The Enterprise crew as bud vases.

Kirk and Picard need to be switched on the Nerd/Jock axis. Picard won all the runner’s medals, played pool, and started fights in bars. Kirk was a book worm who played chess, was considered grimly serious, and was regularly harassed by a bully.

The Nothing is AI. Every time someone prompts, part of Fantasia dies.

I love these renders of that early TNG bridge concept by Tadeo D'Oria. @rekkert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy This style of bridge also featured in the “The Word of God” webcomic by @mark2000.bsky.social and @ryanthomasriddle.com These ‘roads not taken’ designs are always so fascinating to me. /2

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Our latest episode tries to figure out what “empathy for the enemy“ means for Captain Pike in the best JT Kirk story since TOS in #SNW “The Sehlat Who Ate its Tail”. Then it’s erotic ghost story time as Beverly Crusher explores being an spectrosexual in TNG’s classic bodice ripping romp, Sub Rosa!

TK Bellows wears an interesting and anachronistic pair of glasses in “A Space Adventure Hour”. They’re S9 frames, also known as “birth control frames”. From 1990 to 2012 they were standard military issue to navy and army recruits. Saddam Hussein was given a pair when he was captured in 2003.

The Lorelei Signal is probably based on one of no less than two femdom synopses in Roddenberry’s 1964 pitch document “Star Trek Is…” called “The Venus Planet”. #tossatnight #tassatnight

Here's something I noticed on my rewatch of "Shuttle to Kenfori". The Klingon transmission ↖️ uses and old fan made alphabet created by Geoffrey Mandel for the "U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual" published in 1980 ↗️ instead of "pIqaD"↙️ which has been the official Klingon alphabet since TMP.↘️

Anyone else notice Christina Chong talks into the bottom of her communicator like a smartphone in speaker phone mode? ↖️↗️ Ethan Peck ↙️ and Celia Rose Gooding ↘️ hold it the traditional way.

For some reason #SNW “Through the Lens of Time“ gave us the giggles. Is Roger Korby the worst archeologist ever? Is Ensign Gamble the ultimate rookie cop? After we contain ourselves we talk about Star Trek as a genre leaping format and if Strange New Worlds has been succeeding at that tradition.

Hey! No one told me President Roslin was in Sneakers!

Once again for those who don’t know, but “The WOMEN!” saved STAR TREK from obscurity. Not once, but several times, and started the first conventions. #StarTrek www.womansworld.com/entertainmen...

Curious about that book TK Bellows was chasing in “A Space Adventure Hour”? For real life Gene Roddenberry it was “Pretty Maids All in a Row” which was filmed and released in 1971. You don’t have to watch this stinker because our own @mark2000.bsky.social reviewed it for @trekmovie.bsky.social. 1/

Is #SNW “A Space Adventure Hour” a loving send up or a mean spirited swipe at Star Trek’s roots. We hash that out first between us jerks and then with special guest Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@gavia.bsky.social) who begs us to ask “Why is Strange New Worlds So Obsessed With Giving Spock a Girlfriend”.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Define “Perfect Ending”?

We worry about AI slop muddying the waters, but OTOY's renderings are being passed around as historical photos. Not really their fault, but something to consider while working on these projects. Spent too much time this morning debunking one of their images. #selfappointedexpert #arbiteroftruth

The plot to Shuttle to Kenfori in a nut shell.

Ryan and Mark catch a Shuttle to Kenfori... or is it Kenifor? We figure that out along with how to rank Doctor M'Benga's many ethics violations in our latest #SNW review. Then we discuss our favorite Space zombies, the Borg!

TFW Adam Nimoy agrees the original Enterprise was not a warship.

Trois judging you throughout the ages.

I used to say “Think about music” in a robot voice to our kid and it made her laugh every time. She’s never see the episode. #TOSSatNight

“‘Cause it’s a school, Kaleb” made me lol

Been watching the Mae Martin show "Wayward" and F me if Alyvia Alyn Lind isn't the spitting image of a young Denise Crosby.

Everything bagel. If the place will do it olive cream cheese on one half, jalapeño cream cheese on the other. If I can only pick one schmear it’ll be jalapeño.

Art by Lou Feck for cover of Bantam’s “Star Trek 4” James Blish episode adaptations.

Michelle Phillips, best for her role as Picard’s old flame, Jenice Manheim, in the Star Trek TNG episode “We’ll Always Have Paris” (1988).

🍇🍾NEW EPISODE🍇🍷Bryan and Kristen play TREK MARRY KILL with TNG's "Family." Jean-Luc Picard returns home, Worf's adopted parents come aboard and have got jokes; and, Beverly Crusher finds a message from her dead husband meant for their son. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Every season of SNW has to have a Spock high jinks episode, and this one came sooner than expected in Wedding Bell Blues. We'll discuss why Spock is only allowed to be funny in silly episodes and how disturbingly one sided Pike/Batel is. Then we'll tell you what we're binging lately!

Trois judging you throughout the ages.

"In a way, the Enterprise and the optimistic future in which it exists might be thought of as a reminder of what we can achieve when we really try." - Gene Roddenberry Happy future launch day to the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701-D. Model credits in the alt text of the image.

Futzing around with Corel Painter with my favorite Golden Girl.

Come on. She knew. She just didn't care.

Well, this is kind of insane. A pic I posted of our newborn on Flickr in 2006 is now a meme. I had no idea. At least KYM correctly credits me…

We're starting a new run of episodes reviewing this season of SNW. This week we take on the conclusion to Hegemony. Then Ryan watched Murderbot and Mark watched Alien:Earth but neither of us wanted to sit through the other. So, we spoil them for each other while discussing their similar themes!

Three drunk Datas, a bearded Data, and a Lore.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1: Star Trek 2: Film cameras 3: Affordable housing

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Imagine how annoyed I was that I memorized the NATO alphabet only to find out Star Trek uses the wartime CCB.

You know its going to be a good day when you wake up with the horniest song ever written in your head.

Trek Bros: Spock is 100% hetero! Spock:

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If you’re in the San Diego Area, I’ll be giving a presentation on “Fandom for Fame: How to Use What You Love to Get the Right Attention” at @filamcreatorcon.bsky.social this Saturday at the Chula Vista Library. Check it out and all the other rad Pinoy creators. #FIlAmCreatives #FilAm #ScriptSky

Did I miss Amok Time day?

Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.

A company just wrote me to commission an illustration and they sent some AI slop they generated for “ideas”. I have no idea how to reply. I haven’t written them back at all yet.

Just quick sketching the girls.

Every time I hear “Money is for Nothing” I think of the Willow season finale and curse Disney for not renewing it.