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This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.
There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.
Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.
This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!
The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.
Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"
Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.
I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.
The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.
You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.
The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.
Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!
Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!
That link again.
#star trek#star trek aos#star trek movies#tng#voyager#star trek picard#star trek phase 2#roddenberry archive#strange new worlds#set design#deep lore#star trek ships#star trek tech#star trek discovery#star trek enterprise#enterprise#uss enterprise#ncc 1701#starfleet museum
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why’d u tag it super monkey ball
I was with some co-workers at a bar and while I was nerd-ranting about how the 3DS (and even the Switch) needed to bring back old games that used gyroscopic controls (Kirby Tilt 'N Tumble, Wario Ware: Twisted, etc.) one of the girls in the group mentioned how cool it would be to play Super Monkey Ball like that on a handheld and we both agreed that gyro-controls aren't just a shit gimmick like the 3D function was on 3DS.
I love Super Monkey Ball, and thought it was sweet that this person I didn't even know played games was not only LISTENING but on the same wavelength.
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My Time In ONI character writing
#my time in ONi#halo webcomic#spartan II program#jane doe#agent jane#office of naval intelligence#deep lore
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Please enjoy this incredible factoid in the Revenge of the Sith Visual Dictionary that Obi-wan is leaving his cloaks all around the galaxy.
#obi-wan leaving his clothes at his hook-ups confirmed#so uncivilized#obi wan kenobi#hoe-bi wan kenobi#Star Wars visual dictionary#ewan mcgregor#revenge of the Sith#rots#deep lore
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sometimes you just gotta put your azem in the asphodelos gear
for science
#ffxiv#ffxiv azem#ffxiv ancient#azem#astrid#drawing#oc#fan oc#i'm gonna be honest#i sketched the whole thing from the front#then remembered the casting top has a draped back#redrew it all from the other side flkfjflskjdfs#so much better for it lol#if the pose is weird it's cause they were sitting on a chair in the original angle and i didn't wanna draw it from this side fffff#deep lore#the glove is abyssos i do what i want#they need the little claws okay
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The problem with explaining why you turned off anon messages & locked your accounts everywhere you could is that everyone assumes something horrible happened to incite that. When in my case, I did it bc the showrunner of the Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing discovered me hatetweeting his show & made fun of me to all the other writers on the Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing
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Here. A deep Three Houses lore joke for ya'll about Rhea (or Seiros I suppose) and Wihelm.
#fire emblem three houses#fire emblem#rhea#seiros#fire emblem rhea#wihelm fire emblem#fe#lore joke#fe text post#text post#deep lore#rhea fire emblem#church of seiros#adrestia#adrestian empire#why does no one talk more about this era of Rhea silliness?
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What flavor of popcorn does Medic like I'm getting him some
i hate to disappoint you anon, but he doesnt like popcorn! he hates how the kernels get stuck in his teeth and how loudly everyone else eats it and the smell of that overly salty artificial butter gives him a headache. if youre offering it to him, he miiiight eat just a few pieces of it to be polite if its sweet and/or the kind that has chocolate on it but dont expect him to take more than a few pieces
#congratulations anon for unleashing this anciet medic headcanon ive had forever#i never anticipated it being relevant or worth sharing xD#deep lore#tf2 medic#if you do show up unannounced with a bag of popcorn for him. he wont eat ot sorry but he WILL give it to engie :]#engie loves popcorn of any kind#replies from the void#the doc is in
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This is Vampire Hunter D
And this is Big D, the vampire hunter
So am I the last person to get this joke or is this some deep Hunter: The Parenting lore?
#htp#h:tp#hunter the parenting#hunter: the parenting#world of darkness#wod#chronicles of darkness#cod#new world of darkness#wnod#vampire hunter d#big d#big e#deep lore
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LO, YOU ARE HERE NOW, HERE IS AN ASK FOR YOU TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE PEOPLE, HOW DOES IT FEEL BOO
WELL HOWDY THARR YOU TERRIBLE FUCKING ENABLER!
I'm Sam, aka Silverbirch on AO3. He/Him. I like, in no particular order:
Netflix's Shadow and Bone (currently ficcin')
Jewelry (I'm a professional authenticator, appraiser and aspiring historian, btw. Yes, of gems and jewelry. Yes, that's a thing. Stop slipping law school applications under my door, MOM, I'm 36 years old)
Archaeology (long neglected degree)
Classical studies / mythology (currently resisting the urge to get a degree)
An ungainly shitload of comics, books, and videogames
Humanism (of the secular variety)
Plants (I'm one of those gays)
My cats (I'm also one of those gays)
Interior design that bespeaks color, personality, the input of living people (fuck off with your grey-beige shiplap, and yes also that kind of gay if you're taking notes)
Two of the finest people I have ever known and two of my closest friends, Gremble (@abeautifulblog) and Hilary (@qqueenofhades), both of whom I met via AO3 comment seduction
I HOPE THIS EXHAUSTIVE AND DETAILED DOSSIER FINDS YOU WELL, MY LITTLE LIVER DUMPLINGS <3
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If theres no coffe in signalis, what the fuck have the kolibris been drinking in their office with COFFE CUPS? Condensed milk?
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WARP CORE DEEP DIVE!
Where it all began. So much so, that they never quite nailed down what anything in engineering was. We know the thing in the middle was a "matter/antimatter integrator" and it had a dilithium crystal in it. But it didn't appear until later on, the floor was originally empty. There were also large transformer-ish things that moved about as the plot demanded. The big thing behind the mesh? That's the pipe cathedral. Maybe it was an impulse engine (as per the old Star Trek Blueprints by Franz Joseph) or perhaps it was part of the warp drive. Originally the idea was that the warp nacelles generated their own power. But that would change soon...
The Animated Series gave us something very similar to the TOS engine room, with the pipe cathedral and one BIG transformer, but instead of the matter/antimatter integrator we got a glass tube with what looked like measurements on it. Maybe it's a proto-warp core a la TMP, especially since it's in a similar spot to Strange New Worlds'. Or maybe it's a coolant pipe like the 2009 movie. Who knows? We also saw inside the "antimatter nacelle" in one episode, which is generally assumed to mean inside one of the warp engines themselves but it's all a bit vague.
The Motion Picture gave us the original Big Blue Lava Lamp, the physical set was 3 stories high but augmented with forced-perspective, in the form of a painting at the bottom of the shaft and a truncated horizontal intermix chamber crewed by children at the end of the main level. The engineering crew on the main deck now wear radiation suits, adding to the idea this big blue thing isn't your friend.
This was also the Big Retcon, making the intermix chamber the power source for the warp nacelles. Every Trek regardless of era would follow this route.
In Wrath of Khan, they'd add a very important side room with dilithium crystals in for Spock to self-sacrifice in. I always found it very amusing this room, where the most important part of the engineering machinery was, was in no way physically connected to the intermix chamber. Nor did it exist in the previous movie.
The Next Generation gave us a pot-bellied stove, with neon segments glowing one-by-one up and down to give the impression of pulses of energy colliding in the middle then being fed to the nacelles. No more radiation suits needed, and the room has a nice carpet. This was also the first time "warp core" was used, a phrase that would retroactively be applied to all the prior ones.
The Enterprise-E and DS9's Defiant would have bigger and smaller warp cores that were variations on the same theme as TNG.
Voyager brought back the classic Motion Picture big blue lava lamp, just without the horizontal tube this time. It does the nifty swirly thing too. Q Junior makes it do club lighting one time.
NX-01 Enterprise is just kind of this big industrial tank with some glowy bits. It's weird that in the classic movies they needed radiation suits to work in engineering, but in the series set 100 years earlier they didn't.
The 2009 reboot filmed engineering in a thinly disguised Budweiser brewery, which made the area look enourmous and extremely complex, but lost all the high tech clean room vibes prior shows had. What in real life were giant brewing tanks housed the intermix chambers which made up the warp core, which were ejected through a hatch in the roof at the end. This look was extremely controversial with some, but personally I loved it.
In Into Darkness the warp core looks like an almighty piece of kit, and that's because they shot on location at the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility. It's a real-life fusion reactor. And then you can climb inside it and it turns out that inside is one very important laser thing, some dilithium crystals you barely see and lots of deadly radiation. At least the self sacrificing happens inside the core itself and not a weird separate side chamber this time. The brewery from the last movie was still there, implying this was all along even if we didn't visit it. But that complicates things because the bits they called the warp core are very different. Perhaps the intermix chambers ejected last movie and core seen here are all part of the same huge warp core system.
Strange New Worlds reboots the original... sort of. They put a vertical intermix chamber in there and instead of a mesh and forced perspective they've got an AR wall with an enourmous array of high tech pipes. But weirdly, the writers guide says the big AR wall with the updated pipe cathedral is the deflector dish machinery not the warp core. I guess the confusion makes it more authentic TOS.
#star trek#star trek the original series#the next generation#tng#ds9#star trek aos#starship design#deep lore#warp core
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The Professor's throw-away line about what he wants done with his body when he dies is possibly my favorite moment in Episode 5.
"When I die, can you just toss me into one of those claw machines?" is possibly the most succinct puppet distillation of Tibetan sky burial ever.
#watcher entertainment#tibetan buddhism#death care#sky burial#puppet history#the professor#deep lore
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Whenever I run into the number 8 in soulsborne games it's always very intentionally placed.
-number of titanite slabs in base game
-number of legs crystal lizard/ vagrants have
-number of children of chaos
-number of hooded statues at new londo lift
-branches of the morion blade
-branches of the white tree/stag horns of Mirrrah/Millwood nights
-other stuff I haven't noticed
My first thought, as always, Velka, the mother of gwyn's children, and her important and massive impact on the world, despite having no lord soul. (Maybe she and the witch of izalith both split from an original white witch, the original bearer of the world soul and godess of the missing moon, whose dragons are her angels)
Okay this is now too many things cuz I already thought Velka shared an identity with Fina and Caitha as like a Hecate/Trinity kinda pagan-catholic thing like Santa Muerte
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can…can we ask what the dnf ship is?
Popular RPF ship between two MCYTs. Both have since faced serious SA and grooming allegations with fans, which is why we do not endorse the ship anymore.
In the context of the asks that have been coming in here, a very popular (and extremely well-written) fanfiction arose from that ship called Heat Waves, which broke ao3 several times upon update and catapulted Glass Animals' song of the same name (that the fic was based off of) to virality. It was a pretty weird moment in fandom culture, Major news outlets were writing articles about it, the people involved in the fic openly admitted to having read it, it trended on twitter for multiple days. Heat Waves and its sequel Helium were subsequently taken down by the author due to their feeling that fandom boundaries had just been completely eroded. It's a little bit of a cautionary tale to those of us who indulge in RPF to keep it within very well-defined fandom spaces, and not let it near those whom it involves, nor those who could seek to exploit it.
Glass Animals is a fantastic band though and deserves a chance to throw off the Heat Waves curse. Go listen to their newest song Creatures in Heaven.
#trying to find that wiki link took years off my life#asks#deep lore#i don't have any other way to put that lol#anon#it rlly was a “you just had to be there”
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