I was reorganizing my “photos of attractive celebrities” file, and I noticed some themes in my Star Trek photos. Half the other pictures in the file are men in classy formalwear or arty black and white close-up of Lucy Liu’s face… and then there’s the torn shirt, evil doppelganger, knifeplay, domination, roleplaying corner.
Oh, Star Trek. How I love you.
Into Darkness shows more racial diversity among cameos from alien species than it does among human characters in main speaking roles. Worse still, iconic Star Trekvillain Khan Noonien Singh was recast as Benedict Cumberbatch, possibly the whitest man on the planet.In Khan’s original role, he was super-intelligent, super-strong, the head of a genetically engineered master race—and brown. In other words, the opposite of the usual racial stereotypes one saw in mid-20th century “foreign” or “exotic” villains. Whitewashing Khan into being an posh-sounding Englishman reinforces the message sent out by Kirk, Spock, and the morally ambiguous Admiral Marcus: Good or evil, everyone in power is a white male. Suddenly, the awkwardness surrounding one of John Cho’s publicity interviews makes sense. “Who is your favourite villain?” he is asked. “Ricardo Montalban,” he answers. “He was badass. And a man of color, I might add.” Nervous laughter. Next question, please.
Representation matters. Star Trek is proof of that. Kirk and Uhura famously shared US TV’s first interracial kiss, and Uhura went on to inspire the first black female astronaut to go into space. When Nichelle Nichols was thinking of quitting the show, Martin Luther King, Jr. felt that her position as a role model was so important that he personally asked her to reconsider staying on. [READ MORE]
I have many, many, many issues with the Trek reboot, but this does a good job of touching on the major ones.
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The feels.
HIS ASSETS ARE HIS FRIENDS. FEELINGS. FEEEEEEEEELIIIIIINGS.
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LOOK, SEE, he’s been boning up on his Russian history (lol, boning) to IMPRESS HIM. My crazy headcanon isn’t that crazy!
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Sulu! That face!
In my personal headcanon the device in Sulu’s hands is actually his smart phone and he is just texting Uhura about how adorable and hilarious Chekov is, and she is like, “I’M WORKING HIKARU. STOP TEXTING ME AND JUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.”
(Because in the Enterprise in my head Sulu and Uhura are BFFs and they spend a lot of time talking about his feelings for Chekov because she is like “hahahahaha you finally are serious about someone and it’s a grumpy ridiculous Russian UNDERGRAD, you are so ridiculous bb.” Uhura, on the other hand, is the queen of having her shit together, so Sulu has NOTHING with which to reciprocally tease her, except maybe how hot she thinks Spock is, but she is like, “EVERYONE ELSE WITH EYES knows he is fine, Hikaru, HE PLAYS THE VULCAN LYRE, YOU CANNOT MAKE ME EMBARRASSED ABOUT THIS.”)
(Also they have a book club and he makes her watch every Errol Flynn movie with him and she makes him do drunk karaoke. It’s a beautiful Enterprise in my head.)
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Love this episode, love this pairing.
Drawing Prompt: Firefly + Starfleet
Dr. Simon Tam of Starfleet Space Station Deep Space 9 meets Lieutenant Washburne Zoe’s old Bajoran resistance commander Mal. It goes badly for everyone.
(See this note about us posting occasional non-limerick things, like doofy pencil doodles of drawing prompts we give each other.)
At some point, the daring Dr. Bashir, on his way to practice frontier medicine on Bajor crosses paths with the flighty, yet brilliant, River Tam. They see each other across a Dabo table when they each notice the other quietly and efficiently calculating the odds of the game. (They both come to the conclusion that Jadzia Dax will take the prize money. Which she does.) They observe one another from a distance for several days. Bashir waits because Garak has made him paranoid about anyone new; it also quickly becomes clear to him that as brilliant as this mysterious girl may be, she is severely unbalanced. River waits because simply because she likes to watch, but eventually, her curiosity gets the best of her.
She joins him one day while he’s eating his breakfast at Quark’s, interrupting his morning ritual of raktajino and medical journals, by loudly sitting down across the table. Their conversation is rocky at first (as to be expected with River) but eventually falls into a comfortable, if slightly awkward rhythm. They arrange to meet up for dinner the next night, where they pick up right where they left off. Dinner soon turns into night, followed by the wee hours of the morning and the two are still talking animatedly in Bashir’s corner of sickbay.
They quickly become close friends, grateful for someone whose mind can move as quickly as their own. They even work together to try to improve River’s mental health (though they keep it on the down-low so that Simon doesn’t find out and become upset), and combined with Dr. Tam’s treatments, they do make a moderate amount of progress.
After tackling that project they quickly become antsy until they find some other complex problem to solve. Eventually, Bashir and River fall into a rhythm; get bored, find a problem with the universe, ponder and poke at said problem, and finally, find some way to fix it. Every once in a while they’ll skip out for a few days. While it’s commonly assumed that they enjoy sightseeing and camping on alien planets, their excursion more commonly take them to the edges of the universe, to save entire planets, restore order in parallel universes, or untangle the mess that Kirk made of the space-time continuum.
Together, they are a force to be reckoned with and no power in the ‘verse can stop them.
…ok, I think I got a bit carried away there.
Alkjalkjdfkad, yaaaaaaaaay for expanded Firefly/Deep Space 9 thoughts re: my goofy fanart. This makes me happy because a) Bashir is obviously forever and ever my favorite amen and b) wacky genetically enhanced genius adventures in space! What could be better?
No dance tonight.
Kevin Kathleen Riley is my spirit animal. I could not love him more.
Today on the National Weather Service’s website.
Then there’s this
i’m done
It’s nice to see that they do EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD DO if I had their job.
(via devildoll)
Okay wait. Let’s say I’m willing to accept that all of these wildly disparate alien species — Vulcans, Humans, Klingons, etc., etc., Star Trek got way too into the alien crossbreeding thing — are close enough genetically to mate.
How did Worf and his half Klingon-half Human girlfriend have a baby.
If a donkey and a horse are not close enough genetically to produce fertile offspring, HOW ARE A KLINGON AND A HUMAN.
Star Trek genetics you make my head hurt.
Star Trek Vintage Schematics - Enterprise A and D, available as iPhone and iPod cases here: A and D. Ships of the Federation available here.
Um, I know Tiberius is already rocking the yellow shirt, but HE NEEDS ONE OF THESE. (Yes all of my electonics are named after TOS characters or ships why don’t you just shut up.)
