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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Subcommander Tal
Subcommander Tal
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Subcommander Tal
@SubcommanderT
I mostly riff on Original Series Star Trek (and also run ) Live tweeting #AllStarTrek and #TOSSatNight (mute to avoid logorrhea...)
The Neutral ZoneJoined November 2020
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“Dammit Spock, don’t tell me you want to hear the Pon Farr fight music AGAIN!!”
How I feel when I find another person on Twitter whose favorite Star Trek will always be The Original Series…
#AllStarTrek #TOSSatNight
When Kirk and Spock were on away missions the rest of the crew flagrantly violated uniform requirements and dressed casually…
Sleek production values are nice, but what moves me are performances that create an emotional world I believe in. Styrofoam rocks and tomato soup-colored scrims are irrelevant when good actors deliver thoughtful dialogue and are invested in their characters. Good Trek is theatre.
When I was a teen in the 80’s/90’s, I thought the movies were Star Trek at its best, and the show, while I loved it, seemed not as good. But as I’ve gotten older I find myself drawn to the look and feel and stories of the original series, and the movies somehow feel secondary.
The founder of Khan Academy putting together another practical online learning course…
It was my birthday and I had the day off so I went down to DC today with some friends. Couldn’t help but pop my head in the National Air and Space Museum to see the original 11’ Enterprise miniature, which has been beautifully restored…
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This was the first Star Trek photo I ever purchased, at my first convention in 1987. It took about fifteen years to get the autographs. You may notice one is missing: although I got to meet DeForest Kelley on a couple occasions, his arthritis prevented him from giving signatures.
I bought this at Waldenbooks during the presidential election year of 1988 when I was thirteen years old. It remains one of my prized possessions…
STAR TREK AS CAMP. I've said it before, but as goofy as some of TOS may seem to modern sensibilities, it was *not* meant as camp the way something like Batman was. Within the context of an episode like The Savage Curtain, Abraham Lincoln was very much taken in earnest...
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I love the plucky shuttlecraft Galileo! The story of both the miniature and the set piece being built by AMT in exchange for the Star Trek model kit rights is legendary. Despite its humble blockiness it seems to fit in with the TOS aesthetic…
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JAMES DOOHAN VETERANS DAY APPRECIATION TWEET. A World War II combat veteran in the 3rd Canadian Infantry, Doohan famously landed at Normandy on D-Day and lost the middle finger of his right hand to friendly fire…
#armisticeday2024
#VeteransDay2024
Can’t believe in 25 years they never got Bones a place to sit on the bridge…
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