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admiralkatcornwellfan: moons-and-magpies: mrs-spockulous: tree-...

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:28:31 -0400

moons-and-magpies:

mrs-spockulous:

tree-of-blue-squirrel:

dragonescence:

dragonescence:

happy-kirk:

riotbadgrrr:

goose-dad:

the-errant-mycorrhizae:

First flower ever grown in space bloomed today!

Yay!

Happy birthday, space flower!

(source: gilderoys)

KIRK IS HOLDING A ZINNIA. THE SAME FUCKING FLOWER.

FUCKING NASA MAN

No. Nononono. You don’t understand.

I am so mad about this. Like, not like I wanna kill someone, but mad, as in, hysterical?

They wanted to answer questions about plants in space, right? How biology and botany would work in space. Because then who knows? We could grow crops in space, or fix the atmosphere. Or create the perfect biome for plants that are now extinct. Who fucking knows, right?

They could have taken a food crop. Wheat, maybe. Or rice. Something they could observe to see if it would be possible to solve a food shortage or whatever. Maybe a small apple tree to see if it would bloom, and then see if there could be a way to make it fruit.

Or, you know, go the genetics route and take a sweet pea. See if zero gravity does anything to how genes are passed on. Mendel did it in a shed, why not a tin shed in outer space, right? Oh the possibilities.

Was it so wrong to take the zinnia? No, of course not. In my little horticultural brain, I thought, oh how lovely! A splash of colour in the emptiness of space. Something bright and cheerful, something that gives hope. That must have been it, right?

But no.

SOMEONE went, “Nah, mate, here’s an episode of Star Trek where Kirk is holding a ZINNIA in a SPACE DESERT.”

I could scream. I don’t know if I love or hate these fucking nerds. Oh my gods.

NASA, YOU NEEEEERDS

love these NASA nerds

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I WANT TO WORK THERE

NASA Nerds and Trekkies.. they are the same group more than you think. (*Also me even before I saw Kirk in this post* … wasn’t there an episode in TOS… ahhhh)

me in a nutshellPoorly Drawn Lines – Turtle is Mad

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:33:34 -0400

me in a nutshell

Poorly Drawn Lines – Turtle is Mad

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Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:30:50 -0400

trekcore: static-warp-bubble: chakrasandchaos: Antonio...

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:47:35 -0400

trekcore:

static-warp-bubble:

chakrasandchaos:

Antonio Sicilia’s Fall 2015 line is basically high fashion star fleet uniforms and it’s wonderful.

I legit thought this was high fashion Star Trek cosplay

brocatus: brucesterling:*Ettore Sottsass designs an Italian...

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:23:37 -0400

brocatus:

brucesterling:
*Ettore Sottsass designs an Italian mainframe computer for Olivetti in 1959

COOOOOOOOOOL

insertspockhere: Actual proof that a single picture is capable...

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:10:46 -0400

insertspockhere:

Actual proof that a single picture is capable of ripping your heart from your chest and smashing it into billions of tiny, violently twitching pieces.

Sitcoms of Q’onoS https://www.savagechickens.com/2019/01/sitcoms-of-qonos.html

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:20:33 -0400

Sitcoms of Q’onoS https://www.savagechickens.com/2019/01/sitcoms-of-qonos.html

captonystark: prokushite: toastyhat: thunderboltsortofapenny: ...

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:58:16 -0400

captonystark:

prokushite:

toastyhat:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

mypissedoffsandwich:

tastefullyoffensive:

(via meanboysclub)

The last one

Also good on these people for taking the aggressively petty route instead of falsely registering their pets as service animals

I love how everyone intentionally interpreted this not as “your dog must be small” but “your dog must be in a bag”

The last one is so passive aggressive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The last one made me slap my knee and crack up ffs

bluespock: teroknortailor: bluespock: “I wish Star Trek could be more realistic in its vision of...

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:54:34 -0400

bluespock:

teroknortailor:

bluespock:

“I wish Star Trek could be more realistic in its vision of a utopian society!”

“I wish there could be a Star Trek show that focuses on interspecies alien interactions rather than alien vs. human interactions!”

“I wish Star Trek would do a better job of displaying all the nuances and moral grays that go into maintaining diplomatic relations.”

“I wish Star Trek had a captain that wasn’t just another white dude.”

“I wish Star Trek had at least one canon LGBT character.”

“I wish Star Trek had a well-written female character with flaws and an engaging backstory and good character development for once.”

“I wish science fiction in general would stop assuming everyone will be an atheist in the future.”

“I wish Star Trek could be bolder about calling out real life social issues without their guise of poorly-handled metaphors to protect them.”

“I wish Star Trek would stop assuming that things like intergalactic wars could be resolved or forgotten in just a couple episodes.”

“I want Worf to get more screentime.”

“I want—”

Deep Space Nine.

You want Deep Space Nine.

DS9 does not have any canon LGBT+ characters. Actor intent got overridden and eclipsed by homophobic producers and writers. As much as we would love to credit actors for playing characters as a certain sexuality ex-post-facto, we need to recognize that their intent does not make their characters queer in the eyes of the show. In the eyes of fans? In headcanon and personal theory? Yes. Those characters can absolutely be queer. But in the eyes of the show and its creators? No. There is no representation there.

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Tue, 01 Jan 2019 09:12:32 -0400

For those who want to make sure even Harry Kim gets a kiss at midnight...

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:10:58 -0400

weirdtrek:

rikerssexblouse:

2019 moooooood

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Sun, 30 Dec 2018 15:13:11 -0400

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vaderssidechick: autisticbisexualsokka: pomesa: autisticbisexualsokka: pomesa: autisticbisexual...

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 14:21:51 -0400

vaderssidechick:

autisticbisexualsokka:

pomesa:

autisticbisexualsokka:

pomesa:

autisticbisexualsokka:

spacefaringviking:

stabby-the-roomba:

spacefaringviking:

dixeyray:

flyingwerecats:

theotheristhedoctor:

bisected8:

jumpingjacktrash:

dearthoughthenightisgone:

petralemaitre:

somethingninga:

aethersea:

sepulchritude:

on the topic of humans being the intergalactic “hold my beer” species: imagine an alien stepping onto a human starship and seeing a space roomba™ with a knife duct taped onto it, just wandering around the ship

it doesn’t have any special intelligence. it’s just a normal space roomba. there are other space roombas on the ship and they don’t have knives. it’s just this one. knife space roomba has full clearance to every room in the ship. occasionally crew members will be talking and then suddenly swear and clutch their ankle. knife space roomba putters off, leaving them to their mild stab wounds.

“what is the point?” asks the alien as another crew member casually steps over the knife-wielding robot. “is it to test your speed and agility?”

“no it doesn’t really go that fast,” replies the captain.

“does it teach you to stay ever-vigilant?”

“I mean I guess so but that’s more of a side effect.”

“does it weed out the weak? does it protect you from invaders? do repeated stabbings let your species heal more quickly in the future?”

“it doesn’t stab very hard, it gets us more than it gets our enemies, and no, but that sounds cool — someone write that down.”

“but then what is its purpose?”

“I don’t know,” the captain says, leaning down to give the space roomba an affectionate pat. “it just seemed cool”

this is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard but I thought about it for five seconds and realized that if I were, say, a random communications officer onboard this ship and someone taped a knife to a roomba it would take maybe three weeks before even I was inordinately fond of Stabby. I would be proud of Stabby when I met up with my other spacefleet friends for space coffee, I would tell them about the time Stabby got the second mate in the ankle five seconds before the fleet admiral beamed on board and she swore in seven different languages in front of high command.

also by the fourth day Stabby would be in the ship’s log, he’d have little painted-on insignia, people would salute him as he went by, and someone would hook up a twitter account to tweet maniacal laughter and/or a truly terrible knock-knock joke every time he managed to nick someone.

Omg so the ting I typed up might actually happen this is gold

I am suddenly astonished that Stabby isn’t Farscape canon. 1812 was weird enough.

Stabby’s little charging dock would start accruing cuddly toys and commemorative holo-vids of Stabby’s greatest stabs. Its insignia would start off at a fairly low rank, but soon, without anyone every discussing it, everyone would know that Stabby got to take the rank of the highest ranking crew member it stabbed. The ceremony for Flag Admiral Stabby was beautiful. The captain gave a speech.

why am i proud of stabby this is irrational

INCIDENT LOG: 46-7-2 Action #45437: Desc: Covert enemy boarding attempt

Details: Six (6) members of a Mercenary/Pirate crew of little renown attempted to infiltrate ship in order to steal equipment and/or personnel.

Prior to being detained they had remained undetected for eight (8) hours and accumulated several high value materials (see attached log), and incapacitated and restrained several crewmen (see attached log) in dock #3, with the intention of using a life boat to exfiltrate.

Just prior to their would-be escape, the boarding party encountered the ship’s mascot. A cleaning unit which had been modified by crew members to mount a traditional Terran melee weapon, as well as an officer’s insignia (having been jokingly given a commission by the Captain the night before). Curious, one picked it up, before realising the mounted weapon had a nickel finish (highly toxic to their species) on the handle, and dropped it in a panic.

As the unit’s anti-impact sensors had been disabled, it immediately tried to right itself on landing. This caused it to flip over and slash the third knee of the boarder who dropped it, prompting the rest of the boarders to flee. In doing so, they tripped over a waste container, causing the unit to “chase” them, as it collected the trail of dust they left.

The security crew were alerted to the boarding party’s presence by an entry on “Sargent Stabby’s Hit List” - an account on an intership microblogging site which automatically logs any injuries caused by the cleaning unit in question - and quickly intercepted them.

Casualties: Four (4) crewmen treated for minor lacerations sustained after detaining boarding party, one (1) captured crewman treated for negative reaction to sedatives used by captors.

Belligerent status: Two (2) members of the enemy boarding party remain in stable condition in sickbay. Three (3) remaining surrendered peacefully and remain in the brig. One (1) refuses to leave the safety of a storage cupboard he went to ground in.

Recommendations/Actions:

All captured guards to undergo debriefing and possible disciplinary action for breaches of security protocol.

Remind all crew members to report missing colleagues immediately.

Retain a guard outside cleaning storage room 87 until the final boarder can be coaxed out and properly detained.

Cleaning unit D4.87 AKA “Sargent Stabby” has been promoted to Quartermaster, and is now considered the superior officer of all autonomous drones on the ship. All Class #1 drones have been programmed to salute their superior with their effector, should it enter the room while they’re active.

Ok but what about that final bit - all the other space roombas respectfully standing to the side and saluting when Quatermaster Stabby comes past?

Quartermaster Stabby goes on to have many more adventures and many more promotions.

Quartermaster Stabby becomes a famous icon of the human race, proof that humans can and often are unintentionally terrifying, but maybe there actually IS something to their strange attachments to inanimate objects…?

Aliens are now convinced that humans have some weird psychic/aura powers or something. “Object Tamers” they call us. Humans are so amused that they adopt the term for themselves. They love it. They start printing it on bracelets and T-shirts. Aliens can’t tell if this is a joke or a confession.

Through a disturbing number of coincidences like the above, aliens begin to fear Quartermaster Stabby and are legitimately unsure if it has intelligence or not. It doesn’t help that humans refuse to break the joke to explain it to them.

Alien scientists try to explain the strange phenomenon that is Quartermaster Stabby. They cannot. Humans are delighted.

Quartermaster Stabby is eventually promoted to a position of authority over all autonomous drones in the entire human empire. It also escaped the ship once and managed to become the mayor of a small alien city. That city has since begun using the fact as a tourist attraction, and the episode has brought to human attention the fact that Mayor Stabby technically fulfills all of the criteria necessary to become a president or council member. (Minus the sentience.)

Humans are now trying to vote Mayor Stabby into office, using the aliens’ inability to determine its sentience level to their advantage.

They are successful. Counselor Stabby is most universally beloved representative of the human race. (Among humans, anyway. The aliens have mixed reactions, ranging from amusement, to fear, to outrage.)

Counselor Stabby goes on to somehow reveal a corrupt plot among several other counsel members and essentially averts a huge political catastrophe, all because one of the spies dropped her earring and Counselor Stabby ate it. The earring was bugged. Good call, Counselor Stabby.

Every time Counselor Stabby breaks down and has to be repaired, trillions of humans flood its social media accounts with ‘get well’ messages, and many flowers and gifts are sent to the repair bay or to its charging station.

Counselor Stabby has somehow blundered its way into receiving all of the highest honors that can be bestowed by human society. It helps run an empire. It saves lives. It cleans donut crumbs off of the floor without being asked.

All without a single sentient thought.

Counselor Stabby becomes legend.

The humans have started a campaign to use Counselor Stabby as a model to create better bots.

“Why does a human’s consideration for a ‘better bot’ mean more knives, sir?” the young ambassador said, staring at the contraption in front of him.

“ we are unsure of their purpose, we have many reports of these creations protecting their home ships. “ The advisor said also staring at the contraptions many spinning blades.

The residing human walked into the room squealing, quite to loud for the ambassador’s taste, at the contraption.

“ Aren’t you just a spinning bundle of death! “ The human cried out happily? (The ambassador was still unsure of humans deployment of emotions.) The delivery droid, with knife blades above its propellors, bobbed up and down before depositing it’s ‘gift’ (as the human called it) and leaving through the bot-hatch with a frightening scream accompanying it.

Thes humans, they were, well, humans. The ambassador would need to read more on their culture to even remotely understand them.

**STABBY**

*buzzes happily*

Good Ole Stabby

Stabby: Origins

Guys so I made stabby a son, Pokey, want me to post a picture?

omg I’ve been on vacation for a week and just saw this! I wanna see the picture!

Smol but deadly

It’s terrible. I’m in love. Thank you for your great service to all of humanity.

Totally worth a reblog.

captaincrusher: Mind. Blown. (X)

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 14:12:48 -0400

captaincrusher:

Mind. Blown.
(X)

gal-gadot: Isn’t the self-destruction coded into us? Imprinted...

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:08:48 -0400

gal-gadot:

Isn’t the self-destruction coded into us? Imprinted into each cell?
Annihilation (2018) dir. Alex Garland.

sesiondemadrugada: Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018).

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:07:54 -0400

sesiondemadrugada:

Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018).

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Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:33:07 -0400

bogleech: libertypical: lavender-manna: zanmor: these ones oh...

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:52:49 -0400

bogleech:

libertypical:

lavender-manna:

zanmor:

these ones

oh we can get even more specific than just a list of billionaires:

here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas

here are the ones who run the factories

and here are the ones who extract the raw resources that the others need to make it all work

23,000 people are reblogging a hit list

Good.

It is only _logical_

thejakelikesonions: http://bit.ly/2ybdPnn The Book of Onions

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:19:02 -0400

thejakelikesonions:

http://bit.ly/2ybdPnn
The Book of Onions

littleghostletthings: I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT...

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:29:20 -0400

littleghostletthings:

I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

insanidade ltda.

admiralkatcornwellfan: moons-and-magpies: mrs-spockulous: tree-...

me in a nutshellPoorly Drawn Lines – Turtle is Mad

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trekcore: static-warp-bubble: chakrasandchaos: Antonio...

brocatus: brucesterling:*Ettore Sottsass designs an Italian...

insertspockhere: Actual proof that a single picture is capable...

Sitcoms of Q’onoS https://www.savagechickens.com/2019/01/sitcoms-of-qonos.html

captonystark: prokushite: toastyhat: thunderboltsortofapenny: ...

bluespock: teroknortailor: bluespock: “I wish Star Trek could be more realistic in its vision of...

“I wish Star Trek could be more realistic in its vision of a utopian society!”

“I wish there could be a Star Trek show that focuses on interspecies alien interactions rather than alien vs. human interactions!”

“I wish Star Trek would do a better job of displaying all the nuances and moral grays that go into maintaining diplomatic relations.”

“I wish Star Trek had a captain that wasn’t just another white dude.”

“I wish Star Trek had at least one canon LGBT character.”

“I wish Star Trek had a well-written female character with flaws and an engaging backstory and good character development for once.”

“I wish science fiction in general would stop assuming everyone will be an atheist in the future.”

“I wish Star Trek could be bolder about calling out real life social issues without their guise of poorly-handled metaphors to protect them.”

“I wish Star Trek would stop assuming that things like intergalactic wars could be resolved or forgotten in just a couple episodes.”

“I want Worf to get more screentime.”

“I want—”

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For those who want to make sure even Harry Kim gets a kiss at midnight...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by O.T.D (@onlythedarkest) on Dec 19,...

vaderssidechick: autisticbisexualsokka: pomesa: autisticbisexualsokka: pomesa: autisticbisexual...

captaincrusher: Mind. Blown. (X)

gal-gadot: Isn’t the self-destruction coded into us? Imprinted...

sesiondemadrugada: Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018).

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bogleech: libertypical: lavender-manna: zanmor: these ones oh...

thejakelikesonions: http://bit.ly/2ybdPnn The Book of Onions

littleghostletthings: I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT...