[image ID: from a star trek strange new worlds comic con cast interview. the interviewer asks paul wesley (who plays captain jim kirk in strange new worlds): “what can you tell me about the kirk/spock dynamic?” paul wesley replies: “spirk.” end image ID]
What about spirk Paul? What about it? Care to speak on it more? Hm hm hm? Speak on your thoughts on that?
Me minding my own business when suddenly stumbling on this post:
What she means: In spite of the running joke about Neelix being a “lethal chef,” there’s not actually much canonical evidence to support the idea that he’s a bad cook. Indeed, the fact that he is able to cook even passably well for an entire ship full of aliens he’s never met, requesting cuisines he’s never tasted made out of foodstuffs he’s never heard of, using primarily indigenous ingredients, without accidentally killing anyone, would seem to indicate that he’s actually a superlatively good cook.
Star Trek Enterprise is actually the best star trek because the humans get into space and they’re told by the vulcans “oh the andorians they’re emotional they’re angry they’re impossible to reason with” and the humans go to the andorians and are like “WOW the vulcans can be annoying wanna get a drink?” and eventually manage to put together an alliance between former mortal enemies just because they’re a bit chill and normal about things
Genuinely though, what ENT basically says in answering the question “why are humans so important in the federation despite being very behind everyone else in basically everything” is that humans are extremely adaptable and also foolhardy, which isn’t inaccurate! So they go into space and see these centuries old rivalries and are like “what if we hung out with both sides and literally didn’t care.” So basically they end up running the federation because they’re the only species that everyone likes, or at least tolerates. It’s hilarious, and a really good answer to the question of why they’re important.
