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reginaldqueribundus · 7 months

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the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are

the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don't seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs

the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years

the Tellarites, who don't like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and

humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

like imagine you're the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who've barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others' guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry

#star trek #united federation of planets #a post by me™#10k

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stra-tek · 5 months

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Star Trek be like, let's draw a slightly different flag every time and see if anyone notices

#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek aos #star trek the original series #star trek picard #star trek the next generation #deep space nine #ds9 #united federation of planets

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bourbonesneat · 7 months

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On the one hand, Star Trek is a utopian future where you can do what you want for a living.

On the other hand, there’s something incredibly funny about Garak being a tailor despite there being no need for a tailor.

You can replicate clothes including their fit. You’re telling me a computer can’t get the exact measurements to a higher degree than a sentient being?

“I am but a simple tailor” oh honey there aren’t any of those

#garak #deep space nine #ds9 #star trek #federation #united federation of planets

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geekysteven · 17 days

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From a tweet by Mary Gillis

#id in alt text #mary gillis #david messina #Star trek #united federation of planets

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quasi-normalcy · 7 months

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So the thing is: Deep Space Nine added a bunch of flaws to the Federation to make it more complicated, like Section 31 and the second-class citizen status of Augments. These things, on DS9, are framed as problems to be solved: the measure of a utopian society is how it can work to overcome its flaws.

BUT: now, bits of 90s canon are treated like holy relics; you can't tamper with them because they're canon! And so the Federation becomes frozen in amber; it can't work through its flaws because they're canon! They're holy! And so you can have, say, Una Chin-Riley or Dal-R'El get to be in Starfleet, but the general principle that people like them should be treated as second-class citizens can't be overturned. You can have Section 31 perform all manner of war crimes and crimes against sentience, but you can't show them getting abolished! They're canon! What if someone else wants to use them?

So instead of making the Federation out to be a dynamic society that needs to continually maintain its utopia, as was the original intention behind these flaws, the Federation becomes a completely static society with gaping flaws and hypocrisies that it can never do any meaningful work to overcome. They're just naturalized as part of the setting.

#star trek #united federation of planets

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kingoftheu · 5 months

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The Defiant is great because it is so obviously a bunch of people who only vaguely understand the concept of a war building a warship.

Romulans and Klingons and the Dominion: If I don't perfect this project to improve our weapons after years of research I'll be killed.

Blissfully Ignorant Scientist on Mars: “Guns? Guns and it Goes Fast! Man this war stuff is really easy, who wants Pizza?”

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loislaina · 1 month

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Data says trans rights

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cosmonautroger · 18 days

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UNITED FEDERATION of PLANETS

#UNITED FEDERATION of PLANETS

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sirendoesomestuf · 1 year

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we need a main captain of a show to be a non-human. i don’t want timmy from illinois anymore. i want;

a trill captain who keeps running into enemies and friends from their old lives

a betazoid captain who has a hard time making decisions because they can feel the emotions of the people they impact

a vulcan captain serving with primarily a human crew, with both the crew and the captain working together to try and understand one another (spock, i know, but i’m talking a whole show here)

a klingon captain trying to preserve their families’ honor while staying true to their starfleet duties and their crew

a bajorian captain feeling like they abandoned their people after cardassian rule

an orion captain whose a refugee, risking their entire life to cruise the galaxy

and, while this is a very questionable idea, a Q captain just fucking around for the hell of it

basically, not having non-human captains is a missed opportunity

#star trek #vulcan #vulcans #betazoid #orion #starfleet #united federation of planets #humans #trill #klingons #starfleet captains

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pluralzalpha · 12 days

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Galactic Gazetteer: Corazonia

Type: Dyson ring

Class: M (inner surface environment)

Quadrant: Alpha

Inhabitants: Corazonians

Affiliation: United Federation of Planets

Appearance: LWD "In the Cradle of Vexilon" (2023)

Fun fact: built over 6 million years ago by a species that then sublimed to the 5th dimension, and colonised much later by the humanoid Corazonians.

Another fun fact: environment managed by the sentient supercomputer Vexilon.

Fun fact 3: do not enter Safe Mode with Vexilon, this will trigger his environmental reboot programme.

#star trek #galactic gazetteer #class m #alpha quadrant #star trek lower decks #dyson ring #ringworld #united federation of planets

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daakureisaiko · 16 days

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#funny #meme #memes #dank memes #funny memes #star trek #united federation of planets #Ufp

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scottparkillustration · 1 year

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Now it's time for the NEXT crew. My tribute to the galant crew of the NCC-1701-D Enterprise. Now available as part of the Hero Complex Gallery's Cribs show. Prints available HERE. Make it so.

#star trek #Star Trek tng #star trek the next generation #picard #Jean-Luc Picard #riker #data #worf #Deanna troi #Tasha yar #Wesley crusher #beverly crusher #will wheaton #starfleet #United Federation of Planets #geekart #hero complex gallery #herocomplexgallery #hcgart

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holodeck-enthusiast · 1 month

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#star trek #spock #star trek tos #leonard nimoy #star trek spock #shore leave #uss enterprise #enterprise #ncc 1701 #star trekkin #trekkies #vulcan #star trek memes #starfleet #united federation of planets

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stra-tek · 7 days

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The Federation: "tHErE'S nO MonEY iN THe feDERatIOn"

Also the Federation:

Unused concept art from Star Trek Discovery 5x01, via Timothy Peel on Twitter

#star trek #star trek discovery #concept art #federation credits #united federation of planets

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jasposeyblog · 11 months

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My acquisition of Spock sketch cover by Corey Ross

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quasi-normalcy · 1 year

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For all that people complained about how bleak Star Trek: Picard was when it came out, I would say that its depiction of the Federation was just a culmination of all of the flaws that it was depicted as having on Deep Space Nine (and, to a lesser extent, Voyager and even TNG): Earth-centrism, disregard for the rights of artificial persons, and a willingness to regard entire non-Federation species as disposable if their survival is deemed a threat to the Federation (or even if saving them contradicts an abstract philosophical point). It’s a society that has clearly lost its way, and its annoying (at least to me) that the writers couldn’t have instead imagined the Federation getting its shit together, but the thing is: everything that’s wrong with it emerges organically from the Federation we’ve seen, and, most critically, it is problematised. Our heroes stand in opposition to this corruption. Picard, Rios, and Raffi all left or were cashiered out of service over various aspects of Starfleet’s authoritarian turn; Elnor is a survivor of the Federation’s neglect; Seven and Soji are both members of oppressed minorities and Jurati had her academic career derailed, all because of fear and reactionary opposition to cybernetics. And yes, it’s bleak, but it’s also fundamentally hopeful: they are standing up for what’s right, even in the face of bigotry and oppression, and what could possibly be more Star Trek than that? You can argue about whether it was successful or particularly well-executed, but its heart was very much in the right place.

And that’s why, for all that I’m enjoying Season 3--for all that I love seeing the TNG crew together again and paying-off character arcs that I’ve been watching play out over the course of my entire lifetime--it gnaws at me. Because the thing is: the Federation hasn’t gotten any better. The genocidal criminal conspiracy from Deep Space Nine is now considered “a critical division of Starfleet Intelligence.” This “critical” bunch of war criminals keeps a sentient AI comatose to guard its warehouse, and nobody even comments on how fucked-up that is. The captain of the Titan constantly denigrates his ex-Borg first officer and orders her to deadname herself, but it’s okay because he’s *traumatised* and kind of funny in his assholishness. You get to have a heartbreaking moment with Picard saying “I didn’t know...” when he hears the extent of Section 31′s war crimes, but then he and Beverly, in the face of 35 years of consistent characterisation, immediately compound the war crime by resolving to execute Vadic. No, the Federation hasn’t gotten any better; the heroes have just gotten worse.

I love the TNG crew. I love seeing Picard and Ro finally have it out with one another; I love having a lifetime spent shipping Jean-Luc and Beverly pay off; I love that we finally get to see just how deeply Data’s death affected Geordi, and that we finally get to see Data’s relationship with Lore and his “becoming more human” arc pay off in a way that’s so seamless that it honestly feels kind of obvious in retrospect. But at a deep, philosophical level, I would rather see an angsty story about heroes opposing corruption than a happy story about heroes going along with it.

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