So while I'm waiting for the next season of Lower Decks, I've decided to watch everything in chronological order, and it's been a time so far.
I don't hate Enterprise, but at the same time, it bounces wildly between captivating and middling with aggressively forced heteroerotic moments between characters who, up to the point I'm at, have shown no intrest implied or otherwise towards each other. It is painfully 2000 "haha we don't talk about the gays" kind of straight media, which is weird given how flamboyant DS9 was just 2 years before, and Rick Berman created both shows.
If it wasn't for Shuttlepod One being some of the gayest shit in Star Trek since Garak put his hands on Bashir's shoulders, I might start getting conspiratorial. It's genuinely like they decided to shove all of season one's homoerotism into that episode, I am not joking.
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Star Trek things I love, in no particular order:
When they would get an animal, add some minor costume to it, and bang....it's an alien. Yes, the unicorn dog from TOS is the perfect example of this.
The little smile Lieutenant Malcolm Reed gets when he gets to blow something up.
Also on Enterprise, that bitch fight rogue sparring between Reed and Hayes. That was glorious. And hilarious.
Janeway and her coffee
Bashir and Garak. Need I say more?
The spots on the Trills. Idk. I just like leopard/cheetah patterns and this reminds me of them.
Andorian antennae and the fact that they move. They're warriors but look adorable.
This....weird scene
And there's way more but this list would end up endless.
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Please tell me you've read the lore on the new Trials items??
I have and I haven't stopped crying since.
It starts with the new Trials ship, Valiant Memory. It's the opening Lightfall cutscene but told from the point of view of Reed-7, the Titan from the Trials fireteam of Reed, Aisha and Shayura. They were a constant background lore characters on Trials gear. Here's a brief post I have about them from before. Since then, Shayura has been re-captured, gone to therapy, healing and reunited with her fireteam. Among them, Reed was a really sweet Exo who was known as "Strike dad," basically the heart of the fireteam, really sweet and warm.
The ship lore tells us that Reed, Aisha and Shayura were in the battle in space at the start of Lightfall when Pyramid fleet attacked. As the lore tab progresses it becomes increasingly clear that these three are the fireteam we've seen in the cutscene. Specifically, the Titan we've seen sliced? Reed-7.
The Witness is nothing more than a sliver of dark shearing through a field of white, but even at such a distance, Reed can feel its eyes on him. A chill jolts down his spine the moment the reticle locks on. His Exomind throbs with the sense-memory of a migraine.
He immediately knows something is wrong. He turns to his Ghost. His Ghost looks at him, but it's already dead. The world separates into slices.
And
so is
he.
I don't think I will ever emotionally recover from this. Aisha and Shayura survived for unknown reasons. Neither Aisha nor Shayura know why their Ghosts were spared; possibly because they both toyed with a version of Darkness. Aisha was a stasis user and Shayura's issues led her to killing Guardians. We don't know.
Either way, after the ship lore, I suggest reading the Ghost Shell, Hero's Wake. Immediately knocked out by the flavour text:
"He was like a father to us both." —Aisha
The lore tab itself has Shayura grieving and preparing to go therapy.
Next on the schedule for the emotional breakdown is the sparrow, Survivor's Journey which shows us Aisha personally traveling to Titan to tell Sloane about Reed. This also shows us that Sloane knew this fireteam, which is neat. But yeah, Aisha is devastated and had to tell Sloane in person.
The final bit is the Trials glaive, Unexpected Resurgence. Shayura is in the Tower and she has the remains of Reed's Ghost. She is approached by a woman who introduces herself as Sister Faora. Faora was the leader of the Cult of Osiris, but now introduces herself as an "outcast." The link between them is that Shayura and her fireteam were Trials regulars. Faora gives Shayura the glaive and offers to be her friend. No clue why Faora is an outcast. Maybe the whole Cult of Osiris has been somehow restructured, disbanded or made defunct after Osiris' ordeal with Savathun and after he lost his Light. It would be nice to get an update on it!
Outside of the assault on our emotions, I am curious about Faora's reappearance. Paired with them mentioning Vance again (albeit jokingly), I wonder if this is meant something more than just randomly dropping names. Vance is the only remaining "missing" vendor that we have yet to learn more about and Mercury is a potentially very interesting place to revisit, if we can, given its ties to Darkness through Lighthouses (which emit Darkness-aligned tones; the same tones that are being emitted by Pyramids and the planetary anomalies, as well as very likely egregore). Maybe a hint for a future season? I would love to revisit Mercury and get some nice lore reveals about the Lighthouses, Vance, Mercury's secrets (the planet houses a prediction engine!) and the Vex.
But until then, pain and suffering even. Goodbye Reed, Strike dad.
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like I guess I do get the whole “it’s awful when a character becomes a cop” thing & there’s absolutely an issue with copaganda in popular media but I also think sometimes you guys are a little too SJW lens focused & not looking at the context of the story. like I’m sorry but Kirby Reed never once had any anarchist or anti cop views as part of her character. it just wasn’t there. she was a teenage horror nerd in Scream 4 & after she was targeted by serial killers it makes absolutely perfect sense that she’d want to become an FBI agent specialized in stopping serial killers. it’s a horror series about serial killers. it’s not remotely shocking that an important character would work for the fbi be fr
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