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spockslash:

adhdcaptain-kirk:

I found a little book of star trek trivia at my favorite used book store and the book was published in the 80s and I’m flipping through it and it’s like “dedicated Fans taping episodes of star trek ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy the series” which is such a weird sort of technology whiplash like we went from VHS tapes being THE way to consume media on demand and I’m over here in 2018 watching this show on my smartphone on Netflix and?? When the show came out VHS wasn’t even a wildly avaliable thing??? Sometimes little things give me hope, like a tiny book reminding me how much humanity has accomplished in 50 years.

Oh my goodness, there was no such thing as media on demand when TOS aired! We could not have imagined such a thing. 

Around 1970-71 a group of original fans in the LA area did what we could to make a record of what happened in each episode, because it could easily be a year or more before our local station might run any given episode again. Whenever a rerun was shown, we worked as a team, taking Polaroid photos of the TV screen at each scene change and writing a quick description of what happens in the scene.  These we glued onto poster boards, one for each episode, building up the collection over a couple of years (the rate at which we were able to see the episodes in reruns). The poster boards hung in a couple of our garages and were available for any fan to view with an appointment. 

We would have been so jealous of fans now, had we known the day would come when we could see episodes any time we wanted. I still find it somewhat miraculous!

to-boldly-go-beyond:

I know Spock is commonly perceived as the “logical man of science who is absolutely derailed by his love of Jim” but like??? can we talk about James T. “I’m married to my ship” Kirk, who takes one glance at Spock and just thinks “Enterprise whom? I’m free as a red shirt ready to meet their doom!”

skywaliker:

kirk’s evil clone: i’m your captain shoot him

kirk: you have to shoot BOTH of us to keep enterprise safe

spock, aiming at garth: the REAL jim would never pass up an opportunity to unnecessarily sacrifice himself for his starship

revolant:

Spock probably thinks he’s being SO straightforward when he initially starts flirting with jim. He’s like…. “prolonged eye contact? Check. Stood 72.4% closer to him on the bridge today? Check. Told Jim I found his illogic fascinating? Double check. Soon we will progress to lingering sleeve touches and conversations about our mutual interests. I estimate I’ll be able to propose marriage within the next decade” and poor Jim’s just like “bones I might be wrong here but I think Spock might actually like hanging out with me. It’s just a vibe but it’s definitely there. Do you think we’re friends yet? Do you think he likes me? I just don’t know”

notquiteaghost:

deadtucks:

deadtucks:

has anyone made a memes on board the enterprise post

  • *pointing at a random piece of engineering equipment* is that a jefferies tube
  • imitating spock by saying “hey guess who i am” and then staring at kirk for upwards of five minutes wherever he happens to be
  • “broken replicators are xenophobic” 
  • a whole week where everyone in medbay speaks in a southern accent to piss off bones except he actually doesnt notice he just takes it for granted
  • “captain kirk likes classical music pass it on”
  • whenever someone on bridge broadcasts some kind of report on a fucked up away mission its customary to turn to the person on ur left and say ‘i just wish theyd stop saying odd shit’
  • the xenobiology department likes to makes up random false facts about humans and include them in official reports. ‘humans actually have no bones’. ‘humans have a third eye under their left ear’
  • if u visit medbay at any given time theres a good chance someones going to say “congrats!!!! youre todays one MILLIONTH visitor!!!” the prize is a free hypo vaccination and you cant refuse it
  • the probability of this happening increases exponentially if you are jim kirk
  • literally anything chekov does
  • “thats more impressive than yeoman rand’s hairstyle”
  • excitedly running up to someone from the botany department and telling them youve discovered a new plant and seeing how long it takes them to figure out that the organism ur describing in complex science terms is actually earth grass
  • all the linguists have complex fake languages that they use to talk shit about everyone on board in public places
  • “this is worse than scotty drunk and trying to explain dilithium”
  • daily tally of shirts jim kirk has ripped
  • daily tally of times spock has raised an eyebrow
  • “raises eyebrow like spock on the bridge” as the colloquial ‘looks into camera like im on the office’ replacement
  • [during a battle] “this is just like that old terran movie star wars / battlestar galactica / the martian / gravity”
  • [in response to something unbelievable] “yeah and spock is straight”

– “is that a jeffries tube” steadily evolves from pointing at engineering equipment to at any ship equipment, then any tech at all, then anything. literally anything. [points at collection of rocks] is that a jeffries tube

– calling people ‘ensign’ when they fuck up / calling people ‘commander’ when they do good

– if jim overhears anyone complaining about anything trivial he throws an arm over their shoulders and says “you want to be captain, you say? you want to run this ship? be in charge of and responsible for this many people of this many species? you wanna lead negotiations with [insert next diplomacy mission here]? well why didnt you say so earlier!!!” then he starts trying to lead them to the bridge

– if they let him he will take them to the bridge and sit them in the charge & tell bridge they have the conn. and then refuse to do anything captain-y

– one time an ensign actually ran a first contact mission cause of this. it was a success apart from the thing with the fruit juice

– security officers travel at the speed of light

– especially if it’s a false alarm

– telling variations of the Scotty Transporting The Admiral’s Dog story, including ‘scotty beheads the admiral’s wife’, ‘scotty bodyswaps the admiral and his dog’, ‘scotty clones the dog’ and ‘everything is exactly the same but the admiral only communicates through mime’

– away mission bingo cards

– away mission superstitions

– theres a bed in the med bay with jim’s name on it. then one with spock’s. then sulu’s

– theories on what having your own med bay bed means, mostly revolving around bones being secretly married to people

– “this is just like that time on [prefix]-[random nearby object]-[suffix]”

Why ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ should bring back the unisex minidress

hellotailor:

Star Trek: Discovery will feature an updated Original Series uniform in season 2, and here’s the deal: Those classic Starfleet minidresses should definitely be unisex.

While modern audiences often view the Starfleet minidress as a sexist relic, miniskirts had different connotations in the 1960s. In her autobiography Beyond Uhura, here’s what actress Nichelle Nichols had to say:

“The show was created in the age of the miniskirt, and the crew women’s uniforms were very comfortable. Contrary to what many may think today, no one really saw it as demeaning back then. In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation. More to the point, though, in the twenty-third century, you are respected for your abilities regardless of what you do or do not wear.”

When The Next Generation began in 1987, the creators struggled between two conflicting desires. They wanted to be forward-thinking, but they also wanted to put Deanna Troi in sexy, figure-hugging outfits. Their solution was to make the minidress into a unisex item, with male extras wearing similar outfits. It didn’t last, but in 2019, it’s time to try again. By making minidresses available to any gender, Discovery would give Uhura’s classic look a truly meaningful update.

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Why ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ should bring back the unisex minidress