Someone who hasn’t watch Star Trek, please explain this picture
everyone’s hallucinating. Red guy is having a baby, yellow guy is doing a sick air guitar solo, blue guy is getting shot in slow motion and beige guy just got out of an imaginary divorce.
so lorca is jewish and vulcans are jewish and michael burnham is jewish and sylvia tilly is jewish and honestly like star trek is jewish?? like if you’re antisemitic you can’t like star trek i’m sorry i don’t make the rules but leonard nimoy’s ghost is going to kick your ass if you’re antisemitic and try to watch star trek
me in 30 years as a tenured professor, in an email to my 8th phd supervisee: “hey how’d the conference go :3c”
*university president walks in on me wearing cat ears*
“ Σ:3 Oh noes!! Sowwy mistew pwesident!! I can stiww has tenure fow good pewfowmance?”
*I’m escorted out by campus security*
when i first wrote this post, the power flickered, a sense of cold dread flooded my apartment, and i had a vision of this reply hovering above me like macbeth hallucinating a dagger. but i continued anyway
Someone asked me if i know the timeline of Sybok with regards to Michael and Spock, and I did not so I looked a bunch up and did this. I find such joy in putting these together, I have like 6 tabs open on wiki pages for the characters to figure out what happened when.
There’s not much canon info about Sybok, so where there are no hard facts I used the accepted fanon verse timeline.
There’s no specific date for Michael to join the family yet, but she looks about 9 or so in the Discovery flashbacks so I’m gonna say ballpark 2235
Sybok and Spock apparently have an in depth conversation about emotion a year in to Sybok living with them (Sybok was crying on the anniversary of his mums death), so Spock was at least 5 or so, cos he could speak and think. So I’m saying after 2235 is when Sybok joins the Sarek clan. So Michael was adopted first.
There’s no clear timeline on when Sybok leaves and commits to his revolution, but he was clearly going to the whole time, he is emotional throughout it. I suspect he didn’t spend much time under Sarek’s roof, perhaps 6 or 7 years. I reckon he left well before the rush to join Starfleet occured.
Essentially, Sarek and Amanda managed to put together the most emotional house on Vulcan in the mid-late 2230s
In 2245 Michael joins the Vulcan Science Academy, finished top of her class in ‘49 and is refused entry to the Vulcan Expeditionary Group
just learned that jean-jacques rousseau was so deeply deeply obsessed with being spanked – such a spank maniac if you will, that he used to drop trou and sprint backwards ass first at unsuspecting women on the off chance their first instinct would be to spank his bare ass
i know this because he published it in his biography. he was an extremely influential philosopher and this is his story as he chose to share it
do you ever see someone’s comment about a film/tv show you watch or a book you’ve read and wonder if maybe we all truly live in different realities and the internet is the only commonly shared space which doesn’t change across universes, because it isn’t fucking possible to draw such dumbass conclusions about a thing unless we’ve seen/read different versions of it
* 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.)
Leaving tungle.hell like rats on the Titanic 