#st:vg

[davidalleynes]

when i’m trying to write a story and i don’t know where to start

[davidalleynes]

in the 24th century, your text messages and work emails will be combined into the same inbox and social media won’t exist, but you’ll still get pissy messages from a vulcan who’s salty that you didn’t use the right tense in your joke message to the engineering groupchat

[davidalleynes]

lt. malpra elektita valasta: physically, yes, i could fight admiral picard. but emotionally? imagine the toll.

[davidalleynes]

worf being mirok’s mentor wouldn’t be like... super unrealistic?

i think they’d either hate each other or they’d have a lot in common

[davidalleynes]

in space everyone wears ponchos bc they're the most versatile garment

[davidalleynes]

on the vanguard the canteen/cafeteria is a two story restaurant/lounge/bar on the underside of the saucer section staffed by emh-style holograms with a large wall of windows looking out into space, which have massive blast doors that close over the windows in an emergency. 

its a lot like quark’s bar, where there’s also access to four holodecks off the main area, as well as tables for card games or board games.

the bartender’s name is sally jemison, and she has a gossip protocol built into her programming, for some reason. 

no one ever thought to name the canteen anything other than “the canteen” a name that jemison hates, but she doesn’t have an adequate creativity subroutine, so she held a ship-wide vote on the name of the lounge.

suggestions include: 

the Starlight Lounge

the Figurehead

the Look-Out

the Rec

the Canteen (write-in candidate after an extensive campaign by Lieutenant Malpra)

Jemison’s

[davidalleynes]

Senak: Portuguese man o' war is actually composed of four separate animals that combine to create a larger, much more dangerous creature and the tentacle unit can become separated from the rest of the creature and float around independently, stinging whoever it pleases.

Malpra: that's like how Aritokans configure their ships in a modular fashion so that each module can specialize in a task. their ships look like someone took a bunch of shuttle pods and melted them together.

Cordoba: did you know that the Kolonjoni people of Kolonjo IV have the same biological configuration, but for a sentient species?

Atongo: *looking at a picture of man o' war tentacles* looks kind of like gagh, but stringier. i imagine the poison barbs would add a crunchy texture.

Mirok: can we please have a normal conversation, just once

[davidalleynes]

dinner with the mirok family

mirok's mother: so, are you still a practicing lesbian?

mirok: i've never had to practice, i'm very good at it

davik: *nearly chokes to death on his fork*