Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan

Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan | Dayton Ward

Because this surprises literally no one! 🖖LLAP

What Star Trek race are you?
https://uquiz.com/26tzvh/what-star-trek-race-should-you-belong-to?embed=False

GarthRanzz Wow. That was intense! I‘m Denobulan. Enterprise is probably the one Trek series I‘m the least familiar with. Need to get to watching it. 7y

tournevis @GarthRanzz That means you are a genuinely kind and warm person! 7y

cobwebmoth I got Bajoran. Interesting. 7y

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DGRachel I got Betazoid. I guess I‘m going to have to watch more episodes with Deanna Troi. 😉 7y

tournevis @cobwebmoth Lively and religious! 7y

tournevis @DGRachel Empathic! 7y

GarthRanzz @tournevis That‘s a combo I can accept. 🖖🏻 Just posted my results. Thanks for this quiz! Definitely one of the better ones in a while. 7y

tournevis @GarthRanzz Yay!!! 7y

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Taayasbooks

Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan | Dayton Ward

There's a karaoke bar in ShiKahr! 🤣 #startrek

TheBookDream But why?! I can't even imagine. 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream The travel guide describes Vulcan some time after Deep Space 9. There's a bar of the Quark's franchise on Vulcan, too. So I guess it's rather for the non-native population. 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream though the author wrote that some Vulcans like to sing 20th century earth classics ... 😳 7y

TheBookDream There is a Klingon travel guide now. Bleh. 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream Oh, cool. But I guess I should not buy it until I have written down every idea the Vulcan guide gave me 😅 7y

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Taayasbooks

Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan | Dayton Ward

This point should be added in all travel guides. If you think about how often London was (partly) destroyed...? (Harry Potter, Doctor Who, ...)

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Taayasbooks

Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan | Dayton Ward

I guess you could say I'm an addict. #newin #startrek

TheBookDream This book is a delight 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream And required reading for me as a fanfic author 😅. But yeah. I saw pictures of it and knew I wanted to have it. 7y

TheBookDream You write Star Trek fic? I would like to read that! 7y

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Taayasbooks @TheBookDream No you don't. I'm not good. And by now I only write Spirk. Though thanks to the book I'd really like to read or write a fic with original human chars visiting Vulcan. (But if you still wanna read crappy fics, I'm Taaya on AO3 and at the K/S Archive.) 7y

TheBookDream Pffft! I'm so bad (and old) my fics are on fanfiction.net :P. I'll check them out. I like K/S just fine. Have you read the slash version of Killing Time? (Full disclosure: I haven't, but I do have it kicking around somewhere). 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream HA! Finally I DID read a book you ask me about. Yep, I did. Though I don't understand why they called it back and destroyed it. It's not that slashy. Not more than the series itself, in my humble opinion. Just saying that these two belong together. And speaking of a bond but not saying it's a marital or otherwise romantical one. But still worth a read as it's an interesting story. (I hope that haven't been too many spoilers.) 7y

TheBookDream Nah, I'm aware of what's in that book just never read it. I tend more towards reading TNG as of late. I think I read more TOS in high school. Although since the new movies, I like to read the TOS novels and imagine in new Kirk with the old cast (I can't stand Shatner). 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream 🤣 I never liked Shatner's Kirk until Chris Pine came along. Now I hate Chris Pine's Kirk (too immature, even more than TOS Kirk) and tolerate Shatner's. I tend to imagine Shatner and Nimoy in AOS fics as I just think the new cast is really bad (not bad actors, I do like them in other works. Just not fitting.). 7y

TheBookDream @Taayasbooks I'm the exact opposite lol. I tolerated Shatner just fine until AOS, and then immediately went "byyye" and adopted Chris Pine as the Kirk in my life ?. I think he plays a younger Kirk exactly as he should be. Older Kirk was somewhat immature, just not THAT immature. Plus, the older I get and the more I learn about trauma, the more surprised I am that he functions well at all after Tarsus IV. 7y

TheBookDream Here I go again, talking about fictional characters as if they're real 🙄 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream They are, to us. But actually I do think trauma makes us more mature, that's why I can't stand Pine's Kirk. I mean, I never had to survive anything like Tarsus, but every pain I ever had to endure made me grow up faster. And I just can't stand the thought of someone acting like a teenager being up in the sky as a starship Captain. To me he's just incompetent. 7y

TheBookDream @Taayasbooks I've been meaning to reply to this since you posted it. Got sidetracked. 7y

TheBookDream @Taayasbooks See, it can make you more mature, but it can also massively screw up your brain chemistry. I would imagine that a trauma like Tarsus IV, being one of a handful of survivors of a massacre, as a TEENAGER no less, would fall into the category of "shit that will screw you up for quite some time." I just assumed that risk taking was similar to other people's alcohol abuse. A coping mechanism. 7y

TheBookDream Actually, aside from the risk taking a womanizing, I think he's pretty level headed and good strategy wise. 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream But isn't risk taking a psychological trait Starfleet should check applicants for? And say 'Boy, make a therapy and then try again'? Otherwise it would be a danger to the crew. 7y

TheBookDream Well, this was the "western" era of starfleet we're talking about ?. Talking through everything forever didn't seem to land until TNG. I'm just arguing that immaturity isn't the only possibility. Besides, where would the fun in the series be without Spock being the only one making any dang sense? 7y

Taayasbooks @TheBookDream I'm more talking about AOS. I think TOS Jim is not that much damaged. His trauma only seems to show when he looses crewmen. His immaturity is rather this 'men will always be childish'-cliche. At least at looks to me like what I always find annoying when I talk to most of my friends. They act similarly. Maybe they're traumatized as well, but I do think that kind of behavior is rather normal. I just don't like it 😅 7y

Taayasbooks But yeah. In TOS it is kinda necessary to make Spock look even better. 7y

TheBookDream I dunno. I used to read a lot of womp fic so I'm sure that colors my view. But TOS Kirk is supposed to be an older Kirk, so he's had more time to mellow out. So there's that. 7y

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DrJAdMerricksson

Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan | Dayton Ward

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**This book was reviewed via Netgalley**

Written as a modern travel guide, this book is packed full of fun facts and knowledge of Vulcan. Each section has a prologue from a famous Vulcan, from Spock to Tuvok, sharing personal stories of the region. Amazing artwork and a wry sense of humour make a little gem will appeal to any Trek lover.

🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻 Highly recommended

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Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan | Dayton Ward