besides scientific equipment on board Peregrine was biomatter (DNA and human remains) of 70 people, among them were those of the first “Star Trek” series’ actors. It was the creator of “Star Trek” Gene Roddenbury, along with his wife Majel Barrett who played nurse Chapel, as well as actors Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan and DeForest Kelley, who played Lt Uhura, Chief Engineer Scott and Dr McCoy respectively. Even though the mission wasn’t successful and the lander didn’t reach the moon, one could say that the actors and the creator of the series stayed in space forever.
Welcome to my new self inflicted project: star trek TOS x Rocky Horror Picture Show! I have a good chunk of screenshots from the movie picked out and I’m gonna hopefully go through them all!
[Description: A Tiered meme, titled “if I was a worm, would you still love me?” Below is a table with two columns; the first column listing different answers to the question, and the second holding characters from the classic era of Star Trek who fit the response. They are as follows:
“Absolutely fucking not,” with pictures of Lieutenant Kevin Riley, Yeoman Janice Rand, and Mirror!Marlena Moreau
“You are not a worm shut up,” with pictures of Dr McCoy, Spock, Sarek, and T’Pring
“I would eat you like the fish,” with Scotty.
“depends what type of worm??” with pictures of Uhura and Nurse Chapel
“yes :) <3″ with pictures of Captain Kirk and Amanda Grayson
“I would build you a home in a jar. with a little house. talk to you every day,” with pictures of Sulu, Sybok, and The Romulan Commander
“what if we were both worms... and we kissed...” with a picture of Pavel Chekov