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scientific-tricorder · 1 year

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Star Trek Interactions and Fanfics

The results are in, as per this post. Data on interactions in shows is from TrekViz based on episode transcripts from Chakoteya, and fanfic data is based on works on AO3 tagged 'Character/Character' and/or 'Character & Character'.

For character pairs to analyze, I went through the top twenty relationship tags on AO3 for each series (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT), discounting those that had more than two characters or included characters not in the TrekViz data, and combining '/' and '&'. That left: 8 characters in 9 pairs for TOS, 10 characters in 13 pairs for TNG, 16 characters in 14 pairs for DS9, 7 characters in 10 pairs for VOY, and 7 characters in 12 pairs for ENT.

A comparison of number of interactions and number of works is presented as a table, as well as a graph with linear regression.

Correlation coefficients are 0.9106 for TOS, 0.0243 for TNG, -0.0130 for DS9, 0.6793 for VOY, and 0.2310 for ENT. Swapping straight counts out for percentages (number of interactions/works for a given pair divided by the total number for the respective series) gives an overall correlation of 0.4814. (Correlation coefficients range form -1 to 1, with the closer to 0, the less of a correlation; 1 is a perfect positive correlation and -1 is a perfect negative correlation)

Overall, about 48% of the variation in number of works for a given pair can be explained by variation in the number of interactions. TOS has the greatest correlation - both the show and fanfic are about as equally focused on the triumvirate. Next highest is for VOY, with the two biggest outliers are Chakotay and Janeway being about as overrepresented as Janeway and Tuvok are underrepresented. Then there's ENT, with just about the only thing note of being that technically Hoshi/Reed is just barely overrepresented. TNG just barely has a positive correlation. DS9 has even less of a correlation, but stands out in being the only negative correlation of the lot. To the surprise of I'm sure no one, this is pretty much single-handedly due to Bashir/Garak. Individual graphs with labelled data points for each show (with percentages) are below the cut.

#Star Trek #Trekking across the universe #TOS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #statistics #undescribed #I did also collect some individual data on '/' and '&' for different pairs and might do an analysis based on that later #And because Star Trek fans continue to act like Star Trek fans the number of works went up as I was collecting data #so it's not even really an accurate snapshot of time #But the difference is slight enough that it shouldn't matter

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cchipollo · 12 days

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mirror universe q and picard phone doodles (they are bad and sketchy as but its ok)

#scribbles #star trek #qcard #look inside my brain for more ideas and you will find nothing more than gum a paperclip and a dead fly #mirror picard is. well. mirror picard #erm idk i like a good ol humourless q #im personally a believer that q is a constant across all universes #which is just to say tjere is only one q because he beyond universes and whatnot #but if that WASNT the case idk maybe itd be like this 🤷‍♂️

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celestial-sphere-press · 4 months

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Fanbinding: Like a Wildfire Burning by @werewolves-are-real

It's illogical to deprive the body of necessary nutrition, but old habits can be hard to break.

Before I left for the holidays back in Dec, I made a whole bunch of books, and four of them were for and in-person meet-up for a class with other Renegaders!

I bound "Like a Wildfire Burning" (on Ao3) for @pleasantboatpress since they love Star Trek & Spock. It's a Spock-centric fic, focused on his struggle with an eating disorder and being caught between two cultures.

For design, I researched to translate "Wildfire burning" into Vulcan and then how to write it in Vulcan calligraphy (back). The fabric is Colibri copper, and the endpapers are a chiyogami I picked up down in Kyoto. I found a great smoke vector that I was able to play with for the title and first pages. I went for a gold splatter on the edges.

Honestly though the best part of making this book has been being able to meet and hang out with manda in person!!

#fanbinding #celestial sphere press #ficbinding #star trek #spock #spirk #star trekking across the universe #renegade greece trip 1.0

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to-proudly-go · 6 months

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Star Wars has Force dyads and Star Trek has t'hy'la

Both concepts make me wanna take someone by the shoulders and shake them into oblivion if only to make them understand how I feel about soulmates

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lunavagans · 6 months

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Had a revelation

#four #linked universe #five #six #umbrella academy #little nightmares #seven of nine #star trek voyager #a strange journey across fandoms it‘s been #raine‘s

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landfilloftrash · 1 year

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Look up, turn around, everything is falling down. Do you promise to be mine forever? Hold me tight, don’t let me go until the end of time—

I’d destroy everything just to be with you

#my art #Star Trek #Star Trek PIC #Star Madness (across the universe)#Jean-Luc Picard #Q Star Trek #qcard #I like my hugs desperate and teary #absolutely no shade on how great that hug JDL did (fantastic subtle work my gods)#but I needed to draw him being a clingy bastard /lh #also the fact I cannot do like a studio ghibli squish w/o animating it. hell on earth.#ALSO also #listen to the song. Begging. You WILL like it if your brain latches onto Q like I do #couldn’t decide which lyric to put. all of them fit Q so much. GOD I LOVE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE.#and the duo piece ‘As You Wish’…. GOD……#Picard momence.#feeling normal about those two old men.#rea rambles in the tags #rea’s trash

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rosalie-starfall · 1 year

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Gates McFadden

Stories Across The Universe: The Women Of Star Trek

#Gates McFadden #Stories across the Universe #The Women of Star Trek #Women of Star Trek #my gifs #my edits #Gatesedits #I am obsessed with her hair!#She is so Beautiful and I can't stand it

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thedreadvampy · 9 months

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so I have been thinking about why I hated the Spock Is Turned Human episode of SNW so much and I think I've nailed it down

cause like. Vulcans are a specific flavour of autistic, right?

Throughout 60 years of Star Trek, and particularly through Strange New Worlds, we've had it impressed on us that Vulcans absolutely do not feel less than humans. On the contrary, the reason that Vulcans prize logic, ritual and objectivity is that their emotions are deeply intense and overwhelming. In fact, like one episode prior and in the fuckin. Previously On... for this episode, Spock's saying "Vulcan emotion is too intense to handle and what might happen if I don't suppress it scares me."

It's made repeatedly, explicitly, clear that Vulcan emotional detachment is a choice and a cultural practise. It's made directly clear as well that Vulcans don't experience the world as less intense or emotional than humans; they work from birth to suppress it, it's a learned practice.

And they've leant into this really hard elsewhere in SNW! They've talked about Vulcans choosing to reject logic and act on emotion, Spock's seasons-long arc is about his fear of his own emotions - he's even specifically brought up that he hasn't undergone Kolinahr and therefore is suppressing his emotional state only through conscious practice.

but this episode. is a story about someone who's physiologically less able to feel being "humanised" - experiencing touch, taste, laughter and feeling more strongly than they have before.

That's a Data story. Not a Spock one.

Like I get what they're trying to do - push Spock into dealing directly with his human side, empathise with Amanda's strength, etc - but the way they do it conflicts really directly with everything we know about Vulcans, and also kind of confirms Vulcan bias against Spock's humanity by establishing that yes actually regardless of upbringing humans just Are Wired Wrong for Vulcan society. which is weird actually because both Amanda and Michael, humans raised outside Vulcan, can handle Vulcan societal expectations, but Spock, raised fully in the culture, struggles to and has to have everything explained to him.

And also the way they do it I found really uncomfortable and, you know, dehumanising. We're shown a version of Spock who isn't managing his emotions through discipline and will, but who just Doesn't Have Them That Much and, when given the Normal amount of feelings, goes hog wild and is functionally a child with no self-control.

There's a scene where they explicitly say he's functionally a teenager! As if he's not already been through a human adolescence!

Everyone of every species, not just human, is suddenly lecturing him on the nature of Feeling Things, which he receives as new information! despite the fact we know that managing his emotions has been a constant struggle for Spock! and we know that Spock (like other Vulcans) likes food and music and has a sense of humour and experiences friendship and anger and frustration and love.

and I think it speaks to a deeply neuronormative kind of infantalisation - he isn't reacting to emotion the way Normal (here: human) people do so it must be because he doesn't feel it at all. he isn't vegetarian he just hasn't experienced how Bacon bacon is. he isn't suppressing his distress it just isn't there. he doesn't have a different cultural relationship to humour he just Can't Laugh.

like the 'inhuman entity experiences human emotion' plotline is a Star Trek classic and it's usually a fun time - it's fun with Q and with Data and with Odo et al. but it doesn't work with Spock because we know that Vulcans aren't less physiologically capable of emotion than humans, they're less culturally willing to engage with emotion. And that's specifically because they're more sensitive to strong feeling than humans.

like yeah this is nerd griping, but it's also just very galling from an autistic perspective (the same way that having Spock go bacon-mad this episode seems to have been pretty galling from a Jewish perspective). Something that's always been very resonant about Vulcans and Spock specifically with a lot of autistic people is that experience of feeling things so deeply and strongly that you have to develop a sometimes overly-strict discipline of emotional management and cut yourself off from them entirely, and it is often mistaken by those around you as being unfeeling or numb. And the way Spock is portrayed consistently acknowledges that that's not what it is, that it's an (often maladaptive but necessary) practice that's active work in order to fit into a society that doesn't have space for the scale of your emotions or where your emotions might be a risk. And that you can learn to retain the parts that help you but still make close emotional connections through that barrier.

Idk this episode doesn't understand Vulcans which is really frustrating particularly for an episode entirely about Vulcans. It doesn't make sense that being turned human would fully undermine Spock's ability to behave as Vulcan the way it does unless your position is that Vulcans are inherently more numb to feeling than humans, which is explicitly not the case - and the message of the end of the episode partially rests on the idea that it's bigoted to assume his humanity makes him less Vulcan, especially since Amanda is able to perform Vulcanness well, except the entire precept of the episode and its shenanigans are that his humanity does intrinsically prevent him performing his cultural heritage properly and make him irrational and reactive. Like, the episode's failure to understand Why Vulcans Work doesn't just conflict with the rest of the show, it also leaves this episode a chaotic mess cause A doesn't in any way feed into B.

also unrelatedly T'Pring Did Nothing Wrong and she's so right, Spock is a wee bitch.

#red said #star trekking across the universe #i truly hated this episode. for the record.#and i LOVE species swap episodes i think they're FUN #but i also love when Star Trek understands that most of the species differences it presents are cultural mores not biological differences #because that's what's FUN about Star Trek and what allows it to make interesting commentary!#it's less interested in physiological difference and more interested in mutable cultural differences #and physiological differences like symbiosis or non-solid form or flight or prey status are there to #EXPLAIN and FACILITATE cultural differences

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deathbycoldopen · 2 months

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I find it really hilarious how old tv and movies (and not even that old tbh) will have the QUEEREST fucking storylines and then in a panic slap some bioessentialist comphet dialogue on top like that’s going to cover up the gay

I guess the no-homo intern has a much longer, prouder history than I realized

#this is about star trek tos btw #this episode I just watched made me want to dust off the old destiel tin hat and sharpie SPIRK across the front #and the episode wasn’t even amok time #like!!! zephram cochran just had a century-long love affair with a blob of gas #and then got uncomfortable when the enterprise crew pointed out that it was love!#kirk gave a whole speech about a logic-based alien being not being able to love a human man properly #and the alien changed into a human!! to love properly!!!#while the enterprise crew were completely willing to accept that the blob alien COULD love cochran properly!!#they slapped some dialogue about the alien being a woman and gender being somehow a universal constant (lolololololllll)#but this episode all but screamed ‘love is love’ and drowned out all the rest #simultaneously queer and homophobic #such fun

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bumblingbabooshka · 1 year

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A Star Trek Novel called “Pocket Full of Lies” really has NO business going so hard.

#IMPORTANT NOTE: I only read Star Trek Novels as they pertain to Tuvok #so I have no idea about how the novel reads overall #but the Tuvok storyline????? Damn. DAMN dude.#what if you were suffering from a loss that affected and changed you so deeply that even those closest to you no longer recognized you?#and that change is symbolized and mirrored through this alternate reality version of your best friend who in YOUR universe also no longer #understands you...could never understand you...but THIS version of her is familiar. You can share each other's pain. You understand one #another in a way no one else does. And what if your inner grief/turmoil #was symbolized again in this alternate timeline by a constant war that's been raging f #for thousands of years with no end in sight no matter how hard you fight. The fighting in the end means nothing. The violence means nothing.#The death means nothing bc when you die another will take its place.#'His death was meaningless like this is meaningless' you think initially only to find that NO! It's the holding on to the PAIN that's #meaningless. It's the SUFFERING that's meaningless.#Tuvok being sent to convince ALT Janeway to give herself up to Starfleet but being unable to do so because he sympathizes and empathizes #with her...because (on another level) she isn't ready to give up the war (the suffering grief) and neither is he because to them the war #and the pain has BECOME the people they're grieving (Elieth & Daughter) so to give up feeling pain is to give up feeling love #but that isn't TRUE!!! and we see that in how Tuvok actually rebukes the affections and concerns of those attempting to reach out to him #and offer love...in reality this 'protection' or 'vigilance' is unhealthy and closes them off from healing and love. Bad coping mechanism.#Initially Tuvok pushes away everyone he comes across but through helping Janeway he helps himself and is finally able to take steps towards #acceptance in the purging of his anger on Dayne (Alt Janeway's husband who willfully allowed her daughter to die)#and we can see this in his outlook on how to move forward. In the beginning he's like 'I will never heal from this and I'll just live the #rest of my life never feeling safe or at peace.' <- defining and living his life according to the pain he's suffered #but in the end he has a more hopeful outlook...he sees that there are people around who want to be there for him and that he wants to lean #on...maybe forgiveness doesn't mean literally forgiving those who caused you to suffer but instead finally letting go of that suffering #and living according to joy...friendship..two hands clasped together. love.#novel experiences #Tuvok #Janeway #st voyager #oh ALSO the fact that Janeway always manages to survive being turned from a good thing to a very bittersweet thing for Tuvok bc his own #son was not so lucky...-chefs kiss-

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scientific-tricorder · 1 year

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Star Trek Episode IMDb Ratings 01/23

It's a new year, with new episodes and new data to play around with, as well as a convenient break in new episode releases. Therefore, my fellow nerds, let us gather 'round for more statistical analyses of Star Trek episode ratings.

I've done this twice before, in July of 2021 and April of 2022. You can look there for a more complete introduction. Basically, I used Python to scrape IMDb data on episode ratings for Star Trek, applied some stats, and am presenting the results.

On the broadest level, the average Star Trek episode is rated 7.36 (SD 0.82, IQR 0.9), continuing a downward trend from previous times. More details under the cut.

Analyzing series by series, Prodigy is keeping its throne as the highest rated series at 7.99, and The Animated Series its much less illustrious title of lowest rated series at 6.56. The greatest standard deviation is still The Next Generation at 0.94, and the lowest is The Animated Series at 0.46, although Prodigy is close behind at 0.48. The average for each series (with standard deviation in parentheses) is below:

TOS: 7.35 (0.80) TAS: 6.56 (0.46) TNG: 7.32 (0.94) DS9: 7.48 (0.78) VOY: 7.32 (0.73) ENT: 7.49 (0.69) DIS: 6.83 (0.86) PIC: 7.12 (0.84) LWD: 7.74 (0.56) PRO: 7.99 (0.48) SNW: 7.90 (0.78)

Compared to last time, the biggest changes are Discovery and Lower Decks each increasing by 0.06, Prodigy increasing by 0.11, and Picard decreasing by 0.25. Of those, only Discovery hasn't had new episodes released since last time, potentially indicating that more positive reviews come later on. Now, I'm not saying that Disco episodes have been the victim of negative review bombing shortly after release, but I'm not not saying it either.

Weighting the averages by number of votes doesn't do much, although Discovery and Picard both get notable increases. The difference between average and weighted average for each show is below:

TOS: +0.10 TAS: +0.03 TNG: +0.10 DS9: +0.06 VOY: +0.05 ENT: +0.01 DIS: +0.21 PIC: +0.17 LWD: -0.06 PRO: -0.12 SNW: -0.03

Breaking things down by season, the average Star Trek show has an average season rating progression of 7.34 - 7.17 - 7.31 - 7.23 - 7.55 - 7.52 - 7.42. The highest rated season is Prodigy's first season at 7.99, and the lowest is Discovery's fourth season at 5.63, an increase from its 5.52 rating last time. Season by season stats for all the shows are below:

TOS: 7.65 - 7.46 - 6.85 TAS: 6.59 - 6.48 TNG: 6.76 - 6.87 - 7.53 - 7.54 - 7.59 - 7.67 - 7.17 DS9: 6.96 - 7.33 - 7.42 - 7.66 - 7.62 - 7.60 - 7.63 VOY: 7.08 - 7.11 - 7.21 - 7.57 - 7.45 - 7.28 - 7.47 ENT: 7.24 - 7.37 - 7.67 - 7.74 DIS: 7.49 - 7.42 - 6.63 - 5.63 PIC: 7.59 - 6.64 LWD: 7.49 - 7.85 - 7.87 PRO: 7.99 SNW: 7.90

The highest and lowest rated episodes of the franchise haven't changed, with "Shades of Gray" at the bottom (3.3, down from 3.4 last time) and "The Inner Light" and "In the Pale Moonlight" sharing the top spot at 9.4. The lowest and highest rated episodes for each series are:

TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead" (5.2), "The City on the Edge of Forever" (9.2) TAS: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" (5.9), "Yesteryear" (8.0) TNG: "Shades of Gray" (3.3), "The Inner Light" (9.4) DS9: "Let He Who is Without Sin…" (5.5), "In the Pale Moonlight" (9.4) VOY: "The Fight" (5.0), "Blink of an Eye" (9.0) ENT: "These Are the Voyages…" (5.3), "Twilight" (8.6) DIS: "All is Possible" (5.1), "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" and "If Memory Serves" (8.2) PIC: "Monsters" (5.4), "Nepenthe" (8.3) LWD: "Second Contact" (6.8), "No Small Parts" and "wej Duj" and "First First Contact" and "Hear All, Trust Nothing" (8.7) PRO: "Starstruck" (7.2), "Supernova, Part 1" (8.9) SNW: "The Elysian Kingdom" (6.1), "A Quality of Mercy" (9.1)

Shout out to Lower Decks for having four episodes tie for highest rated.

For each series, relative opinions haven't changed for TOS, TAS, TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, or Picard. DS9's "Meridian" is no longer tied for lowest rated, "If Memory Serves" joins "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" for the highest rated episodes of Discovery, "No Small Parts" and "Hear All, Trust Nothing" join the highest rated episodes of Lower Decks, and "Supernova, Part 1" takes over from "A Moral Star, Part 2" as the highest rated episode of Prodigy.

The average Star Trek episode receives 2342 votes (SD 1123, IQR 1392). For each series, the average number of votes (standard deviation in parentheses) is:

TOS: 3495 (802) TAS: 678 (103) TNG: 3207 (793) DS9: 1950 (376) VOY: 1772 (277) ENT: 1578 (360) DIS: 3677 (1328) PIC: 3754 (1201) LWD: 941 (34) PRO: 289 (147) SNW: 3475 (638)

The highest is Picard at 3754, and Discovery has the greatest standard deviation at 1328. The lowest is Prodigy at 289, and Lower Decks has the lowest standard deviation at 34.

I think the biggest conclusion here is that more of y'all should be watching Prodigy! It's the least popular based on votes, yet the highest rated series.

For more info on raw data or the scraping code, contact me.

#Star Trek #Trekking across the universe #statistics #Sorry for the lack of graphs. I had several made and went to the trouble of using thematic fonts and LCARS color scheme #but then accidentally deleted them and can't be bothered to redo them now #Maybe I'll add some later or in a different post #Tricorder log

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toitaliclygo · 2 years

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"Vulcans do not worry," Tuvok says, while actively worrying about his bff Kathryn Janeway not getting enough sleep.

#star trekking across the universe #star trek #star trek voyager #st: voy #happy (almost) Tuvok Tuesday

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celestial-sphere-press · 1 year

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Fanbinding: Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit by @lazulisong, Linguistic Ambiguities in Vulcan Ethical Codes and Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations by @elumish

I am super happy to show off this kinda-anthology bind! When I decided to bind these fics, I reread the stories. There's a lot of academia happening in the background! And Kirk is very reluctantly blackmailed into writing scholarly papers by his mentor. So, what better formatting for these works than to go all out... and format them as a Ph.D thesis?

In these efforts I went so far as to download thesis submission and formatting guidelines from multiple institutions ahahaha. So! We have the correct ToC, impact statement (from me), Preface, appendices, etc. (However I did not cave to using TNR. Instead I used Baskerville for my font. I also indulged in some pretty marbled endpapers).

For the case, I used what I think? is skivertex (hey I bought it here in Japan, there's a translation issue) and I used my heat foil pen to do the logo and titling on the cover. I am happy with how it turned out overall (even if i had to remake the case once...) !! And VERY happy to have it on my shelf!

#star trek #star trekking across the universe #james kirk #spock #star trek aos #fanbinding #bookbinding #celestial sphere press #elumish #lazulisong #ficbinding

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raurquiz · 16 days

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#happybirthday #billirwin #actor #sukal #startrekdiscovery #thegrinch #sisteract2 #interstellar #rachelgettingmarried #csi #legion #lawandorder #TheDropout #TheAndyWarholDiaries #TheGildedAge #ladyinthewater #hotshots #rickiandtheflash #acrosstheuniverse #mrnoodle #startrek57

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istherewifiinhell · 2 months

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The DISTAIN she said the acess code with was VERY GOOD

#trek watch #the acess ccode is the same across universes huh. thays convincient

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landfilloftrash · 1 year

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walking on air? nope it’s stars time

for obvious reasons I preferred the other one but I thought the text was funny so here’s the alt version lmao

#my art #Star Trek #Star Trek TNG #Jean-Luc Picard #Q Star Trek #qcard #I think at this point I might need to make a separate tag for myself for all my Star Trek stuff because WHOOPS /jov #yknow what yeah #Star Madness (across the universe)#rea’s trash

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