the vastness of space (derogatory)

If I were Bones I'd turn to alcoholism too. (ferret, adult. any and all pronouns. seen tos + some tng, working on ds9. transphobes/GC/terfs etc and exclusionists not welcome here)

[quarkfancam]

still thinking about the quark arms dealer episode

[autistic-bashir]

hi bajoran workers since tomorrow is the first day of pride month all provably gay bajorans can have a 5 minute break and two extra crackers with lunch as long as you make a government approved statement to the federation saying that cardassia and specifically me gul dukat loves gay and pronouns as much as star fleet. okay goodbye.

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[celestial-bat]

I spent far too much time on this joke and it’s not even that funny but it’s been haunting me for three days

[victimeyez]

No you don’t understand. This is my best friend I met because we’re both really into torture

[sixtiesgogobootz]

mii space nine

[marlinspirkhall]

I told a stranger I was pregnant and now my friend is spooked. AITA?

Some background: I (16m) live with my boyfriend (15m) in a small apartment in California. There have been talks of moving us somewhere larger, but there's not really anywhere appropriate for us to move to, so we might end up leaving Cali altogether.

Fast forward a few months: Things have been going well recently- we've been getting a lot of attention, and people come to see us every day, but my friend (1.62m) is still arguing with my landlord because he wants to evict us. She's also one of the only people who knows how difficult moving out would be, because we recently learned that I'm pregnant.

Yesterday, a man (1.82m) came to see me and asked me if I'd be willing to relocate to a larger area with my boyfriend. I told him I'd be interested in this because I have a baby on the way, and he congratulated me, but warned that the journey might be difficult. I said I'd think about it.

Today, my friend seems nervous. She's still fighting for me to be able to stay in my apartment, and she seems kinda upset that the man knows I'm pregnant, so she told him and his partner to leave. She's also been arguing with my landlord more than usual. So, AITA?

[marlinspirkhall]

HAPPY FORTY YEARS OF WHALE SEX 🐳

[multiverse-of-misfits]

I just snort-laughed so hard at how confused and weirded out people who Don't Know probably are when reading this post.

[purplespacekitty]

a crime, a heinous CRIME, i tell you, that we never get to see Pancho’s Happy Bottom Riding Club.

what do you mean there’s a fucking dude ranch on this former ore processing station turned glitzy space mall??? and it’s named after a real dude ranch operated by real life aviator and founder of the first film stunt pilots’ union Florence “Pancho” Barnes in the Mojave Desert??????

[annarcana]

Note also:

Banzai Institute (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

Berman's Dilithium Supply (Rick Berman, infamous executive producer of the Star Trek franchise through the post-Roddenberry era)

Forbin Project (Colossus: the Forbin Project)

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Spacely Sprockets (The Jetsons)

Tom Servo's Used Robots (Mystery Science Theatre 3000)

Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems (Thomas Pynchon's novels, though the "propulsion systems" part comes from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai)

Chez Zimmerman (possibly Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, originator of the EMH program, ie. the Doctor from Voyager)

Probably some of the other names are references too, but these are just all the ones I caught.

[purplespacekitty]

YES! also, upon further exploration:

Jupiter Mining Corporation and Diva Droid Corporation are both references to Red Dwarf

Milliways is also from The Hitchhiker's Guide series and is quite literally The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Del Floria's Tailor Shop is from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Curry's Martial Arts Training is named for Dan Curry, the same special effects guy that gul everyone was freaking out about a while ago was named after

Fredrickson's Squid Vendor is named for one of the show's scenic artists, Anthony Fredrickson

Richarz' Accessories is named after set decorator Laura Richarz

Chez Zimmerman is actually apparently named for production designer Herman Zimmerman

Vince's Gym is named after a real gym that used to be on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, CA, of which visual effects artist and designer Doug Drexler was a member - it's an homage to the gym's owner, Vince Gironda, who passed away in 1997

[purplespacekitty]

oh wait i got another one!

Gocke’s House of Mirrors is named after sound mixer Bill Gocke, who won an Emmy for his work on “Emissary”.

[cursedtrekedits]

“And now we'll get what we want: a burger from the Five Guys restaurant. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved my entire weekend. And all it cost was one shuttle trip, $13.99, and the diet of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.”

[cursedtrekedits]

followup caption by @oldmanyellsatcloud

[cursedtrekedits]

new franchise location

[flo-fae]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine CD player

[duxduxdux]

so im rewatching the gorn episode and theres a kind of throwaway line where kirk says "large, reptilian... like most humans i seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. i must fight to remember this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual" and im choosing to interpret that as kirk doesnt like lizards so i was wondering if you could draw something along those lines? like maybe he and spock are out walking on some desert planet and they pass a rock with a lizard sunbathing on it and he wigs out or something? maybe bones sees too and he cries laughing at kirk. i just think itd be funny to see him all stoic and then BAM a lizard

Because of this ask, I actually have this headcanon that McCoy put that lizard thing up in his office specifically to creep Kirk out so that he would stop hanging out in sickbay and distracting him so much.

But it actually backfired because this is also why Kirk hates coming down for physicals now.

Here’s McCoy’s lizard thing, in case you need a memory refresher.

[garaks-padded-bra]

how does garak feel about ireland

Garak thinks we deserved to be colonised bc we were weak 👍

[sharkgirldick]

Suck clit and prosper. Or whatever.

[papanowo]

[skybson]

5x26 - Call To Arms

[straightpeoplereceipts]

This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise speaking. We’ve entered the orbit of a planet not terribly unlike our own… save that it is exclusively populated by petty old queens.

[straightpeoplereceipts]

They seem to have accepted Commander Spock as one of their own.

[hooved]

why you wanna fuck that ugly lil thang so bad. quank

he’s an acquired taste

[weyounbathwater]

[long-suffering-doctor]

You gotta feel for Julian in Our Man Bashir. Imagine paying good money to spend the afternoon living out your James Bond fantasy and then a gay lizard breaks in and starts making snide remarks about the interior design. It's indicative of Julian's strength of character that he didn't shoot him earlier. A credit to the medical profession.