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astralbondpro · 6 months

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Star Trek: Discovery // S02E08: If Memory Serves

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whovianwatchingstartrek · 5 months

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A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 106 - Deep Cover within a Deep Cover

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1 Episode 11 - The Wolf Inside

We open this episode with a monologue from Michael about her time so far in the Empire universe, and how the constant need to watch her back is effecting her. Additionally, we find out that this universe's Saru is a slave, which is sad to see, but for this universe's standards should have been expected. Also the use of a transporter as a method of execution is absolutely brutal to see.

Michael has managed to obtain the information on the Defiant, however cracking the firewall from the Shenzhou is difficult, and sending it to Discovery would be noticed.

Unfortunately back on Discovery, our crew has discovered the death of Colbert, and their immediate assumption is that in his current state, Paul did it. Sylvia has an idea to cure Paul's condition however, and takes him down to the engineering lab. Her theory is that the Spore Network is simply using all of Paul's physical resources to keep the portal between the universes open, and that a fresh dose of spores might wake him up, and she puts this hypothesis to the test.

On the Shenzhou, Michael has been given the location of the leader of the Klingon rebellion, someone called "The Firewolf" and is ordered to kill him.

In a private conversation with Lorca, Michael reveals that she is really hopeful that this rebellion could lead to a Federation like entity if it wins. It's even made up of the same mix of species as the Federation founders, just substituting Klingons for Humans. She is reluctant to go through with her orders. Her plan is to beam into the Firewolf's camp with Ash to negotiate. The pair are captured immediately after appearing, and are taken to the firewolf.

Apparently Sarek is among the firewolf's camp, and they refer to him as "The Prophet". Sarek performs a mindmeld with Michael, and sees the memories from the Federation Universe, and he clears any doubt about Michael's intentions. Michael, looking for advice on how to help with the war in the Federation universe starts asking the Firewolf questions, however a lot of the Firewolf's answers start to trigger Ash's sleeper programming, and a sword fight ensues. Sarek manages to break it up however, and continues to vouch for Michael.

Meanwhile on Discovery, Sylvia's experiment is having a positive effect on Paul, and moving the stress on his brain to some of his other organs, however it then goes wrong, and medical staff have to step in to stabilise him, but he goes braindead, albiet only temporarily. Once Tilly is alone with him, we get to see Paul's perspective inside the spore network, and we're teased with him encountering his empire universe counterpart.

Back on Shenzhou, Ash finally confesses as much as he can about his current state to Michael, and he starts to remember his true past. Apparently, he is a Klingong that was molded into a human and given false memories to infiltrate discovery. More specifically, he is the Federation Universe's counterpart to the Firewolf. He attacks Michael to avenge T'Kuvma, but the Shenzhou crew apprehend him, and Michael orders to have him Transporter Executed. As he sufficates in Space though, Discovery transport him aboard, and turns out this was partially a ruse to get the Data on the Defiant to Discovery. We're then hit with a final blow of another ship appearing to destroy the Rebels themselves, and we're hit with another surprise that apparently the Emperor is Georgiou, something which I really wasn't expecting.

I'm liking this whole corruption arc for Michael, and I thought the Ash twist was fun. It was nice seeing more of this universe, but I wish we could have spent a bit more time fleshing out the Rebels. Good episode, but I think the previous one was a bit better. Still excited to see where this goes now that the Emperor is directly involved though.

#whovian watching star trek #star trek #star trek Discovery #Star Trek DIS #Star Trek DISCO #ST DIS #ST DISCO #DIS #st: disco #DISCO #st: discovery #Discovery #ST: DIS

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animentality · 5 months

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#star trek #tos #tng #st ds9 #ds9 #ent #voy #st disco #dis #lower decks #pic

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hensel-x · 1 year

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im something of an artist myself actually

#my art twitter completely fucking died #so here are some st sketches that flopped there #stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #billy hargrove #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #genderbend #jonathan byers is very gender and u know Im right

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jamestitskirk · 1 month

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spock erasing kirk's memory in 3x19 while he's asleep has so much implications. Is this the first time he's done so? If not, then how many other memories of kirk has he erased because kirk expressed wanting to forget? Is kirk the only person he erases the memories of?

#also gave sm content for dark!spock writers ahhahahahha #(me)#spock #james t kirk #st tos #star trek tos #star trek #srsly thp ahhhhh #like i remember reading how in the movies he talks that spock was the brother that died or something #DID HE ERASE SAM FROM KIRK #jk t hats a stretch #but like srsly so much implicationnsss #myposts #spirk

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tomatoart · 7 months

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it ate my soul and left my body

#trigun #vash the stampede #millions knives #trigun 1998 #vash #knives #I just think the death of their harmony together is so interesting that it’s like . as if a whole person died #tearing each other apart from being one but it doesn’t erase being connected.. or something symbolic like that idk I tried to convey that #also plantc*st freaks get the fuck off my shit LOL I hate you it’s not for u!!!!!#their relationship as brothers is so important to me I really love it dearly heee heee… *breaks all my bones* ok #also caption is Float On by good tiger I love their music . lol HI. ok bye #no new color work i forgor to touch them all up

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tanuki-kimono · 5 months

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Luscious gold & silver foils for this modern obi depicting the Basilica di San Marco on St Mark's Square in Serenissima Venice (poke @mafaldinablabla 🦁)

#japan #fashion #kimono #modern kimono #obi #Venice #Basilica di San Marco #St Mark's Square #Piazza san Marco #着物 #帯

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frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe · 1 year

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steve dying in robins arms, comforting and consoling her with: “Hey, hey, it’s okay Bobs, I’ll be okay. Ed—Eddie’s here an—“ he cuts himself off with bloody cough and a rattling breathy laugh, looking over her shoulder. “Eddie’s here, Rob, says ‘I gotcha now, big boy.’. It’s okay, he’s got me, you can let me go. I love you, Robin, you can let me—“

and then he’s gone.

#fuck i almost made myself cry with this #steve harrington dies in the end #steve harrington #robin buckley #eddie munson #steddie #death cw #st #st s5 #stranger things #stranger things s5 #mine #1000 #platonic stobin #two otters holding hands fr

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illustratus · 25 days

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Lucrezia Borgia by Pinturicchio

Detail from the Disputation of St Catherine of Alexandria

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yonemurishiroku · 3 months

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Isn't it exhilarating? That Percy and Nico both care for each other but neither can realize that, the same way neither can deliver said care transparently.

#doomed friendship my love #they both know this is going no where but they persist. they both know they must have done st wrong #but neither can bring it back on the right track. They just followed their own ideas and struggled with the meaning #that only makes them angrier. angry at the situation. at the other. at themselves #isn't it infuriating? to know that there's a problem but be unable to solve it?#percy jackson #nico di angelo #yone rambling #pjo #hoo #toa #heroes of olympus #percy jackson and the olympians #over analyzing

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astralbondpro · 6 months

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Before I started watching Star Trek Discovery, the number one thing I heard people dunking on was the spore drive, and the mycelium network.

Before I ever knew anything about Discovery, I had watched a lot of documentaries on, and read a fare bit of fungi related materials. Within the material appeared the real Paul Stamets (mycologist), and I was very interested in everything I was seeing. More specifically the science of it all, while the medical properties of such is wait and see.

Needless to say, when the spore drive and the mycelium network showed up in Star Trek, I thought it was one of the coolest things Star Trek has ever done. I still do. I don't give a shit what anyone else has to say about it, it's an amazing piece of science fiction to me. And I won't defend it, because there is no need to defend harmless fiction you enjoy.

You're fine with subspace, but think the mycelium network in space is unrealistic? Make it make sense.

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whovianwatchingstartrek · 4 months

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A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 110 - Under the Command of Evil Georgiou

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1 Episode 15 - Will You Take My Hand?

Okay, We're now onto the Season 1 Finale of Discovery! I'm excited to see how we end this season out!

We open aboard Discovery with making quoting something about the nature of feart, and unfortunately I don't recognise it, so I'm just left with the Foreboding nature of the passage.

This Georgiou's command style is immediately noticeably Terran. I loved how tense the Bridge was during the opening sequence. Her absolute disdain for the Klingons, Saru, and later in the episode Ash Tyler, pushes all of the right buttons in my head, and I can't wait for her to get her comeuppance. She makes a few veiled references to how she eats Kelpians towards Saru, and it just made my skin crawl, and so did her calling Ash an "it" later on. Unfortunately however, there is not much the crew can do for now, as she's the only one who fully knows the plan.

After the intro Georgiou and Michael interrogate L'Rell about which landing site would be best for discovery. Of Course L'Rell doesn't talk, which launches Georgiou into a much more brutal method of getting the information out of her. That doesn't work either, and Michael calls that to a stop. I'm really glad that Michael is starting to realise that maybe this isn't the way to go. Michael then takes Georgiou to Ash, and since he has Voq's memories, he willingly gives over the information they want. We also get a bit of worldbuilding about Klingon history, just a bit about Kahless and how he defeated someone called Molor, who the Klingons seemed to have worshipped in a similar way to how they worship Kahless now. I really want to know more this, and I'm trying to piece together their culture from the little scraps I'm being given.

This episode from the get go is clearly about the clear difference between Imperial tactics and Federation Tactics, and whether or not the ends justify the means when it comes to Georgiou's brutality.

This episode is putting in a lot of work to undo the mistakes of the last few episodes surrounding Georgiou, and I am 100% here for it. The last couple episodes tried to make her too sympathetic, when she is a fascist dictator, but here she is written and portrayed in such a creepy slimey way, and it's definetly what they should have been doing from the get go. I've already mentioned her racism, but also in the way she interacts with the human crew. Her various threats towards Michael, and just general attitude towards Sylvia Tilly gives me shivers, and in this episode alone I think she's earned a spot among my favourite villains so far.

Discovery Makes it's jump into the caves of Kronos, and the ground crew, made up of Michael, Ash Sylvia and Georgiou exit into an Orion market to try and get the location of this shrine.

On a side note, the more even split among male and female Orion slaves makes the whole idea feel a lot less behind-the-scenes slimy than the Orions did in Enterprise, thankfully. Here it feels slimy in a way where it feels like it's supposed to feel slimy, and not just... whatever Enterprise was doing in it's Orion focus episode. Also I'm not going to pretend like the eye-candy isn't appreciated in my bisexual brain, it feels a lot less uncomfortable when it doesn't feel like exploitation.

Amongst the chaos of the market, we get a few good downtime scenes, particularly of Sylvia being an absolute fish out of water, and a really well written heart to heart between Ash and Michael, where we finally get the full details of what happened to Michael's Bio-parents. Her survivor's guilt over this trauma is an interesting angle, and the detail of her memory over her trauma is something I really want to see explored in the future, and it really adds a interesting layer with her relationship with Ash.

Tilly finds out that the Drone she's guarding isn't a drone, but a planet cracking bomb designed to make the planet uninhabitable, and unfortunately Georgiou has moved too fast for Discovery to do anything.

Thankfully, Discovery manages to talk Starfleet out of the plan, and fromt here it's just a matter of sending in Michael to convince Georgiou to stop, which turned out easier than expected. Discovery hands the Detonator over to L'Rell, and convinces her to step up as the Klingons leader, and end the war. Ash choses to go with him, meaning we'll need a new chief of Security again. His goodbye to Michael . Georgiou is then let free, and I'm hoping we'll see her again sooner rather than later, because she still has a lot fascisty stuff to answer for.

Michael's speech at the end as she obtains her official pardon, and the crew get their official commendations, was also a fantastic way to cap off the season. We're also given an absolute shocker of a cliffhanger, as Discovery picks up a distress call from the Enterprise, so I can't wait to see what that's about!

I really liked this finale. I was shaky going into it with how the previous episodes were treating Georgiou, but this more than made up for it. It really capped of the whole methods vs results theme the season was going for, and it was just generally fun. I enjoyed myself here.

I have a couple Short Treks which I'll cover in one post tomorrow, and then immediately onto Season 2!

#whovian watching star trek #star trek #star trek Discovery #Star Trek DIS #Star Trek DISCO #ST DIS #ST DISCO #DIS #st: disco #DISCO #st: discovery #Discovery #ST: DIS

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mioritic · 10 months

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Giotto (ca. 1267-1337)

"St. Francis' sermon to the birds", detail panel from "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata", ca. 1295-1300

#giotto #giotto di bondone #1295 #st. francis

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carnis-insanis · 11 months

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>mom dies in brutal dog attack

>her last words are "trust no cat"

>decides to trust a cat anyway

>gets the living shit beaten out of me

#hello #ik that st's design is extra but im tired of boring ass tabbies #he has such a cool name tho #if frostpaw dies i die #eyestrain #cw eyestrain #frostpaw #splashtail #the starless clan #the starless clan spoilers #spoilers #my art

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miramelindamusings · 10 months

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I've been so busy with my new job that I haven't posted in a while. But I try to do little sketches as warm ups and so these random sketches of the boys were born :) ! I was watching Toy Story and seeing Woody's lanky arms flopping around made me think of Steve and then this happened! And of course, harringrove kisses are good for the soul.

#harringrove #steve harrington #billy hargrove #stranger things #st #my art #my fanart #I am intrigued by like a toy AU though that's not necessarily Toy Story -- like what if like Steve is Dustin's toy and Billy is Max's #and the toy takes on the appearance of Billy her brother who ran away/died #and what sort of toys would everyone be anyway? I feel like Chrissy would be a barbie/porcelain toy but can't say for everyone else.#anyways I have to give it more thought XD

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crackfairy777 · 8 days

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remember that slow progress is better than no progress

#eating dis #anor3c1a #pro an@#anoresick #starv1ng #starv3 #s⭐️ving #thinspø #st@rving #thigh g4p

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