#threshold day

[kedreeva]

What on earth is going on in the Star Trek fandom today, it's like my dash exploded

lol 28 years ago today, the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" aired. The premise of the episode was that humans cannot travel at or faster than warp 10, because if they do, they would be traveling at "infinite velocity" and would exist in all points of space time simultaneously. Tom Paris found a way to travel at this speed, and doing so accidentally hyper-evolved him and his captain (Janeway) into giant salamanders, whereupon they immediately reproduced and created 3 baby salamanders. They were then turned back into normal humans, and forced to leave their salamander babies on the planet they had escaped to.

The episode was long held as the worst star trek episode. Not just the worst Star Trek Voyager episode, but the worst episode, period, because it was extremely weird and people turning into salamanders greatly annoyed a lot of people who don't know what fun is. Tumblr, having discovered this episode like excavating an exciting fossil, has taken a shine to this episode and many people now produce art and memes and eat pepperoni pizza in celebration of its air date, mostly to annoy the episode's creator, as in a very Arthur Conan Doyle way, he hates this episode and wants it de-canonized.

Anyway, happy Threshold Day!

[thisshrimpisfryingrice]

I’ve never heard of threshold day until 30 min ago and I’m about to watch an Emmy awarded episode of Star Trek

[carpblu]

Hi everyone, happy threshold day 🎉

I did a pottery course in december and of course I had to make something Salamander related 😁

Enjoy this lizard baby cup, I am very proud of this 😁😁

[great-and-small]

My proposed bumper sticker design in honor of Threshold Day

[pacificsaury]

Threshold lizard creature merch coming soon to a delta quadrant near you

[iamthecutestofborg]

I know the holidays can be stressful, so this Threshold Day try to keep in mind what really matters. It's not about the gifts or the shopping, it's about breaking the warp barrier. Threshold Day is meant to be a time of transformation (into a lizard), love (for your captain/lizard wife), and spending time with your family (of lizard babies) before you abandon them on a planet forever and never think about them again.

Happy Threshold Day everyone, and don't forget to leave milk and cookies out for Tom Paris as he travels at warp 10 and exists simultaneously at every point in the universe!

[captain-kermit]

happy threshold day eve guys <3

[stra-tek]

[smeerp]

happy Threshold day everyone

[thresholdbb]

The present, the past, they're both in the future! The future is in the past!

[ssaalexblake]

Happy Threshold Day to the animatronic salamander versions of Kathryn Janeway and Tom Paris, exhibits in the Voyager museum!

May you one day gain sentience and have triplet animatronic salamanders in a Jefferies tube.

[fly-casual-bro]

Designed a t-shirt to commemorate this emmy-award-winning Star Trek episode. It's sparkly. All hail the salamanders ✨

[technoturian]

I want a Lower Decks episode where three adult superevolved lizards are being escorted from the edge of the Delta Quadrant to Starfleet headquarters so they can sue two decorated officers for child abandonment.

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

BABY GIRL I GOT YOU

[quarks-pussy]

Y'all holy shit

This might already be common knowledge and only news to me as a recent trekkie but before the day is over in most time zones, well...

I had assumed that all the lizards were puppets and the babies might be (couldn't find anything that would indicate otherwise) but. Salamander Janeway and Paris were played by human beings in costumes.

Susan Rossitto and Cindy Sorensen are the ones who played the Threshold lizards.

Both of them went uncredited and Susan Rossitto also passed away in 2013, but here are pictures of them:

Everyone say "Thank you Susan and Cindy!" 🫡

[star-trek-dumb-comics]

In their rebellious era