I Really Really Want The New Star Treks Like Strange New Worlds To Include Some Just Bat Shit Crazy Episodes.

*To the tune of "Uptown Girl"*

Lizard spy! He got exiled and he won't tell why!

This took me forever but there, it’s fixed :D This is the only acceptable way for that scene to end.

WELCOME TO THE STAR TREK ULTIMATE RAREPAIR GENERATOR MARK 3

featuring 50 characters from tos, tng, ds9, ent, and voy, there is a total of 1225 SHIP COMBINATIONS

to receive your rarepair REBLOG this post and choose a number between 1-1225 in the tags.

once you are assigned your ship you are BONDED TO THEM FOR LIFE. you are not permitted to ship any other characters. you must PRODUCE fancams, ship art, slow burn fanfic, and character edits for your ship. good luck out there my soliders o7

Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

Omg this needs to happen. As a musician I volunteer as tribute

in these trying times i have made up the concept of a star trek musical

CAPTAIN KIRK 😂😂😂

Somehow, I’m all three of them right now.

[ID: Sketchy art of a battered-looking Bones, Spock, and Jim walking. Bones and Spock look exhausted and are trudging along, while Jim is grinning hugely and marching on. End ID] ID thanks to @princess-of-purple-prose <3

Hot Take: the reason why 'Lower Decks' (and 'The Orville') "feel more like Star Trek" than do 'Discovery' or 'Picard' is because the baseline for American drama series has gotten so dark over the last twenty years that a tone matching 90s Star Trek can now only be achieved by marketing it as a comedy.

And yes, when you think about it, that's...kind of sad.

some of my favorite funny spirk moments from the original series. subtitles included. enjoy!

All other comic lines can leave this is my new favorite one