Starred Trek Time

[exlibra]

what happened to tain’s fortune after he died? i imagine garak was not in the will, but did mila inherit? i assume garak would be her heir after her death. is garak actually (jean ralphio voice) fluuuush with caaaash or did it go to some other unnamed relative? are there half siblings running around?

[unamccormack]

FWIW, I think the money was all his never-seen-on-screen posh society wife, but the house was Tain’s, and it’s in his will that Mila gets to live there for as long as she needs, then it reverts to the wife. There is absolutely categorically nothing for Garak, not even a mention: come on, Tain’s made that watertight. But Garak outlives the lot of them (including any putative and imho entirely possible half-siblings) and nobody else wants this heap of rubble piled up over his dead mother. Well that’s cheered me right up!

[knivesandteeth]

Do you think Tain's estranged wife and Dukat's ex-wife hang out?

[unamccormack]

Absolutely not, they hate each other's guts. Madame Dukat (conservative, dutiful, twinset and pearls, played by Anna Massey) thinks that Madame Tain is tacky, and Madame Tain (glamorous, dripping in jewellery, never seen without a cocktail, played by Joan Collins) thinks Madame Dukat is tedious. It's like the rivalry between the military and the Order only far, far more vicious and terrifying.

[skymallnine]

The real mindfuck of Vorta cloning is that it’s not even like reloading a save. They only remember up to the last checkpoint. From the Vorta’s perspective, the thing that killed them is in their future, not their past.

Maybe they’re considering something, planning something, and they go to sync their brain and suddenly they’re in the cloning facility. Ok, obviously it’s time to reconsider that decision. Or maybe it was a different decision, some long chain of events they don’t have the faintest memory of? Even after they get briefed on some of the missing details, it’s hard to know for sure. Did they do something wrong? Did someone else? Was it completely unavoidable? They never have any deaths to learn from, just a growing and ominous string of births.

Anyway, I don’t think the Founders actually changed the formula between Weyoun 6 and 7. I don’t think they had to. The moment Weyoun started doubting, in the privacy of his own mind, he woke up as a clone. And like all the previous times he was born again, he immediately and reflexively flinched away from that train of thought, along with anything else he was thinking of at the time.

[whataboutbobbed]

Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 - )

[rhyfeddu-partyofone-deactivated]

“Uhura never had another name during the series. One of the fan writers wrote “Upenda” - which means “peace” in Swahili, I understand — not officially, but in some of their fan writings. And it sort of took hold. But when they were going to do the official history of Star Trek in a published book, the writer called Gene and asked him was “Uhura” her first name or her last name? Gene said, “Well, Nichelle and I never decided.” We always leaned towards it being her last name because it’s taken from the Swahili “uhuru” which means freedom. So it would sort of be like the same as “Freeman.” So he said, “You can make it her last name.” The writer said, “What about her first name? I’ve come up with one in Swahili. It’s Nyota.” Gene said, “I can’t give you that permission because Nichelle and I named her together, and she has rights to that, so you’ll have to call her and get her permission.” So he gave him my number, and he called me and I laughed and was delighted. He said, “I have a name and it’s Nyota.” I said, “That’s quite beautiful. What does it mean?” He said, “It means ‘star’.” I said, “You can have my permission!” So I have since said that her name is Nyota Upenda Uhura, which would mean a free-floating star: “star of freedom and peace”. I like that.”    — NICHELLE NICHOLS

[reject-tiefling]

They are all waiting for you outside the bathroom

[dreg-heap]

Can't you see? CAN'T YOU SEE? THE MORAL DILEMMA OF SEVERANCE IS TUVIX! IT'S ALL TUVIX! WE MADE PRESTIGE TV TUVIX! WHY WON'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME? TUVIIIIIIIX

[violenceenthusiast]

what about a shapeshifter who’s bad at it. shapeshifter who can never quite get the nose right. shapeshifter who always makes flipped faces because they’re doing adjustments in the mirror. shapeshifter with same face syndrome. shapeshifter who always dips further into the uncanny valley than they want. shapeshifter who can mimic a single celebrity completely perfectly but struggles to recreate anyone else.

[nonotimetoulouse]

It’s like every week something weird happens.

[tubofgoodthings]

I can’t even begin to imagine how many episodes would be improved just by Picard giving a stumbling, awkward exposition of the episode’s plot to the crew

[starryoak]

ALL episodes could be improved if we saw Picard’s awkward, stumbling exposition to the crew of what’s going on that episode. In fact, I really wanna see that.

[nonotimetoulouse]

“Attention crew, this is your captain speaking. You may notice my voice sounds different, and uh, long story short, I’m 12 again. Another transporter thing, we should really get that looked at. Anywhooo if a little blonde kid starts ordering you around, don’t ignore him, because it’s me. Ok. Bye.”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Petition for future series of Star Trek to replace the ‘Captain’s Log’ bits with the Captain making increasingly bizarre anouncements over the intercom explaining the events of the plot to the redshirts.

“Attention crew, this is your captain speaking. Just letting everyone know that, earlier today, an extra-terrestrial probe inserted about half a centuries’ worth of memories into my brain, leading me to briefly believe that I was living a whole other life that felt as real to me as the one I’m living now. Then I woke up after what felt like decades— but was actually only a few minutes— to discover that my friends, my family and my culture not only no longer existed, but had never actually belonged to me in any real sense.

“So… er, y'know, if I seem a little off over the next few days… that’s why.”

[quasi-normalcy]

“Attention crew; as you’ve probably noticed, the ship is being slowly transformed into an ancient, vaguely meso-American-ish alien temple; we’re working on ways to reverse it, but until then, just uh…sit tight and try not to ne converted into alien plant-life, haha–”

“Warn them about Data!”

“Oh yes, and if you see Lieutenant Commander Data roaming the halls in a kind of a mask…run.”

[youre-brilliant]

If this is your thing, I can only HEAVILY recommend The Star Trek: Lower Decks series

[quasi-normalcy]

“Hello, everyone, uh…yeah. Hi; this is obviously not Captain Picard. Yeah…may name is Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Keegan and I’m actually in command of the Bridge right now. Now, I know what you’re thinking: who is this sexy devil, and where did the entire senior staff go? Haha; well. I wish I could tell you. All we know is that Q was seen a few hours ago, and apparently some ‘Robin Hood’ gear was seen to appear on the senior staff seconds before they disappeared, so we figure that they’re off having a, uh, little mediaeval adventure, haha. Hopefully nothing too dangerous. Aaaanywho, Starfleet Command *has* been notified, and they’ve ordered us to maintain orbit for the time being. So you know; just…go about your regular duties. Keegan out.”

[skrankku]

Big fan of whatever the fuck they've got going on.

[skrankku]

I feel so glad and humble to witness peoples' third eye opening in the tags:

Also some very good analysis:

True and I am lovingly picking out off-the-shoulder dress designs.

...

[skrankku]

Garak's ideas for Odo's dress:

Odo's ideas for Odo's dress:

The compromise:

And lastly, ideas for Garak's dress:

[lizardsfromspace]

Naomi Wildman gets hooked on Space Roblox, starts playing an Adventures of Flotter game that was programmed by Bajoran child labor during the occupation. Flotter gets set on fire and just begs her to get her mom's credit card and enter the gacha for daily energy or else he'll just keep burning. She's screaming and trying to find her mom and ask her for Space Robux but she can't bc nobody has seen her for three seasons

[lizardsfromspace]

Naomi and the Borg kids hack Voyager's power systems to earn more energystones for Vidiian Princess Surgery Simulator. The ship is found adrift and lifeless, and with too little daily energy to complete the level where you extract Rapunzel's lungs for Phage Elsa

[formlab]

Citroën Karin Concept, Designed by Trevor Fiore, 1980

[edenoi]

you HAVE to know what the outside of this car looks like

please, sir. just one more polygon. it’s all i ask

[emi--rose]

@fearforthestorm

[justsomeguycore]

knock knock

[dismembered-jackalope]

who's there

[justsomeguycore]

deez

[dismembered-jackalope]

sigh

deez who ?

[justsomeguycore]

deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

[amphibimations]

I just watched ds9 episode ‘the alternate’.

[gothinkdexign]

[clementine-kesh]

given chakotay’s rather. um. unorthodox approach to playing therapist they really missed out on an opportunity for him to manufacture a christmas carol type of situation in response to janeway’s depressive spirals. like it’s not so bad in the delta quadrant, check out these simulations on what we would all be up to if we weren’t here. here’s me and b’elanna getting mowed down by cardassian forces! here’s harry rotting away in a founder prison after being replaced by a changeling! here’s tuvok throwing himself in the path of a phaser blast meant for you! here’s seven, still a mindless borg drone! don’t you feel so much better about your choices now?

[clementine-kesh]

twist the knife a little actually it would be such a beautiful tragic irony if voyager was the one mowing chakotay and b’elanna’s ship down in this alternate reality

[respocked]

what if data and weyoun met and weyoun saw data paint and watched curiously and then said: my people have no sense of aesthetics. sometimes i wish things were different.

and data said well as i am an android i posess no such sense as well. however i do have excellent ballance. and kept painting. and then data said many art theorists would argue that aesthetics as a concept are actually counterproductive to art, as the pursuit of art should include expressing emotions and evoking sensations in the viewer, and the traditional sense of beauty inhibits this.

and then he kept painting (some sort of surrealist disembodied head floating through a geometric maze of connected rooms) and the next thing he said his voice sounded a little different, quieter: as an android, i have no emotions to express. but before weyoun could reply he turned around and handed him a painbrush and said: perhaps you'd like to try, mr. weyoun?

and then there's a cut. cue A plot. next scene we see weyoun and data paint side by side quietly. close up on weyoun's canvas. it's a writhing dark mass of fuzzy shapes and distorted figures. inside of it you can make out thousand of little faces with their mouths twisted open in fear or screaming, eyes open, closed, some without arms or legs, clutching their injuries. dark fluid streaks down from them to the edge of the canvas, dripping to the floor, like tears or blood. in the background, a mountain of corpses. if you step away from it, the whole composition makes a sillhuete of a founder.

that is most illuminating, said data.

i have titled it "a very cool party together forever with rainbows", weyoun replied proudly

[respocked]

bending time and space to let them hang out

[clementine-kesh]

how many place names do you think the voyager crew inspired in the delta quadrant. yeah this used to be called nebula x-192b but then some randos in their starship and got into some real crazy shit in there so ever since we’ve called it voyager’s folly

[spirkbitch]

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[janedoodlee]

that can’t be good