I remember watching Voyager for the first time on it's UK premiere on Sky (with spoilerific 10 second clips from later in the episode played at the start and end of commercials because screw the viewers) and going "oh, it's that guy from the Next Gen academy episode!" and maintaining that belief for many years until I rewatched TNG and the fella's name was Nicholas Locarno and not Tom Paris. The real life reason was not to have to pay the writer of "The First Duty" for every subsequent appearance of the character, and the Voyager series bible even had a slightly different version of "The First Duty" backstory made for Paris even though early drafts literally had him listed as Locarno

I also assumed these were the same guy too, but according to the novels (and one of the Voyager writers) they're actually identical twins Taurik and Vorik.

In one of the most famous examples, T'Pol from Star Trek: Enterprise was originally going to be T'Pau from "Amok Time", but again not wanting to spend royalties every episode had her morph into a new character. And a young T'Pau would eventually appear in season four.

Yaoi-Off 2025-2: Elegy of a Broken World

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Chris Pine as Captain James Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.

Out of curiosity rb and put in the tags how many fics come up when you type your last name into ao3. Apparently even though my last name is uncommon there's like 500

I instantly thought of them

“There is one last subject I must address. I have tried on many occasions to write about Jim Kirk. This seems to me an increasingly impossible task. Jim Kirk lies at the very heart of this account; he is present on every page, the ink in which these words have been written… How do you write about someone that you have so deeply loved?”

- Spock, The Autobiography of Mr. Spock

Who is the hottest Chief of Security/Tactical

Intermission Poll

Really appreciate how Spirk canonically can be anything you want. Like they really have it all, something for everyone:

In AOS they are angsty college age fuck ups

In SNW they are late 20s/early 30s having crises of adulthood

In TOS they are mature middle aged professionals

In TMP they are in their old man yaoi era

You can put them in school together. You can put them in any era of earth history with time travel. Any fanfic trope your heart desires can be canon compliant via planet-of-the-week shenanigans. There's the mirrorverse for when you're feeling evil. They both literally die and come back to life via sheer indestructible plot armor. The fuck or die already came free with your subscription.

Truly THE fanfiction couple of all time

Yaoi-Off 2025-2: Elegy of a Broken World