let's see what's out there

Star Trek side blog for @ronon-dex! I'm watching every episode and movie of the Star Trek franchise from the beginning, and hoping my brain doesn't turn into soup. join me won't you

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We were separated.

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spirk canon mind link #REAL

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER - S7E2 Imperfection

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imagining a metal concert where a mosh pit starts and the vocalist is like woah woah hold up stop the music what are you all doing what the hell has gotten into you

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why is star trek voyager so CREEPY literally One Big Horror Movie

my honest reaction after watching "cold fire" yet another scary ass episode

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This Lovely silver shirt is worn on Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lessons (1993) and later worn on Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim in Star Trek: Voyager, Prime Factors (1995)

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Star Trek: Picard Stardust City Rag

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I am stricken. Do B’Elanna and Naomi Wildman ever interact? Like at all? Once?

I’m really to believe that Naomi wouldn’t be following B’Elanna around, peppering her with questions about how she makes the ship go, and how the holodeck works, and what optimal energy efficiency look like? The captain’s assistant??? And that B’Elanna wouldn’t be extremely patient when she had time to spare and wouldn’t partner with Harry to devise little problems for Naomi to solve and also just be a little worried about the dangers Naomi could run into in engineering while also being so thrilled when Naomi did solve her puzzles? Please

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There was that scene at the end of “Alice,” where B'Elanna gives Tom a get-well card from Naomi Wildman.

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Chakotay Headcanons! :3

Here are my head canons for Chakotay's tribe!!

If I were given the power to rewrite his character and his backstory, I would make his parents from 2 different tribes, but of the same nation.

So I would make his mom from the Q'eqchi tribe in Guatemala. I would also make this Chakotay's primary language as it is a popular language.

For his father I would make him Southern Hach Winik (Lacandon) from Mexico. I have some things to back this head canon! So there's a lot I want to info dump about this, so I'll make this brief for now lol. Some interesting facts about this tribe is that they were never colonized and remained isolated in the forest until the mid 1900s. This tribe's story is quite similar to the narrative of Chakotay's tribe. Once they were introduced into the modern world, the tribe slowly began to lose its traditional ways. There have been members in this tribe who try their best to maintain their traditions though. It is a very small tribe in a very dense part of Central America. 

So here are a few correlations between Chakotay's tribe and the Lacandon. The manner in which his ancestors dressed in tattoo (or whoever those cats were, please don't make me re-watch that ep lol) was very similar to the Lacandon. The Lacandon dress in long white tunics, for both male and female, and they typically wear their hair down with bangs.

One thing that irked me in tattoo was that Chakotay didn't understand his father??? when he spoke in his native tongue??? I've gripped about this before, but it literally doesn't make sense. So my explanation for that is that he isn't fluent in Lacandon because he never paid attention when his father tried to teach him lol. He didn't see the reason behind learning it since there were only a handful of people he knew who spoke it. Like I said, I think his primary languages would be Q'eqchi and Spanish. 

Ok last head canon for this post is during my research on this tribe it said that a handful of members moved deeper into the forest in order to avoid the wave of Christianity that has taken over most of the peoples. Now let me be clear… I truly hate Tattoo's plot and the direction they took with the whole "their aliens" bit. If it were up to me I would wipe it from existence entirely, but I want to remain as close to canon as possible. With that being said, I would make these groups that moved away, the same people Chakotay encountered on that trip with his father.

That's it for now cause this I'd already too long lol. I'll post more about this at a later time though cause I've got lots more to say.

Also I am and always have been 100% aware the writers didn't intend to give Chakotay a specific tribe. They did have a region in mind and mentioned his people were from Central America several times. They probably made it this way to correlate with RBs background idk. It obviously didn't work out that great, so my goal is to give him some justice cause Chakotay is my favorite character : 3

(ignore any typos lol)

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With Paramount+ pulling “Star Trek: Prodigy” off of its service, I thought it’d be a good time to mention that I love Janeway’s arc in Star Trek so much. Because in the real world, there were so many complaints when Paramount announced that there was going to be a woman as the captain in a Star Trek series, and throughout the run of the series she had a small but vocal minority of very toxic fans who just. wouldn’t. let. it. go. And what happens to her character in Star Trek canon after the series is over?

She becomes one of the most revered admirals in all of Starfleet history and possibly the greatest single power that the Federation has ever known. Picard acknowledges her as one of the greats. For the future of the franchise we see her name attached to some of the most legendary moments in Federation history, and in the shows – like Prodigy – where we actually get to see her again, we see her as a figure of enormous influence.

Kirk and Picard both reached points in their careers where they had to fight with Starfleet to get a starship, even with all of the history and influence they had behind them. When Janeway says that she needs a ship because Chakotay’s out there… somewhere, the Federation hands her a ship. And when she returns with a ragtag bunch of alien kids who were piloting a lost experimental Starfleet vessel that they found in a distant quadrant – but no Chakotay – the Federation turns around and hands her the recovered experimental vessel as a second ship AND lets her hand-pick these new Starfleet recruits as her crew with no argument.

Because Kathryn Janeway is the biggest badass in Starfleet history. She single-handedly brought her crew home through impossible circumstances and, once they were home after years and years of strife, REFUSED to accept that all of that time had been lost for her crew and dedicated the rest of her life (in an alternate timeline) to finding a way to BEND SPACE AND TIME TO HER WILL and ensure that history changed to the benefit of those under her command.

Arguably, the only Starfleet captain/commander we’ve followed in a series who had a better post-series career was Ben Sisko – the first black man to be the lead in a Star Trek series – and he wound up becoming the Star Trek equivalent of an ascended master. Basically, Ben Sisko ended his time at DS9 by being promoted to LITERALLY A GOD.

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geordi i'm sensitive about that right now. geordi your future life-long trauma.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Descent, Part II

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Star Trek: Picard The End Is the Beginning

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if you want to see an amazing Star Trek "musical episode," it's The Abduction from the Seraglio staged by the Pacific Opera project. Complete with redshirt orchestra, horny Spock, a Gorn battle, and Klingons doing bat'leth dance choreography.

The plot and score is the same, just rewritten into English and Trek-ified. (Spock's got a whole aria about his human vs. Vulcan struggle. “Yes, my blood is really green. But how much does that mean? Still, I cannot deny my fears. Am I human with weird ears? I’m a Vulcan. I'm a Vulcan!”"

and if you don't have the patience for a 2-hour opera, someone put together a 30 minute highlight reel of a different performance (by the same company, just a different year. there's some casting changes too):

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[…] and though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend

DATA & SPOT in STAR TREK: the next generation (1987-1994) + STAR TREK: generations (1994)

+ bonus: