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Star Trek Discovery + @shirtsthatgohard

(screencaps from Trekcore)

#fancy your galaxy brain strikes again #disco

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Home Alone meets DS9 fic where everybody abandons the station but they leave Garak behind. Dukat tries to break in, but Garak defends the station through a series of questionably violent booby traps.

#op that’s just civil defense #ds9

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Guess who's been watching Discovery

(screencaps from Trek Core)

#HELP lmaoooo #the Stamets one is genius actually all hail the mushroom king #disco

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I love trek so much man... the silly holodeck episodes and the philosophical, ethical questions episodes, the social issue episodes, going back in time to wear a stupid hat, alien romance, crews that are a big family / polycule, the glittery fabrics for no reason just because it looks futuristic, all aliens look kinda human but it's ok. and its core. hope and faith in humanity. making us look forward to a better future and giving us the keys to imagining it. metaphors for current issues. we're just so lucky to have this show

#<3

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KATHRYN JANEWAY in STAR TREK: VOYAGER

6.20 “Good Shepherd”

#ahhhh Janeway moments like this... she's so impossibly strong. like ugh imagine being able to say this with such confidence #at the same time #we so clearly see her guilt and regret in so many of her philosophies relationships and actions #she compartmentalises sooo much #(also prev is very true hfdjksfh) #voy

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I'm sick of internet negativity, so let's combat it: reblog this and saying something nice/pay a compliment to the prev in the tags.

#I love and deeply value the depth of thought you give to some of my favourite trek ladies (esp the Daxes and B'Elanna) #you are also very sweet and incredibly generous with your comments! like literally SUCH an attentive reader omg #I also love the passion with which you talk about these characters; it really reflects in your work!

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🖖 🫂 📚

from this ask game

🖖 First Trek media you encountered?

answered here!

🫂 Character you'd like to be friends with.

answered here!

but also let's be real there are very few ST lead characters i wouldn't want to be friends with

📚 Favourite ST fic you've read.

Who We Are by @nebulouscoffee is hands down the best Dax fic i've ever read (an AU where Jadzia survives the end of s6 but still loses her symbiont to Ezri). the descriptions of what it's like to be joined is so wonderfully and vividly written.

Gazing Seaward from the Heather by Squirrels_All_The_Way_Down is also a wonderful post-Voyager Seven & Neelix fic that broke my heart a little bit.

#ohhh my gosh this is so sweet <3 #your favourite Dax fic ever??? omg op thank you so much #its very important to me to give focus to the Daxes for… well #who they are #(as opposed to just who they were) #so this genuinely means so much!! #(I really should finish this thing…) #ds9 #my fics

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I think you should tell people how important they are to you not because they could leave at any moment, but because they’re here now, and it’s worth saying.

#<3

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she is to me what leia's gold bikini was to straight boys

#tng

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KIRA NERYS - STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE S4E6 Rejoined

#ds9

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Star Trek: Voyager 6x02 “Survival Instinct”

It's nice to be on a Federation starship again. I'd like to stay aboard Voyager.

#voy

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Goddamnit Bev.

#fare thee well laddie there's a scottish candle out there I must bone #tng

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you know i had to do it to em

#ds9

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And they could have expressed their love with visits and kind words. But they brought all of that food, and it was a small, good thing that we needed.  

—Jonathan Safran Foer (referencing Raymond Carver)

#this episode :') :')..... :'( #voy

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Just wanna paint some 👁️ 👁️

#tos

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Pro-writing tip: if your story doesn't need a number, don't put a fucking number in it.

Nothing, I mean nothing, activates reader pedantry like a number.

I have seen it a thousand times in writing workshops. People just can't resist nitpicking a number. For example, "This scifi story takes place 200 years in the future and they have faster than light travel because it's plot convenient," will immediately drag every armchair scientist out of the woodwork to say why there's no way that technology would exist in only 200 years.

Dates, ages, math, spans of time, I don't know what it is but the second a specific number shows up, your reader is thinking, and they're thinking critically but it's about whether that information is correct. They are now doing the math and have gone off drawing conclusions and getting distracted from your story or worse, putting it down entirely because umm, that sword could not have existed in that Medieval year, or this character couldn't be this old because it means they were an infant when this other story event happened that they're supposed to know about, or these two events now overlap in the timeline, or... etc etc etc.

Unless you are 1000% certain that a specific number is adding to your narrative, and you know rock-solid, backwards and forwards that the information attached to that number is correct and consistent throughout the entire story, do yourself a favor, and don't bring that evil down upon your head.

#throwback to the time I wrote a fic with multiple letters being sent back and forth between several characters on different planets #and I literally spent AGES working out the timings #how long it would take for the data to travel from this solar system to the other (and is this consistent) #how long on a special top priority channel #how long between a planet and a nearby space station #and how these delays between sending and receiving would affect the characters' journeys and what conclusions they draw #and what they now have time to think about and figure out #RIGHT DOWN TO THE HOUR. THE MINUTE actually #and then translating all those timings to star trek star dates hfjdskfh #because unfortunately. I am that pedant lol #I'm pretty sure everyone reading just saw a bunch of numbers and decimal points under each letter and glazed over it #and didn't think about it for a second (which. very valid lmaooo dw) #but if those star dates hadn't lined up the whole fic would've just been ruined yknow #(this is unfortunately what I tell myself to justify my tremendous feats of stalling. THE DATES MUST ALIGN OR ELSE!!)

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Not my insomnia coming back to haunt me like Q posing on the bridge of the Enterprise.... *crosses out sign that says "nine days since" to "zero" and facepalms like Picard*

#I want to turn my brain off soooo bad #apparently not getting enough sleep for 20+ days means you start strongly feeling like everyone hates you & nobody would care if you died. #I would very much enjoy Not going back to feeling that way please :) #(coincidently wasn't this a whole TNG plot? aliens prevent the crew from hitting rem sleep until Deanna manages to reach them lol) #((save me Deanna)) #((Deanna save me)) #anyway. sorry once more for complaining on the internet #if you read this thank you please accept this digital donut 🍩