Boldly Going

[addigni]

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

[cosmic-fox]

Spock: Jim, when I feel friendship for you... I am ashamed

Jim:...

Spock: also; this erection

[tricorderreading]

In honor of this post, I thought it might be fun to share (some of) the many faces of captain kirk as he appears on the star trek book covers throughout the years. Novels shown here were published from the 70s through the 90s

[teamklingon]

I’m a Doctor!

[herssian]

i don’t know where the notion that if you don’t give big bucks to an artist then you’re not really supporting them came from, but when people say even a tiny bit of monetary support saves an artist, it’s not for the aesthetic or the gesture of it all. i’ve been able to have actual drinking water on days i’ve been incredibly broke simply because someone bought a brush pack for 2 euros. in the most actual, literal way i could possibly convey this: the SMALLEST amount counts. in practice counts. people-get-to-eat-today counts. especially in this age of everyone and their mother being out to deplatform artists. there’s value in the tiniest of ways

[anaeolist]

I HAVE LOST CONTROL OF MY LIFE

from here

[lt-cmdr-titties]

i'm probably most definitely in the minority here and if anybody wants me to explain this in more depth i for sure can but. i think this whole obsession over what spock's "real first name" is is misguided to the extent that it both highlights a major flaw of and also misses the entire point of star trek

[marshmellin]

Agree completely. I think part of it could be a commentary on how “we” try to fit his Vulcaness into a box.

He asks to be called Spock.

So he *is* Spock.

How others refer to him as is not as important as how he asks *you* to refer to him.

Spock is several things: a son, a half-human, a half-Vulcan, the son of an Ambassador, a teacher, a mentor, an outcast, for a brief moment a Vulcan husband-to-be, a kohlinar student, a scientist, a traveler, a human-friend, an officer, a musician — it’s possible his names reflect all these and more, and are not contained to lineage.

How Human to focus on lineage. Perhaps this is why he doesn’t always share information about his full family. Who they are is not who he is — their existence made him into Spock, yes, but he just brings himself.

He is Spock.

[lt-cmdr-titties]

yes!!! and i would honestly say it goes even further beyond anthropocentrism to reinforcing the harmful expectation that everybody's named using the [first name] [middle name] [last name] format, which i would argue is especially egregious considering the jewishness that's baked into spock and the centuries long struggle that semitic peoples have had around their "non-normative" names

i'm gonna put a whole essay under the cut about vulcan naming conventions but that's basically the tl;dr :)

okay so! canon suggests that spock has a first name bc of that one bit where he says that humans would find it unpronounceable (if you believe he's telling the truth and not just being a little shit there and like, when is he not being a little shit? would it be so out of character for him to be so annoyed by constantly being asked "no, what's your real name" that he's just started saying "you couldn't pronounce it" to get them to shut up?) so beta canon gives us xtmprszntwlfd as his last name (uss enterprise officer's manual) or s'chn t'gai as his last name (ishmael)

but like. from what i know literally none of the other vulcans in star trek have ever been given second names

so! we can say we have a culture here with a non-bi/trinary naming system, unlike what is commonly found in many families (and what is legally and in terms of computer code considered "standard") in the us and many other hegemonic/powerful societies. i really like the thought of this tbh? like there's a huge and wonderful history of those with "non normative" naming systems fighting against the standard status quo. many of these people at the forefront of this struggle in the us are and have been jewish and other semitic immigrants, so having vulcans be a part of this tradition of not following [first] [middle] [last] feels really fitting considering how much of their culture is based off jewish roots

all that aside tho, our vulcans in canon don't have "first names" and "last names," even if they're relatives. we just have spock, sarek, vorik, taurik, t'pol, etc. all the way back to surak. this would line up with the naming conventions in documented vulcan culture but still! you need a way to tell the difference between sonok and sonok or t'luki and t'luki assuming this would occur, considering how insular clans seem to be. but lbr statistically speaking if you're only sticking to pronounceable names, you're going to have repetition eventually, especially when you take into account vulcan naming traditions

so! we gotta differentiate our vulcans somehow!

in all documented vulcan rituals, a vulcan is denoted as [name] [child] [of-parent one] [and] [of-parent two] using the t'~ prepositional prefix on both the parents' names. so like >spock sa-fu t'sarek heh t'amanda<

"but orion," the one person still reading this infodump may be asking "i follow you and you always tag posts with spock in them as 'spock cha'sarek!' what's up with that!" and to you i would first say why are you still reading this please drink some water, thank you for following, AND i'm so glad you asked that!

iirc "spock cha'sarek" was initially proposed in diane duane's spock's world, which imo already gives it a lot of weight bc diane duane herself created so much of vuhlkansu and vulcan tradition. but even that aside, it's still a contender and should have been added to my list above but i left it out for ✨dramatic effect✨

given the classic vulcan tradition for women to be named with the t'~ prefix (from what i've been able to determine, this is unrelated to the prepositional prefix mentioned above) this can kinda be a mouthful tho, and vuhlkansu doesn't like redundant sounds that make it hard to pronounce the word because that's illogical. it's kinda like how in spanish you don't say "uno o otro" you'd say "uno u otro," in vuhlkansu

so! that's where i'd see cha'~ fitting in, to compensate for this. it's important to note that cha'~ is not listed as a prefix in the vli and i'm pretty sure i've only seen it used in spock's world, so this next bit is purely personal headcanon on my part

it's documented that in very formal ceremonies spock would introduce himself as >spock sa-fu t'sarek heh t'amanda< (even if it's clunky because sometimes super duper stick-up-your-ass proper grammar is more important than words flowing off your tongue), and in less-formal-but-still-important situations (also it's important to note that in this situation there are a whole lot of vulcans in one place, so this likely also has something to do with it, and he's introducing himself so that it can be cross-referenced with a guest list) he introduces himself as >spock cha'sarek< but in normal day-to-day life he'd just introduce himself as spock because why does he need to give you a summary of his family tree over tea. but honestly? given how much of a mama's boy spock is i wouldn't be surprised if he started introducing himself as >spock cha'amanda< or >spock t'amanda<

here's an awesome podcast episode that talks more about the history of jewish peoples specifically and their naming traditions [x]

and here's some references for vulcan names: transcripts of vulcan ceremonies [x], vulcan naming conventions [x], and @yel-halansu (my beloved) also has a great post discussing it here [x]

and two people asked to be tagged in this so hiii @marshmellin @cookiekraftwerk

[snorelaks]

this is your captain speaking, AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SHOUTING.

[parksandtrekreation]

#’and this is your captain beatboxing’#’pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch’#-jim kirk probably

[supersoldiercarter]

#[muffled sounds of intense vulcan exasperation]

[asidewalksymphony]

# [louder and more aggressive sounds of intense southern doctorial exasperation]

[t00thpasteface]

local starship captain could have literally anyone in the galaxy, flirts with melodramatic vulcan geek instead

[prroncito]

Ohno

Angsty prompt without context✨

[marlinspirkhall]

My dude, you never miss 😭🙌💓

[prroncito]

Happy birthday fren ✨💖✨💖✨

Still got another surprise tho

[chrishemsworht]

Your father was captain of a Starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother’s and yours. I dare you to do better. Star Trek (2009) dir. J.J. Abrams

[michaelallanleonard]

Nyota Uhura by Brian Stelfreeze

[andruillus]

star trek drawings ive recorded (videos are on this blog and @ my insta) reblog with your fave tos episodes, im rewatching them at random rn and i want ideas 💖

[protectspock]

from Primary Sources by walkandtalk. I’m just obsessed with the concept that everyone is constantly calling Spock “pancakes” all the time and he just accepts it.

[incorrect-trekquotes]

alien of the week: i’ve come to take over the ship.

kirk: let me ask spock.

alien of the week: it’s not a choi-

kirk: he said no.

[anaeolist]

i miss them heaps

[neetols]

First contact :^|