#starbasics

[startrekuniverse]

[youngjusticerulez]

HELL YEAHHHH

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Lower Decks "Starbase 80?!"

[odinsblog]

From Wikipedia: “On December 12, 2024, SpaceX filed an official request to Cameron County authorities to have the site incorporated as a new city, named Starbase.”

Imagine, one greedy racist misogynistic oligarch controlling everything, from the schools, to daycare, to housing, to the police, to the hospitals - a town where the very government is all employed and controlled by Elon Musk.

👉🏿 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/starbase-texas-city-elon-musk-spacex.html

👉🏿 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/today-explained/id1346207297

👉🏿 https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-education/elon-musks-montessori-preschool-reimagining-education-closer-fruition

[chernobog13]

Deep Space Nine

[eltell-i]

tyler x logan collage

[look-something-shiny-redux]

I love the retcon of Starbase 80 from "shitty because it's funny for a starbase to be evil and cursed" to "shitty because it's underfunded and overlooked."

I specifically love it because it turns Mariner's stint there from "plucky hero must survive an evil and cursed environment" into "plucky hero from a privileged background is overdramatic about living in a crappy neighborhood," which is both funnier and more interesting for character depth.

[galacticturnip-art]

Bringin my prints and stickers down to Indiana for the Star Trek convention!!

[departmentq]

This hits differently since Captain Freeman's last visit

[startrekuniverse]

He's British.

[youngjusticerulez]

This so aidlyn

This karaoke machine

And this tylenol

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Lower Decks "Starbase 80?!"

[smartsmears]

Finally, the end of series follow up to this I drew a few years back.

[saywhat-politics]

Elon Musk wants control of a public beach. The state of Texas is preparing to give it to him.

On the road to Boca Chica Beach sits a huge bronze sculpture of Elon Musk’s head.

The thing is nine feet tall and probably weighs half a ton. Alone on the side of State Highway 4 on the way out of Brownsville, it’s a herald with a clear message.

You are now entering Musk Country.

Drive a few more miles through the yucca and native brush and, suddenly, SpaceX’s Starbase looms ahead. Musk’s massive rocket production and testing complex dominates the land here on the Texas-Mexico border, its glass buildings dwarfing the tidal flats below.

Starship, the rocket meant to ferrytake humans to Mars, takes off from here. The last thing you see before you hit the Gulf is the rocket launch pad.

[niqhtlord01]

Humans are weird: Not what I expected

Human Security officer: First day on the job?

Alien Trainee: Yeah, bit nervous.

Human Security officer: Don’t be.

Human Security officer: Sure we see a bunch of strange things here on the station, but working security isn’t so bad.

*Over the radio*: Hey Sarge, it’s happening again.

Human Security officer: Gods damnit.

*Answers radio*

Human Security officer: Where are they this time?

*Over radio*: Deck three.

Human Security officer: *to Trainee* Right, I got to go handle this so you might as well come along to. ----------------------

*Several decks later*

Human Security officer: Now whatever happens, I need you to be calm.

Alien Trainee: Saying that makes me less calm.

Human Security officer: Just shut the hell up then and watch.

*turns corner and sees gathering of people. Many of them look like miners who had just returned from outer system asteroid mining*

Alien Trainee: *Looks confused as to what they are all looking at until they tilt their head up and see a monstrous being of pink flesh and tentacles clogging up one of the hallways leading to the docking bay*

*The creature is easily three to four times the size of any of the gathered humans and ooze drips from its tentacles*

Alien Trainee: *Begins to panic and rest their hand on their sidearm holster before realizing they haven’t been issued a weapon yet*

Alien Trainee: *Turns to look at human sarge only to find him casually walking towards the monster*

*Only now does the trainee realize that none of the humans appear to be panicking or freaking out*

*Crowd parts to let the human sarge stand before the creature that now turns its full attention to the security officer*

Human Security officer: Marvin?

Human Security officer: Marvin you need to go back home.

*Creature lets out a loud gurgling noise from beneath its tentacles that sends shivers down the alien trainee’s spines*

Human Security officer: Marvin! I know you don’t like it when your friends leave but they need to go back to work.

*More loud grumbling and the creature retreats further into the tunnel, fully blocking passage*

Human Security officer: MARVIN! Get out of the tunnel!

*Softer gurgling but the creature only uses their tentacles to cover their eyes*

Human Security officer: Marvin I can still see you; covering your eyes does nothing.

*No response*

Human Security officer: Marvin. Maaaaaaaaarvin. MARVIN!

*Still no response*

Human Security officer: *Sighs loudly*

Human Security officer: *Points to random worker* Where’s Mitch? Why isn’t he here dealing with this?

Human Miner: He got offered double shifts on the belt and took it for the extra money.

Human Security officer: Of course he did.

Alien Trainee: *Finally working courage up to speak* Who is this “Mitch”?

Human Security officer: *Turns remembering that the trainee was there* Ah, right; he’s Marvin’s owner and the only one he’ll listen to.

Alien Trainee: Is this, Marvin, a sentient being?

Human Security officer: More like a pet Mitch found a few years back and took with him.

Human Security officer: Don’t think he counted it on being the size of a bus.

*Sees Alien Trainee looking nervous*

Human Security officer: Don’t worry; despite his size Marvin’s a goofball with a heart of gold.

Alien Trainee: Can we not just stun it and drag it out of the way then?

*All humans nearby stop and look at Alien trainee, anger and shock on their faces*

Human Miner: Is that some sort of fucked up joke?

Human Miner 2: Yeah!

Human Miner 3: You heard Marvin has a heart of gold and you just want to stun it? What kind of monster are you?

*Loud rowdy humans increase in volume before Human Security officer waves them down*

Human Security officer: It’s his first day, go easy on him.

*Rowdiness decreases in volume but the humans still look upset*

Human Security officer: *Whispers* You can’t just go around saying you want to stun someone’s pet.

Alien Trainee: *Looks more confused*

Human Security officer: *Turns to miners* Alright, go through duct C90 and you should be able to get around him.

Human Miner: Fine, but so help us if Marvin’s still in that tunnel when we get back.

Human Security officer: What the hell are you arguing with me over that? Get Mitch to bring his ass back here so Marvin will calm down!

*Conversation devolves into argument as human miners begin pulling off a grill plate and shimmying through a duct around Marvin* (AI image provided by @myecandy )

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Once again the James Blish adaptations... Who Mourns for Adonais? ends with McCoy revealing that Lt Carolyn Palomas is pregnant and it’s Apollo’s baby.