I’m great in bed

found this via rydra_wong

a tumblr user yuttikkele (warning for bright green on that person's blog), who's normally a gamer, started watching star trek: TOS recently and picked up on the kirk/spock vibes. they thought maybe they were one of the few to notice it, but then found out that's not true. now they know about kirk/spock fic and how it lead to slash as most people know it today. not to mention star trek leading to fanfic writing in general. people mentioned them being one of the lucky 10,000, which they didn't know about either

the comments are 99% supportive (there are always some jerks), but while reading some of them i discovered that some people call the kirk/spock "the premise" which i never heard before. maybe this is just a tumblr thing. i do not know.
admittedly; i never got deep into trek fandom, not to mention k/s slash (or any slash). but i suppose my on-line meanderings never lead to discovering that before.

i guess i was one of the 10,000 that day.

What two stars of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were married in real life in 1997?
( answer )

According to Yoda, there are always how many Sith Lords ... no more, no less?
( answer )

What is "Thor's Hammer"?
( answer )

i decided to see if that library in the east (sounds like something in a fantasy story) has any star trek novels, because it's been awhile since i read any. they have like 37 in ebook form, which is surprising. i think of ST novels as kind of not very popular in libraries (don't know why).

so i decide to google them to see if they're anything i'd want to read & to see if they're part of a multi-book series.

title #1: "this is part of the novel series relaunch & is set in an alternative timeline after [event]." me: *flat* what. (there are 2 ST book series like that)
title #2: "This is set [number of] years after [huge event in a previous novel]." me: *flat* what.
title #3: "this is a follow up to the novels ABC & DEF." (that i haven't read) me: well, so much for that.

i did find 3 set in the TOS tv series era that i hope are stand-alone ones. they also has some from the new tv series, but i do not acknowledge those am not interested in them.

years ago ST novels were numbered, i guess so you'd know that if you had 1-28 & you could look at the number to know if you had it or not. but the publisher stopped that because people thought you had to read them in numbered order to understand what was going on*. but now it seems that you have to read them in publication order anyway.


*the only time you really have to do that if it says book 1 of 4 (but i wonder if they do that any more).

inspired by skippy’s list of things i am no longer allowed to do in the u.s. army. like that list, everything here was something the writer did, something they saw happen (or heard of happening), something they were spontaneously informed they were not allowed to do, a clarification of one of the above things in the list, or were just minding their business when something happened.

1. Give the vulcan greeting with the palm facing away from the recipient.
2. Refer to bolians as blueberries.
3. Trade klingons prune juice for any spare parts, food, weapons, animal pelts, art, a targ (even if it is a prize-winning one), shuttlecrafts/starships, or clothing items.
4. Or trade for anything else.
5. Tell newly arrived ensigns that the ship made the kessel run in 12 parsecs.
6. Take a shuttlecraft out to pick up raktajino for the overnight bridge crew.
7. Sell taxidermied tribbles to tourists.
8. Suggest that officers of higher rank take shore leave on a class Y planet.
9. Respond to any order with “yes, boss!”
10. Say, suggest, hint or otherwise imply that the ghostbusters are the best way to “deal” with uncooperative non-corporeal life forms.
11. Give a box of extra large cotton swabs to any ferengi.
12. Shout “there can only be one!” before playing a match of anbo-jitsu.
13. Use a shuttlecraft as collateral while playing a dabo game.
14. Use a shuttlecraft as collateral for anything.
15. Throw taxidermied tribbles at anyone. No matter how much they “deserved it.”
16. Refer to romulans as discount vulcans.
17. The proper way to report to the shift commander is not “it wasn’t me.”
18. Play music or stand-up comedy routines over the ship’s coms because “patrolling the neutral zone is boring af.”
19. Tell the horta that rock gardens are a buffet.
20. Use the floor of a cargo bay & cargo containers to play a giant game of kadis-kot.
21. The proper answer in roll call is “here.” not “that’s my name, don’t wear it out.”
22. Ask ambassadors that board the ship for a “boarding tax” of a bottle of whatever liquor their planet is known for.
23. Also not any food, clothing, or jewelry their planet is known for.
24. Begin a question with “riddle me this.”
25. Keep a stash of snacks anywhere, except for their crew quarters.
26. Nap in the jefferies tubes.
27. Start a cult. No matter how much support there is for it.
28. Refer to starfleet, or the federation, as a cult.
29. Not authorized to declare war games on any ship, starbase or planetside base.
30. Including & especially not their own.
31. Refer to newly arrived ensigns as “the children.”
32. Write mission reports in any poetic form.
33. Especially in limericks.
34. Change it so the characters in popular holodeck programs speak pig-latin.
35. Use the replicators to create food or drink described as “unholy concoctions” & dare people to consume them.
36. Even if sickbay is alerted before doing so.

*tried to keep it limited to general trek (older stuff, not new), so there's no reference to characters or ships. Although certain species and things were not known to humans during the ENT era.

( Star Trek Voyager, Seven and Naomi, trying a different board game )

some of my prompts got filled;
The Golden Girls, any, Discovering The Cheesecake Factory restaurant.
The Golden Girls, Dorothy, Hold your tongue.

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1. What is the last book you read and what book(s), if any, are you currently reading?
that last thing was marie antoinette: the journey by antonia fraser. it was meh.

2. How about moving pictures? Are you a fan of any TV show or movie right now?
not right now. there was some O.K. stuff on disney plus (see TV tag for that)

3. What's your favorite genre, and why?
for books or movies. for books, i mostly like mysteries that are cozy-ish. for movies comedy or drama, i guess.

4. If we were all evacuating the planet, and you could only bring 3 unique works of entertainment for posterity, which would you pick? Let's just assume that we've coordinated it so there are no repeats.
i don't know. i'd like to think that the star trek series would be included (maybe not the newer stuff).

5. Do you make new works as well (fannish or original both count)? Or is that not your skillset/interest?
just the 3-sentence things.

other answers over here.

original done in 2010 (although this link was posted in 2019) by kuwdora , it might have been the first time i heard the song. DoubleTreble1518 also used it for a vid in another fandom, but i don't recall where i heard it first.

it's a fun vid about julian bashir as the famous secret agent. it makes good use of bashir's secret agent program & it reminds me that the ian flemming estate got their shorts in a bunch about how close it was to their IP and put a stop to more bashir's secret agent program story lines except for a few mentions.

I Wish I Was James Bond (Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Julian Bashir)

( Star Trek IV, the probe and the whales, what did they talk about? )

another one of my prompts got filled; Mythbusters RPF, Any, "More bang for your buck."

this is a set i suggested at LJ (third time they've used one of mine!)

1. What is the first TV show you remember watching?
either mr. rodger's neighborhood or sesame street

2. What is the first “grown up” TV show you watched?
the original star trek. or maybe a soap opera.

3. What is the first TV show you watched from the start to finish when it aired live (i.e., not via reruns)?
maybe star trek: the next generation. but probably some random show that got canceled after a year.

4. What is the oldest TV show you’ve watched?
perry mason, with raymond burr.

5. What is one TV show you will stop and watch if you come across it on TV, even though you've seen every episode at least 20 times?
friends. sometimes MASH.

other answers over here.

i was thinking that this year will be the 20^TH anniversary of 9/11, but then realized that it will also be the 20^TH anniversary of star trek: enterprise. they delayed the premier because of 9/11 and that attack colored the rest of the series.

i remember that UPN promoted the hell out of ENT that summer with the song wherever you will go by the calling (it will always remind me of the series). which was a lot better than the actual theme song. at at con scott bakula said for about 3 months after the premier, some guy stood outside of the studio with a sign that said; love the show. hate the theme song. it was written by diane warren, who is apparently a big songwriter. but whenever i hear her name & remember she wrote this thing & think; ugh!
what they had over the end credits was a lot better, IMHO. it's called archer's theme & is supposed to be an instrumental version of the theme song.
they so tried hard to be different than other trek series. with just calling it enterprise at first, being set like 100 years before kirk's time & the theme song with lyrics.

as for the show itself, i was kind of whelmed. it had some stand out episodes (twilight, shuttle pod one) but it was not outstanding.

i mostly watched for scott bakula in blue underwear.

BTW i almost titled this post it's been a long road (or something) and then realized that was a lyric from the dreaded theme song.