#the voyagers

[the-scientist-7]

[Ch2 S3, Above Voyager Island, countdown to Hightower detonation]

“They’re coming to get me, I just know it…”

“No. They aren’t. They don’t evenly know where you are. You’ll die here. Even if they are, it’s just them, and MAYBE some of your pathetic robots, but even then, they won’t be able to save you. Not in time.” Spoke a henchman.

Meanwhile, far below the mothership, on a boat approaching the voyagers’ island. “This is as far as I can take you before we’re detected. You’ll have to go in yourselves. As you know, since you did the planning, you’re strike team A. You make room for strike team B and C to get to the island before going after the scientist. Once you board the ship and secure whatever room you enter in, strike team D will join you. Now, go bring them down.”

#fortnite #the seven #fortnitetheseven #the scientist #zeropoint #the voyagers #voyager island

[cidthecoatrack-blog]

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#voyager 1 #programming #holy fucking shit

[worflesbian]

sci fi is when women in tank tops are covered in grease and sweat and are shouting at people and racing against time to save lives

#voyager liveblog #ghitlhpu'wij

[geekysteven]

#id in alt text #star trek #star trek tos #tos #the original series #star trek voyager #st voyager #voyager #Voy #kathryn janeway #captain janeway #Janeway #jim kirk #james t kirk #captain kirk #kirk #amok time #The disease #1k #5k #10k

[ink-the-artist]

Bon Voyage

#''We kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage‚ knowing that she would not survive the flight.'' #laika #laika the space dog #soviet space program #the background is heavily inspired by hubble photographs #particularly the older ones #art #illustration #colored pencil #april 14 1958 laika disintegrated upon re-entering the earths atmosphere

[rongzhi]

Wuling vans

English added by me :)

#douyin #video #tiktok #i love brick contraptions #when our chrysler voyager was still alive i had no fear of the road <3 #now i'm like a shaking chiwawa every time i have to go somewhere but that's what driving a prius does to a mf i guess

[stra-tek]

"Hey, what's that mark on your forehead?"

"When I was a baby, my parents cast me in Star Trek"

#star trek #star trek twitter #star trek the motion picture #tmp #star trek voyager #voyager #ds9 #deep space nine

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

#dracula daily #last voyage of the demeter #re: dracula #dracula

[homewrecking-lore]

#they are all unwell but they are unwell together :) #kathryn janeway #tuvok #chakotay #voyager #star trek voyager #star trek: voyager #my stuff #incorrect quote is from unbreakable kimmy schmidt btw

[amartianonmars]

Watching Voyager

#the favoritism is obvious in how theyre drawn but also tom paris is such a white sheet of paper #star trek #my art #martianmarsart #amartianonmars #st voyager #star trek voyager #voyager #tom paris #tuvok #lieutenant tuvok

[gryphll]

They are not the hell your whales!!!!

#Star trek #artists on tumblr #Spirk #voyage home #illustration #jim kirk #Spock

[the-scientist-7]

(Set in Ch2 S3)

Scientist was talking with other members of the seven over the comms as he worked, and watched the events on the island.

“So…we may need to look into recruiting Midas, once we find where he is, of course. That device nearly broke the loop…it showed the loopers the bridge, which is what matters. But if we do make a move to grab Midas, we’ll have to be quick. It’s inevitable that their eyes are on him.”

#fortnite #the seven #fortnitetheseven #the scientist #Fortnite chapter 2 season 3 #the voyagers

[thisshrimpisfryingrice]

I’ve never heard of threshold day until 30 min ago and I’m about to watch an Emmy awarded episode of Star Trek

#Star Trek #star trek voyager #threshold day #uss voyager #I forgot about the bebes #this is the fasted time I have drawn a comic #it makes me sense but I don’t care #threshold #salamander #lizard

[dixt]

la scarzuola in umbria, italy ⋅ ph. stefan giftthaler

#stefan giftthaler #la scarzuola #umbria #italy #europe #travel #view #vista #architecture #decor #design #vacation #voyage #beauty #garden #nature #summer #spring #exterior #lovely #inspo #inspire #inspiration #outdoor #outdoors #photo #photograph #photography #photographer #insta

[sapsuckers-and-stardust]

Watching Star Trek IV

Whale biologist: why do you hang around with that weird guy who calls you admiral and why are you so close?

Kirk: *hesitates*

Whale biologist, who lives in San Francisco in the 80s and is rapidly drawing many correct conclusions: that’s okay we don’t have to talk about it.

#she really said oh y’all’s are gay okay #Spock really was not giving off ‘straight Everyman’ in this film #the entire crew are dressed in different flavors of extremely homosexual #this movie is glorious #memory loss Spock is making me wanna cry tbh #it’s so gay (fun) instead of gay(tragic and insane) like the other three #star trek #star trek tos #spock #tos spock #james t kirk #k/s #spirk #tos spirk #star trek iv: the voyage home #the one with the whales

[captainfantasticalright]

In 1985, one of the only persons interested in an interview with a “new” writer called Terry Pratchett, after his publication of the Colour of Magic, was one Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman was writing for Space Voyager at the time. "The Colour of Pratchett" was the name given here:

It ran exactly one page inside the June/July issue of that year. The interview took place in a Chinese restaurant in London.

Here is Neil many years later holding that issue. You can see it here if you want. Warning: extremely emotional video.

Neil arrived wearing a grey homburg hat. “Sort of like the ones Humphrey Bogart wears in movies” he later wrote. (Before saying that in fact he did not look like him, but like someone wearing a grown-up’s hat). Terry Pratchett, photo courtesy of one @neil-gaiman, was in a Lenin-style leather cap and a harlequin-patterned pullover. At this point, Terry was already a hat person, although not that hat.

Terry offered Neil this : "An interview needn't last more than 15 minutes. A good quote for the beginning, a good quote for the end, and the rest you make up back at the office"*. (Terry Pratchett had worked many years in journalism by this point ).

But the meeting went terribly well. The two of them realized they had "the same sort of brains". So well indeed, that in 1985, Neil had shown Terry a file containing 5282 words, exploring a scenario in which Richmal Crompton's William Brown had somehow become the Antichrist. Was a collaboration in the cards as of that moment? Not really. But Terry found in Neil someone to whom he could send disks of work in progress and to whom he could pick up the phone sometimes when he hit a brick in the road of his writing.

Terry loved it and the concept stayed in his mind. A couple of years later, he rang Neil to ask him if he had done any more work on it. Neil had been busy with The Sandman, he had not really given it another thought. Terry said, "Well I know what happens next, so either you sell me the idea or we can write it together". **

And as you know, unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri, the rest is history. That was the beginning of what would become William the Antichrist and later would get the name Good Omens:The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. (Title provided by Neil Gaiman and subtitle by Terry Pratchett).

From the introduction to William the Antichrist: “In the summer of 1987 several odd ideas came together: (..)I found myself imagining a book called William the Antichrist, in which a hapless demon was going to be responsible for swapping the wrong baby over, and the son of the US Ambassador would be completely undemonic, while William Brown would grow up to be the Antichrist, and the demon would need to stop him ending the world. The unfortunate demon, whom I called Crawleigh, because Crawley was a nearby town with an unfortunate name, would have to sort it all out as best he could.

It felt like a story with legs.

Terry took the 5,000 words, and rewrote them, calling me to tell me what he was doing and what he was planning to do. The biggest thing he was going to do, he told me, was split the hapless demon into two characters – a would-be-cool demon in dark glasses (which was, I think, Terry’s way of making fun of me, a never-actually- cool journalist in dark glasses) who had renamed himself Crowley, and a rare-book dealer and angel called Aziraphale, who would embody all the English awkwardness that either of us could conceive.”

William the Antichrist being a direct inspiration of the 1976 film The Omen. If the baby swap had just been a little bit messier and the kid had gone off somewhere else he would have grown up as somebody else. “And then there was a beat and I thought, I should write it, it will be called William the Antichrist” says Neil. ***

“The first draft of Good Omens was a William-book. It was absolutely in every way it could be a William book. It had Violet Elizabeth Bott, it had William and the Outlaws, it had Mr. Brown”.

Over time they realized that they would have more creative freedom if they in their own words filed off the serial numbers. William and the Outlaws becoming Adam and the Them.

But the spirit of Just William was never far away.

The joy for Neil was to construct “perfectly William sentences”. The one when Anathema tells Adam that she has lost the Book, and he tells her that he has written a book about a pirate who became a famous detective and it is 8 pages long… that’s “a William sentence”.

Good Omens was also inspired by a particularly antisemitic moment in The Jew of Malta and John le Carre's spy novels. (Neil’s ask)

“When we finished the book we estimated that the words were 60% Terry’s and 40% mine, and the plot, such as it was, was entirely ours.”

(Here are some slides of mine where I go into some other details concerning the origins of Good Omens).

*Quote: from Terry Pratchett A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins, but said by Terry of course.

** All the quotes, facts listed here : see above.

***all other quotes by Neil Gaiman from various interviews and asks I’ll link.

#good omens #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens fun facts #the colour of magic #the colour of pratchett #space voyager magazine