Oh hell yes.

Rik Carranza Dad, comedian, geek, stage host. What you’ll find here: Geek debates. Rankings, lists and fun facts. Commentary on identity, pop culture, and the things that shape us. Whether you're a die-ha...

Hi! I’m Rik. I’ve been a huge Star Trek fan for over 30 years. I like most of it and I’ve been making Star Trek related content over on YouTube.

If you like Star Trek too, and are bored of the usual hate content from grifters, I hope you enjoy what I create.

youtube.com/@rikcarranza...

a cartoon character says you 've got to be kidding me in front of a group of aliens . ALT: a cartoon character says you 've got to be kidding me in front of a group of aliens .

Post about my new podcast, My Next Generation’, about watching Star Trek Prodigy with my son and the head writer @goodaaron.bsky.social likes it!

Trying to play it cool and clearly failing

From personal experience, Bose Quiet Comfort noise-canceling headphones were worth the investment. Works even with no music playing.

The Aqua Pod - a very boat-like shuttlecraft in the style Star Trek The Animated Series. I'm toying with the idea that it may fit into the underside of a starship hull, like the Enterprise-D's Captain's Yacht or Voyager's Aeroshuttle.

Aqua Pod high angle, showing of the hand railings. A lot of the details are just sketched roughly on the surface for now.

Comparison to the TOS shuttle. I had expected it to be smaller - and it is in profile - but it's a lot bigger than I expected from above. I could maybe shrink it down a touch.

Rear angle showing off recessed entry hatch and staging area. It's supposed to float, obviously, but can also land conventionally. In that case, the back will fold down and become stairs. This is where the Captain will set up their deckchair for sunbathing or fishing!

Captain's gig!

Today's WIP. Still quite rough, especially the outboard impulse engines which are basically just placeholders. I'm calling it the Aqua Pod.

Take the wrong lesson from a movie:

Blues Brothers

Just rob a gas station to pay the orphanage's property tax. It will save so much time and effort, and you won't have to go to church.

When your idea of a hot date is a bland youth pastor, everything else is scary.

Two beautiful Drag Queens reading Star Trek books while in the TNG observation lounge

The Observation Lounge 2 is open! You should follow us if you are into...

1. Star Trek
2. Drag Queens
3. Drag Queens who like Star Trek
4. Trek Hot Takes
5. React/Review videos feat. Drag Queens
6. Smedium to Big wigs
7. millenial meme humor

Is it gay to be a good person?

To the BluVoid.... We had a lot to say.

8. you aren't toxic about modern Trek
9. Trek cosplay
10. And mostly 90s/00s references

We had a lot to say and there is more coming. Check our in-depth review of the first 4 episodes.

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Klingon Pansexual: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO BI.

A Black Lois Lane, front and center in this poster for DAILY PLANET, my stunt pilot. The background is the paper coming off the presses. Behind here is Clark Kent.

Happy Superman Day! Lois and Clark were the reasons I became an award-winning journalist.

I used my experience to write a more journalism, Lois-centric Superman TV pilot, DAILY PLANET. More ethics, less heroics. It made the 2023 STUNT LIST. Read here: www.ryanthomasriddle.com#stunt-list-s...

The Last Excelsior - YouTube The StreamPunks as they boldly go where no one has gone before in their thrilling live stream of Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition! In "The Last Excelsior: A ...

If you like Peregrine fighters and TTRPG Live Play, i can't recommend this enough:

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“Mr. Worf, launch a Class-Weirdo Probe.”

The correct response to the 62 million men visiting a 🍇 academy page isn’t to not say anything so you don’t look like “one of the bad ones.”

It’s to speak out loudly and vehemently against it and to promise to be part of the solution, not the problem. Hold other men accountable. I’m begging you.

Publish the fuck out of this fucking shitstain congregation

Truth and consequences.

A graphic of the Charity Shop World book cover which features a woman taking a picture of a towering mountain of old clothes

I’m thrilled to announce that my brand new book 'Charity Shop World — an investigation into community, consumption and waste' will be published on 3rd September 2026.

Pre-orders here: theindigopress.com/product/char...

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Bear Down, Lower Deckers.

am jonesing for more “competence porn” aka watching people execute shit they know how to do

Example : Artemis II mission

getting my fix from watching Mamdani & digging into the record of @XavierBecerra

If wanting my politicians to be boring and effective is wrong, I don’t wanna be right

The Burn hit different for a lot of us — and Linda explains exactly why.

This clip from our Starfleet Academy panel digs into how Academy captured something real about collective trauma.

Watch the full panel here → youtu.be/SyQppWidId4

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #StarfleetAcademy

wip of a lura thok illustration, she is holding a bath'let, mid.swing.

#wip Lines and flat colors.

Lura Thok, bath'let training exercises in the morning on the holodeck with the safeties off, obviously.

#startrek #art

You’ve scrolled so far you’re now back on MySpace.

This is as far as I ever got with my post-TNG design. I was never quite happy with it and I have tried many variations.

In fact this is the central vessel at the heart of a small exploratory fleet for a sequel series I've been imagining for many years on and off. [Indulgent 🧵 begins]

May i DM you about something similar?

In the utilitarian sense that it's hard to make food without em. But also I really enjoy the meditation of properly sharpening. Also have a small collection of shiny ones. Even a Phoenix which was the production model of a Klingon Dk'tagh.

Name four non-living things that make your life livable:
1. Star Trek Adventures TTRPG
3. Zyrtec
4. Knives
2. Music

"if you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?"

Rip it out of Paramount’s cold dead hands and vest it in a nonprofit. Capitalism is killing us. If steered by an org not driven solely by capitalist metrics, Star Trek could be free to explore even further. Trek doesn’t need the streamer,