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Friends, salamanders, and amorphous time-entities...

It is time to start thinking about December. I know, I know. No one wants to think about December, but the time will pass anyway, so we are here to tell you that...

There is going to be a change to 25 Days of Voyager & Prodigy this year!

Instead of having individuals sign up for respective days, we are going to have prompts. Prompts that you all made!

This year is different. This year we are taking prompts. Below you can submit your proposed prompts for this year's event. We are looking

How exciting is that, huh? Click the link and submit all the prompts you want. Go ham. We don't care.

Northern Hemisphere people, try to remember what it is like to feel COLD and be buried in SNOW. Southern Hemisphere people, PLEASE HELP US REMEMBER.

Prompt voting ends August 31st!

Be free, my freaky salamanders! Make some bad decisions and submit all sorts of weird things!

cigaradd

If they make Star Trek Prodigy comics, this is how the cover looks like in my imagination

Palette I'm using :

evviejo

thirteen's era appreciation: 661/?

captainjanewaysdqvoyagercore

She's so adorable! ❤️❤️🟦

harrykim

Star Trek: Voyager 03.15 Coda

curator-on-ao3

I stood in the library, shelves of books all around, and I wept.

Every book, written by a person or people.

Good.

Bad.

Original.

Shamefully plagiarized.

There was effort there, within hardcovers and softcovers, an essential humanity. Someone, somewhere put in the work.

Generative AI means we can no longer trust the work.

So I stood in the library, shelves of books all around, and I wept.

batmanisagatewaydrug

always some new bullshit in the ocean

demilypyro

The thing about really long series is that they start to develop their own tropes. And if they go on long enough, they get the opportunity to subvert their own tropes.

There's a sort of running gag with the Star Trek engineers. Something will need to get done, the captain asks how long it will take, and the engineer gives an estimate. The captain will then say they need it done twice as fast, or more. They then usually pull it off somehow. This is the done thing. TVtropes calls it "Scotty Time", after the engineer from the first series.

We get this same interaction over and over across multiple series, from multiple different pairs of captains and engineers. By the later seasons of Next Generation they're already riffing on it. One scene establishes that the initial estimate is usually actually already longer than they'll actually need, because captains love to pressure their crews and the engineers know this, so getting it done in less time than initially proposed makes them look good. This ritual has by this point been established as Starfleet standard, seen in the original series, Next Generation, and prominently in Deep Space Nine.

So then we get to Star Trek Voyager, and we have our captain Janeway and our chief engineer B'elanna Torres, and we know how this is gonna go. In a season one episode, sure enough, Janeway asks that whatever needs to be done gets done in half the estimated time, and... Torres stops her. No, she says, it takes as long as it takes, it can't be done faster. And her face is dead serious. Janeway is momentarily surprised but doesn't protest. And it's some great characterization for both of them. It establishes Torres as an honest and hard working officer, a straight shooter who doesn't take shortcuts. She'll look her commanding officer in the face and just say the truth. And it establishes Janeway as someone experienced but not incapable of adapting to her crew. She knows how this interaction is supposed to work, but takes Torres at her word, and doesn't repeat this trope for the rest of the series. I like it a lot. Idk end of post

cutespacegoblin

In addition in star trek lower decks theres a whole episode about how the entire cerritos crew always adds and uses "buffer time" to allow themselves more time to chill and do stuff in their own way (which for that ship makes some sense given the amount of miscellaneous non work related stuff they get into) while also making it seem more impressive to their senior officers when they do it faster than expected.

Also the ship falls apart quickly when this time is removed which frankly kinda tracks cause a lot of the starfleet officers we hear from usually have pretty strong personalities and their own ways of doing things efficiently

thusspokeurmother

i try so hard yet no one notices

elliedearest

"I bet women find you irresistible."

Yes, ME!

(I laughed in delight at this scene.)

thesoldiersminute

Mia Goth | Infinity Pool 2023 | Brandon Cronenberg

aphrostiel

star trek (tos) studies

lazuelazuli

@imadoctornotanescalator

fuglydrawingz

I had to

amnhnyc

How do you fit a 16-ft- (4.9-m-) tree slice through a 12-ft- (3.7-m-) doorway? In pieces. This giant sequoia specimen was cut to fit through the Museum’s doorways in 1912—visitors today can still spot the seams where it was put back together. When this tree was felled by a lumber company in 1891 (which is now illegal), it was 331 ft (100.1 m) tall—taller than the Statue of Liberty. It was also about 1,400 years old. Imagine how much the world changed during this mighty tree’s lifetime. You can see it up close in the Museum's Hall of North American Forests.

Photo: AMNH Library / Image no. 33700