#star trek and star wars

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

#star trek #star wars #stargate #edit: typo. it's supposed to say win a fight

[approximateknowledge]

ok so hear me out

#ak goes insane #is this anything? #discworld #lotr #star trek #star wars #hiv3stuck

[departmentq]

Fans celebrate the casting of Nichelle Nichols as Uhura as a moment for actors of color, which they should be.

But I also wanted to spotlight the casting of these iconic guest starring characters, seen in episodes of TOS.

Percy Rodriguez was cast as flag officer Commodore Stone, who was Kirk's superior in the chain of command. Stone is one of the officers that presides over Kirk's court martial.

Booker Bradshaw was the original Dr. M'Benga, seen in two episodes of TOS. at the time, M'Benga was Starfleet's first and only medical specialist in Vulcan Physiology, having spent a year's residency on Vulcan.

One of the finest minds in computer technology in the 23rd century, and creator of the duotronic computer, Dr. Richard Daystrom, was played by William Marshall, whose work in Shakespeare, and his roles as Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass, added to the gravitas of his portrayal.

A flag officer, a specialist in Vulcan medicine, and one of the finest minds in a field of technology, played by actors of color, during the turbulent 1960s.

#star trek #star trek tos #commodore stone #dr m'benga #dr richard daystrom #court martial #a private little war #that which survives #the ultimate computer

[homofocused]

No third answer. No it's complicated. I want to know the truth. Reblog for sample size so I can gain the truth.

#Star trek #Star Wars #Polls

[groundrunner100]

#Star Wars #Mass Effect #Transformers #Destiny #Halo #Star Trek #science-fiction #lore #history #public opinion #Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic #Mass Effect 2 #Transformers: The Covenant of Primus #Destiny 2 #Halo: Combat Evolved #Star Trek: Enterprise #Star Wars: The Old Republic #Mass Effect 3 #Transformers: Generation 1 #Halo 2 #Star Trek: Voyager #Star Wars: The Clone Wars #Destiny: The Taken King #Transformers 2007 #Halo 3 #Star Trek: The Next Generation #Star Wars: Plagueis #Transformers: Exodus #Destiny 2: The Witch Queen #Halo Reach

[starfleetshrimps]

star wars fans who haven't watched the clone wars (the show) are missing out on a truly astronomical amount of pain and suffering and they should remedy this immediately right now

#star wars #once again asking my mostly star trek followers to consider also being annoying about star wars #best of both worlds #if you like star trek prodigy you will like the clone wars #!!! #star wars the clone wars

[thehollowprince]

... and why?

Edit: It's my own fault for not clarifying, but the reason Post Earth is in quotation marks doesn't denote the future, but a scifi setting where humanity from Earth branches outward.

#i'm curious as to what people's preference is #and star wars doesn't count because that's fantasy #star trek #mass effect #dune #alien #avatar #babylon 5 #battlestar galactica #stargate #foundation #the expanse

[young-astro]

Meditation by Yoong Bae

#star trek #star wars #merlin #atlantis #noragami #the letter for the king #altered carbon #over the garden wall #the power #our flag means death #raised by wolves #the last of us #killing eve #the bear #arcane #miracle workers #black mirror #love death + robots #marco polo #the midnight gospel #blue eye samurai #voltron #intergalactic #natsume yuujinchou #steven universe #my memes #alien worlds #gen v #avatar #interview with the vampire

[spotsandsocks]

I’ve probably forgotten some very important ones but these are the ones you get to choose from.

#spotty polls #star trek #star wars #spaceship #star trek tng #star trek tos #firefly #darth vader #battlestar galactica #dr who #alien

[papanowo]

so im kinda into star trek now lol

#my art #star trek #star trek aos #james t kirk #jim kirk #spock #spirk #i just spent the past 20 minutes trying to figure out this new tagging system jesus christ #anyways #so im not hyperfixated on star wars anymore whoops #im gonna try and finish the last of my sw wips but after that #idk if im gonna be drawing anymore star wars sorry #hopefully i get back into it for tbb s3 #but who knows

[brujaporfavor]

Ah, yes.. the three genders: Star Wars, Star Trek, and Stargate.

#star wars #star trek #stargate

[chimaerakitten]

I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than like…canon can. If you’re in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you can’t make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.

And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldn’t expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirk’s old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, I’m not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirk’s backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirk’s character that he’s a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question “why did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?” With “‘cause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.” A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is “because he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasn’t taken.” BUT—and this is significant—even the TOS canon movies can’t really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead it’s fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk I’ve only read 2 trek books, if there’s one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say “I’ve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but it’s not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.” And that’s interesting! That’s meaningful! That can’t happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and that’s a strength of fic, I think.

#summer blockbusters are better at being summer blockbusters than the fic about them #but the fic gets to get into the weeds #in a way a movie can’t and shouldn’t #fic can accomplish different things #Star Trek #Star Wars #just used as illustrative examples lol

[emozionidinchiostro]

How you people watch a show but are not in the fandom is wild to me, like wdym you can consume a piece of media without it consuming yourself? You guys don’t obsess to the point of madness over those fictional people? Just me?

#iwtv #supernatural #interview with the vampire #hannibal #Merlin #Star Wars #Sherlock #doctor who #Harry Potter #marauders #Star Trek #killing eve #good omens #hozier #what we do in the shadows #our flag means death

[gaycodedvillainy]

#seasons greasons #star trek #tos #star trek tos #a private little war #james t kirk #jim kirk #mugato #the jokes

[starfleetshrimps]

GOD i fucking LOVE IT when the sci fi shows are also political dramas. PLEASE give me more complicated inter-planetary governmental issues and also sprinkle in some silly pseudo science laser things NOWtysm

#star trek #star wars #the clone wars #deep space nine

[keldabekush]

Happy Halloween, Cody starfleet uniform

#kushdraws #commander cody #Star Wars #star trek