Noah Kahan
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
EXPECTATIONS
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Peter Solarz
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Origami Around
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Mike Driver
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@beyondallthosedistantstars
This but make it domestic Spirk:
Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD
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idk what do you guys think they did with all that time in prison. this was really the only option to me.
i will never be over the fact that during first contact a human offered their hand to a vulcan and the vulcan was just like “wow humans are fucking wild” and took it
Humanity’s first contact with Vulcans was some guy going “I’m down to fuck.”
Vulcans’ first contact with Humans was an emphatic “Sure.”
@sineala
#iiiiiiiiiiiiii mean vulcans had been watching humans for a long time#they knew the significance of a handshake but still#they had to find some fast and loose ambassador#willing to fuckin make out with a human for the sake of not offending them on first contact#lmao#star trek give me the story of this fast and loose vulcan
“sir…these…these humans…they greet each other by…” *glances around before furtively whispering* “by clasping hands…”
*prolonged silence* “oh my…”
“sir…sir how will we make first contact with them? surely we…we cannot refuse this handclasping ritual, they will take it as an insult, but what vulcan would agree to such a distasteful and uncomfortable ritual??”
*several pensive moments later* “contact the vulcan high command and tell them to send us kuvak. i once saw that crazy son of a bitch arm wrestle a klingon, he’ll put his hands on anything”
Elsewhere, w/ kuvak: “….my day has come.”
The vulcan who made first contact with humans is named Solkar guys. Y’all just be makin’ up names for characters that already have names.
Bonus: here’s a screencap of Solkar doing the “my body is ready” pose right before he shakes Zefram Cochrane’s hand:
I swear Vulcans only come in two types and they are “distant xenophobes” or “horny on main for humanity”. Also apparently this guy is Spock’s great-grandfather and frankly that explains everything.
Hey so I looked into this at one point and that handshake literally created a lifelong telepathic bond between the two of them, and basically all of Solkar’s descendants were later obsessed with humans, including freaking SPOCK, so I’m not saying that handshake was so gay and good that it created an intergenerational telepathic bond between Solkar’s descendants and humans, but I’m also not….not….saying that.
actual footage of first contact makeouts
The slow deliberation with which Solkar takes Cockrane’s–I’m sorry, Cochrane’s–hand… The sheer sensuality witch which Solkar infuses an otherwise borderline impersonal social ritual… It clearly shows a very conscious knowledge, on Solkar’s part, of what the significance of the handshake is in Vulcan terms and of how affected he is by it.
That’s why he’s so slow in doing it, and so sensual. A part of Solkar can’t believe this is happening, despite it being a perfectly logical thing to expect from a human, and the rest of him can’t believe how good it is.
I bet that if the camera zoomed in any further we would see the dilation of Solkar’s pupils and a quickly-repressed shiver of delight. Cochrane’s firm, businesslike clasp is probably (in sexual terms) being perceived as a deliciously carnal display of dominance.
No wonder Solkar is all like, “TAKE ME, YOU WILD-MANNERED BARBARIAN WITH ENTICINGLY ROUGH CALLUSES.”
And so we find out that yes, there is such a thing as bottoming in Pon-farr.
Every time this post comes round my dash, it just gets better.
#somehow the idea of vulcans being Horny On Main always gives me the giggles#like literally all they had to do#was be like actually#hand contact is very intimate for our species#and im p sure humanity as a whole would not find that insurmountably weird#there are human cultures that dont shake hands#vulcans are logical enough to think that through on their own#so clearly that vulcan was just down to fuck#down to fuck in a public#professional diplomatic situation no less#and he did not fucking care who knew it (via kittykatthetacodemon)
Some Vulcan: we could probably just explain that handshakes are intimate in our culture
Solkar, rubbing lip gloss on his hand: don’t tell me how to do my job
This is my favourite Star Trek post, complete with headcanons, corrections, the truth coming out of her well to shame Spock even. Seriously perfect fandom work.
They could have explained none of it and responded to the offered hand with a polite bow. First contact was gonna be with the guy who proved they were technologically ready for it but any human aware of Japan and China would recognise that
she's thinking engineering thoughts, you wouldn't understand
I think I've said if before but s7 of ds9 should have been entirely about garak, damar and kira hiding in the trenches
garak, tinkering away in the barely lit room: so, damar, how long have you been thirsting for dukat?
kira: *chokes on her joint*
damar, on his 5th bottle of mila's home-brewed kanar that hits 10 times harder: and he knew I'd lie to protect him anyway...
garak, painting kira's toenails with old nail polish from his teens he found in a corner: he'd do that
kira, exhaling smoke: he fucked my mom
damar: *chokes*
garak, painting with extreme precision as if he was dismantling a bomb: he'd do that, too
I tell you, this is my favorite dynamic
“When will you be back?”
“It’s hard to say. Time doesn’t exist here. But I will be back.”
Nothing but.
prince of fashion, queen of the promenade, emperor of spice pudding
bashir looking for a cure for the jem'hadar's ketracel-white dependence should not have been a one-off episode plot and, if continued and possibly given a conclusion of success, could have added a very interesting and satisfying element to the series finale!!!!
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Emissary (1x01)
One thing I really like and find personally resonant about Julian Bashir is the fact that he's filled with passion and curiosity and enthusiasm but is also a judgmental hater. Responding to the new Defiant with "I hate the carpet." Responding to Jadzia saying "What I want is Worf" with "Why?" It's a pettiness distinct from his righteous anger over genuine injustice and it really speaks to me.
obsessed with star trek repeatedly writing themselves into a corner by creating alien races that are supposed to be The Bad Guys when that explicitly conflicts with their previously established notion that no group of people is inherently good or evil.
first it was the klingons—they’re originally supposed to be this cruel, bloodthirsty, war-obsessed people—and then tng comes along and it’s like wait no maybe war and violence is a part of their culture and actually ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies so we have to be woke about it.
hey these are the ferengi and they’re supposed to represent everything we hate about capitalist society; they’re greedy, scheming, profit-obsessed, and they look like ugly little trolls to emphasize how much we fucking HATE capitalism. oh wait fuck here comes deep space nine and we have to recognize that they’re PEOPLE. okok what if the pursuit of profit is actually part of their culture and ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies. so we have to be woke about it.
this is the borg, they’re a hivemind race of cyborgs who have no sense of individuality and their only motivation is assimilating people into their society. they want to assimilate humanity and we are completely defenseless against them because their technology is eons ahead of our own and they’re incapable of being reasoned with. oh sweet we have a borg prisoner this is the perfect opportunity to commit genocide against them. fuck actually we can’t commit genocide we’re woke and communists and in space.
hey these are the cardassians, they’re part of a cruel and vicious empire which is supposed to be a representation of fascism and authoritarian regimes, they’re a cold, bloodthirsty people with no sense of empathy or compassion, their society literally references 1984 on multiple occasions, and they’re known for the insanely cruel and inhumane methods of torture they use against their prisoners of war. we hate the cardassians…….. except, here’s a cardassian kid who grew up on bajor, and……. fuck. he’s a person. now we actually have to consider his humanity. and being racist is actually……. bad.
this is the jem’hadar, they’re genetically engineered soldiers who have no sense of individuality and only live to defend the state. they’re all born addicted to a synthetic drug that’s manufactured by the state and administered by their masters—this is how they’re kept subservient. they’re ruthless and powerful and they’re incapable of being reasoned with because their only motivation is violence and killing. so we should kill them all, right? FUCK….. what if they’re actually people. goddamnit. now we have to consider their humanity.
hey these are the romulans. hey these are the founders. the list goes on. i just find it really interesting
Mission accomplished!
(For those that don't realize, the previous reblog is one of DS9's writers.)
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) “Haven” (1.11)
True and valid
Okay look I'm incredibly grateful that Shatner is still alive. (I got to meet him this year, and it was a lovely experience.)
And at the same time ...
From the perspectives of affect theory (e.g. Doty), star apparatus theory (e.g. Dyer), indexicality, etc., etc. the fact that Shatner had romantic feelings for Nimoy, and the fact that these feelings came across on screen, strongly informs and supports a queer viewing of Star Trek.
But because Shatner seemed genuinely sad when he spoke about these feelings and lack of societal acceptance decades ago, and because he hasn't brought them up since then, it kinda feels like an invasion of his privacy to do a deep dive into the implications of these feelings while Shatner is still alive. (You know, like, just because he said some stuff 40 years ago doesn't mean he wants that to be circulating now.)
I'm not saying I'm waiting for Shatner to die. (I genuinely hope he outlives me). But I am saying that when he dies, expect that I will be publishing a peer-reviewed paper on this topic, grounded in film theory and queer theory.
Oh nevermind actually Shatner's latest quote about how he wanted to marry Leonard ("Had he been a girl I would have married him") is from a month ago
So yeah maybe I don't need to wait until he's dead to talk about it
Wait I wanna know what he said 40 years ago
This is so sad but also I’m so invested because I got into this fandom thinking he was quite conservative and homophobic etc, but I’ve started seeing things that make it seems like that’s not the case? That would be great if it wasn’t true
Here's the main interview I was thinking about from decades ago:
💬 12 🔁 176 ❤️ 620 · Is confessing his love to Leonard all shatner does dear god 😭
I'm definitely not the most knowledgeable about William Shatner, but my general impression is that he's a bisexual person who was made to feel like that part of himself was unacceptable. And now, he seems to be uncomfortable with the labeling of queer identities (or with other discussions of queerness that "make it a big deal"), not because he doesn't like queer people, but because he grew up in a time when it wasn't safe to celebrate these identities. (Also I personally think he is someone who tends to accidentally come off as more abrasive than he intends to be.)
A lot of my impression is based on a conversation I had with him, where I referred to myself as queer, and he was like "I don't like that word. It's derogatory. Why would you describe yourself that way? You're not queer. You're just a person. You're beautiful." And I totally get how someone could misconstrue what he said as being homophobic. But as the person he actually had a conversation with, it was pretty clear to me that he just grew up hearing labels used as slurs, and so he didn't like the terms themselves. But he seemed happy when I said I wasn't straight.
I know that he has kind of flip-flopped between being in support of Kirk/Spock shippers (e.g. telling them to "keep on queerin") and seeming annoyed by them. But like, imagine you were in unrequited homosexual love with your best friend who you couldn't be with and who you had a falling out with, and 60 years later, people were still talking about how longingly your character was staring at his character? (And in fact, the way your romantic attraction came through on screen was the foundation of slash shipping???) Maybe you would also want people to stop asking you about it sometimes.
In terms of his morals more broadly, he recently expressed pride over the fact that Star Trek has always been woke. Also, he doesn't run his social media accounts (he literally told me he doesn't), so stuff that has been posted on his accounts doesn't necessarily reflect his values.
I'm not saying Shatner is a saint, but I kinda think that a lot of stuff he's said has been misconstrued. (As another small thing in support of Shatner: Leonard Nimoy said that there wasn't a single quality that Captain Kirk had that wasn't also present in William Shatner in at least some small way. And that seems like a big testament to his character.)
@tossacointoyourhotmess
The grimy, unpatrolled streets of Laket are a dark and dangerous place. Inspector Levok of the Ministry of Justice is one of the few men standing in the way of total anarchy.
When the industrialist and philanthropist Pravet is found brutally slain in his opulent mansion in a room locked from the inside, it is just one item too many on Levok’s docket. In a city full of drugs, gangs, theft, and mysterious disappearances, the murder stands out because of its victim’s prominence. His civilian supervisor advises him to close it quickly, but the deeper he digs, the less the case makes sense.
The wealth on display in the family's townhome doesn't match the numbers in his account books. His grieving widow is desperate to protect the family's reputation. His eldest son stands to inherit a fortune but from where? His younger daughter harbored a bitter feud against her father, while the man's ambitious brother insists his business is above reproach. The missing nephew is not mentioned at all.
Worse still, Levok's on-again, off-again lover, a streetwalker named Saraol, was with the industrialist the night he died, but despite leaving while he was still alive, Saraol confesses to the murder the moment she's brought in for questioning.
As contradictions mount and powerful interests close ranks, levok finds himself trapped between family secrets, political pressure, and a crime behind a locked door that should be impossible.
Who is Saraol protecting? Where did the eldest son’s fortune come from? What happened to the missing nephew? And most of all, how did Pravet die, and who killed him?
#pretty much what he said (insp.)
