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lady-sci-fi · 13 hours

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Which main Starfleet Doctor would you most want/trust to save your life and take care of you?

#star trek #tng #ds9 #star trek: the original series #star trek: voyager #star trek: strange new worlds #star trek: enterprise #star trek: deep space nine #star trek: the next generation #star trek: discovery #star trek: lower decks

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thagomizersshow · 8 months

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I love when sci-fi/fantasy writers throw in a random fact about a fictional species that actually has big repercussions for that species' biology.

Like, there is a species in Star Trek called Saurians who are adorable dinosauroid looking dudes. They've had very little revealed about them despite having been mentioned as early as the original series by way of "Saurian brandy" — a drink that is so strong it can put a Klingon on their ass in one swig.

Other than that, most of what we know about them comes from snippets involving a reoccuring character on Discovery named Linus, who is mostly a comic relief character. Now the reason I bring them up is that in one episode there's a scene where Linus is eating bamboo of all things, and I'm not sure the writers realized how telling this is about Saurian biology.

Bamboo is a damn hard food to eat, and us humans can only eat the shoots of a few species. Even then, raw consumption of shoots can lead to cyanide poisoning if you aren't careful. We still don't know how exactly a lot of animals that eat a lot of bamboo (bamboo lemurs, red pandas, bamboo rats, elephants, gorillas) are able to digest so much of it without getting cyanide poisoning. There is some sort of neutralization process in giant pandas involving the rhodanese enzyme that turns cyanide into the non-toxic thiocyanate that they just pee out, but the process is still poorly understood in other species.

Bamboo is also hard to digest for the same reason all grasses are; their plant wall cellulose is hard as hell to break down. Like, your choices are:

a) you do a poor job of digesting it and just spend all day eating (giant panda, red panda, bamboo lemur)

b) you grow really big and have a big gut (elephants, gorillas)

c) you only eat the parts of the plant that are easier to digest (bamboo rats)

On top of that, bamboo is loaded with silica phytoliths that are like microscopic bits of glass. These evolved to make their tissues even harder to chew and metabolize.

It's hard to make out in the scene, but it looks like Linus is eating raw bamboo leaves. Just picking them up with his fingers and munching on them like it's nothing. That means his teeth and/or jaws would need to be very powerful (maybe hypsodont? or maybe tooth batteries?) AND, because he's eating it raw, he'd have to be immune to the cyanide in some way.

One explanation could be in the Star Trek Adventures TTRPG, where Saurians are said to have an ability called "Enhanced Metabolism" where they recover from toxins faster than other species (my guess is this was meant to reference their brandy being so strong). BUT, that's not the same thing as the immunity real bamboo eating animals seem to have. My head canon is that Saurians have a diet similar to red pandas, where bamboo-like plants are their main diet on their homeworld, but they'll eat other stuff too when it's available, AND they've evolved some way to convert cyanide into a harmless chemical they excrete, like a giant panda.

All of these whacky biology shenanigans stem (hehe) from the casual writing decision to make a supporting alien character seem weird by eating a weird thing.

#star trek #star trek: discovery #sci-fi

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anthonysperkins · 4 days

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David Ajala as Cleveland Booker Star Trek: Discovery (2017 – 2024) 5x04: "Face the Strange"

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righthandedleftturn · 11 months

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Star Trek a.k.a. GAAAAAAYYYS IN SPAAAAAAAACE.

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itberice · 3 days

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Star Trek: Discovery I "Face the Strange"

#Star Trek: Discovery #Discoveryedit #Discoedit #Star Trek #trekedit #startrekedit #Paul Stamets #Rayner #Anthony Rapp #Callum Keith Rennie #my edits

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whatelsecanwedonow · 4 days

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You don’t trust us, I get that. And from what I know about you, I wouldn’t expect you to.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY S5E04 | Face the Strange

#discoveryedit #trekedit #startrekedit #trekdaily #scifiedit #userbbelcher #filmtvdaily #cinemapix #Star Trek Discovery #Star Trek: Discovery #Michael Burnham #Sonequa Martin-Green #Rayner #mine*#discovery spoilers

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celestialvoid-fanfiction · 8 months

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There is one thing from Star Trek: Discovery that sticks with me. It's the one crewmember in a wheelchair.

Why? Because in a future where almost any medical condition is curable, being disabled or using a wheelchair isn't seen as something that needs to be fixed.

Does he have a name or a backstory? No. But unlike Pike (ToS), Emory Erickson (Enterprise), or Admiral Jameson (Next Generation), he's not in the wheelchair because of some tragic accident or illness that left them scarred, paralysed, and/or disabled. He's not made the centre of a story of struggle and pity like Melora Pazlar (Deep Space 9).

There's no story of him trying or needing to be "fixed", "healed" or "cured", there's no story of him trying to adapt, there's no story of him getting in the way or being a burden. He's not seen as a tragic victim. He's not seen as unfit for duty or disabled.

He's just a guy in a wheelchair and a member of the crew.

#this is technically called incidental representation #which is representation of people going about their everyday lives #but this means everything to me #if only my thesis were on wheelchair users in literature and media #star trek #star trek discovery #discovery #star trek: discovery #disability #disability representation #wheelchair users #disabled representation #wheelchair

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lesspopped · 3 months

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the problem with contemporary trek is that it’s not horny enough. star trek should be horny. discovery s1 is the only time contemporary trek has been appropriately horny. lower decks tries, bless it, and it has its moments, but for the most part, since the first season of discovery ended, the horniness has been missing from star trek.

#jason isaacs left and took all the horniness with him 😔#maybe callum keith rennie will bring some to the new season?#star trek #star trek: discovery #jules.txt

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marthaskane · 3 months

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I can't believe you did this for me. I actually get to go home.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (2017- ) ↳ 4.13 Coming Home

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jasonisaacs · 8 months

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Happy Star Trek Day! (8th September)

#star trek #star trek: discovery #sonequa martin green #startrekedit #startrekdiscoveryedit #star trek discovery #discoveryedit #michael burnham #mygifs #i know this is from last year but i haven't seen any other gifs of this moment #and she's so cute waaah i miss her

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burnhamandtilly · 17 days

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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (2017-2024) S05E01, RED DIRECTIVE

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m0rbs · 8 months

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Disco Spock is destroying my autism today for some ungodly reason. Someone kill me I desperately need to put him in a salad spinner

#his mental illness has captivated me mind body and soul #I haven’t been able to get past the season 2 finale of discovery….. I am just worried to no end about Michael I think #art #s’chn t’gai spock #star trek discovery #star trek: discovery #michael burnham #st: disco

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betashift · 1 year

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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY | 2.08 "If Memory Serves"

#discovery #spock #michael burnham #trekedit #startrekedit #discoedit #discoveryedit #star trek #star trek: discovery #scifiedit #tvedit #*mine #i forgot how disco spock was especially cunty >:) I miss him #also i know this wasn't actually them it was talosian magic or whatever but still #he served ok.

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dduane · 6 months

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Hi! I just want to say that I recently got into reading the star trek pocket novels, and so far yours have been my favorite by far (Doctor's Orders especially made me actually laugh out loud more times than I can count)! Thank you so much for writing as much as you do and for sharing your gift with the world, because it has brought me endless amounts of joy! 😊

- Maeve

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you've liked them.

And I have to admit that writing every one of them was an absolute trip, no matter how often the process may have had its hiccups. It's just the damndest thing to be in the first generation of a fandom and then, decades later, to be invited to write in it at the professional end.

It never got old. And assuming I go down that road again at some point—which could possibly happen, as people currently working at the screen end of things seem to know where I am, and keep sneaking my written work into filmed canon—it never will. :)

ETA: to @druid-in-hiding: I don't have a list as such, but every now and then somebody drops me a note and says "Hey, did you know about this?"—and sends along the data. For example: pages from Spock's World were being passed to the cast of the 2009 Star Trek film, apparentl;y to fill in background and clarify some character issues. When I saw a (sadly cut-for-time) script page from that film with actual Vulcan terms that I'd coined for that book being used in dialogue, I was so astounded I had to sit down for a few minutes to recover. ...Bits of Rihannsu-language material, and Rihannsu cultural concepts, have also turned up in (I think it was) ST: Disco. And there are "nods" in my general direction that go right back to the late seasons of ST:TNG. (For these I tend to blame Ron Moore, who's an old friend and occasional houseguest of @petermorwood's and mine.)

The most recent example of this kind of thing, though, and maybe the showiest, happened earlier this year in ST: Picard, where an (alien-crewed) starship I came up with for My Enemy, My Ally turned up at that last big s3 battle. This one: