Tragic Sense of Life

Broody Existentialist Spaceman | Ex-Starfleet, Captain and Pilot of the civilian Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter La Sirena | Independent Roleplay and Askblog for Cristóbal Rios and his various Emergency Holograms - Star Trek: Picard - FC: Santiago Cabrera, played by Dawn | Mainblog to my Elnor (@boundswordasqalankhkai) Booker from Discovery S3+ (@bookergrudge) and Ed Mercer from The Orville (@captainmercer) sideblogs | RED ALERT: I do try to tag spoilers but know that THIS IS NOT A SPOILER-FREE BLOG. | Icon made by @ltfreckles | Personal (sideblog) is @the-plural-of-cris-is-crises

[cristobalrios]

Mobile Navigation: 

Rules & About

Thread Tracker

Interest Checker

References / My Reference Tag

AO3 Account

La Sirena - Mermaid/Ocean/Pirate aesthetic mostly and also the ship

[stra-tek]

your current favourite modern Star Trek series?

Discovery

Picard

Strange New Worlds

Lower Decks

Prodigy

Starfleet Academy

Remaining time: 4 days 14 hours

[h4h4n0tfunny]

I know I need to stop with these but I just can't stop

[apolladay]

USAmericans (and nonUSAmericans if applicable I guess) how many American states have you been to?

* just one (my own)

* 2-5

* 6-10

* 11-15

* 16-20

* 21-25

* 26-30

* 31-35

* 36-40

* 41-45

* 46- all 50

USAmericans (and nonUSAmericans if applicable I guess) how many American states have you been to?

just one (my own)

2-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45

46 to all of them

see results

Voting ended onApr 25

[nasa]

3, 2, 1 – liftoff!

The Artemis II Moon rocket lifted off from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026. Our live launch day coverage continues on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

Stick with us for more Artemis II content including live broadcasts for lunar flyby and splashdown, daily news conferences, and 24/7 streams providing views from the Orion spacecraft and from NASA Kennedy.

[electronicdinosaurgladiator]

My most toxic trait is fully believing that I could get a Vulcan to like me

[raffaelamusiker]

Seven of Nine is in love with Raffi Musiker pass it on

[evilthotiana]

[falseficus]

theres a real answer to this. if i understand correctly because of the way proportions work a smaller thing’s ratio of surface area to interior is greater, so a mini mnm will have proportionally more candy shell and less chocolate interior than a normal size mnm. so even if you increased in size this much the ratio of chocolate to shell in a normal mnm would remain the same so they would not taste like the more-candy-per-total-mass mini mnms. if mnms increased in size proportionally with you, they would taste more chocolatey than normal mnms

this is a similar concept to the reason why  creatures in the deep sea can evolve to be gigantic despite the rarity of food sources: its actually metabolically more efficient to be fuckhuge because your surface area/body mass ratio will be less and thus youll lose less heat through your skin (relative to your mass) to the surrounding cold environment of the sea than a smaller organism would lose

[evilthotiana]

you’re everything

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

huh. so i just found out "Torment Nexus" was invented for that one specific meme. i genuinely thought it was from an Orson Scott Welles novel. my ignorance is an unending source of surprise and delight

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

um. Orson Wells. H.G. Scott Welles. H. George Orson Orwell. Philip Bradbury. stop making me keep track of white men names

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in my defense all of these are separate individuals famous within classic sci-fi circles:

H.G. Wells

George Orwell

(George) Orson Welles

Orson Scott Card

at some point this is not my burden

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

the names of classic sci-fi authors appear to have amalgamated into a nexus of some kind. one that is tormenting you, perhaps.

[marlynnofmany]

They do indeed.

Also yeah, the G in "H.G. Wells" stands for George.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @riverlinden

baby plane......

text" Girl why were you playing flight sims at the age of zero

[lostyesterday]

In the Star Trek fandom on Tumblr, I have often seen discussions about “NuTrek” as a whole (which I’m using here to refer to Star Trek shows that have aired between 2017 and the present) generally being derivative, nostalgia-driven, and primarily referencing and utilizing characters, storylines, and other elements from older Star Trek shows rather than involving new/original characters, elements, etc. I’m wondering which NuTrek shows people on here believe are the least affected by this.

To be clear, I’m not asking here which NuTrek show you prefer or think was most well done, I’m specifically asking about which show is the least reliant on reusing elements from older Star Trek shows and involves the largest amount of original elements, regardless of whether you personally liked those original elements.

Which “NuTrek” show do you think is generally the LEAST derivative in relation to older Trek shows and involves the most original ideas REGARDLESS of how well you think those original ideas were actually written?

Discovery

Picard

Lower Decks

Prodigy

Strange New Worlds

I don’t think this characterization of NuTrek as derivative is accurate

I haven’t seen enough NuTrek to answer this

Voting ended onAug 15, 2025

[memories]

#sleepless nights is my biggest hobby... and my greatest fear.

[gift-from-the-bellow]

USERNAME LORE GIVE IT TO ME NOW YOU ALL

[freshbaked-bread]

some fake screenshots from the deep space nine dating sim that lives in my brain

[sweet-and-sour-roleplaymemes]

Reblog if you're open to roleplaying QueerPlatonic relationships

[defconprime]

Ian, Emergency Engineering Hologram

[raffaelamusiker2]

Cris and Seven giving Raffi head kisses at the same time and Raffi close to sobbing because they’re soft and she loves them and she feels very special.