#Alonzo Freeman

[glimblshanks]

Thinking about Mariner's trauma reveal, and how Carol and Alonzo had to watch their bright, high achieving (at least according to Ramsey) daughter come back from the Dominion War broken and angry. How they had to just sit by as her trauma responses got her demoted over and over again. How they did everything they could to keep Mariner in Starfleet because they still remember that bright, high achieving girl and and how much potential she had, and they know that part of their daughter must still be in there somewhere even if it's hard to see.

And sometimes Carol can't cope and starts to think that Beckett really doesn't belong on her ship, and sometimes Alanzo can't deal either and cuts Carol's frustrated com calls short because it all just hurts too much. They haven't let go of who Beckett used to be, but she will never be that wide-eyed Starfleet cadet that they were so proud of ever again, and neither of them can do anything about it.

#lower decks #star trek #beckett mariner #alonzo freeman #carol freeman #star trek lower decks #st lwd #lwd #lwd spoilers #lwd s4 spoilers #feeling extra normal about this show today boys

[pippastrelle]

Anyone else wonder if Mariner's family situation isn't so straightforward?

Neither of Mariner's parents are particularly designed to look like her. They don't share any face shapes, noses, hair textures, or skin colours.

Compare Tendi, who's got her dad's freckles and eyebrows, as well as her mum's nose.

Of course, when Mariner gets hyper-aged in Caves, she greys exactly like her mum does, suggesting they're biologically related.

In general, she certainly looks more like Carol than Alonzo, but the way she differs from Carol doesn't resemble him either. Especially strange since Alonzo likely would have been designed after Mariner and Carol were.

Then there's the thing about her surname. Beckett Mariner doesn't share a surname with either Carol Freeman or Alonzo Freeman. So, perhaps Alonzo is Carol's second partner?

Of course, Mariner might be trying to obfuscate that she's their daughter. Maybe she's going by Carol's maiden name or a made-up surname. Still, people from her academy days, like Nick Locarno, call her Beckett so it's unknown whether she was going by Mariner or Freeman.

The design thing may also be a case of "ink suit actors". The characters' noses, hair, and skin far better match their voice actors Tawny Newsome, Dawnn Lewis, and Phil LaMarr.

Still, they weren't beholden to their voice actors' appearances. Food for thought.

#star trek #lower decks #beckett mariner #carol freeman #alonzo freeman #stld

[ffcrazy15]

Summary: Alonzo and Carol finally get a chance to reconnect at a Starfleet gala. Meanwhile, Mariner and Boimler pull a heist.

#lower decks #star trek lower decks #beckett mariner #brad boimler #marinler #carol freeman #alonzo freeman #carol freeman x alonzo freeman

[startrekdreams]

Mariner: “Nobody drives anymore! Why do you need the bridge!?”

Alonzo: “People like the bridge! I like the bridge!”

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 3, Episode 1

#startrekdreams #star trek gifs #star trek lower decks #lower decks season 3 #lower decks spoilers #star trek ld #becket mariner #alonzo freeman

[best-star-trek-character]

Round One

#best lwd character competition #Alonzo freeman #admiral freeman #lieutenant shaxs #shaxs #st #lwd #lower decks #best star trek character competition

[trekdilfs]

#star trek #polls #tumblr polls #the dilf brackets #q #alonzo freeman

[marymoss1971]

Admiral Buenamigo (aka Admiral (not so) Good Friend

I can’t stop thinking about Buenamigo from Capt. Freeman’s prospective (this also applies to Admiral Freeman and Beckett)

Imagine you have a friend--such a good friend that your daughter calls him “Uncle Les”. Then that friend not only sets you up for failure to pursue his own agenda, he’s willing to actually KILL YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE SHIP!!

That’s so heavy. I mean, it’d change her whole worldview--like how did we not know this person we thought we knew for decades! It’s just WOW. 

#star trek lower decks #Carol freeman #alonzo freeman #becket mariner #Bad admirals #evil admirals

[mandareeboo]

📂 Star Trek Lower Decks?

Send “📂" for a random yet completely useless headcanon I have

Mariner was her dad's number one before coming to the Cerritos. It actually worked pretty well at first- Mariner got more leeway, the Admiral got to do diplomacy, all the good shit. Then they hit a planet with some form of big disease that was killing them, and the crew decided it'd be a good idea to Cure That Shit.

Mariner, being Mariner, got bit or otherwise cross-contaminated with a sick alien, and fell heavily ill herself. Dad scrambled hard to get the antidote around, and once it was ready the scientists prepared to mass-produce that bitch. Problem being, the illness hit Mariner harder than it did the species, and she would die before they could finish replicating.

Alonzo saved Mariner. A bunch of aliens died while they remade the original.

Mariner, of course, did not willingly allow this to happen. She fought and bit and screeched at him. Told him if he even fucking THOUGHT about it he'd never see of hear from her again. And once she recovered, she did just that- packed her shit up and left the ship. That's why Mariner never mentions him, and why the General (though a usually sensible seeming guy) refuses to have her come back.

Season 3 was her first time talking to him head-on since.

#This is entirely too in-depth and likely completely wrong #Ask #Ask Prompts #Question Mandar #faithful-grigori #Star Trek: Lower Decks #Beckett Mariner #Alonzo Freeman #(did not realize he had a revealed name rip) #STLD Headcanons

[ausetkmt]

Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by black Americans to their children, such as Jamal and Latasha.

While fodder for comedians and social commentary, many have assumed that these distinctively black names are a modern phenomenon. My research shows that’s not true.

Long before there was Jamal and Latasha, there was Booker and Perlie. The names have changed, but mycolleagues and I traced the use of distinctive black names to the earliest history of the United States.

As scholars of history, demographics and economics, we found that there is nothing new about black names.

Black Names Aren’t New

Many scholars believe that distinctively black names emerged from the civil rights movement, perhaps attributable to the Black Power movement and the later black cultural movement of the 1990s as a way to affirm and embrace black culture. Before this time, the argument goes, blacks and whites had similar naming patterns.

Historical evidence does not support this belief.

Until a few years ago, the story of black names depended almost exclusively on data from the 1960s onward. New data, such as the digitization of census and newly available birth and death records from historical periods, allows us to analyze the history of black names in more detail.

We used federal census records and death certificates from the late 1800s in Illinois, Alabama and North Carolina to see if there were names that were held almost exclusively by blacks and not whites in the past. We found that there were indeed.

For example, in the 1920 census, 99 percent of all men with the first name of Booker were black, as were 80 perecent of all men named Perlie or its variations. We found that the fraction of blacks holding a distinctively black name in the early 1900s is comparable to the fraction holding a distinctively black name at the end of the 20th century, around 3 percent.

What Were the Black Names Back Then?

We were interested to learn that the black names of the late 1800s and early 1900s are not the same black names that we recognize today.

The historical names that stand out are largely biblical such as Elijah, Isaac, Isaiah, Moses and Abraham, and names that seem to designate empowerment such as Prince, King and Freeman.

These names are quite different from black names today such as Tyrone, Darnell and Kareem, which grew in popularity during the civil rights movement.

Once we knew black names were used long before the civil rights era, we wondered how black names emerged and what they represented. To find out, we turned to the antebellum era – the time before the Civil War – to see if the historical black names existed before the emancipation of slaves.

Since the census didn’t record the names of enslaved Africans, this led to a search of records of names from slave markets and ship manifests.

Using these new data sources, we found that names like Alonzo, Israel, Presley and Titus were popular both before and after emancipation among blacks. We also learned found that roughly 3 percent of black Americans had black names in the antebellum period – about the same percentage as did in the period after the Civil War.

But what was most striking is the trend over time during enslavement. We found that the share of black Americans with black names increased over the antebellum era while the share of white Americans with these same names declined, from more than 3 percent at the time of the American Revolution to less than 1 percent by 1860.

By the eve of the Civil War, the racial naming pattern we found for the late 1800s was an entrenched feature in the U.S.

Company E was the fourth U.S. Colored Infantry during the Civil War. Credit:  Everett Historical / Shutterstock.com.

Why Is This Important?

Black names tell us something about the development of black culture, and the steps whites were taking to distance themselves from it.

Scholars of African American cultural history, such as Lawrence W. Levine, Herbert Gutman and Ralph Ellison, have long held that the development of African American culture involves both family and social ties among people from various ethnic groups in the African diaspora.

In other words, people from various parts of Africa came together to form black culture as we recognize it today. One way of passing that culture on is through given names, since surnames were stolen during enslavement.

How this culture developed and persisted in a chattel slavery system is a unique historical development. As enslavement continued through the 1800s, African American culture included naming practices that were national in scope by the time of emancipation, and intimately related to the slave trade.

Since none of these black names are of African origin, they are a distinct African American cultural practice which began during enslavement in the U.S.

As the country continues to grapple with the wide-ranging effects of enslavement in the nation’s history, we cannot – and should not – forget that enslavement played a critical role in the development of black culture as we understand it today.

Trevon Logan is the Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University

#Black Culture Matters #Black Names #A Brief History of Black Names #From Perlie to Latasha #Black Lives Matter #Youtube

[cinder-no]

Cinder's Favorite Character Master List

Animal Crossing

Amelia Bianca Blanca Bob Bow Cephalobot Chai Coco Étoile Flick Master Frillard Gyroids Hopkins Jack Kabuki Kapp'n Katrina Kicks Lucky Mathilda Meow Merengue Niko Pavé Petri Pierre Pietro Raymond Rhonda Rolf Ruby Serena Tia Zipper T. Bunny

Apex Legends

Caustic (Dr. Alexander Nox) Fuse (Walter Fitzroy Jr.) Mad Maggie (Margaret Kōhere) Mirage (Elliott Witt)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Adam Clem Doc Dracula Jenny Calendar Moloch the Corruptor Rack Rupert Giles Spike (William Pratt) Zachary Kralik

Cartoon Network (connected universe)

Ace D. Copular Baboon Kaboom HIM Killa Drilla Snake Valhallen

Creepypasta

Eyeless Jack Laughing Jack

DC

Doctor Psycho (Edgar Cizko) Extraño (Gregorio de la Vega) Lobo Man-Bat (Dr. Kirk Langstrom) Mister Freeze (Victor Fries) Number One The Riddler (Edward Nygma) Savant (Brian Durlin) Snowflame (Stefan); read-through complete.

Dead by Daylight

Asakawa Yoichi The Baba Yaga The Birch The Cannibal (Bubba Sawyer) The Cenobite (Elliot Spencer) The Chatterer David King The Deathslinger (Caleb Quinn) The Doctor (Herman Carter) The Draugr Dwight Fairfield The Executioner (Pyramid Head) The Ferryman The Grid Xenomorph The Hillbilly (Max Thompson Jr.) HUNK The Huntress (Anna) The Jabberwock Jake Park James Sunderland Jeffrey "Jeff" Johansen The Knight (Tarhos Kovács) The Krampus Leon Scott Kennedy The Krampus The Nemesis (Nemesis-T Type) The Oni (Yamaoka Kazan) The Onryō (Yamamura Sadako) Robbie Rabbit The Shape (Michael Myers) Vittorio Toscano William Berkin The Wraith (Phillip Ojomo) The Xenomorph The Xenomorph Clone The Xenomorph Queen

DOOM

The Doom Slayer The Intern

Dungeons and Dragons (Baldur's Gate 3 and Magic the Gathering)

Abdirak Astarion Ancunin Auntie Ethel Avatar of Me (card) Gromph Baenre Kar'niss Lorin True Soul Nere

The Elder Scrolls

Arnbjorn Cicero Durnehviir Knight Paladin Gelebor Moira Nazir

Fallout

Joshua Graham Lily Bowen Nick Valentine (synth) Tabitha Victor (PDQ-88b RobCo security model 2060-B Securitron)

Fire and Ice

Lord Nekron; watch complete.

FromSoft (Bloodborne/Dark Souls/Elden Ring)

Father Gascoigne Godrick the Grafted Grave Warden Agdayne Manscorpion Tark Sorcerer Rogier Starscourge Radahn Vengarl of Forossa

Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware

Benrey Dr. Bubby Dr. Coomer (Dr. Harold Pontiff Coomer) Darnold Pepper Gordon Martinis Freeman Tommy Coolatta

Hatred

Not Important

Hellboy

Abe Sapien Hellboy

Highlander

The Kurgan (Victor Kruger)

Judge Dredd

The Clan Techie (Bill Huxley); read-through and watch complete.

The Last Unicorn

Amalthea Celaeno King Haggard Mabruk The Red Bull Schmendrick

Lazy Town

Glanni Glæpur (pre-show Robbie Rotten; treated separate in fanon) Íþróttaálfurinn (pre-show Sportacus; treated separate in fanon) Robbie Rotten Sportacus

Left 4 Dead

Ellis The Hunter Nick The Screamer The Smoker The Witch

Legend

Darkness

Marvel

Arcade Batroc the Leaper (Georges Batroc); read-through in progress. Blackout, of the Lilin; read-through and watch complete. Crazy Eight (Earth-982) Daimon Hellstrom Digger (Roderick Krupp); read-through in progress. Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius) Doctor Rot (Bentley Newton) Electro (Maxwell Dillon) Frog-Man (Eugene Patilio) Gorgeous George (George Blair); read-through in progress. Graviton (Dr. Franklin Hall); read-through complete. The Human Fly (Richard Deacon) Jakita Wegener; read-through complete. Morbius (Dr. Michael Morbius); read-through in progress. Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) Nitro (Robert Hunter); read-through complete. The Owl (Leland Owsley) Riptide (Janos Quested) Ruckus (Clement Wilson); read-through in progress. Speedfreek (Joss Shappe) Stunner (Angelina Brancale); read-through in progress. Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) Tombstone (Alonzo Lincoln) Tower (Edward Pasternak) Will-o-the-Wisp (Jackson Arvad)

Max Headroom

Max Headroom

Metalocalypse

Dick Knubbler (Richard Knubbler) Nathan Explosion

The Moomins

Snufkin

The Muppets

Beaker Uncle Deadly

My Hero Academia

All Might (Yagi Toshinori) Eraserhead (Aizawa Shōta)

Nightbreed

Devil Lude Peloquin Shuna Sassi

One Piece

Buggy the Clown Caesar Clown Pedro Vinsmoke Sanji

Overwatch

Cassidy (Cole Cassidy) Hanzo Shimada Junker Queen (Odessa Stone) Junkrat (Jamison Fawkes) Roadhog (Mako Rutledge) Sigma (Siebren de Kuiper)

The Owl House

Alador Blight Emperor Belos (Phillip Wittebane) Principal Hieronymus Bump

Pokémon

Absol Absol (mega) Aerodactyl (mega) Deep King Agnol Alakazam (mega) Annihilape Arbok AZ Banette Banette (mega) Beedrill Beedrill (mega) Biker (trainer class) Blaziken Blaziken (mega) Bouffalant Brambleghast Gym Leader Brassius Breloom Brute Bonnet Carbink Carnivine Centiskorch Charizard (mega X) Clown (trainer class) Corviknight Cubone Delphox Diancie Diancie (mega) Dhelmise Dragalge Dragapult Drampa Druddigon Dubwool Eelektross Espurr Firebreather (trainer class) Florges Flygon Furfrou Galvantula Gengar (mega) Gliscore Gogoat Goodra Golisopod Grafaiai Grimmsnarl Gumshoos Team Skull Leader Guzma Guzzlord Haunter Hex Maniac (trainer class) Hex Maniac (ghost) Hoopa (unbound) Houndoom Houndoom (mega) Hydrapple Hydreigon Incineroar Inteleon Kangaskhan Kingambit Kommo-o Gym Leader Larry Lopunny Lurantis Lycanroc (midnight form) Kahuna Nanu Majin Malamar Mandibuzz Mareanie Marrowak Marowak (ghost) Maushold Mawile Mawile (mega) Mightyena Miltank Mimikyu MissingNo. Naganadel Cipher Nascour Ninetales (Alolan form) Noivern Obstagoon Gym Leader Opal Team Yell Leader Piers Team Skull Admin Plumeria Pyroar Pyukumuku Rapidash (Galarian form) Rayquaza Rayquaza (mega) Sableye Sableye (mega) Salazzle Scolipede Seviper Shedinja Shiinotic Spectrier Spiritomb Tauros Team Skull Grunt (trainer class) Thievul Tinkaton Toxtricity Trevenant Vespiqueen Wooloo Xurkitree Zangoose Zoroark (Hisuian form)

Postal

Postal Dude

Psychonauts

Sasha Nein

The Red Eclipse!

Miss Conduct

Resident Evil

The Duke HUNK Karl Heisenberg Leon Scott Kennedy Mr. X (T-00) Nemesis (Nemesis-T Type) Salvatore Moreau

Silent Hill

Pyramid Head Robbie Rabbit

Space Ghost

Brak Moltar Sisto Zorak

Stardew Valley

The Dwarf Elliott Shane Willy The Wizard

Star Trek

Lietenant Commander Data Soong Constable Odo Ital

Star Wars

General Grievous General Armitage Hux Kylo Ren (Ben Solo) Darth Maul Captain Phasma Grand Admiral Thrawn (Mitth'raw'nuruodo)

Studio Ghibli

The Mandrake No-Face

The Time Machine

The Über-Morlock

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

Edred

The Venture Bros.

The Action Man (Rodney) Master Billy Quizboy (William Whalen) Brock Samson Dragoon (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.) Henchman 21 (Gary) Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg, Jr.) The Monarch (Malcolm Fitzcarraldo) Dr. Mrs. the Monarch (Sheila) Dr. Orpheus (Dr. Byron Orpheus) Pete White Red Mantle (Charles Hardin Holley) Sergeant Hatred (Courtney Robert) Vendata (Don Fitzcarraldo)

Warhammer 40k

Corvus Corax Leman Russ Magnus the Red The Night Haunter (Konrad Curze)

Warlock

The Warlock

Weird Science

Metal Face

What We Do in the Shadows

Laszlo Cravensworth Nandor the Relentless

#If you examine closely enough you may discover A Pattern #Sorted alphabetically by alias then name; “the” and honorifics not counted (unless the honorific is part of their alias). #Reblogs are turned off so that I can periodically update the original without outdating reblogs! :) #Cinder Rambles #CinderNo!

[glimblshanks]

Okay headcanon time: So in Crisis Point Beckett says that Carol has "been a dick to her since she was eight", and my theory on that is that eight years old is when Beckett first started actually living on starships.

It makes sense to me that Starfleet would have an option for people with young children to live planet side and work at the academy for a bit if they wanted to, and I think Carol took that option and raised Beckett on Earth for the first few years of her life.

This is backed up by the fact that Carol is a captain while her husband is an admiral. Assuming that the two of them started in Starfleet around the same time and had mostly the same opportunities to rank up, Carol taking a long break on Earth to raise Beckett while her husband kept working on starships would explain their rank difference.

This would also explain some things about Carol and Beckett's dynamic.

Carol is functionally a single Mom for most of Beckett's early life. It's hard, but she does her best and she loves her daughter.

Then, when Beckett turns eight, Carol decides she's old enough for them to go back onto a starship (and for the sake of narrative we'll say it's the same ship Alonzo is on).

This results in a couple of things:

Carol's knowledge and expertise are suddenly taken less seriously than they were before because she's been away for so long.

Being on the ship also makes it much more apparent that while Carol was struggling to be a single Mom, Alonzo was taking those eight years to build his career and network. This is something she already knew intellectually and had supposedly accepted and agreed to, but being her husband's subordinate on the ship really hammers in the reality of it and brings up complicated feelings for her.

On top of all that, Beckett is struggling to adjust to their new environment and to her dad suddenly being around full-time (of course she is, she's eight!). She's acting out in response.

Alonzo's most regular interactions with his daughter before this took the form of evening video calls. As a result, he has no idea how to actually parent her or deal with her tantrums.

This leaves Carol to deal with Beckett's behavior, and while she loves her daughter she's frustrated.

Dealing with Beckett takes her away from her work regularly, and Beckett's poor behavior reflects badly on Carol. It's having a major impact on her ability to actually re-integrate into the ranks of Starfleet.

Carol responds to this by essentially taking it out on Beckett. She's not abusive or anything, but her parenting style absolutely does become harsher and stricter.

For Beckett, who is already adjusting to a lot, this sudden change in dynamic with her mom only makes things worse and she acts out more. The problem becomes cyclical and more extreme as she gets older, and eventually, you end up with the mother-daughter relationship we see in the show.

I also think this is backed up by some on-screen interactions with Alonzo during the series.

In the very first episode, Carol calls Alonzo and says "She's your daughter too!" In an attempt to get him to deal with Beckett and god, how many times have I heard other women say something similar about their husband's relationship with their children? You definitely don't get the impression that Alonzo pawning Beckett's behavioral issues off onto Carol is a new thing.

Then, in Grounded, Beckett and Alonzo have an exchange that basically boils down to "You listen to your mother more than you ever listen to me" which also makes some sense if Carol was a more consistent parental figure for Beckett in her early life.

Idk, I doubt we'll ever hear a lot about Beckett's childhood in the show itself, but based on what we do know this is the theory that makes the most sense to me.

#lower decks #star trek #star trek lower decks #st lwd #beckett mariner #lwd #carol freeman #Alonzo Freeman #also some of this is based on my own experience growing up in a maritime household #like I was hanging out on work boats at a pretty early age #but I wasn't allowed to go on them until I could swim #I can see starfleet parents making similar rules #like 'our kid can't be on a starship until they can put an environmental suit on by themselves in an emergency #+ I know from my mom that being the stay at home parent while your partner is off at sea very much is like single parenting #So yeah some of this headcanon comes from that too #long post

[quasi-normalcy]

Actually it would be easier to make a list of all of the parents on Star Trek who aren’t either dead or terrible. I can think of...

Edward and Silva La Forge Beverley Crusher Will and Deanna Riker-Troi Joseph Sisko Benjamin Sisko Rom John and Mary Kim

maybe Lwaxana Troi and maybe Carol and Alonzo Freeman

(Miles and Keiko’s “solution” to their daughter being all feral and traumatized from being alone for decades on a wilderness planet was to send her back to that planet to live alone for the rest of her life, so they can sit this one out frankly)

That’s it; that’s the list.

[ffcrazy15]

Summary: In 2385, two admirals hatch a secret plot to betray the Federation Council and assist Starfleet’s greatest enemy.

In 2387, a sun goes supernova, six weeks early.

#lower decks #star trek lower decks #star trek voyager #voyager #katherine janeway #alonzo freeman

[cavewithshadows]

(Too Many) Admiral Les Buenamigo Head-Canons

1. Grew up as a family friend of Alonzo Freeman (Alonzo being named after Les’ father), where Les was something of a little brother to Alonzo. 

2. Les has always been fascinated by and talented with engineering.

3. Worked as part of the Support Team for Nova Squadron at Starfleet Academy, which is where he met Carol Mariner. 

4. Introduced Alonzo and Carol to each other, and was one of Alonzo’s groomsmen at the wedding.

5. Assigned to the Galaxy-class Project at Utopia Planitia right out of the Academy... and remained an Ensign for the duration of the project (which was about six years).

6. Pattern emerged where Les was assigned to various projects that would last for years, and only get promoted at the end. (Danube Runabout project, Defiant class project). Meanwhile, his friends are working their way up the ranks, with Alzono already in the Admiralty, and Carol a mid-ranking officer on the Enterprise.

7. Les dreams of making a name for himself in Starfleet, designing the Texas-class starship. Finally, he is assigned to the Prometheus-class Project as a Lieutenant Commander, where he is promised a chance to work on his own project once this is done.

8. Problem is, part of the assignment is the Prometheus’ auto-piloting during Multi-Vector Assault Mode, and while Les is a fantastic engineer, computer programming is not his skillset. But his career is saved when he notices the talents of young Samanthan Rutherford, who IS brilliant with computers.

9. Les basically trades starship parts to Samanthan (for his shuttle races) in exchange for his computer code for Prometheus. The young man gets better parts for his shuttles, Starfleet gets top-running computer code, and Les gets the credit, and, in his mind, a long overdue promotion and chance to work on his own project.

10. Les encourages Samanthan to apply to Starfleet Academy, intending to use him to complete the Texas-class, which Les has now come to envision as an automated starship, based on the Prometheus class. 

11. Unfortunately, there is an “accident” (secretly the result of Samanthan’s demented and evil-prone AI code), but Les can’t let this kill, or even delay, his project. So, he gives a bogus investigative report blaming human error, wipes Samanthan’s memory upon his Cyborg conversion, and uses his connections to arrange a transfer to a different division in Starfleet (Carol’s division, but as a staff officer for some bigwig). (It is because Les covered everything up that he did not discover the AI was the cause of the “accident”, leaving the problem unaddressed for years).

12. Legitimately does good work during the Breen Attack on Earth in the Dominion War, where he jury-rigs a shield that saves a good chunk of Starfleet Command, as well as a visiting member of the Federation Council. The Admiral that Les was a staff officer for was critically injured, so Les was tapped to fill the position temporarily. With his connections to the highly-ranked Alonzo, as well as a grateful Federation Councilor, Les’ position is made permanent.

13. Prior to this, Les was the one to give Beckett Mariner her two years of horse-riding lessons (teaching her how to be a cowgirl, basically), and also tutored her for Early Admission to Starfleet Academy (a la Wesley Crusher, only it worked). 

14. Les is the source of Beckett’s philosophy of ‘rules that get in the way of helping people are better off broken’, because that is how Les justifies his corner-cutting to himself.

15. Used his new rank to help protect Beckett’s career after Beckett went AWOL from her second starship to rescue General K’orin from a Klingon prison. Les’ help ensured that Beckett was not discharged, but instead transferred to Carol’s division of Starfleet (though not to the Cerritos just yet).

16. Les continues to be friendly with Alonzo and Carol, but now that he is in Carol’s division, he quietly stonewalls Carol’s idea for Operation Swing-By until his baby, the Texas-class, is ready, because he likes Carol’s idea and decided to steal it to make a name for himself and his class of starship.

17. The Texas-class is actually a masterclass in starship engineering, and would make an excellent starship, if it hadn’t been for Les’ insistence on making it automated. And if he hadn’t used Samanthan Rutherford’s AI coding (but if he’d used anyone else’s, he wouldn’t have been able to take the credit).

18. Sam Rutherford was assigned to the Cerritos so that Les could keep tabs on him, since it wouldn’t be strange for Les to keep track of his friend Carol’s ship.

19. Les was the one, along with Alonzo, to transfer Beckett to the Cerritos from the Quito, as a genuine friendly favor.

PS: Hello everyone! This is my first major post here! I had a lot of fun thinking these up, and I hope it captures the right feel for this character. Les is someone sociopathic and self-obsessed, but slick. There should be enough here to justify Beckett calling him “Uncle Les”, and for his corruption to be unthinkable to Carol. Not only that, but he has to go from Lieutenant Commander (as seen in Rutherford’s cyborg-based memory) to Vice Admiral in only a few years. Go ahead and share any thoughts or head-canons you have about him as well!

#lower decks #Star Trek #les buenamigo #beckett mariner #i spent too much time on this

[best-star-trek-character]

Official LWD Bracket!

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/23 at 10 am EST!

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

Lt. Commander Andy Billups vs. Admiral Les Buenamigo: poll here

Captain Carol Freeman vs. Lieutenant Barbara Brinson: poll here

Admiral Alonzo Freeman vs. Lieutenant Shaxs: poll here

Lieutenant Durga vs. The Dog: poll here

Ensign Jet Manhaver vs. Victoria Nuze: poll here

Peanut Hamper vs. Ensign Brad Boimler: poll here

Rawda of Areore vs. T’Lyn: poll here

Ensign Jennifer Sh’reyan vs. Migleemo: poll here

Right Side:

Badgey vs. Dr. T’Ana: poll here

AGIMUS vs. Toz: poll here

Ensign Sam Rutherford vs. Ensign Barnes: poll here

Ensign Beckett Mariner vs. Shuri yn Yem: poll here

Lieutenant Steve Stevens vs. Captain Amina Ramsey: poll here

Lieutenant William Boimler vs. Commander Jack Ransom: poll here

Buddy the Vulcan vs. Ensign D’Vana Tendi: poll here

Lieutenant Kayshon vs. Chief Carlton Dennis: poll here

Round Two:

Left Side:

Lt. Cmdr. Andy Billups vs. Captain Carol Freeman: poll here

Lt. Shaxs vs. The Dog: poll here

Ensign Jet Manhaver vs. Ensign Brad Boimler: poll here

T’Lyn vs. Ensign Jennifer Sh’reyan: poll here

Right Side:

Dr. T’Ana vs. AGIMUS: poll here

Ensign Sam Rutherford vs. Ensign Beckett Mariner: poll here

Captain Amina Ramsey vs. Lt. William Boimler: poll here

Ensign D’Vana Tendi vs. Lt. Kayshon: poll here

Quarter-Finals:

Left Side:

Captain Carol Freeman vs. Lt. Shaxs: poll here

Ensign Brad Boimler vs. T’Lyn: poll here

Right Side:

Dr. T’Ana vs. Ensign Beckett Mariner: poll here

Lt. William Boimler vs. Ensign D’Vana Tendi: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Lt. Shaxs vs. Ensign Brad Boimler: poll here

Ensign Beckett Mariner vs. Ensign D’Vana Tendi: poll here

Finals:

Ensign Brad Boimler vs. Ensign Beckett Mariner: poll here

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ROUND 1 SUMMARY POST

LEFT DIVISION

Benjamin Sisko vs Degra

Tom Paris vs Salamander Tom Paris

M'Benga vs Trip Tucker

Miles O'Brien vs Henry Archer

Damar vs Martok

Q vs Alonzo Freeman

Sarek vs Jack Crusher

Rom vs Voq

RIGHT DIVISION

Gul Dukat vs Joseph Sisko

Kirk vs Sulu

Geordi La Forge vs Enabran Tain

Tuvok vs The Diviner

Thy'lek Shran vs Sergey Rozhenko

Data vs Duras

EMH vs Noonian Soong

Worf vs Culluh

Go check out the next round!

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