THE THING
1982 | dir. John Carpenter

ᐃᖃᓗᑦᓯᐊᕙᒃ ‘Beautiful Fish’ (2005) by

ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ (Kenojuak Ashevak)

You know, as the concept of “zombifying fungi” becomes more and more popular, I notice it still referred to everywhere as like a “brain parasite.” So I guess a lot of people overlooked or forgot how in 2019 it was discovered that cordyceps and other similar fungal parasites leave the brain and nervous system completely untouched. They only control the muscles. They use chemical signals to make the muscles flex in real time where they want to go :)

Check this out. A screen from the original Star Trek's engineering station, from Joe Ralat on Twitter.

It's awesome, right? But I checked the old Star Trek Fact Files and then the Eaglemoss Illustrated U.S.S. Enterprise Handbook and their version of this graphic is this:

I was always a little suspicious of modern books reproducing TOS graphics with a few snippets of what seemed like modern Trek technobabble weaved in, but now it looks like we might have been looking at inaccurate reproductions for decades. TNG LCARS-style number spam, smaller and different fonts. Changes to the layouts themselves.

Most importantly, does that mean that the actual bridge graphics of the original Enterprise are lost and all we have are these reproductions?

Looking through buttons on the Canadian gay archives and just found my favourite one. It's called "Gay Moon. Button."

Intrepid and Titan "Imposters"

Star Trek: The Next Generation 7x24: “Preemptive Strike”
vs. Star Trek: Picard 3x05: “Imposter”

Brunt FCA

The Brides of Dracula by markman777