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Captain Kirk's "Death" Proves a Truly Dark Fact About Star Trek's Entire Universe

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One of the most beloved science fiction IP’s of all time, Star Trek and its many spin-off series have built up one of the most popular franchises in television history. After Star Trek originally aired in the ‘60s, several films were made to varying success, but it wasn’t until the end of the ‘80s that Trekkies would get to see a new fresh take on Starfleet and bold space exploration that would revive the fandom. Star Trek: The Next Generation aired in 1989, and ushered in a whole new generation of fans.

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After TNG, Star Trek: Voyager debuted as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, making three Star Trek series on at the same time at one point. Each Star Trek series offered more excitement and drama, and over the years, the chance for more humor to be found. With CBS taking the reins and giving Trekkies Star Trek: Discovery and soon Picard, there’s been more fodder for memes than ever before, and here are ten of the most hilarious that only Trekkies will love.

FARMING, PICARD?

Recently the teaser trailer for CBS’s new Star Trek series Picard aired, instantly exciting millions of Star Trek fans and those who think Jean-Luc Picard is the greatest Starfleet Captain of all time. The softly-lit trailer featured Picard strolling through his family vineyard, Chateau Picard, gently feeling the grape leaves while large automated machines till the soil.

A female voice floated above the montage, asking “Admiral Picard” where the hell he’d been for the past twenty years. And we couldn’t all help thinking, why would a man of his many talents become a hermit from his loved ones and turn his back on Starfleet to bugger off and make wine?

A regular pain in Picard’s ass who actually became a series regular, the nebulous entity known as Q would randomly appear at inopportune moments to parlay with Picard on the mysterious of the universe. When he wasn’t engaging the Captain in verbal sparring, he was causing minor calamities all across the USS Enterprise.

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Q may have had a high opinion of Picard, but he had a rather low opinion of everyone else. He viewed humans and the rest of the galaxy’s citizens like so many ants in an ant farm, ones he occasionally liked to murder with a magnifying lens just to watch what would happen. Sound familiar? To be honest, he and Thanos the Mad Titan might actually get along.

CAPTAIN PIKE TAKES A SELFIE

As CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery series prepares to enter its third season, it says goodbye to a character that fans had grown to love - Captain Christopher Pike as played by Anson Mount . Captain Pike has been a minor character in the recent Star Trek films, but in Season 2 fans got to see him in his prime heading up the USS Enterprise.

Pike appeared in Season 2 of Discovery to align it with the future events of the series, which take place roughly ten years prior to Captain Kirk’s five year mission. Pike appeared in the first episode of the original Star Trek  but was written out later. Fans loved Mount’s interpretation so much they petitioned for him to have his own spin-off series!

FEELING ADVENTUROUS, MIGHT VIOLATE THE PRIME DIRECTIVE LATER, IDK

In Star Trek: Voyager , Captain Janeway’s crew were sent into a temporal anomaly by a displacement wave and flung into a quadrant of the Universe that was previously uncharted. They determined that, given their present location and the state of the ship, it would take them 75 years to return home to Starfleet and their families.

At one crucial juncture, Tash figured out how to shave five years off their journey, but Captain Janeway had another idea - they were in a completely mysterious corner of the galaxy with no allies anywhere and nothing but the fuel cells in their cores and the clothes on their back, why not do a little exploring?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, JONATHAN FRAKES

Though Captain Kirk is widely regarded as the most promiscuous member of Starfleet, he has a strong contender for the honor in Commander William Riker. Number One boarded the USS Enterprise-D with a fresh face smoother than an android’s bottom, he quickly grew a beard and put away childish things by Season 2 of Star Trek: Next Generation.

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Riker had a habit of wearing his sex drive on his sleeve, so when the opportunity arose in Season 1 to make friendly with a group of humanoid alien women that viewed men as only good for breeding, he was only too happy to be a diplomatic ambassador.

A ROMULAN TAILOR, DEAR GOD NILES

The Star Trek franchise has always been known for its cameos. Fans have had great fun over the decades pointing out who’s who behind Starfleet uniforms, beards, antennae, and copious amounts of head ridges. In Season 5 of Next Generation, Kelsey Grammer appeared just one year before he would launch his wildly successful Cheers spin-off, Frasier.

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In TNG, he played Captain Morgan Bateson, a Starfleet Captain whose ship, the USS Bozeman had inadvertently been sent by a temporal distortion almost a thousand years into the future. Throughout the episode, it was ridiculously hard not to hear Frasier’s inane complaining about trifles whenever Bateson spoke.

THE JANEWAY

Captain Kathryn Janeway was by all accounts a very stubborn woman. As a female commanding officer in Starfleet, she had to be fair but congenial, disciplined by approachable, and above all couldn’t let herself get pushed around by members of her crew that felt she couldn’t lead as well as a man.

As the Captain of a ship displaced from the Alpha Quadrant by a massive dispersion wave, she knew she’d have to work hard to keep moral from collapsing among the crew. They were 75 years away from reaching home, and Janeway’s route favored exploring new reaches of the Universe rather than shave time off their journey. There’s the right way and then there’s the Janeway.

THE WALKING DEAD

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that if you’re wearing a Red Shirt in Star Trek, you’re probably not making it past whatever episode you appear in. In the original Star Trek, red shirts were exclusively worn by crew members that were given no names and barely any dialogue, used solely as cannon fodder because, well, the main cast couldn’t be harmed or there’d be no show.

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It became such a joke that in Star Trek: The Next Generation, commanding officers actually wore red uniforms because the team of writers determined the joke was played out. A total of 43 red-shirted crew members turned into space dust on Star Trek . RIP.

SIGN ME UP FOR THE NEXT AWAY MISSION

Away missions are exciting - they offer crew members the chance to leave the confines of the ship and explore new terrain, interact with new people, and experience new planets. They’re also boring if they consist of a bunch of Red Shirts, so Star Trek: The Next Generation   had a habit of sending primary cast members on them to add entertainment value.

Mind you, primary cast members inhabited the roles of chief officers, so at any given time, the head of security, the head of engineering, the doctor in sickbay, the head of science and navigation, and the USS Enterprise’s second in command were all down in a potentially dangerous environment.

DYSLEXIC OF BORG

all know the Borg have a funny way of talking, but can you imagine a dyslexic one? They first arrived midway through Star Trek: The Next Generation as a Hive-minded species of aliens that travel the Universe assimilating other species. You have no usefulness in life except as a member of their collective, when your purpose is made to serve their queen.

When the Borg pull the USS Enterprise-D into tractor beam of their Cube, it’s assumed that every crew member aboard will be assimilated, their former identities and memories purged from their minds as they are upgraded and uploaded to a higher level of consciousness. Laminated, indeed.

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Published May 5, 2020

20 Star Trek Quarantine Memes Sure To Engage Some Smiles

Because we could all use a laugh right now.

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We could all use a little levity right now, so in addition to watching as much Star Trek as possible while quarantined, check out these 20 coronavirus memes and see how many can make you smile. This year’s episode title.

#roddenberry pic.twitter.com/eya8R53OGV — RODDENBERRY (@roddenberry) March 23, 2020

Truly, thank you.

View this post on Instagram I want to say in my own Trekkie way THANK YOU #startrekfans #startrekds9 #startrekmemes #startrekvoyager #startrekVOY #trekkie #startrek #finalfrontier #toboldlygo #funnymemes #funny #startrekTNG #startrek #Starfleet #scifi #startrekdiscovery #bigbangtheory #jeanlucpicard #captainpicard #LLAP #NCC1701 #Uhura #Sulu #Spacethefinalfrontier A post shared by thebeamup (@thebeamup) on Apr 17, 2020 at 9:06am PDT

We were all already doing this, right?

Best way I’ve seen so far to make sure you wash your hands for long enough! #coronavirus #StarTrek #COVID19 ? pic.twitter.com/vODSD1qyrS — Dr. Tanya Harrison (@tanyaofmars) March 8, 2020

We should keep this up post-2020.

??? ?? #roddenberry #coronavirus #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/bIZqdBAfJk — RODDENBERRY (@roddenberry) March 5, 2020

I’ll . . . pass on the red.

View this post on Instagram #startrek #scifimemes #startrekmemes #covidmemes #funny #redshirts #quarantine #staysafe #scifi ? A post shared by Ministry of Disinformation (@ministry_of_dis) on Apr 23, 2020 at 9:14pm PDT

Replicator malfunction?

pic.twitter.com/ED6YFX1qHo — Luke Stoneleigh (@LStone) April 25, 2020

Especially if you have little Klingons quarantining with you.

View this post on Instagram This time, the idea was mostly mine and Oldest Offspring executed it (see the previous post). . #meme #memes #adviceanimal #startrekmemes #startrekdeepspacenine #covid #covi?d19 #cov?d19memes #worf #klingon #gowron #klingons #startrekthenextgeneration #sttng #quarantine A post shared by Greg Spradlin (@spradlig) on Apr 18, 2020 at 3:49pm PDT

True story.

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Good point.

View this post on Instagram ?? #startrekpicard #startrekmemes A post shared by Michelle Hamilton (@michellehamilton21) on Apr 24, 2020 at 11:41am PDT

Oh, it can get worse.

At least it can’t possibly get any worse, right? from r/startrekmemes

I’m gonna need to read the script first.

Truth. ? #roddenberry #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/mLVTpuAehW — RODDENBERRY (@roddenberry) April 22, 2020

Ferengi would know better. from r/startrekmemes

Temba! His hands washed from r/startrekmemes

It’s okay to cry.

#roddenberry ? pic.twitter.com/OxpfK2ZYat — RODDENBERRY (@roddenberry) March 15, 2020

You know it’s bad when the Borg avoid you.

OMG who made this? ?? pic.twitter.com/3LKnXAOZl3 — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 17, 2020

Maybe just don’t watch the news.

pic.twitter.com/2cvj1MrZOw — Raven-Glock (@Raven_Glock) April 25, 2020

Please, don’t do this.

pic.twitter.com/T2chU681L6 — Shiva ? (@ginnyvere) April 25, 2020

This is what I’m calling it from now on.

pic.twitter.com/15DqQvTkhb — ?? EMH ?? (@4Treks) April 25, 2020

Just give us the cure, McCoy.

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How about this week.

Relatable! ? #roddenberry #MondayMorning #shelteringinplace pic.twitter.com/PoWjMHb518 — RODDENBERRY (@roddenberry) April 6, 2020

What are the best memes you’ve seen over the past month and change? Share them with us @StarTrek on Twitter and Instagram!

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Margaret Kingsbury (she/her) is a contributing writer at Book Riot , where she raves about the SFF books she loves. She writes about children's books at Baby Librarians , a website she co-founded, and you can find her on Twitter @areaderlymom and on Instagram @babylibrarians

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People Are Using AI to Turn Memes Into Videos and It’s Low Key Terrifying

A n AI video tool called Dream Machine, developed by the company Luma Labs, transforms still images into moving pictures. As it should, the internet quickly started using the AI to turn famous memes into videos — and a fair share of the results are nothing short of nightmare fuel.

Behold, for example, the first clip in this compilation of horrors, as shared to the subreddit r/aivideo. It's an AI-zombified video created from the famous " disaster girl " meme, in which a young girl is seen giving the camera a smirking, chaotic look as a house burns behind her.

In the original meme, several firefighters are pictured in the background. In the AI's version, these firefighters wriggle around, morphing and moving with a dreamlike sensibility as they pitter-patter about the disaster scene. One of them then approaches — but, horrifyingly, her face changes several times as she draws nearer. The AI then settles on the face of yet another young child, who then turns and runs toward the fire.  (There's also a very random man who suddenly appears in the side of the screen, and it looks sort of like the two girl characters actually morph together before sprinting into the flames.)

Then over on Twitter, there's this AI-spun clip of the " distracted girlfriend " meme (a version of the infamous "distracted boyfriend" image.) In the AI's retelling, the girlfriend's head does a horror movie-esque 360 turn. There's also something very haunting that happens with her hand.

The Fifth Beatle

While some of these AI clips might keep us up at night, other AI-animated images that gained traction online were decidedly more mundane. And in some cases, netizens wondered why someone would need to use AI in the first place.

"Burning down the Amazon to harness the magic of AI in order to finally find out what Captain Picard from Star Trek looked like," one X user — referring to generative AI's massive environmental footprint — quipped in response to someone using AI to animate a meme of the "Star Trek" franchise's Captain Picard, even though the meme was originally taken from... a video.

We're also a little obsessed with this AI animation of the Beatles' Abbey Road cover art, which inexplicably adds a fifth band member to the iconic quartet.

Anyway. These are freaky as all get out, but we have to admit that they do make us laugh — as long as they're not making us shudder in fear, of course. And on that note, we'll leave you with another favorite: an animated " Zuckerberg is watching " meme, which we hope will live rent-free in your head like it is in ours.

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