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AFF 2023 Finalist Screenwriter. Award-winning journalist. FilAm Queer writing Filipino Futurism. Co-Host Ship Full of Jerks. Trekkie. He/Him. https://www.ryanthomasriddle.com/ https://distant-worlds.ghost.io/ https://tee.pub/lic/f1poelSKnbM

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 7d

Like Doug The Vulcan, I am very excited. #StarTrek #BeverlyCrusherDay #GatesMcFadden

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4m

Yay!

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 1h

Oh I’m more Heathers than Mean Girls so that totally went over my head then!!! Queer fail.

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 2h

Oh no!

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 2h

My tees are on sale this weekend! Grab yourself a “Be Queer, Do Space Crimes” for 35% off… and help keep this writer writing. ☺️🫶🏾🖖🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#queerwriters #lgbtq

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Be Queer, Do Space Crimes by distant-worlds-inc

The rallying cry for LGBTQ+ science fiction fans, a play on the old gay liberation slogan, “Be Gay, Do Crime.”

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 3h

It’s tastiness outweighs its caloric or fat content, therefore nullingfying them.

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 3h

Nice. Thanks!

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 3h

Only when I wear a skant.

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 3h

Looking good! About time they put a male lead in a skant/skirt. Come on, SNW, put Spock in a skant in the last season.

Hopefully, we’ll see a return to queer storylines as well. A queer Klingon is something we haven’t seen from the francishe yet!

#StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 4h

So the haters are already starting upset that a Klingon warrior is wearing a skirt. Well wait till they find out how Viking men dressed when they went into battle. Wonder if they think of them as "woke" fandompulse.substack.com/p/new-york-c...

New York Comic-Con Unveils Male Klingon Wearing A Skirt For Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Star Trek may not have had its wokest moment yet under Alex Kurtzman.

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

I forgot IDW did that as part of their end of the five year storyline. Also, pretty freakin’ rad.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · Jan 26

🚨CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK BISEXUALITY MENTION🚨

Star Trek: Year Five panel. Captain Kirk is at a table in the briefing room with a pretty woman captain with brown hair and brown skin. They’re relaxed, smiling, drinking out of brandy glasses. The woman (Captain Laura Rhone, who is basically a cooler, female Kirk) has her feet up on the table. Dialogue reads:

Rhone: I’ve been watching you, James Kirk, and I believe you’ve got a future. And I’ve been asking around about you, too. There don’t seem to have been many ladies in your life. Gentlemen, either.
Kirk: Well, I’ve been busy.
Rhone: And there’s nobody *now*…
Kirk: No. Nobody else.
Rhone: Except this starship.
Kirk: Ah. *She’s* non-negotiable.
Rhone: So’s mine. So… I have a question for you…

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

New Vulcan cadet on the bridge. Wonder who that might be? It’s too early for Saavik… or is it?

Hopefully, it’s a new character rather than a legacy one. But seems Uhura might be someone’s mentor.

Anyway, glad to see some good ol’ Trek adventuring in this!

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4h

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 4, 2026): First look

"The crew of the USS Enterprise will battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces and confront terrifying aliens. Through it all, they strive to embrace a bright, hopeful future."

Season 4 Exclusive First Look | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | NYCC 2025

YouTube video by Star Trek

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

Thanks! That’s high praise and makes me day since I’m working on my likenesses!

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

Or maybe Starfleet now has a clear and separate military division, like future MACOs?

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

Romulans have “War College”. Starfleet should have “Command School.”

Maybe “The War College” is Klingon related. Guess, we’ll find out.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 4h

Wil Wheaton put out a YouTube video where he said, “everyone who works on Star Trek today, all of the writers, all of the department heads, everyone who designs all of the things you see, and 70% of the actors ... [is] a lifelong Star Trek fan” and it’s breaking the brains of all the bad fanboys

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

I’ll need an engineer!

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 4h

Enrolled in #StarFleetAcademy. It knew immediately that I’d be on the command track! #StarTrek

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 7h

Thanks to @aboynamedart.bsky.social, I just learned that Five was biracial. Gonna have to go back and rewatch some of his adventures. #DoctorWho

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 17h

Really interesting thread about Dr Who's Peter Davison's ethnic heritage, thank you.

Went to look and there are some photos in his autobiography to illustrate this.

nwhyte.livejournal.com/3279791.html

Cover of autobiography is a thoughtful smiling PETER DAVISON

IS THERE LIFE OUTSIDE THE BOX?

AN ACTOR DESPAIRS

3 photos of Peter Davison's father's family illustrating his black African heritage

Left: (younger woman standing smiling next to a seated older woman also smiling) My Auntie Olga with Granny Louise in British Guiana, 1937.

Below: My parents' wedding day, April 1947.

Left: (man at piano) My father about to perform - this got him many invitations to Sunday lunches.

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 7h

Four your eyes only, you could say!

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 8h

This is a view to a kill!

Quantum Of Silliness @quantumofsilliness.bsky.social · 9h

It’s the weekend so here’s a picture of Maud Adams and Grace Jones playing GoldenEye 007 on the N64

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 8h

I have the SNW Fluevog boots and these do look hella more comfortable! Lol.

TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 8h

The @fluevog.bsky.social shoes for #StarTrek: #StarfleetAcademy are running a special deal
If you pre-order at #NYCC. They aren’t cheap but they are very comfortable and will last forever!

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 10h

The deeper one.

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 10h

Thank you!

a close up of a cartoon character with a ponytail on his head

Alt: a close up of a cartoon character with a ponytail on his head

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 10h

I like multipurpose wear!

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 10h

Vin Diesel as Jesus.

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