I Thought You Guys Might Enjoy These Early Sketches Of The Enterprise.

I thought you guys might enjoy these early sketches of the Enterprise.

They are all taken from The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry

They're so silly

starfleet ds9 crew: we only have two morally compromising options before us here... what we need is a third option

the third option:

he's like if the trolley problem could be solved by a mentally unwell gay lizard jumping onto the trolley and blowing up the track before it got to the junction where the switch could theoretically happen

I like and respect Quodo as a ship, but they're also deeply unserious to me. Just, inherently cracky.

Because I cannot imagine either of them ever giving up their shenanigans. Like, I heard about some rival professors once who were complete opposites in their theories, had big research battles, everyone thought they hated each other, etc. As it turned out, they were married. Their marriage survived because they just. Completely left their work at work. They never spoke about it at home. They'd write the world's most scathing rebuttals of the other's research, and then go home and make them tea.

Quodo? Would not do that. They'd be at their wedding, and Quark would still try to scam all the guests, and Odo would still try to put him in jail for it. Odo would routinely bug his own quarters, and Quark would sell information about Odo on the black market. Absolute looney toons shenanigans.

Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut) jumpscare in DS9

What if the reason Kira and Sisko went from being suspicious about each other, to being besties, was this common experience of explaining to their hierarchy that, yes, you just lost the pope on the other side of the Galaxy. And no, she's not coming back

Imagine how embarassing it must have been for Sisko as a Starfleet officer. Now imagine 10 times worse for Kira, as a Bajoran militia officer and a believer

Must've felt as if there was no coming back from this. Bonding through shame