Oh, the planets and how they caress my bones.

if there’s one thing i’ve gleaned from watching star trek, it’s that everything in modern media is a star trek reference, except star trek, which is mostly shakespeare

TOS lighting is one of the things that I sincerely love about the show. It was made to sell fancy brand new color TV's, but it also had to look dramatic on existing black and white sets. They do incredible things with contrast in order to keep it looking crisp and exciting on both types of screens. But it's also clear that the lighting directors were having fun. The goal was to "make it pop" and make people feel transported. You don't see anything else like it.

TV lighting at this point was also at a sort of crossroads, the only reference they had for entertainment lighting was live theater, and they use a TON of live theater effects in the show--they're very obviously using metaphorical emotionalism in the designs in a lot of ways which you don't see shows doing now! they use gobos, (see: Lights of Zetar for the most obvious examples) intense shutter cuts (that thing where they frame kirk's eyes (see: Charlie X), dramatic color that I'm SURE they used thick gels for, ugh i just love it. It's theater lighting in TV at its FINEST. makes my lighting designer self very very happy :)

Jim Kirk would have thrived in the early 2000s with his concealer lips and bisexuality

one trek headcanon I have is that plomeek soup is a chai tea situation. plomeek is just the vulcan word for soup, actually. on the first enterprise, having to make do with mostly earth ingredients, t'pol hashed together a simplified version of a comforting soup native to her region of vulcan and one thing led to another and now that regional variation of a single soup recipe is called soup soup by the federation

We often eat pie at work...for morale.

"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.

Seeing old star trek zines is so fucking cool. Like, i cant explain it properly but like, seeing something you love also be loved by people way before you were born is just so cool. Its a very specific vibe but like. Agh.