Publicity shot with William Shatner, as Captain James T. Kirk, posing with the phaser rifle that was only ever used in the second Star Trek pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Shatner is wearing his “transition” uniform shirt, as the final costume designs for Star Trek had not yet been finalized.
The sleeves sport the solid gold rank stripes that were used on uniforms in the two pilots (The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before), but were replaced by the more familiar gold braid by the time the series started filming.
The collar is the solid black that was added to all Starfleet uniforms for the series. The uniform collars and tunics were all one color in the pilots.
I’m no expert, but it also appears that the tunic is the heavier, thicker material from the uniforms in the pilots. By the time the series began the tunics would be constructed of a thinner material.
Shatner would also receive a tunic with proper length sleeves. I mean, I have a hard time finding shirts with long enough sleeves (I wear a 38-inch sleeve), but it shouldn’t be that hard to get a good fit in the 23rd Century.
People on tumblr will complain about games having heavy handed ethics and black and white narratives with practically unexecutable ideologies, then throw the biggest hissy fit of all time at any games where doing the good guy thing and saving attacked minorities or causes has casualties and makes you kill people in order to enact any large scale real lasting change.
the problem with things in my life settling down for a bit is that suddenly dysphoria is my main problem again and it sucks ass!!! what a load of dogshit;!!
Things I can’t stop thinking about from Jamie and Zoe’s Tales of the TARDIS episode
- The very concept of them remembering and seeing each other again in general.
- How pointed it is in calling their mindwipe unforgivable and insisting that they’ll definitely never forget again. I get the feeling RTD or someone else involved in the writing of it has been carrying a grudge against their ending for decades and used this as therapy lol. Relatable.
- The recorder and the reverence with which they both treat it. 🥺
- “I missed him every day of my life. Didn’t even realize it.” 😭
- “I’d still be with him now if I could, trying to keep up with him.” This line hits so hard both because Jamie truly never would have left and because Frazer has said this same thing about himself and Pat, that they’d still be doing it if he were alive and if they hadn’t both been convinced that it was time to leave. My heart.
- This is true of these episodes generally but I love so much that they both had happy and fulfilling lives. Jamie got to have a wonderful big family and Zoe was still able to keep her growth from her travels and escape just being “all brain and no heart”.
- ZOE NAMED HER SON JAMES. NOBODY LOOK AT ME.
- ^ Jamie’s reaction to the above. The way his face and voice go so soft, I can’t deal with it.
- The fact that they were still influenced by their experiences even if they couldn’t remember them. Especially meaningful for Zoe because she needed those experiences so badly, so it’s a relief to see that she was able to use them and carve out a happy life for herself because of them even if she couldn’t remember. It brings such a happy bit of closure to the Doctor’s concerned question, “She’ll be alright, won’t she?”
- “I want to forget about the Cybermen!” with Jamie’s shifty eyes of disdain, lol. I bet he does considering he had to see them more times than any other companion!
- Lovely to hear names like the Krotons and the Quarks, along with a classic Jamie-ism in “wee little beasties”.
- I like the specific reference to Jamie’s face mishap lol. It was probably just to bring up a funny part of the story they just reviewed but it also serves as a nice shoutout to Hamish Wilson who passed a few years ago.
- “Well, who’d’a thought? President and a Highlander sharing stories.” That highlights something I love about the 60s era of the show, how you get people from so many times and places who never would have known each other but come to mean the world to each other. Jamie and Zoe couldn’t be farther from one another in time or background and they never should have met but here they are, both sharing so much love for the other and having had a bond so strong that Zoe subconsciously named her son for him.
- Jamie’s, “I could get used to this,” and happy wiggle in the chair, lol. That felt very Jamie and reminds me of his amusing character arc wherein he becomes more and more attached to future conveniences or technologies or comforts. I bet you could easily get used to it, Jamie!
- Jamie suddenly destroying the vibe by wondering if they could be in Heaven, rofl.
- Hearing them talk about Victoria made me so emotional, partly for the characters and partly because Debbie’s passing is still in fairly recent memory and it very much felt just as much like a tribute to her as for the character. I lost it over Jamie’s emotional face and hoping that she had a nice life. It felt so painfully real, an old man looking back on a girl he once knew and loved in his youth and hoping she lived well.
- These two, generally. I love them so much and this was so healing.
so the Eras Tour on Disey+ and right wing conspiracy misogynist propaganda has turned my mom from casually fond to a self-identified Swiftie, which I've mentioned before
her favorite songs are "Delicate" (though she does not appreciate the 1-2-3 LET'S GO BITCH! because it's 'like calling Taylor a bitch and that's sexist. Why do we put up with sexist talk?' lmao
and her other favorite song is "betty" because it sounds super gay to her. She has watched both Eras Tour and Long Pond, she knows the story that inspired betty as a song, but my mom is a "betty is a gay song truther."
She told me her theory of the song: Betty is a girl Taylor knew back in high school (I'm only 17) and Betty had a crush on Taylor (James is definitely Taylor according to Mom's Theory of the Song), and "the worst thing that I ever did, was what I did to you" was to not just reject Betty but to tell other people about it to humiliate her, leading to Betty dancing with some GUY at the far side of the gym. And James Taylor here realizes later in life that she only outed Betty because she was afraid of her own lesbian feelings in return and she wishes she could have just kissed her in front of all their stupid hater homophobic friends
like you have to understand lmao my mom is an "everyone is gay" truther lol this is not exclusive to Taylor, but I didnt have the heart to tell her that she had inadvertently written Gaylor fanfic. She's a truther about Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston and Oprah all being undercover lesbians. With Dolly she allegedly has a friend of a friend who briefly dated her, her husband is a total merkin according to my mom. She also knew about Lucy Liu being bi over a decade before it was common knowledge. I'm telling you, lmao, not all Boomer lesbians know each other, that's just an offensive stereotype. That being said, while not ALL Boomer lesbians know each other, my mother in particular seems to know most of them (if not date most of them rofl)
Caught this while capping... Aldhelm's stunt double lol! Look at the terrible wig!! ROFL!! The episode was so horribly dark and blurry they were hoping no one would notice I guess. Now that I have seen this I can't unsee it, and have seen this dude pop up other times in the show, especially in scenes when he is riding horseback. Ep 4.01
Although why James would need a stunt double to mount a horse is beyond me...
And since my curiosity got the best of me, I just had to look for this FULL interview, if only just to see Austin and THEE Jeff Goldblum do an interview together lol 😆
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Omg... not James saying "I've never been this aroused in my life" rofl 🤣 😂 Was he flirting with Austin? 😂
Not James calling Austin a "duck-billed platypus "!!! 🤣😅
Omg this interview.... Chaotic! 🤣 How come I'm just now seeing this lol? 😂
Okay, okay, so I finally educated mysef on the James Corden X BTS conflict. I wanna say first, his joke of all fans being 15 y/o girls is so irritatingggggg. Not because it's rude but because it's such a normalised perception that boy bands are just for preteens and young teens. I've spent years being made fun of and judged for loving kpop, and boy bands. (High school was not fun fam lolololol) I still pretend I'm buying stuff for friends when I grab BTS merch at shops cause I'm 26 and know people gonna judge. (I'm working on it jrifooof hard to be nice to myself when I was a pariah for everything 🤣🤣🤣)
His joke wasn't inappropriate as a whole (societally) because that's the perception of boy bands. I think that's something that pisses me off the most. I'm glad BTS is helping normalise the love of boy bands in all age groups. Even if it's just in one area, we need to stop pinholing people's interests based on things like age, gender, experience, etc, etc.
Honestly, I'm more offended by how he nonchalantly said BTS didn't belong at the UN. He could have spun it to say the boys got there because they're not just a boy band, they're humanitarians. Instead he was like "ROFL boy band at UN, bubble heads with sparkles got brains???" (Not literally tho lmaoo, that's just the vibe I got 🤣).
I died watching his apology cause at one point he grabbed Jimin's hand and the boy just let his hand be floppy, and eventually Corden just let go. Jungkook kept doing his tongue in cheek thing and tilting his head (the way he does when things don'tmatch up), and Jhope's eyes were just coooooold. His smile was weak too, the boy sucks at hiding his emotions. Yoongi, oooof, he did NOT unfold those arms. Sope was really reacting like the whole apology was a joke in and of itself. Seokjin??? Wooow, I never thought I would see contempt on his face. But he, wooow. Certain moments I could see being used for yandere prompts cause boi was not pleased. RIP Taehyung cause he was obviously trying to be cool but kept slipping. I think he had really liked Corden before they got to see how he was off the show :/
They were pissed, and rightfully so. Sucks that I'm the internet explorer of cultural moments though 🤣🤣🤣 I am always late to the party. Would have been nice to be active when it was booming and see other people's opinions.
Maaaan, I just rarely see the boys angry or upset so this whole mix was crazy for me. I keep rewatching and (absently) wondering how people can accuse BTS of being personas because wooow, they are so open faced. Actively just wanting to see them pissed tho for quirks 🤧🤧🤧
1.How do they respond to having a song stuck in their head? Does that happen to them often?
Oh boy, with Caleb, he's always got some kind of music in his head. Maybe not quite as varied or as often as Lachlan (my cellist Shepard), but Caleb has played piano most of his life, so he has a long list of Irish tunes he's used to playing back in Old Neddy's, and he has other songs he really enjoys - either listening to or trying to play/learn whenever he's around a piano. There's a scene in one of his N7 missions coming up that the music is a part of and Kaidan is involved, too. Believe me when I tell you, THAT SONG will stick in his head for years, and still pop back up unexpectedly after that, and he doesn't understand why until much much later.
14. Would they prefer to act or react?
Okay, going to go with Act here, I think. He's not so much a control freak (okay, maybe a bit, but after Akuze, who wouldn't be???) as he is someone who doesn't want to leave his fate/destiny up to others. Not to say he's afraid of reacting when and where appropriate. He will...sometimes to the other person's dismay. But overall, I'd have to say he prefers to be the one to act first.
32. How would they respond to being handed an infant?
ROFL. All things considered, not too badly. I mean, after Abby and Coats get married (ooops, spoiler...), when they have their kids, of course Caleb is around (if only to give Coats a hard time about worrying about his bad ass wife). Abby is like a sister to Caleb. She'll just plop the kid into his arms and let it ride. Caleb doesn't get flustered, really. He might not have much experience with infants, but he does have experience with his young kids by that point, so it's just a matter of adjusting it to work with someone smaller. Set the child against his shoulder (like he does when Niamh cries after a nightmare or skins her knee) and pat it's back. (Abby would remind him to hold the baby's head, just to be safe) Caleb might not even realize that he starts humming quietly - an old Irish lullaby that Nan used to sing him or that he taught Kaidan to sing for them to use with Niamh and Tadhg on bad days/nights. So, honestly, I don't think he'd be fazed much by it at all. After all, as James says, he's Commander Fucking Shepard. :D