#first trek experience

[whatdostarsdo]

Feel free to tag with your first series and how you got into it!

#star trek #tos #tng #ds9 #voy #ent #my first trek was actually TAS as a teenager! #I feel like my experiences are very much not universal in this #curious to see the results! #tumblr polls #eris tag #1k

[jim-kirks-bubble-butt]

get his ass leonard

#on the season 1 finale #can’t wait to experience the glory of amok time #first time watching #star trek #star trek tos #spirk #james kirk #jim kirk #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #spock #james t kirk

[jvlianbashir]

"ezri was 21 when she was joined and became the counselor on ds9"

#she should be at the club drinking shitty vodka crans instead of dealing with everyone's mental crises and unhealthy projections haha #yeahyeahyeah i know joined = more experience but im always shocked to remember how actually young she was to be in the position #julian and jadzia were like 27-28 when they first got to ds9 #star trek #ds9 #ezri dax #doctor's log

[starseeker95]

Do not complain to me about how hard it is to navigate ao3 on mobile, young one. I hid under the bleachers and read Spirk fanfics on a BlackBerry during gym class. We are not the same.

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stuff #ao3 writer #spirk #spirk fanfiction #tos spirk #aos spock #Star Trek #star trek 2009 #yup #blackberry #my first fic experience #was spirk of course #I stumbled into it on accident and have never left #how did you find ao3?

[the-data-files]

time whoopsie happening to some Vulcans and they land here

earth's 70’s disco time period. there’s cocaine everywhere. humans are shamelessly indulging in fun, music, drugs and dancing. Heart of Glass by Blondie is playing. some people are wearing roller skates in the club with their tits out for whatever cocaine induced reason. T’Mal is being swarmed by human women who think his ears are sooo funny and kinda hot. this is the worst thing that has ever happened to the Vulcans

#star trek #for the first time in their lives they experience true DESPAIR

[ffcrazy15]

"Oh so when James Kirk refuses to believe in no-win scenarios it's 'changing the conditions of the test' and 'commendable original thinking,' but when I, Bradward Boimler, can't accept the possibility of failure and retake the Kobiyashi Maru sixteen times–"

#lower decks #star trek lower decks #brad boimler #in my headcanon his first performance wasn't *great* but he did technically pass #but by refusing to accept that he hadn't beat the test and insisting on retaking it he turned his pass into a fail #and he *kept* retaking it until the instructor point-blank told him that there was no way to beat the program #And that the whole point was to experience personal failure #And *even then* Boims was like “so you mean by failing I actually HAVEN'T failed at all!” #“No that's not– ugh you know what sure. Gold star kid. Just get out of my office." ”Did I get an A+?“ ”OUT!“ #Completely missed the point of the exam and they basically pity-passed him after the seventeenth try #Mariner on the other hand already knew what the point of the test was ahead of time #(She didn't cheat she was still a goody-two-shoes at this point) (An older classmate or friend happened to mention it around her) #But she *did* think it was a bullshit test and just pretended to be humbled and accept defeat in order to get a good grade #She doesn't believe in no-win scenarios either #It's part of what makes them a good team

[handwrittenhello]

forgot to upload this! i redid that last piece in charcoal and liked it MUCH better

#star trek #star trek fanart #star trek aos #james t kirk #jim kirk #this was my first time experimenting with charcoal brushes cause they always intimidated me #but i think this came out fantastic now that i have a really solid grasp on light and shadow #hhartt

[booasaur]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - 1x05

#trekedit #snwedit #star trek strange new worlds #la'an noonien singh #una chin riley #christina chong #rebecca romijn #star trek strange new worlds 1x05 #la'an x una #femslash related stuff #but subtext #yes I've switched from one subtext ship to another #tbh I perked up at their first meeting (onscreen) at the emotion and prior history but then was like wait did she save her as a kid #but ep 3 was like she doesn't see her as a kid actually so...yeah #it's not star trek if I don't have a mentor/protege f/f ship #ALSO HOW GOOD WAS THIS EP #it was just so fun and threading everything together #like instead of stopping this space walk with the signing they brought in the ship to give them this amazing moment #and show that yes they get to experience true wonder too #also la'an's voice softening and calling her una instead of chief >_> #also...I think I ship spock/t'pring now?? #it just all worked for me!

[tinderbox210]

La’an Noonien-Singh and Spock  +  Spock’s evolved reaction to La’an’s "act fast” tactic

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s01e01 - Strange New Worlds Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s02e01 - The Broken Circle

#star trek #star trek: strange new worlds #star trek snw #la'an x spock #spock x la'an #la'an noonien singh #spock #spocklaan #spocklaanparts #trekedit #snwedit #spocklaanedit #my gif #he was so ready to jump into action at any signal #i did think she would give him a signal #she didn't because she still had it all under control #but he definitely learned from that first experience #to expect the unexpected with her #wait did you think i was done gifing this episode? #nope

[cantsayidont]

If I'm being honest, I haven't liked a lot of STAR TREK since TNG canonically established in "Encounter at Farpoint" that the Federation's supposedly utopian future Earth is a post-apocalyptic world, which was a profound betrayal of the promise of STAR TREK as a positive future and permanently colored my attitude toward TNG and its successors (with the conditional exception of DEEP SPACE NINE, which has some unique virtues to partly mitigate its various failings). The nadir of that shift is the ideologically repellent STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, which takes a potentially compelling moment in the TREK timeline and turns it into a ghastly Libertarian zombie movie, but PICARD and STRANGE NEW WORLDS taking pains to rub viewers' faces in this dishonest and cynical conceit all over again hasn't improved my opinion of those shows.

#teevee #movies #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek first contact #the vonda mcintyre novel strangers from the sky #takes a much more thoughtful view of human-vulcan first contact #it's not without stain politically but it's not the horror show that the movie first contact is #and its take on the eventual “official” first contact is fascinating #i'm not wild about star treks v and vi but they're better than tng by far #generations is primarily about sneering at people who liked the original series #it's not as *ideologically* offensive as first contact but it's about as antagonistic as a viewing experience

[lordlexion]

I've created some moodboards for characters from a wonderful story by @porgthespacepenguin titled "No Easy Way to the Stars." I strongly encourage everyone to read this excellent story to get to know these marvelous characters.

Sera

Naegi

Nachev

Link to story:

#star trek #q star trek #qcard #jean luc picard #Go And Read This Sory! #fanfic recommendation #fanfiction #fanfiction characters #“No easy way to the stars” #porg's fanfiction #i really recommend it #reading this story is a truly amazing experience #I fell in love with it from the first chapter #moodboard's #fanfiction moodboard

[katierosefun]

god you know how much i love science fiction/fantasy purely for That Moment when the character rockets off to space for the first time or when they see the stars for the first time or when they see grass for the first time just something inherently beautiful and emotional about watching someone realize that the world is so vast and so much bigger and so much brighter and so much scarier and so much better or whatever that one doctor who quote said

#caroline talks #yeah. i thought about how when i was a little kid #how i felt like someone had opened a door for me #when i watched star wars and star trek and doctor who #something something when jim and bones sees the enterprise for the first time #something about how each one of the companions in doctor who have their 'oh my god. the universe is so lovely' moment #something about just like. realizing that there is so much to see and so much yet to come #like idk. maybe u should watch an episode of some kind of sci-fi/fantasy thingie #and realize that there is so much more to do and so much more to see and so much more to learn and then maybe #maybe u will calm down and maybe u will feel like you were meant to breathe the air and experience another day #who knows! who knows what you might find! isn't the world dangerous! isn't it frightening! isn't it exciting! #isn't it amazing! #and etc etc etc

[brookbee]

Ok I have possibly the most pointless nerd Star Trek tangent because of this one throwaway joke-y sentence from TMP novelization.

So like, the joke here is that sulu says fuck, or shit or whatever right?

But it also implies that current modern day English (or English of 1979) isn’t Federation Standard. That in fact there is such a difference between our English, and English of the 23rd century, that they call our English “old English.”

And like they’re not referring to it as Old English proper (which we probably wouldn’t understand if we heard it today because it’s so different, like try to read an Old English manuscript, it’s an experience), but it is making a designation between what they know as English and what we know as English.

Which means that there was such a dramatic change in language over a period of about two and a half centuries, comparable to the time of the transition of Middle English (think Canterbury Tales) and Early Modern English (think Shakespeare). And like this dramatic change does make sense, humans have been in contact with other alien species for a couple centuries, they have new access to learning and exploring, like that makes sense. Language often changes when there’s contact with different people and new sources of learning.

But I just want to know what it would sound like. How is Standard different? Because I feel like this sentence would imply that it goes beyond having some new borrowed words. Has the way that they pronounced words changed dramatically? Also this implies that there are new swear words that aren’t as good as shit or fuck??

Like I know that there’s really no point focusing on this, it’s just a fun way to say that “Sulu said ‘shit’” but my language nerd brain hasn’t stopped thinking about this for like a week.

#or perhaps they just refer to everything pre-first contact as old?? #the thought experiment is pretty fun though of imagining how it’d change #my two loves are Star Trek and Shakespeare y’all shouldn’t be surprised I hyperfixated on THIS #LAST TMP NOVEL POST I SWEAR #tmp quotes #star trek novels #star trek the motion picture #Star Trek tos #st tos #trekposting

[belligerentbagel]

the day we met, frozen, i held my breath  right from the start  i knew that i'd found a home for my heart 

widojest 7: wedding 💐

#the compulsion to put jester lavorre in white or light-coloured dresses #not even always in a wedding sense! i just think the blue skin + riotous curls + poofy white silhouette is very fetching #widojestweek2022 #widojest #critical role #okay so this is actually the first post i'm making for wj week (and also the f i r s t p o s t in like four? months) and #ho boy has the painting experience on this been AN EXPERIENCE (ie trying to remember how to apply colours & make choices on lines) #BUT WE DID IT BABES #time to trek backwards in the week & piece together some other posts 👀 #hope this week was good! forgot how much i missed these two and their overall vibes #jester lavorre #caleb widogast #widojestweek #draws

[trillscienceofficer]

extremely disappointed that no other Trek short story collection will ever compare to “The Lives of Dax” to me

#read that one just after I watched ds9 for the first time... #I was simply more open to the experience while now #I am jaded & have the kind of deranged opinions that make me unfit for polite company #trek novels #anyway distant shores is. not good overall #the lives of dax

[thresholdbb]

My P+ subscription just renewed, which means I have been on this Star Trek high for exactly a year now

#I really said 2023 is gonna be ALL ABOUT STAR TREK and it was!! #the Trek obsession went dormant then came back with a vengeance like November of last year #I went through an intense tng phase in grad school #looking back on the year I wouldn’t have it any other way #I got p+ and proceeded to speed run tng and ds9 #I savored voyager and when it was over we started our Sisyphean delta quadrant journey #somewhere in my mixed up brain I KNEW voyager would be a problem and I avoided it #I have been ruined for other media #LISTEN Picard isn’t the best show but it was precisely why I wanted to catch up #still have yet to finish tos tas ent and dis for shame #also it was half price last year I cry for my continually dwindling bank account #I am actually very grateful because I was lonelier and more miserable before I started engaging in fandom now I am slightly less so #plus going to stlv and making/doing cosplay for the first time a whole experience! #if we’ve interacted this year (and you read my tags) hi I love you #if we haven’t hi I am intense but love talking to equally obsessed mutuals #also lol at meeting the actors Garrett wang taking a picture of me and Picardo being like uhhh ok when I talked to him #jin maley and Michelle Hurd are absolutely lovely #terry ferrell was very very sweet and I shared an elevator (and hand injury story) with Casey Biggs #and I bumped into Rom his-real-last-name-is-hard-to-spell #and marina sirtis called me love I cry #hilarious but also so cringe what is my life #also thanks to Star Trek for the paradigm shifting very likely autism suspicion that I’m gonna seriously pursue in 2024 #ok I love you bye #melts into oblivion