Just Another Sideblog

This time Star Trek themed! Heavily TOS favored, but I’m slowly going through it all. Currently seen: TOS, TAS s1, TOS Movies, TNG s1

[queerolddad]

Don’t let fake fans tell you different, Trek has always been queer 🏳️‍🌈🪐🚀

[3psboyd]

Spitballing with the fellas on discord and we've come up with a Star Trek character we want to see: A 200-year-old top Vulcan diplomat attending a function and laughing boisterously and slapping backs with everyone and then just relaxing into resting bitch face the moment nobody is watching him. He takes his job deadly seriously and studied parties extensively in the diplomatic academy. Every year he's brushing up on new developments in party theory. He knows every party nuance you could possibly think of, for the sake of intergalactic relations. Peace in the galaxy depends on it. It's weird but you gotta meet people where they're at, he thinks.

[fionn-o-nassus]

Sarek fucking hates this guy and it's 100% envy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

human diplomat: [laughs at joke]

vulcan diplomat (to himself): this is great. I’m going to get a good grade in Party, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

[emery-matsushita-vt]

I Got A Degree In Party Rocking

[aenslem]

#an average star trek episode be like

[hjdjdjdjdjc-deactivated20260221]

a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

[forecast0ctopus]

bone

[sylveonsbowties]

espeon spock

[sylveonsbowties]

worm on a string spirk... they love each other in every universe

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[trek-tracks]

I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.

When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.

Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.

What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.

[bugslaststraw]

Everyone else on the Enterprise going on and on about like. How does Scotty do it. "How has he gotten the first officer who hates everyone to like him? How come THEY work so well together Scotty's the kindest warmest man I know!"

And thing about that is that Scotty is in fact warm and kind enough and above all emotionally available enough to realize that Spock — rather than being cruel or cold, as many others on the ship believe — has "got some issues of his own" as he puts it. Scotty doesn't consider it his business to understand exactly what Spock's hangup is, but he does consider it his business to be friendly with everyone he works with. You've got to be able to trust your coworkers, after all.

He's figured out that Spock gets "a bit jumpy" when you treat him like you might treat any regular human. Rather than try to poke and pry Spock out of his shell (something that's also necessary, but is Kirk's job, not his) he just acts professional and straight-to-the-point and minds his own business so to the extent that Spock doesn't just "tolerate" him, he really likes him. He says it's because he appreciates someone who can stay professional. But really it's more that he feels safer around him, as many people do. It's rare that Scotty crawls up his ass about being too logical, he rarely gets angry with him and he doesn't force him out of his comfort zone. When around Spock, he's practical, and easy to get things done with. He's a stabilizing presence. And a damn good engineer.

[trek-tracks]

The professionals of the Enterprise would like to remind you to critically read and evaluate your sources

[dakywich]

not them lovemaking in the middle of the bridge

[cursedtrekedits]

Hello this is inspired by me misreading a Tumblr post could you make an edit where nurse chapel is replaced with chappell roan

or alternatively just

[egonkula]

oh I am having fun doodling this angry kitty cat…

[idrawr16yt]

[greeblesartblog]

Easily the best bit in the trouble with tribbles is when Shatner just. Forgets for a moment that he should be holding the tribble like an actual animal and tucks it under his arm. Absolutely headlocks that little fucker. They just left that take in huh.

[spirkbitch]

James T. Kirk would solve the Ai issue by talking ChatGPT into killing itself

[headofhermes]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Kukalaka (Star Trek), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Established Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Alien Cultural Differences, Fluff, Fluff Treated Seriously, Reptilian Cardassians (Star Trek), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Two People With Bad Childhoods Try To Be Good Parents, Kukalaka Is An Integral Part of Their Family, Inspired by Fanart, Said Garak-Bashir Series: Part 1 of Said Garak-Bashir Summary:

“Bedtime is a sacred order for a young Cardassian.

When Julian is called away from storytime, Said Garak-Bashir does not accept the break in routine easily. Garak and Julian must find their missing ward when he initiates a game of “hide and seek” much to the distress of his guardians.”

Thank you @the-data-files for giving me permission to post this little fanwork based on the ever delightful Said Garak-Bashir! Hope you enjoy. 

Thank you also to @nonbinarynerdbot for beta reading this piece for me! The endless listening ear on my yapping about Julian and Garak is always appreciated. 

[headofhermes]

Alternative summary given by @nonbinarynerdbot