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First there's a multiple choice quiz, what's wrong with this scene?

Answer: C! Absolutely Kirk would not hug the yeoman at this point! That's unprofessional!

The Prime Directive gets explained. As I keep telling people, it's not never broken, it's just supposed to only be broken for very good reasons.

For people wondering how to write a stardate: you make up some numbers!

No saluting! Yes optimism!

There is so much "think of the budget" in here. Yes you can use the shuttle bay but only if it's relevant, we have to use miniatures. Yes you can have a space suit but please don't ask for zero gravity. And where aliens are concerned, you can have some makeup but please focus on the interior differences not just tentacles!

Honestly I think Spock is a better alien than, say, Jabba the Hutt, because as human as he looks, he's much more different on the inside. People like to dismiss Star Trek aliens as "forehead of the week" but it's kind of a stage shorthand for "we're about to discover a unique culture, these people are different from you in ways you might not expect."

And to wrap up:

Star Trek Pitch (First Draft, TV Writing)

Star Trek Writer-Director Information (Rev. 08/30/1966, Roddenberry Vault)

The Star Trek Guide (Third Revision, TV Writing)

Season 1:

1.00 The Cage (Rev. 10/06/64, Know It All Joe)

1.01 The Man Trap (Final Draft, Roddenberry Vault)

1.02 Charlie X (Unspecified Draft, TV Writing)

1.03 Where No Man Has Gone Before (Synopsis, Roddenberry Vault; Final Revised Draft, TV Writing)

1.08 What Are Little Girls Made Of (Revised Final Draft, TV Writing)

1.10 The Corbomite Maneuver (Second Revised Final Draft, TV Writing)

1.11 The Menagerie (Rev. 11/20/64, Roddenberry Vault)

1.16 The Galileo Seven (Final Draft, Roddenberry Vault)

1.20 Court Martial (Studio Notes, Roddenberry Vault)

1.28 The City on the Edge of Forever (Correspondence, Roddenberry Vault; Writer's Work Draft & Shooting Script, Know It All Joe)

1.29 Operation -- Annihilate! (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

Season 2:

2.01 Amok Time (Story Outline, Collecting Trek, Rev. 6/7/67, TV Writing)

2.03 The Changeling (Story Outline, Roddenberry Vault)

2.04 Mirror, Mirror (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.06 The Doomsday Machine (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.10 Journey to Babel (Revised Final Draft, Roddenberry Vault)

2.13 Obsession (Shooting Schedule, Mission Log Podcast)

2.14 Wolf in the Fold (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.15 The Trouble With Tribbles (Story Outline, Roddenberry Vault; Revised Final Draft, TV Writing)

2.16 The Gamesters of Triskelion (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.17 A Piece of the Action (Shooting Schedule, Mission Log Podcast)

2.18 The Immunity Syndrome (Day 5 of 6 Call Sheet, Mission Log Podcast)

2.19 A Private Little War (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.20 Return to Tomorrow (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.21 Patterns of Force (Shooting Schedule, Roddenberry Vault)

2.22 By Any Other Name (Story Outline, Mission Log Podcast)

2.25 Bread and Circuses (Story Outline, Roddenberry Vault)

2.26 Assignment: Earth (Spin-Off Memo, Spin-Off Teaser, Spin-Off Pitch, Call Sheet - Mission Log Podcast)

Season 3:

3.07 Day of the Dove (Received 8/2/68, Roddenberry Vault)

3.10 Plato's Stepchildren (Second & Third Drafts, Roddenberry Vault)

3.14 Whom Gods Destroy (First Draft, Roddenberry Vault)

3.15 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (de Forest Research, Acts 1-3, Roddenberry Vault)

3.20 The Way to Eden (Rev. 11/21/68, Roddenberry Vault)

Unproduced:

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

There are SIX questions total in reblogs, the end will be marked by large green text. If you don’t see all six, check reblogs and grab the version with the ending note.

Answers amended from the 2025 census based on feedback. If you’re mixed, choose what feels right to you I’m not here to do phrenology or paper bag test you but don’t make it my problem either. When in doubt, ask yourself: would the whites kill you too in the race war?

This census is US-centric because so is tumblr, unfortunately. This poll is also starting with a heavy Black/racialized bias due to my personal followers. The main point of this census is to see how white-dominant the site is currently compared to prior years, as well

For the purpose of this census, Imperial Core will be defined as the following: United States, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, basically all of Western Europe, Japan, and Israel. If you want to argue about any of these designations, too bad maybe they should stop colonizing.

Note for clarification:

*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )