Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
will byers stan first human second
NASA
styofa doing anything
cherry valley forever
titsay
Misplaced Lens Cap
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Cosmic Funnies
Kiana Khansmith
almost home
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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Cosimo Galluzzi
Product Placement
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Claire Keane
occasionally subtle
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@uss-spirk
Star Trek + Social Commentary (context in the captions)
This is the reason star trek exists. This is why it is important. Without this there is no point of making it, you can add all the flashing lights and CG explosions and half naked women you like but without this, right here, you are not making Star Trek.
we're on a voyage home 🌈
i love this movie with every inch of my soul
Facts have been spoken here
Spock: History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant. You must have faith.
Valeris: Faith?
Spock: That the universe will unfold as it should.
Valeris: But is that logical? Surely we must…
Spock: Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
This scene, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, is a beautiful moment when we see the Jewish roots of the character of Spock. The last line echoes, “The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God,” which appears not once, but twice in the Bible: once in Mishlei (Proverbs), where the word translated as beginning is תְּחִלַּת, from the root תחל, meaning origin; and once in Tehillim (Psalms), where the word translated as beginning is רֵאשִׁית, from the root רֹאשׁ, meaning head. In both, the word translated as fear is יִרְאַת, which also carries the connotation of awe.
Logic is how Vulcans tame their passions. Without it, they would be violent brutes, giving in to their desires without a thought for others. Logic is the Vulcan path to morality; to transcending the base impulses that drive them to seek only pleasure and put themselves first; to living life on a higher plane. For Jews, it is awareness of God – not just the fear of angering him, but the sense of awe at the existence of the creator – that sets them on a path to morality. In an effort to live according to God’s will, Jews have created an elaborate system of texts, laws, and traditions to define their role in the universe and to guide them to ethical behavior. To be a good Jew is to dedicate oneself to this system, not for its own sake, but because through it, one brings oneself closer to the moral perfection of God.
To be a good Vulcan is to dedicate oneself to a life of logic, but Spock is telling Valeris that logic is not in and of itself wisdom. It is the means to an end, just like the system of Jewish texts and laws. The other part is faith. All the logic in the world will not control the universe. In the end, we must accept our limitations. What will be, will be. All we can do is play our part to the best of our ability. Logic, or the fear of God, sets us on the righteous path, but in the end, we must have faith that the path will lead us to wisdom.
Logic, God – constructs that transcend us as individuals and help us approach the universal.
An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl
* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired * and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season * and wrote fanfic way back in the day * and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake
All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.
Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.
The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”
That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.
The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.
You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.
Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)
@spockslash will not be taken down until / unless tumblr takes it down.
Love from “Fandom Grandma” Dee’s children
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES season two | episode three- the changeling
Excerpt of Deleted Scene from Star Trek (2009)
SPOCK PRIME: This was a gift to me. Representing… a dream. One we were unable to fulfill. The way you can now…
Their eyes hold. Spock turns, disappearing into the corridor. Young Spock stares at the empty doorway a beat, his mind a jumble of thoughts. He looks to the pendant… and realizes it’s a holo-emitter. After considering a beat, he hits an activation button and a moving holigraphic message materializes before him.
KIRK/SHATNER: (Singing) Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you…
(stops, grins) I know I know, it’s illogical to celebrate something you had nothing to do with, but I haven’t had the chance to congratulate you on your appointment to the ambassadorship so I thought I’d seize the occasion… Bravo, Spock — they tell me your first mission may take you away for awhile, so I’ll be the first to wish you luck… and to say…
I miss you, old friend.
I suppose I’d always imagined us… outgrowing Starfleet together. Watching life swing us into our Emeritus years…
I look around at the new cadets now and can’t help thinking… has it really been so long? Wasn’t it only yesterday we stepped onto the Enterprise as boys? That I had to prove to the crew I deserved command… and their respect?
I know what you’d say — ‘It’s their turn now, Jim…’And of course you’re right… but it got me thinking:
Who’s to say we can’t go one more round? By the last tally, only twenty five percent of the galaxy’s been chartered… I’d call that negligent. Criminal even — an invitation. You once said being a starship captain was my first, best destiny… if that’s true, then yours is to be by my side. If there’s any true logic to the universe… we’ll end up on that bridge again someday.
Admit it, Spock. For people like us, the journey itself… is home.
Hi. I just made a post about Spock Prime’s TOS crew photo in Star Trek beyond and I thought that was all that my brain was going to be freaking out about for the foreseeable future but now I have this post. So there’s that.
I’m still freaking out about Spock Prime’s TOS crew photo from Beyond
Yes, I know this is 8 years old at this point but my Autistic Brain decided to freak out about this again today for no reason at all so hear me out bc it drives me absolutely NUTS every time I think about it.
So basically, the circumstances required for Reboot Spock to find this photo in Spock Prime’s possessions after he died are absolutely wild. Let’s walk through it shall we:
First thing to remember is that this photo does not exist in the Kelvin timeline. At all. The characters all look different and even if they’re supposed to canonically grow up to look exactly the same as the TOS characters, Spock Prime went back in time from his own universe so the photo cannot exist in the Kelvin timeline, at least yet.
Second thing is that Spock Prime must have carried this photo on his person when he went back in time in the jellyfish ship.
This is because Nero captured Spock (and his ship) and stranded him on Delta Vega, presumably with nothing but the clothes on his back and whatever else he might happen to have been carrying in his pockets.
Also, he couldn’t have stored the photo on his ship to retrieve later because Reboot Spock blew it up to ignite the red matter and destroy Nero’s ship. So whatever Spock Prime brought with him from the Prime Universe must have been on his person when he was stranded on Delta Vega.
Now, when Spock first sees Reboot Kirk in the cave, he says the classic “I have been and always shall be your friend” along with “It is remarkably pleasing to see you again, old friend.”
If we take a peek at the timeline for a sec, Kirk Prime disappeared into the Nexus in Star Trek: Generations in the year 2293, when everyone presumably thought he died. Now, Kirk did reappear into ‘normal space/time’ in the year 2371 when the rest of Generations takes place, but only Picard really saw Kirk before he died for real—so basically, the last time Spock could have seen Kirk Prime was in 2293. In the Prime Universe, the Romulan star went supernova in 2387, which is when Spock Prime goes back and creates the Kelvin Timeline.
SO: all this means that it has been at least 94 years (2293-2387) since Spock Prime has seen a Kirk in any universe. THEREFORE: this means that Spock Prime was carrying THAT TOS CREW PHOTO on his person 94 years after the last time he had seen Kirk. Whether he had been carrying it on his person for the entirety of those 94 years, or just during his mission to try and save Romulus, or something in between is anyone’s guess. But basically, even almost a century later, Spock thought those people and that photo were important enough to take with him on his body when he was sent to save Romulus. (A mission that required extreme speed and efficiency, if I might add).
ANYWAY: the photo in Beyond is shown as a rather small, yet touching, moment of nostalgia for fans of the original Star Trek show, but when you really start to think about what was required for that photo to exist in Reboot Spock’s possession at that moment, it just starts to drive me a little bit absolutely bonkers.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Have a nice day.
i am constantly thinking about the part of the city on the edge of forever script that didn't make it into the episode
Yup I’m still not over this EITHER
Like this post if you’ve ever accidentally tripped and crashed into the Forbidden Greenhouse inside the Punishment Zone and were promptly arrested by two shapely twinks dressed in linen thongs and harnesses who immediately gave you the Death Penalty
I am the only person on this planet who can legitimately like this post. All you fakers GTFO.
Wil Wheaton IS a god
doctor said i need to be kissed hard. for an hour
I SAID YOU NEEDED 20 STITCHES, DUMBASS
I’m having an aneurysm
Yea no one can beat the spirk shippers 😎😎😎
Yea this is why Spirk is winning the AO3 top ships bracket lmao
90's era Star Trek is WILD because one episode will be like "the ship got hit be a space thing and now we're all in different time periods! We need to trick a bunch of villains into letting us put science goo in different parts of the computer!" and then the next episode is about a mixed-race woman having a breakdown about the idea of her unborn child facing the same racism she has and BOTH are quintessentially Star Trek
I can’t it’s so funny I love it
I am dying 🤣🤣🤣
Who’s the best Spock?
Leonard Nimoy
Zachary Quinto
Ethan Peck
answer correctly or i’ll find you
Data on: Feelings (part 2/2)
Maybe it’s not the same way humans do, but you can’t tell me Data doesn’t Feel Something™️
Maybe it’s not the same way humans do, but you can’t tell me Data doesn’t Feel Something™️
Data on: Feelings (part 1/2)
“Perhaps Data had redefined love itself rather than allow it to escape his grasp.” 💖
-from Emotional Rendering by bioplast_hero on AO3
