Tag: star trek

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jimkerk:

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jimkerk:

the least realistic thing about star trek is that starfleet uniforms don’t have pockets and nobody complains about it

My instinct is to agree with this, but like, when I really think about it…

No money, no credit cards, identification is all vocal/fingerprints/retinal, so no wallet.

Again, doors are voice activated, or just unlocked by entering a code.  No keys.  

Communication devices are tiny and stick onto clothing starting in Next Gen.  TOS had bulkier communication that they carried around or kept in, like, packs and stuff, so the arguments for pockets is a little more valid, and if I remember correctly, those costumes did have pockets, tho I could be wrong about that.  But anything post TNG, the point is moot anyway.

Tricorders and phasers are really the only thing anyone’s carrying around, and that’s usually on away missions where they’d be bring their packs/holsters or just have them out.  I mean, who wants to stick a phaser in their pocket?  

So, yeah.  There’s not much little stuff people need to carry around everywhere.  And if they are preparing for a longer journey or want to bring bulkier things, well…just bring a bag.  It fits more anyway.    

what if i find a cool rock and want to take it home with me

Every time a member of the USS Enterprise has found a cool rock and taken it home, it has resulted in eleven deaths, six temporal displacements, the holodecks breaking again, and somebody getting turned into a lizard. Pockets are a privilege, not a right.

But like… spare hairties? Music player? Epi-pen? Tampon?

charlemane:

spock: always effortlessly put together, boots neatly polished, the best hair

mccoy: always looks like he just rolled out of bed and had five minutes to make himself look professional, but did well with those five minutes

kirk: would be well-dressed if he could go one hour without ripping his shirt

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the-vashta-natasha:

kayla-roronora13:

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ichabads:

SPACE

THE FINAL FRONTIER

THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE

ITS FIVE YEAR MISSION

TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW WORLDS

TO SEEK OUT NEW LIFE AND NEW CIVILIZATIONS 

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE

[AGGRESSIVELY HUMS THEME TUNE]

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this is everything i love about star trek fandom tbh

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

dharmagun:

timekeeperart:

to-boldly-go-beyond:

momfriendmccoy:

momfriendmccoy:

I can’t explain how much I want a 21st century Star Trek au where Kirk still lives in Iowa and it’s like “holy shit aliens just literally landed in my cornfield I can’t believe my life became a bad episode of x-files”

ok but. hear me out like…

  • kirk as just this genius 21yr old in Iowa building hi-tech shit in his basement; like radios and shit that manage to pick up sub-space frequencies that he helps code w/ the help of Uhura
  • kirk thinking it’d be a funny prank to make some crop circles in his family’s cornfield
  • kirk making intricate crop circles that read as some rudimentary script of Vulcan
  • spock responding to the images that seem to be an SOS from his father; beams down to earth only to find out some humans managed to accidentally learn the vulcan language
  • “oh so you’re an alien” “indeed” “And…you’re looking for your dad.” “affirmative” “well, you know what this means?” “….” “…roadtrip.”
  • spock learns the meaning of friendship as he roadtrips across america with a pack of humans that kirk picks up along the way in search of his father: mccoy, the doctor they met in georgia that let them sleep in his basement; scotty the auto repair guy they meet in some backwater town; sulu in new york that is much better at driving than kirk is; nobody really knows how chekov ended up with them, but it’s probably illegal
  • these are the voyages of the 1970 Volkswagen bus Enterprise

Minnesota, Interstate I-495: The Final Frontier 

It’s not a 1970 Volkswagen, but…

driver picks the music!

Someone please write this. I don’t write in this verse. Please write it.

spockslash:

adhdcaptain-kirk:

I found a little book of star trek trivia at my favorite used book store and the book was published in the 80s and I’m flipping through it and it’s like “dedicated Fans taping episodes of star trek ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy the series” which is such a weird sort of technology whiplash like we went from VHS tapes being THE way to consume media on demand and I’m over here in 2018 watching this show on my smartphone on Netflix and?? When the show came out VHS wasn’t even a wildly avaliable thing??? Sometimes little things give me hope, like a tiny book reminding me how much humanity has accomplished in 50 years.

Oh my goodness, there was no such thing as media on demand when TOS aired! We could not have imagined such a thing. 

Around 1970-71 a group of original fans in the LA area did what we could to make a record of what happened in each episode, because it could easily be a year or more before our local station might run any given episode again. Whenever a rerun was shown, we worked as a team, taking Polaroid photos of the TV screen at each scene change and writing a quick description of what happens in the scene.  These we glued onto poster boards, one for each episode, building up the collection over a couple of years (the rate at which we were able to see the episodes in reruns). The poster boards hung in a couple of our garages and were available for any fan to view with an appointment. 

We would have been so jealous of fans now, had we known the day would come when we could see episodes any time we wanted. I still find it somewhat miraculous!

kernezelda:

mrs-spockulous:

tree-of-blue-squirrel:

dragonescence:

dragonescence:

happy-kirk:

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goose-dad:

the-errant-mycorrhizae:

First flower ever grown in space bloomed today!

Yay!

Happy birthday, space flower!

(source: gilderoys)

KIRK IS HOLDING A ZINNIA. THE SAME FUCKING FLOWER.

FUCKING NASA MAN

No. Nononono. You don’t understand. 

I am so mad about this. Like, not like I wanna kill someone, but mad, as in, hysterical?

They wanted to answer questions about plants in space, right? How biology and botany would work in space. Because then who knows? We could grow crops in space, or fix the atmosphere. Or create the perfect biome for plants that are now extinct. Who fucking knows, right?

They could have taken a food crop. Wheat, maybe. Or rice. Something they could observe to see if it would be possible to solve a food shortage or whatever. Maybe a small apple tree to see if it would bloom, and then see if there could be a way to make it fruit. 

Or, you know, go the genetics route and take a sweet pea. See if zero gravity does anything to how genes are passed on. Mendel did it in a shed, why not a tin shed in outer space, right? Oh the possibilities.

Was it so wrong to take the zinnia? No, of course not. In my little horticultural brain, I thought, oh how lovely! A splash of colour in the emptiness of space. Something bright and cheerful, something that gives hope. That must have been it, right? 

But no. 

SOMEONE went, “Nah, mate, here’s an episode of Star Trek where Kirk is holding a ZINNIA in a SPACE DESERT.”

I could scream. I don’t know if I love or hate these fucking nerds. Oh my gods. 

NASA, YOU NEEEEERDS

love these NASA nerds 

Flowers in space!

(This is from Jan 16, 2016, btw)

fostertheory:

marta-bee:

holmesianpose:

steampunktendencies:

Science Officer Spock, Commanding Officer James T Kirk, Helmsman Hikaru Sulu and, Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy,

Communications Officer Nyota Uhura, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott and

Weapons Officer Pavel Chekov

 : The Original Star Trek Crew In Old Naval Uniforms by Young Rascal

OMG @annaknitsspock HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?

I ship it.

Nicholas Meyer, who directed Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (aka the real one), had not been a fan of the material before coming to the project. He was struggling to decide how he should handle it until he realized that it was basically Horatio Hornblower in space. Then, he said, he knew exactly how to proceed.

So to me, this works especially well.

So I’m not sure if this has been asked before, but do you remember the reaction you or your fellow fans had to the episode with Tarsus IV tragedy? it’s still a huge thing in the Star Trek fandom, especially with the fanfic writers, so I’m curious how this reveal that kirk is the survivor of such a horrific tragedy affected your outlook of him.

spockslash:

What a great question! Thanks for asking me; I’ve been thinking about it for some days, and I also asked some of my fan friends from way back to get their memories on the subject.

When I returned to fandom after 25 years and started reading modern fan fic on AO3, I noticed how much the Tarsus tragedy is infused into Jim’s being, his character.  It’s my memory, and my friends concur, that this came up in an occasional story back in the 70s, but it was not much written about nor did it shape Jim’s character the way it often does now.

I’ve been puzzling over this difference in how fandom, 40 years apart, views this incident so differently. The best I can come up with is that society’s attitudes and understanding have changed dramatically in the intervening years.

In the 70s we, as a society, were so much less informed and aware of how trauma can affect a person’s psyche.  That shows in how badly Vietnam veterans were treated: they were generally considered to be “malingering” when they came home with PTSD (which was not a term we had in our vocabulary yet). They were criticized and marginalized, because society then thought it unmanly to be so affected by trauma.  A sad and shameful part of our history.

I find it very interesting to read the newer fiction and see how a younger generation allows Jim to be human, not just some outdated ideal of a “real man.” I like how he is treated with more tenderness.  I know it does not appeal to everyone of my generation, but I like it.  And I love that younger people still care enough about Jim and his cohorts to want to write new fan fic, giving a new understanding of these characters, one that is true to their (your?) own worldview and experience.