Lower Decks Knows What’s Up:

i want to see some crazy old trek shit on strange new worlds like i want an episode where the crew is forced by an alien entity to perfectly reenact the events of some nineteenth century novel in full period dress or be vaporized or something. it’s not star trek until they start larping

obliterate my entire ass I can’t stand this

new away mission just dropped!

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stop loafing around, we’ve got a whole universe to explore.

Ah yes, the true mark of an alien…

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Being Friends With Tom Paris and Harry Kim:

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The three of you get into trouble all the time

Janeway learned not to assign you to work as a group the hard way

You have weekly holodeck meetings scheduled, and you managed to rope the rest of the bridge crew into them at one point or another

You encourage Harry to play his instrument

He even offers to teach you to play; you’re a fairly fast learner

The three of you make competitions out of everything

It started with holodeck games; you’d see who was the better driver or could solve a mystery fastest

And soon you were competing over who could get the most praise (or admonishment) from Janeway in a day

The three of you always eat your meals together

Whenever any of you expresses romantic interest in a crew mate, the other two tease them relentlessly, and, of course, offer to be the wingmen

The three of you get into late night conversations about anything and everything

Sometimes you talk about the alien worlds you’ve come into contact with, sometimes you express your fears about never making it back home

The three of you know exactly how to comfort each other

(If you’re ever feeling down, you can expect to be bombarded with your favorite snacks and holo programs, and possibly a cuddle pile)

The entire crew knows that the three of you are practically inseparable

Thinking of Deep Space Nine as "the Dark Star Trek" without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being "dark" now people bring up "DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!"

Deep Space Nine didn't work bc it was Dark and it wasn't Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could've been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn't). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9's writers turned into one of Trek's major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn't that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It's that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode

DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9's dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it's more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the "Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war" episode, but also only DS9 could do the "a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together" episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to "Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!" is...just not it

I’ve been in a redraw mood!

Original caption for context: An episode where Picard is infected by an alien parasite that makes him slowly downgrade all of their systems and send the aliens all of the information about their technology so that the Enterprise is able to be conquered. The first symptom of which: old uniforms.

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