#but WHAT are kirk and scotty and chekov doing in tng

[vulcanhello]

what do you mean kirk is in the next generation movie

[travellingtribble]

I'm in my feels thinking about how fucked up the TOS crew ended like

Kirk got stuck in the nexus from ~2293 to 2371 only to die again, for good, as soon as he got out? Come on. come on man.

Bones got old. like really old. and didn't get to see Kirk again??? It's been a while since I watched the TNG episode with McCoy, I don't remember what he says, but he was like 150 years old. Did he ever even see Kirk before he got stuck in the Nexus. Did he ever see Spock? (I'd hope so, Spock disappears years later, in Picard if I'm correct?)

Spock was... around doing Spock stuff. And then Kirk died and did Spock even know? did someone tell Spock that his literal soulmate died. twice. and then Spock got stuck in another universe, a reality slightly different from his own, where everyone is younger than him and Jim is not really Jim and he has his own Spock anyway and his planet is gone and he lived the rest of his days in the Kelvin timeline, alone.

And Scotty got stuck in a transporter buffer for 75 years. That's so long. They had to tell him Kirk was gone? (although, they were together when that happened, weren't they? they were on the Enterprise-B, technically Scotty knew that Kirk was "dead" didn't he? I guess spending 75 years stuck in a buffer mode will screw up your memory though.) Did he see Spock again? Did he see Bones again before either of them died?

Basically the only ones we didn't see explicitly (or implicitly) die or disappear of the OG crew are Uhura, Chekov and Sulu. Where were they? what were they doing? did they know about Kirk? about Scotty? about Spock?

Sorry but like. that is so fucked up. why does nobody talk about this!!!

[stra-tek]

More Roddenberry Archive musings...

This is supposedly the launch configuration of the Prime universe U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701's main bridge. It's based on the first piece of concept art for the TOS set, and is one of several weird not-quite-canon things the Roddenberry Archive has decided to consider canonical. 2 command chairs and the whole centre console and chairs spins to face the very minimalist 60's scifi perimeter consoles or viewscreen. Try to imagine Captain April and first officer Chris Pike on this bridge, it's weird.

Behold! The top of the Jeffries Tube.

FERENGI ATM MACHINE ON THE PROMENADE!!!!

The view from OG Captain Pike's bed, featuring his awesome TV, his laser gun and his Starfleet hat. We wouldn't get hats back in Trek for 50 years.

This is inside the Ringship Enterprise XCV-330, circa 2100. The Ringship in canon was seen only in picture form or a desktop model, we never saw inside. The ship was actually designed for a non-Trek Roddenberry scifi show called Starship which never came to be, and there was actually concept art made for the interior which the RA people decided to import to Trek too. Predating the transporter, here is the Metafier.

Discovery Season 2's U.S.S. Enterprise has a cool corridor running around it. Walk around it and... it goes nowhere😂 the Archive tries to balance the reality of everything being a television show with the fantasy of a 100% accurate in-universe museum, it'll give sets ceilings to make them into a believable spaceship but doesn't want to go nuts inventing too much of it's own stuff and that sometimes leads to weird stuff like this dead end

Speaking of ceilings, here's the ceiling and lights of the classic TOS Enterprise's corridors. I think they did a decent job keeping to the TOS aesthetic. The sets TOS was filmed on didn't have ceilings at all.

The Enterprise-B actually had a red carpet for special guests Kirk, Scotty and Chekov

Strange New Worlds has the coolest transporter room of all. Just look at it😍

The TNG Enterprise battle bridge has it's own ready room! And it's super tiny, ultra cramped and Picard probably never used it because there's no replicator in there and thus no access to tea.

The 1st version of TNG engineering's big Master Systems Display as seen in "Encounter at Farpoint". Ten Forward wouldn't be a thing until season 2, and you can see here an earlier deck layout and the original concept for the saucer rim, a corridor walkway with windows above and below. You'll also note Ten Forward would actually be on deck 11 had they not changed the diagram by then.

Kirk's quarters on the TOS Enterprise has dresser drawers full of uniforms for when his gets torn

Walking around the Roddenberry Archive ships is eerie as hell. You're the only one on board, exploring corridors and poking your head into rooms. These starships are liminal spaces. This for me adds to the atmosphere greatly.

Here's the link (enjoy before it vanishes again!):

Roddenberry.x.io

Here's my original post about the Roddenberry Archive:

Also a clarification, I was wrong when I said it won't be in VR. There is one VR setup it was designed for - the $3,000 Apple Vision Pro. More details here, although it appears to only show a 2D window rather than be fully immersive 3D, possibly confirming what I was told previously that no current 3D setup is capable of doing a true VR experience:

[thegeminisage]

star trek update time. earlier tonight, my eyes were cursed with star trek generations, a very very bad movie. if you don't know the big spoiler for this movie (the character death), please stop reading here. or keep reading actually i'm not your mom. fuck this movie anyway.

with the tos movies, i tried to keep notes on notepad as i watched so as to better type up a "liveblog" later. i was a bit spotty at remembering to do that this time, but i have enough to put together a reasonable write-up. here's kind of how it went

cried multiple times during this movie. first time was when kirk showed up because i knew it was the last time we were ever gonna see him. got bonus aftershock tears when i saw scotty and chekov - i was under the impression it was JUST kirk. second time, i THINK, was when he showed up again, though i just misted up a little. big boo-hooing when he mentioned spock, naturally. MORE crying when he finally bit it, though it was mostly because i was angry!!! and finally, even though i promised myself i wouldn't cry over data, i did start sobbing when he was reunited with his cat. gave myself a crying headache.

it was difficult watching kirk be on the bridge and want to be captain and he's not captain. and then crisis strikes and oh yeah he is. and really, the captainly thing to do WAS to go down to the lower decks and do whatever the fuck. needs of the many. he saved that guy's life. that would have been a fine death.

it was a little ruined by chekov going "was there somebody in there?" like to me it struck me more as funny than anything

oh, spotting guinan in the tos era made me absolutely thrilled btw. i missed her so much in s7 it was UNREAL.

OH YEAH AND. sulu's daughter. wah. ik aos sulu is gay do we think tos sulu is gay too. either way i;m very happy for him

apparently one of the guys in this is from succession. i'm choosing to blame this whole debacle on him.

switching directly to a fucking holodeck scene KILLED me. i HATE the holodeck. at first i thought they were giving worf a retirement party to send him to ds9 but they were just doing all of that for fun. deanna's outfit was hot though. also, data shoving beverly WAS FUNNY tng writers just hate autistic people

i have mixed feelings about data and the emotions chip. i was surprised they never covered it in tng proper and i think it would have been handled better there...data having the chip WAS the reason soren got away, which makes it plot-important, but it felt like a b-plot to a normal tng episode and this is supposed to be a feature film. instead it was a tng two-parter with a budget and william shatner. it was fun watching data experience emotions (happiness, terror) and struggle to control them, but there ironically wasn't enough time to really get into it, except when picard gave him the tough love speech, which i think was uncalled for. why is he so against suicide when it's data when he was out here telling worf to kill himself over an empty barrel??

titty klingon sisters. i never remember their names or their faces but i ALWAYS recognize those boob windows. at first it was really annoying because it is pretty sexist but honestly i've become very endeared. it's absolutely devastating that this movie killed them too. they were everything to me 💔

hey, sorry, side bar, were they watching geordi bathe through his visor? freaks.

also, geordi in the bondage gear while he was kidnapped. ALSO, wasn't he growing new eyes in the tng s7 finale? whatever happened with that???

stellar cartography looks better than it did in tng but it brought back memories of picard running around on poor beverly. idk what he's so worried about continuing his family line for wesley crusher IS his affair baby

hey, also, the lighting??? the "distant sunlight" atmosphere when the lights are off vs the brightly lit interior of the show? truly, the upgraded lighting was probably my favorite part of the movie. it looked SO fucking good. i really felt like we were on a spaceship.

no, wait, ACTUALLY my favorite part was data getting to say "oh, shit!" that was really good. they got one bad word for this whole movie and used it in the perfect place

no, my favorite part was the spock mention.

did not like kirk referring to picard repeatedly as the captain of the enterprise. kirk's the real captain here, bitch. picard doesn't have what it takes to die for his ship. he doesn't love his ship the way kirk loved his.

i did like the nexus reference to the tmp wife. in the novel she was named lori but she didn't show up in tmp proper much less get a name so i'm ok with them calling her the wrong name, but i just know it's the same woman. less okay with kirk's nexus dream being all about some random woman we've never met. he's in love with the IDEA of a woman to come home to, sure, but it's just lazy writing. we don't have any reason to care about this girl. at least if it had been carol ruth marcus or something we'd have SOME basis to give a shit on. the nexus was the perfect place for spock and bones! i wish they and uhura and sulu had had cameos...

i also liked him warning picard to NEVER retire/accept promotion, bc retiring wound up being so traumatizing for him. this is not really consistent but i'm making it that way in my mind palace.

also, kirk being a horse girl is FAKE. they just made him be into horses bc picard is into horses. gross. he was really good at chopping wood though lol

the scene with the kids evacuating the spaceship...WHY WOULD YOU HAVE CHILDREN ON THIS SHIP. i also worried about the pets the entire time, which is part of why i lost it when data found spot :(

it's sad that a piece of guinan was left behind in the nexus...does that happen to everyone? is a piece of kirk in there too? i really wanted to write a fix-it for this someday but they have given me so little to work with that it's hard to imagine a fixit that isn't just 80% "yeah we're ignoring that" which isn't very satisfying.

the crash was SO long. also, why was data holding troi? she's got 2 different boyfriends who could be doing that for her

since i was going into this knowing kirk died, i expected that he was gonna die because the nexus swallowed him or something. i was expecting something grand. instead it was like, tos scene, an hour and a half of very mid tng content, and then half an hour of rushed and poorly paced kirk and picard scenes. typical tng episode that it didn't get to the point until it was almost over, but jesus. i can't believe they got shatner for their movie and then barely had him in it. like, kirk at the end was a total surprise narratively (obviously everyone watching it knows bc of the opening at LEAST that he'll be back, but imagine if this guy had been some rando - it would have been so unsatisfying and weird).

see, this is the thing. the nexus actually has the potential to be incredibly compelling. the way picard's scenes were shot were very very good, if one could ignore the clothes from 1790 and the horrific portrait of himself looking like he stepped out of les mis and also how creepy his kids were and WHY WASN'T HIS WIFE BEVERLY I HATE HIM. kirk's were rushed and messy (he likes horses? his dog? none of this connects us to the character we knew in tos...), and picard's involved, well, picard. but the CONCEPT absolutely fucks, and i did love the creep factor in spite of it all. this whole movie had huge potential and instead it's a steaming pile of shit. i could have learned to live with a good kirk death but living with a bad one is gonna kill me. at least he had good last words. "oh, my" right before he dies kinda fucks tbh.

my final note is that i think sir patrick stewart got sunburnt filming some of those scenes near the end. there were a few shots where he looked quite pink. give the man some sunscreen. oh yeah also why did some people randomly wear the ds9 uniforms...what on earth

anyway, terrible movie, 0/10 stars, i'm never gonna recover. tng never disappoints in disappointing me.

NEXT TIME: back to ds9, thank god. we're doing "meridan" and "defiant."

[kazashiniwielder]

One interesting thing I have been thinking about with Star Trek vs Star Trek the Next Generation is how different the captains are. Yes, I know it’s been highlighted a lot but what I’m specificity thinking about is the Big Three.

In Star Trek it was very obvious that while the entire bridge crew was trusted and valued, Kirk relied most heavily on Spock and Bones. Kirk was adventure drunk, loved to be on every landing party he could and pretty much insisted on being on the front lines. Spock always gave very analytical and data based information while Bones was the heart of the decisions. It was a wonderful balance that worked, and Spock would regularly be in command of the ship, OR very often both Kirk and Spock would be on the landing party leaving Scotty, the third in command, in charge.

Now in TNG, we don’t have a similarly obvious ‘core three’. You got Picard and Riker, but all the episodes change who is giving input. And Picard rarely goes on landing parties, which means Riker is very rarely in command of the ship. In fact it happened so rarely to have both Picard and Riker unavailable that it came almost as a shock when Data took command as the third in charge.

I’m not saying one is inherently better than the other. With Kirk always being up in the middle of things, his people trusted him and knew they could always count on him no matter the danger. And while Spock and Bones were the most relied on, all the officers were important and trusted. Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, and Scotty were important individuals who when they spoke, people listened. On the other hand, Riker restrained Picard to the ship because he was too important to the crew to be put at risk without reasons. With the ‘third’ always shifting on the particular episode it allowed different characters to be explored more.

I guess I’m just rambling at 3 in the morning but I do like how different the crews are

[tailsrevane]

[movie review] star trek: generations (1994)

we watched this around the christmas season because it’s a much hotter christmas movie take than die hard or even batman returns. literally no one is talking about how star trek: generations is a christmas movie! justice for star trek: generations, you guys!

i like the tos movies even though they’re pretty un-star trekky, so when i was a kid i would actually oftentimes watch the beginning of this movie just because it was a nice little 15 minute tos movie, you know? it was funny, it was action-packed… i don’t know a lot about the production of this movie, but it really does feel like people who worked on the tos films worked on this opening scene and people who worked on tng worked on the rest of it? that might not be remotely true, but it’s what it feels like.

also like… the enterprise-b is just gorgeous? over the years i do think i’ve come around to the basic bitch version of the excelsior class as my preferred version of that ship, and honestly my appreciation for that class of ship in general has skyrocketed, but like idk it’s always very fanservicey as a star trek fan to get to see a new enterprise, you know? and filling in all the little gaps in the franchise’s history is just always something that’s gonna be inherently appealing.

it is weird as fuck how obvious it is that they originally wrote scotty & chekov’s parts for spock & mccoy and barely changed them, though. like, i think there were a few very small rewrites for scotty (or, hell, some of them might’ve been ad-libs by james doohan for all i know), but yeah then you have distractingly weird stuff like… dr. chekov??? taking charge of sickbay??? and just blatantly acting the way mccoy would in that situation? like, it isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine chekov jumping in and helping with that because no one else has the training or whatever, but the way he acts like it comes that naturally to him and he had bones’ personality transplanted onto him is just so weird.

lastly in the tos era prologue, it is pretty obvious that someone involved in the writing of this movie has some serious beef with journalists??? like, uh, wow? and that whole angle with the swarm of reporters with vlogger headcams just felt weird & out of place for a star trek story, though i guess props on predicting the whole headcam thing?

while i did love this part of the movie as a kid, my trek preferences have shifted emphatically in the opposite direction over the years, so that when we get the “seventy-eight years later” transition it feels to me now like the movie is finally getting started. more than that, i just wholly question the necessity of a “passing of the torch” movie, you know? i felt like the ending of star trek vi was the perfect swan song for the original cast, and kirk’s final captain’s log explicitly passes the torch to future crews of ships called enterprise (a metatextual nod to tng, which had already completed four seasons of television at that point).

i really don’t think tos’s inclusion in generations added anything to either series. i assume the thought process is that the general moviegoing audience hadn’t formed a relationship with the tng crew the way they had the tos crew, but i really question whether the tos crew was really a particularly strong box office draw by this point? my (admittedly unresearched) assumption here is that this is one of those overly cautious movie exec moves that makes them more comfortable with a movie’s marketability regardless of whether it actually fits the facts of a situation, and it just makes this movie age terribly.

i do really like generations, it’s one of my favorite star trek movies in spite of all of this, but that’s basically entirely because of the strictly tng portions of the movie. at this point i just really find myself wishing tng’s first movie had been strictly a tng movie from start to finish.

both criticisms & praise of this movie often point to the fact that the bulk of it feels like a longer, better-funded episode of tng, and like… yeah! that’s exactly what i love about it, and exactly what made it my favorite tng movie for a minute when i wanted to resist the obvious fact that first contact is the best tng movie. and like… i’m glad we got generations (even in its somewhat adulterated form), but i find myself just wishing we could’ve gotten more of these kinds of tng movies, you know?

i love the enterprise-e, i think it’s a gorgeous ship, but it was really nice seeing some real resources thrown at the enterprise-d. doing more interesting things with the lighting, etc. and like… this is silly, but at the end of the movie jonathan frakes puts his hand on the enterprise-d’s captain’s chair, and says, “i always thought i’d get a shot at this chair one day,” and holy heck we didn’t let jonathan frakes direct a movie set aboard the enterprise-d??? considering he leonard nimoys the next two tng movies, that just feels like a massive missed opportunity, but alas.

before i entirely move on from superficial details that literally no one else cares about, i know there’s a general consensus that the ds9 uniforms look kinda dumpy compared to both the tng uniforms and the upgraded tng movie uniforms (which end up being carried forward into ds9)... but i actually kinda loved seeing a lot of the tng main characters wearing ds9/voyager era uniforms? it’s probably a nostalgia factor because voyager was the first star trek series i actually watched start-to-finish as it was airing, but yeah i’ve always liked those uniforms.

and yeah, this wasn’t the most expensive movie ever or anything, and you can see a few places where they cut corners, but even seeing a fairly cheap movie compared to a tv budget… it was just pretty fucking cool, you know? and it was all just like… heightened versions of shit we already liked. like, tng already had great music, but giving that crew the resources of a movie to make more tng music gave us a fucking awesome score. we got to see new locations like guinan’s quarters and stellar cartography. we got to see ten forward be as crowded as it probably always was supposed to be.

superficial details aside, there’s plenty to love about the tng portions of this movie. as a confirmed worf stan i fucking love that the first thing we get is his badly overdue promotion to lieutenant commander, and how playful and fun that whole deal was. and everyone rushing to the bridge still in costume to answer the red alert was fucking glorious, i love that kind of shit.

and although some segments of it were more successful than others, i liked that there was room for some of the cast to split off and do their own things. deanna gets to do some good therapy shit with picard (and to a lesser extent data), geordi & data get to have their friendship tested & reaffirmed, geordi gets to end up as the damsel in distress for the fucking millionth time, riker gets to be in command during a crisis/space battle… it feels like a lot more characters get serviced in this one than in future movies.

don’t get me wrong, this isn’t perfect. it would have been nice to get more of this, and there are some rather obvious characters on the short end of the stick. like, picard and data definitely have the biggest stories to chew on in this movie, and that’s a trend that will continue throughout the rest of the movies. deanna’s story, while still a better utilization of her character than you get in many of these movies, is still ultimately there to have someone for picard to emote at. (and like… yeah, patrick stewart kicks ass at this because of course he does, but it still bears mentioning.) geordi’s role is as the subordinate character in data’s story… and then there’s dr. crusher, who has literally nothing to do other than be the butt of a joke on two occasions. woof.

like, they all have something to do, and that’s nice, and compares favorably to the other tng movies, but there’s still a pretty pronounced gap here. some of that is almost certainly attributable to the understandable difficulty curve in hammering a tv series into the shape of a movie, but the patterns of which characters get the juicy parts and which ones get the subordinate ones is… well, it’s pretty fucking telling. and before anyone comes at me like “well, it’s just the most marketable actors,” a) that’s been the excuse used to focus on cishet white guys in hollywood for literally forever, and b) you really want to look me in the eye and tell me that levar burton isn’t at least as good of an actor as anyone else in the cast? if you can’t market him, that’s on you.

i mean, hell, this movie brought back (and killed) the duras sisters, and they weren’t even the big bads of the movie! they were subordinated to a one-off appearance by malcolm mcdowell! and while it was undeniably cool seeing him chew up scenery across from patrick stewart, we aren’t just subordinating our own black & women characters to our own white guy characters, we’re importing whole new white guys to subordinate them to!

still, though… this kind of movie with its greater faithfulness to the series that came before clearly allowed for more space for little individual stories to happen, and it only makes me wish even more fervently that we had gotten more tng movies with this same rough format. maybe then we would’ve seen juicier parts for these characters. or maybe not. because, again, while there were definitely pressures pushing the creative team towards making this the picard & data show going forward, in the end those pressures are going to push you towards the things you value the most anyway, right? it’s probable that the shape i wish these movies had taken wouldn’t have ever really been able to happen without some pretty massive changes in both the movie industry and the priorities of the people making them, so it’s all well and good for me to point out their shortcomings, but at the end of the day i can only be so hard on them considering i do genuinely like these movies for all their shortcomings.

a-rank

[diesoonandsuffer]

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i present one of my favorite moments from the original series, the two what i call “improv scenes” from i, mudd. subtitles included, description in rb’s. enjoy!

(sorry for the lag in the beginning, it goes away but paramount+ is a bitch)

[gender-snatched]

Hey so I want you to tell me every single thing I could possibly want to know about Star Trek

OK YEAH. under cut because. well. you know me.

So, in the 60s, Gene Roddenberry started a sci-fi series. This was Star Trek. It's about a starship named the USS Enterprise, which is part of Starfleet. Starfleet is the exploration branch of the Federation of Planets, which is basically the UN of the galaxy. The USS Enterprise is, at the time of the show, captained by James T Kirk, although it was previously captained by Christopher Pike. Kirk is an extremely traumatized nerd who is doing what he really wants to do. His First Officer (and Science Officer) is Mr. Spock, the only alien on the ship. Spock is (half) Vulcan, a species that values "logic" above all, yadda yadda. His Chief Medical Officer is his bestie, Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

He also has: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Communications Officer), Lt. Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (Chief Engineer), Lt Hikaru Sulu (Navigator), Nurse Christine Chapel (Nurse), Ensign Pavel Chekov (pilot [?]), and Yeoman Janice Rand (Yeoman)

All these characters are MASSIVELY important for the time. Uhura was a black woman in a major position on the ship; Chapel, Uhura, and Rand were all strong women; Chekov was Russian during the Cold War; Spock was a metaphor for xenophobia and was also Jewish; Sulu was Asian in a time where anti-Asian racism was super high (and his actor, George Takei was Japanese and was raised in internment camps).

Importantly, Star Trek was so so amazing for a show from the sixties. It had one of the first interracial kisses on TV, and had multiple episodes with all sorts of metaphors. Yes, it had problems (misogyny and a fair bit of racism), but for the sixties? It was so incredible.

And the second season started with the episode "Amok Time", which was written by a queer man and focuses on the idea of Spock going into heat and going to die if he doesn't fuck. Somehow, writhing in the sand with Kirk cures this.

And that's the start of slash culture! Almost all slash culture is the fault of either Star Trek or X Files.

So Star Trek: The Original Series got 3 seasons and became a cult classic. And then in the 80s (?) it got the movies. The Motion Picture (bad, but tolerable), Wrath of Khan (pretty damn good), Search for Spock (bad and questionable), Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales and fucking AWESOME), and then two others I didn't care about whatsoever.

And then, after the movies, The Next Generation came out. It takes place a bit later, with better cameras and effects. The spaceship is smoother, and it's also incredible. Its cast includes: Captain Jean Luc Picard, First Officer William Riker, Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher, Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, Lt Cmr Data (what is his role I can't remember), Security Officer Tash Yar, Worf (also can't remember his role), Dr. Pulaski (I don't like her), Guinan (bartender), and Wesley Crusher.

Terrible confession, but I only finished TOS. I still know TNG pretty well tho.

After TNG we got: Deep Space Nine (my BELOVED), Voyager (wish I had watched more), Enterprise (good if you ignore the misogyny), and then all the nuTrek I haven't been paying attention to because I can't watch it.

Deep Space Nine is the other one I never finished but know, and it focuses on a space station near the planet Bajor. Bajor just threw off the rule of Cardassia, an empire. The Federation, with questionable motives, is helping them rebuild. They send a captain there, and then a wormhole opens, making the space station super super important. Then a war happens but I didn't reach that.

It focuses on Captain Sisko, his son Jake, his first officer Major Kira Nerys, his CMO Julian Bashir, his science officer Jadzia Dax (trangender worm), his engineer Miles O'Brien, a cop Odo, a bartender Quark, a "simple tailor" (actually an exiled Cardassian spy) Garak, and later, Worf.

It's really good, because while TNG pulls a full utopia, DS9 contradicts it and also has just amazing characters. Shame I didn't finish it before Netflix lost it. It also has the first CANONICALLY bisexual character in Star Trek.

There's a LOT of Trek, and I can probably give vague overviews about all of them and also answer any and all questions about it. Please. Please have questions.

[yel-ashaya]

Fic Masterlist

I thought this was a long time coming so here it is: a list of my Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who fics (on ff.net and AO3).

I’ll obvs say whether they’re completed or not so don’t you worry about that... because I know you will. Links to stories are in the titles. Enjoy! And now I need to let my hands rest after typing all of this up! :D

Star Trek: TOS

1. The First Soong-type Android: Kirk, Spock, McCoy (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

2. Stuck: Kirk/Spock (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

3. A Child of Two Worlds: Spock, Sarek, Amanda Grayson (ff.net) COMPLETED

4. Brawery Was Inwented in Russia: Chekov, Kirk, Spock, Scotty (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

5. Kirk and Spock Spells ‘Spirk’ : Kirk/Spock(ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

6. A Tribble Christmas: Uhura, Kirk, Spock (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

Star Trek: TNG

1. Collision Course: Picard, Beverly Crusher, Wesley, Data, Geordi (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

2. A Wedding on Betazed: Deanna, Riker, Picard, Data (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

3. Hiccup: Data, Geordi, Worf, Riker (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

4. The Seers: Picard, Wesley, Data (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

5. Star-Crossed: Data/OFC, Lore/OFC, Picard, Riker, Deanna (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

6. Will You Be My Valentine?: Data/OFC, Geordi (ff.net and AO3) MAY CONTINUE

7. The Setlik III Massacre: O’Brien (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

8. An Allied Enemy: Sito Jaxa/OMC, Picard, Riker, Jadson, Kira, Sisko, Bashir, Odo (ff.net and AO3) MAY DO A SEQUEL

9. Q’s Day Out: Q/OFC, Picard (ff.net and AO3) MAY CONTINUE

10. Private Conflict (All’s Fair in Love and War #1): Data/OFC, OFC/ OMC, Picard, Beverly Crusher (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

11. Conflict of Interest (All’s Fair in Love and War #2): Data, OFC/ OMC, Picard, Beverly Crusher, OMC/ OMC (ff.net and AO3) MAY ADD THIRD INSTALLMENT

12. Family Ties: Data/OFC, Lal, Geordi, Riker, Deanna (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

13. Conspiracy Theory: Data, OFC/ OMC, OMC/ OMC (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

14. An Illogical Night: OFC/ OMC (ff.net and AO3) WIP

15. An Unlikely Friendship: Geordi, Bochra, Tomalak, Geordi, Worf (ff.net and AO3) MAY CONTINUE

Star Trek: DS9

1. Ice Cream: Dukat, Damar (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

2. We Didn’t?: Weyoun/OFC, Damar (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

3. Tailoring a Vorta: Weyoun/OFC, Damar, Garak (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

4. The Misadventures of Gul Dukat: Damar, Weyoun, Dukat (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

5. An Awkward Conversation: Damar/OFC, Weyoun/OFC (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

6. Weyoun’s Thinking Time: Weyoun (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

7. Movie Night: Weyoun, Damar, Thot Gor, Female Founder (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

8. Corat Damar: Lives Lost: Damar/OFC, Dukat/OFC, Weyoun, Kira, Bashir, Garak (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

9. A Dance at Vic’s: Dukat/OFC, Damar, Weyoun, Kira/Odo, Jadzia/Worf, Garak, Bashir, Jake, Nog, Vic Fontaine (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

10. Damar’s Thinking Time: Damar, Weyoun (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

11. What Friends Are For: Bashir and Garak (ff.net and AO3) WIP

12. The Gift: Weyoun/OFC, Damar, Quark (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

13. Wonderland: Damar/OFC, Dukat, Odo (ff.net and AO3) WIP

14. Corina: Damar/OFC, Dukat/OFC (ff.net and AO3) WIP

15. In the Dark: Damar/OFC (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

Star Trek: AOS

1. After the Enterprise: Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Sulu, Scotty, Chekov, Uhura (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

2. Reunion: Kirk, Spock, McCoy (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

1. Your Fate is Not Your Own: Maul/OFC, Savage/OFC, Rex and Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Cody, Aayla Secura, Plo Koon, Padme/Anakin (ff.net and AO3) WIP

2. Jagged: Savage/OFC (ff.net and AO3) MAY CONTINUE

Star Wars: Rogue One

1. Quiet: Krennic/ OFC, Kallus, Garazeb Orrelios, Thrawn, Eli Vanto, Tarkin (ff.net and AO3) WIP

Doctor Who (1963)

1. Three Words: Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

Doctor Who (2005)

1. The Footman and the Gentleman: Roger Curbishley/Davenport, Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Agatha Christie, Ada Mullins (ff.net and AO3) COMPLETED

[scientific-tricorder]

Okay, okay, so TrekViz is super cool on its own, but what's even cooler? All the data is available as .csv files. Which means that it's easy to mess around with it and hunt for specific things and fun things like that. In particular, I noticed that it's really hard to tell a character's most common interactions if they don't have many interactions on the site, so a while later with some spreadsheets, and I have these. Since it's based on the data from TrekViz, the characters included are just whatever characters were included in that data, and total interactions only count from those with other characters in the data set. I didn't do the movies (at least not yet), even though that data's also there.

Actual stuff below cut because, as usual, data analysis across the series really adds up.

Starting with Enterprise, because it's the only one with no major character changes so was the simplest to start messing around with. It works that of all the interactions the character on the column had, __% was with the character on the column. So, of all the interactions Archer had, 31% were with T'Pol. And we can see that 47% of T'Pol's interactions with Archer.

Unsurprisingly, almost everyone interacts mostly with Archer, with the only exceptions being Archer himself, and Malik from the Augment arc, who instead spent most of his time talking with Soong. Archer's main interaction was Tucker, and Tucker and T'Pol had significant interactions with each other. No surprises there. A noticeable interaction gap among the main cast is Travis and Phlox, who are each each other's least interacted with main cast member (aside from self).

Next is TOS, which I made three charts for, to show the main character change of Chekov, who came in in the second season A few minor characters also appear/disappear.

Season 1:

Seasons 2 and 3:

And overall:

Once again, our captain is getting the majority of interactions, with the only exceptions being Chapel (who talks mostly to McCoy), Commander (I believe the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident", who talks to Spock), and Kirk himself (who talks to Spock mostly), none of which are surprising. Overall interactions with each other, by and large line up quite well with prominence of the respective characters (Kirk>Spock>McCoy>Scotty>etc.). One noticeable gap is apparently Sulu and Chapel never interacted.

I did also do season breakdowns to represent cast changes for TNG, but then got lazy and discontinued for DS9 and VOY and it adds up and this is already so long, so just an overall for TNG:

Once again, captain's the main interaction for pretty much everyone, and is his own exception (his most common interaction is Data). The other exceptions are all secondary characters except for one: Alexander (his main interaction is Worf), Barclay (who mostly talks to La Forge), K'Ehleyr (also mostly interacts with Worf), Lwaxana (who spends most of her time bugging Troi), and, the one main cast member, La Forge (who mostly interacts with Data). La Forge is, in turn, Data's main interaction after Picard. By and large, Picard, Riker, and Data dominate the main characters' time, and then it's just kinda consistent low numbers after that.

Then we get DS9 overall:

Sisko, as captain, is still the most common interaction for the majority of characters, but has a much less dominating presence compared to the other series. Major interaction spikes, more or less in order of significance, include Keiko and O'Brien, Zek and Quark, Rom and Quark, Martok and Worf, Jake and Sisko, Nog and Jake, and Damar and Weyoun. Unsurprising common interactions between main cast members (excusing any with Sisko since he is almost always the most or second most common interaction for them all) include Bashir and O'Brien, Worf and both of the Daxes, and Odo with Kira and Quark.

And to finish off, Voyager:

Once again, captain dominates interactions. There's really not too much that's so surprising. There's a greater percentage of secondary characters that only show up occasionally to interact with a few characters, and Shannon O'Donnell from "11:59" who never interacted with any other characters. The main cast exceptions to Janeway being the main interaction are Janeway herself (who spent of her interactions with Chakotay), Kes (who mostly talked to the EMH), Paris (who just barely spent more of his time talking to Torres), and Torres (who interacted mostly with Paris).

I'm absolutely going to be doing more digging around with this and seeing what pops up, and probably do some series by series (if not character by character) analysis.

[birds-are-better-than-you]

Watching AOS Star Trek for the First time, a live stream of consciousness poem by me

Okay wow just opening right on death 

Did I accidentally click on Talladega Nights instead? 

BABY SPOCK BABY SPOCK BABY SPOCK

holy shit Winona Ryder wassup gurl 

Uhura is Uhurhot 

this is not the Kirk I know but I’m not mad about it 

Bones continues to be iconic 

I love this Spock, he’s so cute, he’s like soft Spock his nose is kinda distracting cause it makes him a cutie 

Sulu said y’all gunna respect me 

HOLY FUCK CHEKOV IS SO CUTE I HAD HEARD HE WAS BUT SHIT THESE ADORABLE READINGS ARE OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS 

Him struggling with the word vector, his little mouth trembling oh my god my heart 

Mickey Mouse hands 

why would he wait 20 something years to enact revenge when he could have I don’t know done something about his planet 

I want a Romeo and Juliet story about a Romulan and a human, they can’t all be evil, right? 

Uhura said I’m the best and smartest bitch around and y’all gonna know it 

Drama thhhheeeen commercial darn my broke ass they always come in the middle of action I just got a Hulu commercial on amazon wtf? Fuck capitalism 

kinda bummed they didn’t include any of the original music 

If I ever have kid I will raise them to have the manners of Spock, homeboy like please, thank you, pardon me 

Like I’m THRILLED that Chekov is here (he’s my favorite, Russians represent!!!!!!) but like oh my god this is too much trauma for one (1) baby boy 

I wonder if there is any super nerd out there with romulan face tattoos 

(the tiniest aye keptin) 

COMBAT TRAINED IN FENCING IM SCREAMING 

We lost our first red shirt boys, a moment of silence please 

Oh my god Chekov says Kirk like cork that’s the sweetest thing he said I'm cute and everybody’s gonna know it 

welcome to Starfleet bitch we got phasers AND swords 

ms Keisha?! Ms Keisha!?!?!

SPOCK MY BABY NOOOOOOO COME HERE OH GOD MY LOVE MY ELDEST SON 

damn ya kill urself or get killed whatcha gonna do oh you gonna do that okay 

I CAN DO ZAT 

FUCK 6 BILLION FUCK 

ew wait they kept the tiny skirts ew stop please I beg you put your women in practical uniforms I get 2009 was in the dark ages believe me I was there but please get her some pants 

wait ew stop kissing what the fuck stop ew Star Trek isn’t for hetero romance especially Spock ew no stop gross stop ew 

IM A DOCTOR NOT A ______  classic 

I’m done with the sun flares, I’ve had enough. Plus my glasses are smudged its just making it worse 

They put him in a fucking bubble NO ONE PUTS BABY IN A CORNER! didja get the dirty dancing reference??? did ya get it? didya get it? 

oh god vagina dinosaurs 

LEONORD FUCKING NIMOY?!?!? 

SCOTTY SCOTTY SCOTTY I MISSED YOU SCOTTY

I don’t know who scotty’s lil’ pal is, but I love him 

hE’s In tHE pIpES whERe hE gOin? 

Damn Zach Quinto is a good actor 

sewenteen 

god stop with the romance ugh 

ya know how when you watch tos or tng and you chuckle at the old tech? I hope people do that for this movie in 40 years 

FASCINATING 

JJ Abrams certainly has a style, doesn’t he? 

not one rip in his shirt, I mean honestly, have we forgotten our roots? 

Red matter is the forbidden juice 

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN YALL 

That was a 2 hr movie that went so fast and it really all could have been avoided with some therapy 

[thealmightyemprex]

Star Trektrospective:Star Trek Generations

So before I get into the movie,I have to get this out of the way .I think Star Trek The Next Generation is .....Fine .I mean its a good show with great episodes and Data is one of Treks best characters ....However its not a show I would call a favorite.Like it ,dont love it.

As for this movie.....It got good elements ......But I REALLLY dont like it .Its like the film is is 30 % and 70 % ungood

Plot : Dr Soren (Malcolm Mcdowell ) wants to blow up a star so he can enter something called the Nexus....Oh and umm Picards(Patrick Stewart ) family is dead....Oh and um Data (Brent Spiner) has an emotion chip which makes him act goofy ....Oh and Kirk(William Shatner) is here too-

So the plot is my big problem -ITS JUST STUFF !!! STUFF JUST ?HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE !!! JUST A RANDOM ASSORTMENT OF SCENES !!! Theres a thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin linking of the theme of mortality and time that connects Kirk,Soren and Picard butits not built up enough .WE have these ideas but nothing is holding them .Its paced very badly ,not a good sign when the climax feels like it just happened and the film still has 40 minutes.And oh the movie is damn boring-

OK OK I dont wanna be mean to the film there is stuff I like.The film looks really good ,with nice cinematagrophy and lighting ,especially compared to how flat the show looks . The effects are great ,nice micxtures of Minutures and CG

However like the previous film we have cost cutting,and unlike that film its not hidden well,most notably they werent sure how the TV uniforms would look on the big screen....But they couldnt afford to make new ones , so they just used the costumes from DS9......Except for when they dont and they use the TNG costumes anyway

Lets get into the cast.Not many new characters in this film .Jacqueline Kim who plays Sulus daughter,and she really doesnt do anything due to only being in the prologue ,though she does a good job .Alan Ruck ,also only appearing in the prologue ,as Captain Herriman ,an ineffectual Starship captain ,and Ruck plays the role well

Then we have our main villain Soren played by the great Malcolm McDowell ,who is such a AWFULLY written villain, AND YET ,I do love watching him .What doesnt work about him is he is poorly written .See his whole motivation is his family was killed by the Borg so he want to escape reality by flying into the Nexus,fine motivation.....Excepthis justificataion for killing people to get to that goal is weird.....OK so he starts by saying he is afaraind of time and death .....But the next moment he will say Death is innevitable,so it really doesnt matter if people dies.....But he wants to see his family again so their deaths clearlky still matter to him .Pick a lane dude .....However.....He is a hoot to watch ,all due to the amazing performance of Malcolm Mcdowell ,he is really creepy and slimey ,and he becomes hilarious whrn you realize....He has no connection to the main characters other then Guinan is like "Oh yeah that dude is kind of crazy".Think about it our previous villains were a man who had a vendetta against Kirk,a Klingon terrified of the power of Genesis , Spocks brother ,and a Klingon warrior who resisted an age of peace while Soren....Is just some asshole

So we get the returns of James Doohan as Scotty and Walter Koenig as Chekov ....In roles clearly intended for Spock and Bones but thier actors said no .Also Scotty is being REALLY passive aggresive to Kirk and apparently at this point Doohan and Shatner didnt like each other so thats uncomfortable to watch.I did like a Chekov moment where he and Kirk joke about his age ,showing how much Chekov has grown from being the "Kid" of the group back in the original series .Barbra Marsh and Gwyneth Walsh play the Duras Sisters ,Klingon villains from The Next Generation and ,while I think the actresses do a good job .....I have never liked the Duras Sisters and of the recurring villains of TNG they are the most dull to me(Personally I would have preferred to see Sela ,the crews main Romulan adversary from the show ,but apparently the studio demanded there be Klingons ) and sadly they are basically glorified henchmen in the film anyway .Whoopie Goldberg has a pretty big role as fan favorite character Guinan ,mostly delivering exposition ,but I always liked Guinan so I dont mind

We also have the return of William Shatner as Captain Kirk,and without getting into spoilers .....I like him in this movie .If I have a complaint is he is only in the begining and end ,but its cool to see him team up with Picard,and while I get fans who dont like his final fate.....I think his ending works,with one last bold but effective choice by Shatner

As for the main crew.....Well other then Data and Picard....NO ONE DOES ANYTHING .OK GEordie gets some stuff ,but mostly just him being tortured ,which is unpleasent and Troi comfotrts Picard ,while everyone else just stands around .I mean granted I am not a fan of Dr Crusher ,Troi,or Riker but Gates McFadden,Mirina Sirtis and Johnathan Frakes are talented performers and all had moments in TNG where I liked them and here they have noting to do

Data,my favorite TNG character ,has a subplot where he gets emotions.....Which fluxuiates from being funny (I love him happily proclaiming "I hate this,it is revolting " and his little song about the "Tiny little lifeforms " ) to friggin annoying (Mr Tricorder,the laughing .....Also I know I am in the minority but Data going "Ohhhhhh shiiiiiit" doesnt work for me _) and really it just doesnt connect to much

Patrick Stewart is great as Picard,he might be the best part of the film . I think the scene where he mourns his family is heartbreaking ,I like his scenes with Soren and Kirk ,he's just really great in this film .His subplot is good

So lets talk about the Nexxus.....Cause I dont think it works . Its this thing where time has no meaning and all your desires come true and its just oo vague on how it works ,It feels like Sorens ways of getting into it feel too extreme,and also (Spoiler) there is the often said thing of near the end of the movie when Picard is in it and is given the oppurtunity to go back at any point to stop Soren ......It feels like he chooses a dumb point ....Also why doesnt Picard just go back and save his family before stopping Soren ? The movies offers no explination ....At least use it to kill Hitler or something

Overall....I get if other people like it and thats awesome .....I just dont

@metropolitan-mutant-of-ark

[thegeminisage]

THE VOYAGE HOME breakdown

i liveblogged this on the notes app on my phone bc i could not be bothered w tumblr while i watched it. 10/10 movie i love spock's little bandana

first scene was really rough bc they made us watch the enterpise blow up again. i did NOT like reliving that. she's a beautiful woman and i loved her

kirk being in trouble was so funny. like hes been in trouble in tos before but not THAT kind of trouble

did gasp aloud when they said vulcan exile. kirk spock and bones were on VULCAN EXILE for THREE MONTHS and you're telling me they didn't fuck. impossible. i have so much fanfiction to read

gasped when i saw spock far away on that cliff too. i went from watching the movie to doing whatever it is i do when i see spock on my screen. i was so instantly invested like 100x more than i had been previously. cathy made fun of me for calling it the spock movie but lo: there was spock

thrilled to see his mom again even though she fucking sucks. i thought she had died or something since she wasn't in search for spock lol he doesn't need that!!

me when they mentioned yorktown: omg another aos reference

i knew this movie was about whales but not in what capacity. so when the probe showed up we went back and forth for a really long time on whether this was The Whale. we were very impressed with its little laser

uhura remains the most beautiful woman to ever live. she gets hotter in every film idk how she does that

i liked when kirk gave bones a direct order to like "stay here" or whatever and he said with his mouth "no way" and followed him out anyway. fucking hilarious there's no use trying to hide behind rank anymore captain. their relationships have evolved so wonderfully <3

the time travel cgi was wack. idk what they were doing but it made me uncomfortable

"we can get back but only with NUCLEAR POWER" it's just like back to the future fr

spock's bandana.

i knew he wore it in this film because i have seen fanart and a couple of gifs but it was even better to see it in person as it were

spock was great in this film. unclear how much of his personal memories he had back, i would like to assume most of them? but back at factory settings nonetheless. i liked getting to watch jim and bones teach him to be "human" all over again, even down to jim asking to be CALLED jim, instead of by his title. i have a feeling we're gonna get a lot of that with data in tng and knowing i will love data is all that makes it possible for me to part from spock. spock failing at swearing, being bad at lying, being bad at loving italian - bones said he wasn't firing on all thrusters and he was right, but he's still competent enough to get them back to their own year. i also really liked him knocking out the dude with the radio lol. AND THEN EVERYONE CLAPPED which would have been ridiculous for anyone but spock.

whaling videos sad. i do love that this movie was pro-whale propaganda...i feel like we got a lot of that in the late 80s/early 90s, so maybe whales really WERE gonna go extinct and we saved them thru the power of cheesy movies. one likes to dream

kirk is losing his touch as a honeypot. he so throughly failed to seduce this biologist it's embarrassing. she only cares about whales, dude.

scotty hunting and pecking on the keyboard at the speed of light is me fr. i never learned to touch type and now i have a role model. i mean you can't expect HIM to touch type he's missing a fucking finger

giving the molecule to those guys early is ALSO an aos reference. this is where spock got the idea in the 2009 movie i bet :(

chekov being russian when he got caught is both more hilarious and more distressing, like. considering.

"he is a man of deep feelings" on vulcan this counts as a slur

extremely skeptical of them taking the whale biologist until she pointed out that if whales were extinct there would be no whale biologists in the future and so they needed her. fair point, movie

i feel like movies just never have real water anymore. is that just me? 90s movies had water all the time and these days you never see any real water. shit's expensive. they just cgi it.

THEIR SWIM PARTY CELEBRATIONNNN it was so good. jim dunking people in the water but also william shatner would have drowned in leonard nimoy wasn't holding him up lol that shit looked choppy as hell

i recognized their outfits at the trial all together like that from the photo in aos...made me sad

GIVING JIM THE CAPTAINCY BACK...god FINALLY. the sheer hell he goes through as a retired man...let him work...

i wasn't gonna cry during this movie but when spock said i feel fine i did in fact: cry. HE FEELS FINE.

AND FINALLY. ENTERPRISE BEING BACK. perfect touch to a perfect movie

tonight we start tng (we're going in release order) and i am sooo nervous to leave them but at least we have two more tos movies left so it'll be a gradual transition...ik im gonna like tng but i don't think i'll ever love any star trek character more than i love spock. hes everything to me!!!

[ichayalovesyou]

The Undiscovered Country (Live Reaction)

CAPTAIN SULU OF THE EXCELSIOR CAPTAIN SULU OF THE EXCELSIOR CAPTAIN SULU OF THE EXCELSIOR EVERYONE STFU HE DESERVED HIS OWM GODDAMN SHOWWWWW!!!! “Should we report this?” “Are you kidding??” I love him so muchhh

Oh this one is gonna be about racism isn’t it? Yup. I know people judge Kirk for his prejudice against the Klingons in this movie, and I wanna clarify that it’s still not okay, but I just... look back on all of his experiences with Klingons, and he became less and less chill with them as they kept doing stuff to him and his crew, torturing Spock, Sherman’s planet, torturing Chekov, the ugly decisions in A Private Little War then on top of that they killed a son he never got the chance to connect with because his ex never allowed him custody. They almost cost him the chance to bring Spock back on top of that too. I’m not saying it’s not right, and whether it’s justified is subjective, but I also know he learns his lesson in this film. It makes me think of Katara’s arc in S3 of ATLA, how much she hated (understandably) Zuko and the Fire Nation, how she almost killed the man who killed her mother, but then didn’t. If we can love her still with that character growth, I see no reason to suddenly hate Jim.

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom Valeris” god I love Spock, he’s grown so much ☺️ also maaaaan everyone is old now lol, wait?! Where’s Bones?! Oh there he is! Oh wow I can smell the traitor on Valeris she is acting extremely shady! Oh hey it’s General Chang!! I’ve heard of this guy!! Apoliticality hall of fame up in here huh ST? Damn. Klingons love them some Shakespeare lol. Nice Scotty! Ohhhh Chang that was a loaded question, oof thanks for saving your grumpy husband. Ooooh man I love dinner scenes like these, the tension, the delicate conversation, the unspoken words ugh hell yeah. Oof!

Chancellor made a DAMN good point there! Calling Kirk out on his shit before they left! Yessssssss!! Lol everyone is hung FUCK WHAT JUST HAPPENED??? OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!!! That Zero G effect is cool as fuck! Oh no oh no oh no oh no the war is being staged oh god oh no oh shit oh shit ohhhhhh no!! Ohhhhhhhhhh shittttt this is B A D. Ok so Klingon blood is pink? Huh.

Even with Jim’s prejudice he still values this peace than he does his feelings and that is a Captain Kirk ass thing to do. Bones being fucking AWESOME! Ohhhh nooooo, I liked Gorkon 😔 “Don’t let it end this way Captain.” Wowwww that was cool ass last words. “I sympathize Mr. Scott” growth 🌿 oh hey Sarek is back! Federation has an alien president now? Neat! Also I freaking LOVE Gorkon’s daughter, I am also growing progressively more confused by their kinda over exaggerated behavior in future TV shows? (I imagine they probably had a fanatical ideological takeover, kinda like the Vulcans and Surak but... violent.)

The defense attorney sounds like Michael Dorn??? I know it’s not him but still? OH MY GOD IT IS???? Cool! His name is also Worf? Weird. Awww Bones he’s GOTTA stop making me cry like this I can’t even do this oh man he’s breaking my hearrrrrt. Oh wow they really just listing everything “bad” Jim has ever done huh? Damn. CAPTAIN SULU IS BACK oh and he’s gone again damn. Ooooof penal colony punishment yiiiiikes, seems the Klingons have as outdated a prison system as we do now 😬 oh so Spock is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Neat. Oh Spock don’t trust Valeris, I know you don’t know better yet but still 😬😬😬

Ooof this whole person thing is super interesting?? Who is this WOMAN whose informing them McCoy & Jim, I love her! I love this political intrigue murder mystery stuff!! Those Wargs look AMAZING wow, loving seeing TOS crew with a budget love it! “Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place Captain.” OH MY GOD 😂😂😂 oh it’s McKirk hours boys, and awww even in a Klingon prison Jim’s prejudice is decaying. McCoy is DUDE WHAT IS WITH YOU?? And I agree, even as an old man Jim is a lil’ bit it a slut. WAIT CHRISTIAN SLATER???? That was a weird cameo. Even after he made out with that lady he was like “damn, what is wrong with me??” Lol

WAIT IS MATIRA A CHANGELING?? That transformation was VERY gooey?? I mean I know there are a bunch of shapeshifter races but still???? Hey watch McCoy is gonna give out from the cold first cuz he’s a southern damsel just you wait. Aaaaaand it took 5 minutes! 😂 he’s immune to dinosaurs but vulnerable to cold. Bullshit Uhura doesn’t know Klingon??? What was that?!?! Oh she’s not a Changeling. TWO KIRKS AGAIN???? How many times is this now, four? 😂😂

Now they’re close enough to kiss lmfao KISS DAMNIT! Aw. Uh oh. I have never, NEVER seen Spock this posed off ohhhh my god. OH MY GOD HE JUST SMACKED THAT SHIT OUT OF HER HAND. Ooof I need to sit down (I say sitting down) way to frickin kick Jim right in his soul with his own words damn Valeris... wow this is so GOOD, fuck. Oh man, the amount of personal strength, feelings of hatred and betrayal, and circumstance it takes for Spock to FORCIBLY meld with someone when we all know how he feels about consent 😨 this is like, the only ONLY situation I can imagine him, in character, EVER doing this to anyone. Wow... wow. Oh my god. OH MY GOD. Ohhhhhh wow, that’s gonna haunt Spock for the rest of his life... fuck.

SULU IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAYYYYYYY WE LOVE HIM!!! Awwww look at these too poor idiots regretting their moral transgressions :( they’re so married. Over here examining prejudices and stuff, I need to study this screenplay oh my goddddd. This is so GOOD oh my god. Kittomer Accord hours!! Here we go! Oh MAN Chang is a cool ass villain!! Here we gooooooooo!!! EXCELSIOR IS HERE TO HELP!! Aw Spones out here flirting before they go save peace in their time, love that! This battle tastes like a beautiful marriage between Balance of Terror and Conscience of A King 😍 YEAH SCOTTY!!! And thus, Kirk completes his character growth. Lol and then everyone claaaaaaped.

Man, Sulu and the Excelsior really deserved their own his Star Trek show, something I hope they will someday remedy! Awwww that little love letter to TNG and all future Treks at the end heck yeh ☺️

[shranstan]

Percentage of aliens vs humans in main cast of live-action Star Trek shows

Based on my own judgements + Wikipedia lists of casts. 

TOS: - 6 humans: Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, Sulu - 1 alien: Spock Spock is technically 0.5 human however he doesn’t look like a human so I’m not giving him any human points TOS total: 1/7 = 14.3% aliens

TNG: - 5 humans: Picard, Riker, Geordi, Beverly, Wesley - 3 aliens/non humans: Guinan, Worf, Data I’m giving Deanna 0.5 human and 0.5 alien - she does look like a normal human but she also has alien abilities. I’m also giving Lwaxana and Q 0.5 appearance points for being reccuring characters in multiple seasons. TNG total: 4/9.5 = 42.1% aliens

DS9: - 6 humans: Sisko, Jake, Julian, Miles, Keiko, Kassidy - 11 aliens: Odo, Quark, Nog, Rom, Dax (I’m counting all Daxes as 1 being), Kira, Worf, Garak, Dukat, Weyoun (also counting all Weyouns as 1), Leeta Characters I’m giving 0.5 appearance points to: Damar, Molly, Morn, Eddington, Martok, Ziyal DS9 total: 13/20 = 65% aliens!!!!

VOY: - 4 humans: Janeway, Chakotay, Tom, Harry - 4 aliens/non humans: Neelix, Tuvok, B’Elanna, Kes Seven of Nine and the Doctor both get 0.5 human and 0.5 alien/non human points on account of their ‘base’ being human, but they obviously aren’t quite human. VOY total: 5/10 = 50% aliens

ENT: - 5 humans: Archer, Hoshi, Trip, Travis, Malcolm - 2 aliens: T’Pol, Phlox I’m willing to give Soval and Shran 0.5 appearance points each because they’re reccuring characters in multiple seasons ENT total: 3/8 = 37.5% aliens Discovery: - 8 humans: Burnham, Tilly, Stamets, Culber, Georgiou, Detmer, Owosekun, Reno - 2 aliens: Saru, Book I’m okay with giving Adira and Gray 0.5 appearance points each (Adira human, Gray alien) Discovery total: 2.5/11 = 22.7% aliens Picard only has 1 season so far so I don’t think it’s enough of a sample. In conclusion: Part of what I personally find disappointing about Discovery (and what I love about DS9!!) is the ammount of aliens in the main cast. I want to see a clash of cultures! I wanna learn about new species/dive deeper into ones we know and love! This is why Saru is my favourite Discovery character. I’m hoping Book will keep on having development! 

I do not like the Adira-has-a-symbiont plot, because it places a human as the catalyst for a different culture. Why couldn’t they be some other humanoid species. Bajoran? Vulcan? Betazoid? I’m listing these two because they do not require extensive makeup like say, a Cardassian does.  I’m really hoping s4 will give us more alien regular cast members. I was rooting for Rys to become one, alas.. With the s4 trailer showcasing many once-again-federation species, I will go feral if we do not get any aliens!!

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When I was fifteen years old, I found out about Star Trek: The Original Series. Back then, Star Trek as I knew was only The Next Generation, and I was apathetic about that. I found out through simple curioaity, but I had nothing to better to do so I looked into it. It sounded kind of interesting, so I found the show on Hulu and decided to give it a shot. I quit midway through the third episode. I saw it as old, cheesy looking, and dumb. Why waste my time on something old? Over the years, the more I got involved in online fandom culture, the more I would see it pop up. The more I would ehar about how having PoC inr egular roles was revolutionary just because it showed that they existed. How the show enrained so many science fiction tropes and ideals into modern Americn media in the vein as Dotor Who has in Britian. Heck a review show I used to watch went over the comic adptations of the films, and came off as so passionate about the franchise that I remembered my previous stance. Remembered how I threw it aside as a relic of the past, despite me even thn seeing the value as I valued classical animaiton and children’s media very highly.

IDK what provoked it, but in January of this year, I decided to watch the entirety of Star Trek. Maybe it was quarentine rentine making me snap. Maybe it was me giving in at last to those urges that had been prodding at me for years. Regardless, I made the choice, and it only made sense to begin with the one that started it all. I am now 28 years old. I have grown far more patient and respectful with the things that came before my time. Media holds a great deal of value and whether I understood it or not, Star Trek was vital to popular media. I was ready to give it a second chance. I expected to go in with a greater appreciation, but otherwise not have many strong feelings abou it. I got through those three episodes again with my feelings better than before, but not too different. But I was determined to keep going. So for two months, I watched episode after episode and this weekend I ended it with the original films. Now here we all at the end of the journey. How do I feel?

I felt very regretful for throwing it aside the way that I did.

I greatly enjoyed TOS. Far more than I had ever expected. It is very much a product of the 60’s. There was a limited budget and it showed, though they made the most of it. There were many ridiculous plots, rampant sexism, and hammy acting that is utterly laughable. Some days I could go along with it, other days I just wanted them to get it over with. And yet, none of it kept me away. There were ideals revolutionary for the time like PoC standing equal to others, themes of all kinds such as anti-war and humanity, great science fiction concepts that may be standard today but don’t rob them of their enjoyability, and so much fun but also many moments that made you think. But most of ll, it had such lovely characters. For me to care about a show, I have to care about it’s chracters. I knew a few things via pop culture, butt hat’s not the same as understanding them as a viewer and media can frequently exaggerate the reality. And as I found out, there was far more to them than what mdia lead me to believe.

Kirk I only ever knew as a brave captain who made out with a lot of women. While that’s true, I can’t call him a reckless womanizing asshole. He was brave, optimistic, diplomatic, and charming. He could be light-herted, but also very much a devoted Starfleet Captain whose duty is his entire being. I was shocked at how much I grew to care about him. Seeing his triumphs, his failings, his strengths and flaws, even on an off day I cared about him. Even when William Shatner hammed it up too much, I enjoyed seeing him. Spock was who I knew the most about consideirng how popular he was and I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I also grew to love him. His logic, his struggle with his dual being as half Vulcan and half Human, his loyalty to Kirk and his dedicaiton to his duty. I could see why he meant so much to people, esecially witht he level of depth and work that Leonard Nimoy put into the character. There’s s amny little things that you begint o notce and it makes Spock feel all the more real. But by far the biggest appeciaiton I grew was for McCoy. He was the character I knew the least about aside form him being a doctor and remembering the first episode. But GOD I love his character so much. His crankiness, snarkiness, and his arguments with Spock were entertaining but seieng how compassionate, devoted, and caring that he is especially when I watched The Empath ahead of time and saw his sacrifice... damn. Not to mention DeForest Kelley’s perormance with him imo being the best peformer aside from Nimoy. He gave it hus all even during the dumbest episodes and that always earns my respect. I didn’t think I’d care about Bones that much, knowing him as that guy who’s more important than the rest but not even close to as much as Kirk and Spock, and he walked away as my absolute favorite character who I will continue to give the love and appreciate that he deserves.

The others were great too. Scotty was funny, great at his job, and the amount fo times he saved thm all via some miracle is to be admired. Sulu was significant for being an Asian man as a regular and in a high position, and I just loved having his prescence. Uhura being a Black woman treated as an equal by her white male peers and being a dedicated, sassy communicaitons officer as well as her lovely musical talents made her a delight. Chekov when he came along added a nice, youthful prescence without him getitg annoying and having a Russian as a hero at that time was also a big deal. While the show struggled BIG TIME with gender and feminism, it was major at the time for presenting PoC and those of other nationalities as equal to others, and the cast clearly did their best to make them feel like actual people. I respect that a great deal. We all should sot hat we can keep improving from there.

I didn’t expect to care. I expected to get the show over with and have something to occupy my time. And yet, I do care. I care about these characters. I care about the shenanigains that they get involed in. I worry when they get into distress even though I know that they’ll be fine. There were plenty of things I knew in advance like Spcok’s deaht in the movies... and I cried anyways. I knew that nothing long-term bad would happen in the series, yet I feared for the cast and their situaton anyways. I grew invested in them. In their relaitonships. The Kirk-Spock-McCoy dynamic was by far my favorite thing and it kept me wanting to keepw atching. Not to occupy my time, but because I genuienly wanted to see what they got into and how they got out of it. To see Kirk and Spock’s mutual respect and trust in each other. To see Spock and McCoy argue over logic and emotion and be wiling to defend the other, to see Kirk and Bones joke and be at ease with each other as the close longitme firends that the are, and just having the three together... it was such a perfect dynamic. Hell I didn’t expect to ship anything aside form maybe Spirk due to knowing it’s significance to fandom, slash,a nd the LGBT+ community. And I came away shipping all three dynamics...a nd veering on all three together, but IDK if I’m quite there yet. But whether shippy or platonic, their relaitonship together is perfect and I loved it.

Now, the journey is over. Oh I plan to go back and do it all over again. I plan to pay even more atteniton. I plan on giving each episode as good of an analysis as I can give. I plan to try and seek out things like the novels and the comics so that I can have more itme with them. I plan to watch the reboot films to see what happes in a different universe. I plan to watch TNG and hope that I enjoy those charactrs that I ignored my entire life just as much as I did these. But for now, it’s over. It is a ride that I am thankful to have taken. I came in indifferen, and am leaving a fan looking forward to whatever else awaits. Thank you Star Trek TOS for this amazing two month journey. Thank you tot he cast and crew who put so much into it despite everything working against them. Thank you to the fans who watched it and kept it alive for all of these decades. And to those who read tot his point and all of my watchthrogh posts, thank you for sitcking with me. It was, without doubt, an experience that I’m never going to forget.