The best bit of the “nuclear wessels” scene, is that Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig literally went out and asked passerby. Not extras; genuine strangers on the street.
I want to emphasize: in 1986, during the Cold War, they had a man with a Russian accent thick enough to walk on wander the streets asking random people about nuclear technology. I’m amazed that people were (vaguely) helpful.
alt right movements in america have found such success bc of they r unified in their hatred. they got that brand loyalty level dedication to being evil. ppl on the left will spend five minutes giving a dissertation if u make the mistake of calling them a democrat
the amount of infighting and moral superiority and perfectionism drives me CRAZY bc girl u r not a better person bc u told people it wasn’t ethical to vote <3
“protests don’t do anything it’s just to make yourself feel better” “luigi mangione had conservative values so I don’t know if I can support him” “if you vote for kamala it’s a vote for genocide” “I can’t side with bernie sanders bc he still aligns with the democrats” “blue collars shouldn’t be allowed to…” BRO are you actually doing ANYTHING helpful or just alienating people that are offering to help bail out a sinking ship?
Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that
I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism
I was also today years old. Fandom codes man
Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)
The reason it was called “The Premise” was plausible deniability. Because homosexuality was still criminalized then, and admitting to shipping a couple fictional dudes together could get you in serious trouble if you said it to the wrong person, but fans wanted to be able to find each other, and discuss their fandom in semi-public spaces safely. And so, “The Premise” became code. If someone didn’t know the code, they’d assume you’re talking about the literal premise of the show (that is, the idea that humans will have faster-than-light space travel in the future and travel around meeting aliens and having adventures), and respond accordingly.
It’s exactly the same concept as how, if you tell some random person who doesn’t tumblr that you like their shoelaces, they’ll be like “uh, thanks?” and then you know they don’t tumblr while they also have not been informed that YOU tumblr. But if they respond “thanks, I stole them from the president”… you both know. Except with higher social stakes for making sure you aren’t outing yourself as a Spirk shipper to the wrong person. It’s fine NOW of course, but it wasn’t always.
I am a simple woman. I see Star Trek content, I reblog.
I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful
In honor of the Ides of March, please enjoy what is still to this day my FAVORITE performance of “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”