[startrekds9]

requested by anonymous

[dredgen-dumbass]

Nichelle Nichols Remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The late actress shared her fondest memories of the civil rights leader.

holy shit

[quasi-normalcy]

Do you ever think about the fact that, in spite of Quark's misogyny, he only actually seems to be attracted to women who are basically the complete opposite of what a Ferengi female is supposed to be?

[quasi-normalcy]

And then, of course, you notice that his mom is also the complete opposite of what a Ferengi female is supposed to be, and it occurs to you that maybe he has some fucked up oedipal shit going on?

[quasi-normalcy]

#I think he has a lot of cognitive dissonance in his life#He's a Bad Ferengi just like his brother#But Rom embraces not being Ferengi most of the time and Quark clings to it because on some level he knows he's really bad at it#He doesn't have another identity though#It's possible all Ferengi fail at being perfect Ferengi and feel like they're just pretending for the sake of others#You know#Like men and the patriarchy

[10-4ward]

I've made this point before, about how people like Troi, Spock, and Worf, gravitate towards humans because being around humans makes them feel like a normal member of their own species instead of the social misfits they are, but now I'm realizing it applies to Quark too. Everyone on ds9 considers him to be the poster boy for the ferengi nation, and I bet that's WHY he likes living with aliens

[parkayquarts]

the only time it was actually funny and entertaining when a "ship" was "confirmed" by someone who worked on the show was when someone asked rene auberjonois at a panel what the nature of quark and odo's relationship was and he replied "sexual." without elaboration

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (October 10th, 2022)

[butchscientist]

you will never catch me complaining about an actress on a tv show having an imperfectly concealed pregnancy or a character going on a sudden trip somewhere while her actress is on maternity leave. so many actresses (and women working in any other field) are fired, punished and pressured into making reproductive decisions for their employers' convenience & if i have to try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief then that's absolutely what i'm going to do if it means people are getting to exercise reproductive & bodily autonomy without punishment

[confusedlamp]

My favorite writing of this was how Star Trek DS9 handled Nana Visitor's pregnancy. It felt out of character for her character (Kira Nerys) to get pregnant and it's the semi-utopian future, so presumably birth control works quite well and abortions are easily available. Solution: another female character gets pregnant, is injured in an emergency situation, and Kira agrees to act as surrogate. They effectively wrote this entire story line well enough, with implications for the dynamics between Kira and the biological parents, that I didn't realize until later that the actress was actually pregnant. I thought it was just an interesting plot line.

[rpmaniac]

[cdr2002]

Jumping on, I personally love it because of the unique way it shows Kira’s strength and commitment to her friends. To make that kind of sacrifice, to take on that kind of burden for her friends is incredibly powerful to me. Im sure someone’s got their cynical “oh she’s been traumatized into never prioritizing herself” take but I don’t see it as a martyr complex thing at all, I see it as her compassion and willingness to go out of her way for people she cares about. And the resulting becoming part of the O’Briens’ family, accepted as Molly’s aunt and coming to live with them is genuinely beautiful to me no matter how much the show might play it for laughs. And yes, the poly ship is very fun hehe.

Lovely storytelling

[tinylionsed]

also there is no power pose more badass than her sitting in command of the defiant while extremely pregnant.

[itberice]

[itberice]

Have you ever heard the story about the boy who cried wolf?

[harrykim]

Star Trek: The Next Generation 06.07 Rascals

[bloomy-rind]

this is the way baseball is meant to be played

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @nezclaw

sounds like a dwarf fortress patch

text: Babies are born worshipping unknown gods.

[lizardsfromspace]

Star Trek fans, 2026: "Ugh, I hate Starfleet Academy! We need real Trek like we had in the 90s, like Voyager."

Star Trek fans, 2000s: "God these internet reviews are right, Voyager was literally unwatchable! It wasn't real Trek, like DS9!"

Star Trek fans, 1990s: "They don't even go anywhere! This oddly joyless book about Trek bloopers literally said the show should be called Bajor: Terek Nor! It wasn't real Trek, like TNG!"

Star Trek fans, 1980s: "TNG isn't even real Star Trek. Only the original is real Star Trek."

The world's largest Lost in Space Fan, 1966: "This upstart program will never displace Lost in Space in the hearts and minds of the people! Lost in Space will be the number one space opera show FOREVER!"

[ivy-michaels]

I had this stupid idea today that we should have gotten a crossover episode between the muppets and Star Trek. Very specifically, Voyager. I think it could work.

[ivy-michaels]

NOT a holodeck episode and NOT a time travel episode. Kermit, Miss Piggy, et al are all there. Everyone on voyager knows who The Muppets are. Nobody questions why they’re in the delta quadrant.

[quasi-normalcy]

"Starfleet has long suspected that the Muppet homeworld was somewhere in the Delta Quadrant."

[lost-in-a-nebula]

a little colour experiment and supporting women's wrongs

[smileyobrien]

this is the cutest anyone has ever been btw (season 4 siskoisms)

[mylittleredgirl]

lennier “from birth, I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the religious caste, six months ago I came here” is pretty funny when you think about it.

not only is this his first job, it’s his first time living outside a monastery. imagine spending twenty years or so never meeting anyone who isn’t also in a minbari monastery, and then one of the nine-most important people on your planet plucks you out of divinity school sight unseen to come work for her. so they put you on a space transport and now you live at the United Nations International Airport (*soon to be the Independent Galactic War Outpost International Airport) with the most cosmically relevant people alive. and all This is happening.

maybe that’s to his benefit actually!! everyone else has to have their moment of reckoning when they realize “we are living in unprecedented times and, regrettably, it seems i am a named character in biblical-level events 😐” while lennier, fresh from minbari religious mythology and history class (one subject), is like oh yes they warned us about the biblical events! how fascinating to experience them in person.

his direct supervisor is the second coming. it turns out that he personally knows Jesus George Washington from a thousand years ago who he’s been praying to this whole time. then he’s right there in the front row when the First Ones get kicked sternly shamed out of the galaxy and there’s a civil war on his planet because society broke down and it’s still his first job!

honestly we’re too hard on him for being a dramatic disaster in season five when 73% of his life experience outside the temple has been directly related to the End of Days (the rest is administrative errands and that time londo took him to a bar). every person he knows is unhinged. he has never seen normal life even from a distance. it’s a lot to expect him to handle an ordinary thing like “falling in love with your milf boss who’s the first lady of the known universe and is also like if the pope had a massive well-trained space army personally pledged to die for her” with anything less than shakespearean levels of drama.

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

When her strap game is so good she gets you lizard pregnant

[captaincrusher]

Happy Threshold Day Eve!