#beverly crusher imagine

[regalpotato]

11 years vs 22 years

#star trek #tng #picard #picard x crusher #beverly crusher #jean luc picard #star trek spoilers #picard spoilers #i just rewatched encounter at farpoint #and died #and had to gif this #i'm in pain #mine: star trek #mine: tng #mine: picard x crusher #imagine not seeing the woman you love for 11 years and still being hit with your love for her right off the bat #imagine spending 10+ years deeply in love with her by her side #imagine getting with her only for it not to work out #and then not seeing her for 22 more years #only for you to realise you've literally never loved anyone like you've loved her #god star trek hurts me on a daily basis #also every time i watch the encounter at farpoint scene #it really does look like they're trying to hint that Wesley is Picard's son

[isthereintruthnobeauty1968]

data's day/4.13

#p #tng #screencaps #was mildly disappointed hearing them talk abt how data and keiko had been friends for a while & he introduced her and miles #and then checking the wiki and this is the first episode she's in. i wanna see that! imagine they would've Not liked e/o initially #data #deanna troi #beverly crusher #geordi #keiko o'brien #miles o'brien #picard

[rhaenella]

Beverly Crusher & Will Riker: besties™️ on the bridge

Star Trek: Picard 3.4 "No Win Scenario"

#beverly crusher #will riker #star trek picard #picard season 3 #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #star trek #star trek legacy #trekedit #gates mcfadden #jonathan frakes #my gifs #both their zero tolerance for bullshit is just everything #also i feel like their friendship is highly underrated #let's never forget that amazing scene between them in tng's suspicions #imagine if we'd gotten a scene where they discuss the loss of their sons #star trek legacy hello could you please

[sapphicsandscience]

for those janeway/crusher inclined 🫶

with the help of @kumkvattikvintetti

#beverly x kathryn #crusher x janeway #janeway x crusher #kathryn janeway #beverly crusher #Star Trek fanfiction #f/c #babyfic #tumblr is my sanctuary for them #lol i imagine those subscribed to my ao3 for p/c fic get a shock when I post these 😭

[jxpper]

y’know what I hate?? as I watch Star Trek: TNG, I literally feel the slimy soul of Freud watching me from hell.

he’s laughing at me, from beyond the god damn grave, pointing a rotted finger at me and screaming “HAR HAR HAR, YOU PROVE ME CORRECT IN MY THEORIES! YOU WANT TO BANG BEVERLY CRUSHER, BUT YOU ALSO WANT HER TO BE YOUR MOTHER. HAR HAR HAR! LOOK AT YOUR MOMMY ISSUES! YOU PROVE MY THEORIES USEFUL!”

#Taylor swift voice: he’s laughing up at us from hell #srsly being sapphic and coming from a broken home has haunted me since starting this show #some days I’m like awww mommy and then some days I’m like YEAHHHH MOTHERRRRR #and I need psychological help!!!! #because this is TORTURE! #can I want both but in different scenarios #???? #like???? is that allowed? #like I don’t wanna bang her AS my mom #but #and stay with me here #I want to bang her #BUT I ALSO WANT HER TO BE MY MOM SEPERATELY #SEND HELPPPP #Beverly crusher #just adding her name as a tag for good measure #also I’m imagining Freuds voice in this post as a pirate

[questions-within-questions]

I love watching Star Trek plots and imagining how other star trek crews would deal with this week's negative space wedgie.

Like I watched the TNG episode where Beverly Crusher keeps witnessing the crew vanishing from existence and people's memory, until it's just her and Picard, and Picard insists that the enterprises has always only been crewed by himself and his doctor.

And I can't help but think Quark would have a simply awful time if his customers and the DP9 crew kept vanishing from history until it's just him and Odo. I need to see Odo tell Quark with an utterly straight face that Odo works a full time job to police Quark and only Quark alone on an entire space station - and Quark being unable to refute that as something Odo would plausably do.

#star trek #quark #odo #deep space nine #ds9 #st tng

[vanvelding]

I'm going to say one of the nicest things I can about a show about Star Trek: Lower Decks

They played us like a string quartet.

(Spoilers for 4x09: "The Inner Fight")

Lower Decks was sold a Star Trek/Rick & Morty mashup from the start. The first scene is a drunken Mariner literally harming her sidekick, Boimler. It practically screamed, "Mariner & Boimler a hundred tours! Double-u, double-u, double-u dot Mariner and boimler dot com!"

But of course, it also had Star Trek references. One of the earliest is "Who would win in a fight? Khan or Roga Danar?" Why would anyone else in The Federation know or care who Roga Danar is? And there's no imagination on display for the oldest referential paradigm, "Who would win in a fight?" Lazy. Bullshit.

Of course before the end of season one, Lower Decks showed us it was more than that. Boimler was gaining the kind of experience he needed. The story hinted very strongly that Mariner had been in Starfleet a LONG time. She wasn't a omnicompotent mary sue; she was a Commander with her own philosophy/trauma that compelled her to remain an Ensign.

It was a good show and it stood on its own. The references were used well to create interesting stories ("Twovix"), as part of the setting ("Hear All, Trust Nothing"), or just as a gag here and there ("Kayshon, His Eyes Open" and, like a dozen others). The references to the setting become the background radiation, remarkable in how deep a cut they really are (Vendorians?). I've described it to many people as "Star Trek, but everyone has watched Star Trek."

What it wasn't, was related to its namesake. "Lower Decks" was a surprisingly heavy episode about the younger members of the Enterprise crew and their perspective on the missions of galactic import that the viewer usually enjoys an omnisicent view of.

Lower Decks mentions our main cast don't have that omniscient view, but Mariner is a stone-cold badass, Rutherford was part of a secret effort to develop artificial intelligence, Tendi is the Mistress of the Winter Constellations, and Boimler--actually Biomler is no more exceptional than any other Starfleet officer.

So when we get our main cast and the senior officers into a room and they mention Nick Locarno, our thought is, "LOL, another reference. This one from TNG. Not particularly deep. LOL, Boimler is a Beverly Crusher fanboy. I guess it makes sense, they have the character model from the episode with Tom Paris. Clearly, Robert Duncan McNeil is happy to do some voice work. We'll probably make a reference to how much he looks like Tom Paris.

"lol"

Look, if you figured it out then pat yourself on the back. Me? I filed away another reference. I didn't realize that Nick Locarno was connected to the episode of TNG that was this entire series' namesake. The characters even say, "Who?" which is one of the first times they don't get a Star Trek reference. Because Nick Locarno isn't a part of the Star Trek universe they view with an enthusiastic fandomness; it's part of their dramatic history, whether they know it or not.

"ha-ha, I guess Nick Locarno is too deep a cut for the show that called back to Morgan fucking Bateson."

But whatever, A-plot/B-plot. Gags about Starfleet habitually rolling up to seedy establishments in uniforms while looking for information, which is subverted by Captain Freeman being fucking genre savvy (also, wasn't she going to be promoted before getting arrested at the end of season two? I guess getting framed for a crime was deemed to be not very 'admiral-able'). Mariner ends up in a cave with a Klingon taking shelter from a crystal rain.

The pieces are there. Mariner was an ensign during The Dominion War. Two to three years before The Dominion War, Wesley Crusher left Starfleet, our Nick Locarno expy Tom Paris was recruited to Voyager, and Sito Jaxa was an ensign.

And Nick Locarno is in play.

We could have figured it out! We're in the narrative and emotional third act of this series (Tendi gave us the "We'll always be friends" speech last week)! Everyone regular just sat in a room trying to figure out how to help Mariner; we were one fruit salad analogy away from an intervention with Dr. Migleemoo!

Mariner escapes from Cardassian interrogation chambers for fun!

But Locarno is just another TNG reference, like Beverly Crusher. Background radiation. The season's story arc is something original to Lower Decks, which it's proven it's unafraid to do at this point. The series has no relation to "Lower Decks"

And then they fucking hit us with it; Beckett Mariner knew Sito Jaxa. They were friends. Then Jaxa died.

That's Mariner's trauma (that and The Dominion War).

And I didn't see it because I came to see Lower Decks as a series that stood on its own merits as a show while calling back to earlier Treks in a light, non-committal way. And I credit that solely to the writing of the show which leveraged both of those qualities to make an entertaining show that I like before, but now respect.

Just amazing stuff.

#star trek #star trek lower decks #star trek lwd #lower decks #lower decks spoilers #star trek lwd spoilers

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom I know many people with severe chronic illness that would love to have enough leftover energy to even try an activity that health-privileged people think of as "lazy". Never, ever imagine that person battling illness is "lazy". They are working overtime just to survive. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 10:51 AM · Aug 12, 2023

#doctor crusher #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #support #kindness #care #compassion #health care #healthcare #medicine #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #spoonies #spoons #energy #health issues #the fatigue is real #extreme fatigue

[thelaststarship]

okay but for real what if they actually executed wesley for this. like imagine picard going back to dr. crusher and telling her “beverly they killed him” with a straight face and it’s because her idiot son fell into the wrong bed of flowers

#star trek #star trek the next generation #tng #star trek tng #justice #wesley crusher

[gar-trek]

(^ guy who watched 1 ep of snw and thinks he can criticize all of new trek) okay the problem with SNW and why it doesn’t feel the same as old trek is because it feels the need to do that quippy marvel “well that just happened” type humor or whatever where Pike gets hung up on while on subspace with an alien and he turns back to his crew like “um…. Okay… 😳” or he beams in on heated debate between two leaders of an alien race and he’s like “Erm…. Hi? 😳” like really just serving the “wow… this is awkward!!” Vibe and it’s like bro. Imagine if Sisko did that. Imagine if when the worm hole opened for the first time Dax was like “um guys…. Big hole in the sky alert… 😳” and Kira was like “what the fffferengi is that!” LIKE NO THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN, INSTEAD THEY ALL JUST REACTED BY DOING THE JOBS THEY WERE TRAINED AN HIRED TO DO. And that’s the huge issue with having your characters point out how weird everything that’s happening to them is and making comments about it because like yeah, it’s super weird to us as the audience to be flying around space and interacting with aliens, but to them IT SHOULD JUST BE THEIR LIVES. New Trek isn’t confident in itself enough to play it completely straight. The inherent nature of Star Trek is that weird shit is going to happen. That is the show. And back in the good old days, no matter how weird the shit was, it was always played straight. Even when Beverly crusher was getting her back blown out by a Scottish ghost the character didn’t turn to each other and go “I’m sorry…. Dr crusher is having sex with a ghost?…. Ummm imma need you to run that by me again 😳😳😳” NO THEY WERE LIKE “okay how are we going to defeat this evil Scottish ghost” BECAUSE it was a story about professionals doing their jobs. It’s so un-immersive when a show keeps reminding you how weird everything is, it kills the magic and makes it hard for the viewer to really get into the story they are trying to tell. Be confident about your weird shit or don’t add it at all

#like bruh #everyone is just so afraid of being uncool these days

[rosalie-starfall]

Sub Rosa

Doctor Beverly Crusher - Star Trek: The Next Generation

InvestiGates: Tawny Newsome

Gates: So Imagine your mother; So lets say that you just found out that um (her) she, and your grandmother, and her mother, and her grandmother...

Tawny: Okay...

Gates: All had been in love with a lamp...

Both: (Bust out laughing)

Gates: And you'd been doing this... Tawny: Oh My God, your delivery on that is perfect! Gates: (Laughing) Okay?

Tawny: Yeah, Okay, I there, sure…

Gates: Okay, what would your reaction be on this now okay?

Tawny: Ummm you know I'd probably - I'd probably resist at first... Gates: (Laughing) Tawny: I'd probably say this seems, I cant do that, but then you know, I'd probably be like well what's the lighting gonna be like? I mean what... Gates: (Still Laughing) Tawny: Is there gonna be smoke? I'd ask to see the night gown.

Both: Uh-huh / Uh-huh / Uh-huh.

Tawny: So I'd have notes about the production of it. But I think I'd have to be all in. You can't buck tradition.

Gates: (Groans) Oh my God...

#Dr. Beverly Crusher #Gates McFadden #Star Trek: The Next Generation #Star Trek Babes #Beverly Crusher #Star Trek The Next Generation #Star Trek TNG #Star Trek #TNG #stedits #my gifs #my edits #tv edits #tv : Star Trek #Star Trek TNG Episodes #Sub Rosa #Look I am not going to sit here and act like I am not completely Feral for Sub Rosa... #Because I absolutely am! #I will love you forever you beautiful and bonkers little episode #Tawny Newsome #InvestiGates #Gates McFadden Investigates #I'd have to be all in. You can't buck tradition. #literally busted out laughing in the middle of work at this interview #I had to actually leave and take a small walk #I was laughing so hard I started crying #God that shit was so funny! #If you Love TNG or Gates or Tawny or Trek go listen this is the best episode so far and thats saying something because they are all amazing

[cantsayidont]

March 1987. While the 1984 LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES series didn't focus exclusively on the female Legionnaires by any means, it gave many of them some of their finest moments, such as this exceptional spotlight on Legion founder Saturn Girl (pictured above left). Awakening to find herself a prisoner in a labor camp on an unknown planet, surrounded by virtually mindless fellow captives, Saturn Girl has to use every bit of her intelligence, strength, and telepathic ability to find a way out for herself and three other captured Legionnaires. This is a remarkable story in many ways, not least for its imaginative depiction of Saturn Girl's telepathic journey into the minds of her comrades. More under the cut …

Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen of Titan) was one of the original Legionnaires, introduced in ADVENTURE COMICS #247 back in 1958. She had actually retired for a while after marrying cofounder Garth Ranzz (Lightning Lad), with whom she'd had two young children, and at this point was only occasionally involved in Legion business, although she and Garth had recently had a nasty run-in with one of the Legion's worst enemies, as seen in the 1986 LEGIONNAIRES 3 miniseries. Nevertheless, Imra in this period was one of the most experienced members of the team, having been a professional superhero since she was 14 years old.

This issue begins with Imra waking up after having been mentally controlled like her fellow captives; while she was out, her telepathic abilities had somehow managed to break the mental blocks suppressing her thoughts and personality. She immediately has a Beverly Crusher "No, it is the world that is wrong" moment:

For the reader, the "Universo Project" title banner on the cover has already tipped the identity of the story's villain: Universo, a former Green Lantern called Vidar, is a power-hungry would-be tyrant with formidable hypnotic powers. However, at this point, Imra doesn't have any idea what's happened or where she is. She proceeds to carefully analyze the physical layout of their prison:

She assesses possible escape routes, but quickly runs into a problem: Although there are no guards other than surveillance drones, Imra doesn't have superhuman strength or endurance, and without her Legion flight ring and transuit, she can't fly or hold her breath indefinitely, which means she won't be able to get out on her own. However, she knows that there are three other Legionnaires among the prisoners: Dream Girl (Nura Nal of Naltor), Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox of Colu), and Chameleon Boy (Reep Daggle of Durla). (Although Imra hasn't made the connection yet, they've all been singled out because they are the Legionnaires most resistant to Universo's hypnotic powers, and thus the greatest potential threats to his plans.) Together, the four of them might be able to contrive an escape, but first Imra has to help them escape the mental blocks that have made them virtual zombies.

With great difficulty, Imra manages to carry her three comrades one at a time to a cave that seems to be unmonitored. She then begins the even more challenging phase of her plan: entering the unconscious minds of each of her friends, something she had always made a point of not doing.

The 1980s saw an enormous improvement in the physical production capabilities of mainstream comics. The color hold and glow effect in the page above would not have been possible when Paul Levitz first started writing Legion stories in the '70s, and this story uses that technology to good advantage.

I'm skipping over some scene changes here; the story cuts away at several points to show what the other Legionnaires are doing and what Universo is up to back on Earth. That's less interesting than what's happening with Imra, as she enters the unconscious mind of Nura Nal:

Production technology is one thing, but flashy effects are meaningless if the story has nothing to say. These telepathy sequences are really visually inventive, and I'm curious how much of this is in the script and how much is the imagination of penciller Greg LaRocque, who outdoes himself here on what I assume was a challenging job.

As for what Saturn Girl is seeing: Dream Girl is a precog whose powers manifest primarily in the form of prophetic dreams. She was also one of the most scientifically proficient Legionnaires, although her intellect tended to be overshadowed by the fact that she was a high-maintenance diva and frequently a huge bitch. Her boyfriend, Star Boy (Thom Kallor), whose image Imra sees in Nura's head, generally took a smile-and-nod approach to Nura's fits of primadonna bullshit.

Did I mention that Dream Girl was kind of a diva? Even in this critical situation, Imra can't help but roll her eyes a bit at her friend's, ahem, robust self-regard.

With Nura freed, Imra enters the 12th-level computer mind of resident Coluan super-genius Brainiac 5:

Brainiac 5 was never depicted as an android or a cyborg, so what did it mean for him to have a "computer mind"? Levitz apparently gave that a lot of thought, and the result is an interesting visualization of Brainy's superhuman intellect.

The blond woman in the circle near the top looks like Dream Girl, which doesn't make much sense: There was no love lost between Brainy and Nura in this era, and it seems unlikely she would be this much on his mind. I have an inkling that that image was originally supposed to be Supergirl — about whom Brainy DID have strong feelings and whose death he had been mourning not that long before — but that Levitz and LaRocque got an 11th-hour editorial reminder that Kara could no longer even be mentioned, resulting in that section being hastily redrawn. (I'm speculating, but it seems reasonable.) The guy with the headband, meanwhile, is former Legionnaire Lyle Norg, the first Invisible Kid, who died in SUPERBOY #203. Lyle was Brainy's friend, and there was sometimes the sense that Brainy had romantic feelings for him, so his presence here is noteworthy.

Finally, Imra must reach the mind of Chameleon Boy. Cham was one of a handful of pre-reboot Legionnaires who were genuinely not human: He was from the planet Durlan, whose inhabitants were all shapeshifters. By this time, it had been established that Cham's normal form (orange humanoid with antennae) was not his true shape, but a common "default" form Durlans used when engaging with humans so as not to freak them out TOO badly. As Imra discovers below, this means that Cham's mind is also completely inhuman:

This is a fascinating representation of the inside of Cham's head. Durlan bodies are unusually malleable — Chameleon Boy's shapeshifting never seems to be constrained by mass or volume, and he routinely becomes creatures of wildly different sizes and forms. So, what parts ARE Cham? Where does his personality reside? An interesting philosophical question, but this is still an adventure story, and Imra is on the clock:

Very impressive. What I find particularly compelling about how Levitz treats Saturn Girl in this story is that he resists the temptation to amp up her powers or turn her into a blond Batman; he stays within the established bounds of her abilities while emphasizing her practical resourcefulness. You also get a sense at several points that Imra is struggling a bit to keep herself calm (she reassures herself that her husband is probably looking for her and that she will be reunited with her kids), since she recognizes that if she panics, she's probably done for. (There's a notable contrast with LEGIONNAIRES 3, by Keith Giffen and Mindy Newell, where Imra does break down after she learns one of her sons has been kidnapped; she's not made of stone.)

It's not hard to see why this series is still considered the standard-bearer for modern Legion stories: Levitz was deeply concerned with the personalities and relationships between the characters — not only within the individual stories, but also across the group's long and convoluted history — but he also managed to come up with imaginative and exciting adventures through which to explore and develop those things. It doesn't always work, of course (although there are few real clunkers in this run), but when it works, it works really well, and even the less-successful arcs are generally interesting. Certainly, the female Legionnaires had never been treated with this level of care and respect before — and most of them haven't since then, either.

#comics #legion of super heroes #legion of superheroes #paul levitz #greg laroque #mike decarlo #saturn girl #imra ardeen #dream girl #nura nal #brainiac 5 #querl dox #chameleon boy #reep daggle #durlans

[quasi-normalcy]

So, I've been thinking about the problem with all TNG stories since the end of the series itself, and it occurs to me: Geordi La Forge and Beverly Crusher.

Basically, Picard is the main character and Data is the fan favourite breakout character, so if you need to do an epic "movie" version of TNG, of course you're going to focus on those two. Except, they don't actually have a very strong relationship on the series proper; they interact pretty regularly, but it's almost always as "captain and officer" or as "mentor and student." If Data really needs to bare his soul to someone, he goes to Geordi. If Picard needs to bare his soul, he goes to Beverly (or to Guinan, if Whoopi Goldberg's schedule allows it; or Q, if he needs to have it forcibly dragged out of him). Picard and Data absolutely do *not* have the sort of Kirk-Spock soul mate relationship that all of the spin-off media insist that they do. And in fact they can't, because their temperaments are far too similar.

Like, I could imagine *Geordi* still being in mourning for Data 20 years after Nemesis, and being willing to lay down his life to protect Data's legacy. But when they just arbitrarily bequeath that arc on Picard, it rings hollow.

#star trek picard #geordi la forge #beverly crusher #jean luc picard #data #star trek the next generation #anyways i maintain that geordi should have been in picard season 1

[cordrazine-official]

For the ask game: Winn/Opaka; Kate Pulaski/Deanna Troi/Beverly Crusher; Kira Dax/Lenara Kahn, specifically post-Jadzia's death; Worf/Sisko; Geordi LaForge/Miles O'Brien; Nyota Uhura/Christine Chapel; Keiko O'Brien/Garak; Dukat/his own hand while standing in front of a mirror & an itemised list of his achievements starting from age 3.

Thank you for this ask! You guys really delivered, I spent the entire day in bed AND replying to these & I didn’t even see time pass, so thank you to everybody who sent in an ask, I really appreciate it <3

I’ll cut this one for length.

I already addressed Winn/Opaka, so I’ll skip that one if you don’t mind.

Kate Pulaski/Deanna Troi/Beverly Crusher: I ship it

What made you ship it?

Since Kate joins Enterprise as a replacement for Beverly, & since in S2E7 Deanna mentions to Picard that she’s been spending time with Kate & is thus able to comment on her performance as CMO, I choose to believe that Deanna & Kate start a thing around that time & that they stay in touch once Kate leaves the ship, & that over time they absorb Beverly into that relationship. It’s more that Deanna is dating the both of them at first, but I can see Kate & Beverly quickly growing closer: they’ve got similar personalities & similar outlooks & I think they most probably knew each other before Pulaski was posted on the Enterprise. They might even have attended Starfleet Medical together, right? Hmm. Wonder what might have happened there - & if meeting again through Deanna wasn’t more of a second honeymoon thing…

What are your favorite things about the ship?

All three are cool characters with different motivations & I think that they’d be really good for each other - in the sense that what one needs in a relationship, the other two can provide. All in all they’d be a really strong throuple & once they’ve taken over the Enterprise no one will be safe… Picard’s just gonna spend the rest of his life hiding in his ready room because he’ll be too scared of the absolute dream team that is the Pulaski/Troi/Crusher triangle. “Bridge to Picard” - “No… *wet sobbing noises*”

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Kate Pulaski is a good character & she’s not a big meanie who hates Data. Beverly Crusher is a bad doctor (like, terrible. Just imagine going to her for something that’s a little more sensitive than a broken rib from Parrises Squares & you’ll see what I mean).

Kira/Dax/Lenara Kahn: I ship it

What made you ship it?

This one I had never even considered but it’s a wholehearted YES from me. I can see Lenara coming back to the station (maybe after the war?) because she learned of Jadzia’s death & is looking for - maybe not closure but… something? Perhaps even she doesn’t know what she’s looking for. & she finds Kira, still reeling from the war & Jadzia’s death & trying to figure out where she stands now, & Ezri, who’s just thrown herself into the most toxic relationship she could’ve possibly found on the station & who’s definitely on a path to self-destruction; & one night all three of them are sitting in Quark’s with drinks they’ve barely touched & they’re talking about things that don’t matter to any of them, & then somehow they find themselves in Lenara’s guest quarters & they hook up, & it’s a mixture of grief & pent-up sexual energy & frustration about the way the war ended & Ezri’sl life going to shit & Lenara sort of regretting having come here. & of course, Ezri carries the symbiont’s memory of the previous hosts & so does Lenara, & you’ve got the symbionts themselves in there as well… Perfect. Mwah.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The way that a lot more people & entities than just the three of them would be involved in this relationship. They all meet in the middle but behind each of them they carry many more people.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Ezri is not a replacement for Jadzia & should not be judged as such. Yes, Nicole de Boer replaced Terry Farrell on the show, but a new Trill host is not a replacement for the previous one & it’s unfair to judge Ezri as a character in contrast to Jadzia. Also, Ezri is an interesting character & that’s a hill I’ll die on.

Worf/Sisko: I don’t ship it

Why don't you ship it?

Mainly because of Worf - I don’t think he’d ever, ever consider a relationship with a superior officer & if he ever happened to break that rule he would feel horrible about it. I could see him resigning his commission & exiling himself to a Klingon monastery over something like this. One day he just disappears on a shuttle to Q’onoS & no one knows why (not even Ben!)

What would have made you like it?

I think I’d like it if it specifically included Worf exiling himself to a Klingon monastery over it & both him & Ben having to deal with what that means - & you’d talk about loss & faith & what’s right & what’s wrong, & how people who are very different can still connect, etc. Am I writing the blurb for my next fic here? Maybe! We can never know.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Whatever happens, it can never be boring. There’s nothing these two men can do that would make a fic about them boring. It’s all Game of Thrones-style political manoeuvres & deep feelings & epic quests, there’s no way to make it uninteresting!

EDIT: I just realised that by the time I finished writing that section I'd changed my mind about this pairing? So I guess I ship it now! Amazing.

Geordi LaForge/Miles O’Brien: I ship it

What made you ship it?

I had never considered it before today but you know what? It makes sense, & I like it. Now what I need to decide is which I like best: if they get together while Miles still serves on the Enterprise or if they reconnect once he’s settled into his new position as Chief Engineer on DS9. I think I’ve got a slight preference for the latter; first, because that means the hyperfixation technobabble conversation potential is off the fucking charts, & second because I think it would remove a layer of hero worship Miles might’ve had for the flagship’s Chief Engineer while he was still serving with him.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The “we are autistic about warp drives” vibes; Geordi’s bubbly charm vs. Miles’ panicked stiffness; the fact that some might think that there’s a strange mismatch between them but when you look closer they actually make total sense.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Geordi LaForge should be shipped with more people than just Data. I see the appeal of DaForge (& I don’t NOT ship it, I guess) but multishipping is cool actually & Geordi especially is a character you can ship with a lot of other characters. He’s easygoing, friendly, fun & charming, & there’s really many characters he’d be fun to ship with!

Nyota Uhura/Christine Chapel: a classic, but I just realised that I don’t ship it (oops)

Why don't you ship it?

I guess I just don’t see it. There’s really no other reason. Sorry, this one is really boring, haha!

What would have made you like it?

More interactions between them might have swayed me, I suppose? But then I think that they’re very different people & that more interactions might’ve just reinforced my opinions, lol.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

The sex they’d have would be insane. People talk about the noises coming from Kirk’s quarters but what about the hours-long lesbian fucking happening in Uhura’s quarters??

Keiko O’Brien/Garak: I ship it

What made you ship it?

I ship it in one specific setting, which is as follows: they tried it once, because they were both in a weird headspace & it seemed appealing - & then the sex wasn’t really good & they were both sort of weirded out & they never did it again. It happened either in the arboretum where they had been tending to Keiko’s projects & Garak’s flower & gossiping, or it happened after a lunch date in Garak’s changing rooms. They never talk about it & there’s an unspoken rule that they never talk about it to anyone - not because Keiko cheated on Miles (the O’Brien’s have an open marriage) but because they can’t acknowledge it in any way. After a few months Keiko relaxes about it & she tells Miles (he promises not to tell anyone, & he doesn’t) but Garak is taking that secret to his grave (there’s really no reason to but he insists on it).

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The vibes are so off & it’s delicious <3

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I think that when Garak says he’s all alone & doesn’t have any friends he is lying for dramatic effect, & that he’s actually very fond of Keiko as a friend & he knows that she’s very fond of him too. Is that unpopular? I don’t know, but I feel like it could be.

Dukat/his own hand, etc.: this one is canon so I won’t elaborate.

#katherine pulaski #deanna troi #beverly crusher #kira nerys #ezri dax #lenara kahn #worf #ben sisko #geordi la forge #miles o'brien #nyota uhura #christine chapel #keiko o'brien #elim garak

[jxpper]

STAR TREK: the next generation | S5xE12 "violations" beverly crusher & jean-luc picard (ft. jack crusher)

" your imagination is in an awful place. don't believe in manifestation, your heart'll break. don't you understand? your mind is not your friend again. "

— your mind is not your friend | the national + phoebe bridgers

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[bevthespecial]

Whole house has come down with chicken pox so I'm currently on another plane of existance, but coming here to say IMAGINE if we get to see our Picard S3 characters splitting up and piloting the various ships docked at the museum as some sort of relic armada against the compromised Starfleet?

So the Enterprise D is defo what Alandra was hinting at in Hanger 12, the saucer section was said to be in the museum before, and obvs this has been Geordi's side project. Also, how sweet would it be for him and his girls to tinker on his old ship and get her going?

So, say the LaForges and Picard-Crushers on board the Enterprise D, maybe the Rikers and DataLoreLalB4 on Kirk's Enterprise, flanked by Worf onboard the Defiant, and Raffi and Seven on Voyager? Urgh the best.

Most importantly, I'd need Beverly and Jean-Luc at the helm of the Enterprise D, so we can get a neat call back to Remember Me and Picard's "we've never needed anyone else before."

Except now they have Jack sat beside them.

(and maybe Wes could send a message so his mum knows he's alright, and they'd all be a little family. A family warping their way into what could be their last battle, but hey, I'll take it)

Right? I'm not asking much.

#star trek picard spoilers #spoilers #beverly crusher #jean-luc picard #jack crusher #geordi laforge #emotional damage #picrusher #star trek the next generation #raffi musiker #seven #raffi x seven #MESSAGE YOUR MUM WES