I think I got a little bit too excited about certain Star Trek events this year.... (Yes it's in there every day of 2024 cause I didn't know when the actual date is if star trek specifies or not)
Things that are going to happen in 2024 according to Star Trek:
1) the absolutely giant homeless-population of the USA (or was is just New York? Idk, I鈥榤 from Europe) is going to start a civil-war fighting against the upper class and police.
threshold is really the funniest star trek episode of all time because i remember going into it the first time i watched it being warned "oh this is one of those silly episodes everyone hates" and i was like WHY because for the first 3/4 it's just like a pretty well-done homage to The Fly but then suddenly it becomes the most bizarre thing you've ever seen. like cronenberg could not conceive of the madness of those wet salamander puppets writhing around on the soundstage and how we're meant to just accept that as the big climactic moment of the story. 10/10 no notes
What on earth is going on in the Star Trek fandom today, it's like my dash exploded
lol 28 years ago today, the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" aired. The premise of the episode was that humans cannot travel at or faster than warp 10, because if they do, they would be traveling at "infinite velocity" and would exist in all points of space time simultaneously. Tom Paris found a way to travel at this speed, and doing so accidentally hyper-evolved him and his captain (Janeway) into giant salamanders, whereupon they immediately reproduced and created 3 baby salamanders. They were then turned back into normal humans, and forced to leave their salamander babies on the planet they had escaped to.
The episode was long held as the worst star trek episode. Not just the worst Star Trek Voyager episode, but the worst episode, period, because it was extremely weird and people turning into salamanders greatly annoyed a lot of people who don't know what fun is. Tumblr, having discovered this episode like excavating an exciting fossil, has taken a shine to this episode and many people now produce art and memes and eat pepperoni pizza in celebration of its air date, mostly to annoy the episode's creator, as in a very Arthur Conan Doyle way, he hates this episode and wants it de-canonized.