This is the build I focused on for most of the long lockdown of 2020. It began with the #SaucerSection which I'd always planned to build to minifigure/playset scale. As time passed I expanded to the rest of the ship, bulk-buying parts online as I went. If you zoom in you will see the scale of the #Minifigures in the various sections...
Scratch-built TOS Star Trek mk2 phaser prop replica.
I used wood for the bulk of the shape with plastic and epoxy putty to skin and smooth out the shapes.
A Nokia 3330 spare case was cut up for the mk1 on top.
And a few metal pieces for details.
🖖Calling all Star Trek fans … new Trek in Time video episode is out on my other channel: https://youtu.be/cT7L9Bqp4Jo Audio version: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e47e77fd Sean and I talk about how splitting Captain Kirk into two leads to some awkward situations, but is it still compelling TV?
@qlp Taken from us too soon. #Hemmer was my favorite character behind #Ortegas. I wanted both of them to have waaaay more screentime and story development.
Amazing how the original #StrangeNewWorlds characters that aren't just #TOS rehashes are the most interesting. Hope #StarTrek can keep looking ahead post #TNG#DS9#VOY instead of yet another prequel/reboot.
🖖Calling all Star Trek fans … new Trek in Time is out: https://youtu.be/fq6Xr2X925k Audio: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c64a8545 Sean and I talk about how quickly the era rears its ugly head in Star Trek: The Original Series. This episode has some serious cringe, but can the story get beyond it?
🖖Calling all Star Trek fans … new Trek in Time video episode is out on my other channel: https://youtu.be/GjX7pQCOamA Audio version: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d478c7e4 Sean and I talk about playing three-dimensional poker when your opponent is playing… something else…? This is where the Star Trek we all know really kicks off with Spock, Kirk, Sulu … and now Bones. Who wants some Tranya?
🖖Calling all Star Trek fans … new Trek in Time episode is out: https://youtu.be/ujXUsSKHYZg Audio: https://share.transistor.fm/s/cf2aa5c2 We talk about STAR TREK … the original series. Finally. It’s a little jarring going from one of the newest Star Trek series to the oldest, but how does it hold up?
back a million years ago, a local theater was playing Wrath of Khan, and some friends talked me into going with them. since I'd never watched Star Trek before, I have retained exactly zero of this movie
I still feel a little silly for not having realized earlier than, like, season 4 of #TNG that Noonien Soongh is a different person than Khan Noonien-Singh. another issue with having started out of order ... when I started my TNG watch, all I knew about Khan (besides that there was a movie about him) was what was in #StrangeNewWorlds. I also didn't have a very good grasp on the timeline of the different series (including the 100-year gap)
I love perusing the various stats, and this particular one left me with that pain in your side from serious gufaw gufaw's, ... Sulu outranks Eugen - now THAT, is fricken' funny! And he's also organically ranked above @gargron too, lolz.
Now, the sad part about this, and one would need to have been a Fedizen going back for a few years, is that as a techno early adopter, #Wesley_Crusher was summarily and relentlessly flogged and ridiculed until he was driven from the Fediverse by selfish, jealous little children here in the Fedi about 5 years ago.
I mean, sure, Wesley Crusher was a total goombah on #TNG, while #George_Takei is a superhero from #ToS, yet in real life, #Will_Wheaton was among the first generation of (albeit, minor) celebrities to embrace #DeSoc and the #Fediverse, and our local stable of miscreants (every social network has them) hounded, maliciously trolled, and harassed him until the only conclusion that could be arrived at was that the Fediverse is a hostile environment not worthy of belonging to.
That really angered me, but at least everybody loves #Sulu :)
TOS: 8.5. Great episode, though only just one. Hard to give it more based on that.
DS9: 1/10. AWFUL. We're talking episodes with Horny Evil Kira, Horny...Evil-er Garrack, Slightly horny Worf, and it's STILL the worst recurring episode type in the whole series. Disasterous waste that fully justified TNG and VOY leaving the mirror universe alone.
🎤 How do you curate your timeline on Mastodon? We're researchers from Princeton University seeking people to test a new web client for customizable unified feeds.
Sign up for a 60-min Zoom interview if you're at least 18. You'll receive a $20 gift card for your time: