Some day I want to see a Captain Kirk parody that leans hard into his original flavour “hapless romance novel protagonist who keeps ending up in sexually compromising situations with hot aliens more or less by accident” characterisation rather than the “grotesque womaniser” shtick of later interpretations and has him just constantly tormented by the fact that every single alien he meets wants to rail him.
the thing about william shatner being pissed about the concept of bi!kirk is so funny to me because like. bill this is your fault. you were the one who looked at leonard nimoy like you wanted to eat him. you did that
and since this is actually the most important part of the TOS food document, I’ll reiterate the theory here for those who don’t wanna read the whole thing:
I think kirk just kinda tried to play it cool after he realized everyone knew what salad was but him, but really eating it with hands is a dead give away (especially considering we have seen him eat his colored food cubes WITH A FORK AND KNIFE)
i am losing my MIND at how he’s holding the lettuce leaf like a cigar
I think people are greatly underestimating how far James T Kirk will go to fuck with his crew.
There’s exactly one person in the universe that can make James T Kirk do something. There’s a lot of people who can convince him to do things, encourage him to do things, trick him into doing things, sure, but the only one who can make him do anything is Bones.
If Kirk is eating salad, it’s because Bones is making him.do it because the ultimate authority of the ship’s doctor is the only starfleet regulation that Kirk will not break. So when Bones puts him on a diet, he can’t say “no.” The Kirk/Spock/McCoy relationship is a rock/scissors/paper situation, essentially.
So Kirk asks himself “What would Spock do in this situation?” and the answer is obviously “pretend you’ve never heard of the Earth-thing in question, play it 100% straight, and wait for McCoy’s head to explode.” He’s going to pretend he’s never heard of salad, and eat his lettuce like a cigar in front of McCoy’s face.
#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.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
sorry for all the enterprise posts, truly, but i think i’ve finally figured it out:
Sure but Voyager is p horny ngl
gotta cosign op’s stance here because in all star trek there are Horny Episodes, but horniness is really built into the fundamental ethos of ds9 (quark’s holosuites and gambling emporium) and enterprise (decon chamber of gratuitous nakedness). like i could sleep through just one episode a season of tng and not know how horny it was, but in ds9 like… kira goes to a religious monastery and the gods reveal unto her a naked sex dream, so there’s truly no escaping it.
It annoys me how a common trope on Star Trek is ‘tee hee, I’m a workaholic, I have twenty stardates of leave saved up because I never take a break’ and that’s supposed to be something we admire. Take a holiday, idiot. Especially if you’re the boss. Set a fucking example. It’s the future now and you’re better than this toxic shit.
my private twitter is where the party is happening
[ID: a series of tweets by Ned with a little hat on @nedsneez -
“data: permission to leave the bridge captain / picard: for what reason? / data: so I can kiss my husband sir / picard: .. / picard: .. / picard: granted”
“data: permission to go to engineering captain / picard, wearily: so you can kiss your husband, I presume / data: there is an issue with the warp core that requires my attention sir / picard: .. / data: .. / data: and also so I can kiss my husband”
“geordi, through the comms: engineering to the bridge, la forge here / data: geordi, this is data / geordi: hi data :-) / data: hello geordi :-) / geordi: :-) / data: :-) / picard: engineering, this is the captain. stop flirting through the comms”
“data, through the comms: geordi / data: darling / data: honey / data: sweetheart / data: dearest / data: pumpkin / data: beloved spouse / data: love of my l / geordi, from the turbolift: permission to throw something at my husband captain / picard: permission granted” / end ID]
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