#but star trek was my first love

[nb-n0v4]

I know I'm like 80 years late to the meme but I finally remembered I wanted to draw this kjsdf

#first comfort character was a half human repressed alien space traveler in love with a blonde #good to see nothing has changed lmaooo #my art #digital art #fanart #doctor who #dr who #star trek #star trek TOS #Spock #S'chn T'gai Spock #The Doctor #ninth doctor #9th doctor #I think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven

[kyurochurro]

TNG character sketches!! been wanting to draw this crew for a hot sec so I got around to it at 3 am last nite… LOL

(also I haven’t started tng yet but hey I dedicate this to my DAD big tng fan first Trekkie I ever met SHOUTOUT TO YOU DAD 🗣️)

#churro art #my art #digital art #fanart #doodles #star trek #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #william riker #will riker #deanna troi #beverly crusher #data soong #HMMMMMM CAN YOU TELL I REWATCHED ANASTASIA LATELYYYYY AGSHGAHJBKSO #anyways sorry for flat colors #i wanted to focus more on the shapes and lines!! #I’m so glad my first st drawing of Spock and Kirk got so much love #but even just one month after it I can’t look at it cus like. you can TELL it was the first time I had drawn them LMAOOO #i got the hang of their faces now so that first drawing I shall just ignore foreva! :D #BUT THESE IM REALLY PROUD OF THESEEEE #especially data!!! #i initially sketched these on paper in a big sketchbook I own #i won’t lie riker and data looked a bit off but the magic of digital is you can often really easily patch that stuff up :P #I’ll prob start tng with my dad then watch it by myself moving forward :D #ANYWAYS BEV AND DEANNA ARE SOOOOOO PRETTY THEYRE SOOOOOO PRETTY DRAWING THEM WAS SO MUCH FUN #riker was fun to draw too! I feel like I didn’t quite get his eyes right butttt I’m close enough :p #I’ll prob draw Geordi and Picard next or any other character once I pick up tng right >:3

[heartbuckles]

Literally these two, like y’all where asked to fight not homoerotically roll around in the sand together 😭😭💀

#star trek #spirk #star trek tos #it was necessary #spock #james t kirk #gay as hell boy 💀💀 #I love them fr #the first time I saw that meme I was like SPIRK??? them??? my guys irl??? #i love them #tos star trek #tos

[thresholdbb]

In the spirit of First Contact Day (and in the aftermath of boop-stravaganza), please interact with this if you post about Star Trek and/or we should be mutuals. LLAP I love you all

#Star Trek #first contact day #or if I follow your Star Trek blog but can't figure out your main #booping was fun but I am sometimes not great at following back #and I really liked more interactivity #you can send me asks whenever about whatever also #I love you in advance #and my follower page won't load all the way #yes I want more nerdy mutuals #I also contain multitudes my less active personal blog is @suboficialflores but this is my main #I lean heavily towards voyager but I am making my way through them all

[vaguely-concerned]

the way garak looks at bashir as he puts all the clues together at the end of cardassians. the sheer 'look at that little twink go (affectionate, sexual overtones)' energy he manages to convey in the background there as bashir passionately does the presentation of their group project that garak did 80% of the actual work on. immaculate

#star trek ds9 #deep space 9 #star trek #garashir #elim garak #his lil face journey as they speak to the lady about rugal coming to the orphanage too. adorable. 'it's so over oh we're so back' #also the revelation that garak is high as a kite not only for this but for most of the first two seasons. hysterical #I love him so much already. #'yes yes I'm sure we're ALL very sad about the orphans or whatever. I wouldn't know I haven't experienced a natural emotion in years' #(let's hope he's at least fooling himself at this point) #ALSO also. sisko in his bathrobe in the middle of the night b/c 'so uh dad my unhinged new boyfriend wanted me to ask #if we could borrow the car. no he didn't say why. yeah I'm sure he has a driver's license he was like in the army or something #btw he snuck into my room while I was sleeping and I didn't notice a thing lmao isn't he cool???' #sisko you deal with so much all of the time and there aren't enough medals they could give you for it #bashir going 'tell me what's going on in your head or I stg I'll turn this runabout around'...... yes. yes wonderful

[wrinkleintime]

enterprise text posts: featuring starfleet’s most reluctant astronaut, hoshi <3

#in my head I think I could be in starfleet but then I think about the events in an average episode of star trek and it’s like. #how DO they not cry all the time. #star trek enterprise #hoshi sato #star trek #enterprise text posts #she's my best girl <33 #she’s everything #i saw the dark energy in the kitchen post first and immediately knew what to do. i love those scenes. i yell CARROTS often while cooking.

[inkedberries]

it was such a bad idea to watch star trek the original series on a whim because man i am in it

#call me captain kirk the way i love the enterprise and all her crew #also most especially my first officer #start trek #star trek tos #my art #lt masters dilithium crystals expert save me

[stonedstarfleet]

I just think he’s neat.

#star trek #star trek the next generation #riker tng #commander riker #william t riker #will riker #william riker #captain riker #st:tng #st tng #star trek tng #star trek first contact #riker my love #f/o

[hollis-art]

hoo boy! guess who's a guest on the muppet show :D !!

#i started watching the muppet show for the first time and you cannot tell me that this is not data's sort of scene #he would love it there #he would share all of his horrible jokes with fozzie and they'd be the best of buddies #bc i think the guests sing at least one song per episode- his song would be “Phenomenal Cats” by the Kinks #it's my favorite song and he's my favorite guy #the muppet show #kermit the frog #fozzie bear #scooter #star trek #data soong #fanart #art

[beaulesbian]

I can't stop thinking about the Lower Decks 2x5 episode, where mariner and boimler find a bar in which kirk and spock used to hang out and drink,

and how the new snw crossover episode would be even more chaotic if they met both of them in live action.

but even without that i feel there's some things that boimler managed to put into their heads that not everything is as it should be, yet..

(cough, some break ups and new relationships maybe? yes this is about spirk)

#star trek #lower decks #strange new worlds #spirk #brad boimler #beckett mariner #jim kirk #spock #star trek spoilers #snw spoilers #star trek lower decks #star trek strange new worlds #tbh i havent seen snw except the new crossover ep and the end of ep 6 but i can see that spirk has already chemistry after the first meetin #so @ snw - make it happen cmon #mine #gif:star trek #my ramblings #also mariner x boimler!! bc mariner was so worried about boimler this ep before she joined him in the live action?? i love that slow burn #marinler

[1960z]

it’s interesting to me how the politics of writing romance (in general I suppose but rn I’m specifically talking about sci-fi/genre fiction) can often get in the way of writing good romance

I saw this post a couple days ago talking about why k/s as a romance feels more satisfying to a lot of people than a lot of the actual queer rep on star trek — how because they weren’t written with romance in mind, they were allowed to develop a dynamic of genuine camaraderie, mutual respect and chemistry.

and the thing is, I don’t even think this is unique to how queer relationships are written, or at the very least there is a non-queer version.

like I have a huge soft spot for kira/odo, but you can obviously tell when the writers decided to start explicitly writing for them as a romantic couple rather than simply two people who had chemistry together. and the moment they were being written as a romantic couple they were immediately forced into this very cishet model of what relationships are supposed to look like. there are some good moments I feel (pining!odo will always be a highlight for me) but that in itself— the fact they chose to focus so heavily on odo’s perspective is very telling.

the arc leading up to the two being canonically a couple is very focused on odo needing to “win” kira, with kira becoming an object of desire in odo’s arc rather than another fully rounded character with agency in the romance. which is very jarring because 1) again, before the romance arc was set in stone their dynamic was not written this way and 2) outside of this plot, kira is very well rounded and has a shit ton of agency.

it also doesn’t help that there is a lot of room for queerness to be explored within their relationship and especially odo’s character when it comes to gender, an opportunity which they just never take, not explicitly anyway. and having such fertile ground to explore those themes and then simply not and in fact doing the opposite, forcing them into a dynamic the characters are ill-fitted to, missing the point of their core appeal as a couple in the first place it’s… frustrating.

and I just wonder how many great dynamics and storylines we miss out on due to this heteronormative view of romance and what different types of relationships are “supposed” to look like.

#shut up abe #spirk #tos #kiraodo #ds9 #star trek #I think about kiraodo and their canon portrayal a LOT #I love them they deserved better #which isn’t to say there’s *nothing* to like about them in canon if there was I doubt I’d ship them in the first place #but i think their story very much was hindered by this stuff #(his way my beloathed)

[kyurochurro]

saw this image on Pinterest and the pose gave me such riker vibes that I just HAD to draw it as him and troi HEHEHE

#churro art #my art #digital art #illustration #fanart #star trek #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #william t riker #william riker #deanna troi #AHAAAAAA OKAY PLS DONT SEND ME TO TREKKIE JAIL I HAVENT HAD A CHANCE TO PROPERLY START TNG YEET 😭😭😭 #but I do know… I DO KNOW . I love troi so MUCH #I actually started this image drawing her and doodle her a lot on paper in my first week back to uni #but omg I struggled so much with riker here and for why BJBJCBSDJHDSBJ #he literally had like 60 different hairstyle changes during the Lineart phase like it was that bad #it just didn’t look like him but in the end I think I’m close enough 😭😭😭 #ANYWAYS This is this weeks uni drawing … the type of drawing I do in my free time on campus :P #I LOVE HOW THIS TURNED OUT SO MUCH!! I was kickin my feet n giggling. like a madman #i should really draw the tos crew w these full eyes too but I always love drawing them with the simple dot eyes more HAHAHA #also little authors note. wow did that reference give me a hard time #those are some LOOONG limbs boy . Riker almost ended up looking like slenderman DAMN

[thali-lemmonpie]

oh.

Oh.

#my art #star trek #s'chn t'gai spock #spirk #space husbands #james t. kirk #st #k/s #aos #star trek beyond #when in the diplomat mission you realice that you are in love with your first officer but he's also in love with you #so what are you going to do about it jim? hm? are u going to smoosh him?

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Elim Garak: fucking around vs finding out

#garashir #Elim Garak #Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #my first ever DS9 gifs! please clap :') #anyways where is quote_from_man_shot.jpg #absolute BEST part of this was definitely making that last gif. I had to watch it so many times making this post and it STILL gets me. #Garak; panting; ajan soaking wet: omg what if you SHOT me wouldn't that be so crazy lol I bet you never would though... haha.... unless? #Julian: ok you little slut. bet. #Garak: YOU SHOOT ELIM???? OH! OH! OHhhh I love you so much <3 Whatever you say Agent Bashir hehe ;) can I come over to your place later ;) #I was thinking about including the next shot of his brain turning off as he decides to do a bratty sub to puppy sub speedrun #but this way felt funniest. his stupid fucking face. from O:< to D:< #I had to make this set to show it's not even subtext. it's textual. he wants Julian to shoot him from the second he shows up. #(or at least do SOMETHING disciplinary to him 0w0) #''Wait. This whole post is dom!Julian propaganda?'' #Me; aiming my gun: Always has been. #Starky's Original Posts #Starky's GIFs #is that a tag. what's it matter we're a trillion tags deep here and blog tag search is broken anyways. lawless country.

[vaguely-concerned]

Ever since watching The Wire for the first time, my brain has doggedly kept working away at the Especially the lies of it all, and specifically at how much the structure beneath the different stories Garak tells contributes to the overall meaning of what he’s trying to say. While the contradicting narratives of course expertly obscure the factual circumstances of his getting exiled, using them also allows him to tell aspects and facets of the emotional truth I don’t think he ever could have, if he’d simply told the actual story of what happened. (It’s very Varric-core of him honestly.)

The first story — the ‘oh, you think you know me?’ story — says I have done things that would sicken you if you knew any detail of it. It’s clearly meant to scare Bashir away so he’ll leave him to die shamefully in peace already lol. But it’s also one of his (probably much-needed lbr) little lessons to Julian that are so frequent in the beginning, given while Garak still has some hold on himself — “Don’t be so quick to forgive me if you don’t even know what I’ve done; what would you do if this really were the sum total of what I am?” (And Julian seems to surprise him by going ‘Well, exactly the same thing, because no matter who you are I am a doctor. But I sort of take your point.’)

The second story — the letting the orphans go story — says I have failed to smother my soul in its cradle when it was required of me, and I regret that more than anything I’ve done. To my ears this is the one most shot through with active self-loathing too, which is interesting. He’s officially lost the control he’s been clinging to and it’s about to get ugly. His TL;DR is ‘Sentiment is the greatest weakness of all’, even all the way back here. (Which is the one lesson Julian steadfastly refuses to learn, which I think in turn does some serious rearrangement of Garak’s soul over the course of the show haha. Get uno reversed into the process of loving and being loved without shame asshole.)  This is also where he builds up to admitting to having any sort of need for companionship or closeness at all and — so much worse — that Julian’s role in his life actually has fulfilled some of that need, and he’s DRIPPING with defensive venom over it b/c well I get it Garak vulnerability is scary it can take a person like that. 

(I also feel there’s something honest and forbidden in ‘Suddenly the whole exercise seemed utterly meaningless’. I suspect ‘actually… why the fuck are we even doing this???’ is not a welcome sentiment in an Obsidian Order water cooler environment, no matter what you’re saying it about lmao. The very first seeds of him deconstructing the things he’s been taught about Cardassia and his work might be hinted at here, though they of course take a looong time to come to any real fruition.)   

The third story — the ‘Elim was my best friend’ story — says hey, remember that thing you said once, about how sometimes, you have to be loyal to yourself before you can be loyal to anything else? Well. guess what. I couldn’t even be that lmao. It also furthers that thread of being divided from yourself, split, that having ‘Elim’ as a separate person around in all versions of the story brings in. He’s in control of himself again, but he essentially hands his life and soul over to Julian to decide what should be done with them. 

I’ve done horrible things and it finally caught up with me, I’m getting what I deserve → I let sentiment master me and the fact that I’m too weak to do what’s needed of me shames me more than the evil I’ve done → I fucked up. I betrayed myself and everything I held to, all for nothing, and I have no one to blame for it but myself. But it’s very nice that you’re here anyway, Doctor. (Wow. I didn’t realize quite how isolated and lonely that last one was before right now. The way Tain has shaped him really has just… locked him completely into himself, huh.) We can also see a movement through from a completely professional context in the first story, to an intensely interpersonal and internal context in the last one — even his fake stories spiral in towards intimacy, which I think is what he longs for here even if he can’t quite like. Touch that without the stories as a buffer yet, it’s clearly like touching a hot stove for him to interact with it too directly. 

And you know what I find incredibly interesting the whole way through? Even on his deathbed, where he’s dying from the thing Tain had put in his head, he’s protecting Tain. He puts all the blame for where he is on himself (‘My future was limitless, until I threw it away’), even if he has to employ a strange twisty logic where he’s split himself into two to do it. Don’t get me wrong, Garak has done horrific things all on his own haha, but it’s notable that he almost isolates Tain from that. ‘Tain was the Obsidian Order. Not even the Central Command dared challenge him. And I was his right hand.’ Tain in Garak’s stories is this infallible implacable weirdly distant figure, even now. Indeed, as will make a lot of sense with the revelations further down the line, more than anything it seems the gaze of an abused child desperate for recognition looking up at an idealized (if not in any way nurturing) parent.‘He was retired at that point; he couldn't protect me’, Garak says, as if what he’d need protection from in the first place isn’t Tain himself lmao, as if Tain had no active part in any of this. He never lets blame touch Tain at all. At this stage he would rather consider himself a broken flawed tool than accept that the hands that have wrought and wielded him have ever had any fault in them. AND in the middle of it all, with plausible deniability, on death’s door and knocking meekly to be let in before he must finish the mortifying ordeal of being known and test the even more daunting possibility of being loved, Garak at the same time manages to drop the breadcrumb trail of clues to make it possible for Julian to find Tain if he so chooses and gets in the ‘sons of Tain’ thing too for future dramatic irony purposes. Truly he is the Michelangelo of lying. Every falsehood a multifaceted masterpiece. Elim ‘achieving a state of intertextuality in real life is possible if you work hard and believe in yourself’ Garak. I love him so much. 

I think all of this is why “I forgive you. For whatever it is you did,” works so well, because it too works on a structural level. It’s such a deceptively multilayered response — it has the syntax of a joke, in a way, and it is kind of funny even under the circumstances, but delivered with such earnest warmth and fondness. It’s both recognition and acceptance (forgiveness!). It’s saying ‘I finally understand enough of what you’re trying to tell me beneath and through all that, in whatever way you’re capable of, I see you’ and ‘my answer hasn’t changed (bitch)’. The forgiveness Julian offers here is complete — on principle, and out of personal feeling and empathy (only one of which Garak deigns to respond to during the second story, where he calls it ‘smug Federation sympathy’, placing it more completely on the principle side than it probably is. ‘Dude you’re my friend please don’t just lie down and die in a completely avoidable way on me, who else is going to not only tolerate but actually gleefully enjoy me being annoying as fuck over lunch’ seems to be the subtext that’s a lot harder to acknowledge and invite in for both of them. And yet Tain seems perfectly clear on the fact that Julian is Garak’s friend, which, y’know. Must be fun living with the knowledge that Tain has eyes everywhere looming over you every day haha guess you’d just have to tune that out.) 

Most of all — ’Don’t give up on me now, Doctor’... and he didn’t! He didn’t. Augh. Ow.

#garashir #elim garak #julian bashir #star trek ds9 #ds9 #star trek #ds9 meta #S2EP22 The Wire #alternate title: baby's first brush with unconditional love through unreliable narration lol #I'm not sure I got to say everything I want to in this/found the exact right words in places or hit all the nuances #but god help me I so desperately need this out of my brain to free up some disc space so go forth little meta haha be free #I'm sure I'll come back to you in time #meta #enabran tain #(derogatory)

[lonelymoonrambles]

As I have now finished season 1 of ds9, here are my thoughts on the season as a brand new viewer:

- aw Sisko :(

- aw Julian :)

- The cardassians are.... Hot

- aw Kira :(

- Please let Nog go to school (he rly needs it...)

- This is a Keiko O'Brien stan account - she has never been wrong

- If Gul dukat evil, why sexy?

- Jadzia!!! Girlie pop!! ☺️ A pansexual icon/immortal worm!

- maybe some mental health care for the bajorans would be a good idea

- Garak x Julian day 1 stan

- Wait... Chief O'Brien x Julian stan?

- Oh, Julian x everyone stan 🥰

- Google: is Alexander Siddig single / how old

- Quark x Odo enemies to reluctant allies to lovers slow burn 100k+ words

- everyone on this space station is gay

#star trek ds9 #ds9 #first watch #i love it #julian x anyone #Actually this was in my drafts for a long time #I'm almost done season 2 #No thoughts on jake tbh