#any borges icons

[quasi-normalcy]

Basically I think that the Borg will never be scary again in much the same way that, say, the Daleks, or Godzilla, or Dracula, will never been scary again. They’ve become much too iconic for that. And, in any case, all popular monsters are really just proxies for some other anxiety that’s current in society at the time of their first appearance. The Borg’s first appearance was in the late 80s and very much was a riff on the sudden appearance and proliferation of personal computers. Obviously, computerization is still going on, but the metaphors we use to talk about it have all gone stale, and younger generations grew up with it so it just becomes natural. The drawer full of babies with implants on their brains will never hold the same horror for kids who grew up with smartphones.

[maggotsandcream]

I'd forgotten until I rewatched it just now that the first sign the Federation had that anyone onboard Voyager was still alive was when their newly adopted Borg crewmate hijacked alien insterstellar wifi to send their hologram doctor (who wasn't even supposed to be sentient or have any capabilities beyond assisting Voyager's deceased since the pilot chief medical officer in emergencies) to a top secret prototype ship whose entire crew had been killed and ship stolen. And then proceeded to take back the ship with another medical hologram meanwhile convincing him that things like going outside, fighting for your civil rights, espionage, and having sex are all things the other hologram (still not even recognized by Star Fleet as a person) should totally try out since he's had such fun doing them himself, telling Star Fleet Command about all the shenanigans Voyager has gotten up to, and then zipping back across the galaxy on the hijacked space wifi.

It's a genuinely fun episode and honestly very iconic of them. It's easy to see how even in universe Voyager has a reputation for being wild considering this was how they chose to make their we're still alive declaration.

#star trek voyager #star trek

[leighlew3]

For some reason I couldn’t send the link of this post but I could download the picture and send it (hopefully)

This is what I was references in that ask to you lol

Ah. And... yeah. A painful and unnecessary creative choice.

Look, overall I'm loving Picard, despite quite a few issues with some creative choices and contradictions, because this nostalgia is incredible and so appreciated and being able to witness these characters in action again has been WONDERFUL.

That being said... well, I'm about to launch into a ramble.

Buckle up, and keep reading if you'd like...

Picard had an ICONIC legacy female character in an interracial wlw relationship with a dynamic new Black female character -- both women over the age of 50 no less, an amazing thing to explore on screen -- and it worked. And so many fans loved it and felt represented and thrilled to kingdom come. And it fit with the Star Trek brand of inclusion and acceptance in a modern society. It also made Voyager fans of 25 years feel vindicated and seen, having Seven not only confirmed as sapphic, but actually exploring it on screen and finding love, even if a "happy ending" for Seven was never in the cards for many reasons, they could have explored why instead of just sweeping it under the rug off screen and reducing it to one awkward glance between them, a joke from Worf, and that was it. Seven and Raffi deserved better. Queer fans deserved better.

Alas, they tossed it in the trash for no valid reason at all, and at the worst possible time in our current social and political landscape of an outdated and frighteningly dangerous resurgence of homophobia, transphobia, etc. Life imitates art, and art imitates life. And thus, now we see conservative-run media companies catering again to the vocal, hateful little groups and extremist far right fear mongers. There is a very obvious bias of late again against LGBTQ content (especially wlw due to the frightening rise in misogyny yet again lately) across nearly every channel and streamer and studio.

For that matter, even beyond LGBTQ stories, there's also a significant reduction in the exploration of ANY sexuality on screen across the board lately, even for cishet couples. We somehow went from Hollywood being absurdly and unfairly exploitive towards women and putting actors in uncomfortable and unnecessary situations, to some sort of bizarre, puritanical, utterly sexless exploration of romance on screen. And even a reduction of romance entirely in many cases, for that matter. We went from one extreme to the other, and it's absolutely nuts.

Anyway, back on the topic of Picard, the two actresses who previously were captains of the ship and ALL about the pairing have since seemingly now had to backtrack, make excuses for this bizarre decision, or just not speak on it at all. And that's beyond sad.

And again, it makes me concerned that if Seven does get her own spin-off or is a part of a new spin-off again, they'd likely not include Raffi nor explore Seven being with women further. Which would just be LITERALLY going backwards in time to the days of Voyager where many (not all) straight male fans tried to claim her as theirs and theirs alone while reducing her to just "the hot Borg in a cat suit" even though everyone else knew she was three dimensional as hell, one of the best written and acted characters in franchise history, and inherently representative of the LGBTQ community.

Anyway, I really really hope they prove me wrong and Saffi get a satisfying ending in this show, and if nothing else, even if they don't have a future together in other series, any other shows at least continue to embrace Seven's pansexuality. It's important.

Alas right now my trust in creatives in the TV space who are under the pressures of conservative-run media conglomerates... is limited. Even once seeming allies are showing sides to themselves lately that are... concerning, to say the least. People who previously would tell incels to F' off, and weren't afraid to stand up to and block phobes on Twitter are now blocking queer fans for just asking "WTF?" about queer favorites being sidelined or ships being tossed in the trash. People who previously seemed to truly see and value queer fans are now bordering on just using them for clicks and stringing them along on likely hopeless efforts regarding show survival. And people who actually do mean well and usually stand up loud and strong for LGBTQ audiences are suddenly growing very, very quiet if not even in some cases TURNING on their queer fans entirely as TPTB remove more and more wlw content from airwaves and streamer services.

It's all very disheartening. As a writer who has had this conversation so often with producers and executives, I GET IT. The fight is NOT an easy one. And most the time inclusion efforts are flat out shot down. But it feels like so few people are walking the talk anymore. People who capitalized heavily on LGBTQ characters and ships and fans for a few years when it was hot are now turning their backs when the going has gotten rough. And that's frustrating for us all.

But, the good news: these things are often cyclical. So if everybody can hang in there, stay strong, and fight the good fight online and IRL, rock the VOTE, etc and drown out the hateful voices that want the LGBTQ community silenced or worse, then I believe we can set (or force, in many cases) the misguided, fearful, extremist-rightwing-catering media companies back to the proper side of history.

#picard #star trek picard #seven x raffi #saffi #seven of nine #star trek #lgbtq #representation matters

[apenitentialprayer]

Left: detail of an icon of Jesus's Palm Sunday Procession. Right: detail of a 1791 replication of a bas relief of the Triumph of Titus

[T]his demonstration harbored a dangerous message that would lead to Jesus's public execution by the end of the week. The way Jesus entered Jerusalem at the beginning of Passover week was a strategically organized demonstration. Jesus's entire ministry was headed toward Jerusalem. Every time he had to leave a large crowd of sick people begging to be healed, it was because his journey was aimed toward Jerusalem. Word of Jesus's message had already spread to Jews in Jerusalem, and they were prepared to participate in these planned demonstrations. Mark 11 tells us that when Jesus and his disciples were approaching Jerusalem, he told two of his disciples, "Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' just say this, 'The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.'" We don't know who was assigned to tie up the colt at the entrance, but taking the colt communicated to the crowds waiting in Jerusalem that Jesus was about to arrive. From the Mount of Olives, Jesus entered through the east entrance of Jerusalem on the colt while a crowd surrounded him, preparing the road for Jesus by spreading their cloaks and "leafy branches that they had cut in the fields" on the ground. And they shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" This deliberate sequence of actions was a symbolic reenactment of the prophecy of Zechariah. Zechariah 9:9 says, "Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey." Matthew even directly quotes the verse in his account. This was a purposefully timed demonstration that would also remind people of the next verse in Zechariah 9: "He will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war-horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth." Although the gospel accounts do not report this detail, we know that the Roman governor Pontius Pilate arrived in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Passover Week as well. First-century Jewish historian Josephus wrote that during every Passover, Pontius Pilate and a legion of Roman soldiers spent the week in Jerusalem because of an increased chance of an uprising as Jews celebrated the event of the Exodus. The Romans wanted to make sure nobody got any dangerous ideas as they recounted God's attack on Egypt and the liberation of the Israelites. So as Jesus humbly entered Jerusalem from the east on a donkey, surrounded by a crowd of peasants and leafy branches, Pontius Pilate was likely entering Jerusalem from the west on a chariot led by a war horse, surrounded by a legion of Roman soldiers with armor and deadly weaponry. In their book on Jesus's last week in Jerusalem, John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg point out, "What we often call Jesus's triumphal entry was actually an anti-imperial, anti-triumphal one, a deliberate lampoon of the conquering emperor entering a city on horseback through gates open in abject submission. The symbolism is packed with meaning for the lives of those in the crowd surrounding Jesus. This demonstration exposed two warring kingdoms: the kingdom of Rome, with the power and weapons on their side, and the kingdom of God with the people on their side, desperate for liberation.

Damon Garcia (The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus, pages 146-148). Bolded emphases added.

#Christianity #Jesus Christ #Kingdom of God #The World #Palm Sunday #peace #war #imperialism #Pontius Pilate #symbolism #Gospel of Mark #Book of Zechariah

[isagrimorie]

There’s been recent discussions on reddit about each Captain’s questionable decisions and actions. And, of course, the Tuvix thing keeps getting brought up, I wouldn’t be so annoyed with it, if everyone and their brother hasn’t been consistently beating on a dead horse about Tuvix. Or Janeway’s deal with the borg, or the Equinox thing. Or the Caretaker thing.

But one thing I don’t think isn’t discussed as much is Sisko’s actions after he went after Eddington.

I love Sisko, he’s Top 5 Trek Captains for me but that was such a dubious thing to do and on rewatch I was so shocked that the show tried to frame Sisko launching a biogenic weapon at a planet as a good thing.

Sisko and Jadzia even laugh about it after, robbing the whole action and implications of that actions.

I don’t want to do this Captain is Better than This Captain, and Fandom’s reactions to Sisko were also terrible when it first aired but also IMO poisoning an entire planet just because it housed Maquis was not great. (And the story tried to soften the blow by saying it just means the Humans and Cardassians just exchanged planets).

IMO, this also led to making it seem that Starfleet condoned this actions and Kira, of all people, was okay with it.

I think the story would have been better served if they ended the story showing that it also took a toll on Sisko. SISKO POISONED A GODDAMNED PLANET THAT WAS HOME TO A LOT OF MAQUIS.

I guarantee if Janeway had done this, we would have heard nothing but years of Psycho!Janeway.

I’m not a fan of Eddington but he also made it a point that no Starfleet crew they engaged were seriously injured. Humiliated and bruised but not dead or dying. The response was not proportional.

Fans and fandom had this narrative that Janeway never reaped the consequences of her actions when she almost always did. It went to the point that Peter David had Janeway killed and turned into a Borg Queen because of ‘Hubris’ in the Trek Litverse.

When Janeway died in the Litverse there was this overwhelming tone of ‘ding dong the witch is dead’ that was so noxious and that Beta canon validated them…

It was just terrible all around. I’m a huge fan of Sisko but the way the episode didn’t do Sisko any favors but Sisko also had a benefit of serialized format and epic arcs to bolster his reputation.

Meanwhile, the writers put Janeway in interesting situations where she’s pushed into making decisions and fandom would run Janeway over coals over it.

Sisko and Janeway are both interesting Captains placed in a pressure cooker and they responded to the best of their abilities and frankly, a lot better than most characters would have. Their flaws and foibles are what make them interesting, as well as their ability to stand by their decisions, for good or ill. They are cut from the same cloth, IMO.

The difference lies in the fandom reaction, this is why I’m glad in the past few years Voyager and Janeway are getting a second look. Sisko is already a beloved icon within fandom, now we just need to get liveaction Trek to get them on board*.

(*I know its an unpopular opinion but I feel the mentions in Picard s3 was a good start in liveaction, hooking the changeling into the larger plot of Trekverse and showing a photo of Odo. But I wish to have them overtly in the next few projects.)

#star trek #thinky thoughts #benjamin sisko #kathryn janeway

[dgcatanisiri]

A thought in regards to the conclusion of things with the Borg in the finale.

I get that one of the central ideas here seems to be "the Borg are finished," y'know, giving Picard his last big confrontation with the Queen, having a last big face off, the Queen talking like the Borg have been broken apart and the Collective shattered, that sort.

The thing about that for me though... Gee, that sure sounds like how Endgame handled things too, by having the Unicomplex, implied to be a major Borg hub, blow up and the Alice Krige Borg Queen (instead of Susanna Thompson's) get this distinctive death... Especially with 24th century wrapping for the then-foreseeable future, that seemed to be a note of "this concludes the Borg."

Basically, I view the Borg very much as like trying to wipe out an infestation of ants - sure, you can easily take out a lot of them at once, but it's very difficult to destroy them all. And if one escapes, that one can rebuild.

So for any talk of "the Borg are done"... I don't buy it. Especially with the Borg being such an iconic enemy in Trek. When someone decides they really want to tell a Borg story again (and I don't just mean putting it in some earlier time frame), they'll be back. I mean, if the Star Trek Legacy idea gets off the ground, I think having Captain Seven of Nine dealing with the Ghost of Assimilated Past will inevitably come up somewhere along the line. Or, hell, if the Borg are still something that, some eight hundred-ish years later are the first example of a collective species that come to the mind of President Rillak in the season four finale of Discovery, then there is SOMETHING about them that survived this encounter to later hound the Federation.

Like I can already come up with a handwave about how the Borg could have survived this encounter, and I haven't even had twenty-four hours to think it over.

I'm not being down on Picard or the writers about this, for the record. Honestly, I think the primary idea that seems to be in play here of "with Picard ending and giving resolution to his issues, of which the Borg and his assimilation are a major one, let's also wrap up the Borg in general and take them off the board for the time being." Y'know the Borg have been a double-edged sword in the Star Trek writing quiver since their introduction - they are such an implacable and unyielding enemy, that they're honestly difficult to write without defanging them. you have to continuously outsmart them, which is very difficult to pull off without losing their menace entirely as a result or you risk just keep writing an increasing escalation of the threat, an escalation that ends up being increasingly ludicrous that they're doing THIS now.

So if the intent is to have the Borg off the table for at least the time being, I'm honestly okay with that. But I don't for a second believe that the Borg are gone for good.

Also there WAS that Borg kid in the classroom that established that O'Brien got a statue, though you could easily just say they were from Jurati's Collective.

#dg rambles #star trek #star trek picard #star trek picard spoilers

[crawlthesky]

BAKUTEN SHOOT BEYBLADE  Screencaps

source: DVD rip resolution: 832x624 file type: .jpg (batch-converted from .png) image count / file size: Overall: 29,517 screencaps / 6.6GB Individual: see the read more

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♥ “Why are there virtually no screencaps for episode 29?” Because it’s a recap episode, and I refuse to screencap the entirety of a recap episode. I refuse!!! ♥ If you have any problems with the download links, let me know, and I’ll toss you an alternate link or split them smaller or something. ♥ Have fun making a buttload of icons or edits or whatever.

Eyecatches → 18 screencaps / 3MB Title Cards → 51 screencaps / 16MB

01: Explosive Battle! Go Shoot! → 683 screencaps / 161MB 02: Howl Seiryuu! The Birth of Dragoon! → 612 screencaps / 132MB 03: A New Friend, His Name is Max → 703 screencaps / 156MB 04: Opening! Battle Tournament → 469 screencaps / 103MB 05: Crash! Max vs. Kai → 462 screencaps / 102MB 06: Sweep! Dragoon Storm → 508 screencaps / 111MB 07: Takao vs. Kai, Confrontation of Fate → 545 screencaps / 129MB 08: Formation! BBA Team to the World → 655 screencaps / 149MB 09: A New Holy Beast, the White Tiger Family → 501 screencaps / 114MB 10: Run Up There! The Asian Tournament → 498 screencaps / 109MB 11: Rei, The White Tiger is Lost! → 533 screencaps / 93MB 12: Goodbye, BBA Team! → 542 screencaps / 124MB 13: Cry Out Rei! Howl White Tiger! → 647 screencaps / 139MB 14: Defaults? A BBA Team Division → 576 screencaps / 132MB 15: A Battle to the Finish! For the Top of Asia! → 688 screencaps / 146MB 16: White Tiger vs. Mountain Cat → 467 screencaps / 109MB 17: Final Battle! Jet-Black Lightning → 656 screencaps / 136MB 18: He is Defeated! Small Blader → 530 screencaps / 125MB 19: Landing, a New Battlefield! → 601 screencaps / 142MB 20: The Shivering American Power → 666 screencaps / 159MB 21: Intensive Training! Seeking New Battle Power! → 482 screencaps / 131MB 22: President vs. Worldwide Selection → 810 screencaps / 196MB 23: Opening! American Tournament → 613 screencaps / 146MB 24: American Hero Michael’s Power → 613 screencaps / 136MB 25: Semi-Final, Super High-Speed Circuit! → 655 screencaps / 153MB 26: Crash! The American Tournament Final → 438 screencaps / 104MB 27: The Hot, Scorching Scorpion → 405 screencaps / 93MB 28: Conclusion! The American Tournament → 466 screencaps / 105MB 29: BBA: What’s Left After the Heated Battle → 49 screencaps / 10MB 30: The One Who Follows the Holy Beast → 643 screencaps / 149MB 31: Going on a Journey to Europe, and a Disturbance → 546 screencaps / 120MB 32: Assault! Bladers of Darkness! → 689 screencaps / 138MB 33: The Corps of Black Shadow → 549 screencaps / 115MB 34: The Gorgeous Holy Beast → 616 screencaps / 148MB 35: Duel in the Coliseum → 573 screencaps / 133MB 36: Crush It! Anpisbainer → 642 screencaps / 163MB 37: Blader for the Queen → 614 screencaps / 141MB 38: Formation! The Strongest European Team → 724 screencaps / 173MB 39: Decide! Power to Victory → 689 screencaps / 165MB 40: Deciding Area Russia → 647 screencaps / 152MB 41: Here It Comes! The Door of Memory → 701 screencaps / 185MB 42: The Person Who Desires the Strongest → 516 screencaps / 114MB 43: The Nightmare Ceremony Match → 582 screencaps / 139MB 44: Goodbye, Kai! → 554 screencaps / 128MB 45: Duel at Baikal Lake → 626 screencaps / 143MB 46: Borg Invasion! → 562 screencaps / 134MB 47: Meeting Again! European Team → 581 screencaps / 148MB 48: Kai’s Selection → 549 screencaps / 129MB 49: Scream of the White Tiger → 596 screencaps / 141MB 50: The Snowfield of Revelations → 524 screencaps / 122MB 51: BeyBlade Eternally → 652 screencaps / 144MB

#beyblade #bakuten shoot beyblade #ベイブレード #my screencaps #the only digimon stuff i have left at the moment is ghost game catch up #so have the beginnings of a project i've been working on in the background for the last ~3 years

[nonstandardrepertoire]

i think for me the scene that really defines the failure of season 3 of Picard is the scene where Picard and Crusher have Vadic in custody and have i guess finished interrogating her and then go off to the side a little bit and are like "so do we just kill her now? i think we just kill her now?" and at first you're like "haha this is a tactic to get inside Vadic's head and shake some more information out, right?" but then no they are actually just deciding to summarily execute a prisoner of war that they have in captivity and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh has anyone writing this show watched a single episode of a single Star Trek at any point? oh no they only watched "Tuvix" didn't they, i guess that explains it

anyway, further thoughts:

but seriously, folks, one of Picard's defining character traits is that he sticks to principle even when it is morally questionable to do so. an asteroid is on a collision course with a pre-warp society? Prime Directive means there's nothing we can do, we just gotta stand by and watch them perish. a treaty requires forcibly relocating a bunch of space!Native Americans? gosh, that's rough, he hopes they can convince them to leave voluntarily, but he's not just going to Not abide by a treaty

Crusher, likewise, is very strongly committed to preserving life. she gets kidnapped by terrorists at one point and is like "yes, sure, they have blown up a bunch of civilians but also, consider, they need medical attention, so i'm going to give it to them"

so to have?? these two specifically be like "time to execute a prisoner without trial!" is???????? i do not believe it of them. these are not the characters i care about from The Next Generation. they simply?? are not????? and this scene doesn't play as a like, "holy shit this is fucked up can you believe this war crime these people are about to commit what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck something has gone Wrong here Yikes", instead it feels like it's treated as more of a "haha, yeah, Star Trek is gritty and edgy now B)", which. why any of this. what are we doing here. i would like to be somewhere else

In General, tho, it feels like basically every other TNG character except for Worf and Data and Geordi sometimes is just. wildly off the mark? i simply Do Not Believe that Riker is that terrible a father and family man? S3 feels like it has given up any pretense of doing anything original and collapsed entirely into TNG nostalgia, but then it also insists on mangling every single legacy character it brings back, so like, again, what are we doing here. why any of this

further on the collapse into nostalgia and giving up on any premise of original ideas: what the heck happened to literally anything set up in the season 2 finale. we have an entirely new kind of Borg petitioning for entry into the Federation. we have a Big Mysterious Portal that shoots Destruction Beams just. floating in/near Federation space. none of this is ever mentioned again! i guess Jurati is still just. vibing

this is like, the fourth or fifth Definitely Final End To The Borg For Real This Time we've had, and like. i get that they are iconic TNG villains, but also bringing them back like this continues to feel So stale. please i am begging you: have a single new idea it has been 30 years

adding to the sense of Giving Up, thematically this season feels all over the fucking map. like, on the one hand: Vadic was a prisoner of war tortured in a black site by Federation scientists and now out for revenge. this has a lot of potential for a plot that is about chickens coming home to roost. the Federation made some really questionable choices during the Dominion War, and now they have to deal with the consequences of their own cruelty and destructiveness. that's an interesting set of themes! it doevetails kind of nicely with Picard having a kid he didn't know about with Crusher, and now they both have to Deal With That since fate has pushed them back together. but then it . . . switches to being a plot about The Borg Trying To Assimilate The Federation Again, which isn't at all about consequences of bad choices and is instead about "there's an evil sneaky outside force trying to destroy us because they're eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil and we have to be Strong and Vigilant against them". what are we doing here!!!!!!!

similarly, the alliance between the Borg and the Dominion (? or just the sect of rogue Changelings? the geopolitics of this is a little unclear to me, ngl) is strategically unclear to me. why do the Changelings need the Borg for this plan? it doesn't seem like they have a shortage of operatives, and it's hard for me to believe that the Borg would . . . share power? and not just try to assimilate or destroy the Changelings once the Federation is out of the way (and i don't get the sense that the Changelings are naive enough to not know that). again, what are we doing here

when Section 31 is introduced in DS9, it's clearly a shadowy operation that almost no one knows about, and even fewer will acknowledge. now, it seems like literally everyone not just knows what Section 31 is, but is also like "oh, their secret base? yeah totally, it's right over there, i have the schematics and a good understanding of the security system". are they a secret unit that calls into question the entire moral foundation of the Federation, or are they a known branch that everybody just accepts? these are different things!!!!!!!!!!

what the fuck is going on with Raffi Musiker. the show seems to want her both to be an unstable drug addict with a checkered past and a fraught relationship with Starfleet Command (cool, great, love this for the most prominent Black woman in the cast /SARCASM) but also a highly decorated officer in good standing entrusted with sensitive and delicate missions who has done no wrong. she is both paranoid and delusional and also right about every single conspiracy she imagines. it doesn't feel like she's doing well in her career despite considerable mental health challenges, it just feels like her standing flip flops wildly depending on the needs of the plot in a given scene

also like, idk, but i feel like finding out that the family member who abandoned all of their obligations to you for years and years and years in pursuit of a conspiracy theory was right about that conspiracy theory doesn't like? immediately and miraculously make up for the . . . abandonment? i just struggle with turning from "quite frankly we never want to hear from you again because we are so hurt by how you treated us vs your obsessions" to "wow wait you're decorated because your obsessions were correct? that's so cool, please come be our Cool Relative now" on a dime

why is Picard still blanket recommending Starfleet this place clearly has severe organizational and philosophical issues what are we doing why are we doing this

this is really not limited to this show, but it just Grates on me that in the first episode we see an entire large city building destroyed and while we're told that it's a great tragedy, we never really? get to feel the weight of it. like, all of those people died, and their deaths literally do not matter on an emotional level. we are not asked to sit with the grief of this destruction. it is solely there to inspire Raffi's guilt and prove that the Big Bad means business. just a very callous approach to life that i am noticing more and more in media — you see it also in Crusher just straight-up killing a guy in the opening scene — and that always makes me think about that Le Guin quote where she talks about heroes using exactly the same methods as villains and that being something that should perhaps trouble us morally more than it often does

i just don't understand how you can do an arc involving the Borg Queen and not?? address the New Borg Queen you made in the past season with her New Borg Collective. has Jurati always been The Borg Queen in this new timeline, or has she just been . . . secretly out there doing Borg stuff entirely unrelated to the main collective? how do any of these pieces fit together oh wait they don't this show hates itself and does not want you to have watched it

i'm sure that's not Actually everything but im Tired and i have Covid im going to Bed goodBYE

#why is this show so bad #i promise i am done now but like jesus christ what the fuck #a nostalgia trip but only for people who don't like the original #let's take a walk thru these here stars #star walk: the walkening #Picard S3 #please someone else tell me they didn't like this season #i feel like all the reviews are vapid boosterism and i am losing my g-ddamn mind

[dismemberment-on-a-tuesday-night]

LMNOP

This is all for the original 1960s/70s Dark Shadows television show because I have brainrot.

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.

Carolyn Stoddard may not be my favorite, but she's a NPD/HPD icon.

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

Victoria Winters. Only sane bitch in this show. If not her, then Julia Hoffman. Not because she's sane, but because she's a mad scientist and would be very interesting to talk to.

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom.

People should stop caring about the shitty Tim Burton parody and actually watch the original show. (Or at least an arc or two, it's a beast)

Can we talk more about the pre-Barnabas stuff? I love that leech as much as the next vampire enthusiasts, but I wanna talk about Bill Malloy goddammit.

More of Barnabas Collins being David's weird uncle and allowing him to indulge in his bizarre interests. I wanted more of this in actual canon too.

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

Jenny Was a Friend of Mine is so so Barnabas Collins and Maggie Evans. Not that I ship them. I don't ship people. But it reminds me of their relationship.

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom.

The thing about Dark Shadows is that coming up with AUs is super difficult because it is in of itself comprised of multiple AUs. The show writers really really liked rewriting classic monster stories with their characters slapped over it.

The most glaring example is the Barnabas Collins & Maggie Evans plot line being almost copied and pasted from Dracula & Lucy Westenra in Dracula. There are many other examples, and it's one of the best aspects of the show.

But that being said, there is so much fucking time travel in the later seasons that I want a Star Trek AU/crossover. There. I said it. We deserve to see Burke Devlin (pre defanging) insulting Q to his face. Or Victoria Winters helping Seven of Nine raise the ex-borg children. Or Sam Evans hanging out in Quark's bar with O'Brien. Or Liz Collins-Stoddard having coffee with Captain Janeway. The possibilities are endless.

-Abraham ♡♡♡

#Abraham original: Hot off the press #Dark Shadows #Dark Shadows 1966 #Gothic television #Star Trek #Victoria Winters #Barnabas Collins #Burke Devlin #Carolyn Stoddard #Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard #David Collins #Maggie Evans #Sam Evans #Bill Malloy #Ask

[flincher]

I'm gonna preface this by saying that I liked S1 and 2 of Picard. They were flawed seasons, yes, but I enjoyed them; I thought its titular character's arcs were interesting, if contrived, and I liked the new characters well enough to really feel their absence in the third season. They were good pieces of Trek, and I appreciate (most of) what they did and tried to do.

I find the third season to be in a similar boat. It isn’t hard to feel sad about losing almost all of the supporting cast of the first two seasons (though over time I’ve grown more forgiving of it). Similarly, it’s also hard not to feel apprehensive about a full-blown TNG reunion (They’re old! What story could you possibly tell?).

Now, though, having seen it… I think S3 is a pretty impressive feat.

I know. Big surprise coming from someone whose icon as of time of posting is Jack. But I like it and I stand by that.

It’s not perfect. There are plot points I don't agree with. I think it stretches out the Jack mystery a couple episodes too long for its own good. I lament how the changelings practically vanish in these last two episodes despite doing all the legwork to make the Borg plot possible. I squint at the way it's so noncommittal towards providing any definitive status about Picard and Beverly and Laris. And I think it goes headlong into luxurious fanservice a bit too much at times, main culprit being the museum scene.

But I like this season and I think it works primarily because on a thematic level, it understands itself really well.

Nowhere is this more evident than in their choice of villain. We have the changelings causing paranoia, and we have the Borg with their parasitic, twisted means of connection, both of them reminders of the sins of the past. And ultimately they're thwarted because the characters choose to open up to each other. Beverly and Picard, Troi and Riker, Ro and Picard, Geordi and Data, Data and Lore, Raffi and Worf, Picard and Jack—over the course of the season all of these permutations of characters open up and meaningfully connect with and learn to trust each other. On a plot level, these heart-to-hearts accomplish one of a myriad of functions (e.g. verifying that the other person isn’t a changeling, reclaiming a positronic matrix, convincing the other to return from an assimilation), but on an emotional one, that’s the way they move on from their pasts.

I'd even argue that it's great follow-through on where S2 leaves Jean-Luc! He sees this brash, roguish son of his, this man who outwardly echoes the young Picard we see in Tapestry and, with the added characterization of Picard S2, carries a similarly fatherless pain, along with the trauma of the Borg inherited by one generation from the last. “I know now I would never have been my father,” Jean-Luc says in the third episode, and he spends the rest of the season trying to prove this right. He chases after Jack. He reaches out, works on becoming a good dad. Patiently, he stays by Jack’s side at the end of it all, and in doing so, they save each other. It borrows a page from a certain other franchise, but I’ll let it slide.

Because I think this season argues that yes, you don’t choose who you’re born into, but loving them is a different matter entirely. All family is chosen family.

Maybe that’s a little too simple for Trek. But I think here, presented cohesively and as a culmination of Jean-Luc’s emotional arc through three seasons, it works. Season 3 of Picard isn’t the perfect conclusion to this show—far from it, what with how vastly different it is from the rest of it—but it’s a tremendous ending for the TNG cast and specifically Picard the character. I’m glad it exists.

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[hazel-of-sodor]

Bakers Dozen: Liscensed Ships I want in Star Trek Online

Welcome back to Bakers Dozen! This time we return to Star Trek Online ships, but instead of canon, its liscensed. Simply put, 12 ships (and one honorable mention) I want in STO, that aren’t canon, but appeared in an offical Star Trek Product (Books, Comics, Games, Ect.)

1.Premonition Class 

Hailing from Star Trek Armada, The U.S.S. Premonition went back in time to warn the Enterprise E of an impeding borg invasion. I never had the full game, but I played the demo countless times. Just look at her. She aleady looks like an Sto ship. One of the most iconic Star Trek Video games ships, I think she would be a great ship to appear in the current arc time/multiverse themed arc.

2.Yorktown Class (ENT Era)

Long before Captain Seven of Nine commanded the enterprise, and even long before STO. There was a Yorktown Class Starship in Star Trek Legacy. Star Trek legacy was the first star trek game I owned, and the Yorktown was a favorite of mine. The battleship to the NX Cruiser, the Yorktown was a powerhouse in the 22nd century. She’d need a new name, as the current Enterprise in STO is a very different Yorktown Class, but we could always use more Enterprise era ships.

3.Belknap/Ascension Class

Quite possibly my favorite TMP Era design (yes including the refit) The Belknap from  Ships of the Star Fleet Vol. 1 is the Constitution Refit’s smaller agile cousin. Stripped of diplomatic suites and scientic labratories, the Belknap posseses the Constituion’s firepower in a more compact and agile frame.

A “Dreadnoght” version exists, the Ascension class, but it’s literally a Belnap with the third nacelle of a Federation classs refit, maybe to give her longer warp sustainability?

4.Andor Class

This TMP era missle cruiser was introduced with FASA, and I loved this odd ball. I could see her functioning as a TMP era defiant, a small ship darting in with heavy torpedo fire. Also more TMP is always a win

5.Archer Class

Apperaing in the Star Trek Vangaurd Novels, this was a tiny tos scout ship, with only a crew of 14, and still didn’t have enough room for personal bunks. Incredibly fast and agile, she was too small for turbolifts, instead only having ladders.  Pls let me 1v1 a cube with this smol ship. Also TOS Ships are always a win.

6. Aegis Class

The U.S.S. Aegis is the hero ship of Star Trek Bridge Crew, and my god what a gorgeous ship. STO needs more Kelvin ships, and what better one than a proper Hero ship that has her own games, and looks this good?

7.Romulan Warbird, Unknown Class

This Stormbird (Romulan D7) esk dreadnought appeared in the DC Star Trek Comics in the 80s. Decades later, younger me would find the comics as a kid, and fall in love with this oship. Romulan TMP Warbird? Sign me up! Pls?

Also this comic has this awesome shot

8.USS Dorothy Garrod

From the IDW Dicovery Comic, this Federation science vessel looks cool. Thats it. Thats all I know. Discovery rep is always a win.

9.D-18 Gull Class

A Klingon ship from Fasa, this is a troop transport. Its weird and I love it. I had a fried who 3d prints move the neck to the top of the secondary hull and flip the bridge module upside down for a more traditional look, but I dont have any good pics of her on hand.

10. Chandley Class

Speaking of troop transports, The Chandley is perhaps Fasa’s most popular ship, and its not hard to see why. Maybe Sto, could give her a boarding console. 

11.Saladin/Hermes

Orginally appearing in the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, this ship has TOS and TMP varaints, as well as a Kelving timeline version from both the comics and Star Trek Fleet Command. Simple yet iconic, with so many flavors. Legendary Discovery Variant?

12.Insignia Class

This gorgeous ship originally was a fan design, then was included in the Ships of the Line calender. It later appeared in the TNG Waypoint comics as the ‘Chimer’ class...USS ENTERPRISE???

This version of the Enterprise served at the same time as the Enteprise E (ummmm?) and was commanded by Geordi La Forge.

The Chimer name sucks though. Insignia class is a way better name.

Honorable Mention:

Locknar class

Another Fasa Ship, this is an honorable mention bc it is kinda...maybe...canon?

In Lower Decks we she the USS Titan’s lineage wall...including what was confirmed to be a Locknar class USS Titan?

Yes I am a TOS/TMP nerd, how can you tell?

#star trek #star trek online #star trek starships #Hazel's Baker's Dozen

[nerdylittleguy]

OCTONAUTS AND STAR TREK AU

okay so before i go crazy and completely into what now consumes my life (transformers) i would like to show anyone who's out there something i mentioned - my octonauts and star trek crossover! it's basically a story where the crew of the octopod are actually star fleet officers who get stranded, due to some unknown stellar phenomenon, in the gamma quadrant, and very similarly to voyager, they have to make their own way back - it's a much shorter route, but they also end up running into the dominion, have lots of first contacts etc etc. i didn't think up much of the story part - yet?, only some of the beginning, perhaps up to being stranded in the gamma quadrant.

however, i did make some designs for characters etc using picrews! i couldn't be asked to draw much in those days. the maker is https://picrew.me/image_maker/608028 btw :)

i will write more ideas i have about the characters later in this post :)

first, barnacles!

kwazii!

peso: now, i had two designs - my first one ended up looking like a vulcan, but i wanted him to be a human character, so i redesigned it. then i realised that i hadn't designed any non-human characters, and started thinking about which characters could be vulcans, klingons etc, but then transformers snuck up on me... i think.

shellington:

dashi:

tweak: (not particularly fond of this design)

and inkling! he also got two designs.

huh. looks like he was an ex borg at some point... ugh, i do not remember :(

and here are my octonauts style drawings of them :)

but no matter how i reshuffled the crew, i'd always be one man short or in the wrong place! i couldn't have the vegimals running the security department??? they'd probably set the whole ship on fire!

enter my OC, Lotus! head of security :) she's very tired, her job is very demanding, especially when you're stuck in the gamma quadrant, but she loves the crew. my favourite animal is a fennec fox, so she's based off of those!

and now, for a little bit of context! what was going through my head??

there's a page from my diary/ notebook, detailing some of my ideas if you can read my handwriting... the idea was that their ship would still be called 'the explorer', formally, but is known to its crew as the octopod due to the large domes on the saucer section of the ship. as a matter of fact, i'd always plan to say this was the second octopod - the first looked like the iconic one from the series and was a mobile base for scouting aquatic worlds. both were designed by tweak.

and now, a transcript of that page! if you can understand my writing, i'm glad, i struggle to read it sometimes!

the USS Explorer is a vessel designed specifically for exploration and firsts contact situations. nicknamed the Octopod for the additional domes on the saucer section, it was designed by tweak.

the domes (pods) of the USS explorer are; 1 airponics bay (note: as in, what kes had in voyager. basically a garden), 1 extra science lab/ observatory, 2 advanced sensor arrays, 2 extra weapon emplacements, 1 reinforced conference room, 1 reinforced 'bar' area (10 forward) (note: like the one from picard's enterprise)

still from that page:

who the octonauts characters are in the star trek universe:

barnacles - basically picard, a model captain

kwazii - very similar to tom paris. after he and his grandfather adventured around a bit, he joined SF (note: my abbreviation for star fleet) and is well-known as a pilot

peso - always wanted to help people and see new things, so SF was an obvious choice.

tweak - always outdoorsy/ adventurous and had a love for inventing; wanted to explore and work with machines at the same time and loved the idea of joining SF. served with B(arnacles) when they were both ensigns on their first assignments

dashi - loved different communication methods as a child, from sign languages to images to verbal languages. at school, her teachers mentioned she might enjoy she might enjoy working in SF with communications. though it was difficult, dashi stuck with it and became an expert, sent into unknown territories to assist with first contact situations

shellington - always loved exploring and learning about different creatures, phenomenons etc. as he'd consumed much of terran knowledge, he decided to expand his knowledge and join SF

inkling - bit mysterious (note; translation, i had no idea what to do!). he joined SF possibly out of boredom, but is now committed to exploration and helping people.

vegimals - some eggs were discovered by shellington on and unexplored planet in an incubator. shellington, believing them to be normal eggs, hatched them. imagine his shock at them being flora/ fauna hybrids...

end of transcript.

now, i did have many more ideas, but i only remember them vaguely, and this is just about all i wrote down! there is another part of my notebook where i write a start to the story, where the octopod sets out to the gamma quadrant from ds9 - it seems sisko and barnacles used to be friends at SF academy :)

hey, if you like this idea, take it and run! write something, fill in the gaps, go crazy! credit me if you want, but i'm not particularly fussed. and if you've read to here, whether you wanna do something with these little ideas or not, hoped you enjoyed the read :))

live long an prosper!

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[fictionadventurer]

I have never watched any Star Trek. It's such a cultural icon, I'd love to be a little conversant in it, but every time I think about getting into it, I'm so intimidated because there's soooo much of it! If one wanted to dabble, to take in some of the absolute classics, where would you recommend one start?

To be honest, I'm not much more than a dabbler myself, and my usual approach is to Google "Best Episodes of Star Trek", either as a whole or specifying a particular series I feel like watching. The lists will rarely lead you wrong, and they'll quickly make you conversant with the best-known plot points.

I'd say pick a series that appeals to you, try out the best couple of episodes, and if it appeals to you, dig deeper. Or move on to the next series. The great thing about Star Trek is that it's so episodic that you can pick and choose individual episodes and still generally follow the story.

If you want a little more guidance, here's a basic overview of what to expect from each series.

Star Trek: The original. It's where it all started, but it has a very different vibe from everything that came after, because it's so very, very '60s. Clunky sets, colored lighting, shouty acting. Square-jawed heroes who punch bad guys and fall in love with the girl of the week before delivering an earnest speech. It's very old-school adventure, and that's a big part of its charm. Focuses heavily on the central trio of Kirk, Spock and Bones and their differing personalities approaches to space adventure. Honestly, if you watch "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "City on the Edge of Forever", you will understand at least 60% of the cultural references to this show, but I'll also put in a plug for "Balance of Terror", which is an excellent battle story that introduces the Romulans, who happen to be my favorite Star Trek villains.

The Next Generation: The more cultured, civilized cousin to the original. They're still out exploring strange new worlds, but there's a kinder, gentler vibe to the show. The ship is more plush, the crew generally gets along, and a lot of the episodes are more focused on philosophy than punching. Most of my Star Trek experience is with this series, and there's a common cultural idea that this is "the best one" (at least after Riker grows the beard in Season 2). The one absolute must-watch is "The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1 and 2", because this is a turning point for the entire Trek franchise: establishing one of their best villains, giving a plot twist that resonates through multiples series, and providing a cliffhanger that changed television and Trek forever. But I don't recommend starting there. Watch at least a few other episodes to get to know the characters first. The show's so episodic that it doesn't matter which episodes, but I'll give a few options.

I started with "Elementary, My Dear Data", which gave me an enduring love for Data and holodeck stories, and "The Measure of a Man", which may be peak TNG vibes: Data story, big philosophical question, and iconic Picard speech.

Basically any Data-focused episode is worth watching, because either Data is tearing out your heartstrings or Brent Spiner is chewing the scenery.

If you truly want to understand TNG, you must watch at least one Q episode. "Q Who" is the one episode you should probably watch before "The Best of Both Worlds" because it introduces the Borg.

"Darmok" is a must-watch, especially for someone on tumblr (you'll understand when you see it).

You must watch "I, Borg", because it might be my favorite (but only after you watch "The Best of Both Worlds").

I'll recommend the timey-wimey ones: "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Remember Me", "Future Imperfect" and "Cause and Effect".

"Second Chances" is far, far better than a ridiculous "transporter clone" story has any right to be.

And I'll give a shout-out to "The Defector", because that's one of my favorites--it's so very Shakespearean--but I've never seen on "best-of" lists.

Deep Space Nine: The dark and gritty one. The Wild West town, except it's a space station on the edge of a wormhole. This one has darker, more troubled characters and darker, more troubled storylines, though there are still plenty of light-hearted hours. I've only seen a couple of episodes, so I can't really give recs, but I will caution that this is more serialized than the other shows are, especially in the Dominion War arc in the latter half of the series. This is often hailed as "the best Star Trek" by devoted factions of science fiction fans, even though it subverts Star Trek's usually optimistic worldview.

Voyager: The red-headed stepchild of Trek. This is beloved by girls who grew up watching Captain Janeway, and tolerated at best by everyone else. It's an attempt to return to the episodic exploration of the original series, with mixed success. It has some interesting characters--I find them more interesting in some ways than the more uniformly white and blandly competent TNG crew--who aren't always portrayed or used well. The show's got a rough reputation, but when it's good, it's very, very good. Probably the series where you're best served by picking-and-choosing the good ones. "Year of Hell" is usually held up as "what Voyager should have been", because for once their 70-year journey through uncharted space has them struggling with limited resources far from help. So far, my personal favorite (and Captain Janeway's) is "Counterpoint", which is about Janeway struggling with whether to trust (and fall in love with) a dangerous defector. "Living Witness" and "The Blink of an Eye" are excellent explorations of story and history, and "The Muse" is so cool because it reimagines Voyager as an epic in the style of The Odyssey and Greek plays.

Enterprise: The usually forgotten younger brother of Star Trek. This is set a century or so before the original series, before the Federation really existed and when humans were first exploring deep space in a ship called Enterprise. I haven't seen much of it, but it's kind of fun for a different spin on the Star Trek universe--people who don't know what they're doing, struggling with more limited technology and a more complicated world. I've heard it gets weirdly sensual at times, in a more juvenile way than the other shows. Consensus is that it's an interesting premise that never quite lives up to its potential, until a much-better third season that unfortunately wasn't enough to save it from cancellation.

When it comes to the movies: Common wisdom is that you watch the even-numbered movies and skip the odd-numbered ones (and movies II and IV are by far the ones most referenced by the culture). But Star Trek isn't well-suited for movies, so you don't miss too much by skipping them.

As far as the new shows, you can check them out if you want, but those aren't a part of the culture in the same way as the others, because they're new and because they're on a more specialized streaming service, and most of the shows aren't family-friendly. And they also heavily lean on nostalgia from the previous shows, so it's not a great place to start. I do highly recommend the animated kids show Prodigy, for having ten excellent episodes with good characters (though it does bring a Star Wars vibe to Star Trek). I'm also cautiously enjoying Strange New Worlds for its excellent characters and mostly-clean content, even though so far, its episodes are little more than remixes of stories from the original and TNG with better cinematography.

#answered asks #star trek #cuppatealove #i hope that was helpful #like i said i don't have that much experience with most trek #and a lot of this knowledge has been gleaned more from google than from the shows #maybe someone else can chime in?

[autisticburnham]

all of the hyperfixation icons for prodigy. i'm sorry i forgot to message you.

You're fine!

📃 Plot:

You already know this because you are THEE Prodigy blogger, but for everyone else, it's about a group of kids who are enslaved at a mining outpost stumbling upon the ship that it turns out they were enslaved to find. Rather than telling their overseer though, they work together to get the ship turned on, get help from its built in training program, and break out- though the breakout does go wrong and they end up accidently kidnapping their enslaver's daughter. Pursued by their overseer, they decide to flee to the Federation and seek asylum after learning about it from the hologram, and along the way explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly go where they have never gone before

✨️ What draws you towards it/what's interesting about it?

This is what Star Trek fans have been begging for for years! A cast of non-Federation aliens! That's so cool and opens up so many opportunities for worldbuilding! And the constraint of being designed specifically to be a good show for someone's first Star Trek means that they have to focus on telling a good story with compelling characters instead of just throwing nostalgia at you. Of course they do still have nostalgic stuff because old fans will inevitably watch, but the show doesn't depend on that the way a lot of new Trek does. And make a good show with compelling characters they did! That was the strongest first season for Star Trek ever. Holy shit I love these characters and I'm so heartbroken we won't get to see their whole story play out

🎥 Favorite scenes

Sorry to go for sad shit, but Rok coming out of the time loop and Gwyn realizing her father cares more about the ship than her really stick with me. On a brighter note though, I really love Zero breaking out of the Borg's control and Dal and Janeway swapping back bodies

🎶 Favorite music piece from it?

Imma be honest, I don't remember any music from it other than the theme song, so I'm gonna go with the theme song

💕 Favorite character and why you like them

Oh, it's so hard to pick! I love all of these kids so much! If you asked me again, I would undoubtedly give a different answer, but for now I'm gonna go with Rok Tahk. I don't know if she is fat or if her size is normal her species, but she certainly read to the audience as fat. And fat characters are never portrayed as smart and kind and delicate. So to see this little girl who is so wonderful and sweet be told her whole life she's strong and scary because of the way she looks, knowing that's wrong, and finding people who listen to her about that and let her be a soft kid and who encourage her when she finds she's smart and she loves science- that's so special and I'm so glad the kids who did get to see her did. I know she's gonna mean a lot to them too

💔 Least favorite character and why you hate them

I feel like it's a cop out to say the villian, but it's the Diviner. He enslaved children. From a doylist, a character is good if they serve their function in the story well standpoint, he's great from. From a watsonian, these kids only ever deserve good things in their lives standpoint? Kill

🏳️‍🌈 Do you have any diverse headcanons that are important to you?

Every single one of these children is autistic. I don't have any solid queer headcanons for them though; I'd be open to any interpretation of them

🍀 Comfort characters?

All of them, really. I love them all very much, but not any of them particularly more than the others

💎 Any fun facts or trivia you'd like to share?

I don't think so? I don't think I know any trivia about Prodigy

💢 Something you don't like and would change?

The cancelation 😭

#pdg

[themovieblogonline]

The Main Strange New Worlds Season 2 Villains Might Be A TOS Classic

Star Trek has always had the best villains. Throughout the franchise’s history, they’ve given us some of the most charismatic, awe-inspiring and terrifying villains in science fiction history. Everyone from the Borg, and Q to Khan himself, Star Trek villains are always ones that really end up capturing the imagination and get years of mileage within the franchise. With its recent premiere, the latest Star Trek show continues that tradition, potentially with the return of a TOS species. Strange New Worlds season 2 villains might be up there by the time this season ends. Strange New Worlds Season 2 Starts By Bringing Back Another TOS Classic Villain Speaking of bad guys, one of the main villains of The Original Series were the Klingons. Throughout the Star Trek franchise, the Klingons started as enemies but then transitioned into frenemies, antagonists, allies and even sometimes, friends of the Federation and Starfleet. Throughout its history, the Klingons have always been visually depicted in different ways. Most glaring is the type of Klingons we saw at the beginning of Star Trek: Discovery. The look varied the most from the usual Klingons audiences saw before. However, the Strange New Worlds season 2 premiere episode brought back the Klingons, resembling closer to The Next Generation iteration, than any other on-screen version. But the story of the season seemingly doesn’t focus on the Klingons. The Strange New Worlds season 2 villains get a tease at the end of the episode. Potentially. Strange New Worlds Season 2 Villains Revealed The episode starts with narration by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) where he mentions feeling some tension from Starfleet brass. As he narrates this, we see Robert April (Adrian Holmes) and a colleague checking some star maps, with stress on their faces. After the main story of the episode finishes, we cut back to the Starfleet brass discussing the events of the episode. The episode ends on an ominous note as April implies that there is a war coming. The camera pans to the map they were stressing about before. And we get confirmation of a Gorn attack ship on its way. This seemingly confirms that the Gorn might be the main villains of this season. Which is exciting and terrifying in its own way. Why These Gorn Might Not Be The Ones From TOS The Gorn have prominently featured in Star Trek: TOS in a classic episode. A fully mature Gorn takes on Captain Kirk (William Shatner) in what is now an iconic scene from the episode titled ‘Arena’. The Gorn we see in season 1 of Strange New Worlds are young hatchlings or adolescent ones. They are a reptilian species, and the hatchlings felt more like the Raptors from Jurassic Park. Another depiction of the Gorn was in Enterprise, where they looked like an anthropomorphized dinosaur, and definitely a lot less terrifying than the hatchlings. Similar to the Klingons, both these depictions are pretty different from their first appearance where they were pretty slow and clumsy. So I’m excited to see a proper fully mature Gorn, as part of an invasion actually looks and acts. While the young Gorn seems mindless and animalistic, adult Gorn could easily be much more formidable by combining that powerful brute strength with higher intellect and abilities. If the Gorn are indeed the main Strange New Worlds season 2 villains, it should be an interesting dynamic to the more light-hearted series that we’ve come to love. A brutal and scary species of bad guys that are as capable and tactical in space battles, as they are violent and brutal individually— would be very formidable for our Enterprise crew. Strange New Worlds season 2 will release weekly episodes on Paramount+. What do you think of the Gorn in this season of Strange New Worlds? Let me know in the comments below. And watch this space for more Strange New Worlds features with every new episode. Read the full article

[imperiumallaboveall]

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