"I'll complain if I want to. It's comforting!"

splash • 20 • he/him • white • trek blog (follows from @splashtail)

[transemh]

hi there! im splash! i have a major adoration for lots of media, and one of the most recent has been star trek!

splash - he/him - 20 - white - main is at @splashtail

I've regained internet and everything is awesome. id still love to talk about my ocs if people want to send me things !!! :-)

[malewifeboimler]

[bumblingbabooshka]

Patreon Request, November: B'Elanna x Harry [Patreon | Commissions]

[bumblingbabooshka]

Inspired by this post: What if B'Elanna reveals to Harry that she feels insecure about not knowing much about her Human (Puerto Rican) heritage after two interactions at the beginning of the episode - one with Chakotay and one with Tuvok where they both display a deep connection to their heritages and cultural practices. Harry then reveals that he's also mixed - his mother being Chinese while his father's Korean. Like Chakotay, he wasn't very interested in cultural practices as a kid (he seems like he'd find them boring at a young age) and his parents didn't push him to participate or learn which was fine when he was a kid but as he got older he began to feel a sense of displacement, guilt, and frustration. It's easier to just be 'Human' rather than taking ownership of anything more specific, especially since to most people he's not visibly mixed, but with being away from his family he feels now more than ever that he wishes he'd connected to that heritage. He expresses the same yearning that B'Elanna brings to him - he's also noticed that Tuvok and Chakotay can connect to their parents, their people, their faith even so far away...that connection gives them a strength and assurance that both Harry and B'Elanna envy. He tells her about the Alter Ego coaching incident and B'Elanna tells him about the Meditation Fail. They both tease each other good naturedly. B'Elanna tells Harry about how Chakotay instructed her in some of his cultural practices (we see in 'Cathexis' that she has knowledge of these practices) and how she started being jealous then, specifically of how he can connect to and sort of amend his relationship with his father (which was rocky in life) THROUGH these practices and the faith he carries in them. She sometimes tried to do the same privately but it felt like acting, uncomfortable. B'Elanna's different from Harry, having been bullied for her Klingon side heavily, she wanted very much to claim her Human (Puerto Rican) heritage. She never saw it as something boring and often tried to connect with her cousins etc over it but they always pushed her away, asserting she was 'Klingon' and as 'Other.' After her father left, she seems to have been entirely cut off from her Human side of the family. When she grew enough to do her own research into her heritage, she felt overwhelmingly that it was already too late for her to connect to this side of herself. People already only call her "Klingon" though she's half Human. If she were to attempt to claim anything more specific, she'd surely just be laughed at. Harry smiles and bumps her shoulder with his own. "I'm not laughing," he says. "You're smiling." "I usually am." Then B'Elanna smiles too. Throughout the series (from that point on) we can see B'Elanna and Harry practicing Mandarin, Korean, and Puerto Rican Spanish. Though they start off just helping the other, they start to learn all three languages between them and sometimes have conversations as they're working together which become less and less stilted as time goes on. Harry even learns a bit of Klingon! This leads to B'Elanna's Human grandmother or something being the one to contact her instead of her no-good-space-racist-daughter-abandoning-terrible-scum-father and B'Elanna opening the conversation by speaking to her in Spanish, to the woman's unabashed delight. B'Elanna quickly wipes away a tear at hearing how proud the woman is of her, how she grew up so beautifully, how she was afraid she forgot all about them or hated them for what her father did to her family but she's so pleased that obviously isn't the case, not if she took the time to learn their language. Afterward, we see B'Elanna restless in her quarters. She gets up and begins a letter. It's to her mother, whom she still doesn't know the status of (her grandmother hasn't been in contact with her or B'Elanna's father). She starts in Standard then pauses and has the computer erase that entry, beginning again in Klingon. End.

[protectspock]

hey, question for you about the drawing spock green thing—why is that a no-no? i've never heard that before and I'd like to understand

Because Leonard Nimoy is Jewish and Judaism influenced his creation and vulcan culture (example: 🖖) and because some Jewish trekkies have expressed that they don't like the green skin, especially since he does not have green skin canonically, just green bruising and blood. Green/yellow skin is not one of the more prevalent anti-semitic tropes and not all Jewish people have an issue with it, especially not in isolation. It's the green skin where there shouldn't be green skin (Spock literally is not green in any version. Artists could easily colorpick from any of the 6 Spocks I can think of and see that he isn't green) combined with the fact that he's such a Jewish coded character.

And why is green/yellow skin in this context antisemitic? Its use in nazi era propaganda art to make Jewish people seen evil.

Here is an article where people are discussing it outside the context of star trek (this tumblr focusses on creating new characters) you can see that opinions are divided. If Spock was canonically green, this would be less of an issue, but he's not. Fans make the choice to draw him that way, not knowing that it's upset some Jewish fans or not caring.

At the end of the day it's such an easy thing to NOT do. Especially since Vulcans are literally not green. This isn't a big issue outside of star trek fandom spaces specifically, but in here, why not care?

Example of green skin propaganda poster under the cut (it's upsetting)

[kindaokmemes]

It’s that time of the year again :)

[trillscienceofficer-archive]

do not make me tap the sign

(the sign says "While Rick Berman is certainly responsible for much of the misogyny, racism and homophobia present in the Star Trek shows he was involved in it's silly to pretend he was responsible for all of it and that no one else in the productions had biases. Ultimately assuming anything was Berman's fault even in cases for which there are hints that others were in the wrong only manages to confuse the issue.")

[improbabledreams900]

Deep Space Nine · The Ferengi

[vanilla-phantoms]

I made,,,, ds9 gingerbread cookies

[pinesourcearchive-deactivated20]

Chris Pine as James T. Kirk in Star Trek (2009)

[ipayinblood]

I love this clip of levar talking about data and geordi's relationship so much...

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E13: Crossfire

[rikerhatepage]

sensors indicate dangerous levels of sillysauce...

[tboyautism-deactivated20250226]

dukat: ah! captian sisko. it seems like you have seized cardassia by the balls once again. if only we were on the same side. cardassia cluld use a man like you

sisko: ah but dukat, cardassia has no balls, on the fact that the federation removed them. you are out numbered out played and outballed. and the question is. what now?

julian in the back of ops (he isnt supposed to be there):

[cipher-fresh]

[ID: A screenshot of Squidward looking horrified captioned “When I’m in a misunderstanding Spock’s character competition and my opponent is the SNW writers” /End ID]

[improbabledreams900]

Quark as too Ferengi for the Federation and too Federation for the Ferengi

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Every DS9 plot, sorted by which character is the focus:

-O'Brien believes there is something which cannot be taken away from him. It is taken away from him.

-Dr. Bashir believes he won't fuck something up. He deals with the consequences of fucking it up.

-Odo believes he has no feelings about something. Everyone around him deals with the consequences of how strong his feelings are.

-Dax believes that the bad decisions she made in the past won't blow up in her face. They blow up in her face.

-Kira believes that she can no longer be disappointed by the people around her. She is.

-Sisko believes that he can solve something in the normal, intended way and not a horrible, fucked up way. He solves it in a horrible, fucked up way.

-Worf believes that he has finally found a problem which can be solved with force rather than feelings. He solves it using his feelings.

-Quark believes that he has a remaining shred of dignity. He loses it.