Star Trek: Infinite episodes

62/841 episodes + 0/13 movies. Trying to watch every single Star Trek thing in chronological order. she/her, aroace

[spirkbitch]

kirk was blond in tos and i will die on this hill

like y’all know most blonds’ hair darkens over time, he definitely isn’t in the movies but he 100% was when he was younger (plus his hair usually looks gelled, without that it would be even lighter)

[infiniteepisodes]

Not exactly the matter at hand but as an aside I think it might be possible that Shatner always had darker hair than shown in TOS but that it appeared lighter when filmed. As evidence I bring you Kirk's original uniform, which was green in reality but filmed as yellow because of "a combination of studio lighting, velour material, and the film stock used" and the crew's inexperience with the new colour technology.

Star Trek: Kirk's Iconic Uniform Color Was A Mistake

It was a technical mistake.

It's worth considering that those same conditions might have influenced how the hair colour appeared on screen vs reality. So I think that to settle the matter once and for all, we should find a coloured non-taken-on-set photo of Shatner from those years.

[gaytricorder]

sarek: my wife, attend.

jim: well i’ve gotta wife too his name is spock and he’s your son

[anghraine]

I already reblogged this, but I just noticed that in addition to the parallel in the dialogue, Amanda's robe is almost exactly color-coordinated with Spock's Starfleet science uniform - black collar, soft pale blue outer layer of the shirt/robe. Wildly different styles but it's, ah, interesting.

[spirk-trek]

when your captain leaves you in charge of the bridge and you have to be in command instead of looking pretty at the science station :(

[justveeing]

I’m on a trad kick, so here’s a jim ✨

[daftmooncretin]

spock’s room decor is actually fucking bonkers. The weapons??? the big red velvet curtain??? like ok phantom of the opera go crazy.

for reference jim’s room has some photos and a plant so we can surmise this is uniquely a spock being a dramatic weirdo thing

[pepperpup86]

You are judging Spock’s room through human associations tastes. Remember, Vulcan blood is green and the planet Vulcan is red (Discovery even adds to this by showing red trees around Sarek’s property).

On Vulcan, red is the color of nature, so (assuming Vulcans even assign meaning to colors), red is likely a very calm and soothing color choice. Green is probably the Vulcan color of passion and/or danger.

From a Vulcan perspective, Spock’s room is a cozy cottage core with some historical knickknacks hung around.

Kirk’s green carpet, green plants, green lighting room is the Vulcan equivalent of a boudoir at best or blood-stained slaughterhouse at worst.

[june-egbert-official]

so what you're saying is Vulcan children's hospitals-

[spock-fucks]

hate people who don't like the outfits in old trek. they're literally the height of fashion fuck you

[spock-fucks]

"it's ugly" it fucks, actually. die

[spaghettinatural]

like sorry you have a brain with the smoothness of a koala. bc if you cant see that THIS :

is the actual epitome of all things scrum diddly cunt-tious, the PINNACLE of serving absolute pussõire??!?

like. sorry you hate fun and colours and texture and love being fucking boring. i guess

[thinkinginklingon]

#contemporary scifi costuming is going to look painfully 2020's in a few years

Already does. In Star Trek Picard S2 when they went back in time to 2024, none of the characters had to change their outfits because their 25th century fashion was just like, normal jackets t-shirts and trousers in a variety of black, grey and brown fabrics. A stark contrast to early TNG, where - while everything looked painfully 80's - the non-uniform attire was all fun shapes and textures that didn't actually resemble off the shelf clothes as far as I'm aware*

*(I say this because i missed the 80's by a couple of years)

[milkywayan]

I wrote my thesis in fashion school about scifi in the 60s (with 1/3rd being dedicated to TOS), and the amazing TOS outfits are thanks to William Theiss who managed to use the extremely limited budget they had to make amazing costumes, using things like cheap table decoration and tacky 60s decor to craft insanely cool scifi outfits

Even the uniforms are AMAZING from a tailor perspective!

They didn't want ugly zippers to show so the closures of the uniforms are in the seam of the raglan sleeve!!!!

In all the new adaptations they are lazy and don't do raglan and put the zippers in the back and it looks shit

Not even to mention the incredible lines of the womens uniforms!!!

Like look how smartly the lines for the pattern go, to not just have boring darts in places! These costumes STILL look futuristic!

You could not even see this on 1960s TVs!

I'm feral about this btw

[nehirose]

I'm so glad someone already mentioned him, because William Ware Theiss was an absolute goddamn insane genius miracle worker of a costume director. When you read the words "extremely limited," please understand that there were times when the skimpiness of outfits was legitimately dictated by there only being a handful of yards of a specific fabric, which this man somehow finessed into not one, not two, but three separate costumes. If you consider the phrase "shoestring budget," picture the rattiest, saddest, most worn down near to breaking needs to be replaced shoelace you have ever seen, and that was probably more than what he was working with.

[humanoidhistory]

Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered on this day in 1987.

[xenobotanist]

Congratulations, you've been transported to the 24th century, aboard Deep Space Nine! What are you getting from Dr. Bashir?

a fixed back

a treatment/cure for migraines

fixed knees

replacement for a missing body part

the replacement of a malfunctioning body part

removal of a body part

free medicine

a new body part that you don't currently have

more than one of the above

other/none

Voting ended onAug 30, 2023

I predict that "more than one" will be the big winner

[milesobriensrolledupsleeves]

You're getting is hit on, is what you're getting.

[grecoromanyaoi]

[nikademus1969]

[ampervadasz]

[wheeloffortune-design]

This is why aliens don’t want us in their Starfleet.

[carebewear]

Are you fucking kidding this is why aliens should be begging us to join their Starfleet. The precision?? The CONTROL?? The absolute mastery this driver has over their 20+ ton of steel is superhuman. This person could weave a mothership through an asteroid belt without making a single scratch on the hull. Foh “aliens don’t want us” aliens should be sucking our dicks.

[exlibrisfangirl]

[official-harry-kim]

bonus janeway:

[official-harry-kim]

update:

[cursedtrekedits]

“Captain, it appears we misjudged the formality of the dining environment.”

“I know that, Spock.” 🙃

-@gay-spock

[sporeblossom]

“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone 

[berniesanderssaggyleftnut-deact]

[lystheni]

A friend of mine saw this and brought up some interesting arguments

so, in other words,

[professor-maple-mod]

Pretty much.

[jaegerdelta]

here have some size comparison

[two-punch-man]

Who wins in a fight, a fully staffed Navy research vessel or your local weed man and his best friend in their souped up VW Bus?

[regionalpancake]

tags via @procrastinatorproject

So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!

A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:

The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:

[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]

And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:

Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:

And since Serenity was mentioned too…

Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.

And for those interested in a visual comparison:

(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)

TLDR: The Millennium Falcon is pretty dinky, so I propose *true weed bus status* goes to the excellent smuggling ships of Serenity and La Sirena. The Falcon is herby demoted to man on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gun (to be clear the monkey is Solo)

[enigma-the-mysterious]

This is the analysis I am here for

[nonasuch]

i think the funniest possible star trek viewing order might be strictly chronological.

you’d have to start with that Voyager episode where they go to before the Big Bang, then work your way through every other time travel episode, the one with the whales, and First Contact before you even get close to anything approaching a normal viewing order.

at some point you’d have to watch “City on The Edge of Forever” followed by “Little Green Men” followed by “Far Beyond the Stars” which is about the most tonal whiplash you could possibly get from three consecutive episodes of star trek. I think I want to try this now.

[lt-cmdr-titties]

HEY THATS ME IM DOING THAT I HAVE A SPREADSHEET FOR IT AND EVERYTHING

Star Trek Timeline

Normal Big Bang,VOY 2x18 Death Wish 3.5b years ago,TNG 7x25–26 All Good Things 19th,1890s,1893,TNG 5x26 6x01 Time's Arrow 20th,1900s 1910s

[baldguy-fight]

BALD GUY FIGHT ROUND 2

Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek) VS Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello Hamato (TMNT)

Benjamin Sisko

Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello Hamato

Voting ended onMar 14, 2023

[thesuburbanerd]

Just watching the episode where a political leader refuses to provide personal protective equipment to front line workers in order to maintain a permanent underclass.