#vulcan/orion

[thali-lemmonpie]

My Star Trek OCs and their parents

names and info under the cut:

Mom: T'Vran (58), she's an exo-agronomist.

1) T'Lyra's Family

Dad: Arev (57), he's an exo-anthropologist and ambassador assistant.

They meet at a young age in a federation colony (that has a majority of humans) while they were working in their areas. They went straight to the point and once they realized they both were compatible and soon they bonded.

Life in the colony was lonely, and they were thinking to go back to Vulcan until they were invited to a Punk Community that received them with their arms open and without hesitation. Soon they started participating until they blended well within the community.

A couple of years later T'Lyra was born in that ambient, she has a couple of siblings. They all practice the Surak teachings to a T.

T'Lyra will debate everything, she has a future in security that's for sure.

2) Shryr's Family (I'm so sorry for the long names I found it funny)

Dad 1: Nicolas Aníbal Riquelme Aravena (55), Physician

Dad 2: Yeison Antonio del Carmen Diaz Rojas (56), Engineer

They meet at a Deep Space base while studying, they bonded over being born in the same country (Chile) and soon enough they were inseparable. They went to work at the antártica and meet Shryr bio-parents and became great friends. Unfortunately, Shryr parents died in an accident and left their 3 year old toddler in their care.

Has been fun, they like to change locations (always where is cold, they do like snow not only because of their son). They don't work for the starfleet but they accept to relocate where they're nedded.

Shryr likes the life he has with his dads, he wants to pursuit exo-biology in starfleet.

3) Shanak's Family

Dad: Lorian (94), accountant

Mom: Mivi (64), IT

Both of them meet at a starbase were they work for the same office (yep, they have a 9 to 5). Lorian was a widower with a son in the way of Kolinahr while Mivi was divorced with a teenager son.

They spent a year knowing each other before courting and a year later they bonded and got married. They had Shanak 2 years later at the same starbase.

They spent holidays in their homeworlds, Shanak had some trouble with her emotions so her older Vulcan brother (who was a Kolinahr master at that point) taught her rigorous meditations skills that has helped her. Her orion brother would like her to be freer but he loves her anyway.

Her mom was a little bit delulu thinking she was going to have the same problem Amanda Grayson had when she was pregnant with her until his husband reminded her that they were just a couple of employees in a random company in a random department, neither were the ambassador for an entire planet, that made her chuckle.

Shanak is divided between science and engineering, but will pursuit both just for fun.

They all went to Starfleet in the 2370s and became great friends ❤ T'Vran and Mivi became besties once they meet (also because their daughters started dating)

[blanc-ci]

Rewatching the 2009 movie and couldn’t get this idea out of my head

Rip Gaila I HAVE JUST BEEN INFORMED SHE SURVIVES IN YHE AOS COMICS!! YIPPIE

[spittyfishy]

I had so much fun recreating some of the Lower Decks character rigs! I tried to get them as show accurate as possible, same with the backgrounds, and it was cool to animate with them after I made them!

[foodcu-be]

more oc art from twitter

[trekkie-polls]

Obviously there’s not room for every alien race here - but I’d love to hear about it if you chose one not on this list!

[thechromebucket]

I thought of the idea last year to do Trek species as merfolk for this Mermay. I was really excited for it, but a bunch of insane crap ended up postponing it. Well 27 days late is better than never. Swim long and prosper!

Edit: I've tweaked a few of these since uploading.

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#921

I'm loving the recent trend of Vulcans showing attraction to different non-human species: T'Rina romancing Saru, T'Lyn lusting after Orion men, and Maj'el having a teenage crush on Zero. I hope it continues because I think there's a lot of unexplored possibilities out there.

[crownedinmarigolds]

Indulgent sketch of a pulp-esque cover for one of the "episodes" of our Star Trek AU. The crew of the USS Antumbra must get information from the Orion Syndicate - SPACE PIRATES - and will do whatever it takes to get it! (Like... use one's Orion heritage to help sneak in the security officer - a hot dad-bod Romulan. By dressing him up in bondage gear like we're about to sell him. It's part of the wooing process you guys.)

[agbpaints]

And right in time for my classes to start we've finished the little mini review of the Free Worlds League- some cool patterns in the mix here for sure. The Regulan and Andurien schemes were probably my favorite.

[cdr2002]

Mirror Universe Concepts: Lower Decks main cast

Season 5 is here, might as well share this

Beckett Mariner

Daughter of Carol and Alonzo Freeman, Mariner was born in an Alliance slave camp on Earth. Though her parents did their best to try and keep her out of trouble, Mariner was rebellious by nature and often clashed with Alliance overseers, resulting in harsh punishments including solitary confinement and torture. Prone to using her voice as a weapon, Mariner would mock and belittle her oppressors throughout these punishments, only kept alive because the Klingon overseers found her spirit admirable and the Cardassians were amused by her wit. Mariner never succumbed to any attempt to break her, and even wore her scars proudly, much as her behavior deeply worried her mother and resulted in several arguments.

Eventually, Mariner started a small rebellion in the slave camp, intent on killing or incapacitating the overseers and escaping on a freighter owned by a Ferengi trader that Mariner had gotten into contact with made some deals with, typically using money pickpocketed from overseers or from privileged Alliance-collaborating Terrans. The slave riot that kicked off Mariner’s rebellion would also be its end. Many of her fellow slaves were less equipped for combat than her, and nearly all of them were killed by the overseers during the struggle. Though Mariner successfully killed dozens of her oppressors during the fight, the constant death of friends and even her own father around her finally broke her like no amount of torture ever could. In the end she was fighting just to fight, and would only be saved from death, a death she practically wanted by this point, by two things: the intervention of a Klingon warrior named K’orin, who found her cause and spirit honorable, and the timely arrival of Quimp, her Ferengi contact, aboard a cloaked ship. Contacting her over the communicator she had smuggled into the camp, Quimp urged Mariner that it was time to go, and her surviving allies: K’orin, her then-girlfriend Amina Ramsey, and her mother, saw his wisdom in the matter. Quimp successfully beamed Mariner and the other survivors aboard and then fled Alliance space as quickly as possible.

Though managing to escape, Mariner fell into depression. She grew to loathe the universe around her and rarely offered her trust to anyone for fear of putting them in danger. After years of being forced to hide from the Alliance’s attempts to find them and in particular prosecute K’orin for his betrayal, Mariner eventually set out into the universe as a free woman.

Through Quimp’s connections, she managed to acquire a ship: the SS Cerritos. The Cerritos was far from impressive; a run-down, patched together hulk made from dated technology salvaged after the fall of the Terran Empire. While the Alliance allowed the use of a few such ships as freighters, Terran-style configurations typically invited hostility. Exactly what Mariner wanted: a middle finger to their dominance over the Alpha Quadrant and a ship fast and sturdy enough to pull herself and her crew out of scraps, if necessary.

Her crew was small at first. Not able to handle any more violence or death and simply wanting to escape the Alliance, Carol elected to stay in a small Terran sanctuary city on Ferenginar, which the Alliance ignored due to their lucrative dealings with the Ferengi Coalition. K’orin, having sworn a blood oath to Mariner, readily joined her, as did Quimp, worried about his new friend and hoping they would find some business dealings along the way. Ramsey stayed on the Cerritos for a few months, but ultimately decided to leave once she heard word of a large-scale rebellion organizing against the Alliance.

With her ship, Mariner became an infamous troublemaker throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. The mission of the Cerritos was simple: raise as much hell as they could get away with. Antagonizing Alliance patrols, robbing their installations blind, breaking open slave camps and transferring the slaves to safe worlds, simple acts of vandalism. Mariner was known as a pirate, a hero, a terrorist, and a maverick, respected by some and friend to few.

Over time, her crew grew in size, though not without earning her a death mark from the Orion Syndicate. Mariner reveled in her outlaw status, never staying in one place for long and gaining a reputation for fearless abandon. Per a vouching from Ramsey, and even her mother, who found it in herself to fight, the Terran Rebellion became interested in recruiting Mariner as they took to the task of establishing communication within their cells and growing into a larger organization. Afraid of the commitment and the responsibility for more than a small group, Mariner turned them several times and continued to go her own way.

However, the Rebellion has picked up steam recently, performing daring operations like the taking of Terok Nor, and even capturing Regent Worf. With only her own fears holding her back, Mariner could find a cause worth fighting for, an inspiration like that of Starfleet to her prime universe counterpart. But healing such wounds is far from easy.

Bradward Boimler

Born in Modesto California, Boimler’s family had been simple vineyard owners during the time of the Terran Empire. Little ones for violence, they had been supporters of Spock’s reforms and admired him in the waning days of the Empire. When Earth was conquered by the Alliance, the Klingons and Cardassians, fanciers of good drink themselves, contracted the owners of any vineyards who had survived the assault with with producing Kenar, Bloodwine, and any Terran beverages Alliance members had taken a liking to, in exchange for their lives.

Born into this environment, Boimler found the work painfully dull and longed for something more with his life. However, a universe in the fire grip of the Alliance granted him few options. Nonetheless, Boimler had a yearning to explore the galaxy and see what was out there. This desire became so strong that one night, Boimler stole a Cardassian shuttlecraft and set course for the next closest solar system. However, a failure to input the proper verification codes upon reaching orbit and the fear of death forced Boimler to immediately surrender. In the interrogation that followed, his obvious panic meant that there was little need to torture him and he was quickly assessed as a minimal threat. His captors made the decision to transfer Boimler to a labor facility on Vulcan.

The harsh environment ill-suited Boimler. He was easily frightened, not especially strong, and talkative. Exactly the kind of slave the overseers were liable to simply kill and be done with. What saved Boimler’s life was a transporter malfunction that occurred during one of his shifts, duplicating Boimler and creating his twin, William. The accident fascinated Boimler’s overseers, who believed that their transporters could be modified in order to create an infinite supply of slave labor for the Alliance, an accomplishment which would surely greatly advance their careers. More opportunistic and ambitious than his progenitor due to some small variation in their brain chemistry, William offered to assist the research in exchange for being granted the privileged life of an Alliance collaborator for being the cause of this discovery.

In order to prove his sincerity, William goads the overseers to go ahead and shoot Brad. Brad would only be narrowly saved by the intervention of a Vulcan named T’Lyn, a seeming fellow slave to Brad who was in fact an undercover operative for the resistance cell on Vulcan. She short-circuited the transporter remotely with a device she had implanted hours before, leaped into the room, and killed the slave overseers by vaporizing them with a phaser. She attempted to shoot William for being a collaborator, but he managed to grab a Disruptor and fire back, escaping the room. Intuiting that William had no real knowledge on how to recreate the transporter glitch, T’Lyn grabbed Brad and had him beamed to a secure location underground with her, where she explained herself and her mission. Though naturally taking some time to regain his bearings, Brad eventually accepted the situation, and asked to join the Rebellion.

Their higher calling of liberating Terrans, Vulcans, and other races enslaved by the Alliance gave Boimler the worthwhile pursuit he had been searching for all his life. Though the members of the rebel cell on Vulcan were skeptical at first, T’Lyn vouched for Boimler and he was accepted into their ranks, given the training he would need to carry out operations against the Alliance. Now skilled with a phaser, as well as various tactics of infiltration, Boimler became a freedom fighter in earnest, undermining the Alliance regime in conjunction with his allies and learning to overcome some of his own fears. Though Boimler never became one for hand-to-hand combat, he was still nonetheless an effective soldier, and T’Lyn taught him the Vulcan Nerve Pinch in order to make up for that shortcoming.

While fighting as a Rebel, Boimler became an avid follower of the exploits of Captain Beckett Mariner and the SS Cerritos, an outlaw famed for giving the Alliance a bloody nose on more than one occasion.

As the disparate rebel cells began to coalesce after Tuvok managed to get Miles O’Brien’s rebel cell on Terok Nor in contact with the rebels on Vulcan, Boimler personally volunteered for the mission to locate the Cerritos and extend an offer to Captain Mariner.

With T’Lyn offering to accompany him, the mission was approved and the two managed to get themselves onto the ship. Unfortunately, Mariner quickly began causing trouble in the system of their meeting right as they began attempting to make their proposal, forcing Boimler and T’Lyn to become members of her ship’s crew in order to assist in preserving the lives of everyone on board. Braving skirmishes with the Orion Syndicate, the Gorn, and Alliance warships far more powerful than the Cerritos, Boimler is still determined to convince Mariner to take part in the wider rebellion, regardless of the walls she puts up around herself. With time, he may succeed.

D’Vana Tendi

“Mistress of the Winter Constellations”, Tendi comes from a powerful family in the Orion Syndicate. She is the granddaughter of the previous holder of her title, Astrea Tendi, who famously stole an ancient artifact from Terran captain Christopher Pike in the 23rd century, among other accomplishments.

Growing up with immense pressure to fulfill her role as heir to family’s wealth an influence, Tendi chafed against these demands as well as the standards of Orion society as a whole, feeling that her people needlessly limited themselves by pouring their entire cultural resources into their vast criminal empire rather than allowing individuals to pursue other interests. Tendi herself developed a fascination with the sciences at a young age, and dreamt of a life of discovery, exploration, and adventure. These values closely matched that of the Federation Starfleet, but were seldom respected in the Orion Syndicate or elsewhere in the mirror universe. As she reluctantly carried out the family business alongside her sister D’Erika, Tendi would take exceptionally well to the training and various skills her family provided her.

She would also come to despise the Syndicate’s dealings with the Alliance. While the Orions were certainly exploiters, assassins, and thieves, careers Tendi had no taste for, they had long abandoned outright slavering, an act the Alliance almost seemed to specialize in. Though her family tried to explain to her that appeasing the Alliance was simply part of life due to their dominance over the Alpha Quadrant, this was the last straw and Tendi knew she had to leave this life behind.

She would find her escape in the form of outlaw captain Beckett Mariner, who docked her ship at a repair station owned by Tendi’s family after a battle with Alliance forces. Her scientific personal studies having led her to studying various technologies, including those of the fallen Terran Empire, Tendi took a personal interest in repairing the ship. Her skill at optimizing the outdated technology and even fusing it with some contemporary Orion equipment impressed Mariner, and she offered to find some way of repaying her personally. Tendi’s price was escape from the Orion Syndicate, who were already maneuvering to capture the Cerritos and its crew to collect a bounty from the Alliance. Using her inside knowledge to thwart the trap, Tendi quickly earned herself a spot as Second Officer of the Cerritos and the respect and trust of Mariner and the crew. Mariner reacted surprisingly positively to the death mark from the Syndicate, believing it advanced her reputation.

In gratitude for her invaluable contributions, Tendi was allowed the sway to suggest possible sites of scientific observation for the ship, pursuing her passion as much as she could without leaving the ship in one place for too long. This would remain more or less status quo until the arrival of resistance fighters T’Lyn and Boimler, who sought to recruit the Cerritos crew into the growing Rebellion. Tendi was sympathetic to them and was in favor of joining, but Mariner’s reluctance put that idea at the very least on pause. Nonetheless, Tendi has befriended the two Rebellion representatives and is hopeful that the races under Alliance rule can achieve the same freedom of choice she herself sought in breaking away from the Syndicate.

Samanthan Rutherford

Thrill-seeking, rambunctious, and only respectful of authority when it suited his own ends, Rutherford was practically born a rebel. Once he was old enough to be suitable for labor, he was stationed on an Alliance shipyard, where he immersed himself in the study of engines, general starship design, program design, and most especially, speed. Rutherford took in as much knowledge as he could, much impressing his overseers. He became one of the most productive slaves at the facility, refitting dozens of Alliance warships and making improvements to their overall performance. The overseers were so impressed with Rutherford that they failed to keep a close enough eye on him to realize two things: that every Alliance ship he worked on had been outfitted with a sabotage code designed to go off the moment said ship locked their weapons on any Terran life signs, and that Rutherford had been building his own personal ship using parts he gradually stole for himself while working the yard.

After seven months, the small ship was complete, and outfitted with one of the fastest and most compact warp drives in the Quadrant. One night, Rutherford took his ship, the Sampaguita, and made a rush for the Romulan Neutral Zone, which he knew the Alliance vessels wouldn’t pursue him into even if they caught up to him. Skillfully evading the Romulan detection grid, Rutherford took off for parts unknown and began his new life as a free man.

Engaging in illicit ship racing, gambling, and becoming a mercenary engineer, selling his skills at ship repair and enhancement to the highest bidder in the underworld of the Galaxy.

Eventually, another rogue would contact Rutherford: Captain Beckett Mariner, in need of his services to repair the SS Cerritos after another round of damages suffered antagonizing the Alliance. Rutherford would impress the crew, particularly Mariner’s technically skilled Second Officer D’Vana Tendi, with his repairs, optimizing the ship’s systems, further bringing them up to spec with modern technology despite the Cerritos’s century-old Terran frame, and enhancing the capabilities of its shield and warp drive.

Tendi suggested hiring Rutherford onto the crew due to his capabilities, but Mariner was reluctant to give herself the responsibility for another life, and respected Rutherford’s free-spirited nature too much to attempt to pin him down. Ultimately however, Rutherford would be forced to join the crew after Alliance agents caught up with him, seeking to interrogate Rutherford to determine the extent his sabotage work as a slave engineer had affected their fleet.

In the fight ensued, Rutherford docked the Sampaguita, damaged from battle, in the Cerritos’s shuttle bay, before the ship managed to take out two Alliance warships and escape into Ferengi space, where trade agreements forbid pursuit. From then on, Rutherford accepted the position of Chief Engineer aboard the Cerritos, and took part in much of the ship’s troublemaking misadventures from then on.

Due to their respective natures, Rutherford and Mariner would often butt heads and argue, forcing Tendi to be a peacemaker between them. Fortunately, their underlying respect for one another led them to always eventually see reason. Though he hated the Alliance, Rutherford was among the crewmembers skeptical of joining the Terran Rebellion. However upon suffering a nearly fatal injury and being given a cybernetic implant which saved him by Vulcan surgeons, Rutherford would find in his gratitude that he could do nothing less than give his commitment to the cause.

T’Lyn

Born into slavery on Qo’Nos, T’Lyn was the daughter of two house servants owned by a Klingon regent. Her parents raised her in the Vulcan way, as allowed by the Alliance because of the belief that Vulcan logic produced more disciplined servants. However, the strong emotions of the Klingons around her did leave an impression.

When T’Lyn was in her mid teens, her master took her and her family on a trip to Vulcan to meet with a Cardassian gul to whom he was a political ally.

The two were scheming the elimination of a rival and their plan involved the implementation of explosive devices inside the bodies of T’Lyn’s parents to hide their bombs in plain. T’Lyn was horrified and objected, but was knocked unconscious and unable to prevent the procedure. She was kept alive because her master needed a house servant, but he threatened to kill her if she spoke up again.

The two powerful men organized a meeting with their rival and offered him T’Lyn’s parents as a supposed sign of goodwill.

Before things could go further, the meeting was attacked by the Vulcan Resistance, who were seeking to take out high ranking Alliance officials while they were gathered in one place.

During the chaos, T’Lyn managed to grab a Disruptor from a dead Klingon guard and joined forces with the rebels in order to save her parents and achieve freedom. Unfortunately, the explosive devices embedded in them were activated, and T’Lyn was forced to watch her parents die.

After that, she made sure that every Alliance member at the meeting was killed with quick and savant-like marksmanship. She had learned a fair amount just from observation in all these years. Were she not Vulcan, the display might appear as rage. Once the battle was over, she was counseled by the leader of the rebel attack, Sokel. He suggested that it would be logical to channel her feelings towards the liberation of the oppressed throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

T’Lyn accepted and began training in various aspects of combat, infiltration, espionage, and assassination by the Vulcan underground. She would also be trained in various forms of Vulcan meditation to assist in coping with her trauma, though she remained with an underlying passion that fueled her as a fighter. She became an efficient and deadly fighter, but also a compassionate field medic and liberator, doing her best to free Alliance slaves and help their own recoveries as best she could.

Eventually however, T’Lyn would suffer another loss when Sokel was killed in a skirmish with Alliance forces, driving her into a depression for a number of weeks.

After finding it in herself to begin actively fighting again, T’Lyn succeeded in the liberation of Brad Boimler from an Alliance facility, preventing the Alliance from exploiting transporter duplicates as a source of labor. She assisted in his training and eventually accompanied him to the raider ship SS Cerritos in order to recruit Captain Mariner into the growing Rebellion. T’Lyn’s patience has proven to be her most valuable asset in this endeavor.

[whirligig-girl]

Some OC+canon Star Trek homeworlds and terrestrial planets! First row: 967-Delphini A System (including Oistir, made for @raydrawsdaly) Second row: Vulcan System, comprising 40 Eridani b, Ni'var, T'khut, and "Delta-Vega." third row: Orion system, comprising Orion I, Orion II, Orion III (homeworld), and some uninhabitable members of a long since broken resonance chain. fourth row: the Solar System, comprising Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna, and Mars. fifth row: TE-92/Iota Sigma system, comprising TE-92b, TE-92c, TE-92d I and II, The Ocean and Lantern, and Schwil sixth row: Zwo-Nmu system, including Rabbit, the Omen moons Spark Rival Oldsky and Lake, and Mellanus.

I'd like to make a version of this that contains gas giants, ice giants, and proper super-earths, but for now just the small planets are acknowledged. (Also i just realized I forgot the Schwil-family dwarf planets and the Solar Main Belt dwarf planets, and also the inhabited moons of the Solar System planets.... aghshjdhgj whatever i gotta call it a night at some point.)

[puttybutter]

75 days!

Grab ya bestie and celebrate

Let's save Lower Decks!

[kasialoot]

Hello tumblr, I have a proposition. What if alien, but more alien, featuring peak of sex appeal: wierd bug.

Vulcans: similar to humans so that they can breed. Spock has to exist somehow. I alredy see them depicted as very cat-like in fandom, so it's not even that big a change

Andorians: First and foremost they are extremophiles. They survive in extrame conditions. And are blue. When I think "extremophile", I immedietly think "marine life", and the actor at whose face I was looking as a referance had some snapping turtle vibe to him

Tellerite: it's a pig

Klingon: Their main feature is the forehead. Second to that is big hair. I started by making the forehead longer, realised the head-shape is wueen deltarune, but it somehow feals fitting. And then I thought.... long forehead.... long face.... why- why the long face? And gave them horse mouth and tail. Also ridges along the back or on arms? I feal like that could be a nice differance from all the detail being on the face. Also human-ish so they can breed

Cardassian: The amount of ways one makes a lizard bipedal is finite

Orion: I honestly don't know how this happened. They have four distinct biological sexes so with (allegedly) noticable differance (they don't. but human actors and all that) so I wanted to have four different types. And for some reason "wierd sex thing" and "spider" and "sexual dimorphism" lives in the same category in my head, so THE porn species is based of creatures that don't really fuck. But who am I to judge, they look funky

Honorary mention: Betazoid doodle, just a human with 6 tits, I think there was a plan for Troy to have 6 boobs early in the developement of tng

[theshadowrealmitself]

Infodump on something you’re working on? Just anything. Go for it.

I wanted to do this as an actual story, I had it geared up, but demand avoidance or whatever dictated that I didn’t fucking finish it, so I’m just gonna talk about what I was gonna write here:

So, recap, for anyone who hasn’t seen my other post, a Vulcan who recently graduated from the Academy has not gotten a ship assignment yet and is working on a case where a bunch of Academy students keep getting found with illegal contraband, and Starfleet wants to know where from

So the Vulcan, Nesheh, looks into it, based on advice they got from an older Vulcan who’s been in Starfleet for longer, and finds out that a popular establishment that always has rumors circulating around it because it employs mainly Orion women is connected to another establishment with almost the same name, that people thought was a coincidence

So Nesheh is thinking that the establishment (I forget what I called them, I think it was Veqqie’s: D&E, and plain Veqqie’s?) is doing something illegal, and they’re just using the second location to hide it, and that’s why they’ve never been caught

So Nesheh goes to confront Birdie (a Human friend of his that he may or may not have a crush on), cause Birdie works at the “unsuspicious” Veqqie’s

That’s where we left off, the conclusion:

Nesheh confronts Birdie, and Birdie agrees to reveal it all, why the other location mainly employs Orion women, why so many rumors run rampant, why the authorities never find anything suspicious in that location

The secret?

“There’s nothing illegal actually happening.”

D&E employs Orion women so that customers, mainly Human men, will think they can get away with something

It’s an entire script that comes from corporate

The Orion server escorts the customer(s) to their table, making sure to flirt and be very nice, but oh! they’re so packed! they can’t stay and talk anymore, they have to do their job 🥺 unless, you could buy this [horribly upmarked item on the menu] 🥺

Which is actually a really simply drink, but it’s made at the table, so the server can stay and talk longer, and they just keep doing that, getting every customer at every table to spend a wild amount of money, because the customers think they’ll get lucky

And why do they think they’ll get lucky? It’s not just because the servers are so nice, but because there’s always rumors being fueled

So why the second location? To help spread the rumors! Every time a customer comes in, Birdie “makes sure” that they know they’re at the right location and not that “sleazy other location” where the servers are “too friendly” with customers

(There’s also supposed to be a whole thing where Birdie works with a Ferengi who had no idea about any of this)

(Birdie also is specifically friends with some of the Orions and is like “those girls pay our bills, how tf do you think this location stays open?”)

Veqqie’s is in no way connected to any illegal stuff, it’s way more profitable for them to be on the right side of the law, it would’ve been a logical guess, but the world doesn’t just always work out “logically”

At this point, Nesheh would realize that it would’ve been incredibly logical for it to be this “shady” place ran by Orions, and he comes to a sickening realization that his Vulcan coworker is a part of the contraband ring and deliberately set him on the wrong path

I am so mad at myself not finishing the small fucking drabble, but at least now I have it written on a post!!

Thank you so much for asking!!!!!

[foodcu-be]

STA doodles

[indignantlemur]

hello, I have a bit of an odd question. For each species culture in Star Trek do you think would fit in Star wars? I think the andorians and Klingons fit with the mandalorians. What do you think?

Have a nice day.

Hello! This is a fun question!

I'm gonna narrow the scope a little, because if I did every Star Trek species we'd be here forever, but I'll try to hit all the main ones.

Andorians: I could see Andorians fitting neatly into the realm of Pantoran or Chiss characters pretty easily, and what little we know about the Chiss feels a lot like it could parallel Andorians in their earlier, more isolationist histories. I particularly feel like the rigid social structures of the Chiss and their military philosophies would fit quite nicely with Andorian values. Likewise, Pantorans share some similarities with Andorians, like exceptional hearing and coloration. Additionally, the tradition of garnering tattoos to indicate family and allegiance amongst Pantorans does feel similar to Andorian chitin patterns.

Humans: Humans across all universes are pretty much the same, let's be honest. If you take an average Star Trek Human civilian and plonk them down on an average Core World in the 'Wars universe, they'll do just fine.

Vulcans: Of all the species, I feel like Vulcans prove to be excellent candidates for Jedi recruitment, but that's not actually a species, so: Kel Dor. Hear me out: they have sages, they're largely mysterious, they are on the whole very force sensitive (psychically powerful) and they keep much of their culture and traditions to themselves. It's a stretch, admittedly, but I think it kind of works.

Trill: Phydolons feel like a good match. They're a symbiotic species which form a kind of gestalt consciousness between a mammalian host and a fungal symbiote, who value wisdom and spirituality.

Klingons: The Noghri might not feel like the most immediate option to come to mind, but bear with me. Noghri are skilled warriors who utilise technology and an array of natural weapons and defenses, place high value on honour, and function societies built upon familial clans. It's not as much of a stretch as you might think, looking at that. Just as the Klingons are honed for war, the Noghri are uniquely suited for combat - though the Noghri are most well known for being assassins, rather than front-line warriors.

Orions: The Falleen, hands down. Green skin, dark hair, known to use powerful pheromones to influence others, regularly associated with major crime syndicates... it's hard not to see the parallels. It's tempting to say Twi'leks here, but honestly I feel the Falleen are a much better match.

Ferengi: Muun in general, and the Banking Clan in particular. Muun are extremely intelligent and naturally gifted at mathematics, and while the Banking Clan gives them something of a negative reputation, most Muun are pretty decent folks. Sounds familiar? Wildly different physiologies aside, I think the Ferengi and the Muun have a surprising amount in common.

Tellarites: It would be incredibly lazy to say Gamorreans here, so I won't. Truthfully, with the minimal lore on Tellarites that we have to work with, finding an equivalent for them in the Star Wars universe is a bit tricky. I'd be inclined to say the Gran, perhaps, for their colonial tendencies and agricultural leanings, but even that feels very weak to me.

Mandalorians: Mandalorians are not a species but diverse individuals who follow a shared creed, and therefore I don't feel it sensible to include it with any of the above options which are based on species. Additionally, there are at least four kinds of Mandalorians, which further complicates the issue: Death Watch, the Children of the Watch, the True Mandalorians, and the New Mandalorians. Your choices narrow down to child-abducting-hyper-militant-terrorist group, weirdly-genetically-homogenous/militant-pacifist group, militant-but-mostly-reasonable-and-kinda-culty group, and a virtually non-existent faction of militant golden-age-Mandos-cut-down-before-their-time. With all of these, your mileage may vary wildly. I could see Vulcans being attracted to the New Mandalorian philosophies, I suppose, and Andorians would probably be all over the True Mandalorian option, but it's hard to say more beyond that outside of individual circumstance.

Thanks for the ask!