#the ghosts of illyria

[ichayalovesyou]

Do you know what I’ve noticed about Captain Pike that I absolutely love that most other captains don’t tend to do?

He has absolutely NO chill, at all, about seeing people get hurt (unless there’s something else extremely pressing going on). Like no letting medical handle it, no somebody else go running after them first. Just, NYOOM!

I mean SERIOUSLY

The guy should’ve been an EMT! He keeps B-lining it to injured people before anybody else can get there and he’s Very Stressed About It.

Full on protective dad mode every time! And Pike can get his ass kicked and be like ‘I’m totally fine pay no attention to my very bruised up face it’s fiiiiiine’ no it’s not my guy!

The budding PikeUna shipper in me kinda wishes he’d been there when Una got her shit rocked in Memento Mori, she probably wouldn’t have almost bled out in sickbay because she’s worse than he is lmao!

Anyway, as if I needed even more reasons to be madly in love with this guy! Good lord…

#captain pike #captain christopher pike #Christopher pike #chris pike #brother #an obol for Charon #the ghosts of illyria #the elysian kingdom #Star Trek #star trek discovery #Star Trek disco #star trek strange new worlds #Star Trek snw #discovery #strange new worlds #snw #michael burnham #Saru #Spock #erica ortegas #PikeUna #memento mori #ichayalovescaptainpike

[fiadorable]

SNW Fic: Conversation in a Turbolift

Summary: A one shot where Number One and Pike discuss what will likely happen when they get to the transporter room at the end of "A Quality of Mercy"

Rated: G

Read on AO3 or below the cut

Spoilers for the season one finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

"Captain, incoming message from Starfleet Command. Captain Batel is beaming onboard. They want you and Commander Chin-Riley to meet her in the transporter room."

Goddamnit.

Keeping a pleasant, curious expression on his face, he shrugs at his first officer and heads for the turbolift. For her part, Number One only appears mildly distracted, not tense, not worried, although she must be, she must know what this is as surely as he.

If he'd had more time, he would have pressed the Spock in the alternate timeline for more details on how this was going to go down. Spock wouldn't have told him, but the fact that it was apparently going to be Batel acting on Command's behalf made the sting that much worse.

"Deck seven," he says, gripping the command handle once Number One enters the turbolift and stands next to him.

The doors hiss and close, severing the facade of an unconcerned command team.

The turbolift roars through the ship.

He paces as she keeps her eyes forward. "This is it," she says, ignoring his anxious stride. "They know."

"I know."

"We never actually discussed what this would look like."

"I have a few ideas, none of them pleasant."

"Sending someone else to bring me in signals they don't trust you, either, Captain."

"Or they just didn't want our mission to be delayed."

"Chris," she says, a hand at the crook of his elbow arresting his third circuit of the small space. "Pacing won't change the situation."

He looks at her then, and a reluctant grin tugs on the corner of his mouth. "Are you sure you're not Vulcan?"

She raises an eyebrow just as Spock would, and it earns her a laugh.

"You know I don't like feeling helpless," he says.

The lights in the turbolift are too bright. Her hand is still on his arm.

"Helpless is the last word I would use to describe you." She shakes her head. "I've known this might happen for a long time," she says, eyes locking with his until she sees the phrase strike a memory on his face. She releases him.

"Really, Una?" he asks, standing next her. Their shoulders do not touch. "Vega IV? You hated that plan."

Not to mention pulling a Vega IV would be risky.

"It was a terrible idea when we were lieutenants, and it's still a terrible idea now," she acknowledges, nodding. "But it's all I've got."

The turbolift slows, stops. His stomach continues hurtling downward a few decks before snapping back into his gut, and the doors whoosh open before he has a chance to respond.

They fall into step with each other. He reviews everything he can recall from their mission on Vega IV when they were both lieutenants on the Antares. He'll need Spock, maybe Ortegas, depending on Batel's actions once she's back on her ship.

"Hang back once we're in," he mutters as they approach the transporter room. "Make them come to you."

"Don't do anything foolish."

He grins at her then, his blood reckless with worry and the adrenaline that comes with the anticipation of a performance, before smoothing his face into the mask of command.

They enter the transporter room, and Number One does as he requests, hangs back near the door as he tries to diffuse the situation, but Batel is a dog with a bone, he knows this, he knows this, and he allows genuine emotion through as he pleads for her to not do this.

Instinct, primal, automatic, has him grabbing the security officer in a crippling wrist lock. It's… not part of the plan, technically, but it makes him feel a bit better when the officer lands hard on his knee to prevent his wrist from breaking.

Until Number One says, "Captain. Don't."

He leaves the officer on the ground. Number One repeats, "I've known this might happen for a long time."

Stay the course, save her life.

He releases the security officer and steps back to Batel. She's watched their drama with a reluctant dispassion that disappoints him. Another moment in his life where everything changes. They exchange a few parting words, and then he watches as his first officer disappears in a shimmer of atoms.

Deep breath.

"Pike to Spock, report to deck five, first officer's quarters. Bring Ortegas. Helm, stay on the Cayuga's six."

There is work to be done.

#star trek fic #star trek spoilers #star trek strange new worlds #pike x una #snw fic #captain pike #una chin riley #episode addition #a quality of mercy #the ghosts of illyria #omg my first fic in over four years #so proud of me :) #fiadorable writes #st: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>

[pikefied]

C: "Is that thing set to 'stun'?"

S: "I'm arming us with knowledge."

Gotta love them! 😉

#star trek #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #snw #st snw #star trek snw #spock #captain christopher pike #christopher pike #captain pike #Ghosts of Illyria

[belannaswlonkderfulworm]

una: captain, i'm an illyrian

chris, with no hesitation: hi illyrian, i'm chris

#star trek #star trek snw #strange new worlds #st snw #star trek strange new worlds #chris pike #christopher pike #captain pike #number one #una chin riley #commander chin riley #ghosts of illyria #s1e03 ghosts of illyria

[unknownfaceless-ds9]

Again, not the point of the episode, but I love how in "Ghosts in Illyria" when Kyle is trying to beam up the away team and it doesn't work so he starts to panic and we get a cut to engineering where Hemmer is as calm as if he was trying to butter his toast.

Also, when Kyle is like "How did you do it" and Hemmer answers with "I am a genius"?

He is not smug or arrogant, he just is good and he knows and owns it. Good for you, darling!

#strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds #star trek snw #star trek #hemmer #lt hemmer #lieutenant hemmer #hemmer star trek #ghosts of illyria #s1e3 snw

[thekenobee]

New promotional photos from Strange New Worlds: Ghosts of Illyria!

#OMG OMG OMG #NO THOUGHTS HEAD EMPTY JUST THEM #Christopher Pike #una chin riley #number one #chris pike #captain pike #anson mount #rebecca romijn #strange new worlds #ghosts of Illyria #snw #star trek strange new worlds #snw spoilers #PARENTS OF THE ENTERPRISE #BEHOOOOOLD

[psycolynx]

Strange New Worlds episode three without context

#moth tag #moth #lamp #memes #Star Trek #strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds #ghosts of illyria

[startrekvsfaceapp]

#star trek #faceapp #ortegas #erica ortegas #strange new worlds #star trek strange new worlds #snw #star trek snw #ghosts of illyria

[thedeadthree]

VALAENYA (asoiaf) / ILLYRIA (hotd)

ELAENAERA (hotd) / KAROLINA (btaj/john wick/c*od)

YELENA (fo3) / FAYE (resident evil)

TAGGED BY the dears @marivenah, @dihardys, @shellibisshe and @florbelles to make the girls with this beloved meiker! ty so much! <3

TAGGING: @feystepped, @griffin-wood, @risingsh0t, @denerims, @queennymeria, @chuckhansen, @jackiesarch, @aartyom, @kingsroad, @arklay, @stormveils, @roofgeese, @leviiackrman, @malefiicarum, @loriane-elmuerto, @unholymilf, @belorage, @aceghosts and you!

#only if you want to! 🥀🍄 #oc: valaenya targaryen #oc: illyria ilmestys #oc: elaenaera targaryen #oc: karolina pajari #oc: yelena voronin #v: way back home #oc: faye marlowe #leg.ocs #leg.tagged #t: picrews #always the loveliest to make the loves in ​the ICONIC picrew 🥀❣️ #no wasteland!au yelena my BABY ✨😖 #so……… karolina enters as a challenger to the ring and got a c*d verse sksjjxxj ✨😵‍💫 #ty ty to macy for the ghost posting ✨😵‍💫 …….. bc now im considering karol and him..! i think they would be neat! #(chiara also might get one too jajxjxh but im still thinking of whom <3) #and modern au looks for the asoiaf girlies ✨😌 #the dreamy look for ella is so fitting here..! a cute tribute to her dragon in her canon u know? moon god dragon and things! #likely would be a socialite or model or something where she would get to be paid for being pretty jssjxhxh love that for u darling! <3 #the ever charismatic enya further portraying that she’s beauty and grace and can punch someone in the face ✨😌🐉🥀 icon! #ILLY BABY be it a*soiaf or a modern au shes so cool! the white hair and the heterochromia are missing but ah! baby baby! #since she has strands of white that are likely from magic u know? ✨🥺 and placed on the same side as the heterochromia 🌿😌 #off duty faye! date night with l*eon or spending quality family time with annoying siblings *cough* emery either/or she’s thriving! #local harvard med student thinks infuriating nepotism scientist is begrudgingly adorable more @ 11 ✨😒🥀❣️

[beautyofsorrow]

me sitting down to write a new SNW fic: ok i'm gonna do it i'm gonna invent my own conflict and plot

me 2k words into the doc: goddammit this is a post-ep isn't it

#EVERY TIME!!!!!!!! #my snw career is just gonna be endless rehashings of ghosts of illyria and memento mori and ad astra per aspera and i'm ok with that

[ichayalovesyou]

SNW Theory: Una is Why Pike Survives The Accident

In Ghosts of Illyria when La’an is infected with the Light Virus, she attempts to jump into the warp core and Una stops her. But not before they both recieve severe exposure to radiation, Una’s Illyrian genetic modifications save them both.

When she held onto La’an, it provided her with chimeric antibodies that not only spare them both from the radiation but allowed Chapel & M’Benga to use the antibodies from La’an to derive a cure from her blood.

Whose to say those antibodies aren’t still present in La’an’s body?

In A Quality of Mercy, Admiral Pike says that two cadets die in the accident. Maat Al-Salah, and presumably the girl whose console explodes that Pike fails to drag out in time before becoming grievously wounded and exposed himself.

Those cadets die from that level of exposure, Spock dies from a similar level of exposure in WoK, but Pike doesn’t, why? Unless…

Una (likely out of necessity) does something similar for Chris, protecting him the way she saved La’an. If/when she saves him, similar chimeric antibodies would be in him.

It would not prevent him from being injured or prevent him from being severely irradiated, but he would survive long enough for medics to get to him and prevent it from killing him.

I think one of the many reasons Pike actively chooses to live the difficult life the accident’s aftermath leads to. Other than he’s not one to give into despair, and is acutely aware of his own worth to those who love him. It’s this:

Even if Starfleet medicine can’t do much to help his quality of life, what they learn from his survival will lead to better treatment for Delta radiation survivors like him. If Pike possesses chimeric antibodies from Una that made the difference between life and death for him. That would absolutely support that notion.

#star trek #star trek strange new worlds #snw theory #snw speculation #Star Trek meta #meta analysis #snw 1x03 #the ghosts of illyria #snw 1x10 #a quality of mercy #la’an noonien singh #una chin riley #number one #commander chin Riley #captain pike #christopher pike #pikeuna #christina chong #anson mount #rebecca romijn #lar trek #ichayalovescaptainpike

[rosalie-starfall]

Una Chin-Riley (Number One) -  Ghosts of Illyria

#Star Trek Strange New Worlds #Una Chin-Riley #Number One #Rebecca Romijn #star trek: strange new worlds #Strange New Worlds #Stedits #stsnwedits #my gifs #my edits #st edits #tv edits #tv : Star Trek #star trek babes #Star trek strange new worlds episodes #Ghosts of Illyria #Star Trek #st

[kfrentzen]

[in Rebecca Romijn’s voice]: “sexy, gorgeous, hot”

#Una is on fire #so are we #my god #strange new worlds #star trek #st snw #snw spoilers #una chin riley #una #number one #rebecca romijn #ghosts of illyria

[caffeineheroes]

"It was the one prejudice inculcated into schoolchildren. The Federation was a bright and shining place of acceptance, free from ingrained hatred, relentlessly quelling xenophobia wherever it sprung up. It had to be like that, for everything to work. They celebrated their differences. They rejoiced in them. That was what made it all possible. And yet, there was this, too: the hatred of Augments. The distrust of genetic engineering."

--from Straight on till Morning, Chapter 6 "To boldly go," by @sineala

#fanfic quotes #fanfiction quotes #star trek #strange new worlds #snw #ghosts of illyria #stony #star trek au #ep 3 of SNW gave me ALL the feels and I immediately had to re-read this masterpiece #fic rec #augments #starfleet #prejudice #eugenics war

[belannaswlonkderfulworm]

una telling chris she's an illyrian has the Exact Same Energy as a kid coming out to their parents as gay. in this essay i will

#star trek #star trek snw #strange new worlds #st snw #star trek strange new worlds #chris pike #christopher pike #captain pike #una chin riley #number one #commander chin riley #ghosts of illyria #s1e03 ghosts of illyria