Cocktail Hour: Tell Spock All About It
This, the finest hostess gift ever, was acquired in Newburg, Ontario, from an artist who had despaired of ever selling it. Let us reflect on his stained-glass visage, left lonely for years on a card...
View ArticleWomen of the Starship Enterprise
During its legendary first five-year mission under Captain James T. Kirk, the USS Enterprise gave a start to some of the most well-known and well-decorated officers in all of Starfleet. Several of...
View ArticleMasturbating With a Stuffed Tribble
Shing Yin Khor's last cartoon for The Toast was a thought-provoking exploration of racial identity, as opposed to this one, which is straight-up about trying to get off on a stuffed tribble. Read more...
View ArticleDeep Space Nine: The Gayest Star Trek
I am going to keep this relatively short, because it involves two things that, at times, have limited circles: Star Trek and LGBT things. Deep Space Nine is the gayest Star Trek. I say this as a queer...
View ArticleStardate: Fuck This Shit
Stardate: I don't fucking know. This isn't the Captain's Log, it isn't an anybody's log, so excuse me if I don't situate myself in time by coordinating with the music of the goddamn spheres or the last...
View ArticleWe’re Our Own Family Now
The strong woman did a bunch of roundhouse flips across the bar and kicked me right in the face. "That's what I think of you," she said, kicking me a bunch more. "Sexually, you're real indiscriminate,...
View ArticleFemslash Friday: Deep Space Nine
Previously on Femslash Friday: The Young Avengers. Star Trek's greatest appeal, if you talk to the nerds who are really into it, is its bold embrace of a post-scarcity structure. In Star Trek,...
View ArticleCasting The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest TV Series That Does Not Exist
If you are anything like me -- and you are -- you watched Galaxy Quest at least four times this weekend. You already know that it is commonly referred to as "the greatest Star Trek film of all time,"...
View ArticleThe Ubiquitous Roving Plants of the Starship Enterprise
Star Trek: The Next Generation (or Next Gen, as it will always be known to me) is one of the formative shows of my childhood. In my memory, every time I snuck through the family room after I was...
View ArticleWays In Which Spock Has Attempted To Disguise His Ears
1. "Actually..." Read more Ways In Which Spock Has Attempted To Disguise His Ears at The Toast.
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