trek blog

saru from discovery's design would have been improved by the addition of four or six small breasts. you know, like in rows ; decently sized

some of star trek characters are so vacuum sealed into their clothes that tumblr automatically flags them as soon as i try to post. and by some, i mean that it happened four times: to t'pol, to seven of nine, to a crewman wearing the tos motion picture uniform, and to a sulliban from star trek enterprise, photographed from behind, flat-fuck-fridaying under a door. this selection gives us a somewhat of an across-the-franchise overview of the the look.

the sulliban are really good, honestly. they wear these boat-necked gymnast onesies which really do absolutely nothing for the actors and when they're naughty their boss takes their genes away. they also talk to mysterious people from the future. you'd think this would be really relevant but it doesn't come up much because everybody in star trek enterprise talks to people from the future, and some of them are covered in even more unflattering outfits, like crewman daniels, who has a shirt made out of pipes.

there's also this episode when archer finds out that sulliban across the galaxy including children are opressed and put in detention camps because they're all assumed to be a part of the gene-altering troupe. which i always felt like was trying to talk about Arabs in USA but i'm kind of afraid to bring this up because then we have to ask the crucial question of "did they name them sulliban because they're the space taliban?" and who among us is ready for that?

you can tell that frank is just dying to call Klinger the f slur.

Nothing takes me out of a fic like garak initiating an honest, open kink negotiation. That man does not know what safe, sane and consensual means. If you asked him about safe words he'd start listing emergency phone numbers

Garak not being a safe consensual partner was kind of the point lol

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.