#mbenga

[bardicious]

Jim Kirk is valid for having an on again of again complicated relationship with Carol Marcus. Spock is valid for being upset at Chapel for not committing to their relationship like he thought he could. Chapel is valid for pursuing her dreams despite her affections for Spock. Chris and Batel are valid for having a relationship that complicates their work life. Sam Kirk is valid for pursuing knowledge on the flagship enterprise despite not being able to see his family. La'an is valid to have her whirlwind romance with an alt!Kirk and have that color her impression of canon!Kirk. Uhura is valid for being an uncertain all business ensign learning to believe in herself and inspire others. M'Benga is valid for not wanting to be a bunny.

They are all valid.

#Where No Man Has Gone Before and Then Some #star trek #strange new worlds #jim kirk #spock #chris pike #mbenga #sam kirk #la'an noonien singh #christine chapel #okay Ill admit #this got away from me #shout out to one of my favorite dialogues this ep

[dax9616]

I really appreciated how Strange New Worlds portrayed PTSD in ‘Under the Cloak of War’

From the way Chapel and M'Benga disassociated when they were triggered.

To how the two and Ortegas talk about their experiences during the war... Bravo

My favorite line is when Chapel says 'Why is it so hard to explain to people that weren't there?'

When we go through a traumatic experience, it can be hard to connect because we feel that nobody understands what it was like to experience what we have.

Connection is often the first step in healing and just as often it’s the hardest step to take.

#star trek #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #nurse chapel #christine chapel #mbenga #dr m’benga #lt ortegas #erica ortegas #ptsd recovery #trauma recovery #ptsd #ptsd awareness

[ghostlyfanparadise]

#mine #meme #star trek #photo edit #Star Trek photo edit #strange new worlds #Star Trek strange new worlds #erica ortegas #christine chapel #mbenga #laan noonien singh #una chin riley #christopher pike #pikeuna #pike x una #spock

[ihaveaweirdidea]

#digital art #weird #weird ideas #art #bizarre #original art #bizarreart #weird art #peculiar #star trek #strange new worlds #spock #mbenga #bunny

[best-star-trek-character]

Quarter-Finals

#best snw character competition #dr mbenga #dr Joseph mbenga #joseph m’benga #mbenga #Christopher Pike #captain christopher pike #captian pike #Pike #st #Snw #best star trek character competition

[paulgadzikowski]

#mbenga #under the cloak of war #snw #star trek strange new worlds #star trek #mbenga's hat

[moonlightkissforyou]

I have a theory as to the possible reason why Chapel and Spock have this odd relationship in TOS.

Spoiler!

I think the Events of the 8th episode of the 2nd season could be the trigger here.

We know Christine lied ... and she's struggling with her wartime trauma. She build walls around her. BUT I could imagine that the relationship with Spock, despite the current difficulties, will intensify again in the course of the series and then somehow come to light what she is hiding with regard to MBenga.

Spock then feels betrayed. He splits for the same reason TPring had done. Christine tries to forget all about hin and then she meet Korby at the Academy. She's going into a relationship with him but I think he's more a second choice because her relationship with Spock didn't work.

Spock i think tries to forget to .... so he learn to supress his strong feelings.

#spapel #spock #spock x chapel #spock x christine #snw spoilers #mbenga #strange new worlds #snw #star trek #tos star trek #Chapel #Spock #Betray #Klingon war

[westworldparty19]

Strange New Worlds is so crazy. (I’ve always been a non believer in Pike and this episode feels like vindication). So they bring a war criminal turned peace negotiator on board and Pike forces the veterans to interact with him with seemingly no regard for their feelings…I thought Pike was the

sweetie captain who loves his wittle crew 👉👈

Anyway so we have Spock who is really excited? To talk to this war criminal. Spock. Who’s sister STARTED THE KLINGON WAR?! Right!! That was the whole point of Disco? Michael started the Klingon war. So all of Spock’s “friends” and his “girlfriend” are personally traumatized by a war caused by his literal sister and he like doesn’t stop to think about it at all? No one does? Why put Spock, Una, and Pike in Disco if they’re never ever gonna make a connection at all??

This show is so weird!! And not in a good way! The characters are all over the place so so traumatized but they never actually deal with the trauma!!!

M’benga seemingly getting away with murder….come on. Personally have complicated feelings about saying someone deserves to die but like this was just so crazy. The only push back he gets is Pike saying “come one bro you can talk to me? Did you do it? It’s okay if you did?” WHAT! You can’t just murder people!! I know Pike says something like that but in the most milquetoast way possible and then the episode just ends?

What was the point of this episode? Murder is okay if you have a good reason, also your friends will help you and you won’t face any consequences? Wait I didn’t even touch on that M’benga is also a war criminal….I think I would be more okay with this if he turned himself in or felt any remorse or if any character had anything of substance to say to him.

Compare M’benga to La’an in the Khan situation. (I equally hated that scenario but) She’s like following her moral code and is shown having complicated feelings about her decision. I’m trying to be nice by comparing the show to itself but honestly both episodes were so messy and have no actual moral that it’s hard.

So let’s compare to any number of TOS episodes where Kirk is faced with the choice to murder an enemy, or to let them face the consequences of their actions. Kirk could kill Karidian but chooses not to and when he learns that someone else is trying to kill him he actively goes out of his way to save him. Kirk could kill the Romulans in Balance of Terror but instead offers them rescue, he could kill the Gorn captain but offers mercy, could kill Khan but offers him a new life, I could go on. Of course basically none of these solutions work out for the antagonist of the episode but they are punished by consequences of their own actions and in spite of Kirk’s humanity.

Maybe this episode was to say that war irrevocably changes a person. But who doesn’t already know that? What new story or perspective is being shown? I feel like a great way to show progress for his character would be to stab the guy and then save him. Right?! He lets his base, traumatized instincts win but then snaps out of it and realigns himself to his current goal of saving lives. Maybe it’s different in Starfleet but healers take an oath!!

And if we want to compare this to something more tonally similar than there are DS9 episodes that explore this situation much better. I’ve only seen up to season 4 so I’m sure I’m missing a bunch and I’ve only seen the episodes once so if I’m wrong please feel free to gently correct. But there’s an episode where Kira and Gul Dukat get stuck in danger together. I believe they are each faced with the opportunity to abandon each other in danger but even though they were enemies during the war and are still opponents, they save the other. Kira’s sense of what is morally correct overrules her need for revenge. I know there’s a war crimes episode that I haven’t seen yet lol.

Anyway. This season is such a mess. The highs are high but they are few and far between and the lows are so low. I think my biggest problem is that none of the characters have a moral backbone or any real principles that follow from episode to episode. The thing about episodic tv is if you want it to be episodic you have to keep the characters pretty consistent. Or if you want it to be serialized and have characters change, then they need to learn and grow episode to episode or at least arc to arc.

I think La’an should have been more heavily featured in the episode. I think a convo of her and Ortegas on one side and Spock and Uhura on the other would be a good way to actual explore the concepts they were trying to? La’an and Spock both have tangential experience (La’an being a victim of alien war crimes and Spock’s sister starting the war) and Ortegas has direct combat experience and Uhura has none. Uhura can get to be a little naive with Spock backing her with pursuit of knowledge reasonings. La’an and Ortegas can push back on trauma grounds. Spock and La’an can come to some kind of resolution and Uhura and Ortegas come closer to understanding the other side.

I did love that Chapel got a plot that didn’t really involve Spock.

Ok I’m done for now.

#star trek #snw #strange new worlds #snw spoilers #spock #rosamund pike #snw uhura #laan noonien singh #erica ortegas #nurse chapel #mbenga

[torsamors]

If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. -Caitlyn Siehl, It Ends or it Doesn't

[Image IDs: Nine images. (1) Text that reads: 'It ends or it doesn't.' / Una: What are you keeping in there that could be worth all our lives?/ M’Benga: Not what. Who. Rukiya. My daughter. // David McCoy (barely audible): Leonard. / McCoy: I'm here, Dad. I'm with you. (2) Two images in black and white. One of M'Benga's daughter, Rukiay. The other of McCoy's dad, David. (3) text that reads: 'That's what you say. That's how you get through it.' / McCoy: All my knowledge and I can't save him. // M’Benga: I am chief medical officer. On the flagship of Starfleet. You'd think I'd be able to do something about it. But nothing worked.' (4) text that reads: 'The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn't. / Sybok: You've done all you can. The support system will keep him alive. / McCoy:  You call this alive? Suspended between life and death by a bridge of pain? // M’Benga: Did you know there's no limit on how long you can store someone's pattern in the buffer? You just have to materialize them regularly. In the buffer, my daughter doesn't age. And her disease can't progress.' (5) Two images. One of McCoy, looking down at his dying dad. His expression in pained. The other is of M'Benga, who's expression is also pained. (6) text that reads: 'Adapt. Adjust.  / M’Beng: …the light virus epidemic was my fault. / Una: It seems so, yes. / M’Benga: I can't endanger our crew for one life. No matter how much that life means to me. // David McCoy: Release…me / McCoy: I can't. (in agony) But how can I watch him suffer like this? / Sybok: You're a doctor. / McCoy: I'm his son!' (7) Text that reads 'It ends' followed by an image of McCoy looking down after his father dies. (8) 'Or it doesn't' followed by an image of Rukiya, alive and smiling at her father. (9) Text: 'We do not perish.' /End ID]

#FOR KIERA<3333 #star trek #tos #strange new worlds #leonard mccoy #m'benga #jabilo m'benga #oh you know. what you would do for love. what it would be like to be a man of medicine and not be able to help those who you love most. #god my brain MELTED doing this i cannot believe snw did this #snw #parallels #mine #SORRY THIS IS LIKE 8 MILES LONG. #bones #<- for my tag fjdklajfsal #** #mbenga

[raurquiz]

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[mbilmey]

Everyone on twitter still saying that Mbenga did nothing wrong but like i don't care how annoying people are to you please don't kill??

Crossing boundaries is bad but does not make it okay to kill?

(Unless your life is being like...directly threatened but I thought the episode was clear that the Klingon had no intention of actually hurting M'Benga)

sometimes internet people scare me

#star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #mbenga

[gobblegang]

There's something about M'Benga giving Una a direct blood transfusion in 'Memento Mori' after it being mentioned in the previous episode that mixing human and illyrian blood is illegal.

#star trek snw #star trek snw spoilers #star trek #una chin riley #mbenga #we love to see a doctor who cares about his patients above all else #star trek strange new worlds

[dax9616]

Bunnies!! 🤣🤣🖖

#star trek #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #captain pike #spock #snw spock #spock snw #subspace rhapsody #mbenga #laan noonien singh #commander pelia #chief engineer pelia #una chin riley

[ghostlyfanparadise]

#mine #meme #photo edit #star trek #star trek photo edit #strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds #christopher pike #pikeuna #pike x una #una chin riley #mbenga

[onmykneesforhotdilfs]

New obsession you guys. If you haven't already, check out Star trek: Strange New Worlds. One of the best shows I've ever watched.

(Also, I'm currently obsessing over Spock (Ethan Peck) and La'an (Christina Chong), even though that will never happen but hey, I'm a slut for that which will never come true - because apparently i love torturing myself a bit too much)

#star trek strange new worlds #st snw #spock #la'an noonien singh #spock x la'an #la'an x spock #una chin riley #erica ortegas #nurse chapel #mbenga #chief hammer #christopher pike #captain pike #nyota uhura

[best-star-trek-character]

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