Boimler every time something goes wrong on the USS Cerritos so pretty much daily ig

a poster to pin up in your bunk

Through hardship, to the stars! 💫🖖 I recreated the Una Ad Astra Per Aspera poster in full from the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover

LOVE that strange new worlds is following the age old star trek tradition of dedicating a whole episode to the trial of one of the main crew members

through hardships to the stars

Star Trek Graphic Design Series [1/?]

I had to

Another thing I absolutely loved about Ad Astra Per Aspera is that the victory didn't feel cheap. Una and Neera didn't win because of an impassioned speech about discrimination resulting in the court striking down an unjust law, or declaring Riley's service to be sufficiently exemplary to make an exception; they won because they found a justification within the law itself for the court to make a legal decision that was also the right thing to do morally. It gives us a victory that feels earned; not only because the victory is found within an application of an existing law, but because that law is

reflective of both Starfleet's ideals and the practical realities it faces, and

completely plausible because of it (i.e. not simply a plot device that the writers pulled out of their asses).

I also really liked how the episode utilized a certain self-awareness about the franchise, particularly the tendency of Starfleet Captains to defy orders and even ignore the Prime Directive in certain situations. It's become something of a meme within Trek, and it was great to see the show touch on it in a way that not only acknowledges it, but provides a satisfying way for justifying why so many captains are able to bend or break the rules and get away with it - because ultimately, the captain has to have the discretion to actually do the right thing.

What if they end SNW with Una rescuing Chris from Talos IV because ad astra per aspera, to the stars through hardship, and she won’t let the hardship of his disability keep him from the stars?

Neera is the baddest, the best part of this whole episode. I am so happy everyone came together to defend Una. Pike is a G for going to Illyria, and its inhospitable atmosphere, to help her :D I also love how this episode shows that laws NEED to change to accommodate the time and situations. Something that happened 200 years ago cannot have such a chokehold on our views in the present. UNA WHY WOULD YOU TURN YOURSELF IN, I mean I get it, BUT DAMN!

Sing to me of the Six-Fiingered man, Muse. The man who wondered between worlds…Sing of his glory and his grief, his burden and his brilliance. He, who worshipped the Sun, and promised gold, but succumbed to the Stars, and drowned in pools of wing-wax. He, who vowed to endure the trails of All-Wise Axolotl. He, who refused to rest until he himself brought about the end of his once fickle friend, the Eye of False Providence.

I want more of this trio:

Now a funny one:

Then there’s this trio:

Intriguing.

But what if we had all 4?

I’d cheer too.

Finals

Memento mori

Means 'remember you must die'

Mostly showcased through artwork, a memento mori reminds us of the brevity of our time here and the fragility of human life.

A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.

The [picture on the right] is Pablo Picasso's 'Goat's Skull, Bottle and Candle'

Per aspera ad astra

Means "to the stars through difficulties / a rough road leads to the stars"

It’s the motto of many groups (both real and fictional) including government entities, schools, research institutions, fraternities/sororities. It appears in novels including "to kill a mockingbird” and “red rising.” It’s the starfleet motto in star trek. It appears in many songs. It’s the title of a tribute exhibit to the apollo i astronauts and written on a plaque at the site where they died. and it’s recorded, in morse code, on the track called “sounds of the earth,” on the voyager golden records that are on voyager 1 and 2 that are intended to represent the human species to any other life out there that may come across the spacecraft in the distant future.

The magnificent Yetide Badaki as Neera Ketoul in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 'Ad Astra Per Aspera'

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

S2 - Ep2 | Ad Astra per Aspera

through hardships to the stars

Star Trek Graphic Design Series [2/?] Redraw of "Glory to the Country of Cosmonauts" by A. Shmidshtein (1964).