#the voyage home

(screencaps from tours of the children’s museum, CT)

even tho i watched TOS for the first time as an adult, it felt nostalgic and familiar to me because the enterprise looked just like the science center i grew up going to in CT. the building was worn down and underfunded, but was cared for by a dedicated staff, and the place was so evocative of TOS atmospherically. there was even a life-size model of a whale out front (they named her connie..)

i got to stay there overnight in 3rd grade, in a sleeping bag on the carpet. we woke up before sunrise to the sound of the AC humming in the vents, and i walked past the lizard tanks and down the long glass hallway in my blue pajamas, cold and silent and awaiting, a wonderful liminal space with the birds chirping outside. i felt like i was floating in the dark with them and the feeling has never left me.

we went down the spiral staircase past the turtle room and to the gengras planetarium for a starshow. the seats were red leather and the lights showed us how the stars and planets had moved while we slept. i was still half in a REM state and it felt like a vision.

watching TOS for the first time 20 years later was like coming home, the thrill the science officers must feel, waking up in the dark to run labs, cold and silent in their blue pajamas and half-dreaming.

S'chn T'gai Fashion

i like to think they met

capslog1701:

trek-tracks:

trek-tracks:

For All Your Star Trek TOS/AOS Coffeeshop AU Naming Needs:

Jim:

• Captain’s Mug
• Kobayashi Ma-Brew
• Four cups? I’ll do it in three.
• Star Trek: Into Dark Roast
• The Caffeinate Maneuver
• Blond Roast
• Jim’s Java

McCoy:

• Bones’ Beans
• A Coffee A Day…
• Caffeine Drip
• McCoyffee
• Hippocratic Roast
• Brewedside Manner
• All I’ve Got Left is My Beans

Spock:

• Tranquilitea
  
• Kolinahr Coffee
• Vulcanteen
• Spock’s Barista
• Koon-Ut-Kal-I-ffeine
• The Logical Latte
• SpockTeas(Bones suggested this one. Spock doesn’t get it.)

Uhura:

• Phonemes, Morphemes and Caffeine
• The Talented Tongue
• Coffee ‘N’ Comms
• Espresso Yourself

Scotty:

• Scotty’s Lattes
• Scott-Tea
• Maximum Warp

Sulu:

• Hikaru Brew
• Pots and Plants
• Grounds For a Duel

Chekov:

• Brewed in Russia
• Chekoffee
• Pavel’s Pour-Overs

Chapel:

• Chapelccino
• BioBeans
• Christine’s Caffeines

General

• Redshirts and Redeyes
• Plato’s Steeped Children
• Operation: Caffeinate!
• Is There in Truth No Coffee?
• Star Trek: The Caffeinated Series
• Coffee on the Edge of Forever
• Star Trek: The Mocha Picture
• The Wrath of Khanffee
• The Search For Shots (of Espresso)
  
• The Voyage Foam
• The Final Filter
• The Undiscovered Coffee

The best thing about this post is everyone reblogging it and tagging a different favourite name.

I also can’t believe I left this at 49 puns when either “Bean Me Up, Scotty,” or “Transporter Bean” was right there.