Star Trek Trash

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You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist

Okay howmst the fuck has a ship doctor in the far future never handled a birth without the father present? Are sperm donors and gay couples and trans women no longer a thing in the bajillionth century CE?? :/

I while understand the frustration with erasure sometimes it helps to look at things through the cultural context of when something was made. Star Trek the Next Generation was made in 1987, this particular episode I believe aired in 1988 a time when a future where the husband was always present for the birth would have been amazing to many of the people watching the show as men had only been allowed to be present for the birth of their children for 10/15ish years at that point in the US.

Women (and many men) fought for decades with hospitals to even have men allowed in the delivery room during the early stages of labor, which can last for several hours, and hospitals only began to give in to their requests in the 1960s but even then they would be kicked out of the room by hospital staff before the actual birth took place. So many of the couples watching the show would have had to go through labor without having/being allowed to support their spouse regardless of their wishes. Having the child’s father present for the birth only began to happen in the 1970s and 1980s. Which means most people watching this show either went through birth without the support of their spouse, were not allowed to support their spouse during the birth of their child, or their own mother’s went through that during their birth.

A future where the husbands were always present for the birth was still a little crazy to consider in the late 1980s. A good kind of crazy for the people living in that time, it showed a future where the wishes of the couple were finally consistently listened to by medical professionals as a result of the actions of people during their or their parent’s lifetimes. And it does that by also subverting it in allowing Data to step into the role of the father when the father was unknown and/or unwilling/unable to fill that role (I’ll be honest my knowledge of Next Gen is a bit spotty and I have not seen this whole episode, just a piece of it at family Thanksgiving). The woman’s desires as to how she would give birth are listened to and respected, something that still doesn’t happen in many hospitals now and would have been seen as even more revolutionary then. So while it isn’t perfect I think this scene was actually fairly impressive for its time and cultural context and shows a future that many people of that time would have seen as ideal.

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draco malfoy doesn't have a big ego, it's all a facade. if someone'd stod in front of him and called him pretty he'd start crying i'm sure of it. he's not confident it's all an act

Star Trek - Strange New Dumb Comics #24

I rewatched Star Trek V yesterday, and I didn’t remember that theses two were kinda a thing ? Anyway it inspired me to draw this one

Also for some reason I used a larger lineart brush that usual and it made my style look completely different

Me: Going through my tng rewatch, I’m realizing Riker isn’t actually that bad. Yes, he sleeps around, but he doesn’t objectify women the way people act like he does. I think he suffers from the same thing as Kirk where pop culture has just decided that he’s this misogynistic womanizer when he’s just not. I actually really like the way he sleeps around, because it implies society has a more healthy relationship with sex in the 24th century, where people who want sex to mean something can have that, but people who just want to have fun with sex can have that too and not be judged for it.

He’s a clever, caring, and capable leader who has a really sweet relationship with the entire cast. “What is more important than Data?!”, leaving a date when Wesley needs advice and telling her it’s a “family emergency”, him taking an interest in Klingon culture and getting close with Worf, and most of all his relationship with Deanna are all wonderful. He and Deanna have a loving, healthy friendship in the wake of their breakup, which is something we never see on tv. I actually love his character and the relationships he has.

Also me:

He also fell in love with a transgender woman

He’s also a victim of sexual assault (among other forms). And the only reason he even agreed to represent Maddox and Starfleet in their attempt to strip Data of his rights as a sentient being was because if he refused, Data would automatically lose the trial. He puts himself out there for the crew time and again, and in an era when men on TV were largely archetypes of toxic masculinity, he was refreshingly sensitive and kind. He always went to bat for the crew, and at any point where he and another crewman clashed they eventually worked it out because he’s not a knuckle-dragging caveman (see Ro Laren, Shelby, and even Jellico).

I’m sick of people slut shaming him and making him out to be something he’s not because they don’t pay attention.

Personally, my favorite thing about Riker is that he is essentially Data’s big brother, like, whenever Data does something, Riker just has this :D expression on his face because he just… he is so platonically in love with Data? I don’t mind shipping Data with Riker, but I really really like the platonic relationship they have, where Riker started out kind of like the rest of the Enterprise, unsure of Data, he straight out asked him at the start “Then your rank of Lieutenant Commander is honorary?” and by the end he’s literally like:

Like, that is peak character development. Just… the way he smiles at Data feels like he’s just always super proud of Data, which sounds weird when I say it, but the huge strides that Data makes in understanding humanity clearly give Riker the same happy feelings that they cause me to feel, and I love that about him. He’s genuinely a good guy.

But also, every single non-malicious ‘god is riker dumb’ joke makes me laugh, and Riker Googling is my favorite twitter. Riker and his dumb weird way of sitting are the peak of comedy,  so please continue making jokes about his dumb ass until the end of time,

Leonard Nimoy, who was not a scientist by any means but played one on TV, once ran into some real scientists from CalTech who talked to him as if he were a fellow researcher. 

He didn’t know what they were talking about, so whenever they asked him what he thought about their work, he just nodded and said, “You’re on the right track.”

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Star Trek - Strange New Dumb Comics #1

This is from 2 years ago so the art quality makes me cringe a bit… Seriously how come Spock’s face looks completely different in every panel

“-But when the lights went down and the halls turned to heavy silence Harry wept. He wept as dust motes flew through the paint chipped hallways and the shrieking from the painting down the hall faded behind the shrieking in his head. Somewhere along the way he’d lost a part of himself, his husk withering like aged petals as he sank into sadness.”

I love the idea of a Harry who has to heal after the war.

Draco needs to heal him!!!!!!

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After finding out about Amanda and Sarek in Journey to Babel, Sybok in The Final Frontier, and probably Michael at some point, Bones starts asking Spock, “so, are the two of you related?” after every new being Spock talks to

I see his robot as an absolute win

This is some James T. Kirk Kobayashi Maru shit

My full piece for the Star Trek zine 🌠 Retro cereal box inspired.

hello WHAT is this picture

the first 15 seconds of other tv shows: slow pan to acclimate viewer to the setting. perhaps a tasteful view of a some birds. a skyline. someone walking down the street

the first 15 seconds of star trek tos: ship is already on red alert. threatening alien object rapidly approaching. surprise! bones suddenly has a terminal illness with one year to live. okay let’s beam down to the planet

“Why should I be afraid of you? Because your father is Vulcan?”

“No”, Spock said. “Because my mother is human.”