And we watched the occurrence in silence instead

24| currently watching through VOY and TOS| I follow from @liskokuningas

[laforgedata]

Sisko screenshot redraw 💫

[herpsandbirds]

Couch’s Spadefoot (Scaphiopus couchii), BLARGGGHHH!!!, family Scaphiopodidae, South TX, USA

photograph by Pop Milk Herping

[junkyarded]

it's unjust that we live in a world where ds9 will never get a digital remaster

[junkyarded]

for a while they were giving kira and jadzia a handful of plots together about hanging out and becoming friends but they just sort of gave up on that. i am seething over how little they cared about their female characters, and how they just kept shunting them into romance plots with men. jadzia and worf is ok honestly cause like it's messy on purpose and a lil funny but goddddd kira gets completely destroyed by Love Interest Syndrome. her own character becomes completely secondary to the role she has to take on and play, and it just makes no sense. suspension of disbelief is pushed to the limit. it is nonsensical.

[banquo-and-macbeth]

sisko and worf trying really hard not to mention gowron's giant eyes

[laforgedata]

I haven't gotten the full game yet but here's the Spock I made in the demo :^)

[the-uss-premise]

Various K/S pins, 1970s-80s

Art on bottom right is by Pat Stall. -- Click here to see the full version! --

[cutesyname]

[ankellysaurus]

One thing I love about star trek voyager is that nobody in the delta quadrant knows what the fuck a vulcan is. Every single random alien who talks to Tuvok is probably thinking "WHAT is this guy's damage!?!?!?!" Because every time he opens his mouth he's like: "I cannot answer you. The question you have asked me is based on faulty information."

[aphrostiel]

a bunch of star trek doodles

[garaks-padded-bra]

oh god fuck ds9 is aweosme

[chaoticdaxes]

No special effect could be more special than this

[runavik]

Tis the fucking season! You know what that means…

[runavik]

Hmn. Realizing the original post could have probably benefited from some better punctuation, or perhaps slightly different word order.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I simply cannot stand how current Star Trek treats Section 31 as some hypothetical moral quandary.

“What if we needed a secret extrajudicial organization to commit crimes to protect us?” We already had one, it was the Cold War CIA, and do you know what it did? It instigated holy wars. It installed dictators. It authorized kill squads to make goods just a little bit cheaper. You’re asking a question that has already been answered and the answer was “When you give people a lot of power, zero accountability, a mission statement of doing awful things for ‘the right reasons’, and a mentality that people are either sheep to be controlled or wolves to be slain, they do not protect anyone. They just kill and hurt and destroy, and even the people they claim to protect just suffer all the more for it.”.

Section 31 was created when CIA declassifications made clear what had been done in our name and with our money. That’s why in its native DS9, its primary purpose was to be rejected as a concept and defeated by our protagonists, why the Federation has to be saved from its rampant, thoughtless cruelty. Section 31 is not a sci fi concept. It is not a “what if?”. It is an allegory for a very real organization and ideology that has harmed billions of people, that will take decades to root out and further decades, possibly even centuries, to heal from. It is evil, it was modeled on evil, and the impulse to defend or lighten it is not a politically neutral one. It has no place in the Star Trek future, just as it’s real world equivalents have no place in our society, and anyone who says otherwise is deceiving you or themselves.

Portraying Section 31 as morally grey or worse, necessary, is a lie. It is repackaged military propaganda used to justify and whitewash its real world equivalents by creating a fantasy where such an organization is anything but evil, to make it easier to sell that same fantasy in real life. I can accept and even enjoy moral quandaries and flawed characters in Star Trek. I will not accept being lied to.

[garaks-padded-bra]

Has anyone on here ever made the connection between Will Kayden and Obrien and why he treats early seasons Julian that way

[garaks-padded-bra]

Sounds Familar, Mr. Obrien

[lostyesterday]

Which of these pieces of Star Trek media widely considered “bad” are you most strongly defensive of?

The Animated Series

The Motion Picture

The Final Frontier

TNG season 1

Insurrection or Nemesis

Enterprise

Discovery

Picard seasons 1 or 2

I actually agree that every single one of these is bad

See results

Voting ended onDec 4, 2025

[justsomeguycore]

no literally nog and jake have the kind of friendship that only a gay guy who doesn’t know he’s gay and a straight guy who does know the other guy is gay can have