#besides TNG

[mariusslonelysoul]

Watching tng really reinforces just how obsessive and codependant the tos triunvirate is. Picard and beverly clearly have history, but unless she has business there, she's never on the bridge, and riker never beams down with picard, is always one or the other on the bridge. Even deanna, despite being picard's other support, does her thing. Meanwhile, jim was dragging bones and spock, the two most senior officers after him and scotty, on every new, unknown and potentially dangerous planet. Like, we been knew but it's fun to have the confirmation

[mostly-natm]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DATA!

[jaedoesartsometimes]

I just think they should’ve given Data more kids to just hang out with for no reason.

[termys-trek-art]

i would like to see navh and ensign q causing chaos please and thank you

them when they lie (bonus mcneely and errings suffering due to all the curses on the euclid)

[babu-fuck]

yall r about to send me to Star Trek hell but I fuck with Kira x Odo

[weyounpussyindulgence]

God, I wish Brent Spiner would record more music. He has the voice of an angel

[diesoonandsuffer]

why is deanna allowed to play poker. how does she not subconsciously cheat

[arctic-hands]

Now that I think about it I'm pretty sure we were never even promised ice cream if we won that science class pop quiz game. I think Ms. Hooker was just impressed with my ability to answer while barely checking my textbook (it was an open-book game) AND with no teammates to rely on and so just ran to the Dairy Queen a block away during lunch

[thereprisesystem]

we cant watch star trek voyager we'll split seven of nine.

[milfleeta]

picard s2 ended like three days ago and i’m just now remembering q is supposed to have a kid

[gaykarstaagforever]

Look I don't know why there is still Dr. Crusher hate in the TNG fandom.

Yes, she's a bit of an awkward nerd. But that's who she is. And you are too, so shut up.

"PULASKI WAS BETTER!"

That was a single season thing that was never going to be more than that. And she was just Lady McCoy. Which was great, for that season. But it was a 60s relic thing that was never sustainable. Kirk and Bones played off each-other. Picard isn't Kirk. He can't handle a Bones. He needs a Crusher. They have a good dynamic.

And as to people saying Gates McFadden is just a choreographer who got nepo'd into this:

Season 4, Episode 17 of TNG, "Night Terrors".

Crusher is explaining to Picard how everyone on the ship (besides Data and Troi) is going insane because something is preventing them from getting REM sleep. But she ALSO is suffering from it, and starts breaking down from it while she's explaining it.

This is a triple-A performance. This is fantastic. And just one example of many from her in this show.

I admit that the writers rarely gave her quality material to work with.

...Like that time in the Robin Hood Q episode, where they made her and Marina Sirtis bash pots on heads during the sword fight, when in reality they were the ONLY members of the cast who had previous experience with staged sword fights...!

...A complaint for a later post. It wasn't Gates McFadden's fault they rarely gave Crusher good material. She's a good actress, and is good on this show.

These people are family, because I am mentally healthy. Stop talking shit about my Aunt Beverly.

[foone]

So if Threshold happens to different Trek crews, who gets who pregnant? Voyager is one of the few shows where it makes heterosexual sense, (for lack of a better word, "sense" not being the word anyone would use to describe threshold)

So for Voyager, it being Paris (pilot) and Janeway (captain) makes sense through that lens. Paris, sure, because he is a pilot. We could pick a Science Guy to do it, but then it might be B'Elanna who does the flying fast, and then who is she going to kidnap for Lizard Sex? Harry? ... Yeah it'd be Harry. Anyway once you've picked Paris, you've got to figure out which woman is funniest to have him abduct into Lizardry. B'Elanna? No, not funny enough. She'd be a Klingon lizard and beat him up instead of mating, even if they did get married later. Besides, what if she evolves into a super-advanced Klingon, not a lizard? *claps* PUT TUVOK ON THE SHUTTLE. Kes? No, they already did a Tom v Neelix episode. Seven of Nine isn't on the show yet, so Janeway it is.

Ok so for other shows, we gotta pick a pilot or science guy (who might be screwing around with transwarp, and thus get Lizarded) and someone they could turn into a lizard to have babies with. The show is assuming heterosexual pairings here, but we know about things so we are not so limited.

The original series: as much as I'd love to say Sulu and Uhura ("I'll save you, fair maiden!" "sorry, neither"), I think TOS was much less of an ensemble than later Treks, so it'd need to be Spock. Spock is doing some science stuff, he gets hyper-evolved, and he picks someone else to hyper-evolve and turn into his lizard bride. As much as I want to say "Kirk", I think it's more likely that he runs off with Uhura and then Kirk has to rescue them. Kirk was always about being the one who rescues people, having the Enterprise come rescue Lizard!Spock (is that antisemitic?) and Lizard!Kirk and it's called commanded by McCoy? Nah.

TNG: the direct analogy to VOY would mean we have Wesley and... Picard? No, no, and no. Sorry. Frankly, we already had this plot on TNG (Genesis), and canonically the answer is Worf and Troi. The problem with it being a pilot thing is that Wesley is a child and Data (the official science guy) is an android, so he can't really be hyper-evolving. We could go with Geordi, the other Science Guy, but then we've got the image of a black man kidnapping a white woman. Uhhhh no. We already did that episode and it is an example of Deep Shame for the show. So Worf and Troi it is.

DS9: so this is what inspired me to make this post. We all agree Sisko would be a damn good father to his lizard babies, but would it be him? If so, with who? You could have it be Dax, and she lizards first and kidnaps him, which makes some sense given that she's a Science Guy. But you also have to consider Weird Guys. Every Trek series needs a Weird Guy so that whenever an ancient alien artifact turns the whole crew into Muppets or whatever, they can be the one who isn't affected and can thus solve it. This is all to say, Odo/Kira could be done. We've had a few episodes where he's been shown to do very extreme things out of his pining for her, so it makes some sense. Odo/Quark would be funnier but given how the DS9 writers handled Profit and Lace, I really don't want to see them do a gay mpreg episode.

ENT: the series with canon mpreg! Direct translation of would be Mayweather/Archer. Mmm. Probably not. I think it's gonna be a rarepair: Trip/Hoshi. Trip/T'Pol is too canon to be funny. The next best option is Archer/T'Pol and that's just kinda bleh. It makes sense but it's just the kind of thing they'd do and it'd be bland. We can do better. Honorary mention: Trip and Reed.

I've not watched enough of the New Treks to have an opinion there. Maybe SNW: Ortegas and La'an. Don't ask why.

[trillscienceofficer]

I found one of these bad boys (oval version) still in the carton at the local second-hand shop

If you think having black octagonal dishes made of tempered glass (that were incidentally used in a few episodes of TNG and on season 4 of DS9, including "Rejoined") would be pretty cool, searching for "arcoroc octime" will probably yield results. It seems to have been a fairly popular dish set in the 80s, at least here in Europe.

You might also find the octagonal glasses that belonged to this set and that also appeared on a couple of episodes of TNG and DS9 (and were referenced on Lower Decks, see here for a list)

I honestly love using this set, even besides the Trek connection. It has definitely a vintage vibe but the octagonal shape is pretty unique, and it always makes an impression when I have people over.

By the way, I definitely recommend checking out star-trek.design, looking through the various eras of Trek set design is an interesting excursus in both what was available over the decades in regular shops that looked 'far out' enough to create the illusion of the 24th century and also an impressive catalogue of more 'experimental' design.

[forecast0ctopus]

Do you like any Star Trek besides TOS? I haven’t actually seen it, but I’m a big fan of TNG, Voyager and DS9 :3

ive only seen tos, aos, and im on season 5 of tng!! im working my way through slowly but surely lmao

[amartianonmars]

There's no reason for Picard to be going to the hairdresser in TNG, tf is Mot doing for him in there besides shining his bald head

[spacefinch]

Rating TNG Characters based on how I’d handle being home alone with them

Picard: Good for a nice quiet afternoon. I imagine he’d just spend all day reading whatever book he’s currently working his way through. I would probably also be reading. And of course, it wouldn't be a proper visit without some "tea, Earl Grey, hot."

Riker: It is party time. This could mean a number of things: Watching a movie, going to a hamburger joint and then frozen yogurt “just because”, or just hanging out. When we’re not doing the aforementioned, we’re listening to jazz music.

Deanna: I try to tell her I’m not interested in a “girls’ day,” but she quickly wins me over. Not only does she make “girly” things like shopping and hair and nail painting fun, she also takes me to get ice cream (which we eat while watching a cheesy movie). By the time she has to leave, she’s ensured that my family won’t run out of dessert for the next two months.

Tasha: I would LOVE hanging out with her, no questions asked. At home, we’d probably play games or something, but it’s more likely we’d be on an outing. There’s not a lot of talking that goes on. I try not to ask about her past, since it’s clearly a sensitive subject for her. Instead, we talk about things like our favorite animals, or how the weekend went. 

Data: Another crew member I would love to hang out with. Before going home, we make a quick (translation: 2 hour) stop at the library, during which Data signs up for a library card. Most of our conversations are just back-and-forth infodumping. Further benefits: help with homework (especially math and music), and getting to pet Spot. (He definitely brings Spot over.)

Geordi: 90% of our time together is spent geeking out over various stuff. The rest of the time is spent doing stuff like building model airplanes and listening to radio dramas. However, I do not get to bed until almost 2 AM because neither one of us has a healthy sleep schedule.

Worf: Another “not a whole lot of talking” situation. He tries his best to make some sort of traditional Klingon dish, but the kitchen is a disaster afterwards. I try a tiny bit of the food just to be polite, but it’s not my favorite and I decide to just have leftover pasta. The rest of the evening is spent trying to get the kitchen back in order before my parents come home.

Beverly: Definitely the mom friend. She doesn’t let me watch TV until I get my homework done, but she does help me with said homework. Afterwards, though, we watch a recording of a Broadway musical together. Or if it works out, she takes me to see a play in person.

Wesley: In this situation, it is I who is the responsible adult. Nothing productive happens, unless you count “spent the whole day playing video games, showing each other memes, and doing questionable science experiments” as productive. We try to cook dinner, but it doesn’t go very well and we just end up ordering pizza and eating it while watching a movie.

Q: No. Absolutely not. Besides, he would rather be harassing Captain Picard and company. He does try to intrude on my read-a-thon with Picard, though. 

Guianan: She’s not the one hanging out at my house, I’m at her house. Or at her restaurant. She’s very nice to me and has plenty of advice regarding my concerns about navigating social life. I would be honored to hear what wisdom she has to offer me.