“So I knew from the word go that this was a Frakes because he opened with a spinny camera. Look, someone needs to take gimbals away from that man. John, sweety, it’s great that you love them but you’re kind of overdoing it.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 435: Between a Breen and a Void Place

The new Riker Maneuver is to treat the camera like a roadside sign spinner treats a pizza sign. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“It’s a face where Stamets looks like maybe he smells something foul but also he thinks that your idea is stupid but he has a little bit of hope that it might work, and he looks like he’s just a condescending little bitch.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 435: Between a Breen and a Void Place

Even a big Stamets stan like Caitlin has finally been worn down by the constant Resting Smug Face. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“Do you think in the 32nd century they still sell milk in the store in paper cartons, and do you think if they do, Detmer and Owo’s pictures are on it?” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 435: Between a Breen and a Void Place

Missing: most of the #StarTrekDiscovery bridge crew. If seen, please call Admiral Vance. #StarTrek
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“Everyone’s like, ‘You notice, Rayner doesn’t sit in the chair. Oo! Scandalous!’ Maybe he has hemorrhoids, bitch!” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 435: Between a Breen and a Void Place

How is it that the #StarTrekDiscovery bridge crew is more cliquey than the girls in Mean Girls? #StarTrek
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Hearts, Stars, and Trek: Romances in the Kelvin films and Discovery By Ames The candles are nearly out as our Trek date night is finally coming to an end, for now. Over the last couple of months, we’ve covered all the main romances in classic Trek—even including some....

Time to end our Trek Romances blog series and kiss goodnight. We're closing things out with couples from the Kelvin movies and Discovery, for now. Until we meet again!
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Episode 435: Between a Breen and a Void Place It's

#startrek "Discovery" has decided to have a heist for its penultimate episode, and it's pretty good! Meanwhile, Tilly bullies Rayner.
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“Here’s the question though: HAS Michael had a lot of failures since [the mutiny]? It seems like every time she gets involved with something, she’s always right, and everyone praises her for being right.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 434: Insufficient Bowie

We're led to believe that Burnham's greatest fear is failure. You could have fooled us! I thought it was sehlats. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“Wow, I wish they had just let Librarian be a normal person and not a Marvel fucking character. We’ve seen this fucking character in enough fucking media. Do something fucking different. It’s fucking exhausting.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 434: Insufficient Bowie

You can tell when Chris really doesn't like a character when most of his words are just cursing. (Yes, we just recorded our #Section31 episode, so stay tuned for more Chris swearing!) #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“I liked the Breen better when I couldn’t understand them and I just had to take Weyoun’s sassy, snarky- ass word for it. ‘Ho ho ho ho, yes Damar does look underdressed today. What’s he missing? Oh! His bottle of booze!’” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 434: Insufficient Bowie

The Breen in #StarTrekDiscovery are all well and good, but everyone knows the Breen in #StarTrekDS9 are best Breen. #StarTrek
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“It’s weird to me. It seems like it’s very popular for a super secret library in the Badlands.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 434: Insufficient Bowie

How are there so many visitors to the Eternal Gallery and Archive? Did all these library patrons have to make it through the Badlands too? #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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Post by @sshbpodcast · 5 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · I ship it: Non-canonical Romances in Trek · By Ames Over the past couple months, we’ve been commenting on how relationships throughout Trek have worked (or more frequently, failed…

We're shipping our favorite Star Trek characters this week! From #Spirk to #Garashir to #J7, there are a lot of choose from. So who are our favorite noncanonical couples?
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In #startrek "Discovery" episode "Labyrinths" we're upset about a lack of Muppets and another silly TEST (TM)
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“Book’s fucking line to Moll is also very dumb. ‘I know L’ak just died and you feel like you’ve lost your world. Hey, I lost a world too! Look, we’re bonding! Are we family yet?’” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around

Play it cool, Book. You're coming off as desperate every time you talk to Moll about wanting to be her new big brother. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“It bothers me slightly that the two antagonist races that we’ve seen in Discovery since we’ve come to the future have both been green. What does this show have against green people?” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around

Not all greenies are meanies! #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“You know what they could’ve done? They could’ve gone, ‘Ya know, we could try to fix Fred.’ They’ve still got his head.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around

How many times did we see Data survive without his body? C'mon, bring Fred back! Justice for Fred! #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“What is more stretchy: Having Jett randomly be a smuggler who knows about this library, or having Book’s empathy be able to trace the empathic link on the card to see where the library is?” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around

Are Kwejians the new Vulcans, getting a new superpower every week when the plot demands it? #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“The writers are like, ‘We need a character to do X,’ and then they go to the big spinner on the wall and just pull it and, ‘Oh okay, it’s gonna be Jett this week. Jett’s the rare books expert.’” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around

Oh noes, someone told the #StarTrek writers about wheelofnames.com, which we use to pick our fanfic characters for fanfic day. Whoopsie. #StarTrekDiscovery
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“I mentioned ages ago about something they do in season five that annoys me to no end, and this is it: Like fucking Last Jedi suddenly being like, ‘P.S., Poe was a smuggler at some point?’ ‘P.S., Jett was a smuggler at some point?’” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around

Turns out all your favorite characters were smugglers before their current jobs, ya know, for the sake of the plot. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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Post by @sshbpodcast · 17 images 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 3 · Hearts, Stars, and Trek: Other Trek Romances, part 2 · By Ames Spring is here and you know what that means: constant sex metaphors. We’re still in love with love here on A Star to…

We're fast approaching the end of our romance blog series, and yet there are still so many eligible bachelors to swipe through on Deep Space Nine alone! Who gets the rose? 🌹
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Episode 433: New Backgrounds All Around In

In our latest #startrek "Discovery" episode, "Erigah", problems are solved by characters suddenly getting new backstory! Would've been nice if any of this had been mentioned sooner...
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Jalad, Ames and Jake's tuxedo cat, standing obstinately in front of a television playing the Artemis II launch.

Jalad, as usual, has a lot of opinions about the #Artemis launch.

“The asymmetry on Reno’s uniform is very blatant. There’s a subtle difference between a little bit of asymmetry or I buttoned my shirt with the wrong buttonhole.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

The Starfleet uniforms of the 32nd century really love an asymmetrical cut... some better executed than others. #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek
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“Could they not have come up with a better name than Tarima? We had T’Rina three years ago! Like, what the fuck are we doing? And she’s not even Vulcan!” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

We were so confused whenever someone said Tarima's name because we thought they were saying T'Rina. Every. Time. #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek
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“That deep breathing scene is the most overtly fucking erotic thing Star Trek has ever done. I was sitting there like, ‘I don’t know if the rating is high enough on this. This is genuine eroticism.’” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

So everyone else was expecting that Karem/Jay-Den scene to turn into a makeout session too, right? Right? #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek
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“I love how tiny Ake is, and how she still somehow owns a room—through tininess.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

Holly Hunter is a force. It only makes sense that you'd get a literal superhero to lead the Athena. #StarfleetAcademy #TheIncredibles
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“The traits of these Lanthanites are interesting. They’re all just, like, art teacher types. ... Are Lanthanites just El-Aurians?” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

Jake's go-to Trek theory seems to always involve adding more Guinan. #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek
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“I knew that Tig Notaro was in this series, but I didn’t expect her to be such a presence. She was in this way more than she was in all five seasons of Discovery, frankly.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

Not only does #StarfleetAcademy deliver us more Jett Reno, which we've been begging for, but by the end she's more of a character than she's ever been. #StarTrek
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“I need Thok to talk a computer to death next season. We have not had a good computer-talk-to-death in decades and if anyone could do it, it’s her.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

What other Trek tropes do we want to see from #StarfleetAcademy? Getting unstuck in time? Holodeck malfunctioning? Introducing new Vulcan superpowers? #StarTrek
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“I would join War College just to have pockets.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Ten Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1

Sure, Starfleet uniforms make for great cosplay, but War College uniforms have enough pockets to hold your snacks! #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek
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Post by @sshbpodcast · 1 video 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 3 · Class is now in session: Starfleet Academy aesthetics · By Ames We recorded this week’s episode AND I wrote this post before learning the series will be over after its second seas…

It's time to get really pedantic about aesthetics again! We're catching Starfleet Academy up on all our past topics, so get ready to nitpick about kerning, measure hem lengths, and count all the tree metaphors in the opening title sequence.
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