[ohworm-dax]

hello!

you can call me peach! i use he/she pronouns.

this is my sideblog (main is @peachiekeeeen) dedicated to all things star trek! i’ve been into star trek since i was a very young kid, and the interest has never faded!

my profile picture is from this post.

my tag directory can be found here.

[trek-tracks]

Like Dolly Parton before her, Lwaxana Troi enters a drag "Lwaxana Troi lookalike" competition and loses

[trek-tracks]

You! Keep talking

[clementine-kesh]

i do actually like that tom’s arc in voyager works out to be about a guy who sucks ass and slowly gets better but is still kind of a shitty person at the end of it. it’s unfortunate though that both the writers and many of the fans don’t seem to realize that just because he’s dealt with his daddy issues and found acceptance in the voyager family doesn’t mean he doesn’t still suck by way of being racist and misogynistic and generally self-centered

[aenslem]

#the office episode of voyager was fun

[valhalla-dancehall]

it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows

[noyoucantdonteventry]

[dduane]

It's also fun to remember the context, here. A deranged starship captain (just out of shot, pointing a phaser at Kirk) has just demanded that Kirk call the Enterprise and order his crew to do something illegal, or he'll shoot Kirk. Kirk makes the call, knowing his crew will refuse. And they do.

The other captain's practically got his phaser up Kirk's nose at this point, trying to push Kirk into putting more pressure on his crew, and Kirk just coolly says to his people, "...Nah, nothing serious going on down here, talk to you later..." and "hangs up." And then does this wide-eyed, innocent, butter-wouldn't-melt thing: "You heard them, it's not my fault...!" Which maybe will still get him shot... but maybe not. Gambling, as always...

A good script is half the battle in serial drama. "Omega Glory" wasn't all that great a script. But these offhand moments of business, dropped by an actor working deeply enough in his character, can make stuff work regardless. :)

[specialagentartemis]

“Which fictional universe would you rather live in—“ Star Trek. Star Trek. There is a correct answer and it’s Star Trek. “I want to have cool adventures—“ Star Trek. “I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort” Star Trek. “I want to be a psychic alien—“ Star Trek. “But I want to do magic—“ do you know how much weird magic shit happens in Star Trek. Also Star Trek has holodecks you can pretend to be in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or whatever and then come home to your usually peaceful interstellar community. There are basically no downsides to living in the Star Trek universe if you take the assumption that you remain you, a human living on Earth. You can join Starfleet or you can stay home and enjoy fully automated luxury gay space communism. The answer is Star Trek.

[teraya-martaya]

Let me help!

KIRK: “Let me help.” A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He’ll recommend those three words even over “I love you.” (The City on the Edge of Forever)

Next episode:

SPOCK: “I have my own will, Captain. Let me help.” (Operation Annihilate!)

Next episode:

KIRK: I’m trying to help you, Spock. (Amok Time)

[starsinursa]

jim kirk: “let me help.” a hundred years or so from now, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. he’ll recommend those three words even over “i love you.”

spock, literally one fudging episode later, trying to be helpful to jim even though he’s in excruciating amounts of pain: i have my own will, captain. let me help.

me:

[trekdaily]

STAR TREK: PICARD (2020–2023) - 3.08 • “Surrender”

[stonedtrek]

so uh I don’t think I’ve seen anybody ever mention the ambiguously affiliated native american man smack dab in the middle of the rec room scene

[shadeslayer]

& for all the people who didnt know, star trek already has a very rocky past with trying to portray native american characters

chakotay from voyager was an attempt to try and create an inspiring and ground breaking character for native american people the way uhura was for black people (like the way whoopi goldberg cites her existence on the show as a huge influence on her), but because of the situation it Really didnt work out

in their effort to write a good native character they got a native american on as a consultant which is a great idea! the only problem is the man (jack marks, his fake name he used being ‘jamake highwater’) they hired was later exposed for racefaking and building an entire career on his fake native identity and publishing books and documentaries and working on other things, like star trek.

marks became a massive name for native american stuff but at the same time there were many native americans who said they doubted his ancestry since his works were painfully stereotypical and insincere. he received well over $800k from federal grants put aside for native american people and took dominance in the media as a Native American Expert On Native American Identity, while pushing out work putting natives as weak caricatures and stereotypes.

marks was the consultant for making chakotay be a good native american representative, and so chakotays character ended up stereotyping native americans and being contradictory in itself. while i before would say “well, they tried and they just had bad luck that they chose someone who ended up being fake,” i just now in looking at it see that they hired marks well after his racefaking was exposed and marks himself admitted to it - the exposé was published in 1984, marks stopped claiming to be cherokee but continued to profit off of his established ‘indian presence’ and later said he pretended to be cherokee to get into the writing industry, and marks submitted his notes for chakotays character backstory in 1993… nearly a decade after being exposed.

where uhura inspired black women like whoopi goldberg to become actresses, chakotay is a confusing mess that reinforces age-old stereotypes about native americans and keeps native media rep locked into caricatures of ndn identity. while it is good there was a main cast native character and there were definitely good aspects to his character and writing, the ridiculousness of his native american identity has gained a lot of criticism from actual native americans. the poor writing and decisions dont even hurt too much, its that we (native americans) were robbed of the chance for a powerful, inspiring, and main cast member on an incredible scifi series by a fraudulent racefaker and a production crew that hired him on either without doing a background check or without caring that he was exposed for it.

so star trek has already failed harshly in their attempt to make a diverse starfleet, particularly in the case of native american characters, so im not surprised by this questionable production decision and i would invite the fans defending it or not seeing the issue with it to educate themselves. star trek has had amazing diversity and powerful messages, and thats honestly why chakotay and the decision of hiring jack marks as the consultant hurts so much.

star trek has done amazing things but there will still be mistakes and places where they fail to write as diverse as they aimed and its messages of understanding and progress are what should inspire us as the audience to see those mistakes, acknowledge them, and work for better writing and representation in the future and not allowing these mistakes to fall through the cracks or even be defended as “good diversity” when they are clearly not.

tl;dr chakotay was written badly and partly as a racist stereotype through what is at best ignorance and at worst purposeful apathy on the star trek production side when they hired an exposed racefaker who got native american federal grant money based on his fake identity. star trek doesnt have perfect diversity, especially wrt natives, and its important to be knowleadgable and critical of this when we discuss native american characters, themes, and identity in regard to the series.

if you would like to do research on this situation, feel free to google ‘jamake highwater’, read chakotays wikipedia page, and follow the citation links to more in depth content.

[punkbxt]

for those of yall that r new or dont know a lot about voyager heres why we dont fw chakotays writing

[milf-horta]

I've said this before but in the secret good version of voyager when tom gets demoted janeway promotes harry to lieutenant

It fucks up tom and harry a lot, because their dynamic shifts overnight and nothing has changed but everything has changed. Tom doesn't get told he only finds out when harry visits him in 30 days and he sees the extra pips

This is also where you put an episode like nightingale where harry struggles with command (rather than season 7 which was way too late for it)

I think it's ultimately good for both of them but it does make their dynamic weird for at least a season

[memewhore]

[coldcrashpictures]

[itberice]

[lady-sci-fi]

Sweet and ridiculous boys 😆💛🥰

[boophisburnhamae]

Walked by a group of people at Target and heard "I mean, I haven't been diagnosed as autistic, but I'm really into Star Trek"

[sleepyfilms]

you know, before i started watching star trek, i thought ppl were just saying it was gay bc they liked the idea of kirk and spock being a couple, but as i've been watching it, i have realized no, they really meant it. "why mr. spock... you almost make me believe in miracles." the city on the edge of tomorrow. "i know your affection for spock." spock being fucking ecstatic that jim is still alive in amok time and even smiling. kirk looking at spock like he holds the whole universe in his eyes when he's talking about the most boring shit. like it's not just kinda gay, it's like spock and kirk were written as an actual loving couple but, y'know, it was the 60s and they couldn't really do that on tv

[trekdaily]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987 - 1994) - 2.10 • “The Dauphin”

[trek-tracks]

We love one (1) captain