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Star Trek Parents Just Don’t Understand (Part 2)

By Ames

Last week, you’ll remember we covered a whole lot of parents from the classic Star Trek series and just how much they tended to ruin their kids’ lives. Well, this week A Star to Steer Her By is finishing out the topic with parental units from currently running Trek series and the Kelvin movies. Expect this one to not be nearly as far reaching, partly because SPOILERS WILL ABOUND below the cut and partly because we’ve not covered much of this on the podcast yet, so frankly I don’t remember a good deal of it.

But some of our major players have or are noteworthy parents to talk about in this period of wide-screen Trek (seriously, everything looks like a movie now and it’s impacting my screengrab game). Give your parents a hug for us as you see them listed below and also in probably the most spoilery episode of the podcast we’ve ever recorded (discussion starts at 59:37). They only raised you from tadpoles.

(Again, some mega spoilers for Star Trek 2009, Discovery, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds, and especially [seriously!] Picard are below.)

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Kelvin George Kirk

George Kirk was a parent to literally newborn James for all of thirty seconds before saving his life, Winona’s life, and the lives of the crewmembers of the USS Kelvin. While we have no idea if he’d have been any good at raising the youngster had he lived (apparently so since this alternate Kirk ended up being quite the ruffian compared to that walking stack of books from The Original Series), we know what he valued by his actions, his sacrifice, and his refusal to name him Tiberius.

Kelvin Sarek

In pretty much all timelines, Sarek is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to raising a half-Vulcan, half-human son like Spock. Why he can’t get it through that Vulcan bowlcut of his that having a child with a human will dilute that cherished green blood of theirs is absolutely beyond me. I thought you hobgoblins were supposed to be logical, after all. Maybe if Amanda hadn’t blown up, things would have gone better for Quinto-Spock.

Discovery Sarek

Speaking of Sarek, in Discovery we actually see that he very much seems to prefer raising his ward Michael Burnham to raising either of his natural sons. Go figure. Apparently all his progenies had to do was follow in his footsteps, join the Vulcan Academy, and literally have a chunk of his katra from a past mindmerge-thing for daddy to love them.

Gabrielle Burnham

Michael’s relationship with her birth parents is something much more complicated. This is Discovery, after all; “It’s complicated” is the subtitle of the series! When we learn that Gabrielle is still alive, having saved Michael by becoming the Red Angel, it’s a bittersweet reunion that can only be made stranger by their second reunion in the 32nd century when momma has become a space nun of some kind. As if Michael didn’t have enough of this Vulcan stuff growing up!

Voq and L’Rell

On the subject of space nuns, we learn that Voq and L’Rell’s child Tenavik got to be raised by some time monks in the Boreth Monastery. Which, frankly, is probably the best that kid could ask for! The combative Klingon Empire was no place to raise a baby, and good on his parents for finding a child-rearing solution that, at the very least, kept him alive. Ya know, after just a little bit of faking his death. Q'apla, I guess!

Stamets and Culber

What is sweeter and purer than two gay space dads mentoring a nonbinary sorta-Trill sorta-not adolescent? I didn’t realize that Adira is supposed to be 16 when we meet them (probably because the actor was like 23), but regardless of age, they are struggling with their identity in enough ways to make a Vulcan weep, and having the support of a nurturing queer family is just what they need.

Ephaim

An easy example of a good parent from the Discovery era comes in one of the Short Treks, “Ephaim and DOT.” Sure, she’s a tardigrade and mostly just following that biological impulse to keep one’s seed alive, but she does better than a lot of other Trek parents. Go, tardigrades, go!

Raffi Musiker

Moving on to Star Trek: Picard, we see another negligent parent in the conspiracy theory–obsessed Raffi Musiker. She might rival Worf as a parent whose absence has screwed up their kid the most, as we see that Gabriel is downright hostile to her when she tries to reconnect. And then in season 3, she yet again chooses Starfleet over her family. Perhaps we’re lucky we haven’t seen Alexander in Picard, since he and Gabriel could have some stories to tell.

Troi and Riker

Say what you will about the Troi-Riker relationship, but they seem to be doing pretty okay raising their daughter Kestra. She’s a nifty kid with her head on straight, so they must be doing something right. Also, it’s very clear throughout their appearances in Picard that these parents did everything they could to save their son Thaddeus from his mendaxic neurosclerosis, and his loss affected them in the way only losing a beloved child could.

Maurice and Yvette Picard

We were teased a bit in TNG with just enough information about Jean-Luc’s upbringing to let us know his relationship with his father was strained and that with his mother was loving, but then the second season of Picard had to go spelling things out for us in ways we didn’t really need. Maurice becomes that much more terrible because he evidently did nothing when Yvette was going down a dark path. And Yvette… what the hell were the writers trying to say about Yvette? Freakin’ yikes.

Adam Soong

Also in season two of Picard, we get YET ANOTHER Soong ancestor for Brent Spiner to play, ya know, for reasons. Evidently all the Soongs except Data (see last week’s inclusion!) are just terrible parents because they’re effectively just trying to prolong their own legacy instead of actually caring for the needs and wants of the child. Kore, in this case, lives a life so sheltered she can’t even go outside without bursting into flames. Much like that whole damn season…

Teresa Ramirez

We do, however, get one solid parent in season two of Picard, and that’s Teresa Ramirez, the divorced mother who Rios is totally thirsty for. Actually, we don’t see a lot of children of divorce in Star Trek, do we? As we established last week, it’s far more likely to have one parent get killed off than it is to have people amicably separate because, of course, that makes for more drama. There’s Torres’s parents, and Rom and Prinadora but that’s just their Ferengi contract, and that might just be about it? Anyway, Teresa’s cool.

Jean-Luc Picard and Bev Crusher

Season three, however, is just a straight up family reunion show with lots more literal family members that get introduced to boot! Somewhere after Nemesis, evidently Bev and JL got down to clown and then Bev ran away and hid the pregnancy from him for however many years this boy is old. Sure, we all agree Picard would make a father that might rival Worf’s awkward sense of child neglect, but is Bev any better never telling him? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Geordi La Forge

Geordi’s been busy too, cranking out at least two daughters. Like Sarek’s relationship with his various kids, it seems much easier for Geordi to play favorites. Alandra is the favored daughter because she followed in his footsteps and seems like she was generally passive, while Sidney is the black sheep of the family and La Forge has trouble connecting with her because she can’t just be controlled like certain holoprograms I could name.

Carol Freeman

Let’s get out of Picard and into some animated stuff. The relationship between Captain Freeman and her daughter Beckett Mariner is at the core of Lower Decks, so much so that it’s kept secret from the rest of the crew for the drama of it all. Most of the show treats their relationship like ones we’ve seen before in which the child lashes out because they don’t want to follow in their parent’s footsteps. There is love there, but their failure to communicate does dominate.

The Diviner

In our other animated Trek, The Diviner definitely falls into that category of just the worst kind of parent because he will sacrifice Gwyn a hundred times over to get his way. He never listens to what she wants, chooses the Protostar over her, and leaves her to nearly get killed on vine planet. All this and the only reason he created her in the first place was to continue his work. Rude, bro.

Joseph M’Benga

Finally, we have Dr. M’Benga in Strange New Worlds, whose dedication to caring for his sick daughter Rukiya is admirable and incredibly sweet. Every time he reads fairy tales to her in sickbay is a beautiful little scene, and the end of “The Elysian Kingdom” is a tear jerker that we were honestly surprised to get so early in the run of the show. I kinda hope we see more from Rukiya in future, but who knows what’s written in these fantastical pages?

— We’re ducking out from this family reunion before someone whips out the photo album. Catch us next time for more, and definitely keep listening to our watchthrough of Voyager over on SoundCloud or wherever you get podcasts. You can also post family in-jokes on our Facebook and Twitter, and would it hurt to call once in a while?

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hard-times-paramore · 2 years

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The Klingons were so absurd when making Tyler into their sleeper agent. Instead of just transfering Voq's conscience to him, they made Voq look like him through extensively traumatic surgery and then transferred him to Voq. Like, they didn't need to give him that extra bit of trauma for free, they just did.

#and then in the end they purged voq anyway so they straight up just downloaded a guy into one of their own for nothing #could've downloaded voq into tyler and then kept voq's body alive if they ever needed a plan b #but no they couldn't break their obsession with klingon purity #the klingons in disco were something else #star trek discovery #ash tyler #voq #l'rell

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queerlybelovdd · 10 months

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whovianwatchingstartrek · 6 months

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A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 110 - Under the Command of Evil Georgiou

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1 Episode 15 - Will You Take My Hand?

Okay, We're now onto the Season 1 Finale of Discovery! I'm excited to see how we end this season out!

We open aboard Discovery with making quoting something about the nature of feart, and unfortunately I don't recognise it, so I'm just left with the Foreboding nature of the passage.

This Georgiou's command style is immediately noticeably Terran. I loved how tense the Bridge was during the opening sequence. Her absolute disdain for the Klingons, Saru, and later in the episode Ash Tyler, pushes all of the right buttons in my head, and I can't wait for her to get her comeuppance. She makes a few veiled references to how she eats Kelpians towards Saru, and it just made my skin crawl, and so did her calling Ash an "it" later on. Unfortunately however, there is not much the crew can do for now, as she's the only one who fully knows the plan.

After the intro Georgiou and Michael interrogate L'Rell about which landing site would be best for discovery. Of Course L'Rell doesn't talk, which launches Georgiou into a much more brutal method of getting the information out of her. That doesn't work either, and Michael calls that to a stop. I'm really glad that Michael is starting to realise that maybe this isn't the way to go. Michael then takes Georgiou to Ash, and since he has Voq's memories, he willingly gives over the information they want. We also get a bit of worldbuilding about Klingon history, just a bit about Kahless and how he defeated someone called Molor, who the Klingons seemed to have worshipped in a similar way to how they worship Kahless now. I really want to know more this, and I'm trying to piece together their culture from the little scraps I'm being given.

This episode from the get go is clearly about the clear difference between Imperial tactics and Federation Tactics, and whether or not the ends justify the means when it comes to Georgiou's brutality.

This episode is putting in a lot of work to undo the mistakes of the last few episodes surrounding Georgiou, and I am 100% here for it. The last couple episodes tried to make her too sympathetic, when she is a fascist dictator, but here she is written and portrayed in such a creepy slimey way, and it's definetly what they should have been doing from the get go. I've already mentioned her racism, but also in the way she interacts with the human crew. Her various threats towards Michael, and just general attitude towards Sylvia Tilly gives me shivers, and in this episode alone I think she's earned a spot among my favourite villains so far.

Discovery Makes it's jump into the caves of Kronos, and the ground crew, made up of Michael, Ash Sylvia and Georgiou exit into an Orion market to try and get the location of this shrine.

On a side note, the more even split among male and female Orion slaves makes the whole idea feel a lot less behind-the-scenes slimy than the Orions did in Enterprise, thankfully. Here it feels slimy in a way where it feels like it's supposed to feel slimy, and not just... whatever Enterprise was doing in it's Orion focus episode. Also I'm not going to pretend like the eye-candy isn't appreciated in my bisexual brain, it feels a lot less uncomfortable when it doesn't feel like exploitation.

Amongst the chaos of the market, we get a few good downtime scenes, particularly of Sylvia being an absolute fish out of water, and a really well written heart to heart between Ash and Michael, where we finally get the full details of what happened to Michael's Bio-parents. Her survivor's guilt over this trauma is an interesting angle, and the detail of her memory over her trauma is something I really want to see explored in the future, and it really adds a interesting layer with her relationship with Ash.

Tilly finds out that the Drone she's guarding isn't a drone, but a planet cracking bomb designed to make the planet uninhabitable, and unfortunately Georgiou has moved too fast for Discovery to do anything.

Thankfully, Discovery manages to talk Starfleet out of the plan, and fromt here it's just a matter of sending in Michael to convince Georgiou to stop, which turned out easier than expected. Discovery hands the Detonator over to L'Rell, and convinces her to step up as the Klingons leader, and end the war. Ash choses to go with him, meaning we'll need a new chief of Security again. His goodbye to Michael . Georgiou is then let free, and I'm hoping we'll see her again sooner rather than later, because she still has a lot fascisty stuff to answer for.

Michael's speech at the end as she obtains her official pardon, and the crew get their official commendations, was also a fantastic way to cap off the season. We're also given an absolute shocker of a cliffhanger, as Discovery picks up a distress call from the Enterprise, so I can't wait to see what that's about!

I really liked this finale. I was shaky going into it with how the previous episodes were treating Georgiou, but this more than made up for it. It really capped of the whole methods vs results theme the season was going for, and it was just generally fun. I enjoyed myself here.

I have a couple Short Treks which I'll cover in one post tomorrow, and then immediately onto Season 2!

#whovian watching star trek #star trek #star trek Discovery #Star Trek DIS #Star Trek DISCO #ST DIS #ST DISCO #DIS #st: disco #DISCO #st: discovery #Discovery #ST: DIS

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jonfucius · 10 months

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Great Star Trek Rewatch - Discovery S1

Originally posted on Twitter 8 July 2020 - 21 July 2020

Star Trek: Discovery is up next in my Great Star Trek Rewatch. As with Star Trek: Enterprise, mini-reviews will document my progress.

The Vulcan Hello: Strong introductions to Burnham, Saru, Georgiou. Breathtaking spacewalk. The new aesthetic takes some getting used to, but it’s window dressing. T’Kuvma helps explain why TOS Klingons are different from TNG Klingons. Burnham’s mutiny is unprecedented. 6/10

Battle at the Binary Stars: Georgiou’s demise was a surprise, but T’Kuvma’s death was the big shock given the marketing campaign. A life sentence for mutiny is excessive, though not surprising given the scale of consequences from Burnham’s mutiny. 7/10

Context is for Kings: The true pilot of DSC, this episode gets Burnham onto Discovery and introduces the rest of the crew. The mycelial network is inventive. The horrors aboard the Glenn are Trek body horror at its most grisly. Lorca is immediately intriguing. 8/10

The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry: RIP(per) Landry. Shades of “The Devil in the Dark” as Burnham comes to understand the tardigrade. Klingon machinations begin as Voq and L’Rell are betrayed by Kol. Culber immediately joins the pantheon of great Trek doctors. 7/10

Choose Your Pain: Lorca is captured by L’Rell and meets Harry Mudd and Ash Tyler. This Mudd is as devious as his TOS incarnation, but still garners sympathy when Lorca leaves him with the Klingons. Stamets becomes one with his shrooms as Ripper leaps away. 7/10

Lethe: A question that has lingered for fifty years is finally answered: what drove Sarek and Spock apart? Incredible connections to TOS without feeling like a blatant retcon. Lorca is a “broken man” indeed. Burnham and Tyler’s mess hall scene is classic Star Trek. 10/10

Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad: A classic Star Trek trope gets a uniquely Discovery twist. Mudd may get off easy for all his villainy, but it's a very TOS ending. Loved seeing the crew let their hair down and party. 10/10

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum: Saru finally gets a moment of peace on Pahvo. Doug Jones’ finest work is in his confrontation with Burnham. A classic Star Trek tale with Discovery’s trappings. Shoutout to Jayne Brook and Mary Chieffo’s scenes - what a fantastic pairing! 9/10

Into the Forest I Go: RIP Kol and the gorgeous Sarcophagus ship. The jump sequence is a nail-biter, as is Burnham’s fight with Kol. Tyler has some severe PTSD from L’Rell’s torture, but is able to pull it together thanks to Cornwell. But where in Hell is Discovery? 8/10

Despite Yourself: Mary Wiseman steals the show, impersonating “Capt. Killy.” Tyler’s PTSD/brainwashing comes to a head as he shockingly murders Culber. What is L’Rell’s hold on him? Hard to see Stamets so debilitated as well. 7/10

The Wolf Inside: Tyler is becoming unraveled as Burnham tries to get a handle on the Terran universe. Having Georgiou be the Emperor is brilliant. 7/10

Vaulting Ambition: Kelpien sushi is disgusting. So is the sickness engulfing the mycelial network. And the torture L’Rell inflicted on Tyler. Lots of pieces move into place here as Lorca’s true nature is revealed. This reveal still doesn’t quite stick the landing for me. 7/10

What’s Past is Prologue: the extended MU jaunt ends with a stunning set piece: Discovery riding a mycelial shockwave as Stamets guides them home, with vital assistance from Culber. Sad to see Lorca go, but we get Georgiou again. 9/10

The War Without, The War Within: Discovery’s been gone 9 months and the war is in the Klingons’ favor. But is genocide the right answer? Great visual effects with the prototaxites regrowth, but this is a filler episode through and through. 6/10

Will You Take My Hand?: Most of Season 1's threads get wrapped up here: L'Rell becomes chancellor, Georgiou acclimates to "our" universe, and Burnham and Tyler part ways. Burnham's speech and Saru's stand (We Are Starfleet) are the highlights of this episode. As is the tag. 9/10

And with that, Season 1 of DSC comes to an end in my Great Star Trek Rewatch. Final score: 7.80/10. Highest score(s): "Lethe," "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad." Lowest score(s): "The Vulcan Hello," "The War Without, The War Within".

#Great Star Trek Rewatch #Star Trek #Star Trek Discovery #Star Trek DSC

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tallysgreatestfan · 1 year

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Can't believe I forgot Kira/Odo in the list of ships that look straight aka cishet at first glance but the moment you look longer it is absolutely clear that nobody involved is cishet:

The other ships:

Delenn/Lennier (Babylon 5)

Entrapta/Hordak (She-Ra) (half-canon, with Entrapta being subtly but canonically bi)

Data/Tasha Yar (Star Trek The Next Generation)

Glimmer/Bow (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) (canon, both are bisexual)

L'Rell/Voq (Star Trek Discovery)

Palamedes Sextus/Camilla Hect (The Locked Tomb) (canon, both are subtly stated to be bi, depending on your definition - is someone trans if they're trans through supernatural means? - he might also be trans)

Adira Tal/Grey Tal (Star Trek Discovery) (canon, Grey is a trans man and Adira is nonbinary, and they use they/them)

Rose Quartz/Greg Universe (Steven Universe) (half-canon, she is canonically bi but his sexual orientation is unknown)

I just love ships like this so much as a bi woman who, despite these days mostly dating women, does not really fit into the ideal of how a "real" queer person should look like and date like.

#LGBTQ #shipping #not gonna tag all these ships and fandoms

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annikasevenshots · 2 years

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Discovery! For the relationship rating.

Oh hell yeah let's do this. Disclaimer: have not watched S4 and have not watched Disco since they took it off Netflix.

Michael/Philippa (prime): The actual love of my life. The reason why I started this blog. They are the blood running through my veins. They are the water running through the Thames. They are everything.

Michael/Philippa (mirror): Yes if I'm feeling naughty, but it's mostly angsty because neither are the Person the other truly loved (haha unless they learn to love,,, each other,,,???)

Michael (mirror)/Philippa (mirror): canon be damned, they are NOT mother and daughter. NOT WITH THAT SIZZLING CHEMISTRY. the primal urge for power. the bloodlust. the way they fight and the way they could conquer the world together. okay i'll stop talking about them before i get carried away and drop an abandoned fic i'd written of them.

Detmer/Owo: NEEDS TO HAPPEN. Disco babes it has been 4 seasons. please i am begging. bridge sapphics. please. PLEASE. 1000000/10 i love them both so much i NEED them to be canon so hard

Culber/Stamets: hell yeah. hate that plot throws them through the wringer but 🌈/10 for being the first canon gay ship in Trek. truly going where no man has gone before. god bless 🙏

Michael/Tilly: okay i guess,,,? but i always hc'd tilly as ace so. 7/10

Voq/L'Rell: pretty based ngl, loved that they birthed an absolute chad of a son who's a timekeeper.

Burnham/Ash Tyler: a solid what the hell/10

Michael/Book: 6.5/10, not the strongest but I like grudge and they're aight i guess

Adira/Gray: cutie pies!!!! 8/10

#thank you for the ask!#star trek discovery

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I'm rewatching Disco again and just utterly appalled how nearly every single episode is a Burnham episode. Halfway through the second season, Tilly has been given one episode, Saru has been given an episode, Stamets and Culber are only getting to happen in the background. Tyler/Voq and L'Rell got more screen time than the regular cast.

In the first season, the junior officers' (last) names were only pronounced 2-3 times each and none of them has had any character development still. I couldn't even remember their names when I began my rewatch because the show has never taken the time to really develop any of them. Detmer, Rhys, Owosekun, Bryce, I don't think any of them have had first names pronounced at all. They're in every episode but if someone else was cast nothing would really change, the same lines pronounced with a different voice.

Airiam is played by two different actresses and currently getting her five minutes of fame in the storyline.

I think the only reason they developed Captain Lorca was so they could have the twist at the end of s1.

So much technobabble. A few throwback characters from the past. But they might as well have called it the Star Trek: Burnham. She's a Mary Sue that gets away with everything. It's not an ensemble because characters mostly only get developed as her friends and family, everyone else is shoved in the background. It's so sad.

I don't dislike any of the characters, I just wish that we actually got to know them.

#discovery criticism #i remember being so excited for this show when it first came out #i was hoping that it would have aged well but nope i still hate what they did to it #it could have been so much more #less special effects #more team building

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soulerflaire · 10 months

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"Drink, Voq. Claim your destiny. You will all be conquerors."

"And what, L'Rell, must we give in return?"

"Everything."

#Discovery commentary #S1 E4 The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry

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gregolwman · 1 year

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"That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me." - Jerry Seinfeld

Hey, hey, people, Greg Owlman here, and barring a copyright strike from a certain YouTuber, I believe it's time to get reacquainted with one another. It's me, the snake oil salesman that hopes to sell you ideas for the low, low price of getting some validation online and boy do I have a hot topic for your stingy souls. I know that little old me has been noticeably absent from this esteemed platform for quite a while, but between polishing up the present I prepared for you guys, the intricacies of real life, and my page being the new central station for all the accounts that deal with porn for reasons beyond my understanding, I have been busy. However this Christmas I give to you my reimagined version of Star Trek Discovery's four seasons.

Season 1 : Personally, I enjoyed the Dominion War saga from Deep Space 9 and I saw an opportunity to explore how the Klingon-Federation's conflict defined a good chunk of the TOS era, especially from the perspective of a hardened veteran such as Captain Lorca and a fanatic like Voq. With that in mind let's crack into it. The season begins with T'Kuvma radicalizing the fringe elements of the Klingon Empire such as the Purebloods, those not affected by the Augment Virus, and other discriminated minorities to take the office of the Chancellor for himself by starting a war against the Federation. It was during this conflict that people like Captain Lorca would be born, a necessary evil that works for the angels, and no, he is not from the Mirror Universe nor are we touching that can of worms for now. Lorca would be working with Section 31 and technically have a carte blanche from Starfleet, because he is shagging an Admiral, to do what is necessary to win the war, such as creating a more efficient warp drive by using a cyborg navigation system made from space mushrooms, trust me this makes more sense than what the show gave us, and by making more people like himself by basically being the evil mentor of both Michael and Tyler. Ash Tyler is not Voq this time around, but he did enjoy the hospitality of the Klingons and got the scars to prove it, both physical and mental. Meanwhile, Michael has to deal with a nasty case of a guilty consciousness and PTSD that take the form of the deceased Captain Georgiou, who acts more like the Terran Emperor since this is Michael torturing herself. Anyways, things don't go to Lorca's design as Michael doesn't fall into Darkness like Tyler is doing and the rest of the crew are really tired of the Captain's BS with how bad morale is going. It wasn't until the mission to Q'onoS by literally flinging themselves at light speed towards the planet and hope not to hit it in order to then get inside the crust and plant bombs that they finally had enough and mutinied. By this point T'Kuvma saw the writing on the wall as L'Rell betrayed him and Voq was dead, therefore choosing to kill himself rather than suffer the wrath of his people. It should be noted that this is not the last we would see of Lorca as a character and next time, he won't be siding with Paradise. L'Rell would use the opportunity gained by having the deadman's switch towards planetary annihilation and whatever remained of T'Kuvma's faction to get the big chair as the newest Chancellor of the Klingon Empire.

Season 2 : Truth be told, I didn't like the whole Control or Red Angel ideas, as such we are changing it into a race between two factions within the Federation to uncover the mysterious series of strange signals and their connection to a strange entity, while also having a B-Plot about L'Rell's attempts to prevent a Klingon Civil War. This season starts much like the previous one did, with a bunch of mysterious signals appearing out of nowhere and other reported sightings of an entity known internally as the Red Angel. Starfleet High Command, due to not having the necessary manpower and needing somebody trustworthy to handle things, transfers Captain Christopher Pike to the USS Discovery alongside some other officers to investigate, however, they are not the only ones looking into the phenomenon as a Section 31 Task Force headed by Leland is feed information by their double agent, Ash Tyler to no one's surprise, on what the crew is doing and based on what they are hearing they might be able to make use of this discovery. Spock, the living MacGuffin and Red Angel bloodhound, is a resource both factions are trying to get their mittens on. This is due to his unique status as a hybrid in an era where such people were seen as unnatural and were often shunned by others, as such he gained the interest of the Sphere, who itself was quite lonely and unique, therefore both of them formed an interesting bond, although the latter would interact more through weird visions with the former. Anyways this season The Red Angel is the physical manifestation of the Sphere as it attempts to interact with the rest of the galaxy. Anyways, it all ends with Section 31 losing the support of Starfleet following the battle of Control, which was basically, a secret space station where a bunch of insane Starfleet Admirals handle the intricacies of Section 31 operations and got killed by Leland in a power grab in the last leg of the season. They were being technically cut off by the Federation to save face and L'Rell managed to transition the Empire from the feudal space Vikings of old to the new technocratic communists IN SPACE as seen in TOS. Saru would receive his promotion to Captain of the Discovery and Michael would get her old rank back in exchange for an undercover assignment under the authority of the Federation Council and office of the President.

For now, I suppose this is a good time as any to have a break. I reckon that is the case since the audience retention time is quite low these days, God knows I am barely able to keep an active interest in shows longer than 20 minutes nowadays. There is also the word limit that a usual Tumblr post has and I would rather not lose everything I have written thus far because of an error thank you very much. As such, for now, we shall part ways with a slight debt on my part, but fear not for I shall endeavor to give you the last two seasons before New Year. Until that day, I shall bid you adieu for now.

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#star trek #star trek discovery #ramblings #reimagined #sorry not even remotely sorry

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hard-times-paramore · 2 years

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I was messing around and decided to redesign the Star Trek Discovery Klingons in the style of TNG/DS9 Klingons. I don't know if I did a good job - that was actually my first time drawing Klingons - but it's out there now! ^^

I didn't really like the portrayal of the Klingons in Discovery. They felt more like space orcs, and I know a lot of people thought it was a racist portrayal. When we don't like something, we try to think of what to do to improve it. So I tried the redesigns.

Bonus: Voq also gets his own bald cultist version.

#I don't know how un-racist you can make the klingons since in TOS era they were still expansionist warmongers #but you didn't have to double down and make them space orcs that eat people #l'rell is still a villain tho. but that's on her as an individual not her species.#star trek #star trek discovery #star trek disco #klingons #voq #l'rell #t'kuvma #tenavik #I love tenavik. baby boy :^)#my art #my posts #pike au adjacent

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A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 114 - Spock is on the Run

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 Episode 3 - Point of Light

With Christmas over, I can get back to doing this properly.

This time, we're still on the lookout for Red Angel Signals and for any clues about Spock's situation. Sylvia Tilly is still seeing the ghost of her childhood friend May. Discovery stumbles across Sarek's ship, who requests to transport someone over. Everyone expects it to be Sarek, but it turns out to actually be his wife.

After the Intro we cut to the Klingon Empire, and things seem to be going well under L'Rell's rule. The Klingon houses are all together, even if there it a bit of tension about Tyler/Voq's presence.

Back on Discovery, we find out that Amanda tried to visit Spock in his psychiatric ward, but they wouldn't let her see him, and apparently any info about his situation is being kept secret, even from Family. So, she stole his medical file, and hands it off to Michael who in turn takes it to Captain Pike.

After a bit of Convincing, Pike calls up the Facility, but tactfully doesn't mention Amanda or the Stolen File, he simply words his request as a simple check from a captain, and we find out that apparently Spock escaped and is wanted for murder. This call convinces Pike to allow Michael to crack open the medical file.

We get this really good scene with Amanda opening up about how she regrets raising Spock in the way she did, and wishing he would have been allowed to express his emotion more, but this is interrupted by drawings of the Red Angel flickering through in the medical file, and then further interrupted by a call from Ash Tyler, which Michael needs to take. Michael's call with Ash is just a general catch up, and a nice heart to heart, but nothing immediately pressing. Later, we do find out that L'Rell and Voq had a child together, a complete surprise to Ash. L'Rell didn't tell Ash because she wanted him to be able to return to a human life without any need to return to Chronos. L'Rell knows that Ash called Michael and basically has seen the writing on the wall from Day 1. The way she wants to protect Ash/Voq's happiness is really sweet. Ash says he wishes to remain committed to staying on Klingon though, and agrees to raise the child. As to go to meet him however, they find the child has been kidnapped by one of rogue noble houses. We get a pretty good action scene out of it, although I wish it was a lit a bit better, it fell into the trap of thinking Visually Dark = Good. L'Rell and Ash lose their fight however, but are rescued by none other than Georgiou, who for some reason has a vested interest in L'Rell remaining the Chancellor of the Klingon empire

On Discovery's Bridge, where the Command Training Program people are beginning their "Shadow Exercises" which is a lot less badass than it sounds. Basically, they're studying directly under another officer. Sylvia, still her ghost, is studying under Captain Pike himself, which is definitely a golden opportunity. They have built him to be considered one of the best captains in the fleet, after all.

Apparently May's ghost is urgent to talk to a Captain, but not Pike, and not Saru because what she described sounds Human. I really wonder where this ghost falls on the Malice vs Incompetence Spectrum, throughout this sequence it does seem like she's pushing to block Sylvia from command. Pike notices something is up, but it's too late because May pushes Sylvia into an open outburst, which, because only she can see may, everyone on bridge thinks is directed towards Pike. I really like the idea of this ghost as kind of a metaphor stress or pushing yourself too hard or something, she did first appear in a scene where Saru gave her a little pep-talk about that.

Elsewhere, Michael's conversation with Amanda continues, and we learn a bit more about the Red Angel. Apparently the first time it appeared for Spock was during an incident where Michael ran away from home, and it told Spock exactly where she was. Additionally, we find out a bit more about what happened to damage Spock and Michael's relationship so much. Apparently, Michael Traumatised him to protect him from the logic extremists, because he kept following her around everywhere. We don't find out exactly what.

After both Michael and Sylvia's emotional moments, they both meet up in their bunks, and Sylvia finally opens up about how she's seeing a ghost. Michael manages to build Sylvia up a bit, which was really nice to see. And also, she manages to throw down a bit of logic about her situation: May isn't a hallucination, and whatever she is, she isn't the real Ghost of May. Additionally, because Michael has held a rock from the Asteroid and not suffered this effect, it must be connected to the Spores, and they agree to visit Paul Stamets.

Paul and Saru, now informed on Sylvia's situation get work and find out that May is a spore from the Terran Universe, but they make quick work of Extracting her. The fungal organism is huge however, and ends up contained.

I enjoyed this episode, especially Sylvia and May stuff, although I do wish we could have got a few more episodes of weird ghost stuff before it was resolved, I guess. The Klingon stuff was also great here. Apparently Georgiou is part of a black-ops unit called Section 31, I'm really interested to see where that goes now that she's back in play. Overall a pretty good episode.

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