#strange lotus

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#star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #christine chapel x erica ortegas #chapel x ortegas #chortegas #christine chapel #Erica ortegas #snw #st snw #I'm not sorry I'm going to keep being annoying #for me the entire point of that episode was Erica having a moment where she realized Christine was her soulmate #nothing else matters #snw s2e4 #among the Lotus Eaters

[ovenproofowl]

LA'AN NOONIEN-SINGH in Strange New Worlds

2x04 - Among the Lotus Eaters

"Maybe some memories are worth the pain of others."

#strange new worlds #snw #snw spoilers #la'an noonien singh #christina chong #star trek #among the lotus eaters #i've imprinted on her like a baby duckling

[spockvarietyhour]

Enterprise and Cayuga charting a binary system, "Among the Lotus Eaters"

#Star Trek #SNW #star trek strange new worlds #among the lotus eaters #USS Enterprise #USS Cayuga #Constitution Class #Discoprise #SNW Constitution Class #starship #starfleet #snwedit #startrekedit #GIF #my gifs #Danny and Renae watch SNW

[curator-on-ao3]

Una: I’m in command and we get a light virus, then a sound virus. What’s next, a scent virus?

Erica: (opens mouth to speak)

Una: If you say, “Smell ya later,” Lieutenant, you’re demoted.

Erica: (closes mouth)

#star trek strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds spoilers #ghosts of illyria #among the lotus eaters #una chin-riley #erica ortegas #and in both episodes erica witnesses crew going nuts in the corridors #<two nickels joke>

[emonydeborah]

some ramblings on among the lotus eaters

what is happening in this household. I am not one to criticize professional screenwriters but genuinely who did this. first and biggest pet peeve: Una is immune to radiation. We know this. And YET she is affected by the asteroid’s spooky vibes. I would have even taken Christine saying something along the lines of “if Una is affected, it’s only a matter of time before it gets us too,” or SOMETHING. The first officer has superpowers and we never see them. I would like to see her carry more people around. (I have written a fanfic to fix this bc I was annoyed)

I will confess that I am biased against any episode that is not Una centric. I miss her. Where is she. I appreciated her calling Chris out on evidently habitual nonsense but I would like to see more.

also though where is Pelia?? Napping in a Jeffries tube? I am curious how thousands of years of memories are affected by the radiation. These are the real questions.

Another real question: why is the doctor here for his combat skills? They make it a one-liner for Joseph to be all deep and tortured but genuinely. What is the reason. Yes he’s a war veteran, but aren’t there other veterans on the ship? (yes) Is there not a whole security department of people trained in combat? (yes). I know the writers wanted to split everyone into fun little groups but why was this the move. Send your super strong first officer to lead the mission and your super strong science officer to assess the cultural contamination.

(tangent: Una Spock and La’an on the planet would have resonated SO much more for me butwhatevertheydidntdothatitsfine)

last but not least, the whole “you brought me home” thing with Batel IRKED me. You’ve been dating for six minutes. This is not believable. It simply does not make sense to me! If Chris is going to have a deep emotional connection with anyone that endures all memory loss, it would be Una or Spock. IF ONLY he had a history of a connection like that… like shaving a depression beard and going to rescue someone in the middle of his midlife crisis… or braving a hostile atmosphere and possible suffocation…OR sacrificing his future so someone else doesn’t suffer the same fate…

but no Batel brought him home she is the most important relationship in his life. obviously.

#snw #strange new worlds #star trek #una chin riley #snw 2x04 #among the lotus eaters #christopher pike #pikeuna #this episode annoyed me #Yes Erica got her moment but kahless at what cost

[quasi-normalcy]

What I love about Strange New Worlds is that the writers clearly actually put some thought into the plots and worldbuilding, and I don't just mean that they flesh out some of the details that we know about the Federation. Like, the latest episode, "Among the Lotus Eaters"; the premise (spoilers) is that there's a planet where some kind of mysterious radiation gives every unshielded person amnesia, and the planet has been basically bathed in it for thousands of years. Pretty standard; but what makes it interesting is how they show the society that has evolved under these circumstances; the caste distinctions between the people who live in shielded palaces and those who live in unshielded huts; and we get to see the social role that is played by this forgetfulness; how the peasants on this planet rationalize their lot; the customs that they've adopted that allow them to survive in a sort of perpetual present with no past and no future; and how inhibiting individual and collective memory in the working class means they effectively can never revolt against their masters.

It's really nice to see this kind of sociological focus in a modern Star Trek series.

#strange new worlds #star trek #spoilers #among the lotus eaters

[lotus-pear]

Fav madoka magica character??? You had great taste in anime for a ten year old kid lmao😭

aww thanks ALSO OMG OK so mami was my fav she just radiated big older sister energy for me when i was younger and i thought she was rly cool and like looking back now she was literally so young and did not deserve what happened to her :((((

#i strangely had beef with kyoko fsr as a kid💀 i think it's bc she tried to kill sayaka but wtv #oh yea sayaka was my other fav #it doesn't matter who u choose as ur fav bc u fucking lose either way. like those bitches r all dead or severely traumatized💀 #lotus’s asks

[rosalie-starfall]

"I am Erica Ortegas I fly the ship!"

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Among the Lotus Eaters

#Lt. Erica Ortegas #Melissa Navia #Star Trek: Strange New Worlds #Star Trek Babes #Star Trek #Star Trek SNW #stedits #my gifs #tv : Star Trek #Star Trek SNW Episodes #Among the Lotus Eaters

[it-grrl]

Hey friends, just a heads up, if you have tinnitus that can be triggered by high-pitched noises, the latest episode of Strange New Worlds (S2E4, "Among the Lotus Eaters") has MULTIPLE instances of high pitched ringing noises throughout. If you're watching with captions, I think the caption [ringing noise] pops up a second before the noise starts so you could potentially selectively mute it if you wanted to. It was a good episode but the noise was actively distracting for me and actually set off my tinnitus for a while the third or fourth time it happened.

#star trek #strange new worlds #tinnitus #among the lotus eaters

[jenlrossman]

The lighting on the planet in this episode of Strange New Worlds is like a Bob Ross painting where he's like "OK we are starting to paint the snow, so let's use some pink" and you're like "what the fuck Bob Ross, Snow is not Pink," but you let him cook and it works

#Did I use the phrase let him cook correctly #Star Trek #strange new worlds #Star Trek Strange New Worlds #SNW #Among the lotus eaters #Strange New Worlds spoilers #i guess? #Is it a spoiler to say the planet has a pink filter over it? #Rigel vii #bob ross #Joy of painting #jen watches stuff

[mortegas]

"Your meltdown was my ticket out of that dinner."

So... this is a meltdown?

This is an Ortegas temper tantrum?

What would it look like if she really lost her shit?

gifsource

Ouch.

#star trek #strange new worlds #erica ortegas #joseph m'benga #under the cloak of war #bonus material #deleted scene #sir adya #among the lotus eaters #the elysian kingdom

[worm-disco-jpg]

9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors does tickle my old school horror rpg fancy of puzzle solving, leaving things behind to come back to, not telling the whole story immediately, multiple endings and your actions ACTUALLY dictating what ending you'll get in a meaningful way

that being said

I GOT THE SUBMARINE AND THE BAD AXE ENDING AS MY FIRST TWO ENDINGS AND I JUST HAVE QUESTIONS. I HAVE SO MANY FRUSTRATED QUESTIONS

#the nonary games #zero escape 999 #WHERE THE FUCK DID LOTUS AND ACE GO BEFORE CLOVER TOOK MY ARM #HOW DO I GO BACK FOR THAT SAFE IN THE FIRST CLASS CABIN #THE STORIES ABOUT STRANGE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENA HAPPENING RAPIDLY AND WITHOUT PRECURSOR #FUCKING TELEPATHY?????? #WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING TALKING ABOUT????

[curator-on-ao3]

I never came back from Among the Lotus Eaters

I see now, in hindsight of SNW season two, that Among the Lotus Eaters was a breaking point for me.

First, that episode needed to transition Batel and Pike from … whatever they were … to a deeper relationship. And what did the episode do?

It hung their issues on not enough time for each other. (How many dinner parties has this man thrown?)

It made Pike a commitment-phobe. (Really? Pike? Y’all sure you meant second season Pike not second season Picard?)

It undercut Pike as a captain as well as his pain dating back to The Cage. (Say, fellas, is it okay to leave your yeoman behind if someone at some point said he looked kinda dead?)

Here’s the thing. I would have bought the episode starting with Batel and Pike having an adult discussion about how they could have hated each other after Una’s arrest and trial but they don’t. They’re still drawn to each other. Then I would have bought Pike’s relationship hesitancy being due to his concerns about his fate — and Una later calling him out on his potential fears for longer-term intimacy when he believes his days are numbered. (And if the show backtracks to make this Pike’s motivation, I’m gonna call bullshit because it should have been there from the start. I’ve seen a thousand stories about commitment-phobes. But a story about a person frightened to hurt someone they might be falling for because of a known timeline to the end? That’s actually interesting.)

Then, I would have bought Pike on the planet holding the necklace and feeling that he had unfinished business — the adult discussion with Batel (as opposed to love that, due to his own fears, hadn’t yet been grounded in the reality of the episode).

Second, the episode has the hero moment of Erica figuring out that she flies the ship. Okay, putting aside that other people can and do fly the ship (ahem, Una), this was an incredible opportunity for Erica to have a totem to remind her of why she cares about flying, not just that she does it. Give us a goddamn model airplane or a book about birds or an action figure of Erika Hernandez — something. Anything. Let us get to know Erica better. This missed opportunity stings.

Third, the trauma repetition was painful. The guy on the planet lost his whole family? Dude, he’s the three-way pointing Spider-Man meme with two members of the away team — M’Benga and La’an. What are the odds of all three of them having the same trauma (and not discussing it)? I don’t know, but it was lazy as shit. (Note: Uhura has the same trauma. Una might, per her service record. Enough already.) Make that guy the former king and he’s somehow responsible for the memory loss rock landing and plaguing the planet. Make him a doctor who saved Zac’s life and therefore plunged the planet into tyrannical rule. Again — something. Anything. Just make it unique instead of repetitive. (And if he had saved Zac’s life by some extreme means, that could even possibly excuse Pike for breaking the essential promise of Starfleet by leaving a crewmember behind.)

There’s more. There’s so much more. There should have been a line, at least, about Una being affected by the radiation when her body could clear radiation before. There should have been recognition that Pike was going down to the planet underprepared — again — by cutting the number of people on the away team. There should have been console warnings flashing that, I don’t know, the warp core was in danger since no one in engineering knew who they were or how to do their jobs.

This episode began the season’s beats of Pike being a crummy captain and a crummy boyfriend. It continued the trend of underutilizing Erica, even when she’s there. It forgot the show’s own internal realities. And I am big mad about that because this clutch point of an episode could have been different. It could have been better.

#star trek strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds season two #among the lotus eaters #among the lotus eaters haters #christopher pike #marie batel #erica ortegas #i am a voyager fan so i have been gaslit by trek before #(tom paris has always loved the ocean) #(chakotay has always loved boxing) #(kathryn janeway would totally choose to endanger her crew rather than turn off the holo-vibrator she’s suddenly calling her boyfriend) #i thought snw would be better than that #i started this season liking pike #even though the show started undercutting him with last season’s finale #STOP MAKING YOUR HERO AN ASSHOLE #he can be complicated without being a jerk to his girlfriend

[euphorictruths]

Aquarius- Johfra Bosschart

#aquarius #zodiac signs #astrology #skulls #skull art #spirits #spirituality #water #flowing #lotus #mystical #mysterious #life path #afterlife #supernatural #strange #stars #night #powerful #independent #beauty #beautiful #escape #pretty #dark art #art #spiritual #blue #purple #celestial

[my-fandom-mania]

In SNW 2x04, why couldn’t Spock read the PADD? I figured it was his Dyslexia?

Unless I missed something else about reading/reading comprehension as an effect of the radiation?

#star trek #spock #strange new worlds #snw #star trek strange new worlds #among the lotus eaters #snw 2x04 #l’tak terai #dyslexia #spoilers #snw spoilers

[anueutsuho]

This is how I'm gonna feel next week.

#touhou project #touhou #strange creators of outer world #cheating detective satori #unfinished dream of all living ghost #curiosities of lotus asia