Where No Ope Has Oped Before

Drive a car really badly

Break a rule at work you disagree with

Fall madly in love with your science officer

Challenge someone to chess

Yell your nemesis' name really loud and dramatically

Call your vehicle / mode of transportation a beautiful lady and tell folks that you love her

Fight someone like this:

Happy Birthday to Walter Koenig, known to Star Trek fans as Pavel Andreievich Chekov aboard Captain Kirk's Enterprise.

Chekov was the junior grade officer during the events of Star Trek: TOS, but would settle on being the navigator next to Hikaru Sulu, who he became good friends with, he would also find himself filling in often for Spock at the science station a role he filled successfully.

Chekov would appear from season 2 of TOS through to the eventual 6 movies that followed, he would also appear in the first TNG movie Generations as a guest aboard the fateful maiden voyage of the Enterprise - B which would see Kirk taken by the Nexus energy ribbon.

Walter has remained active in the Star Trek community, from doing voice over work, to convention appearances, he has also reprised his role of Chekov in several Star Trek fan made movies.

“Fandom is a Potluck Dinner… you’re invited!”

Hello friends, it’s that time of year again!

Grab a plate, pull up a chair, and consider yourself enthusiastically invited to StarTrekPotluck2025!

The challenge is to create a piece of fanwork that is food or drink themed, and based within the realms of the Star Trek universe.

If you’re interested in joining in, here’s what you need to know:

What do I do?

Pick a type of food or drink, a meal time or a place where nourishment is served/prepared, then create a fanwork around that place/event/object.

It can be any type of fanwork, for example: fanfic, gifs, fanvid, fanart, poetry, podfic… The only constraints are that it needs to be set within Star Trek universe (any series), and it must include the theme of food/drink. And while we're a fan of replicators, we kindly ask for no AI-created works.

When do I do it?

Choose a publishing date between 1st August and 14th August. We will fill up each slot, and if more people want to join in the fun, we will open double, then triple bookings. That way, we can enjoy up to three delicious fanworks every day!

(If you want to know which dates are still open, you can check the calendar in the blog header, or you can refer to our most recent sign-up round up.)

Sign-ups are now closed! For a list of all chefs, you can have a look at our final sign-up round-up.

How do I do it?

1. Pick a Star Trek fandom, or a mash-up of Trek fandoms. (Please do not submit crossovers with non-Star-Trek fandoms.)

2. Send an Ask to this blog with your chosen date, the Star Trek fandom(s) you’ve picked, and the type of fanwork you’ll be creating.

3. Message this blog for any questions / changes etc, your hosts @regionalpancake and @procrastinatorproject will be happy to help :)

4. Post your delicious fanwork on your chosen date.

5. Message this blog with the details of where your fanwork is posted, and tag your post with #startrekpotluck2024

6. If posting on AO3, add your fanwork to the StarTrekPotluck2025 Collection.

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I would like to tell you that I am from Gaza, where we now live under bombs, explosives, and warplanes from which we cannot sleep for many nights, and other things. This war has destroyed our bodies, our lives, and our souls. It has destroyed our homes, taken everything from us, destroyed all places, changed all landmarks, and changed our situation for the worse. We used to live fine. And peace and love of life, and here we live in hunger, fear, and terror, me, my children, and the rest of my family, and we do not have the minimum necessities for life, and we live in very dilapidated tents.We do not know how to act when winter comes upon us. We will be drowned by the rain and wind, and I will not know how to protect my children or my family, neither from the bombing nor from the winter.😭

Therefore, I beg you to help me so that I, my children, and my family can live and survive this hideous war🙏🏻🙏🏻

Donate a small amount, even if it is $20, for my children 🥺🫂

‏Please Share Or Replog Or Donate to save my life

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‏I hope everyone can donate and share my story:

‏A call for help for Mohammed and my family in Gaza!!! All thanks and gratitude for your humanitarian stances with us, and we

‏assistance in this difficult time. Tenth months of displacement and famine have exacerbated our suffering and difficulties beyond belief. We used all the words of sadness and sorrow to describe the situation we had reached, but such words were not enough. The scale of the tragedy and suffering is much greater than what you may have seen or seen on several social media

‏Dear Friends You can support my family by either donating or sharing my campaign link with others so that the goal is reached sooner Please help us. We are very tired and no one is looking at us. Please help us. If you canno .donate, publish the account

‏Help us, we need you to spread our story 🙏🏻 to the world

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Hello friends 🍉

I am really very sad and very frustrated 🥺

If friends post a video about me and invite friends to help me, I will get more donations 🙏🏻

My campaign is going very slowly and the situation here is very bad and very miserable 😔

I work all day without getting paid 💔

Therefore, I am asking for your help to provide for my daughter,who was born in the war and is 5 months old. She needs milk and diapers, and the price is very high, about $90. And milk is $30

Where is your humanity, guys? Please be by my side in these difficult times 💔

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We ate sourdough bread with bengal flour and sous dud 💔🍞

Coconut