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She was truly a pioneer and she will be missed. 😢

To the woman that inspired countless girls and people of color, we will never forget you.

You will always be in our hearts.

Thank you for going where no woman had gone before.

Nichelle Nichols 1932- 2022

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

Why it was never just a show set in space.

A Captain’s Log (1994)

U.S.S. Enterprise

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS | S1E1

#SG1 #TOS #Daniel Jackson #Spock #Daniel/Vala #Don’t really have one

If you have watched both StarGATE and Star Trek please tell me the following in the tags (it’s for science):

Favorite Stargate series

Favorite Star Trek series

Favorite Stargate character

Favorite Star Trek character

Favorite Stargate ship (as in relationship)

Favorite Star Trek ship

Great casting choice.

Masterlist of all the Bones Comparison pics that I’ve collected! Some of the specific comparisons are ones that others drew my attention too, but a few I stumbled upon myself. All pics are off the ‘net. My apologies for duplicate pics, but I’m not really sorry because I like them all so much.

First up: Thoughtful Bones. Or pensive. Or concerned. Or worried out of his mind. You decide, lol

...I don’t know how to caption this expression, but I do know that I find it amusing.

Soft!Bones! His not-smile! ‘Tis the same! The little crook in it gets me. (My personal favorite)

Top pics: Bones looking at His Idiots(TM) with love. Bottom pics: Bones looking at His Idiots(TM) with pure disgruntled annoyance.

Bones silently questioning your sanity. Or his. Who knows.

No questioning it now, Bones has decided with all of his full Chief Medical Officer Insight that the idiots surrounding him have lost their collective marbles. Now all that’s left to wonder is just where their minds flew the coop to.

Bones Yelling at ALLL the Idiots.

Bones just being himself! ;-)

I might do separate posts containing individual comparisons later. Anyway, I do think that Karl Urban was a spectacular follow up to Deforest Kelley’s portrayal of Bones. They genuinely look like they could be related!

My first love.

Prepping the Enterprise-A.

Beautiful artwork.

“THIS IS OUR REBELLION” Uzuri Art (2021) | Twitter | Tumblr | Instagram

Can. Not. Wait!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Uhura Teaser

Various Starfleet-issued hand weapons from Star Trek The Original Series, the first six films, The Next Generation, and the Kelvin-timeline.

Here’s another photo of De (looking awesome in his coat, vest and tie) during the Star Trek production team’s visit to a NASA facility in 1967.

The photos below have been posted before by me and others (check out @star trek nasa visit), but I like to have them all together in one post, so there you go.

Whether you enjoy this or that, whether you love the new Star Wars or Star Trek or neither, always remember we’re all sci-fi lovers and always celebrate our inner kids who love thinking about the future. So have a great Christmas, holidays, or whatever you celebrate. In the end, we’re all on a “pale blue dot” zipping through the cosmos, hoping we don’t get creamed by an asteroid or some gamma burst.

Beautiful ship!

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A, from Star Trek Beyond, by Alexander Klemm.

Too good not to reblog.

Mark Hamill’s autographs are hilarious

Part 2 of the autographes: https://bit.ly/3CFiHzc

A solar eclipse and the Milky  Way seen from the ISS

Mike Minor

Star Trek: Phase 2 Enterprise launch

via The Light Works

Reblogging this because the color theory comments have made laugh harder than anything in years.

Interesting

Symbols of the Galaxy

When the Andor title and sizzle reel were released, we also saw a brand new symbol from the GFFA. It makes up the O in the Andor title.

Here are some Rebel Alliance-affiliated symbols for comparison.

From left to right: a rebel symbol seen on the helmets of some pilots in Rogue One; the traditional symbol for the Alliance to Restore the Republic aka the Rebel Alliance as first seen in A New Hope; and the symbol for the Alliance, particularly Phoenix Cell, as first seen in Star Wars: Rebels. These symbols have been generally referred to as a variation on a starbird.

The following are some other symbols seen in the GFFA for comparison.

From left to right: the symbol for the Confederacy of Independent Systems, aka the Separatists; the symbol for the Jedi Order; the symbol for the Galactic Republic; and the symbol for the Empire.

The Andor symbol is most similar to rebel symbols from the Rebellion era than any symbols from the Prequels era, including the Separatists with whom Cassian was once affiliated.

So, it’s likely that the symbol we see in Andor is that of an early rebel group, like Pheonix Cell.

Potentially, this could be the symbol for the Atrivis Resistance Group, or a predecessor. The ARG does not yet have a symbol in canon, nor did it have one in Legends based on available information.

Something to hold us over until Andor premieres.

rebellions are built on hope.

HAPPY STAR TREK DAY!!!!

Thank you to everybody having anything to do with the original Star Trek series.

Thanks to all of you on Tumbler for keeping its spirit alive and kicking.

And of course, thank you to DeForest Kelley and his character Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, who have given me so much pleasure all these years. You’ll always be in my heart.

Discovering the Universe Through the Constellation Orion

Do you ever look up at the night sky and get lost in the stars? Maybe while you’re stargazing, you spot some of your favorite constellations. But did you know there’s more to constellations than meets the eye? They’re not just a bunch of imaginary shapes made up of stars — constellations tell us stories about the universe from our perspective on Earth.

What is a constellation?

A constellation is a named pattern of stars that looks like a particular shape. Think of it like connecting the dots. If you join the dots — stars, in this case — and use your imagination, the picture would look like an object, animal, or person. For example, the ancient Greeks believed an arrangement of stars in the sky looked like a giant hunter with a sword attached to his belt, so they named it after a famous hunter in their mythology, Orion. It’s one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky and can be seen around the world. The easiest way to find Orion is to go outside on a clear night and look for three bright stars close together in an almost-straight line. These three stars represent Orion's belt. Two brighter stars to the north mark his shoulders, and two more to the south represent his feet.

Credit: NASA/STScI

Over time, cultures around the world have had different names and numbers of constellations depending on what people thought they saw. Today, there are 88 officially recognized constellations. Though these constellations are generally based on what we can see with our unaided eyes, scientists have also invented unofficial constellations for objects that can only be seen in gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.

Perspective is everything

The stars in constellations may look close to each other from our point of view here on Earth, but in space they might be really far apart. For example, Alnitak, the star at the left side of Orion's belt, is about 800 light-years away. Alnilam, the star in the middle of the belt, is about 1,300 light-years away. And Mintaka, the star at the right side of the belt, is about 900 light-years away. Yet they all appear from Earth to have the same brightness. Space is three-dimensional, so if you were looking at the stars that make up the constellation Orion from another part of our galaxy, you might see an entirely different pattern!

The superstars of Orion

Now that we know a little bit more about constellations, let’s talk about the supercool cosmic objects that form them – stars! Though over a dozen stars make up Orion, two take center stage. The red supergiant Betelgeuse (Orion's right shoulder) and blue supergiant Rigel (Orion's left foot) stand out as the brightest members in the constellation.

Credit: Derrick Lim

Betelgeuse is a young star by stellar standards, about 10 million years old, compared to our nearly 5 billion-year-old Sun. The star is so huge that if it replaced the Sun at the center of our solar system, it would extend past the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter! But due to its giant mass, it leads a fast and furious life.

Betelgeuse is destined to end in a supernova blast. Scientists discovered a mysterious dimming of Betelgeuse in late 2019 caused by a traumatic outburst that some believed was a precursor to this cosmic event. Though we don’t know if this incident is directly related to an imminent supernova, there’s a tiny chance it might happen in your lifetime. But don't worry, Betelgeuse is about 550 light-years away, so this event wouldn't be dangerous to us – but it would be a spectacular sight.

Rigel is also a young star, estimated to be 8 million years old. Like Betelgeuse, Rigel is much larger and heavier than our Sun. Its surface is thousands of degrees hotter than Betelgeuse, though, making it shine blue-white rather than red. These colors are even noticeable from Earth. Although Rigel is farther from Earth than Betelgeuse (about 860 light-years away), it is intrinsically brighter than its companion, making it the brightest star in Orion and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

Credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Buckle up for Orion’s belt

Some dots that make up constellations are actually more than one star, but from a great distance they look like a single object. Remember Mintaka, the star at the far right side of Orion's belt? It is not just a single star, but actually five stars in a complex star system.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/M. Corcoran et al.; Optical: Eckhard Slawik

Sword or a stellar nursery?

Below the three bright stars of Orion’s belt lies his sword, where you can find the famous Orion Nebula. The nebula is only 1,300 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth. Because of its brightness and prominent location just below Orion’s belt, you can actually spot the Orion Nebula from Earth! But with a pair of binoculars, you can get a much more detailed view of the stellar nursery. It’s best visible in January and looks like a fuzzy “star” in the middle of Orion’s sword.

More to discover in constellations

In addition to newborn stars, Orion also has some other awesome cosmic objects hanging around. Scientists have discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbiting stars there. One of those planets is a giant gas world three times more massive than Jupiter. It’s estimated that on average there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. Just think of all the worlds you may be seeing when you look up at the night sky!

It’s also possible that the Orion Nebula might be home to a black hole, making it the closest known black hole to Earth. Though we may never detect it, because no light can escape black holes, making them invisible. However, space telescopes with special instruments can help find black holes. They can observe the behavior of material and stars that are very close to black holes, helping scientists find clues that can lead them closer to discovering some of these most bizarre and fascinating objects in the cosmos.

Next time you go stargazing, remember that there’s more to the constellations than meets the eye. Let them guide you to some of the most incredible and mysterious objects of the cosmos — young stars, brilliant nebulae, new worlds, star systems, and even galaxies!

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A handwritten note by DeForest Kelley on his personal stationary. His handwriting is translated below:

(1) Knowing what you want is half the battle.

(2) Once you know— don’t give up.

(3) Remember: Behind every successful man is an exhausted woman.

DeForest Kelley’s signature

DeForest and Carolyn Kelley in 1968.

De was quoted numerous times in saying “I make the living, but Carolyn makes the life worth living.”

What a wonderful husband DeForest was. Everyone should have a partner/husband/wife/spouse/significant other/friend who appreciates us like that.

I really enjoyed this VR experience. I think K2 was the best part.

Cassian Andor in Secrets of the Empire x

Okay probably my favorite droid in the Star Wars universe.

Yes! Love the thought out behind space travel here.

Thought on science fictional hyperspaces:

So, like a lot of science fiction writers, in a couple of my science fiction settings I explain “fast” interstellar communication and travel by saying it involves sending messages and spacecraft through “hyperspace.” Hyperspace is a sort of “basement” of our universe that messages and ships can pass through; it is more compact than our space, and there is a correspondence between locations in hyperspace and locations in our space. So, a ship can enter hyperspace, travel a few hundred or thousand AU or a light year or something, go back to our space, and be in the Alpha Centauri system. This is possible because hyperspace offers a possible path where e.g. the distance between our solar system and Alpha Centauri is less than 4 light years; hyperspace is a cosmic short-cut. You can send radio messages through the same short-cut, if you stick the right parts of the transmitter and receiver into hyperspace.

So far, so I good, but like a lot of science fiction writers I also prefer to limit hyperspace travel so it’s more-or-less useless for relatively short journeys, e.g. between planets of our solar system within the orbit of Uranus. This is mostly because I like that hard SF stuff where space travel within a solar system is treated relatively realistically and a solar system still feels big. I’m OK with hyperspace for letting my characters get to Tau Ceti in less than twelve years, but when it comes to asteroid mining, space battles, etc., I want that stuff to work more-or-less like it would in real life. Larry Niven had a nice approach for this: just say you can’t enter or exit hyperspace close to a large mass, so e.g. you can’t enter or exit hyperspace within 20 AU of our sun. To travel to Alpha Centauri through hyperspace you have to travel out beyond Sol’s hyper-limit, then go into hyperspace and take the hyperspace short-cut, then exit hyperspace outside Alpha Centauri’s hyper-limit, then travel the rest of the way in our space. A hyper-limit limitation on hyperspace travel works well for me. I’m less satisfied with it as a limitation on hyperspace communication though, and a few days ago I had an idea for that which I like.

It came to me as I was thinking about how hyperspace travel is kind of analogous to being able to travel through the interior of a sphere instead of being limited to travelling on its outer surface. If you have a sphere the size of Earth and you want to get to a point on the exact opposite side of it, if you have to travel along the outer circumference that’s a journey of 40,000 kilometers, but if you could travel in a straight line through the center of the sphere that’s only 12,750 kilometers. Travelling from Sol to Alpha Centauri in our space is analogous to being limited to travelling along the outer circumference of a sphere, making the same journey through hyperspace is analogous to taking a short-cut through the interior of the sphere.

And it occurred to me to mentally pull on one feature of this analogy: a short-cut through the interior of a sphere would be much more useful for long journeys than for short ones. Again, let’s say the sphere is the size of Earth. If you only want to travel one meter, the difference between a path along the outer circumference of the sphere and a short-cut through its interior is very small. A 1 meter path along flat ground is pretty close to being a straight line. On the other hand, if you want to get to the other side of the sphere, the path along the sphere’s outer circumference is more than three times as long as the path through the center of the sphere.

And I had the idea: what if hyperspace works in a way that’s analogous to that? Maybe the distance between, say, Earth and Jupiter is analogous to a 1 meter distance on the surface of the Earth; so small that the shortest possible path through hyperspace is almost as long as the shortest possible path through our space. Then the distance to Alpha Centauri might be more analogous to a journey across a large fraction of Earth’s circumference; it’s big enough that the shortest possible path through our space is orders of magnitude longer than the shortest possible path through hyperspace. The geometry involved is probably a lot less straightforward than spherical geometry to humans, so for short distances the relationship between our space distances and hyperspace distances might even invert; you might have a set-up where 100 light years in our space is 5 light years in hyperspace, 4 light years in our space is 1 light year in hyperspace, and 1 AU in our space is 4 AU in hyperspace.

This might get you a set-up where you can have relatively fast interstellar communication and travel, but within the orbit of Neptune (or equivalent distance) you’re stuck dealing with light lag.

It would also have the interesting effect that hyperspace travel gets faster for longer journeys. A 1 year voyage might take you to Alpha Centauri, a 5 year voyage might take you 100 light years, a 20 year voyage might take you to the other side of the galaxy, a 100 year voyage might take you to a distant galaxy billions of light years away.

Worth reblogging.

From facebook; mic drop.

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