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i've searched every combination of words imaginable and i still can't find that gif of the german star trek parody where gay spock is quickly drinking coffee and smoking freaking out PLEASE send it to me i need it urgently
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this is me in real life
Streaming services: huge budgets for an 8 episode show
Me: ha back in my day we pretended the same Canadian forest was a different planet 20 times a season and we liked it
I had to wait a whole year to post this 😂
me repeatedly posting about stargate for the seven (7) people on tumblr dot com who have actually watched it:
A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.
It’s years before anyone explains it to him.
People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.
The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That’s a word, it’s his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they’re putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.
It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.
Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.
Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).
And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.
The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down.
Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city.
And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families.
There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride.
YES IT’S BACK ON MY DASH AT LAST
For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.
Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”
A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.
Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.
Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.
And he’d probably remember them too. “Welcome back, Eliza.”
“…Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so logically happiness must slow it down…”
Will reblog every time it crosses my dash 🖖🏾
star trek heritage post (November 14th, 2020)
Periodic reminder that the compiled tag I use on AO3 is “Stork The Vulcan (fanon)” and so far there are 5 fics featuring him:
Heed The Stork
There’s Always A Chance and
Not Logical by MarlinSpirkHall (hi)
What Stork Brings by AfterIWake @mousedetective
One (1) Daily Shoulder Pat by Android_And_Ale @android-and-ale
Various iterations of this thread ^ have also been bookmarked under the tag for future reference 🖖
I AM IN TEARS. YODA IS THE FUNNIEST FROG GRANDPA TROLL EVER. HE ACTS ALL INNOCENT AND EARNEST, PULLING OUT A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HE GOT ON A PLANET HE’S BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME ON. HE’S SO CUTE AS HE SAYS, “LEARNING TO PLAY, I AM.” AND PLAYS THEM A CUTE TUNE. AND THE LIKE THE MOTHERFUCKER HE IS HE WAITS FOR IT WAITS FOR THE ABSOLUTELY AWFUL AWKWARDNESS OF THE OTHER JEDI’S RESPONSE WHO TRY TO BE GENTLE ABOUT HOW APPARENTLY FUCKING AWFUL YODA IS AND THEN YODA IS LIKE “YEAH, I SUCK, BUT SUCKING AT SOMETHING IS THE FIRST STEP TO BEING KINDA GOOD AT SOMETHING” ALL WHILE HE KNEW HE WAS SHIT AT IT AND PLAYED IT FOR THEM ANYWAY JUST LA LA LA HE’S HAVING A GREAT TIME GODDDDD YODA IS THE BEST I LOVE HIM NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU FROG GRANDPA ISN’T HILARIOUS
@legobiwan idk if you’ve already seen this, but random internet stranger here to inform you that yoda DOES play what seems to be the star-wars-equivalent of the mbira
Hahaha my first reaction to that panel was…an mbira? Really?
This is lovely! I also kind of headcanon that for as talented as Yoda is at certain things, he’ll never be the galaxy’s greatest musician. (Oh, but he will try and try loudly around his students and colleagues).
(note, I fully support the philosophy presented above but I also find the image of a Yoda who mightily struggles with rhythm and pitch but living his best musical life anyway to be highly amusing. And who knows, maybe the musical culture on his home planet is totally different than the “classical canon” of the Coruscant elite.)
A Stargate themed float at a Carnival celebration in Switzerland
This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.
There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.
Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.
This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!
The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.
Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"
Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.
I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.
The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.
You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.
The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.
Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!
Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!
That link again.
There is good news and 2 bits of bad news. First bit of bad news: The site is down for now while they overhaul it and add new content.
The good news is. . .
THE DS9 PROMENADE IS COMING!!!! Along with the season 4 NX-01, the TNG battle bridge and lots more of the TMP Enterprise, as well as more concept art.
Now the second bit of bad news. The Roddenberry Archive will return "later in the year" with no fixed date, and no confirmation of VR support😣
But when it's back, it will be awesome.
IT'S BACK EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND GO TO RODDENBERRY.X.IO
Now featuring explorable environments of...
DS9 (the promenade)
The Defiant
Voyager
Cerritos (cell shaded!)
Saratoga
Excelsior
Bozeman (which is a weird layout indeed!)
Grissom
Reliant
Enterprise from Star Trek Beyond (not the -A, though)
Variations of the Enterprise-D, as well as multiple decks including engineering, Ten Forward and the transporter room!
The Strange New Worlds Enterprise bridge, along with transporter room, Pike's quarters, Spock's quarters (they live next door!) and the transporter room
The TOS Enterprise has almost all the sets from the TV show too!
...available to see🥺
The bad news is that VR support isn't coming. Apparently even on the highest-end systems they couldn't get it to work with a decent framerate. But otherwise, this is amazing. Enjoy it before it vanishes again!!!
Thank you, Roddenberry Archive for making me feel like a kid again🖖
happy threshold day eve guys <3
What on earth is going on in the Star Trek fandom today, it's like my dash exploded
lol 28 years ago today, the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" aired. The premise of the episode was that humans cannot travel at or faster than warp 10, because if they do, they would be traveling at "infinite velocity" and would exist in all points of space time simultaneously. Tom Paris found a way to travel at this speed, and doing so accidentally hyper-evolved him and his captain (Janeway) into giant salamanders, whereupon they immediately reproduced and created 3 baby salamanders. They were then turned back into normal humans, and forced to leave their salamander babies on the planet they had escaped to.
The episode was long held as the worst star trek episode. Not just the worst Star Trek Voyager episode, but the worst episode, period, because it was extremely weird and people turning into salamanders greatly annoyed a lot of people who don't know what fun is. Tumblr, having discovered this episode like excavating an exciting fossil, has taken a shine to this episode and many people now produce art and memes and eat pepperoni pizza in celebration of its air date, mostly to annoy the episode's creator, as in a very Arthur Conan Doyle way, he hates this episode and wants it de-canonized.
Anyway, happy Threshold Day!
being in a fandom long term: urrrrrrrrrrgh not this shitty argument again we’ve covered this
Anybody else frequently feel haunted by a specific line of episode 1 of DS9, Emissary, in which a man tries to explain the linear nature of human life to non-linear entities as they take him through his memories, attempting to understand, only to end up coming back over and over to the moment he failed to reach his wife before her death, and when he asks why they keep bringing him here they tell him “you exist here,” and he finally breaks down and admits that part of him never left this moment, and, understanding, they gently say to him:
“it is not linear.”
and he agrees
“no. It’s not linear”
…or it it just me
JONAS QUINN IN EVERY EPISODE ⤷ 6×07 - “Shadow Play”
Stargate: The Next Generation
My (half formed) idea for a Stargate continuation series.
So it would start off with Jack’s clone (played by Michael Welch), who is now a Colonel in the Air Force, finally being assigned a place at Stargate Command. He’s being given leadership over a new SG-1 team.
The only other person who I’ve decided on being part of this team would be Rya’c (played by Neil Denis) whose taking his fathers place on the team!
Cassandra (played by Katie Stuart) would have followed in her mom’s footsteps and become a doctor. I’m not sure given the timeline if she would be at the point in her career where she could be the bases CMO when the series starts. But I definitely want her to be the base doctor who treats the new SG-1 team whenever they get injured!
I also know I want Hailey (played by Elizabeth Rosen) to be there as well but she wouldn’t be part of the new SG-1 team cause by this point in the timeline she’d have a much higher rank than Jack’s clone. Maybe she’s like the new head scientist of the base.
I know we need at least two other characters to fill out the new SG-1, but I just can’t think of who I’d want those characters to be. Wether they be all new characters made up solely for this series. Or old characters from the original series. All I know is I kind of want both of these characters to be female. That way we can have 2 male SG-1 members and 2 female SG-1 members.
Daniel is now in charge of Atlantis. He cameos every now and then.
Sam is the general in charge of the SGC. She keeps a picture of the original Sg-1, and a picture of Fraiser and General Hammond on her desk. Every now and then when there’s a scene of her in her office the camera pans to show these two pics. (And maybe at the end of the first episode they do a little tribute “in memory of Don S. Davis”)
Jack has retired by this point, he’s living his best life at his cabin fishing all the time, and him and Sam have finally been able to get married!!!! Sam often talks about him and how he’s enjoying his retirement.
Teal’c is the leader of the free Jaffa and makes occasional cameos to help out the new SG-1 on their missions and to just spend some time with his son ever now and then.
Vala makes occasional cameos. She and Daniel eventually got married and she splits her time between Atlantis and traveling around the galaxy causing chaos.
Mitchel is a general now and he’s in charge of the Beta Site. We get cameos from him once in a while whenever the new SG-1 has to go to the Beta site for one reason or another.
And for the new bad guy of the series. The Furlings finally make an appearance! We know they disappeared from our galaxy a long time ago and we were never given an actual reason for that. I’m gonna say for this series they went off to either a completely different galaxy or to another dimension. And now they’ve returned to this galaxy/dimension, and they bring news with them of the new big bad that’s coming. They’ve been fighting this enemy for generations in this other galaxy/dimension the whole time they’ve been gone, trying to prevent it from making its way to our galaxy/dimension. But they’ve failed and the big bad is on its way and this galaxy/dimension needs to prepare itself. But now we have the Furlings here for the rest of this new series helping the Tau’ri to defeat this new bad guy!
