New Away Mission Just Dropped!

The snw body swap episode definitely had a little bit of that ridiculousness I’ve been missing from most new star trek, I hope they do more of it

Captain Kirk’s guide to Fighting.

The Kirk Kick

The Kirk Drop Kick

The Bowling Ball

The Human Projectile

The Kirk Chop

The Wall of Destruction

The Scissor Choke

The Kirk Double Fist

bro wtf that line one hit KO’d me

An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl

* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired * and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season * and wrote fanfic way back in the day * and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake

All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.

Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.

The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”

That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.

The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.

You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.

Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)

Being Friends With Tom Paris and Harry Kim:

Requested by anonymous

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

“I knew I should have stayed on the Enterprise.”

Star Trek + Troubled Birds 1/?

my desire for a tng beach episode is primal. I also think I made them both a little too buff but I got carried away. muscles are fun to draw and my monkey neuron took over

drop the ao3 handle king

Star Trek - Strange New Dumb Comics #72

Back on my bullshit !