Chris Hsiang

@chrishsiang.bsky.social

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I am an amateur of velocipedes. San Franciscan. Bookseller. Carbon-based.

Four frames from the last scene of the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah": Captain Kirk is despondent, head down at his desk. He moans, "It's been 244 years, but... I still miss Peter David." Spock stands over him, then places a consoling hand upon his friend, saying, "As do I."
Humans dancing in a night club with a large mirrored disci ball hanging from the ceiling. In the foreground is a Gorn from the TOS episode "Arena" caption: Mammals are so gross! Why are they dancing beneath a giant eyeball?
The Main Post of The Presidio, San Francisco, California. A row of red brick buildings with tile roofs on a sloping hill. A large lawn in the foreground has many children from field trips at play or eating snacks. The building on the right houses the Walt Disney Museum.
A map of the large bit of sea bordered by Cuba, Mexico, Texas, and other states like Florida. The label says "Gulf of Denali".
Blue bike in front of a mural on 15th St. & Valencia, the art shows a hammerhead shark with a battleaxe
A view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Pacific Overlook on Lincoln Boulevard in The Presidio, San Francisco, California
Two frames from the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" where Captain Kirk and his long-time companion Spock are cleverly disguised to infiltrate the Cape Kennedy Space Center in 1967. Spock is wearing what is often called a bucket hat. Staring at this distinctive headdress, Kirk declares, "A man beams down to a pre-warp civilization in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything." In the second panel, the ever logical and reserved Science Officer replies matter-of-factly, "Damn straight."
A bicycle at a scenic vista overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on Conzelman Drive. There is a white SUV parked behind the bike on the left. Further back are six human sight-seers and a raven sitting on a fencepost
Four Star Trek fans standing at the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge. They are each wearing a Starfleet uniform from a different era: the maroon monster from Wrath of Khan; an Ops jumpsuit from the NX-01 Enterprise, a Command uniform from TNG, and... Okay, I am not sure when the guy on the left is from.
My beloved Surly Straggler on the Bay View Trail in China Camp State Park, Marin County, California
A Great Blue Heron stands in the calm water of the lagoon at Crissy Field in San Francisco's Presidio. You can see the top of Sutro Tower peeking over the treeline in the background
3 panels of Dr. McCoy and Spock standing in a corridor of the Enterprise, TOS era Panel 1, McCoy says, "Spock, did you know that Gene Roddenberry was adamantly opposed to the continued existence of zippers in the 23rd Century?" Panel 2, Spock replies, "Fastener hating." Panel 3, the two men stand in silence, their bonds of frenemiship deepening.
Captain Bateson of USS Bozeman tells the woodchuck Punxsutawney Phil, "Don't drive angry." See, it's a mashup of the film Groundhog Day and the TNG episode, "Cause and Effect" because they both were about time loops ... it's hilarious, I swear.
Alan Ruck as Captain John Herriman in the film Star Trek: Generations, puts on his emoji sunglasses and tells his crew "It's Tuesday".
A pair of male Hooded Mergansers (Lophodytes cucullatus) in the pond below Prayerbook Cross Falls in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. There was also a female. She spent most of the time diving for food. She caught and ate at least one crayfish.
A screengrab from DS9 "Indiscretion" Quark, that galactic master of ignoring personal boundaries, looms over Captain Sisko, hollering into his delicate little hooman ears, "Hey, I'm going over to BlueSky, my handle is…" Sisko is distracted by his own trivial worries like encroaching space fascism and being a space jesus. He offhandedly mutters, "Uh huh, OK"
The cover of RED RABBIT, a novel by Alex Grecian. The art shows a creepy, crude, faceless doll made of twigs with a nail driven though its chest. There's text scrawled in red letters: WANTED FOR WITCHCRAFT DEAD OR ALIVE.
2 panels, text: "What if Seven of Nine… was a dolphin?" First panel: Jeri Ryan looking amazing in season 1 of Picard, her famous ocular implant prominently displayed Second panel: close-up of a dolphin's face. She also has an ocular implant on her smiling face, but it is like one of those tacky chrome girl silhouettes that sometimes ornament the mudflaps of trucks belonging to men who are certainly not overcompensating for any insecurities.