#y'know i'm not as obsessed with star trek as i was from like 2015-2018 so i was expecting these to be kinda hard to answer

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Star Trek for the fandom ask owo

Absolutely! Thank you so much for the ask! (And sorry I didn't see it in my askbox until, like, three days later 😅) I'll be answering for TOS and AOS, as those are the series I'm most familiar with.

Blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): My two favorite Star Trek characters are Spock and Chekov, but I'm using Chekov as an answer for a later question, so we shall go with Spock. My boy!!! My half-Vulcan half-human boy!!! My beautiful, intelligent, sarcastic, logical, conflicted, "I am in control of my emotions" boy—neither fully at home with humans or Vulcans, but truly belonging to the Enterprise crew in such an integral, inextricable way that it just wouldn't be the same found family without him!!! I just love this boy. And as this post notes, he is, in fact, the original Blorbo from my shows!

Skrunkly (my baby, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Now THIS would be Chekov, especially AOS Chekov. This sweet Russian whizkid with his adorable accent and his head full of curls and his enthusiasm that "I can do zat!" I'm obsessed with him. He deserves so many hugs. He also counts as a Blorbo, though, because I think about him a lot—especially when I was younger and had skipped several grades, so I was consistently the youngest person in my classes, making it hard to relate to my classmates or make friends. In fact, this very much inspired one of the first fanfics I ever wrote and finished, Shining Star.

Fun fact: AOS Chekov was one of my first and strongest fictional crushes, when I was about 11-12. I desperately wanted to date him and thought he'd be the sweetest boyfriend ever. Even though he was relatively young and cute in comparison to the rest of the Enterprise crew, though, I knew he'd be way out of my league/acceptable age range in real life, as he was 17 in the first movie. It kind of blows my mind, then, that I'm now older than him! The years really do start coming and they don't stop coming.

Scrimblo Bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): I feel like Sulu's pretty underrated. I love him in either continuity, though—what's not to love about a simultaneously funny and badass guy who loves plants so much and has SWISHY SWASHY SWORDS? I don't know why he's so underrated!

I also think the casting of John Cho as Spike in the live-action Cowboy Bebop has caused a resurgence in my Sulu appreciation. I love Cho as Spike, but looking at pictures of Sulu reminds me why I like him in the first place! 11 year old me watching Star Trek 🤝 18-year-old me watching live-action Cowboy Bebop: loving (and being very attracted to) John Cho.

Glup Shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won't shut up about it for a week): I don't know if this even really counts as a "character," but the Alfa 177 canine from TOS (The Enemy Within, I believe)—AKA the unicorn dog. They literally just. They stuck a horn and antennae on a dog's head and called it an alien species and we all just accepted it. I'm obsessed with this dog. I love it. I want to see a whole spin-off series just about the dog alive and well and having adventures.

You can't go wrong with the uni-dog.

Poor Little Meow Meow ("problematic," unpopular, controversial, or otherwise pathetic fave): *sigh...* Khan from the AOS movies, which I say only because I had a massive Benedict Cumberbatch phase from ages 11-13. Do I like Khan as a character? No. Would my seventh-grade self swoon whenever she saw him onscreen? Unfortunately, yes—solely because he was Cumberbatch, and that was enough.

Horse Plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Listen. L I S T E N. I wouldn't really torment Kirk for fun. I love my boy Jimothy, and I don't want to see him suffer. (He's been through enough!) What I would do is, I would put him in a slightly compromising situation. Ever-so-slightly. Just compromising enough that it would cause him to rip his shirt. That's all. That's the entirety of the horse plinko torment I would perform. I just want to see one of the famous Kirk Shirt Rips.

Eeby Deeby (character I would send to superhell): I don't actually hate that many characters on Star Trek—plus I have too many happy memories and positive emotions associated with the series/movies to really hate anyone on them. But if I had to send anyone to superhell, I'd pick Sarek. That's what he gets for his A+ parenting skills.

[Blorbo Asks]