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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 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
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I've been meaning to get back to Blender for <coughs> years. Heck, I achieved THIS in, uh, 2020. (So proud my 18-yo nephew didn't recognize it as CG.) What else is possible NOW?
And imagine I wanna go back and it's gone? <shudder>
So, I chipped in 5 €.
3D render of a lightly marbled table, with a donut on a hexagonal plate, a glass cup of steaming coffee next to it. In the back, we see a wide wooden chair back, in front of a red brick wall.
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Great defenses in the responses!
My Mantra Any episode, series or film of Star Trek will be somebody's favorite and somebody else's trash heap.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Enjoy your Tuesday, #StarTrek friends!
Huh? I thought he's from Alaska... ... Oh...! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
A screenshot from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG season 2, showing Commander Riker smiling. The caption asks at the top, "What's Riker's favorite state?" Below, it answers, "Indiana."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Hi, #StarTrek friends! So, it's Monday. Again.
Computer, start the simulation once more.
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A 3-D render of a starship in front of a starfield with some swirly grayish clouds. The ship is clearly a take on a #StarTrek Starfleet design, with a saucer section, although this is merged into the rest of the body rather than separated. Two nacelles -- much like the movie refit style -- extend upwards while there are further nacelles (one assumes two, although only one is visible at this angle) below; these are tilted 90 degrees to the upper nacelles so that the lower ones appear horizontal, more like skis. The ship's registry is ECS-1022. The ship's name cannot be read at this resolution, but from the caption, I assume it is SS Kobayashi Maru. And now we're getting to the caption: "If life is a test, I got the Kobayashi Maru."
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
The cover of the eponymous music album Tracy Chapman, featuring the singer in a sepia-toned picutre, looking down.
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Thank you!
Screenshot from #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 showing Quark sitting next to Dax. Both of them play Tongo, a Ferengi card game. Quark looks astonished. Dax is quite smug and satisfied. The caption reads, "Looks like your meme just got acquired."
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Enjoy your Sunday, #StarTrek friends!
"I'm sorry, Doctor, but Mr. Garak deserves it more."
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Four screenshot from #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 "Our Man Bashir" We are in a holodeck adventure, doing a James Bond story, in which only Bashir and Garak are real but all the holo characters look like the DS9 crew. As such, we open with two panels in the first row, showing Kira Nerys as a night club party girl, in a light pink dress, with thin halters, her hair done up 60s style. In panel 1, she says, "You look good in a tuxedo, Julian." In Panel 2, taking a closer look, she goes on, "I really like your top." We cut to Bashir and Garak, both wearing the aforementioned tuxedos and looking quite dapper, for the bottom row. Bashir is in the front, Garak is leaning out behind him to say, "Thank you, Major, but I have a name." In the final panel, Bashir looks like he swallowed something unpalatable while Garak grins smugly because he knows exactly what that was.
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Enjoy your Saturday, #StarTrek friends!
Come join Starfleet, they said. Boldly go! Have some fun! Oh God, Riker did that, I just know it...
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The caption at the top declares, "When the fantasy is over, but the love stains remain..." Below is a backstage photo from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG, on the holodeck set - black walls and floor, with yellow lines forming a grid of squares across all surfaces. The entrance door is visible, ajar to show the opposite wall of the adjacent corridor. Star of this show though is a young stagehand with glasses, who is vacuuming the floor of the holodeck set.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Four screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS "Space Seed," arranged in two rows. On the right, we have Khan Noonian Singh, on the left Mr. Spock. Panel 1: Khan grins. "I am superior in every way. Nothing you can say or d can phase me at all." Panel 2: A calm Spock matter-of-factly tells him, "I once hooked up with your descendant who actually used to work on this very ship." Panel 3: Khan squints at him, utterly phased by that remark. Panel 4: Spock is emotionless. Except for that goshdarn Vulcan smugness -- you're not fooling anyone, you green-blooded hobgoblin! ;-)
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Share a Christmas Movie 🎄

We're No Angels (1955) 😇😇😇🐍😇
Cover for We're No Angels (1955), showing the three leads (also named at the top of the poster): Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov. They are wearing simple linen outfits, befitting escaped prisoners in a hot and humid environment. All have straw hats. Aldo Ray, center, also carries a little box like a rectangular hut with a straw roof. Not pictured, a beautiful rainbow-colored little snake that lives in that hut.
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Enjoy your Friyay, #StarTrek friends!
When you can't see de forest because of all the snow...!
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Two screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS, 3rd season episode All Our Yesterdays. Both show Spock and McCoy, wearing their usual blue uniforms. In the first shot, we see an icescape made of Styrofoam rocks and Styrofoam snow blowing hard as McCoy has dropped to the ground from the cold, suffering hard, held partially upright by Spck who is withstanding better, squinting into the window. The second shot is a while later in the ep, now set in a cave well out of the ice storm, the background rocks lit in red. In the foreground, we now see McCoy lying on a bed of furs, wrapped in another, unconscious. Sitting by his side is Spock, tricorder in hand, his hair frosted gray and saying something. Behind him, there is a figure clad in a hooded white fur suit, the hood covering her face. We have no idea who she is. Uh... Right, I know that it's the episode's female guest star and love interest for Spock, but let's stick with this meme. The caption is plastered across the seam between the two pictures, in the TOS font, saying, "DeFROST KELLEY."
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It's a weird time we're living in.
(Sure, Traitor-Greene is presumably cynically turning where the wind is blowing, although I will attribute a shred of female solidarity to her. But still...)
Captain Riker from #StarTrek #Picard #StarTrekPicard, an utterly mystified expression on his face. The caption says, "I don't understand the world anymore."
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Enjoy your Thursday, #StarTrek friends!
It is so vital to pick the right spot to regenerate properly so you can dominate the new day! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Two pictures mixing together screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekVoyager and characters from #TheSimpsons. Furthermore, this is a play on a meme/scene from The Simpsons in which, uh..., Milhouse's Dad (?) originally points to a racecar bed where he sleeps. He is wearing underpants and an undershirt, with a beer can in his hand. The response is Homer saying he sleeps in a normal bed. Here, though, we have Milhouse's dad in front of a set of Borg alcoves, with the green frizzy light in a circle above. He says, "I regenerate in a Borg alcove. Do you?" The picture below with Homer shows a small, orange, kinda gooey lake, with bare rocks surrounding and coming out of it. Homer says, "I regenerate with my people in the Great Link."
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Have a great Wednesday, #StarTrek friends!
Ohhhh, baguette, croissant, déjà vu! Joie de vivre et... Fin! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Two screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG, edited by "Riker's Beard." They are set on the Enterprise, in front of a star field -- presumably the observation lounge. The first shows Commander Riker commenting, "I noticed we Americans use a lot of French words regularly, such as hors d'oeuvres." The second shot is the reverse, with Captain Picard confirming, "And that's just for starters..."
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Have a great Tuesday, #StarTrek friends!
You never know the little things that will make you rethink things... 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The familiar meme format of screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG, showing Picard and Riker sitting next to each other. (From the background, it's clear these are from different episodes.) In the first, both are looking serious and ahead. Picard says, "You know, Will, I was never a fan of organ donation until I met a Nausicaan." Riker asks, "What happened, Jean-Luc?" The second picture has Picard sitting up more straight, rather stern-looking. He says, "I had a change of heart." Riker buries his face in his palm.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Enjoy your-- oh, right. Uh, hi, #StarTrek friends!
I mean, what's a more appropriate meme than this one...?
Two screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9, both showing Jadzia Dax and Julian Bashir, standing next to each other. As for the location, I am not sure: Browns and whites predominate, there seems to be a white-silvery arch on the right behind Bashir. There's also a Bajoran standing on the left behind Dax, in a brown outfit that could be a Bajoran security uniform. In the first panel, Dax looks at Bashir. "You seem to be handling this well." In the second panel, Bashir leans over to her, with a faint smile on his face, as he confesses, "I'm not."
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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(A bit of levity for the timeline)
We've all been here, haven't we? #GamingMemes
Two pictures in one column. First, we've got a black-and-white drawing of a sneaky-sneak Sylvester the Cat from Warner Bros. A wide, evil grin on his face, he is ever so carefully sneaking on cautious feet, arms held high. Oh, there is surely one canary who will be very surprised! The caption says, "How I start stealth-based games." Then, we have another picture that is a slight antithesis to the drawing as this is a screenshot from a Rambo movie (presumably 3?), showing the titular hero, slightly bloodied and very muddied, shouting as he's pulling around a mounted machine gun, ready to unload a merciless hail of bullets. The caption says, "How I finish stealth-based games."
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG Justice
A screenshot from the classic tv show "Police Squad" (the US version that preceded the NAKED GUN movies), showing the entrance of a police station at night. The lettering on the white stucco building says, "Police Station," the lights to either side also have "Police" written on them. Overlaid is the caption: "tonight's episode: THE WRITER'S BARELY-DISGUISED FETISH" In this particular picture, "WRITER'S" is crossed out in red, with a new caption overlaid in orange: "Executive Producer's."
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Enjoy your Sunday, #StarTrek friends!
*Especially* your Sunday...! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Four screenshots from #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9, showing Bashir and Garak. In fact, this is an oft-used meme format of Bashir in the pics on the left and Garak on the right. Julian in the first panel, "So, when are you flirting with me?" In the second panel, Garak clarifies, "My dear doctor, I am *always* flirting with you." The third panel has Bashir taken aback, needing more details, "Even when you make your 'especially' face?" And the final panel doesn't have a caption but Garak smiling a very knowing smile. Oh, yes, this is definitely his "especially" face!
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Happy birthday, Robbie McNeill!
Obligatory picture.
And the anecdote that McNeill directed an episode of #StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise, wearing his #StarTrekVoyager uniform (source Connor Trinneer). ❤️🖖
A tense bridge shot from #StarTrekLowerDecks. Seated at helm and nav are Rutherford and Boimler. The former is pointing to the screen and explaining, "They're the same!" Boimler is squinting hard at the screen, replying, "I don't see it..."
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Enjoy your Saturday, #StarTrek friends!
It's kind of a Harry day, today, so I'll rerun one of mine. And, for a change, those two are right on the money...! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Panel 1: #StarTrek temporal agents CAPTION: Whatever you do, Captain, you must NEVER promote Harry Kim. Panel 2: #StarTrekVoyager captain Janeway CAPTION: Harry is a capable officer. I can't possibly make him stay an ensign. Panel 3: The villainous Two-Pip Kim from #StarTrekLowerDecks Panel 4: The temporal agents again CAPTION: Trust us. You want to.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Can confirm. 😂🤣😂🤣
Two panels: I believe the top is from the film "Scrooged," showing an extremely dead - or undead? - character in a dust-covered suit and glasses. He has gray, crinkly skin, at some spots, the skull is showing through. The caption says, "Tonight, you will be visited by three ghosts." The second panel is from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG, showing a brightly smiling and excited Beverly Crusher asking, "At the same time?"
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Enjoy your Friyay, #StarTrek friends!
Figures who's in the lead here, right? There Will be only one. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
We've got three screenshots from Wheel of Fortune, the quiz show, here. The top and bottom show the candidates, replaced with characters from #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG. From left to right, we have Picard ($ 3000), Troi ($ 3000), and Riker ($ 9000; shocker, right? ;-) ). The host is a Cardassian I can't quite recognize at this resolution but expect it to be Gul Madred from "Chains of Command." The first panel has Picard saying, "I'll take an 'R', please." The second panel is the wall of letters, with the letter-turning lady standing next to it. The clue is TH_R_ AR_ F___ L_GHTS In the bottom panel, Picard complains, "She forgot one..." The Cardassian host says, "No, she didn't."
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM