TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
/c/TenForward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags.
Use spoiler tags in comments, and NSFW checkbox for posts.
This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
view the rest of the comments
(Fun fact. it's a hold over from pocket watches. you'd have a chain going to your belt loop or a vest pocket, then you could put the- usually expensive- pocket watch into it's dedicated pocket the chain- aka fob- was there to make it easy to get out. Eventually, people started showing off by attaching pendants to the fob, and eventually, that's what we call a fob today.)
My understanding is that wrist watches, at least for men, did not start to gain popularity until World War I when soldiers began improving straps to attach their pocket watches to their wrists.
It was the first boer war that demonstrated the importance of watches, women were actually the first to adopt them for a while (mid 1880’s) since they didn’t have pockets.
The wristwatch being used by military men became increasingly common; with watch makers starting with pocket watches in adapted casings before designing smaller movements and dedicated casings.
By the time of ww1, they were common enough and mass produced enough to issue to everyone, making it a common thing.
Good to know!