Spock here, Captain

"Live long and Prosper" IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

[letseyx]

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you. You had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end.

[exlibra]

julian comes back from internment camp 371 speaking nearly fluent klingon. mainly because the only way to pass the time during the long, lonely nights is to ask martok to tell him traditional klingon stories and martok insists that julian turns the UT off to preserve the nuance.

garak tells himself that this is Fine, even though julian hasn’t bothered to learn kardasi. in the five years they’ve known each other. even though julian and martok are laughing and joking together in the runabout back. it’s good to know more languages, of course. what is not Fine is julian insisting from that point on that they only read klingon stories for their book club. ”they’re so engaging”, julian says. ”so romantic and muti-facetted! so much better that that last play you forced on me-”

and this is where garak decides that sto’vo’kor might be a good place for general martok to go, actually

[exlibra]

years after the war martok ends up writing the song about their escape. it’s fantastic. garak has never been more angry in his life

[eugenieedanglars]

when bashir asked dax out in the first episode and sisko was like "i wonder if he'd be interested if you were still some old man" What no one realised is the answer was probably yes

[jonathanarcher]

[jonathanarcher]

there is not a unit of time currently in existence small enough that it could accurately measure just how fast archer would kill tuvix

[paksthestoic]

Star Trek Captains in order of how fast they kill Tuvix:

1. Archer (does not feel bad)

2. Burnham (feels a Little Bad)

3. Janeway (we personally witnessed the devastation in them big ol I Had to Kill Somebody eyes, but she recovers quickly due to personal love of Tuvok and Neelix)

4. Sisko (spends awhile confirming every single possible alternative, does Not Feel Bad except when Tuvix directly calls him murderer)

5. Kirk (tries to Kobayashi Maru it. Dealer’s choice on if this results in a Tuvix AND Neelix and Tuvok live, or if it becomes one of those things that he carries foreverrr)

6. Picard (this could be a two parter episode with how much he would need to soliloquize on identity and the rights of the individual and the authority limits of a captain. But yeah, he’s killing Tuvix).

This doesn’t even touch on how the non-Janeway captains would react if their Tuvix was ALSO made up of one half Their Best Friend and Moral Compass.

[knivesandteeth]

Missing the bit where sisko either blackmails tuvix into doing it himself or getting Garak to do it

Also saru isnt killing tuvix

[unamccormack]

Garak murdered Neelix before the dilemma arose.

[exlibra]

ziyal survives the war -> is unofficially adopted by both garak and kira separately (Very Separately.) -> asks to spend time on cardassia during the reconstruction -> kira comes along because it’s a disaster out there and she’s not letting ziyal go by herself -> comedy of errors where kira keeps getting mistaken for garak’s quite young wife (but what a lovely daughter you have together! she looks so much like you! divorced, you say? what a shame…) -> kira’s head explodes. the end

[exlibra]

tbh bringing ziyal/jake into this makes it even funnier. imagine a family dinner and it's a bajoran ex-resistance fighter, a cardassian ex-obsidian order agent, a human ex-maquis smuggler and the Emissary. and they're having a beer and talking about baseball. because their kids got together.

[nyxettizm]

THEY PROPOSED TO EACHOTHER AT THE EXACT SAME.TIME I THINK IM GONNA BE SICK

[eldar-of-zemlya]

OMG Jim and Spock are DEFINITELY the kind of couple to accidentally propose to each other at the same time

I saw this and immediately had to draw it 😂

[garak-pussy-indulgence]

Star Trek won't show me enough queer rebellious counter culture on Cardassia so I will do it myself

[unamccormack]

The anarchist lesbian collective of East Torr salutes you and your style.

[garak-pussy-indulgence]

Thank you omg, I just know in my heart that the underground Cardassian industrial/goth clubs are a sight to behold and I KNOW you know this too 😭

[unamccormack]

I’ve seen your vision now and I believe it completely. Sensational. All I can offer in return is this small tattoo.

[onetobeamupart]

in fair terok nor, where we lay our scene

revisited in honor of restarting my artblog

[knivesandteeth]

I think part of the reason Garak is so relatable to so many of us is that hes one of the few star trek characters who work directly with The Public™

[televisionenjoyer]

Nooo never kill yourself baby. Star Trek enters the public domain in 2062.

[thisusernameisunique]

One year before the Vulcans arrive?

[rudywiser]

Well yeah, otherwise they'd be under copyright

[microwavebeeep]

✨⭐🌠⭐✨

[aphrostiel]

spock³

inspired by this new favorite picture of mine

[sherrylipgloss]

favourite female characters: [3/30] NYOTA UHURA

“I’ll protect you, fair maiden!” “Sorry, neither.”

[ittybittymattycommittee]

#raise your shields #because you’re about to get wrecked

[jewishgarygreen]

#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)

[kiapet2]

This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.

[scholarlypidgeot]

I don’t watch Star Trek, but I can’t stress enough how important this message is

[fictionadventurer]

My favorite thing about this episode is that, while the rest of the characters are taking a more Star Trek philosophical approach to this situation, calmly debating the good and bad points of this colony built upon eugenics, Geordi is just seething. Troi is having a romance with their flippin’ president, but Geordi never hesitates on his morals. He’s always aware that this world’s supposed perfection is built upon the despicable philosophy of killing people like him. He barely even bothers to hide his anger as he has to work alongside their scientists. He’s snappish and short-tempered and bitter, clearly only working with these people because lives are at stake. When he discovers the solution is based on his VISOR, he is viciously triumphant, his joy at saving the people boosted by a bitter sense of righteousness that these people were only saved because someone like him was allowed to survive.

And even though this anger and bitterness are very un-Star-Trek-like approaches to diplomacy–it works. The scientist who works alongside him is the first person who decides to jump ship and leave the colony behind. She sees the stagnation of their bland “’‘‘‘‘utopia’‘‘‘‘‘ and realizes that diversity and adaptation create a much better society. And while the other Enterprise crew members have some wishy-washy lament over how this will destroy this planet’s ‘‘‘culture’‘‘, Geordi never waffles. He has far too personal a stake in this to lose sight of the fact that peoples’ lives are more important than any high-falutin’ philosophical justifications. The episode might waffle over the Prime Directive points of this society’s decline, but Geordi’s perspective is the one showing clearly why it needs to die.

[knivesandteeth]

Anyone else think the reason ds9 deeply resonates with Queer people is because, at its Heart, its about a third space created but a group of patriotic people fundamentally alienated from their own people. Like obviously garak and quark but consider how were told in the first episode that Kira has been sent there to get her "out of the way" of the civilian government, how the things shes needed to do to both survive and secure their freedom seem deeply uncomfortable to all the civilian leaders. Dax considering both Joran and her eagerness towards reassociation make her basically a non entity on Trill. Bashir takes a while but the augment reveal puts him firmly in this Category. Obriens difficulty with his ptsd and moving passed personal préjudices puts him at odds with a lot of federation ideals. Siskos deep trauma around the loss of his wife and inability to move pass this, makes him very inconvenient to a federation desperate to pass itself off as a Utopia. He then becomes more and more unacceptable as he leans further into his role as in emissary, with the federation seemingly very uncomfortable with this religious expression. Jesus, Worf begins his tenure by getting himself exiled from klingon space.

Like idk, I dont think its all that shocking a Bunch of Queer people most liked the show about having a complicated relationship with your culture and never being allowed to go home.

[anghraine]

In my heart of hearts, I believe two very important things:

1— Yes, TOS Kirk is better than Spock at chess, not because he's just a chaos agent or lucky or Spock is distracted and letting him win or any of the other ways of minimizing TOS's extreme clarity on this point. Kirk keeps winning, as Spock himself gradually comes to accept, because Kirk is better at chess.

Behind their mannerisms, Kirk is the cooler-headed and more relentlessly calculating of the two, and fuses not only exhaustive background information but very quick, versatile adaptation and application of information + tactics to changing circumstances, even when the change is highly unexpected. Spock doesn't adapt to breaks in routine or expectation as quickly or as smoothly, and ... lbr, he pretends he's not more of a hothead than Jim Kirk in his totality will ever be, but it's a dirty lie.

2— Speaking of which, once Spock learns poker? He's way better at it than James "any time weird powers strip away my iron grip on my weaknesses I get consumed in analysis paralysis" Kirk. Spock loses now and then through a) monumental bad luck that speaks poetically to him or b) brazen pretense so other crew members will keep the eternal Enterprise poker championship going, rather than getting so disheartened they give up altogether.

Anyone who suggests there's something un-Vulcan about Spock's embrace of poker gets the galaxy's most withering non-expression imaginable. Surak teaches the importance of absolute self-discipline very much including one's facial expressions, seeing multiple possibilities but maintaining commitment to one's decisions, and controlling one's emotions. There is nothing un-Vulcan about Spock's immaculate poker face or evolution into Enterprise card shark.