Vandermeer’s Record Player

This is not strictly a mapping post, but I felt it should go here, anyway.

While taking new and imporved screenshots of La Sirena from season 1 of Star Trek Picard, I have made a discovery!

There is a small-ish case Rios keeps in his chest of Starfleet things. It sports a very fetchiing ibn Majid decal and I always assumed it contained more ship’s mementos that we just never get to see.

I took a bunch of screenshot of this scene in ep8, “Broken Pieced”, today, and now that I finally have all of these episodes in 1080p bluray resolution and am staring at them in that sort of detail, I realized something: This is not a simple case! This is Captain Vandermeer’s record player!

You can see the cover with the ibn Majid sticker lying behind the case, and you can see the handle at the front.

And just to verify this discovery, I went looking for the original model, et voilà:

This is the Vestax Handy Trax USB Portable Turntable!

It doesn’t look like these are being produced anymore, but if you have a bunch of vinyl records and are desperate to listen to them the exact way Rios does, you know what to look for in second hand markets ;)

@cristobalrios​: Feel free to add this observation to our collection of Sirena props. I’m pretty sure you have the most complete record of all of our collected discoveries ;)

So, I have another plot bunny.

I just got an idea for a Top Gun fusion AU with Star Trek Picard where Cris was a Navy pilot and Vandermeer was his former wingman. Or vice versa. Someone stop me and tell me this is crazy, please.

Also-- Rios is Maverick here. I'm trying to decide if he should be with Agnes or a self-insert character, as I have an intense dislike for Teresa, his S2 love interest.

@smhalltheurlsaretaken

1) How much do you want to bet that Evil!Vandermeer shows up in the second season of Picard

2) Are you going to sue Paramount for stealing your ideas if that happens? 🤣🤣

PicardPositivity Day 1: Soji Asha You Look As If You’ve Seen a Ghost: Soji Asha and Cristóbal Rios

[ I have a much more Soji-focused poem that I posted on my personal, see Through the Cries of Ganmadan They Will Come to You, and this one is more Rios, Vandermeer and Jana-related, but Soji comes at the end and what happened with Jana is such an important part of Rios's relationship with her that I am posting it anyway. ]

The Albatross

He shot the albatross and it will bring our demise. To spill innocent blood on our ship; with the beautiful flower she lies. Oh heart! Be still, he did it to save us all. He didn’t know he had been caught within the siren’s call.

Painted on the wall behind him, the bleeding drops of red. Now in my arms my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. My captain is a killer, in cold blood they had died. My captain is a hero; he saved us all, I cried.

Will his name go down in history, as the hero he was meant to be? Will he die in infamy, or vanish into obscurity? His story has been erased; He’s gone without a trace, Except within my fragmented mind, his final resting place.

Alone, I sailed among the stars, all alone in space so vast. To never be looked on in pity and run away from my past. They tried to break through my walls, but I still had to mourn. But then I saw her face again, the albatross, reborn.

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@ Lower Decks, this Picard fan (Rios fan, specifically) humbly requests some Captain Vandermeer content.

Or maybe Marta Batanides and have her mention Vandermeer like "Alonzo told me there's this promising young pilot he would love to make his Number One" I just

It would be a nice niche easter egg like you love so much, and it'd be connecting new shows how beautiful would that be

So ever since episode 3 “The End is the Beginning,” I’ve been convinced that there was some big significance behind Cris having two armchairs in his quarters.

Guess what? I think I was right.

Like, what is the point of that second seat? Here, Cris is still presenting himself as a ‘broody existentialist space man’ who lives completely alone on his ship. We know from minute one that most of the “I’m fine on my own and I need no friend” attitude is utter bs and that he is just terribly sad, afraid to care, and way too hurt, but we don’t know what happened. 

I thought that having two armchairs was just a subtle way of telling us that there is room for a friend in Cris’ heart (his quarters symbolizing his heart), but that nobody is there to fill that room (we don’t learn until the next episode and its Ready Room recap just how deep Cris and Raffi’s relationship goes). 

It hit me today. See how everything on la Sirena is modern and shiny? Everything is impeccably maintained, everything is Starfleet standard? Well, the armchairs aren’t. Know what else isn’t 24th century tech? 

Paper photos.

Record players. 

Paper books about life and death. 

Everything that Cris owns that’s almost ridiculously outdated for the 24th century is directly linked to Alonzo Vendermeer, Cris’ dad Captain. 

Two old, non-regulation armchairs that look very comfy and definitely out of place in the world of a man who takes scars over dermal regenerators and pours alcohol on his open wounds instead of actually cleaning them and taking a goddamn painkiller. Probably two armchairs that Alonzo had in *his* quarters. 

The seats don’t represent Cris’ desire to have friends. 

They are the constant reminder of Alonzo Vendermeer’s absence, and they are in Cris’ quarters, aka his heart, because there’s a permanently empty spot there, not one that can be filled. 

GODDAMMIT, writers!

All Rise, Veep

War Dogs, Shameless

The Grinder, The Fosters

Family Tools

Colony, Headshot

Vincent Teixeira.

It's something to do with his time on the ibn Majid, with his captain. Aye, Captain Alonzo Vandermeer. Well, what about him? Were they close? Is he alive?

STAR TREK: PICARD “Broken Pieces” (1.08)

La Sirena, is a warp capable Kaplan F-17 Speed Freighter owned by ex-Starfleet officer, Captain Cristóbal Rios. Rios was the executive officer of the USS ibn Majid (NCC-75710) before becoming disillusioned with Starfleet after a traumatic event, resulting in the death of his Captain and mentor, Alonzo Vandermeer.

So, Captain Alonzo Vandermeer.

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Bros! Please do not reblog or tag as a ship.

The Syrios Family

(Left: S'vec Rios Sylar, @ihlonhae, fc; Chris Evans, Vulcan - Right: Cristóbal Lorenzo Rios, @cristobalrios, fc; Santiago Cabrera, human)

(Left: S'vec Rios Alonzo, namesake Alonzo Vandermeer, Cris's deceased captain and father-figure, half-Vulcan/half-human - Right: S'vec Rios T'Alaro "T'Alarita," name meaning "Lady of Beloved Vulcan", half-Vulcan/half-human - Generated by FaceApp by combining Chris Evans and Santiago Cabrera)

(Left: Alonzo's fc Bryan Dechart - Right: T'Alaro's fc Anya Taylor-Joy)

So, for the Syrios kids (S'vec Rios Alonzo and S'vec Rios T'Alaro), we've decided on Bryan Dechart and Anya Taylor-Joy for their faceclaim approximations.

Alonzo's Joined Trill bondmate Kara Vehl's faceclaim is Candice King

(Left: Kara Vehl - Right: Alonzo)

And their future child (who Kara is currently pregnant with), so far with the possible name Cristóbal Jorel (at least Kara said they're thinking about naming him after Cris and after her father Jorel, so that'd make sense), half-Trill/one-quarter human/one-quarter Vulcan, his faceclaim approximation is Troye Sivan

(Left: S'vec Rios Cristóbal Jorel generated on FaceApp by combining Candice King and Bryan Dechart - Right: S'vec Rios Cristóbal Jorel's fc Troye Sivan with the Vulcan ears and eyebrows and Trill spots edits made - half-Trill/one-quarter human/one-quarter Vulcan. Namesake Two of his grandfathers, Cris, from his father's side, and Jorel, from his mother's side)

Now, T'Alaro's hypothetical plan is to marry one of the Klingon holograms in Nueva T'Paal Mak'ala and have a holographic half-Klingon/quarter-human/quarter-Vulcan baby, but we don't have any idea of how that baby would look yet.

If we ever get an approximation of that and/or what T'Alaro's Klingon bondmate looks like I'll update this.

FaceApp images generated by, edits made by, and faceclaims chosen by @ihlonhae. Sylar edit PSD made by @somresources.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cristóbal Rios & Alonzo Vandermeer, Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios Additional Tags: Heavy Angst, Character Death, Drabble, Emotional Hurt, Drinking, Drinking to Cope, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Suicidal Thoughts Series: Part 1 of The Adventures of Cris Rios Summary:

Cristobal Rios was nothing if not faithful, even after his captain was gone.

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//It is almost certainly an altered timeline but it doesn't look directly Mirror Universe, though I kind of get those vibes (at least the dark AU part) - partially a good thing because while I love that outfit I still really want mirror Cris to have an eyepatch. Ik people have mentioned the absence of synths in this but Soji (we assume) is there and as far as I know her design wasn't based on an actual person, just someone Data made up so she's probably Soji still + she still has that symbol Maddox and Soong gave her and Soji as necklaces, but this time it's a pin (but iirc in a Mirror Universe episode of DS9 Vic Fontaine was human not a hologram, but I doubt they're try to pull something like that on us now)

I would still love to see Jana, Beautiful Flower and the Ibn Majid (what if she was never deleted from the records in this timeline?? I mean, Cris is still in Starfleet here apparently) but I don't think they're going to do anything with Vandermeer. The actor, Vincent Teixeira isn't in much, mostly like... in things he's uncredited for (like this) or in small roles that mostly don't have names according to IMDB. This might be interesting for him but like it seems to me that they're not planning any more than that one photo for that character or maybe more photos in the future but not really a lot. Which is unfortunate, I really want to meet Vandermeer, really want the Ibn Majid and to see Jana and Beautiful Flower

Dean Francis Alfar (born 2 January 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction. His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Exotic Gothic series. He is the author of the novel 'Salamanca (Ateneo Press, 2006), as well as three collections of short fiction - The Kite of Stars and other stories (Anvil Publishing, 2007), How to Traverse Terra Incognita (Visprint, 2014), and A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila (Anvil Publishing, 2015). His literary awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) — including the Grand Prize for Novel — as well as the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion, and the Philippines Free Press Literary Award. He was a fellow at the 1992 Dumaguete National Writers Workshop as well as the 20th and 48th UP National Writers Workshop. He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, editing the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, as well as a comic book creator and a blogger. Alfar is also an entrepreneur — running several businesses. He lives in Manila with his wife, fictionist Nikki Alfar[1] and their two daughters. Awards Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards 2010 - Prose (Remembrance) Gintong Aklat Awards 2008 - Literature (Salamanca) Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature 2007 - for short story for Children (Poor, Poor Luisa)[4] 2006 - for short story for Children (How Rosang Taba Won the Race) 2005 - for the novel (Salamanca) 2004 - for futuristic fiction (Hollow Girl) 2004 - for one-act play (The Kite of Stars) 2003 - for one-act play (The Onan Circle) 1994 - for full-length play (Island) 1994 - for one-act play (Loving Toto) 1991 - for one-act play (Short Time) 1990 - for one-act play (Fragments of Memory) Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards 2006- Best Comic Book (Siglo: Passion) 2004- Best Comic Book (Siglo: Freedom) Philippines Free Press Literary Awards 2007 - for short story (Six from Downtown) Fellowships 31st National Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete (1992) - Writing Fellow 20th U.P. National Writers' Workshop (1992) - Writing Fellow 48th U.P. 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(with Kenneth Yu, Anthology of short fiction, forthcoming) Short Fiction “Terminos” forthcoming in The Time Traveller's Almanac, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, Tor/Head of Zeus “Enkantong-bato” forthcoming in Bestiary, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer “Jianghu” forthcoming in Lakeside Circus “Glove & Goggles” in Philippines Graphic, July 2013 “Things” in Querida: An Anthology, edited by Caroline Hau, Katrina Tuvera and Isabelita O. Reyes, June 2013 “Remembrance” in Manila Envelope 4, edited by Jessica Zafra, April 2013 “The Kite of Stars (L'Aquilone du Estrellas)” in Hoard of Thunder: Philippine Short Stories in English Volume II 2001 to 2008, edited by Gemino H Abad, U.P. 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Half-baked time travel AU

After so long spent in Starfleet, where time travel incidents and seemingly supernatural events are common place, Picard would have thought that there was nothing that left in the galaxy that could surprise him. He was still capable of awe, of wonder, of amazement, but of surprise? Ironically enough, it surprised him to find out that he was. 

The whole crew stared at the man lying prone on the floor of the bridge. He wore a Starfleet uniform - black with red shoulders, like a Captain's - and had tanned skin, and grey hair that was turning white. 

Rios was the first to tear his gaze away, looking at them all instead with a look that Picard recognized as terrified. Raffi took a step forward, reaching out. Rios stumbled back, his eyes wide and his breathing harsh. 

"Cris…" Raffi tried with the gentleness Picard had seen her display towards their Captain on many occasions. "Cris, look at me."

"Raffi," the man gasped, "Raffi, I think I'm losing it." 

Picard was intimately familiar with panic and despair, but what he was seeing etched on the younger man's face went far beyond either emotion. Rios' usually guarded eyes were an open window on a terribly wounded soul now bleeding afresh. On the ground, the man groaned and started to stir, and Rios started badly, his dark eyes darting to the apparition. 

"Honey," Raffi tried again as she realized he was losing himself in a memory, "baby, calm down. You're not losing it. We're seeing him too." 

Cris pressed a fist that shook badly to his mouth, keeping in the sounds that were threatening to burst out. 

"How?" He whimpered. 

The EMH finally fizzled into existence, startling them all. They had all completely forgotten about him. 

"What is the nature of your psychiatric emergency?" Emil asked calmly. Then there was a pause as the ship's computers analyzed the scene playing out on the bridge, and Emil's eyes widened too. "Bloody hell," he murmured, "is that…?"

"That's Captain Vandermeer," Soji blurted out.

In the half-second it took Raffi to glare at her, Cris had stormed off the bridge.