Mandated HoloLix Shipper

He/It. Star Trek, iZombie, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Rocky Horror. Appreciater of Worf.

[penny-anna]

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

OH MY GOD??

[penny-anna]

oh my god i talk a lot of shit about getting back more of daleks master plan but its actually happening there's a clip on the article and everything. oh my god it's 1am. i have work in the morning.

[penny-anna]

and two?? TWO????? im on the fucking floor

[swordlet]

Peter Purves, who played the Doctor's assistant Steven Taylor, was invited to the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester on Wednesday under false pretenses to view the two episodes, and he said: "My flabber has never been so gasted."

My flabber has never been so gasted.

[lizardlicks]

Professor of cinema and television history at Leicester's De Montfort University, Justin Smith - chair of trustees at FIF - said "a debt of gratitude" was owed to the anonymous late collector, whose films - largely focused on his love of trains and canals, including hundreds of home videos - were donated to FIF after he died.

ANOTHER AUTISTIC BADDIE WIN!!!!

[worflesbian]

tng often points out the similarities between Worf and data and I feel like it's a shame that the fandom doesn't really pay attention bc if you look at the way Worf approaches a lot of the problems he faces it is with an initial confusion about what is expected of him and why and how he is supposed to act that directly parallels data, only when data gets it wrong it's often adorable, mildly offputting at worst, whereas when Worf gets it wrong it tends to be offensive and alienating and he often doubles down on the wrong response out of fear of admitting to failure. which of course makes me obsessed with him but understandably makes people read him as a surface level arsehole who's just like that bc he sucks

[dilfsisko]

(Image ID: a set of tags that read “#worf is autistic while being black and data is autistic while being white.”/end ID)

[reginaldbroccoli]

I really love Janeway, but you know who would never leave behind his mutant lizard babies? Benjamin Sisko. 

He would love those lizard babies. He would teach those lizard babies to play baseball.

[trupie]

Yes. All the yes.

[laurelhach]

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (April 14th, 2015)

[alarajrogers]

I wrote a whole fanfic where I dealt with this, among other things, and I just want to say:

Janeway did what she did because she thought they were animals. She couldn’t remember her time as a salamander; neither could Tom. But they were never supposed to be a de-evolution, and in Star Trek, unlike the real world, “evolution” implies getting smarter and developing more control over yourself and your environment, and we’ve been told by many more advanced beings that humans are on the fast track to evolving into higher life forms.

The salamanders showed no signs, to Janeway’s eyes, of being sapient. (Janeway is not a biologist, nor a specialist in the humanities like Kirk and Picard; she is a physicist.) The babies had no human template to revert to, so she thought they were better off there, in the environment they were used to, rather than being taken aboard ship to be pets – because she thought they were animals. (It did not occur to her that if they were, they’d be an invasive species that she and Tom brought there. Again, not a biologist.) She thought she was doing what was best for them.

Because she’s not a Star Trek watcher. She’s of course learned about previous Starfleet missions and read logs, but she absolutely has not internalized the idea that we have been told we will become more advanced (by Star Trek terms, which involve psychic powers and maybe becoming energy beings), not less. They were not animals, and they showed no signs of being sapient because they were telepathic and they weren’t tool users because they didn’t need to be, they had psi powers or something. They didn’t meet the standards that Janeway-not-a-biologist thought existed for “what is sapient life?” (The Doctor wouldnt have known better either. He’s programmed with medical knowledge, whereas an understanding of, say, what kinds of sapience a creature unlike a humanoid might show, is not in his bailiwick. That’s science department. There are no pure biologists in the command crew on Voyager. Probably the pure biologists died when they came to the Delta Quadrant and half the crew was killed.)

Sisko, I suspect, understands more about alternate ways of being sapient – he’d have already met the Prophets, and though he doesn’t know it, he’s half-Prophet himself. We know he, like Picard and Kirk, knows a lot about human history. I think he’d understand the concept of invasive species, and “if you’re responsible for an animal existing, you’d better take it in and take care of it until you’re sure it can survive on its own”, and “something doesn’t need to talk or use tools to be sapient.” Also “those are my kids.” Sisko, unlike Picard, Kirk, or Janeway, is a parent. He would have emotionally perceived the salamanders as his kids and wanted to make sure they were safe and could survive, even if he thought they were animals, and he’d have been more open to any evidence that they weren’t.

So yeah, Sisko would have adopted them, found out they were sapient beings, and taught them to play baseball. :-) But Janeway wasn’t heartlessly abandoning children because they were inconvenient. It’s obvious she genuinely thinks they’re wild animals who should stay in their natural environment, and she thinks this because she had, like, three biology classes in the Academy and one of them was mostly about basic principles of xenomedicine that any Starfleet officer should know and that was 30 years ago and she has forgotten most of what she learned, because she’s a physicist.

[shoreleave]

"When I was younger, I was terrified of [doctors]."

[moo9395]

I’m actually screaming WHAT this is in incredible

[penny-anna]

Also in the gayer version of Voyager early in Seven's arc they could do a subplot where everyone decides it's time for Seven to start exploring romance and it's like we NEED to help Seven figure out what (if any) genders she's into. This rapidly devolves into everyone trying to 'convince' Seven to be into whatever gender they think best bcos B'elanna was there like Seven I want you to know you DON'T have to date men, dating men is a nightmare and you can be a lesbian if you want and Tom and Harry took offence and started trying to prove to Seven that dating men is good & fun actually and got competitive about it. Anyway Seven would not be into any of this and would be like 'gender is irrelevant'.

[penny-anna]

In the more trans version they could also do a thing where everyone is like Seven now you're free from the collective you can decide what gender you wanna be and Seven would be like okay. My preferred gender is BORG DRONE. And they'd all be like no no you can't have that one. And Seven would be like why not.

[romans-art]

i think y'all are missing a trick with Kathryn Janeway and Eleanor of Aquitaine given the Katharine Hepburn/Kate Mulgrew crossovers, but the request was for Janeway with a fuckoff big sword as an Angevin so here we go -- she got stuck in a holodeck program with the rest of the crew and she likes swinging a sword maybe a little too much 🤏

[mariocki]

[thethirdromana]

Star Trek headcanon: Federation Standard isn't a single language, it's a way of speaking other languages that make it easier for universal translators to translate them.

Features of Federation Standard include minimal use of in-jokes and memes; expressing yourself primarily verbally (so the meaning can be translated) rather than through body language (which can't be); avoiding ambiguous phrasing and garden-path sentences; and not conveying meaning through features of your own language such as puns or alliteration that don't translate.

Federation children learn their own languages at home, but are taught how to use Federation Standard at school. Not every language can be spoken in Federation Standard (e.g. Tamarian) but most can.

[captainjimothy]

the thinggggg the thing about kira and jadzia is that. jadzia is so so so full of joy and the measured, steady, unshakeable optimism of someone much older than she is. but she wasn't always like that, she was a lonely, anxious, nerdy kid who "grew up" 300 years in the span of a single medical/spiritual operation. and a big part of that experience was the dedicated training she got towards knowing herself, knowing her needs and desires and how to meet them, so that she wouldn't get drowned out by the rest of dax. right

and she comes to ds9 and she meets kira, a lonely, anxious fighter who was an adult by the time she was 10, who never had the opportunity to know more about herself than what was strictly necessary--that she is strong, that she makes a good leader, that she can do anything she sets her mind to. but she never figured out what she might like to set her mind to, because freedom was the only thing it was possible to want.

and jadzia sees her old self in kira's face, in the bowstring-tight lines of her, and jadzia takes her by those aching shoulders and says Hey. do you want to know yourself? do you want to know what joy is? do you want to play?

[delete-this-when-i-die]

I hate to say it but kai (vedek?) winn had a point when she said Keiko should be teaching a curriculum that was more respectful of their religion and the Bajoran stance on the Prophets.

DS9 is fully Bajoran property, with a majority Bajoran student population, so to have a Federation citizen come in and set up a school that completely shit on their spiritual beliefs is high key coloniser behaviour. I'm not saying Keiko should have started leading spiritual services or anything but it definitely wouldn't kill her to be more respectful of Bajoran religion.

Especially considering as it's all real?? Like yes the logical Star Fleet explanation for the wormhole aliens is true but also they are interdimensional beings that transcend time and space, and have also picked one of the PTA dads to be their Jesus. I think it's a bit harsh to treat Bajoran religion like some wishy washy nonsense when it's quantifiably true

[prof-grace-aspen]

The thing is, Keiko WAS being respectful. She also credits the entities/beings Sisko spoke to with creating and maintaining the wormhole. This is true. She uses non-Bajoran, scientific terms for all this, rather than the terms Vedek Winn would prefer, but none of it conflicts with Bajoran religion. She isn’t denying the existence or role of the beings in the wormhole, for example. The Celestial Temple IS a wormhole; that’s the technical term. It can be both!

“The entities that control the wormhole and have agreed to allow passage to our ships”

“We are able to safely pass through the Celestial Temple because The Prophets protect our ships”

Those two statements aren’t incompatible! They mean the same thing. There is nothing wrong with a scientist using scientific terminology to describe a phenomenon, and there’s nothing wrong with a Vedek using religious terminology.

The truth is that Vedek Winn didn’t have a problem with Keiko. She had a problem with Vedek Bareil. The whole school thing was an excuse to get him to the station to murder him. She literally planted a bomb on a SCHOOL with CHILDREN in it, to lure Vedek Bareil to the station to KILL him.

That’s why her arguments were basically picking at semantics. “You said entities instead of Prophets” “You said ‘agreed to allow passage’ instead of ‘protects our ships’.” And her demand Keiko refuse to teach anything about the wormhole at ALL is completely unreasonable. Winn even admits when Keiko presses her about evolution etc. that basically, Winn wants to control Keiko’s curriculum. Or rather, she wants everyone to think that’s what she wants. Basically, she’s there to stir up trouble.

Keiko was right when she said that teaching theology was Winn’s job, and teaching science was Keiko’s job. These two roles will always have tension if people think they’re incompatible.

I’d never teach my students theology. They go to church for that. I think theology slots into science in really important places as part of the history of the development of the scientific method and how we look at the world, but I’m not here to teach them that. There are better teachers for that; experts in their fields, like Rabbis and Imams and Priests.

I think the show does a good job showing that there’s no incompatibility between the Prophets and science. They are the entities that created and control the wormhole. They let the Bajorans call them prophets. They gave information to the Bajorans that can tell the future, which is what a prophet does. The Bajorans call the wormhole the Celestial Temple. It’s both things.

And the plot of the episode is all about how BOTH Keiko and Winn have points, and that yes, it’s important to respect both sides, but the show very clearly supports Keiko’s preference for a separation between school and church. It also makes it clear that Winn’s opposition wasn’t genuine and was just performative. If she’d been there to actually talk, I think she would’ve been willing to actually listen to Keiko. But we both know she was actually there to do murder, and she didn’t care if children—including BAJORAN children—were murdered in the process.

[himedanshihozier-moved-deactiva]

people on the trek bbs love to just say things that are completely unsubstantiated. one person said they thought vulcans didn't go into pon farr until they were 70 because they lived so long. another person in the same thread said UM, ACTUALLY, they have their first pon farr at age 7.

[himedanshihozier-moved-deactiva]

i think the age 70 thing comes from enterprise bc if i remember correctly, t'pol went into an "early" pon farr in her 60s. but i don't remember if that was even implied to be her first or if it was just earlier than it should have been based on when her last one was. regardless, enterprise is full of contradictions to previously established canon, and they didn't even want to be called star trek at first and only accepted the name when they realized nobody knew what the fuck "enterprise" was and no one was watching it, so i'm fine ignoring most of that series.

the first time pon farr is mentioned in canon is in the season 2 premier of tos, "amok time." in tos, spock is in his late 30s, and for him to have believed he would be spared the suffering and embarrassment of pon farr until it suddenly hit him just then, that implies two things: 1. this is his first pon farr, and 2. it's later than he would have expected it to normally happen.

but then, in the search for spock, after he has died and been reborn and is experiencing accelerated maturation, he appears to be in his late teens or perhaps his early 20s when he inexplicably experiences what would then be his "first" pon farr.

similarly, in voyager's "blood fever," vorik goes into pon farr in what must be his early 20s since he's implied to be fresh out of the academy. the facts that he isn't married and he didn't think to prepare for or anticipate this before it happened would imply this was also his first time experiencing pon farr.

interestingly, tuvok, who is 107 at the start of voyager, married his wife t'pel relatively late, at age 40, seeming to imply that, like spock, he also experienced a late pon farr for some reason, or he experienced ~3 pon farrs while unmarried.

which to me adds further evidence toward my theory that sexually active vulcans don't experience pon farr, OR they do but it's not as intense so don't really notice it beyond being like "wow i was really horny last week for some reason. huh. anyway."

tuvok is shown to have loved at least one other woman prior to his wife (though they were teenagers and there's no evidence he ever slept with her), and it's shown time and time again that he had a somewhat unorthodox and even rebellious youth by vulcan standards. plus, his family really respected and strived to emulate spock and sarek's family, so it might not be unreasonable for tuvok's father to have turned a blind eye on any initial reluctance to marry on tuvok's part.

and then with spock, until strange new worlds came around and showed spock regularly engaging in premarital sex, the fact that he didn't experience pon farr in his original body until he was in his late 30s but experienced it at around the typical age after being reborn seemed somewhat contradictory. perhaps, then, spock did experience a cycle or two of pon farr as a younger man but just didn't notice it. or he didn't experience it at all because it's some kind of biological failsafe that only kicks in when the situation is dire and the body realizes this person isn't going to have sex, and therefore likely won't reproduce, unless they absolutely have to.

not to mention the whole romulan thing. romulans only left the vulcan home world a thousand years before their reemergence. that's not enough time to evolve to be biologically different. but there's no mention of a romulan pon farr. so either they don't experience it because they don't force themselves to abstain from sexual activity as part of their emotional repression techniques, or they do but they don't notice it because they're not trying to deny themselves anything their bodies are asking for. (or maybe they teach it differently than vulcans do. instead of it being some shameful, uncontrollable urge that they have to keep in check and have designed parts of their society around to accommodate it, they're just like "okay so our fertility cycles are roughly 7 years in length. you may notice an increase in libido at the peak of the cycle, but that's to be expected. it's just your body's way of telling you it's ready to make a baby. if you don't want to do that, use protection. if you have any questions, let me know, or there are also these pamphlets and these websites where you can learn more. now back to your regularly scheduled battle tactics lessons.")

[unsaelig]

Ok everyone let’s think beautiful thoughts about masculine women today.

[cdr2002]

Girl you can walk like John Wayne on the promenade all you want

[nerys-kira-major]

can’t believe the producers told her the john wayne walk was a problem like it’s not insanely hot

[worflesbian]

further thoughts on sisko/worf re this post: the more i think about it the more parallels i notice between them?

they're both single fathers to a son, whose mothers both died violently; the key difference being that sisko and jennifer were married and raising jake together whereas worf and k'ehleyr were Not, hence why worf was so unprepared to be a father. they both often end up making difficult decisions in situations that they are uniquely positioned to arbitrate, worf as the only klingon in starfleet, sisko as the dual authority of starfleet officer/bajoran emissary. on the same note, they both disrupt the scientific worldview of the people they report to, worf mainly through his adherence to klingon spirituality (e.g. in tng's rightful heir) and sisko through his communication with the prophets. theyre both very devoted and loyal to their long time friends, and they can both be petty and vindictive at times.

that being said, the ways in which they differ are fascinating - ik a lot of people back in the day wanted to see worf as a captain at some point, but i strongly disagree with that bc being a captain is primarily being a people manager and that's one thing worf cannot do, whereas sisko excels at getting people working. he understands what will motivate them, how to meet them at their level, even how to use that knowledge against them e.g. blackmailing quark. worf struggles to understand people and is quite resistant to being understood, which is why he finds sisko intimidating bc he sees right through him. worf presents himself as very rigid and unyielding when it comes to his principles, but at heart he's often very unsure and can be swayed by the arguments of others, specifically commanding officers who he respects, and he's good at putting aside personal slights in the name of the bigger picture even if he will loudly complain about it. sisko on the other hand presents himself as quite easygoing socially, but has a deeply rooted grasp on what he feels is Right that leads him into situations like in the pale moonlight and for the uniform, and while he'll also put personal feelings aside when needed, he holds a grudge a lot longer than worf does.

[hottestthingalive]

i know ive posted about this before but if you think a little too hard about jackie tyler & rose's relationship it does actually recontextualize their entire characterizations from seasons one through four of doctor who. because when rose was a little girl she ran away on a school trip. and jackie was angry, and more than that she was terrified, and when rose was home and safe and sound she probably thought never again. and then when rose was sixteen she ran away with a musician who was older and very abusive and when she finally came home she was hurt and scared and jackie almost didn't recognize her, she looked so small. and she probably thought, god, please, never again.

so then they're living together in jackie's flat & rose is nineteen and has gone back to work and things are good! and then henrik's blows up. and jackie's terrified, obviously, keeps telling rose she ought to sue, because what if, except she doesn't because the next day aliens are attacking london. and then when it's all over mickey shows up with some crazy story about rose running off with some alien, and it IS crazy, except rose never comes home. and by the third month everyone's pretty sure she's either abandoned jackie for good this time, or is dead in some ditch somewhere, and jackie starts to believe them, to the point where she looks her friend's son in the eyes and accuses him of killing her daughter. but twelve months later rose comes back like nothing happened at all, with some older man jackie's never met before, and it turns out mickey was right. except now the more she learns the worse it gets, because rose says the doctor isn't like jimmy stone, but maybe that doesn't matter because he also is the reason that rose is now in so much danger, all the time. and then she leaves again, promises to be back soon and isn't, gone again for weeks, and.

rose runs away, and comes back, and every time she is a little less the daughter jackie knew. and not just in the normal way, anymore: jackie helps her open up the tardis, and when rose comes home her memory's all funny, and the doctor shushes jackie or mickey whenever they try and ask about it. and every time she comes home after that, she's a little bit less human, a little bit more doctor, and jackie can't quite tell which is rose anymore.

at canary wharf jackie and rose are pulled into another universe (and mickey's back, too, he'd disappeared, someone else gone and vanished), and rose decides to leave. rose goes back for the doctor. and the only reason rose ends up safe with jackie at all is because she's stuck there. and jackie watches her sob against that white wall and knows in her heart that her daughter would have picked her almost certain death to that vortex over this, trapped where she can never run away again.

so jackie thinks she's safe, for a bit, rose. the doctor even says so himself, burns up a sun to say goodbye. but rose, always so stubborn, figures it out, anyway, her and that dimension cannon, and maybe it's necessary and maybe it's saving the world but jackie just sees her daughter running away again. and then they're back in another war, the daleks and the doctor and the tylers and all his other companions, and at the end of it jackie gets her daughter--but she knows then, too, that if the doctor had never split she would have lost her daughter for the last time. and there wouldn't have been anything she could do to stop it. because rose was always going to choose adventure, choose novelty, choose everything jackie wasn't. she ran away from that school trip, and she never, ever stopped.

anyways. something something rose tyler who never stops running and jackie tyler who never stops being left behind

[demilypyro]

I like the idea of a Vulcan character who constantly does very reckless things so her human crewmates think she's strange but then she always has a logical explanation she delivers with absolute confidence.

"No, it was perfectly logical for me to jump out of the shuttle at that time. I had a breathing apparatus, and I was certain I could seal the subspace rift by hand before the Romulans opened fire. This was the only solution that would result in zero casualties. I might have died, but giving up is illogical."

She's known as one of the most fearless members of the crew.

Other Vulcans try not to acknowledge her.

[demilypyro]

"I eliminated all the threats with ruthless efficiency. To do any less would be illogical."

[demilypyro]

An absolute menace.

[demilypyro]

[zeemczed]

"I concede that by taking further stock of the issue I could have arrived at a more elegant solution. However, the more time one takes to analyze, the greater the odds of a window of opportunity elapsing. Most issues can be dealt with most effectively by applying a peculiarly logical human maxim - Occam's Razor." "Or an actual razor." "It was in arm's reach and was sufficiently sturdy and well maintained, so yes."

[sewickedthread]

@adanddavid for your next Star Trek game?

[hollowedskin]

@cannon-fannon for you

[cannon-fannon]

I’m so glad you know my interests so well. BUT I laughed so loud I ruined bedtime routine for the 3yo.

[hollowedskin]

I see you catching up on week old Tumblr notifications while ao3 is down...

[background-alien-deactivated201]

you know what I’m thankful for? the scene in “badda bing, badda bang” in which ben explains that he’s uncomfortable with the vic fontaine program because it presents a sanitized vision of the past that cleanly glosses over the fact that people of color wouldn’t be welcome in an opulent vegas casino in 1962. and then kasidy replies with her thoughts on the importance of reclaiming fantasy, allowing fiction to be more inclusive than historical fact because acting out how things should have been can provide a kind of catharsis. i love that both of their arguments are equally valid responses to media like the vic program. they’re both responses that anyone from a marginalized community can genuinely relate to when it comes to discussing media representation (factual accuracy versus wishful fantasy? retroactive representation versus representation in new media that gives the spotlight to people who haven’t been allowed to be illuminated before?)

it’s yet another example of ds9 not hiding discussions of major social issues behind layers of metaphor. ds9’s constant refrain is “yes, these issues are real and distinct, they happened in the past of this show which is your present dear viewer, and people who are affected by them will still speak and think about them even in a futuristic utopia because they’re a vital part of their identities and it’s important not to forget”

[obstinatecondolement]

I feel like it’s important to underline how much DS9’s handling of social issues in this respect can be credited directly to Avery Brooks and his input. Without Avery, DS9 would have been a dramatically different show.

[savorybreakfasts]

So much respect for Avery Brooks.

[kaelio]

klingons have two dicks and one is for their spouse and the other is for flings. it’s not considered cheating if you use the slutting-around dick. you just can’t use the spousal dick. it would be cheating to use the spouse dick 

[philosopherking1887]

#its the same w klingon vaginas #sirella only lets martok use the slut one and hes really into it. the spousal one is for special occasions (sorry if you wanted to keep this hidden @the-last-dillpickle but I felt the need to share)