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trek-tracks · 2 years

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Star Trek, "The Mark of Gideon."

Airdate: January 17, 1969.

Sigh.

#star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #the mark of gideon #hodin #captain kirk #image source: trekcore #transcript source: chakoteya #i can't believe the us is going fucking backwards on this #i'm okay in canada but as a us citizen it's killing me #star trek has always been political #between the episode about antimaskers and this one the third season should not be this goddamn painfully relevant #anyone who wants to clown on this post: just don't #you will be instantly blocked

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1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt · 2 years

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Anyone else out here thinking about how in TOS Jim is all smooth and hairless like some kind of Greek statue aesthetic, but then he switches it up in TMP?

He is a character who enjoys switching up his aesthetic, style and wardrobe. We love to see a diverse queen. Jim can rock a lot of different looks.

Exhibit A: TOS (Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry believed men of the future would have “little or no body hair”):

Then in TMP he has arm hair. He also abruptly busts out a v-neck once Spock comes aboard to show off a lil' chest hair . . .

Legit. He is in a full body long-sleeved jumpsuit up to his Adam's apple when he first boards the Enterprise:

Spock is on board for a grand total of ten seconds before Jim busts out his gun show and tiddies:

Oh. This sudden wardrobe swap coincidentally just so happens to happen right before inviting Spock to a private meeting in the Captain's quarters with McCoy.

Jim is the only one who does a wardrobe swap btw, Spock and McCoy are still in the same garb. So it couldn’t even be justified with a “passage of time”, this is just Jim being extra.

He goes from feetie pajamas:

to Gawddayum-as.

Like FYI Spock, this is the appetizer. There's been some changes around here since you been gone.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Wanna see?

Image sources: Brought to you by TrekCore, the amazing @plaidshirtjimkirk and my own terrible homemade screencaps.

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ectogeo-rebubbles · 3 years

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Hey, is anyone else obsessed with the way that Julian Bashir CONSTANTLY imagines scenarios in which alien men push him up against a wall??????

And the way he always makes bedroom eyes at them when they do, even if (especially if) it’s a fraught situation????

Here’s a few more instances where he didn’t just imagine it (but was definitely into it lol):

Anyway..... I think this is truly the key to understanding his character, lmao, thanks for coming to my TED talk

[image IDs: 1. “Garak” in Julian’s own mind in Distant Voices. 2. A Jem’hadar soldier in the Dominion simulation in The Search Part 2. 3. Garak in Our Man Bashir. 4. Worf in Afterimage.] [Sources: First 3 screencaps are from trekcore, last one is from star-trek.info]

#julian bashir #ds9 #star trek ds9 #listen.#he simply wants to be manhandled a little bit by a hot alien.#if i had a nickel every time julian bashir canonically hallucinated an alien man pressing him up against a wall i'd have two nickels #which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice #are there more examples???? please add them if so #also don't take this too seriously i am just amused that this has happened so many times

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speedygal · 3 years

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!!! SO THERE WAS A WOMAN WEARING A HIJAB AFTER ALL AS I THOUGHT I SAW IN THE PROMO and couldn't be sure if it were just really blonde hair.

Trekcore, twitter, source of images.

#Muslim #sikh #star trek: lower decks #andorian #Vulcan #hijab #andorians

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calliecat93 · 3 years

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Okay but... man The Man Trap is such a depressing episode when you look at McCoy’s POV.

First he has to do a medical check-in on his ex and her husband. While his interactions with Nancy are perfectly amicable and even kinda cute, well... meeting with a former lover after so many years even if it ended on good terms is a nerve-wracking experience. Then a crewman dies and he can’t find the cause and is distracted by the fact that Nancy looked exactly like she did ten years ago. We know it’s because of the Salt Monster’s mental influence, but McCoy doesn’t and Kirk scolds him for being in a romantic daze. Of course there’s no hard feelings and they make up almost immediately after, but McCoy clearly felt bad about it and taking so long to determine the crewman’s cause of death considering the “another error on my part” line. And then not only does more crewmen die, but ‘Nancy’ goes missing with something on the loose and McCoy’s anxiety and worry is at the point where Kirk sends him to go rest. Which he can’t cause he’s too worried.

That all alone REALLY sucks. But then ‘Nancy’ finds him. The only thing that kept McCoy from getting salt drained then and there was the call for all medical personnel. The creature knows of McCoy’s lingering feelings still for Nancy, and it knows to use that to it’s advantage. It even says that it prefers him because “I like your feelings better. Much stronger”. Sure it fails to court him because McCoy’s not going to get romantic with a married woman, but the creature still gets him drugged and gets him to ignore the call when he gets up to do his job. Then when it gets caught when posing as him, it goes to him for protection since he’s unaware of the current developments and as long as it can pose as Nancy, McCoy’s emotions are going to cause him to believe her. Which it works with McCoy outright getting physical with Kirk, something he’s otherwise never do, since as far as he knows Kirk is unecessarially badgering an innocent woman. It’s not until ‘Nancy’ takes the bait with the salt capsules that McCoy realizes that indeed Nancy is long dead and the woman in front of him is a monster...

And he STILL can’t do anything because it’s still Nancy to him. Even when Kirk is clearly in danger. Even when Spock outright shouts at him to shoot, he can’t do anything but stand there against the wall with the phaser pointed. Half because he’s a doctor and can’t cause harm, but even knowing that the woman in front of him isn’t his ex that he still cares about, emotionally to him it is. Maybe it’s denial as accepting this as the reality would mean accepting that Nancy is dead. Which doing so combined with killing ‘her’ all over again would hurt him. He can’t do it until the creature’s true form is exposed ad Jim is screaming in pain when being drained. It’s only then when his captain and best friend is in true danger that McCoy finally shoots. The creature tries one more time to dissuade him by appearing as Young Nancy again. All that McCoy can do is say “Lord forgive me” before firing again, killing the creature once and for all. Killing Nancy once and for all. I’m forcing myself to not add a bunch of images, but just the look on his face throughout. That utter shock and denial, then pain as everything progresses... it’s pretty heartbreaking.

Throughout that whole scene McCoy is clearly distressed, emotional, terrified, and shake. While he does finally do what needed to be done, none of those feelings dissipate. Kirk saying that he’s sorry does nothing to dissipate it. Nancy died. Her husband died. Several crewmen died. The creature, the last of it’s race that they would normally give more consideration about, had to be killed due to the threat to the ship. McCoy not only let himself get fooled and emotionally manipulated, but because of his hesitance Jim almost got killed right in front of him and he did nothing to stop it until it was almost too late. And even then he had to kill another living thing to do it. At the end, McCoy is composed and we all know that he’ll be fine. But going off the look on his face...

It’s gonna be a while before he’s fully over it. Oh he won’t let it show for too long. He’ll let it linger for a bit, drink it away that night, then the next day it’s back to business as usual. It’ll be another scar that he adds to the rest and keeps covered up to never let anyone else see if he can help it. Just like with his father’s death. Just like with the divorce with Jocelyn. He’ll help anyone else through their grief and emotional distress no questions asked, but he’d be damned before he lets anyone see his.

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#star trek tos #leonard mccoy #okay i can move on from this episode now #idk wher ei was going with thius or if this makes any sense #but i needed to vent it out and it took em weeks ot word it #so... here it is

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apolesen · 3 years

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As there’s been some discussion of the nature of canon in the DS9 fandom, I wanted to chip in with my own take on the subject.

My way of looking at canon is very much informed by the bon mot that used to go around among old Doctor Who screenwriters: “the only canon is that there is no canon”. The way I take it is that canon is malleable and often in flux.

Let us use this line of Bashir’s from the episode Melora as an example:

When I was ten, my father was a Federation diplomat on Invernia Two.

So is it canon? From where I’m sitting, in 2021, having seen all of DS9 - no. It is well-established in Doctor Bashir, I Presume that Richard Bashir is not diplomat material, and that Bashir has a very complicated relationship with him, to say the least. With that in mind, the line from Melora looks like a lie, told to make childhood match the image of himself that Julian has created. However, Doctor Bashir I Presume is in series 5 - Melora is in series 2. Was that statement canon in the years until Doctor Bashir I Presume aired? Can we truly say that it isn’t canon, even now? There is no point at which Bashir says ‘my father was never a Federation diplomat’. Indeed, if you look up Richard Bashir on Memory Alpha, it says: “In 2351, Richard was a Federation diplomat on Invernia II." But Memory Alpha’s approach to canon is one of believing all statements that are clearly not lies. I will not say that that approach is not valid (and Memory Alpha can be a great source, and looking up random stuff on it is a favourite pastime of mine), but it is hard to follow through on it completely. Either you will end up with a picture of canon that contradicts itself and is largely unruly, or you will have to pick and choose. This picking and choosing might not even be done consciously. We tend to put aside information that directly contradicts an idea we already have, so it may be hard to think of something that you have decided to not bother with. Even Memory Alpha, due to the fact that they concentrate mainly on the dialogue and not on the visuals, pick and choose. Take for example the robe that Saavik and David Marcus find in the empty coffin in Search for Spock:

(Image description: a screencap from Search for Spock, of a black robe with silver Vulcan writing on the front, lying folded in a metal coffin.)

In the article on Vulcan language, the above image is captioned with “Spock’s burial robe”. But it’s not - it is the same robe that Spock wears in both The Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan, when he is very much alive.

(Image descriptions: two screencaps, one from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and one from Wrath of Khan. Both show Spock in the black robe with silver writing.)

So why is it described that way? Well, when they find the robe, and David Marcus asks what it is, Saavik says “Spock's burial robe”. We must take this as “the robe Spock was buried in” - it’s supposed to give us as viewers information that the coffin they’ve found is Spock’s, and that his body is gone.

This is why I tend to see ‘canon’ as an overarching category encompassed by alpha canon and beta canon, rather than making the distinction between canon and beta canon. Beta canon is rife with contradictions, inconsistencies and downright weird stuff, but so is alpha canon.

So what do we do? Well, the only canon is that there is no canon - by which I mean, a divinely appointed set of facts that are static and constant. You choose which bits works for you. I think there might be a great story behind that line from Melora - maybe Richard was the driver at the embassy and was never a diplomat, or he was a diplomat and he was terrible at it, or maybe it is a lie, and it can lead us further insight into the fact that Julian, the man without secrets, is as good a liar as Garak. There are so many possibilities, and that’s the point. We should not let canon strangle our creativity and our enjoyment. Sometimes when I watch newly released episodes of Star Trek, I get a knot in my stomach, because what if there’s a contradiction with my headcanons, or some world-building that I don’t like…? That is when I have to stop and tell myself: canon should never hold us hostage. What is canon is in fact arbitrary. Do what works - the sky’s the limit.

(Quotes from transcripts from Chakoteya, images from Memory Alpha and Trekcore)

#canon #star trek

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dailyjadziadax · 6 years

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hi! this blog is amazing and thank you for running it. would you be alright with people using these screencaps for their own edits, etc?

of course!! (fair warning, some of the images on this blog are from trekcore, but i’m almost certain that they’re free for use; the majority are my own screencaps which you may of course use.)

addendum: if you want to know exact sourcing for an image you can message it to me and i can tell you; if it’s my own screencap no credit is necessary, while if it’s from trekcore you may want to add the source (i’m not sure of their stance on credit, but it won’t hurt)

#anonymous #asks

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1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt · 2 years

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Jim whenever he is looking at Spock:

Jim's reaction to (legit) anything getting in between him and Spock:

Image sources: TrekCore

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calliecat93 · 3 years

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You know what makes The City of the Edge of Forever even more painful when you really break it down? The fact that Kirk was so anguished by his decision to let Edith die that he just clung onto McCoy and turned away…

…and in doing so, forced McCoy, the doctor whose just recovered from a drug induced insanity and has zero idea what’s even happening, to have to watch Edith get run over right before his eyes.

I know that Kirk had it really horrible and it hurt to see him so heartbroken, but God McCoy’s POV is just as gut-wrenching since as far as he knew, he got stopped from helping an innocent woman by his best friend. Sure he probably reluctantly understood when given the explanation later, but that doesn’t change what happened. And especially with everything prior with the cordrozine… yeah it sucked to be either Kirk or McCoy in this episode. I REALLY hope that The Enterprise has a decent therapist or can get into contact with one cause LORD they both needed it.

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#star trek tos #tos #okay the first time i posed this something was wrong with it #so lets see if it works this time

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speedygal · 6 years

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Source, Trekcore. Season 2 official images.

#Star trek: discovery #michael burnham #christopher pike #jet reno #linus #saru #lieutenant connolly #Lieutenant Nhan

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