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Marc Hertel 🇩🇪🖖🇪🇺 Pro-🇺🇦📝🐉
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Currently stalled (ugh) self-published writer. Star Trek posts aplenty, some lefty politics (social democrat) & whatever the heck else occurs to me. No DMs.
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Enjoy your Sunday, #StarTrek friends!
That's always the way it goes, isn't it? Some ghost from the past shows up, and you're rolling... 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
We start with screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG in the first row of three pictures, all of them set in Ten Forward on the Enterprise. In the first, we see Guinan holding up a finger. "Jean-Luc, you promise?!" The second panel has Picard, holding a tall glass of beer, a confident expression on his face, confirming, "Yes, Guinan, I promise I won't get all political." Panel Three has Guinan cautioning him, "You better not." The two-panel second row starts with Picard happily drinking his beer. The second panel is from the David Lynch Dune movie, featuring Patrick Stewart. The caption says, "Three beers later." Stewart is seen here among a group of soldiers, cradling a pug in his left arm, holding a rifle in his right and shouting, "Long live Duke Leto!"
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Post someone who looks good in red
Jane Badler as Diana in #V The Visitors, wearing the red two-piece uniform, holding up a blaster with her right hand, the left propped up on her hip. Her hair is, uh, bouffant, frizzy - an ocean of hair spray. Ah, the 1980s...
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Christmas is coming. We're just a little over four weeks away, and as is the custom in Germany, I've lit the first candle. NX-01 helped with its phase cannons. 🎄
#StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise #StarTrekChristmas
(This has taken entirely too long. But worth it...)
The top caption wishes you a "Happy First Advent!" A starfield backdrop. Floating amidst it is a Christmas wreath, tied together with four yellow bands. Four candles are placed at the cardinal points. The one in front is burning with a yellow-white flame. Hovering before it is USS Enterprise NX-01 from #StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise.
November 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Enjoy your Saturday, #StarTrek friends!
Who put this ship on the market?! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
At the top, we have the familiar drawing of a (car) dealer talking to a client. But here, we have a shot of a model Enterprise from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG behind the former. The caption says, "Dealer: slaps roof of Enterprise." Underneath is a screenshot from that series, showing the bridge showered in a curtain of sparks. The red alert lights are on. Worf behind the horseshoe console is hanging on to his station, much like Riker and Picard before the console. Oka,y Riker is rocked while Picard matter-of-factly leans to the side to ride out the shocks.
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Enjoy your Friyay, #StarTrek friends!
Get your weekend started the RIGHT way, folks! Find yourself a nice Starfleet captain and annoy the sh!t out of them! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Screenshot from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG. We see our beloved omnipotent Q, wearing a Starfleet captain's uniform (flipped in this image for some reason), talking to the young female Q-to-be in a late series episode. They're in private quarters, a painting is on the wall behind Q, and he's sitting on a couch with a white li'l doggie sitting behind him. A social media post is superimposed, as if it's Q speaking, and, yeah, that's totally him. (OP normal-horoscopes) "Listen, I only do unethical magic if it's really funny."
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to save you. Who’s coming to save you?

I'm getting rescued, yes! The problem is that I'll annoy them too much with my begging to TAKE ME WITH YOU, PLEASE!!!
Bridge shot from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG.
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I never know where anything IS! There should be a law against rearranging shops without warning. Or free maps.
Variation on the Rick and Morty meme. Panel 1 has a school corridor with Rick telling Morty, "In and out. 5 minutes shopping." The green whirlpool-like wormhole is labeled "Rearranged shop." Panel 2 shows the two in their, uh, travel pod, Morty is crying, Rick is burying his face in his hands. The caption says, "One hour later."
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December
A screenshot from #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks, in the episode where they visit #StarTrekDS9. We see Colonel Kira standing at the window of her office, looking wistfully out at the whirling, just opening wormhole reflected in that window. We don't even need to know that the baseball is still on her desk to know that she is waiting for the Emissary to return from the wormhole. Stop cutting onions, guys, okay?!
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Enjoy your Thursday, #StarTrek friends!
I can't think of a better meme for Thanksgiving than this one. Hope is my copium in these dark days, and I thank the Great Bird of the Galaxy for Star Trek.
Have a great one today, friends, whether you celebrate or not!
A shot from the fake - and quite satirical - commercial in the tribble Short Trek. A smiling mother in a yellow Starfleet uniform is emptying a cereal-style box of tribbles (the furry creatures with amazing procreative abilities) into a white bowl. A little girl in apparently a red Starfleet uniform is watching the pouring tribbles with glee. The caption over the mom says, "Star Trek". The caption over the box says, "The possibility of future where our differences as humans are celebrated and humanity isn't doomed." The caption over the little girl says, "Me." (NOTE: I just mistyped "caption" as "captain." If that isn't #StarTrek infusion into my life, I don't know what is... :-D ).
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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There is one answer, of course, which bodes ill for the no bones thing. 😉
In-universe, I can't remember any indications about the inside, just cases of muppets removing e.g., their eyes. I've seen suggestions about Disney characters being amorphous blobs inside, so no actual ducks, dogs etc. Hmm...
Cartoon of a bathroom, with a Kermit muppet skin discarded on the floor while we see a human hand taking a shower through the shower curtain.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Enjoy your Wednesday, #StarTrek friends!
Ah, the wisdom accrued by an old Starfleet officer, looking back at an illustrious career!
The top of the picture mimics a tv layout for a fictional BBC series, "Metaphysics with O'Brien." This is listed as "Episode 7." Below that is a picture of Colm Meaney in more recent times -- i.e., retirement age --, wearing a brown coat as he is standing by a lake/the sea, with mountains visible behind the waters. He seems to be scrunching his face against a cold breeze. Underneath is a caption giving these metaphysical thoughts by the Chief, "Whenever the Enterprise was orbiting a primitive planet, I would beam random people on board. Sometimes I would tell them I'm God, but mostly I just yelled boo and transported them back. Maybe we are all one day of boredom away from dressing like an indigenous people's version of Satan."
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Have a great day, Admiral & #StarTrek friends!
"Adaptive shields enabled. Phaser blasts diverted. Progress continuing toward Sector Zero-Zero-One." 😂🤣😂🤣
Mariah Carey in her typical Xmas outfit, red with white, furry collar, posing for the camera, in front of a group of dancers in a pretty white-out setting. The top caption says, "Christmas is coming." The slightly larger bottom caption says, "Resistance is futile."
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We. Were. Promised!
And we were supposed to have Eagles by 1999 already. <harumph>
Not to mention that the Botany Bay launched in 1996 (!), making it many light years out in less than three centuries.
<HARUMPH>!
Screenshot I suppose is from the remastered #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS, showing Enterprise in space, drifting askew before it a long cylinder of a spaceship with an expanded ring section. This is the SS Botany Bay.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Enjoy your Tuesday, #StarTrek friends!
Boy, Worf, son of Mogh, son of Sergey, father of none, really keeps getting targeted by these memes, for some reason. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Three screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG. In the first, Worf and K'ehleyr are standing at a doorway. Through it, we can see the Enterprise's nursery playroom, in particular their son Alexander, although all of this is out of focus, mind you. K'ehleyr tells Worf, "I'm leaving you, and I'm taking our son with me." The second shot focuses on Worf. He says, "Thank you." The final is a reaction shot from K'ehleyr who is not one bit amused.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Re: SpyFi mentioning that the original #BSG ended with the Colonials receiving a transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The idea had been for the Galactica to find a future Earth rather than the one in 1980.
#StarTrek #BattlestarGalactica
We start off with two screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS, first up a bridge sht across the front console, showing Chekov and Sulu at their stations, the red alert light is on. Kirk is in his chair, hand to his mouth, as he is parsing the situation. A tiny caption, presumably from the original shot, says, "Unknown vessel, this is the Earth starship Enterprise. Please respond." The big caption has Sulu say, "Captain, there's a ship ahead." Kirk says, "Open a channel, Lieutenant." The next shot moves in and to the side, so we now see Kirk standing beside his chair but also Uhura at her console, declaring, "Channel open, sir." Kirk says, "Unknown vessel, this is the Earth starship Enterprise. Please respond." And our final screenshot is also showing a bridge but that of the #BattlestarGalactica (1978), with Colonel Tigh in the background, while in the foreground, Commander Adama is leaning across the chairs of the two operators at this blinking lights console. Adama exclaims, "Did he just say Earth?!"
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
USS enterprise from Star Trek TOS Eagle one spacecraft from space: 1999 Colonial viper from Battlestar Galactica (1978) The Comet from Captain Future. Incidentally, the main cast of the animated show from the 1970s is also featured at the bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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... Hi, #StarTrek friends!
That moment when you're wondering if it's gonna be gossip or some madcap scheme that'll upset Jim Kirk...
Caption at the top: "The face your friend makes when they're trying to intrigue you with the latest gossip:" Below that is a screenshot from #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS, showing our beloved rogue Harry Mudd (also known as "HARCOURT! HARCOURT FENTON MUDD!!!" to his wife), here wearing a hat with the side rim flapped up rakishly, as well as an equally rakis blue ear ring. He has his face slightly tilted, a mischievous grin under his mustache, and his eyes are looking against the tilt of the head. ... Okay, Harry, I'm listening...
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Happy birthday, Denise Crosby.
Yes, you are.
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG
Screenshot of a social media post by @TheDeniseCrosby who is indeed THE Denise Crosby, stating, "I'm priceless." She's quoting a post by a "Deb" with pirate skull and bones icons, saying, "It's probably all pirated stuff." Let's ignore that and concentrate on the photo in that post: It's a shot of a house in a hot environment, going by the brown dirt before it and the trees visible. The red car doesn't really matter. What does matter is that there is a big sign with an arrow, announcing a "YAR SALE". And yeah, Ms. Crosby is right. Tasha Yar is priceless.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Enjoy your Sunday, #StarTrek friends!
Dagnabbit! I wanted to post this at 6:30 (as per my Euro time) but OF COURSE I was distracted. Darnit, 7 minutes late... 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Two screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS in a single column. Both show Kirk (in the green wrap-around shirt) and Spock (in customary uniform) standing next to each other, infront a purple background, with some green and black lined object on the right side. First panel. Kirk is looking ahead, as is Spock but he has tilted his head, saying, "Captain, what is the best time to..." Kirk answers, "6:30." In the second panel, both are looking at each other, Kirk with a bright expression. Spock complains, "You didn't let me finish." Kirk explains, "It doesn't matter. 6:30 is always the best time on the clock. Hands down."
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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#StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 s02e19 "Blood Oath"
I last watched this episode 30 years ago. My rewatch verdict:
Glorious.
Publicity shot from #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 "Blood Oath" showing our three returning Klingon heroes with their bat'leths, in full gear -- vim and vigor aplenty. From left to right Dahar Master Kor, Koloth, and Kang.
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Enjoy your Saturday, #StarTrek friends!
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
A social media post by somebody calling themselves HUD-VASH the Stampede (@andigggi). We see a photo of a regular building - red bricks, regular windows. At one point in the recent past, the facade had been covered by a mat to allow plants to grow so that this boring building was covered in lively green. Unfortunately, said grassy facade -- with holes for the windows -- is currently peeling off, having fallen mostly to the ground. The user added a single word as a comment, "Shaka."
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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You can't bend or break me!
#StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise #Enterprise
Panel 1: Seagull, head reared up as if drawing a deep breath. Caption "Cause I've got Faith of the" Panel 2: Seagull, blaring out its scream, picture tinted in red, eyes glowing. Wavy effect caption: "HEART"
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Enjoy your Friyay, #StarTrek friends!
Oooh! The Riker Whip -- I've got to try that!
... Uhm, this sounds... uhm...
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
At the top, the caption declares, "When Riker returns from an away mission:" Below is a picture from early #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG, set on the bridge. Wesley Crusher in his gray uniform is in one of the front chairs, hands folded in his lap, Data in the other, closest to the camera. (Their work stations are missing.) Both are looking at Commander Riker, who has ne foot up on a pedestal, right hand propped up on the respective leg, left hand gesturing, as he's full on regaling them with his achievements. The caption says, "... and you guys should have seen the chairs. Backs as high as a Klingon forehead. I still whipped my leg over it. No hesitation. Minds blown, they couldn't believe it. They named a sandwich after me!"
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Enjoy your Thursday, #StarTrek friends!
Ah, yes, the Father of the Century winner strikes again! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Four screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9, in two rows, with a credit panel below (for the creator S*M*A*S*H - Starfleet Mobile Audacious Space Heroes). These screenshots show the regulars Jadzia and Worf as well as the former Governor Kor, a mighty Klingon warrior of prodigious age. In the first, our focus is on a Klingon sword, a bat'leth, mounted on a white glowing table. Jadzia is holding a tricorder, while Worf is staring at their find. Kor is in the background. Jadzia says, "This is it! We found it!" In the second, Jadzia is in the background while Kor is up front, holding the sword next to Worf. "The legendary Bat'leth of Truth," Kor exclaims. Panel 3 follows from there, with the sword declaring to Worf, "YOU CAME ON THIS QUEST TO AVOID YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A FATHER." Panel 4 is a sequel, where Kor grins happily, and Worf, well, he declares, "Put it back."
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Enjoy your Wednesday, #StarTrek friends!
Is that... Doctor-ception...?! 😂🤣😂🤣
A convention photo of Robert Picardo ("The Doctor," #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager, #StarTrekProdigy, #StarfleetAcademy), some 10 years ago. He has grayish stubble on his face and a few remains on his head. But he's grinning at the camera, and that may be because of the t-shirt he is wearing. Said shirt is a grayish blue, featuring a blue-toned b&w photo of Matt Smith ("The Doctor," #DoctorWho), with the caption, "Trust me. I'm the Doctor."
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM