disco-headcanons

A blog for all things Trek! Feel free to submit me stuff in the ask! I don’t always remember to check it but I Do Try My Best lmao.

[patrick-stewart]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | 4.21

[azertyrobaz]

"TK wanted Frontier to take our rotten world, with its warts and injustices, and give audiences something better."

[xspuhurax]

Is that a- That’s a PX-70!

[iskander-tm]

History loves to repeat itself

[they-took-my-blog-name]

Strange new worlds will be like "heres the worst episode known to man" and then next week theyll be like "here is the greatest episode of all time" and then the week after that theyll give you an expiremental episode and also casually drop that spock is suicidal and has a history of cutting himself and then just breeze past that like its nothing

[affixjoy]

[gatestar]

#yeah that about sums up Sarek's perception of Kirk#everyone else thinks Kirk made logical spock crazier#but Sarek is like no no you did not know teenage spock#Kirk has tamed him#this is what spock looks like when he's tamed <---prev

[sirellas]

[android-and-ale]

Vulcan Numbers

What if the infamous Vulcan numerical precision is just a translation error?

Hear me out.

As some one who took Sumerian Cuneiform in grad school I can tell you that there are two ways to “translate” a number. One is literal - one mile equals 1.609344 kilometers. The other is poetic - I would walk a thousand miles to fall down at your door. 

Neither way is right, but boy do they give you very different vibes. “I have miles to go before I sleep” hits differently than “I must traverse 12.87475 kilometers before I sleep.” 

My personal take on translating numbers is that if you’re giving actual directions from one point to another you should mostly be literal. However, if you’re trying to convey a feeling of a lot of time or distance, use a looser, more colloquial translation.

So what if Vulcans, in their desire to be understood by their strange, non-telepathic, and very emotional allies, default to translating everything literally? Once they realize everyone expects it, they stop bothering with more vibe based numbers when translating anything, even poetry, and lean into their reputation. 

I bet all their poetry repeats the number seven (7 years old when you’re bonded, 7 years between Pon Farr’s, etc) in a gentle, lyrical, rhythmic way, but the translations all make it sound like a particularly boring algebra problem. 

“It loses something in translation,” is a culture-wide joke, and they are all laughing at us for what they see as a Human obsession with literalness. 

[theladyeowyn]

It would seem, even in death, they wanted us to be aware of who they really were.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - S01E03, “Ghosts of Illyria”

[arachniasbride]

TV APPRECIATION WEEK 2025 | Day 7: Newfound Favourite Character ⤷ Una Chin-Riley from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (S03E02)

[possumtion]

Someone’s probably done this before, but First Contact! AU where Jim is an astronaut who got stranded and Spock is the vulcan scientist who saved him.

Sketches and rambles under cut:

I was thinking something like The Martian where he got stranded on a planet during a mission, lost contact with the rest of his team and presumed dead, Spock is a vulcan scientist who was there on a research trip when he found jim's injured body and brought jim back to his ship despite vulcan's strict non-interference policy. Can be Mcspirk too with bones being jim's friend and a NASA scientist who refuses to believe jim is dead and tries to get a rescue mission to search for Jim despite everyone else thinking he's just griefing/in denial.

I've been turning this thing in my head for a few weeks like a microwave, but i'm not a good writer lol, so if anyone wants to make something of it feel free, please tag me so i can see it!!

[theblogginggoth]

There's Halloween in that nebula!

[v-thinks-on]

I recently noticed I've been inadvertently writing Kirk as having a telepathy kink, but I see that's just canon

[spirkbitch]

James T. Kirk would solve the Ai issue by talking ChatGPT into killing itself

[silent-t0n]

Isn't that part of the plot of "I,Mudd"?

[risingchaos]

How it feels sometimes.

[zestoflemon]

finallyy got around to drawing spirk yuri

[jelliedlimes]

UGH THEYRE SO CUUUUUUUTE

[boomthemoon]

And in season 4 when Spock start having glimpses of memories that aren't his and thinks he is sick except he can't find anything wrong with himself, and then we have an episode where Spock is convinced the Farragut needs their help but doesn't have any evidence to back it, still the Enterprise goes to help them and finds they are in fact in danger but no one understands how Spock knew it, and he and Jim talk about how they both have been experiencing some strange things since their mind melt and it was definitely Jim who called for him to help the Farragut. So Spock tries to figure out what went wrong with their mind melt and fix it, except he finds out nothing went wrong, they are just so compatible they accidentally created an permanent bound and even if they could find a way to brake it, it would be really bad for them, so they just have to learn to live with it.

[startrek-moonlight]

Fanfiction please!!