#f: space treks

[astriiformes]

The fact that Star Trek: Discovery has a mycologist character who is named after a real, actual, currently living mycologist who could at any point in time sit down and watch an episode of Star Trek: Discovery is so funny. They didn't even lift like just his first or last name, Paul Stamets the spore drive engineer is named after Paul Stamets the guy on the cover of the Fungi Perfecti catalog we just got in the mail today.

And like. The Star Trek universe is literally just our universe in the future. So this implies that either 1) totally by coincidence, there just so happened to be two guys named Paul Stamets who both decided to become prominent mycologists or 2) the 23rd century Paul Stamets was influenced by the knowledge that he had an ancestor (?) that was also really into mushrooms. Either way the future Paul Stamets could have read books written by the actual present Paul Stamets.

It's chaos. I think more fictional characters should be named after mildly prominent academics (or adjacent) for no explicable reason. A space ecologist named Robin Kimmerer. Mechanic who repairs cyborg implants on a distant spaceport name Donna Haraway. Second mushroom scientist who argues with future Paul Stamets at space academic conferences named Merlin Sheldrake. Make future academics' citation sections a nightmare.

[bisclavaret]

some ds9 doodles :)

[socialjusticeinamerica]

That Star Trek future won’t include racist, right-wing oligarchs like you Elon. F—K OFF you parasite!

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[xbuggyxboyx]

thinking about those fictional faggots again…

[stonedstarfleet]

"What's cookin', good lookin'?" Commission by @garaks-padded-bra !! I'm still just staring, thank you so much <3

[moonlit--wonders]

I Love You So F***ing Much + Space Themes

[thatdogmagic]

Fuck it, kicking #Awooootober off a day early with the prompt: Warped, feat the best random hallucination on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

[alphamecha-mkii]

[startrek-by-secret]

Not sure why but I made this but I'm very happy about it :)

Sadly I didn't plan on adding the yellow so when I did, the paper wasn't prepared for the water and lost form...

[spectraspecs-writes]

Q is being awfully bold making fun of Julian the twink when Q is one hip pop away from being peak fag himself

[astriiformes]

Scribe: [describing Q from Star Trek] He does love his little outfits. And dramatics.

Me: LGBT representation.

Me: Wait. LGBTQ representation.

[almalvo]

On Finishing DS9...

I have now finished Deep Space 9.

And I am extremely.... utterly....

d i s a p p o i n t e d .

HOW IT SHOULDVE ENDED BASICALLY:

jadzia never dies

there is NO "ezri" because jadzia never dies.

worf gets to redeem himself with being a better father this time

alexander jadzia and worf get to be happy together as a family of four

did i say jadzia never dies?

jadzia never dies.

we get to see some happy rom justice From being nagus

but also wait even NOT AS NAGUS itd be SO COOL to see him be A CHIEF ENGINEER TOO OR SOMETHING CUZ HES EPIC AT THAT AND LOVES THAT STUFF, BEYOND JUST A SMALL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN A PRIOR EPISODE??

quark gets to get some kind of reward and staple growth rather than barely budging from his bartender status since s1e1

quark MORE EXPLICITLY shouldve grown out of his sexism and traditional ferengi ways better than they "had" him in the show - like i get not EVERYTHING has to be "dynamic" but come ON.

wouldnt mind if quark actually gave at least a totally clean pat on the back for rom - but i wont emphasise this too much. even vice versa wouldve been cute...

quark and odo should have an even better friendship now, with at least a DIRECT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO EACH OTHER

odo never leaves

odo and kira stay together, happy and beyond the need for the accursed link - as odo HIMSELF SAID HE FINALLY FELT HE FOUND SOMEWHERE TO BELONG VIA KIRA AND DS9 LIKE IDC HOW MUCH CONNECTION HE FELT WITH THE LINK HE'S LITERALLY REFUSED IT A BILLION TIMES JUST TO COME BACK TO KIRA LET IT STAY THIS WAY GOD DMNNNIT

kiras had so much DEATH around her throughout her life, let her be HAPPY WITH ODO???

the link gets f'cked.

odo decides to GET the link f'cked as he DECISIVELY MOVES ON FROM IT CUZ THIS IS WHAT ODO WOULD DO ESPECIALLY SINCE HE GOT DS9 AND KIRA LIKE WHAT WAS THE POINT???

the founders LITERALLY KILLED 800 MILLION + LIVES FROM THIS WAR THEY SHOULD GET FAT F'D TO DEATH WTF

female changeling shouldve died - BARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT

Vic Fontaine should've gotten his own permanent holo-suite so he can live his life continuously.

keiko should have gotten ACTUAL STUFF TO DO (not even just ending)

o'brien never leaves ds9

o'brien and bashir should be better friends now TOGETHER ON DS9 especially after that kind of confession from bashir when in Sloan's mind

maybe through o'brien bashir can find happiness in not necessarily having a "boyfriend" relationship - same goes for quark and odo

BENJAMIN SISKO DOES NOT GO OFF INTO PROPHET REALM/BASICALLY DEATH UH NO NO NO

YOU CANT JUST LEAVE JAKE, WHO HAS ALREADY LOST HIS MOM, TO NOW LOSE HIS DAD TOO, EVEN IFFF KASIDY IS THERE NOW LIKE WTF???

the long awaited gul dukat vs ben sisko end-showdown was a LET-down - there should've been 20 MINUTES TO IT AT LEAST INSTEAD OF LIKE 2 SECONDS???

there should have been a real engagement between kira and gul dukat where kira gets some DAMN JUSTICE FOR HERSELF AND BAJOR

SAME WITH KAI WINN - kira shouldve HAD HER WAY against kai winn besides the passive alternative they went with - not saying violence and fighting is necessarily always the better kind of ending but let's be real this was deserved bro ugh.

the ending conflict SHOULD NOT EVER EVER EVER have been THAT EASY with a single linkage making the female founder just "oop nevermind im done with war lets go be happy together and stop killing people hahaha no biggie" LIKE BTCH WE NEEDED TO SEE THE END OF THE JEM'HADAR OR LIKE BETTER YET MAYBE EVEN A LEGITIMATE INTERNAL IMPLOSION OF AN UPRISING OF THE JEM'HADAR REVOLTING AGAINST ITSELF AND THE VORTA AND THE FOUNDER LIKE WE BEEN SEEING THEM HAVE THIS CAPACITY AND DEFECTION IDK IF THIS WAS A DEVELOPED ARC THIS SO COULD HAVE WORKED - the cardassians took this role instead, which i dont mind terribly but man ugh

the ending was so STUPIDLY rushed like WTF IS THAT - idc if there were network issues or conflicts or paramount exec disputes or cancelation - makes me so sad it ended like this like HORRENDOUSLY rushed

the ending flashback montage of each character in ds9 only featured clips from MOSTLY the later 2 MAYBE 3 seasons, NOT very well comprehensive through seasons 1-7 - but main issue is that IT IS NOT EARNED. NOT. EARNED. WITH SUCH A HAMFISTED SHORT AF ENDING.

i know you can complain and be like "well at least this show GOT an ending, unlike unfinished TOS cancelation at S3" but like bro ds9 got a greenlight for an ending 25th episode so why structure the arcs to be this long and drawn out and have almost next to NO pay-off ugh

ALSO TOS GOT A WONDERFUL CONTINUATION IN THE CINEMATIC SEASON AND ENDING IN STAR TREK VI

WHY TF IS E V E R Y O N E LEAVING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

NO ONE LEAVES.

ONE BIG HAPPY DS9 FAMILY.

In conclusion, Deep Space 9 did not have a canonic ending,

and F u, Berman.

[ds9jack]

This is what happened in Past Prologue

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[stonedstarfleet]

Also threw some color on this.

[celtic-romulan]

Quark: I owe a lot of people a lot of things. Most of them latinum, or apologies, one an organ, one my desiccated remains... Rom: Yeah, Brunt keeps calling about that!

[lovers-paradise]

Always Darkest Before The Dawn - Kira Meru/F!Dukat!Reader

Kira Meru. You had heard of the woman when your brother, the Gul Dukat, had mentioned several of his comfort women, the woman’s gentleness had been haunted and much as he liked to pretend to be tough, he was not. Meru had flinched away, looking down when you came closer, shame curling across her face so slowly that you move to tuck hair from her cheek, noting the way Meru shudders and leans into your touch at the same time, the scarring is still there, unhealed despite Dukat wanting to fix it and you move to stroke her cheekbone, focusing on how sweetly she leans into your touch. “It’s okay, come with me.” You speak softly and hold out your hand, leading her away from both your brother and his other chosen women, your voice dipping softly. “You’ll stay with me now, little one.” She settles willingly in your lap when you pull her down, curling your arms around her waist, letting a hand rest on her thigh, noting her flush and smiling. “We’ll get on just fine.” She doesn’t need to be roughly handled, you discover, merely cared for, more than willing to trust you when you hold her, not once pushing for more, taking your time to bring her to your side, content to hold her close and wait. Later, by the end of the year, she will be yours, you will have a daughter – her daughter, and you will be proud.