#federation of planets

[andromedaexile]

You guys think the federation has a protocol for rolling a blunt?

#ds9 #tng #star trek #tos #aos #voy #federation of planets

[the-starship-athena]

Here are the voyages of the USS Athena, the strangest ship in the ‘fleet.

Join her on her three year mission with her crew

Uncover mysteries, go on adventures, and discover the universe one star date at a time.

First episode releasing on April 10th

#star trek #trekkies #ussathena #star trek tos #st tos #tos #star trek aos #aos #federation of planets #starfleet #star trek fanfiction #star trek fandom #star trek lower decks #star trek voyager #star trek deep space nine #star trek enterprise

[toebeans-mcgee]

Happy First Contact Day! 🖖🏽

If I had remembered that it was today, I would have done something a bit more involved than a quick sketch, but he’ll do. Couldn’t decide if I liked Solkar better in white or black (I’m leaning white), so here’s both. LLAP 💚

#llap #first contact day #Star Trek #Star Trek ds9 #Solkar #Vulcan #Vulcans #federation of planets #aliens #space #sci fi #Star Trek fanart

[hobbithabits]

Do you think maybe once Cardassia gets worked into more intergalactic spaces around other alien species and they have to coexist that they would be issued person sized heat lamps for their personal wellness like when the US government installed a ton of sunlight lamps in military spaces cause all the soldiers were depressed from lack of sunlight

#star trek #star trek ds9 #cardassians #post canon cardassia #federation of planets #deep space nine #ds9 #starfleet

[dimalink]

Invasion phase 1

Pixel art for today based on videogame Argus for game console Nes. It is a shooter about a plane, with top down view. Science fiction.

And this is my drawing about the same theme. Invasion at planet pro-12.78. Lots of starships move down to planet territory, to bring end to the long time running conflict.

Federation raise, at last, huge forces and make a plan of final invasion at the planet. Resistance forces at the planet pro-12.78 at last will be fully annihilated. Destroyed.

And you are taking a part in phase 1 of invasion. It is most hard and very valuable part. Space fleet of resistance is already destroyed. So, deal is for a small thing. Take planet under control. Make this invasion. Be one of the first.

#videogame #retro #80s #sci fi #science fiction #star trek #battlestar galactica #andromeda #gene rodenberry #8 bit #ms dos #blaster #space #planet #federation of planets #invasion #resistance #top down #shooter #shmup #shoot em up #arcade #dendy #star force #starship

[tnperkins]

#thomas perkins #character designer #character design #sketch #alternate universe #aliens #alien #starfleet #federation of planets #away team #tnperkins4

[bobjackets]

#starfleet academy #federation of planets #Star Trek

[reginaldqueribundus]

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

[stra-tek]

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

[david-talks-sw]

Let's briefly talk about this scene.

It starts with Anakin lamenting how the Clone War corrupted the Jedi and the principles of the Republic.

Now, Padmé thinks she and Anakin are talking about the same thing: this war is corrupting the Jedi and the principles of the Republic and Palpatine doesn't seem to want to put an end to it, instead increasingly amassing power.

She asks Anakin to get Palpatine to cease the fighting and let diplomacy resume. And Anakin. Gets. Triggered.

Why?

Well, firstly... it's because they weren't talking about the same thing.

1. What Anakin really means when talking about "the principles of the Republic".

While Anakin may say that he's concerned for the corruption of the Jedi Code and the principles of the Republic... he isn't really.

Anakin has a track record of saying he supports abstract principles and concepts, then complaining when standing by that hurts him.

Like when he'll preach that wartime forces him to make hard choices, duty over emotion...

... but then gets mad when someone else makes the hard choice in doing their duty, and it hits close to home.

There's this line Matthew Stover wrote in the ROTS novelization, which I think is very relevant:

“I think," Obi-Wan said carefully, "that abstractions like peace don't mean much to him. He's loyal to people, not to principles. And he expects loyalty in return. He will stop at nothing to save me, for example, because he thinks I would do the same for him.”

Anakin isn't about abstractions like "peace", "duty" or "democracy". He'll say he is, because he knows he should be, in theory... but, in practice, he's more loyal to people than to principles.

And right now, he's very loyal to Palpatine. Arguably more than anyone else. No matter how blatantly he acts like a dictator, Anakin stays on his side.

So whenever he uses the words "Senate" and "Republic", what he means is "Palpatine". To him, they're one and the same.

He loves Palpatine very much but the two other people he loves, Padmé and Obi-Wan, are both telling him Palpatine's bad news.

Which brings us to the second reason he gets triggered...

2. He's under an enormous amount of stress.

He's barely had any sleep since his nightmare about Padmé and is now scared at the prospect of losing her like he lost his mother.

He's been on an emotional roller-coaster with the Council, first being put on the Council, but not as a Master, then being given a mission but it's a mission to spy on a mentor and father figure. Now he's not even sure the Jedi trust him and he's not even sure they should, after his outburst.

Also Padmé herself is asking him to tell Palpatine to stop, criticizing the Chancellor just like the Jedi do.

It's understandable that he's on edge. That said... a huge chunk of this stress isn't Padmé or the Council's fault. It has been manufactured by Palpatine.

He appointed Anakin to be his representative on the Council specifically because he knew it would put Anakin under pressure... pressure he can exploit for his own gain.

That's what Palpatine does. He orchestrates pressure then swoops in, in the guise of a savior.

With the Republic, he does this by engineering a war then bringing about order (to the chaos he caused) as an Emperor.

With Anakin, he does this by engineering conflict between him and his family - Padmé, Obi-Wan, the Jedi - then presenting himself before Anakin as the solution to all his problems.

From that point on, he enables the Republic and Anakin to give in to the worse parts of themselves and implode.

The former goes from being a democracy to a dictatorship, the latter goes from being a sweet kid to a bad man.

#And if we wanna get technical he does this with Naboo as well #first he sicks the Trade Federation on the planet #then he uses the opportunity to become Chancellor and bravely “stand up for the little guy and punish the evil Viceroy of a corporation!” #Anakin Skywalker #Sheev Palpatine #Darth Sidious #Star Wars #Revenge of the Sith #meta #sw meta #padmé amidala

[bourbonesneat]

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

[geekysteven]

From a tweet by Mary Gillis

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

[quasi-normalcy]

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

[kingoftheu]

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?”

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #star trek deep space 9 #star trek ds9 #benjamin sisko #commander sisko #captain sisko #ds9 #defiant #romulans star trek #romulan #romulan star empire #klingon #klingons #cardassians #the dominion #jem’hadar #vorta #starfleet #united federation of planets

[loislaina]

Data says trans rights

#trans #transgender #star trek #star trek tng #data #lal #trans rights #android #queer community #queer #commander data #starfleet #united federation of planets #lgbtq rights #lgbtq characters #lgbtq+ #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #90s tv series #90s tv shows #beam me up scotty #i dont want to be here #this planet is awful

[cosmonautroger]

UNITED FEDERATION of PLANETS

#UNITED FEDERATION of PLANETS