Star Trek makes me wish I studied STEM yo

STRANGE NEW WORLDS

2x07 // Those Old Scientists

The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.

Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits. Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict. Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-

One cool little thing to note from this week's episode is that it's stated that it's not just that Tendi doesn't use pheromones, she can't. Ingreeta says this about her:

seeming to imply that Tendi one of the Orion women physically incapable of producing their infamous pheromones. And yet Ingreeta goes on to say this:

Throughout the episode, and even earlier on in the series, it's made clear that Tendi is a total badass even by Orion standards. The fact that she's hailed as the ideal Prime while having what could be considered a handicap and not even really wanting the position in the first place is pretty incredible.

Lower Decks 3x10 || Strange New Worlds 2x06 (a handshake with a vulcan after meeting them for the first time)

quick drawing of Tendi

ITS TENDI TUESDAY!

Make a change! Let's save lower decks yeah?

I need a whole fic where the Cerritos is mistaken for the Enterprise by some type of alien with very high intelligence but very poor visual recognition, for whatever reason.

And Freeman either can't or is too scared to convince them that they're not the Enterprise, so she starts desperately assigning everyone to various roles. Boimler gets assigned as Data, and since he and Mariner are the only people on the ship who play string instruments, the captain orders them to put together some sort of "symphony" because the aliens have heard that that's a thing on the Enterprise.

And it's just Mariner and Boimler frustratedly trying to figure out how to combine her electric guitar skills and his traditional violin skills into something suitably "symphonic" (i.e. thematically trying to combine her more lax/modern way of doing things with his more strict/traditional way).

D'vana thinks this is her first time kissing a Vulcan... She still hasn't caught on to the fact that she brought T'lyn in for a full kiss the moment she first saw her

If T'lyn tells her, would it make it more or less awkward?

Twitter mirror: [x]

Fellow tendi appreciator 🤝

Hi, to you too another Tendi Appreciator!

Tendi Deserves ALL the LOVE!! 💚

Jarry now leads the league with 6 shut-outs this season, and has 16 total in his career.

He is also now 5-0-0 against the jets with only 5 goals allowed total (3 at even strength) for a 96.6 SV%

Tendi and Rutherford are THEE definition of queerplatonic jesus christ

Ok, so we’re shaping up their future stances on their own ship. Tendi as chief science officer and Rutherford as chief engineer. But who’s first officer and who’s captain? I can see each of them taking either position.

Boimlers dream is to be captain and he’s shown that he could be a good leader (when he gets out of his own way haha) but maybe he realizes he doesnt have to be captain to fulfill his purpose of wanting to help people and he’d be so supportive to mariner

But Mariners story arc, refusing to rank up and take on responsibility, would mean her being captain would be a fitting conclusion to that arc. Plus she has the natural ability to bring out the best of those she works with, especially this season. Which is also a good quality for a first officer. She’d be an excellent sounding board for him.

Im honestly on the fence for either

Star Trek Lower Decks is my new personality.

POV: you asked if they wanted to go for walkies