star trek

Nooo never kill yourself baby. Star Trek enters the public domain in 2062.

One year before the Vulcans arrive?

Well yeah, otherwise they'd be under copyright

#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

I miss my Commodore 64

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever  know.

Reblogged for that last comment.

respect your elders

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

Betcha Grandma was writing original k/s slashfic decades before you kiddies were born.

Yes @ceruleanteacup , Grandma was

i hope everyone knows that OP wasn’t just saying this generally - she quite literally was the star trek grandma. she passed in 2018, rip to an icon

Spock’s entire philosophy is explaining why it’s logical for you to go fuck yourself

star trek heritage post (February 4th, 2019)

spirk being in the top 50 ships on tumblr dot com is so beautiful tbh. like this ship has endured DECADES. my forebears wrote and read spirk fanfiction and by god i will carry that torch with pride

^^ very good point. Turns out letting Patrick Stewart talk like Patrick Stewart ruins the suspension of disbelief that I’m watching a fictional character named Picard.

do it scared. do it stupid. but most importantly, do it bitching and moaning the entire time

this is unequivocally true. the rabbi at my childhood temple made it a point to bring a Star Trek scenario into every single d'var, and there was always something relevant!