oldschoolsciencefiction
By Stephan Grille, Enterprise-A refit cutaway.
fishmech
cryingalonewithfrankenstein
I'm taking you with me to a fancy restaurant
THE DESCENT
I lied we're going somewhere else, we are not waiting 40 minutes
I know another good place
Much better
Cw: alcohol
I ordered the Mahi Mahi, what are you feeling?
The drink is fairly low on the sweet side but it goes great with the fish. Also the most flattering picture on the right
Fine I'm drinking water DANG
I feel like I beat an Elden Ring boss. How did you do?
Okay that was GOOD but I did have a drink SO we're gonna walk around a bit still just because processing time and safety!
No we can't just fight the lamp posts. It wouldn't be fair to them, they don't have organs
Alright imma drop you off but first Barbie Girl by Aqua
Just letting you know I got home safely. That was a good time!
imitation-lobster-meat
dragonstbh
this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????
Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself
googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post
The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we’re applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.
Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they’re all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.
3liza
pileofknives
do not talk to cops includes don't make casual smalltalk w any person who's obviously an on duty cop. y'know how you should treat every gun as if it's loaded? treat every cop as if they are trying to get information out of you or fuck you ever. don't talk to cops don't trust cops know your rights
fishmech
translesbischefreundin
@osha-official-the-sequel id like to report a violation
I’ll be honest I don’t even know where to start with this one
theyboldlywent
Kim Cattrall as Valeris, alongside an unidentified background player in a publicity photo for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Valeris was not originally part of the conspiracy that causes so much trouble for the Enterprise and her crew. In Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flinn’s original screenplay, there was a complicated tracking sequence that climaxed with Kirk, Spock and Scotty coming across the conspiracy after they break into a secret Klingon base. Unfortunately, this was estimated to add up to $5,000,000 to the movie’s budget — money that the studio didn’t want to spend.
As director, Meyer opted to cut this (expensive) portion of the film and streamlined the reveal of the conspiracy, allowing the production to use existing sets while saving some runtime in the end.
In Starlog #205, Flinn talked to Craig W. Chrissinger about how Meyer’s rewrite handled this: “With the cutting of the cabal scenes, it was necessary to come up with something a little more intriguing, and Valeris was right there. When I read it, I liked it. It didn’t bother me at all. If anything, it’s nice to have good and evil represented in all races because that’s much more in line with reality. There sometimes is an ambiguity in Star Trek because you don’t want just white hats and black hats. I guess there are some bad apples on Vulcan, too.”
Flinn then went on to give readers a bit more detail about the character’s origins in the production: "Valeris originally was, in fact, Saavik, but we couldn’t get Kirstie Alley for the role. Kirstie was already on the Paramount lot doing Cheers, so both Nick and one of the executives made calls to her. I don’t know any of the details, but the next thing I knew, we were changing the name to Valeris.”
(As to why the production didn’t simply move down to the next available Saavik, Robin Curtis? No idea. Maybe Meyer just liked working with Alley and wanted her back.)
Photo scanned from my personal collection.
ruisa-faa
retrocgads
nmpositive
spockvarietyhour
This will never NOT be funny
I’m so glad this is on tumblr
My favourite thing about this is, he didn’t even have to call him ‘Captain’ he could have used the screen-name but he was SO MARRIED TO THE IMMERSION that he DID.
Passenger: CAPTAIIIIN!!!
Captain: y-yeah?
Passenger: LOOOOOOOK!
(FULL BLAST PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN MUSIC)
my fav.
Fun fact, the developers of this game loved this video so much that they made it an official advertisement of the game
fishmech
dogjpeg
Sega Channel billboard (1994)
The Sega Channel was one of the earlier examples of downloadable content in gaming’s history, blazing the trail well over a decade before Xbox Live or PSN were even blips on the radar. It allowed users to “download” fully playable games and demos straight to their Genesis, using cable TV services instead of the internet.
3liza
i joined a discord server for a DIY vape liquid recipe website, got some really good internet sentences out of it. these dudes are straight dadposting 24 hours a day
chrismcfeely
calibanmorgan
Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years
kreuzaderny