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happy birthday Captain Kirk! And also William Shatner I guess y’know.

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I am normal about the empath (lie)

(Prompt fill for the @mcspirkevents bingo card: “Final Moments)

#star trek #star trek tos

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Watched Trials and Tribbleations today and… can I just say the comedic genius of having Sisko search through the grain storage for the explosive Tribble and just throw the safe ones down the open hatch which is then perfectly cut to show that same tribble falling down on Kirk?! Unparalleled! Haven’t laughed this hard watching Star Trek since I watched the og episode.

#star trek #star trek ds9 #star trek tos

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do you remember?

#madoka magica

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80s thasmin AU for some reason

#doctor who

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yo i think my doctor got in a fistfight

#star trek #star trek tos

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this guy's inlove with yooou pare 🎶

#ted lasso

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rough night

#batman #batfam

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Ted Lasso 3.11 + text posts

#ted lasso

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Shout out to Michael for being the only one with the good sense to leave Grudge behind in a safe space when taking Book’s ship on dangerous missions.

#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek disco s3 #when keyla and rin were attacking a MUCH LARGER SHIP and grudge was there??? #GUYS what are you DOING #even book!! when he’s back from the nebula and it’s like “both you and grudge have successfully recovered from radiation poisoning :)” #WHY DID YOU BRING THE CAT INTO THE NEBULA

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I wish I watched this show from the very first episode when it aired ;-;

#steven universe

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day 2 - CASUAL

Entry for @glowweek

Out of curiosity of how Steven would look with straight hair, Connie convinces him into straightening his hair. Unsurprisingly, he ends up looking like Greg from the 80s.

I was also going to draw Steven helping Connie dye parts of her hair a teal color, but I had run out of time. might make it later though :D

#steven universe

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this was Kirk at his most Dashing Romantic Hero in th entire series change my mind.

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek the search for spock

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I just KNOW Stamets is going to start Season 4 pissy with Michael for putting him in that escape pod at the end of Season 3. It’s easier for him to be angry with Michael for not allowing him to save Hugh and Adira than it is for him to be angry with Hugh and Adira for leaving him behind and risking their lives.

#star trek #star trek disco s3 #star trek discovery #star trek disco #yes the anger at having his autonomy overridden is understandable #but this is the natural consequence of being (at the time) the only operator of the spore drive #and therefore the only person who CANNOT safely be on the ship during a hostile takeover #maybe it’s time to look into other options for operating the drive paul

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Making plans with your very much younger sibling

#batman #batfam

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Adira: No one can know that I regularly converse with my dead boyfriend :( They will think I’m insane :( I shall self-isolate and sadly play the cello :(

Baby, this is Discovery. Dead people come back all the time. At this point, there should really be a support group.

#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek disco #star trek disco s3

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I watched Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, after putting it off for a while bc I didn’t love the first two seasons. My god. Season 3 is when the show finally, finally finds itself.

I had a litany of issues with the first two seasons, which have certainly been hashed out by fans before but which I will divide into two relevant categories for the sake of discussion:

Being a prequel, the show leaned on, altered, and got bogged down with preexisting Star Trek lore. They changed the Klingons’ iconic looks and made them the villains again. They brought in Section 31 in a role that was far too front facing for what that organization is supposed to be. They burdened Michael’s character with the baggage of being part of Spock’s family, and made the family even more dysfunctional and traumatic than it was in TOS to drive the plot forward. Now, there are plenty of things they did well. The integration of the mirror universe was clever. The uniforms, IMO, were a better pre-TOS imagining than those in Enterprise or AOS. Original content, like the Kelpiens, was beautifully done. Overall, however, the show felt stuck. They couldn’t cover new ground without altering pre-established ground, and those alterations were frustrating.

The show didn’t allow us to get to know and care for the crew. This was especially a problem in the first season, when we spent all of a few minutes with the Shenzhou crew before everything went to hell, and then the rest of the season on Discovery was war and trauma. How were the characters before the trauma? What changed, what was lost? We sure don’t know! And who are these characters now? Yes, we know Michael, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Culber - they get individual moments, or moments with each other. But everyone else? The rest of the bridge crew? What are their names, what are they like, how do they interact with and feel about each other? We don’t know. It’s all a swirl of faces and bad situations. We don’t know these characters, but we’re expected to feel their pain as they’re pushed into the most extreme, traumatic situations possible. I didn’t even understand that Airiam was human until the episode in which she dies. Suddenly, then, we get a handful of sweet, everyday interactions between her and the rest of the crew. And boom! She’s gone.

But Season 3… what a breath of fresh air. Finally, the show is in the future and free to cover new ground. The Burn, a differently configured Federation, the couriers, the Emerald Chain, new planets, new peoples… finally, finally, finally. Yes, there is still the familiar here. We see the Trill, the Vulcans, the Romulans, the Orions, the Andorians. But the show can do new and interesting things with them in the far future, WITHOUT bucking the familiar lore of Star Trek’s past.

And now that Discovery made a journey alone and together, as just their crew? We KNOW them. There are still characters who get more focus, certainly. Michael, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, and Culber, still. But now I would count Owo and Detmer among them - we see more of their personalities, their relationship with each other and with others, and they become crucial support to the character dynamics and plot. Now Bryce, Rhys, and Nilsson are more to me than just faces in the background - they are finally familiar as fixtures on the bridge.

Characters who are more occasional, like Jett Reno, Lt. Linus, or Dr. Pollard, fall into a different category for me - they were always distinct presences, and I did know who they were. Even so, I feel that they get to stand out more now that the main cast feels solidified, as opposed to before, when we had a blur of the Enterprise crew and other rotating characters cycling in and out.

(Don’t think I’ve forgotten Nhan or Emperor Georgiou, who are both impactful, distinct characters. It’s just that Nhan always felt like Enterprise crew to me, even after her transfer to Discovery, and leaves early in Season 3. Georgiou, meanwhile, is both a not-quite-crew character and plentifully developed from her initial appearance. She was never a mystery to me.)

Also! Book? I ADORE him. I adore his relationship with Michael (FUCK Ash Tyler, this is the romance she deserves). I adore Grudge (she’s a queen!!) (just stop taking her on deadly missions ok it stresses me out).

Oh, and Adira? A treasure! A delight! Ready to join the Star Trek category of “local teen collectively parented by starship or space station crew.”

Anyway. After two whole seasons didn’t resonate with me, I’m so glad to finally be able to say that I like the show. It feels like Star Trek now.

#star trek #star trek discovery