#star trek discovery season 2

[dragons-in-spaceee]

Appreciation post for the red angel suit cause it’s cool as fuck and of course Michael looks cool as fuck wearing it!!!!!

For day 2 of Celebrate Disco 2023

#celebrate disco 2023 #my art #michael burnham #the red angel #star trek discovery #star trek disco s2 #star trek discovery season 2 #star trek discovery fanart #star trek fanart

[lyricalviolet]

Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Michael Burnham/Christopher Pike Characters: Christopher Pike, Michael Burnham, Sylvia Tilly, Spock (Star Trek), Joann Owosekun, Keyla Detmer, Katrina Cornwell, Number One | Una Chin-Riley (Star Trek), Amanda Grayson, Ash Tyler | Voq, Saru (Star Trek), Hugh Culber, Mirror Philippa Georgiou, Sarek (Star Trek), Paul Stamets, Vina (Star Trek), Leland (Star Trek), Commander Ariam Additional Tags: Slow Burn, POV Michael Burnham, Michael Burnham Needs a Hug, Friends to Lovers, Developing Relationship, During Canon, Canon Compliant, for now, these idiots have a stranglehold on me, emotionally repressed woman who deserves love, and a man of faith who thinks he's going to die, Idiots, Mutual Pining, USS Discovery (Star Trek), Star Trek: Discovery Spoilers, Star Trek: Discovery Compliant, Christopher Pike Whump, Alcohol, Touching, Vulcan, cannon adjacent, tiptoeing into AU, soft, Spycraft, Section 31 (Star Trek), Minor Michael Burnham/Ash Tyler | Voq, these idiots keep running away with the story and ruining my plans, Saru is a good bro, Talosians (Star Trek), Aftermath of Torture, Panic Attacks, Implied/Referenced Dubious Consent, Sharing a Bed, Sharing Clothes, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Canonical Character Death, Beating, tilly is a good bro, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Whump Series: Part 1 of Doubt Thou the Stars Are Fire Summary:

All Michael Burnham wants is to be an explorer and to pay back the debt she seems to think she owes the Universe.

All Christopher Pike wants is to be a good man and to serve others.

Enter the Seven Signals, a murder mystery, galaxy-ending peril, and each other.

Chapter 15 is up!

Previous Chapter

Start from the Beginning

Tilly comes and collects Michael when she's ready to be released from Sickbay. The redhead enters the room with slow, tired steps as Michael sits on the biobed, legs swinging slightly, feeling adrift and unmoored. The sedatives and painkillers Pollard gave her made her loopy. Michael knows Chris came to see her, knows they spoke, but can't remember any of it.

Other than she felt safe and cared for.

He's in the habit of inspiring that particular feeling, among others, in her.

Then, her thoughts get interrupted as she finds her arms full of Tilly, a face full of curly red hair, and Michael sighs in something like relief. They hold each other, rocking and crying for a while, not speaking.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save her," Michael grits out.

Tilly pulls back, eyes red and swollen, face wet with tears. "It's not your fault, Michael. None of this is your fault."

Michael forces out a shaky breath but says nothing.

#doubt thou the stars are fire #star trek #star trek discovery #star trek discovery season 2 #michael burnham #captain christopher pike #pike x burnham #burnham x pike #star trek fanfic #star trek fanfiction #wip #ao3

[cartrunkent]

Okay, I noped out of the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. ... but I skipped into Season 2 for Pike and Spock. I'm enjoying it better. Captain Pike is great.

... and then this wonderful little Blorbo shows up!

If I go on to season 3... it'll be for Jett Reno.

#star trek discovery #Star Trek discovery season 2 #Star Trek #Christopher pike #jett reno

[fancy-a-dance-brigadier]

Guess who's been watching Discovery

(screencaps from Trek Core)

#I'm only half way through season 2 but I'm obsessed #star trek #discovery #star trek discovery #fancymemes

[m0rbs]

Disco Spock is destroying my autism today for some ungodly reason. Someone kill me I desperately need to put him in a salad spinner

#his mental illness has captivated me mind body and soul #I haven’t been able to get past the season 2 finale of discovery….. I am just worried to no end about Michael I think #art #s’chn t’gai spock #star trek discovery #star trek: discovery #michael burnham #st: disco

[eastsideofthemoon]

The leadership moment no one talks about.

In the season 2 opener for Discovery (Brother), we're introduced to Captain Pike. A lot - nearly everyone - praises this episode because of how charismatic and non-Lorca, Pike is. The scene that garners the most praise is when Tilly accidentally posts Pike's personal file on the viewscreen in front of the entire bridge crew. Also, the scene where he has the bridge crew state their name and rank is another moment that gets pedalstalized.

But the moment I want to discuss was when the DSC crew was informed about the USS Hiwatha (shout out to Jett Reno). There's a back and forth that happens between Pike and Saru, where Saru is trying to assess the situation. During their exchange, Pike mentions being forced to sit out the Klingon War.

Immediately after their exchange, he demands a solution, and Michael steps up to provide one. However, before she can finish her statement, he yells at her and accuses her and the Discovery crew of wanting to leave behind whoever is on the Hiawatha. That's a wild assumption to make about the crew that actually ended the Klingon War, while dealing with a degenerate captain.

Here's the leadership moment - Michael's response. Contrary to the accusation that she's emotional, she doesn't get angry, cry, or shut down. She boldly and respectfully, stands up for herself AND HER CREW.

Michael could have simply defened herself, and she would not have been wrong. But being the leader she is, she doesn't see his accusation as solely as misjudgment on her, but a misjudgment on the entire crew. Furthermore, she respects his position of authority, but she's not a fangirl, nor is she intimidated. Michael is confident in her crew and was not going to shrink at anyone mischaracterizing them, including Starfleet's golden boy.

This is why the Discovery crew was willing to jump 930 years into the future with her. They know she has their back.

#celebrating disco 2023 #star trek discovery #michael burnham #christopher pike #season 2 #why michael is captain #lets fly

[quasi-normalcy]

#'Unification iii' and discovery season 2 are kind of cheats #maybe 'Kobayashi' on Star Trek Prodigy should count too? #star trek lower decks #the next generation #deep space nine #the original series #voyager #discovery #enterprise

[sporkandpringles]

I get why a lot of people feel like Star Trek: Discovery "found it's legs" or generally got better around Season 3-4. The huge jump to the future allows them to not worry so much about continuity, and explore new dynamics in a universe with a much weaker Federation, etc. etc. Unfortunately, I hate it.

#sporkandpringles original #I preferred seasons 1-2 #season 1 is my favorite #that's my hottest take #star trek discovery #gripes #< - block that tag if you don't want to see my occasional negative posts

[usslakevee]

i love how frequently star trek Discovery says "we will have to sacrifice for the greater good, some of us wont make it." And then three seconds later it's "just kidding we beamed him out just in time. Everyone lives bitch."

#star trek discovery #St disco #Season 2 and 4

[hellostickerdoodle]

Emperor Georgiou Makes a Dramatic Entrance

Now, that's what I call an entrance! I don't want to like Emperor Georgiou, because, well she's an awful person, BUT damnit she's so badass. And well it's hard to dislike Michelle Yeoh.

After Georgiou was brought to this (prime) universe, despite her atrocities' in the parallel universe, Star Fleet desperate to win the war with the Klingons, recruited her as a Section 31 Operative. Her new position suits her well, don't you think?

Since she's now part of Star Fleet, she saved these two boring characters to avoid a coup that threatens a fragile peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

#Star Trek: Discovery #Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 #Star Trek #Philippa Georgiou #Klingons #Michelle Yeoh #Terran Emperor #My ST: Discovery Stuff #ST: Discovery Season 2 #My Star Trek Stuff #Star Trek: Discovery S02xE03 #Mirror Mirror #Parallel Universe

[poebrey]

never in a million years could I have imagined star trek discovery final season 5 being one of only handful of seasons to air during 2024 due to delay and strike on my bingo card

#star trek discovery #it’s that and interview with a vampire season 2? #what else has filmed lol #we’re in november if the strike ended tomorrow #we’d be lucky to get a few shows in by the spring

[samthetrekkie]

I kinda love that they curse in this show, especially so much in this episode. it works so much more naturally here than in discovery imo.

and do I smell a love story between jennifer the andorian (also so funny that that's her name) and mariner? I thought it was always going towards boimler and her, but who knows - it definitely would be more exciting.

#sam watching #star trek lower decks #season 2 #episode 10 #star trek discovery #beckett mariner #jennifer sh'reyan #bradward boimler

[samnotsammy12]

Rewatching Discovery and i just realized that Nhan’s dress version of the Discovery uniform has ZIPPER POCKETS

And I don’t think the pants version has any pockets so that’s a hilarious reversal of the current common dress vs. pants situation that most people have problems with

Also the scene where Georgiou is like “in my universe Stamets was pan and we had DEFCON-level fun together” and she leaves and Tilly just goes “What just happened?” SHE’S SO CUTE I LOVE HER

#star trek discovery #Disco Season 2 #commander nhan #michael burnham #philippa georgiou #paul stamets #DRESSES WITH POCKETS #ARE ELITE

[existentialbogwitch]

What is wrong with me:

1. I’m autistic. Not officially diagnosed or anything. But it is something I am pursuing. It is very likely. There are many reasons why.

a. I had sensory issues as a child that were very disruptive and insistent.

I. I refused to wear jeans until like 3rd grade probably, only because I didn’t want to just wear dresses all the time. My preferred item of clothing will always be sweatpants and sweatpants adjacent materials. Also things that look like you could wear them to dance class. Cozy, soft, non-restrictive (unless its extremely stretchy/compression fabric - and sometimes I can’t do that, it varies widely)

II. Sound sensitivity. I have better hearing than most people, but I struggle with human voices and too many of them in the same space talking at the same time is extremely overwhelming for me. I don’t know what I’m supposed to listen to or focus on and I become extremely anxious about missing out on something important. I have a very low tolerance for loud noises and I prefer to constantly have background white/brown noise because silence aggravates my tinnitus and I find the white noise soothing. I feel instantly more safe when I am wearing headphones and listening to dark grey (spaceship) white noise specifically. I’ve started wearing earplugs again as an adult. My mom would put cotton balls in my ears when I was a kid because I always complained about everything being too loud (she didn’t believe me). I don’t know why it never occurred to her to take me to a doctor.

b. I had frequent night terrors and anxiety from a young age. Vivid nightmares I can still remember.

c. I struggled with balance and could not dance as well as my peers because I was somewhat lacking in coordination.

d. I struggled socially and was very shy and reserved, unless I was performing and had a specific script to follow with words to say. I could read really well and was good at projecting my voice because I was taught how to sing at an early age, so people assumed I was capable of communicating normally. I still spoke very softly and people asked me to repeat myself all the time. I have trouble modulating the volume of my voice sometimes when I get too excited.

e. I could memorize information and recite it back, but it did not mean I understood it and people really don’t bother to look into this too much.

f. I am one of those people who are naturally very good at music in a way that is frequently very annoying to other people and I absolutely get it.

g. I have a tendency to get obsessed with things in not good ways.

h. Family history of drug use and addiction

I. I am frequently referred to as annoying or “a lot”

2. I have experienced a LOT of trauma. I am realizing that most people experience a good amount of traumatic things happening to them throughout their lives, and to an extent this is “normal.”

Simply because many people have experienced pain though, does not in any way detract from your experience of your personal pain. Sometimes we are led to believe that we are not allowed to feel our feelings. My feelings matter, and I have a lot of very big feelings. I have had debilitating anxiety since I was a child.

Being autistic and not being diagnosed earlier in my life has led me down a really frustrating mental health “journey” that I’m sure I am not alone in experiencing.

I have heard that CPTSD is a common occurrence among autistic individuals. I need to find some sources to back this up, I haven’t been keeping track of sources for this stuff, and I need to start doing that.

I have severe social anxiety and I have for as long as I can remember and I have to actively fight a battle that everyday looms closer to full blown agoraphobia and it is something I feel (not surprisingly) a lot of anxiety about. I have anxiety about my anxiety? I believe these are just panic attacks. Thus the cptsd.

My family has never really accepted me and I am working up the strength to start seeking my own chosen family and I’m terrified.

I want so badly to be able to express myself as I genuinely want to be, not as a reflection of societies expectations of me.

I want to be able to say that I’m non-binary and not feel weird about it.

I want to be able to tell people that just because I don’t have kids doesn’t mean that I don’t care about children.

I don’t have kids because it would be irresponsible of me to have children.

I’m trying to get back on birth control so I can feel better about being sexually active in a state with terrifyingly backwards opinions on abortion.

I am afraid to be myself in most places in real life because I do not know who might be judging me.

I wish I had a place I could just be myself.

(Affordable housing is mental health care. Thank you)

I need to go back and finish my design degree so that I can make slightly more money and move out of my parents house. If I live here for the rest of my life I will lose my mind.

I am trying my best to make positive changes in my life, but it is very slow progress because I seem to routinely make terrible impulsive choices due to poorly managed adhd probably.

My therapist is very good and I’m so glad I have that resource at least. I need to find group therapy as well though and I’ve had less luck on that front because of my “unique” work schedule. Also the fact that none of the groups I’ve tried contacting so far have responded yet, but it’s only been a few days. I still need to do more research. I’m scared of any groups that meet in a church because I have a history with religious trauma and a lot of my depression is existential and I don’t want to go into a group setting and upset more people with my worries and questions.

I really want to make sure I find a good, safe place I can share - so I feel less inclined to pour my soul out to the void maybe.

I feel really narcissistic making posts like this because I know no one else “really” cares, but there’s always that little light in the back of my head that goes “remember how much it meant to you to read the things that other people post about their lives” and that encourages me a bit.

I plan to do some historical research on human development because I’m having a lot of weird existential questions about the nature of ego and reality and what “I” really means and who “I” am. And when I’m setting something like a goal, what are the most important factors to consider? When I’m making a decision, who is the most important factor in the equation? Is it my own personal happiness? (Which is of itself an incredibly complicated question, because happiness is extremely subjective).

Needs of the many vs. needs of the few becomes complicated when the many is comprised of an oppressive group. suddenly needs become bullets. Needs are used to subjugate and control.

I really, really wish more people would watch Star Trek.

And talk about their feelings openly.

But that’s a big ask.

I will be adding to this post as I feel like it with no discernible goal. Vaguely I am eventually trying to get an autism diagnosis, but I’m in no particular hurry as I’m self employed and would get no real benefit from it unless I lose my teaching job and have to seek unemployment.

#late night rant #delete later #what is wrong with me #things to tell my therapist when she gets back in town next week #sorry for all the rants I’m on my period and I have pms #I’m also sick #on spring break #I have watched 2 seasons of Star Trek discovery so it is not all terrible #this post is sponsored by Vicks vapor rub #screaming into the void

[eastsideofthemoon]

Unpopular opinion

After watching how Saru and Michael handled Lorca, The Mirrorverse, and put a stop to the Klingon War, I don't think they needed Pike there for the season 2 and the Red Angel Saga.

We still could have had Spock, and we probably would have gotten more from the bridge crew.

#Saru could have been captain #Michael could have been XO #star trek discovery #season 1 #season 2 #saru #michael burnham #pike #unpopular opinion

[cecilyacat]

Am I the only one annoyed at new Trek's obsession with catchy lines to say when giving the order to go? Like, this wasn't a thing in 90ies Trek or TOS. Only Picard had a thing (well, two to be precise) and since Discovery they've been giving every captain they're special (silly) line and I just don't know whyyyyyy

Please it doesn't have to be such a big deal stop making it a big deal it drives me crazy

#star trek #star trek picard spoilers #yes this was triggered by the cut away from seven giving the order to fly away #janeway didn't have a thing sisko didn't have a thing archer didn't have a thing #as someone who owns a 'make it so' button i #*i'm not saying picard's lines aren't nice but honestly 'engage' can just be the default line. let everyone use it #(this has been bugging me since ~season 2 of discovery UGH)