#trek rewatch

[singsongbirdie]

star trek has some of the fucking WEIRDEST episode plots. it's great

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In Persistance of a Vision everyone is out there having horny hallucinations of home and secret desires fulfilled, and then there’s Tom Paris’s daddy issues and self-loathing.

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Season One, Episode Four “Strange New World”

Reckless humans versus logical humans is the overarching theme 

“82 crew members” onboard the NX-01

Humans are impulsive and vulcans refuse to divert from protocol. These different ways of living butt heads and both refuse to change. 

Vulcans have a superiority complex, a “we-know-what’s-best-for-you” kind of attitude towards humankind.

Summary: The crew finds an earth-like planet, decide to go check it out up close and personal and are all infected by hallucinatory spores which cause everyone to go berserk and see creatures. We all learn a lesson about trust between species. 

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Season One, Episode Fifteen “Shadows of P’Jem”

“Earth can’t be getting involved in interspecies conflicts”

fallout from “The Andorian Incident” - tense dealings with vulcan diplomats and human starfleet officers

vulcan consulate cuts ties with the humans

T’pol is getting pulled from starfleet

not the first time a vulcan officer worked on a human ship - the others only lasted a few weeks, they found their crew mates too unpredictable (T’pol has been there 6 months)

Andorians versus Vulcans 

Summary: Archer is set to visit a warp-capable alien planet in order to establish a connection with them. the only species they know are the vulcans. Archer and T’pol are set to meet with the new species when they find out T’pol is being permanently reassigned - and then they are kidnapped! Andorians show up to help in order to be repaid for the last time the enterprise encountered them. T’pol manages to stay after recusing her vulcan superior 

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Season Two, Episode Two “Carbon Creek”

one year “to the day” since T’pol joined Enterprise - the longest any vulcan has served on a human ship

Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania (site of “first contact”)

in the 1950s, vulcans were sent to observe the launch of earth’s first satellite, but they crash land on the planet.

sputnik was nearly 200 years ago. how old is T’pol? nearly a century??

vulcans walking amongst humans undetected, observing small-town america (white america...)

how did this vulcan pick up on this game of pool so quickly are like all vulcans just canonically good at human games that’s so cute

they actually assimilate into human culture secretly, like they get jobs and a house wow 

vulcans knew of tellarites by 1950 (in earth years) “a Tellarite freighter picked up your signal”

Vulcans invented velcro.

Summary: T’pol tells Trip and Archer a story about her great-grandmother who crashed to earth and had to stay there undercover for a few years with two of her surviving crew mates. Eventually they are rescued but one decides behind and “study earth culture.” Trip and Archer from believe T’pol. 

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Season One, Episode Nineteen “Acquisition”

“This is an exploration ship, not a cargo ship. We don’t do any commerce.”

Ferengi! Such a dramatic opening, omg. Ferengi space pirates

We can’t understand their language yet

Ever-present threat of danger on the enterprise

Have the vulcans met the ferengi yet? have they told the humans about it?

UV light room in the medical wing

This episode is literally just Trip running around in his undies while the ferengi strip the enterprise apart and babble incoherently 

...omg they group the women with the other cargo their stealing...

So the enterprise doesn’t do commerce, but humans still do? We’ve seen cargo ships already, so do people still use money? Was the enterprise expensive? Do people have paycheques? 

SLAVE MARKET?! 

Ferengi represent the violent opposite of humanity, and Archer recognizes that in them, “that kind of thinking almost destroyed my species.”

but at the same time they are still individual people...yanno?

Trip fights dirty. Ferengi are freaky. Vulcans are sneaky. 

Summary: In the most dramatic opening so far, the episode starts with the entire crew of the enterprise passed out on the floor. They’ve been boarded by space pirates! So it’s earth’s first encounter with ferengi, and it’s not a pleasant one. Trip saves the day by pitting the pirates against once another until they fell apart and left. 

[singsongbirdie]

pilot's over. now the boys are back in town

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