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obliterate my entire ass I can’t stand this

how can you forget this beauty

Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

Star Trek is a show about how to trick some 1920s gangsters into instituting communism. Star Trek is a show about bisexuality. Star Trek is a show about learning to deal with the fact that you replaced your alternate dimension self and everyone you actually knew is dead and you're surrounded by exact copies. Star Trek is a show about space whales. Star Trek is a show about fucking your subordinate in lizard form. Star Trek is a show

“I am not, the hell, a man. Nor am I from the so-called sunshine state” florida man stated in an exclusive interview.

Captain Kirk’s guide to Fighting.

The Kirk Kick

The Kirk Drop Kick

The Bowling Ball

The Human Projectile

The Kirk Chop

The Wall of Destruction

The Scissor Choke

The Kirk Double Fist

Day 10: Mind-meld

For Spirktober 2022 prompt

Two years ago, the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks had aired, and the world was introduced to the charming bunch of plucky ensigns of the USS Cerritos.

To celebrate this occasion and the upcoming crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, here's a little comic—based on a script by CEO of Star Trek and a sketch I made, brought to life by the amazing talent of @serial02721—that revisits one of the show's most iconic scenes. We'd like to thank Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid for the work they put into their characters, Mike McMahan for being the creative mind behind the show, Dave Ihlenfeld for writing this beautiful scene, and the rest of the cast and crew for giving us this awesome cartoon!

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

he really just went "trust fall 🤪"

Don’t bring a knife to a cushion fight. [x]

Spock: fuck OFF lady

Kirk: babe ilysm rn

Not to start drama but…you can’t tell me that one of these is not more visually interesting than the other.

En el cual estos tres weyes son regañados y estos deciden abrir la boca + Janeway :)c

In which these three dorks are scolded and they decide to open their mouths +Janeway :)c

ID of the three pages under read more:

[First Image description: Comic is in a simple cartoon style. Harry, Tom and B'elanna, are in the captain's ready room, standing in line with their hands behind their back. Janeway is standing upright with a stern expression in front of them, she scolds them saying "So... I expect you three to follow a better behaviour, I don't expect to be dissapointed... Is that understood?". Harry, Tom and B'elanna, looking to their sides with expressions of discomfort reply "Understood, Ma'am." Harry by accident says instead "Mom". The three of them realize what Harry says and Harry starts to sweat nervously. Janeway stops looking stern and raises her eyebrows. END ID.]

[Second Image description: Harry, Tom, B'elanna and Janeway are in the middle of the captain's ready room drawn in stick figures. A spotlight is shining on top of Harry, Tom and B'elanna, Harry sweating and standing straight while Tom and B'elanna are peering at him. Janeway then asks "...Did one of you... Just call me mom?". The art style returns to be cartoony and Harry immediately tries to answer "No, ma'am", but B'elanna interjects saying "YES, MA'AM". Tom also tries to interject, instead saying "Yes, mom-... Shit", and then looking down flustered with Harry peering at him with a smug grin and B'elanna exclaiming "HA!" at him.]

[Third Image description: Janeway crosses her arms and looks at them with a fond expression, she then shrugs and smiles saying "Come on, 'Lanna, don't make fun of my kids". Tom covers his face with his hands muttering "Whyyyy", While Harry pats him in the shoulder condescendingly. B'elanna flusters at the nickname and exclaims "Mo- CAPTAIN" and becomes more flustered. Harry and Tom both peer at her from their previous positions with smug grins. END ID]

stop loafing around, we’ve got a whole universe to explore.

this clip from “The Apple” is literally just this post:

Ah yes, the true mark of an alien…

EYEBROWS

Okay, okay, so TrekViz is super cool on its own, but what's even cooler? All the data is available as .csv files. Which means that it's easy to mess around with it and hunt for specific things and fun things like that. In particular, I noticed that it's really hard to tell a character's most common interactions if they don't have many interactions on the site, so a while later with some spreadsheets, and I have these. Since it's based on the data from TrekViz, the characters included are just whatever characters were included in that data, and total interactions only count from those with other characters in the data set. I didn't do the movies (at least not yet), even though that data's also there.

Actual stuff below cut because, as usual, data analysis across the series really adds up.

Starting with Enterprise, because it's the only one with no major character changes so was the simplest to start messing around with. It works that of all the interactions the character on the column had, __% was with the character on the column. So, of all the interactions Archer had, 31% were with T'Pol. And we can see that 47% of T'Pol's interactions with Archer.

Unsurprisingly, almost everyone interacts mostly with Archer, with the only exceptions being Archer himself, and Malik from the Augment arc, who instead spent most of his time talking with Soong. Archer's main interaction was Tucker, and Tucker and T'Pol had significant interactions with each other. No surprises there. A noticeable interaction gap among the main cast is Travis and Phlox, who are each each other's least interacted with main cast member (aside from self).

Next is TOS, which I made three charts for, to show the main character change of Chekov, who came in in the second season A few minor characters also appear/disappear.

Season 1:

Seasons 2 and 3:

And overall:

Once again, our captain is getting the majority of interactions, with the only exceptions being Chapel (who talks mostly to McCoy), Commander (I believe the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident", who talks to Spock), and Kirk himself (who talks to Spock mostly), none of which are surprising. Overall interactions with each other, by and large line up quite well with prominence of the respective characters (Kirk>Spock>McCoy>Scotty>etc.). One noticeable gap is apparently Sulu and Chapel never interacted.

I did also do season breakdowns to represent cast changes for TNG, but then got lazy and discontinued for DS9 and VOY and it adds up and this is already so long, so just an overall for TNG:

Once again, captain's the main interaction for pretty much everyone, and is his own exception (his most common interaction is Data). The other exceptions are all secondary characters except for one: Alexander (his main interaction is Worf), Barclay (who mostly talks to La Forge), K'Ehleyr (also mostly interacts with Worf), Lwaxana (who spends most of her time bugging Troi), and, the one main cast member, La Forge (who mostly interacts with Data). La Forge is, in turn, Data's main interaction after Picard. By and large, Picard, Riker, and Data dominate the main characters' time, and then it's just kinda consistent low numbers after that.

Then we get DS9 overall:

Sisko, as captain, is still the most common interaction for the majority of characters, but has a much less dominating presence compared to the other series. Major interaction spikes, more or less in order of significance, include Keiko and O'Brien, Zek and Quark, Rom and Quark, Martok and Worf, Jake and Sisko, Nog and Jake, and Damar and Weyoun. Unsurprising common interactions between main cast members (excusing any with Sisko since he is almost always the most or second most common interaction for them all) include Bashir and O'Brien, Worf and both of the Daxes, and Odo with Kira and Quark.

And to finish off, Voyager:

Once again, captain dominates interactions. There's really not too much that's so surprising. There's a greater percentage of secondary characters that only show up occasionally to interact with a few characters, and Shannon O'Donnell from "11:59" who never interacted with any other characters. The main cast exceptions to Janeway being the main interaction are Janeway herself (who spent of her interactions with Chakotay), Kes (who mostly talked to the EMH), Paris (who just barely spent more of his time talking to Torres), and Torres (who interacted mostly with Paris).

I'm absolutely going to be doing more digging around with this and seeing what pops up, and probably do some series by series (if not character by character) analysis.

Snw Spock needs more sass. We want judgy eyebrow raises and snarky comments poorly disguised by logic

some of my favorite funny spirk moments from the original series. subtitles included. enjoy!

I really really want the new star treks like strange new worlds to include some just bat shit crazy episodes. Like I, Mudd from tos where they confuse androids into destruction by dancing around to no music. Or the tribble episode. Or the ds9 episode where they have a full on casino heist, or start a baseball team. Or the captain proton episode on voyager where Janeway has to pretend to be queen arachnia. Like. Give me some episodes like that

Star Trek: Voyager Bride of Chaotica!

The snw body swap episode definitely had a little bit of that ridiculousness I’ve been missing from most new star trek, I hope they do more of it

Lower Decks gets it:

“I’m sorry, I’ve gotta be honest, I didn’t join Starfleet to get in phaser fights. I signed up to explore, to be out in space making new discoveries, and peaceful, diplomatic solutions. That’s boldly going. And you know what? I’d love to be in a string quartet. I loved that when Riker was on the Enterprise he was out there jamming on the trombone, and catching love disease, and acting in plays, and meeting his identical transporter clone Thomas. That stuff may not seem as cool as what you guys do, but it’s Starfleet. All the way.”

-Boimler in Kayshon, His Eyes Open

Poor red shirts

Star Trek can make as many new series and movies as they like, and still nothing will ever truly beat the golden awkwardness of this one shining minute of dialogue.

I love Spock I love him soooo much they were like let’s make a character that’s nerdy and a pacifist and a vegetarian and he’s also a mommas boy and a sensitive musician. But he should also be. A straight up Bitch

Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

WELCOME TO THE STAR TREK ULTIMATE RAREPAIR GENERATOR MARK 3

featuring 50 characters from tos, tng, ds9, ent, and voy, there is a total of 1225 SHIP COMBINATIONS

to receive your rarepair REBLOG this post and choose a number between 1-1225 in the tags.

once you are assigned your ship you are BONDED TO THEM FOR LIFE. you are not permitted to ship any other characters. you must PRODUCE fancams, ship art, slow burn fanfic, and character edits for your ship. good luck out there my soliders o7

*To the tune of "Uptown Girl"*

Lizard spy! He got exiled and he won't tell why!