#Strange New Worlds V

[baylardian-1]

there's this SOFT CANON (its referenced on memory ALPHA lmao) Voyager short story called "On the Rocks" about the Threshold babies. :)

the "protag" baby is named Harry and he's terrified of water and moody and hates his namesake and idk PHILIPPA CORE???? the other two are B'Elanna (Amelia) and Tuvok (Edward). ((((and then there's a fourth baby named Neelix who got killed lol))))

#peppa's a an androgynous leaning girlie anyway lololol #DONT READ INTO IT i was just humoring which one would be which #'harry' overcomes his fear of water by the end to protect his siblings <3 #i liked the idea of hyperevolved!kathryn patiently teaching her scared baby how to swim like an otter hehe #fourth baby canon in threshold au??? i dunno............. its kinda cringe and sad #My Art #Threshold #AU #Kathryn Janeway #Edward Janeway #Amelia Janeway #Philippa Janeway #Human #Star Trek: Voyager #On the Rocks #Strange New Worlds V

[baylardo]

Yeah it’s cringe they remember their lives pretty sentiently lol 💀

#me trying to wrap around which kid would be Harry Tuvok and b’elanna respectively lol #Booklard #On the Rocks #Strange New Worlds V

[hufflepuff221b]

I forgot how much I love them

(I'm watching The Final Frontier)

Can I have more of them in Strange New Worlds, please? Especially since they've finally got a Scottish actor to play Scotty. Also, if they can ram Spock/Chapel down our throats and make me love T'Pring, not to mention change Kirk to knowing he's got a son, then this is no different. Mild flirting, Scotty flailing while Uhura leads and everyone trying to set them up clumsily.

#nyota uhura #montgomery scott #uhura x scotty #star trek #star trek tos #star trek v: the final frontier #star trek strange new worlds #star trek snw

[merrysithmas]

au where una gets gum stuck in her hair and frantically calls pike to her cabin at 3am for an "emergency" & he's shook like emergency??? what's going on??? and there she is in the doorway, whispering, with a towel over her head like a forlorn saint and demands he come inside. he's just staring like ok what is going on??? and she removes it, revealing The Situation.

and it's worse than either of them ever imagined, she explains with every attempt to remove it the mess worsened. snowball effect. it's giving medusa. so he has to spend his entire downshift to help her get it out for 6 hrs using the old earth wive's tale of peanut butter (which he luckily has, ground fresh somehow). apron on and everything.

and she's having a menty b that she's going to have to shave half her head and pike suggests maybe bangs and she loses it

CHRIS

I AM NOT GETTING BANGS

#strange new worlds #christopher pike #una chin riley #star trek #una's hair is her prized possession #she spends hours a week watching hair tutorial holovids #this is worse than Rigel V

[boomthemoon]

You know how new Trek is always building relationships out of thin air for TOS characters based of the slightest interactions? Probably unpopular opinion but I've been shipping Scotty and Uhura since I saw Star Trek V and I swear to God if Strange New Worlds don't give me that I will be pist.

I mean Uhura still so traumatized from what happened to Hemmer she is all weird around engineers bc they remind her of him. But now Scotty comes along and he is all fun and genius and Uhura really needs fun right now bc as they stated she's too focused on work. And on top of all of that Scotty can really understand how she fells bc they both lost people to the Gorns and he found a way to scape from them bc he is a fucking genius.

So yeah they both deserve all the love they can get and I'm an enthusiastic of this ship even tho is not popular at all. As we say in my country, Paramount has the knife and the cheese on their hands so they better not let me down on that.

#i could've just said “i hope they make then a couple” #but when have i ever kept my opinions short? #they story fits so perfectly I hope it wasn't by accident #star trek strange new worlds #star trek snw #star trek v: the final frontier #star trek #montgomery scott #scotty #nyota uhura #scotty/uhura #uhotty

[coulsons-band]

*holding snw characters in my hands like a precious rock collection* i just think they're pretty and neat

#all these people fighting over spirk v spapel and canon vs non-canon and tos v snw #and i'm just vibing with my emotional support space nerds ✌🏼 #no one needs to feel guilty for liking it or not liking it #we're all valid #snw #strange new worlds #star trek #star trek strange new worlds #she speaks

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

SNW Spock

I like Chapel. I like Spock. I even like their chemistry as people who care for each other, platonically or not. But damn there is something about a chronically straight Spock portrayal that bums me out

I feel like Spirk was just my "oh wow I want a man to like me like that" canon event that helped me actualize my genderfluid/gayness Ergo, very irrationally it feels like my fictional boyfriend won't like me anymore and OOF

Selfishly but also queer culturally a little disappointing I guess

#spirk #spock x chapel #no shade to chape lor spock in snw you both are v adorable #just a sad spirk here #gay awakening #snw #strange new worlds #gay #genderfluid #queer #gay star trek #star trek #this is also no shade to chapel x spock fans #you are nice people this is just my vibes

[augustamok]

i could be a better boyfriend than him

#i am v much team chapel/uhura in tos but these two had me feeling sapphic feelings in snw #amok art #trek amok #star trek #star trek snw #star trek strange new worlds #t’pring #christine chapel #nurse chapel #chapel x t’pring #snw chapel #snw t’pring

[ichayalovesyou]

(Re)Discovering A Strange New Spock: “Dagger of The Mind” (1x09)

Previous: Miri

Next: The Corbomite Maneuver

A meta anthology where I re-examine TOS, especially Spock, in light of the new information Discovery & Strange New Worlds has revealed about him to us.

Onto the Analysis!

Spock is A Massive Bigot Example 9000

Okay first things first I don’t want to EVER, and I mean EVER hear anything remotely resembling the words “Spock isn’t bigoted like McCoy” or “Vulcans are better than Humans” EVER AGAIN after the utter hypocritical nonsense Spock spews in the beginning of this episode!

“You earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.” First of all ‘YOU EARTH PEOPLE?!’ that’s really damn derogatory even for you Spock, son of Amanda Grayson the human from Earth.

Spock, my guy, my beloved bitchy lil’ blorbo. Vulcan tried to instigate at war with Andoria barely a century ago, you guys were On Sight with the Klingons for a long time before formal relations were established. Don’t act like Vulcans are above it all!

Also it’s bold of you to pretend that Vulcans are completely incapable of crime. Vulcans put their V’Tosh Ka’tur dissidents and violent offenders in “correctional facilities” different name, same concept.

Spock Has Every Reason to HATE Prisons

I find it incredibly interesting and wonderful that Spock strongly sides with McCoy on this mission. Kirk is in the wrong here and learns the truth by the end of the episode (I’ll get into why I think he believes what he does after I talk about Spock).

Let’s have a look at Spock’s experiences with penal colonies and their kin shall we?

Sybok, his brother, is a high security patient/prisoner for the ambigious crime of “was a revolutionary, who sought experience and knowledge that were forbidden by Vulcan beliefs.”

Michael, his sister, was supposed to spend the rest of her life in a penal colony. She proved to the Federation that not only could she be “rehabilitated/redeemed” given a second chance. But went on to save the Federation she’d once hurt, multiple times. She never would’ve been able to do that locked up and cut off from her family.

He himself was wrongfully imprisoned, falsely accused of murder and considered a violent offender. This was after institutionalizing himself in a place he thought he could trust and learned that he could not.

Sees his commanding officer Una taken and court martialed on the basis of her species. Will risk the Federation’s only death penalty helping a friend, and sees Kirk nearly get his career stripped from him over falsified computer evidence.

His ex-fiancé works at a Vulcan Correctional Facility (perhaps part of why they break up IS ideological differences regarding this topic, especially now that we know Sybok is imprisoned in the same facility where she works).

Spock knows how deeply flawed the Federation’s militaristic judiciary and prison system is. It’s no wonder Spock gives Kirk a “he has a point Captain” look when Bones orders Jim to look into the Tantalus situation. Speaking of Jim…

Why Kirk Believes In Crime & Punishment

I think part of his opinion is privilege and the other part is Tarsus (and maybe Klingon War?) trauma. Kirk is a well-respected Human officer with a squeaky clean record. In fact he was canonically a bit of a Boimler and got a friend demoted for breaking the rules (which is why Court Martial happens at all). He has never once been wrongly accused of anything, or had a lifetime of imprisonment on the horizon. He just doesn’t know.

That, and forgiveness has never, ever been Kirk’s strong suit, not with others, not with himself. I think we can blame Kodos the Executioner for that. Jim’s formative experience with unjust, criminal actions was at the hands of a genocidal egotist convinced he was doing the right thing.

No wonder he’s under the impression that criminal actions are the product of a sick mind and not also a result of lacking resources or help that led them to that action or trauma-born illness. Which we know even in the 21st century to be true.

I also think this informs his behavior towards the Klingons in Errand of Mercy, A Private Little War, & Star Trek VI. The first few times the war is still a fresh wound for Kirk, and Undiscovered Country takes place after a Klingon killed his only child and nearly killed Spock. His hatred and difficulty letting go is no surprise to me.

Spock’s First TOS Mind Meld (Oh Look He Lyin’ Again)

Look, we know Spock’s a liar, but on this occasion he doesn’t really have good reason to lie to Bones… or does he?

He says he’s never melded with a human before, which is just plain untrue. In this timeline, as far as we know, he’s at the very least Mind Melded with La’an Noonien-Singh. What happened? La’an almost found out about one, extremely classified thing, Michael Burnham, his sister. The fact she learned about the events of Zero Point notwithstanding.

My guess is that he melds much much more rarely in SNW than TOS because of this. After all, the only other meld we witness is the one with Pike (who already knows Burnham) in the Balance of Timeline.

Maybe he is fearful that there’s a danger of Dr. Van Gelder finding out about Michael like La’an nearly did. As we well know, Spock is not at all a fan of taking risks.

I would assume that he gets progressively better at shielding his memories of Michael from others during a meld. Considering the increasing frequency he does so over the course of TOS, not just with aliens and machines, but with the riskiest of melds, human Starfleet officers.

I do think it’s worth noting that Bones learns of the mind meld before Jim does. Which feels like foreshadowing to his becoming the holder of Spock’s Katra. Possibly as a result, being the only member of Spock’s new found family that may know about Spock’s vanished sister.

Spock’s Reaction To Dr. Noel Is Uh… Fascinating.

Spock’s reaction to Noel’s open interest in Jim in the transporter room is intriguing. I would say that it’s just Spock’s normal distaste of PDA but, there’s no PDA. Jim basically goes “I’m gonna kill Bones 🙄” and Spock does that classic little “I must not emote” lip purse.

Whether it be amusement, irritation or jealousy. Spock tends to react strongly whenever Jim is around people who’re interested in him and vice versa. Bonus points for the “come on, seriously?” when he starts making out with Noel much later in the episode 😂

Loneliness (Closing Banter)

A morsel of fuel for my running theory that Captain Kirk has very real Autophobia: how haunted he sounds by the prospect of loneliness.

But then, when he makes direct eye contact with Spock, it’s like that that fear, that feeling of being haunted by the prospect of loneliness vanishes. Like knowing Spock is there makes everything a little more okay. He shifts back into confident, command mode as they set out for their next adventure.

#(re)discovering a strange new spock #star trek #star trek discovery #star trek strange new worlds #star trek v: the final frontier #star trek vi: the undiscovered country #star trek iii: the search for spock #tos 1x09 #dagger of the mind #errand of mercy #a private little war #the conscience of the king #court martial #spock #s’chn t’gai spock #michael burnham #Sybok #s’chn t’gai siblings #t’pring #dr leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #James kirk #Jim kirk #Captain Kirk #una chin riley #captain christopher pike #Star Trek meta #meta analysis #character meta #lar trek

[fallen-regentarc]

❝          you're lonely too .          ❞ ❝          we  all  are,       from  time  to  time.          ❞

( @darehearts & @fallenregent )

#darehearts #♡ * ⁎ ┈ visage #jim kirk #davina claire #♡ * ⁎ ┈ v . strange new worlds #♡ * ⁎ ┈ ch . jim kirk

[baylardo]

Yeah I’ll think about Kathryn trying to save her fourth baby and failing forever hahahahahaha

#MMMMMMM ITS A LITTLE ON BRAND #I LOVE PAIN #CRINGE THRESHOLD PAIN ❤️💕❤️ #Booklard #Strange New Worlds V #On the Rocks

[sillyfreaktime]

im a longtime star trek fan, especially a fan of the og series, but idk if I’m gonna enjoy snw’s Spock, Kirk, and Uhura! but this crossover episode is peaking my interest ! help lmao

#strange new worlds #star trek snw #lower decks #be honest! #I wanna give it a chance but I’m SCARED #these characters are v sacred 2 me #star trek

[admiralchristopherpike]

@tealeavesandthorns continued from here

The machines monitoring his vitals beeped and hummed as Maria started to talk to him. It had been one of the reasons they had allowed Maria to stay with him as much as she had been. His vitals were always vastly better when she was there with him than when she was not.

While he wasn't talking yet, he could weakly squeeze her hand back to acknowledge that he knew she was there and that he understood her. He wished he could tell her how much he loved her, how much he appreciated that she was there, holding his hand, keeping him from slipping away. But he looked at her with love-filled eyes, hoping that'd be enough for now.

#tealeavesandthorns #v. strange new worlds

[perenlop]

man. hate to say it but i finished karma files and idk how i feel about it

#its very impressively done like the gameplay is great and i like most of the new lore #but… god i kinda… dont like the whole thing with the renegade route having already happened before no matter what you do #like whether you already had a file or not #because now characters learn and we hear all these people talk about what a fucking asshole we are #and like… thatd be welcome if i DID do a renegade route. ik im planning one rn #but it just feels strange and confusing with not only one more alternate timeline but the world hates you #cause apparently ‘’we’ve betrayed them before’’ when like. i havent done shit yet my guy! #idk it just feels weirdly guilt trippy for the route where you do as many things possible to help people #idk like. maybe if it was a different interceptor entirely thatd be interesting? like if crescent somehow led to the bad timeline #and bc of that experience the world is starting to crumble and rely on you #and you can either save or destroy them #as of now im just. ??????? at all of it and not in a good way #again no hate to the team or anything like again this had to be a shit ton of work and thats impressivr. the story just rubs me the wrong wa #way #echoed voice #rejuv lb #the ana sidequest also felt nice but V getting misgendered constantly kinda took the fun out of it for me

[starkiller1701-a]

SYBOK LIVES!

The vulcan, the legend, the one and only!

Get them while they're hot!

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#Star Trek #Star Trek V #The Final Frontier #Sybok #william shatner #spock #Dr. McCoy #TOS #Captain Kirk #kirk #jim kirk #s'chn t'gai spock #S'Chn T'Gai Sybok #Jerry Goldsmith #trek #Strange New World #SNW #Captai Pike #Pike #Captain Angel #T'pring #USS Enterprise #Paradise #logic #IDIC #UFP #United Federation of Planets

[jsbashirmd]

[[ @ensnchekov hit the ❤️ for a starter.

Lt. Julian Bashir (M.D.) was just trying to keep his head down. As second in his class, he should have had his pick of assignments, but when the flagship wants you... Julian wasn't given a choice. Assistant Chief Medical Officer, assigned to the USS Enterprise, to serve under Dr. M'Benga. That was doable. It was terrifying, but it was doable, so long as he didn't make himself interesting to anyone important, like the Captain (though rumor had it he was pretty understanding, he was still a captain.)

But hanging out with the ensigns and lieutenants seemed safe enough. "Hey, Chekov! Did you hear there's going to be a parrises squares tournament starting? I think I might enter, but you need teams of four. Are you any good?"

#ensnchekov. pavel #c. julian #v. strange new worlds #new verse #new thread #t. bright young doctor