My main is @adiraofthetals where I do post Star Trek things often including Discovery and Starfleet Academy.
I will continue to post Star Trek things on that account but this account will reblog everything Starfleet Academy from that account here. Plus I will reblog Starfleet Academy posts and especially S.A.M. related posts. Sometimes you will get some Discovery posts relating to Starfleet Academy. But that's what you get with a Discovery fan.
All posts reblogged will be tagged with character names and ship name as well as the original posters username in case you wish to see more Starfleet Academy posts I have reblogged from them.
Two or more characters doing their own craft projects in the same room/space while exchanging stories with each other. Snacks and drinks are included along with peer feedback and support of each others craft projects.
Have fun!! Can't wait to see what you write up!
"I never got the hang of quilting." Reno says from halfway under a console.
Adira looks up from their patchwork and nearly pricks themself with the needle.
"Oh?"
Jett makes a disgruntled noise and clanging sounds echo through engineering for a moment.
"Yeah. My wife loved it but I kept getting myself tangled in the string." Jett laughs with fond remembrance, "she said something about me being like a cat."
Adira winces. "Grudge does seem to enjoy getting tangled in my thread. And biting it."
"Well that's cats for you," Jett extricate herself from her work, "take a look at this will you?"
Adira marks their place and crosses engineering to where Jett was fixing the damage from that nasty power surge.
They scooted themself under the console and looked up. They were always in awe of Jett’s ability to fix things.
They'd had to graft 32nd century plating onto this particular console after the damage and the backwards compatability issue had everyone saying that the console would need to be fully replaced.
Jett had taken that personally.
Now Adira looks up at the expertly patched console. It wasn't too unlike the skin grafts that Kasha Tal remembered from anatomy class. Jett didn't trust programmable matter and so she had used a microfilament to manually join the two systems. It was incredible.
"Looks great!" Adira said and they emerged to find Jett looking at their latest patchwork project.
"Is this...?"
Adira went red. "It's the crew."
Jett ruffled Adira's hair. "You've captured Saru very well. Stamets needs about 24% more sarcasm but aside from that..."
Adira laughed and leant into the affection. They liked hanging out with Reno.
"Here," Reno chucked them a bag of mini pretzels, "fuel."
Adira gratefully accepted although they were careful not to get any crumbs on the quilt. Jett always seemed to have snacks hiding somewhere and Adira had the sneaking suspicion most of them weren't even replicated.
They looked down at their quilt. They got why Reno didn't take shortcuts, the creation process itself was half the joy.
Today is a good day to die be a Kyle and Kyden fan. Not only we get a new issue of Lost Contact but we also get Star Trek Celebrations, a collection of short stories about LGBTQ Starfleet members. Please support it, buy it if you can, it’s only about £3.50 on kindle (not sure about physical copies). 🙏
AFTER ONLY 10 DAYS OUR EAGER CHEFS HAVE FILLED ALL 42 OF THIS YEAR'S SLOTS! 🤩
It’s already time for our third and final Sign-Up Round-Up of StarTrekPotluck2026! We’re so excited to say we’ve got 42 creators from across a huge range of Star Trek fandoms, all ready to fire up their replicators and serve up some delicious fanworks this summer 🥳 🥣
A warm welcome to the kitchen to:
@green-mug-2mato-juice (fandom tbd) (fanwork tbd), 2nd August
@raffaelamusiker PIC/VOY or ENT (tbd) fanfic, 4th August
@problematick VOY fanfic, 5th August
@stellanovaatla TNG fanfic, 6th August
@lilolilyr crossover fanfic, 7th August
@pixiedane SFA fanfic, 8th August
@grissomesque VOY fanfic, 9th August
@astrotrek86 SNW fanfic, 11th August
@aehallhyon PIC fanfic, 12th August
Who join our existing chefs (under the cut!)
Now all that’s left to do is gather your friends around your favourite mess hall table, settle in, and get ready to see what this year’s chefs are cooking up for StarTrekPotluck2026!
For more info, see here.
@adiraofthetals DSC fanfic, 1st August
@dragonroar87 PIC fanfic, 1st August
@metromeisterr TOS fanfic, 1st August
@regionalpancake (fandom tbd) fanfic, 2nd August
@annikasevenshots PIC/VOY or SFA (tbd) fanfic, 2nd August
@ussjellyfish DSC/SFA fanfic, 3rd August
@onmytallesttiptoesspinning SNW or LWD (tbd), 3rd August
@song-spero LWD (fanwork tbd), 3rd August
@moonxshape (fandom tbd) fanfic, 4th August
@elen-aranel DSC/SNW fanfic, 4th August
@cornwells-couch AOS/DSC fanfic, 5th August
@spacetwoofmanyfrontiers TNG fanfic, 5th August
@candycurlsofmaddness (fandom tbd) fanfic, 6th August
@silicon-nodule TOS fanfic, 6th August
@pilcrowtudinous LWD/VOY fanfic, 7th August
@sun-lit-roses SNW fanfic, 7th August
@marymoss1971 LWD fanfic, 8th August
@cookiegamer TNG/DS9 fanfic, 8th August
@kejsarinna SFA fanfic, 9th August
@annamelia-art (fandom tbd) fanart, 9th August
@jone-slugger VOY fanfic, 10th August
@angrymantheater TNG podfic, 10th August
@jazzfic PIC fanfic, 10th August
@silvermillenniumqueenneptune PIC/TNG fanfic, 11th August
@thewillowtree DS9 fanfic, 11th August
@altumvidetur TNG or DS9 or VOY (tbd) fanfic, 12th August
This August, StarTrekPotluck returns for our seventh year, celebrating food, drink, community, and of course - Star Trek!
What's all this about? Check out our intro post from last year's fest for more info 🖖✨
Sign-ups open on May 17th at noon (GMT+1)!
(What time is that for me?)
We filled all 42 spots pretty quickly last year - so if you're at a xenobiology conference, or away on a Starfleet survival course, we suggest setting a reminder or you can have someone sign up on your behalf 💕
See you all in the mess hall ☕🖖✨
This August, StarTrekPotluck returns for our seventh year, celebrating food, drink, community, and of course - Star Trek!
What's all this about? Check out our intro post from last year's fest for more info 🖖✨
Sign-ups open on May 17th at noon (GMT+1)!
(What time is that for me?)
We filled all 42 spots pretty quickly last year - so if you're at a xenobiology conference, or away on a Starfleet survival course, we suggest setting a reminder or you can have someone sign up on your behalf 💕
My work of the weekend 🥰 thank you @adiraofthetals for the clips via youtube!
This one goes out to the yearners! Our girls 💖
It’s been busy, and it’s also been long enough since SFA was airing that now I’m almost ready for total rewatches again. It’s been fun exploring this new creative medium!
This August, StarTrekPotluck returns for our seventh year, celebrating food, drink, community, and of course - Star Trek!
What's all this about? Check out our intro post from last year's fest for more info 🖖✨
Sign-ups open on May 17th at noon (GMT+1)!
(What time is that for me?)
See you all in the mess hall ☕💕
thinking about how in the epilogue at the end of discovery it’s been 30 years and the kids in starfleet academy are all in their 40s and 50s and have had whole careers in starfleet
Forgive me if someone has already done/observed this and written up something about it. For the sake of my mental health I avoid Star Trek discourse like the plague (particularly in the era of outrage = profit), so I’d probably have missed it. That is also why I’ve created a separate blog specifically to post this: cos I want a firewall between this and my gifset reblogging and fanfic writing regular blog.
With the rumoured tearing down of the SNW set symbolising the end of the current era of Star Trek, that got me consider another show: The West Wing. That show changed tones and was never quite the same after September 11, and I’ve been considering for sometime how Trump 2.0 is the equivalent of that event to latest iteration of Trek.
Then this morning, at 5am, it occurred to me how the high points of 90s Trek coincided with the Clinton administration – so I decided to do a timeline of Trek to US administrations. It’s a bit rudimentary as I was using LibreOffice (I probably could have got AI to spit this out in moment but fuck AI. Also: fuck Microsoft). I’ve also highlighted election years, because I remember the political winds feeling like they were changing quite dramatically in 2024 many months before Trump was re-elected.
Here’s TOS era. Interesting as the generally seen as lower quality third season aired during the Nixon Administration and the show was finally cancelled after that season.
Here’s 90s Trek. Most of TNG’s run was during Republican administrations (Reagan and then Bush Snr), but arguably didn’t get good until the era of Bush Snr. DS9 (often cited as the best ever Star Trek series) aired entirely during the Clinton administration and Voyager mostly during the Clinton administration. I haven’t watched more than a handful of episodes of Enterprise but my understanding is that it was very must influenced by post-9/11 US paranoia (like The West Wing was).
Discovery stared airing during the first Trump administration, but arguably found its feet during the Biden administration (in-universe: post time jump). It’s interesting to observe that flurry of amazing Trek that happened during Biden administration: most of Lower Deck’s run, all of Prodigy and the first two seasons of Strange New Worlds.
My conclusion is that Star Trek (at least Star Trek tv shows, this analysis has not included the movies) is an indicator species for US politics. Star Trek flourishes both in terms of number of shows airing and quality during periods when the US has or is in the process of swinging towards a Democratic President. It struggles in periods when the US has or is swinging towards a Republican President.
For additional thoughts: there are two Trek shows that have aired since Trump was re-elected. I think season one of Starfleet Academy has done well creatively even though it has aired during the second Trump administration as it has resisted the temptation to reflect the current vibe of US politics and instead focused on the (hopefully) near future of the US – deciding to be a metaphor for the recovery that will need to happen after Trump 2.0. Unfortunately, the powers that be want this era of US politics to last forever so of course it got cancelled.
Strange New Worlds is another story. Remember it went all in on MAGA is dead in its first episode, using footage of the Jan 6 Capitol Attack to make a point about the dark era of Earth. I suspect there was a little bit of ‘oh, fuck, what do we do now’ in the writers room when the MAGA movement rose back into political power. I believe SNW’s strategy is whatever it takes to not get cancelled/keep the franchise afloat, which is why season three felt so cowardly (can you imagine Ad Astra Per Aspera and it’s persecution of trans people/immigrants/ethnic and/or religious minorities metaphor being a season three episode?). But I can understand not wanting the show your working on to be cancelled, as that would see your colleagues out of work, many of them wondering where their next pay check will come from in a time when streaming has and AI threatens to decimate creative industries.
