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Star Trek: Discovery 4.01 / Star Trek: Picard 3.08
#trekedit#discoveryedit#picardedit#michael burnham#seven of nine#laira rillak#liam shaw#star trek: picard#star trek discovery#seven x michael
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY // S4E11 Rosetta
Their emotions tell a story, give us context.
#trekedit#star trek#star trek discovery#michael burnham#saru#keyla detmer#cleveland booker#hugh culber#paul stamets#jett reno#general ndoye#ruon tarka#laira rillak#t'rina#star trek*#disco*#disco 4x11#burnham*#saru*#detmer*#book*#culber*#stamets*#reno*#ndoye*#tarka*#rillak*#t'rina*#sonequa martin-green#doug jones
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#fic prompts I suppose?#writing about being looked after is helpful#kathryn janeway#beverly crusher#philippa georgiou#laira rillak#michael burnham#katrina cornwell
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Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Character: Michael Burnham
Sample Size: 1,261 stories
Source: AO3
#michael burnham#philippa georgiou#mirror philippa georgiou#christopher pike#ash tyler#sylvia tilly#gabriel lorca#laira rillak#cleveland booker#katrina cornwell#spock#star trek discovery#star trek#discovery#fanfiction#ao3#statistics#phantom statistician
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Love a woman in power who takes no shit.
Day 5 of the 25 Days of Disco!
#laira rillak#president rillak#25 days of disco#discovery advent calendar#star trek discovery#st disco#st discovery
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Federation President
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Known presidents of the United Federation of Planets
(Onscreen confirmation only)
1. Jonathan Archer (2184-2192) human
2. Alistair Fergus (in office 2286) human
3. Ra-ghoratreii (in office 2293) Efrosian
4. Jaresh-Inyo (in office 2372) Grazerite
5. Anton Chekov (in office 2401) human
6. Laira Rillak (3190-?) human-Cardassian-Bajoran
#star trek#united federation of planets#president of the federation#jonathan archer#laira rillak#star trek enterprise#star trek iv: the voyage home#star trek vi: the undiscovered country#star trek ds9#star trek picard#star trek discovery#star trek disco s4
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michael Burnham/Laira Rillak
Characters: Michael Burnham, Laira Rillak, Saru (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, that's still quite new, Developing Relationship, Memories, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Turbolifts (Star Trek)
Summary:
"I remember the night sky, looking up at it. That’s an early one, I think. It was cold, and my dad was pointing out the constellations; Orion, the Pleiades, Gemini…"
A turbolift malfunction gives Laira a chance to learn more about Michael.
My gift for @ussjellyfish for the @startrekwintergiftexchange 💜❄️
#writings of the girl from outer space#michael burnham/laira rillak#michael burnham x laira rillak#michael burnham#laira rillak#star trek discovery
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laira rillak from star trek discovery, my beloved. she is president, she is multiple kinds of alien, and shes got fun stuff on her forehead and pretty hair.
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as much as I love Book and Michael together I find it extremely funny that one of the most popular ships for Michael, often (wrongfully) accused of being a mary sue, post season 4 is with the president of the federation
#michael burnham#laira rillak#star trek discovery#Michael (the sister of the actual most special boy in the universe Spock)#isn’t a Mary Sue she’s just what would happen if you assigned Picard to the Enterprise as an anthropologist#*archaeologist whoops#or more accurately Kirk as literally anything other than captain#even funnier that plotwise Michael isn’t a nepo baby bc she’s the not-adopted daughter of the Vulcan ambassador#but because her deeply underrated scientist parents cracked the code to time travel#and to be fair Picard got an audition to become part of the Q#and Sisko was the Emissary
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Soft sleepy idiots.
Happy belated birthday @ussjellyfish , you marvelous magical human. You are literally made of talent.
Brainrot with you is one of my favorite things ever and having you in my life is a gift💖 I love you very much, my friend.
#laira rillak#michael burnham#rillham#michael burnham x laira rillak#whimsicalliarts#my art lol#ussjellyfish fan club#they are such soft idiots#soft sleepy idiots#a lizard burrowing for warmth
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Star Trek: Discovery
Kobayashi Maru
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This sounds interesting. For the ask game--
It's for the greater good, he told himself. Yes, he had to lie to the Federation Council but it was necessary.
So he took a deep breath. Clasped his hands behind his back. Would cross his fingers like a fibbing kid if he thought he could get away with it. “The proof is definitive. They are who they say they are.”
The proof was not definitive. The proof was flimsy at best.
“Admiral Vance,” Laira leaned forward in her seat, “do you seriously believe this ship with no record anywhere in our files actually is the USS Discovery and her crew are here to help us?”
“Madam President-elect,” Charles’ spine straightened with righteousness, with truth at last, “I’d bet all our lives on it.”
[for the “send me a sentence and I’ll write the next five” fic ask game]
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Here's an ask for you! Was there a specific on-screen moment when you started shipping Michael/Laira?
Oh thank you!!
They have an ARC. They have an on screen arc, and I'm so accustomed to making things up (Beverly Crusher/Kathryn Janeway), or working with a handful of episodes that don't have an arc (Maleficent/Regina Mills).
Long post!
Michael is finally captain, which has been a long time coming, and she loves it, she's good at it. Season 4 is peak Michael.
I have wanted to have a ship for Michael since the show started, because I adore Michael, and nothing really hit me until Laira and Michael started talking to each other.
Episode 1 - wrecking ball era
They don't really like each other at first. Laira is "using a moment that should be about the cadets" and Michael is "a huge swing of the pendulum" who doesn't understand that sometimes she might lose.
Michael hasn't lost for awhile, so Laira has a point. Michael needs to save everyone (this is a really common rock star captain thing).
And fate has handed Michael a whole set of events where she was literally the only person in the galaxy who could fix it. Michael found a way to peacefully end the Klingon war without going as dark as parts of Starfleet wanted too.
Michael and her crew literally saved the future by going ahead in time, preventing control from getting the sphere data. It's a huge sacrifice, and they were willing to make it, and it's also a huge win. Everyone was saved.
They have this really honest, almost brutal conversation, where they both have very valid points and they're polite to each other, but they are in opposite places. Michael wants to bring everyone home. She doesn't want to mitigate life and death. Laira thinks she might need too.
And they're from very different places. Michael's from this incredibly optimistic time, where bad things happened (the Klingon war, losing Captain Georgiou, Control tries to evolve and Starfleet really grasps at straws) but the bad things are brief, and traumatic, but they persevere. They're rebuilding after the war and maybe they can be allies with the Klingons some day: Michael has retained her hope, and for good reason. Things improve, she has solutions. Her skillset is phenomenal.
Laira grew up in a universe with scarcity. She was a cargo pilot, and didn't go to the Science Academy, or the Academy on Earth, or even really see the Federation or Starfleet as what they were in Michael's time. Starfleet has hundreds of ships where Michael came from, Starfleet is a force for hope. Laira's whole life has been in a galaxy where Starfleet is tiny, and can't help, and they try, but the needs are so great, and everyone is so isolated that hope is a harder thing.
They have a whole set of conversations about leadership, and balance, and hope, and Laira pushes Michael to be better in the beginning.
They start out standing together, and end standing on opposite ends of a table. The blocking is fun, their whole conversation is so fun. They're an mildly antagonistic allies to lovers at this point. They believe in the Federation, but have differing approaches to leadership, and don't have a high opinion of each other but the mutual respect is there.
I rewatch this episode when they need banter, or I need to have them argue. I desperately wanted them to talk more after this episode. I loved Laira immediately, but I didn't write fic for them yet.
So I had interest, but I wasn't shipping shipping yet.
Episode 4 is when I did that.
In episode 4, mutual respect era, Laira conspires with Vance to get Michael and Saru to come help her with diplomacy. It's an fun insight into Laira's personality that she asked Vance to pretend to be sick, or told him to, because she wasn't sure if she wanted to ask Michael and Saru directly.
She moves pieces, and Michael's a really powerful piece.
Laira (and T'Rina) perform their political theater (and you find out at the end that they've been friends for a long time, and kind of set it up together, which is also interesting. I like the world building in this ep.
The shipping comes when Michael goes to convince Laira that they shouldn't give up. Michael and Saru come up with a plan, and it's a very Michael plan. It wouldn't work if she wasn't who she is.
Bringing Michael in is Laira's last ditch gamble, and it works. Michael throws herself at the problem and comes up with an elegant solution and proves that she is actually so adept at the thing she doesn't like. (politics).
(the table is BACK and they're at opposite sides again, but they move closer to each other! There's a whole meta I need to write about this table.)
The last scene of this episode is the one that launched my ship. They're achieved the mission. Ni'Var is coming back into the Federation. Saru and T'Rina are flirting so they're both amused by that. They're alone together and there's a fire and Ni'Var conference rooms are romantic, pretty lighting.
Laira walks around Michael, and sits on the conference table. It's one of the first times we see her relax. She sits down, not because the meeting is sitting, but because she wants to. Maybe when it's just Michael she can?
It's this shift in power and an opening and vulnerability because she must have had such a long day, and Michael saved it, and she doesn't have to be the President for Michael.
They open up to each other! Laira complements Michael for being good at politics even though she hates it. Laira admits that Vance wasn't really sick (in a roundabout way, she's coy and flirty about it, so it's not a real admission, which suits her).
Michael looks at her like THAT. Sonequa has the most beautiful face and this looks absolutely destroys me.
Laira tells Michael that she had to protect President T'Rina (who warned her that the negotiations were going to implode).
They have this exchange.
Michael walks over to her. "If you wanted my help, you could have just asked me."
They lean on the table together. Laira bites her lip. "Truth be told, I wasn't sure you were the right person for the job, but I'm glad you were."
"I appreciate that. I know transparency isn't always possible in your position but it is what I need, to best serve you and the Federation. So if you could be more forthcoming in the future, I'd appreciate that as well."
"Understood, Captain."
So much happens here. Michael says what she needs, and she's direct and polite. She has the most impeccable etiquette and always calls Laira 'ma'am'. Here she doesn't. Laira listens, nods, accepts what Michael needs and she's the one who uses her rank as a sign of respect.
Then they shake hands, which Laira initiates and it's beautifully shot with the fire in the background, AND Laira covers Michael's hand with hers before she leaves. The music swells. There are strings and horns!! (it's so fun!).
(Also this was on during touch starved COVID era and holding hands felt like a BIG DEAL).
Laira takes Michael's request to heart and asks her for help the next time she needs it.
I shipped them, so very much after this. Laira's not in the next two episodes, but she is in episode 7!
Episode 7 - power couple era.
Michael teases Laira about wanting Earth back in the Federation, Laira admits that her mother's family is from Earth and her mother never got to see it. (Vulnerability! ambition! Michael reading her so easily).
Michael stands next to Laira through the negotiations. Laira tells Michael that she has to be neutral but she thinks Michael can steer the negotiation, if she's ready for that.
(transparency!)
Michael gives an fantastic speech for peaceful first contact, and they're successful. (Laira's hands her are really cute).
Then there's "Captain, I need you with me" and I was so gone. They work together so well to accomplish things. Laira sees Michael's incredible abilities. Michael reads what Laira is thinking. They achieve something they both want together.
Episode 8 - not many people have the ability to surprise me, captain.
The episode starts out with Laira livid. She paces, her diction is razor sharp, and she fidgets with her hands. It's the most unsettled we've seen her so far.
Laira not being able to deal with something and Michael trying to help was what set off my 170,000+ word WIP that is over two years old. Something unexpected should happen and Laira should be mad about it was the starting point.
(also the episode bookends with this shot, which is really clever).
I have a whole set of thoughts about episode 10 and the end of the season, but this was how I got started. This look helped. Michael surprises Laira by how competent she is. Michael does looking several steps ahead thing and turns a loss into a win and it's very coy and fun.
Laira wings her hands later in engineering and that obviously meant she needed to go through something with michael and the Discovery crew could help and...
I did the most shipper me thing I could possibly do and started a fic where she got pregnant.
Thank you so much for asking!!! this was so fun to put together. (and took days).
Special mention to the way Laira can make "captain" both a compliment and an insult, depending on her mood. (it's the other half of my Michael saying "ma'am" kink.
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Since it’s DISCO time again, let me introduce you to the only fic I’ve written that’s not J7! (So far)
Incidentally, it’s also the only fic for this pairing - but maybe some of you will enjoy it, anyway! It’s set in season 4, so mild spoiler warning.
What if Presidents T'Rina and Rillak knew each other, a long time ago?
What if the appearance of the Discovery brought them back into each others lives?
Well, what then?
#star trek discovery#star trek: discovery#st: disco#st disco#st discovery#t’rina#laira rillak#T’Rillak#star trek
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Laira Rillak & Michael Burnham | Your Song
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I originally posted a clip of this in January for the Star Trek Winter Gift Exchange (inspired by the amazing fics of @ussjellyfish), but here's the whole thing!
#celebratedisco2023#celebrate disco 2023#rillham#laira rillak#michael burnham#star trek discovery#st disco#st discovery#Youtube
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