United Federation of Planets

This is a Star Trek side blog, Mostly TOS, TNG, DS9 & VOY. My main is @cryptids. ✧ on semi-hiatus ✧

[misfitmiska]

The true difference between captain Picard and captain Kirk.

[ID: Top half: Jean-Luc Picard says: "No! I can’t have personal relationships with my crew because it’ll ruin my impartiality as captain!!". Beverly Crusher and Nella Daren look at him with exasperation. Bottom half: Jim Kirk says: "Bones, we need to risk the entire ship to save Spock". Leonard McCoy answers: "Dammit Jim, it’s the fourth time this week". /end ID]

[monroe-marilyn]

Spock: In any case, were I to invoke logic, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Kirk: Or the one.

Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.

[fanfix]

[spirk-trek]

Star Trek Set Tour 9/?: Control Panels

[aislingeach88]

I love Star Trek because yes it's a utopian socialist future of science, empathy, and exploration, but they don't just say "one day we stopped arguing and it all just sorta worked out" they very much had genocide, fascism, and WWIII and then afterward, when all the things we're terrified will happen had happened, we still had a chance to be better and we didn't waste it. That's the beauty of it, not that we magically overcame our differences, but that the worst happened and we didn't succumb to nihilism.

[iskander-tm]

mr. Spock upon feeling one(1) human emotion

[lt-kaollumn]

Come get your drinks at QUARK’S!

unfortunately, Quark is understaffed this evening and has to run tables himself. he’s not happy, but at least he’s fabulous.

(prints in progress!)

So, whatcha having?

[garaks-padded-bra]

Well would you look at that!!

[bongjoonhoe]

[cosmonautroger]

Star Trek

[vulcansbiology]

sisko or whatever: yeah uhhhh we need security personnel over here

odo:

[m0rbs]

This is my primary ds9 takeaway

[prawnlegs]

we think of this comic so often in my household that we knew what we had to do for the next birthday that was coming up

[lacefuneral]

spock is gay compilation

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (July 3rd, 2020)

[batasanart]

𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣.. 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.  𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨?

[ Supports me with Ko-fi ☕ ] 

[eerieearthling]

This particular moment in Star Trek is actually quite important. A lot of people don’t realise that understanding something is not the same as approving of something. This particular episode (A Taste of Armageddon) had a civilization where war was fought on computers instead of on the battlefield and instead of people dying in combat they would send the calculated amount of “casualities” into a camp to die. Kirk is outraged completely by this and rightly should be, but Spock is not so overtly disapproving. He understands why they might think their solution is better for their civilization and takes the time to think about why they are doing it. Even though he can understand why, he still believes it is wrong for them to be doing it. 

There is a separation between understanding something and  approving of something that a lot of people seem to miss. 

[vulcansbiology]

sisko or whatever: yeah uhhhh we need security personnel over here

odo:

[textsfromstarfleet]

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[tyrannosaurus-rex]

star trek explores these strange seemingly inconsequential extremes because it wants you to consider the possibility that your concept of ethics doesnt and could never possibly account for every scenario. It wants you to consider the ethical ramifications of just wiping out the little nanites taking over your ships computer even though eventually this will kill you all becuase

-What if they're alive?

-What if they're sentient?

-What if they don't realize they're hurting us?

-What if what hurts us is what they need to live?

-What if we can communicate with them?

Star Trek takes the situation of, "these computer bugs are eating our ship and in an hour we'll all be dead and we COULD just wipe them out utterly but...what if they're like us?" because the ramifications effect what risks we ourselves are willing to take in the name of pacifism and understanding. it says that even the smallest most immenently dangerous creature deserves as much of a chance to live peacefully as we can possibly give it through understanding.

without examining ourselves this way, through these made up seemingly inane situations, we will never be able to understand ourselves and what we're truly capable of, what levels of understanding can be achieved. without the ability to place ourselves in a difficult situation and reach beyond our first instinct of fight or flight and self-preservation, we will never be evolve as a global community