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David C. Simon

@davidcsimon.bsky.social

I won't say "Happy new Year" because we all know that's not going to be happen. Instead:

Photograph of a sunset with trees and clouds. Caption: "May your 2025 be less horrible than expected"

December 31, 2024 at 6:42 AM

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Grem 🖋️🔞

@realgremlintime.bsky.social

where my Scotty Heads at

December 2, 2024 at 7:43 PM

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anj

@forecastoctopus.bsky.social

wet man wednesday

kirk looking sweaty, exhausted, and beat up with his shirt torn off his shoulder

November 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM

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🪦🧠⚡...LOBOTRON!

@lobolab.neocities.org

more tribble-ations This episode makes me absolutely insane

#ds9 #startrek

November 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖

@starfleetdesign.bsky.social

The Star Trek art of Michael David Ward
michaeldavidward.com/entertainment

'Signs of Intelligence' by Michael David Ward, 1993. The USS Enterprise-D zooms through the cosmos. Subtle Borg patterns add texture to the background. I remember this from the cover of the Official Star Trek fan club magazine.

'Second Star to the Right' by Michael David Ward. The refit Enterprise sails towards the vivid cosmos.

'Sting of the Scorpion' by Michael David Ward, in which the USS Voyager flies alongside many Borg vessels. Very dynamic graphic composition on this one!

November 16, 2024 at 11:49 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes

$The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$ A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A circular-shaped nebula with a complex structure. On the circle’s exterior, particularly on the left side of the image, are curtains of material glowing orange like fire. Interior to this outer shell is a ring of mottled filaments in bright pink, studded with clumps and knots. A greenish loop extends from the upper right of the ring into the central cavity. Translucent wisps of blue, green, and red appear throughout the image.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357.

November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM

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jenna ✮ツ

@ranchm3taphor.bsky.social

November 14, 2024 at 2:01 AM

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Windwenn

@windwenn.bsky.social

What if YOU🫵🫵 were captain of the STARSHIP ENTERPRISE and your GAY FIRST OFFICER asked you to come and witness his MATING RITUAL and then MURDERED YOU🫵

November 12, 2024 at 3:38 PM