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Please appreciate this album cover with me

Enterprise departing gifs, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

The Emperor has arrived

My Star Trek paintings have had so much love lately I HAD to include Emperor Phillipa Georgiou in the collection

of course, you can’t say this because in the diet culture infested world that we live in, no one thinks twice about complimenting someone on their visible weight loss. it isn’t meant as a insult, it’s a thoughtless comment. it is unfathomable that someone may have been happier or healthier when they weighed more. and you don’t want to have to recount your personal medical history in graphic detail to explain why losing weight was not good.

The Final Frontier is the gift that keeps on giving. /lh

Three old guys in denim on the bridge of the enterprise

Uhura singing nude

First appearance of a toilet in the brig

The almost hug

The navigator and helmsmen both pretending to be lost in Yosemite

Poor Bones reliving having to euthanise his own father

The weirdest hug

The hardest line ever

- The main plot is a quest to find God. They find that God is a delusional, monomaniacal narcissist. So Spock gets the Klingons to help him kill God.

- The campfire scenes.

- McCoy’s trauma. One of DeForest Kelly’s finest performances.

It’s the kind of humanist, atheist sci-fi that’s at Trek’s core. (And how openly atheist it is may be part of why it gets such hate.)

Is it perfect? No. Shatner’s direction is clumsy at times, a lot of the humor falls flat, and it was clearly made on a tight budget.