Cetacean Ops

the sisko kirk hero worship homoeroticism would be entirely reversed if kirk ever showed up on ds9 thru his own time travel circumstances because the first thing that would happen is he would meet quark and the thing about kirk is there is nobody in the entire space and time of the universe that would annoy him more than quark it would immediately be like the worst day he ever experienced it would be like nonstop torment trying to understand why these things keep happening to him and then he would see sisko tactfully handling quark or god forbid see him getting quark to kiss the nagus scepter and like it would be over for him like sisko handling quark related paperwork would be the single most heroic thing hes ever seen like he would become immediately obsessed and bewitched

Not by any means an original thought but Kirk abandoning every person he's ever faintly loved or had feelings for for his career and his mission then repeatedly being like "it doesn't matter just fire me strip me of my command if I lose Spock I'll lose literally everything including my soul don't even worry about it" is immensely important to me

I referred to something as a "real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment" in conversation with someone who has never seen TNG, and let me tell you, that was a real Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra moment

i think part of the problem with the way cultural differences are treated in star trek is that it seems like the federation is forever stuck on generation i of cultural integration and never reaches generation ii. it can imagine a world where having parents from very different backgrounds (or cross-cultural adoption, marrying someone from a different culture, etc) is a source of angst and identity struggles but not one where that’s so normalized it’s basically unremarkable. which i think stems in part from a general lack of imagination on the part of those from culturally homogeneous areas in terms of conceptualizing what multiculturalism can look like, but as a certified toronto mans it feels weird to me that from spock to worf to b’elanna we never see any movement on that front in the federation’s cultural norms

I should do this to her sometime

The reason Kirk is so accommodating of Spock pretending he doesn’t have emotions is because he is also pretending he doesn’t have emotions like fear or anger or lust and probably has wished taht he was a Vulcan so he could be a more perfect captain send post

Oh no... oh no, I need this...