The Mirror Enterprise transporter room plaque from 5x05 "Mirrors", transcribed by Jörg on Twitter

I missed some Saru/ T’Rina in episode 4 (face the strange), so here you go!

inspired by this post

Just another day on the bridge.

Star Trek: Discovery - 05x05 Mirrors

ISS Enterprise NCC-1701

Really enjoying the new season of Star Trek: Discovery! Here's my retro poster for yesterday's newest episode "Mirrors". Congrats to all involved and can't wait for next week!

For Star Trek the Motion Picture, Andrew Probert did concept art for a climactic scene in the original script where the original Enterprise performed an emergency saucer separation. 

Though the maneuver is associated with the Next Generation, saucer separation was mentioned in dialogue in the original series (notably “The Apple”), though never actually shown on screen, as a possible emergency escape plan of last resort. 

I haven't read this book, but from the cover art I assume it's a sequel to Star Trek Generations where someone fixes the leftovers from the Enterprise and takes it on a joyride through the bayou

[Image description Book cover for "THE MISSISSIPPI SAUCER AND SEVEN MORE STORIES by FRANK BELKNAP LONG" the cover art shows a planet surrounded by asteroids and what looks like the saucer section of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation]

Whenever William Riker needs to talk to Captain Picard, he first goes to the holodeck and watches Trip Tucker explode.

D.C. Fontana’s final Star Trek episode was the 2006 New Voyages fan film “To Serve All My Days”, starring Walter Koenig as Chekov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSIL0p8aqzY

Norway Class Refit (”Project Squadron” Star Trek fan film), Robert Bonchune

Why you should watch Star Trek: Hidden Frontier

Hidden Frontier is a long-running (seven seasons, plus multiple spin-offs!) series of Star Trek fan films following the U.S.S. Excelsior, a 3-nacelled Galaxy Dreadnought in the post-TNG/DS9/VOY Trek universe. It's really janky, shot entirely on greenscreen in low-resolution, with iffy homemade costumes, zero camera movement and their main theme is nicked from Galaxy Quest, but it's full of heart and so watchable. Writing and editing is super crisp, everything moves at a super brisk pace and as they go on they improve exponentially. Episodes are only about 24 minutes long. Lots of TNG-style standing and talking and lots and lots of DS9 style massive fleet battles with decent CGI.

Oh yeah, and it had gay characters a decade before TV Trek did!

Here's the YouTube channel

Who wants to see a Star Trek fan film 35 years in the making? James Shigeta as Admiral Nogura? And George Takei in it as Sulu??

Partly filmed in 1985, picked up and finished off over the past couple of years this is a fun way to spend 20 minutes.

every writer in the 90s, when the chance of having a gay character comes up: time for an...AIDS ALLEGORY!

The return of Action Saru!

These log entries are being posted to Instagram but luckily someone is putting a copy on Youtube as well. BTW, I'm pretty certain the avians we saw in the episode were from TAS. Same for the alien who was checking the guest list for the party.

It's too bad these things are being posted to Tumblr as well. After all, McMahan said we should tweet and tumblr at Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome. And Eugene Cordero (Rutherford) said they were big tumblr'ers.

And it just occurred to me that Lower Decks should break the fourth wall via a personal log entry a la DS9's In The Pale Moonlight but with a humorous rather than a dark tone.