#ST:Prodigy

[scifijoan]

Disappointment with Prodigy

I thought I was over this until a recent conversation triggered the same emotions so I thought I’d write down my thoughts. I’m a devoted Janeway/Chakotay shipper and I loved that Prodigy brought these two characters back.  There were some wonderful moments between them over the two seasons of the show. The meaningful looks and touches (which are more difficult to accomplish with animation), the hugs, the nods to special items, even the acknowledgement of other characters that they understood how special Janeway and Chakotay were to each other. The tantalizing look at their mirror version selves where they were an actual couple. The greatly anticipated emotional reunion between them once Chakotay was rescued from the remote planet.

 Yet overall, I am not satisfied. In fact, I’m still annoyed.

If Janeway/Chakotay is canon, why not openly acknowledge it? Why be cagey? Why play games?

You could argue that Star Trek is mostly an adventure show, not a romance.  That would be true.  But we’ve seen multiple couples dating and many of them getting married such as: Miles and Keiko (Next Generation), Dax and Worf (DS9), and Tom and B’Elanna (Voyager).

You could suggest that Star Trek doesn’t want to get into more intimate issues when it comes to relationships.  That they are averse to showing sexual scenes. Yet every Trek show has implied sexual encounters: Kirk and random alien woman of the week, Riker and random alien woman of the week. Even Harry had sex with an alien woman (and got into big trouble!). Don’t even get me started on Trip/T’Pol of Enterprise where there is absolutely no doubt in anyone’s mind that sex occurred.

You might say, Prodigy is a cartoon aimed for a younger audience.  This is true but with kids breaking out of prison and multiple dangerous situations, would showing a loving couple kissing once really be that traumatic? That emotionally scaring?

And there was an actual kiss in Prodigy – between Dal and Gwyn.  So that argument doesn’t hold water.

Star Trek has conclusively shown us tons of established couples over the years, so the writers apparently know how to do this. In the latest versions of Trek, Seven and Raffi shared a kiss. Beverley and Picard obviously had to have sex at least once to produce Jack. 

How hard would it be to show Janeway and Chakotay as an established couple?

Then we have the final scene in Prodigy season 2.  Chakotay shows up at Janeway’s farmhouse where she acts like she hasn’t got a clue why he’s there. That she has no idea what he’s been up to. Not the behavior of two people in a relationship.

Let me ask, why would Janeway retire and Chakotay be the one to hurry back to Starfleet? She’s the one who always puts duty first.  Her life is Starfleet. It’s in her blood. While Chakotay already knows Starfleet is flawed, he left the organization to join the Maquis.  And now he’s been held prisoner, possibly tortured and marooned on a distant world. He’s lost ten years of his life! How old is he at this point? Hasn’t the man endured enough trauma? Wouldn’t it make more sense for him to retire?

And what was Chakotay thinking about those ten years? Honestly, if he loved Janeway, wouldn’t their reunion be the best time to profess it? To grab the chance that he thought he’d lost forever to be with the love of his life?

But no, apparently the draw of Starfleet is far more important. Far more alluring.

If Janeway felt that way for him, wouldn’t it be the same issue? She put everything on the line to find him, even risking her professional reputation, searching for him for over two years. And now, it’s just, “Hey, glad you’re back. See you later”?

Does this make any sense?

Most people either commit to a relationship or they don’t.  They don’t pine after someone yet put off getting together (or actually kissing) for years on end.  This is a foolish and overly romantic notion.  Human beings don’t work that way.

But now, after ten years, he’s more than happy to see her once every few months?

How old are they at this point anyway? Chakotay’s gained ten additional years on her. Why would they continue to put off a relationship? Do any of us meet the love of our life at age 40 yet wait until we’re 65 years old to act on it? What’s the point?

Guess we’d have to have some life-changing event to force the issue.  But, oh wait…didn’t they just do that?

Let’s face it, the reason Janeway/Chakotay was in Prodigy was to get Janeway/Chakotay fans to watch.  To appeal to a built-in fanbase. Period.

If we were part of the target audience, why not give us fans what actually we want?

Closure.

Did any of you watch Prodigy only wanting their deep friendship?

I don’t think so.

As it is, all we have is plausible deniability. Non Janway/Chakotay fans say, they’re just close friends.  And there’s absolutely nothing definitive to refute that point of view. Even Kate Mulgrew stoked that fire when she is quoted as saying, “The result was Janeway revealing that her love for Chakotay goes deeper than romance, and that made for a real tear-jerker even if some were disappointed they didn't officially become a couple”

Read that again.

“Even if some were disappointed they didn't officially become a couple.”

Does this sound like canon to you?

Now, let me make myself crystal clear, my annoyance is with the Star Trek production team and writers, not Janeway/Chakotay fans.  If you’re a loyal Janeway/Chakotay fan and feel you got what you wanted or needed from Prodigy, that it feels like they’re a couple, that it’s enough for you, I’m happy for you. And if you interpret the events of Prodigy differently, I respect that.

Personally, I’m tired of manipulative Hollywood crap.

Thank God for the wonderful Janeway/Chakotay fans who really keep this fandom alive with wonderful stories, photo manipulations and videos. We do a much better job!

[mia-cooper]

If one of the kids turned out to be the part-Borg spawn of Picard, they wouldn't have to cancel Prodigy

[adastrafanfic]

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Ad Astra News - 7/2 - 7/8

State of the Archive

Okay, so listen up. This is important.A lot of people coming to Ad Astra have never been a part of the Ad Astra community back when we were still running on eFiction. They're new authors from AO3, especially, who are used to a certain kind of culture and looking for alternatives to AO3; that culture is often far more passive in its consumption and less interactive in general. While AO3 is an incredible resource, it's not really a fan community. That's not meant as a disparagement; AO3 serves its intended purpose (maybe even too well) of being a place where everyone can safely archive stories. It is not, though, a social platform, nor was it meant to be.

Ad Astra is, by contrast, a community. When you're over here archiving your stories frantically, distressed by what's happening with OTW, you're stepping foot into a place with a very long history that has been kept alive by a relatively small number of people who love it. Who have paid for its survival for years, even when we were broke and literally scraping change together from the core community to keep afloat. Even when we were quiet. Even when we lost two of our own to death by illness. And even when it felt hopeless. We have been, for almost fifteen years, a circle of people -- sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, sometimes just a few die-hards -- telling each other stories and celebrating each others stories around a campfire. This is what you're coming into. So I need you, the new people, to understand that you aren't owed this space. We invite you (general you) into it, and we will gladly -- joyfully -- fold you into our community, but you aren't entitled to this. If you want it to survive, if you want the efforts of those of us who have poured incredible hours of time and money and effort into this just so we could offer it to you for free to continue, then do your part to keep it alive. Celebrate your fellow authors. Write comments. Write recs. Talk on the forums, join a rewatch, host a rewatch. Join the weekly challenge. Get involved. (And, you know, follow my tagging rules and stop trying to sneak around them. LOL! I see you. If it's not useful for universal search filtering, it doesn't belong on the archive and I will cull it with glee. XD) Any fan community starts and ends with its people, not with its platform. I know you like the platform. Now come and celebrate the people, and let us celebrate you, too. Thanks.

Weekly Challenge #10

For this challenge, you get to take a look at a 'turn right' AU. Or left. Or backwards. Pick a canon moment or a moment in the lives of a character, one of your OCs or even just in the universe and explore, in 100 to 700 words, what might have happened if it played out differently. If a different person stepped in front of the disruptor fire. Or if someone had a nightmare and backed out of that assignment. The sky's the limit; interpret however liberally or strictly as you like!

If you post it to the archive, add it to the Weekly Challenges collection with the tag Weekly Challenge: One Reality Over and post a link here in this thread so we can go see!

Challenge ends at 11:59PM Eastern on Friday, July 14th!

Also, a special shout-out to Beatrice_Otter, who was a total MVP this week by compiling about 90% of our Stories Archived section for me while I kept settling in to my new job. For real, she was amazing and thank you so, so much for the help, Beatrice.

Stories Archived

Star Trek: Discovery

by lah_mrh A Light in the Darkness - T - Michael Burnham, Saru, Philippa Georgiou Know You Better Now - T - Ash Tyler/Christopher Pike Yours If You Want It - T - Ash Tyler | Voq/Christopher Pike

by nonelvis It's All We Know Now to Never Go Back - Explicit - Gabriel Lorca/River Song The Winter Festival - G - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell War Games - T - Gabriel Lorca/Ash Tyler A Quiet Empire - T - Gabriel Lorca/Michael Burnham

by Pixie Fear of Falling - M - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell Soldier or Musician - G - Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets, Sylvia Tilly I can feel the flames on my skin - T - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell Dracarys - G - Katrina Cornwell/Phillipa Georgiou

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

by lah_mrh Waiting It Out - G - Christopher Pike & Una Chin-Riley | Number One by StarryEyes2000 Extra Scenes, Codas, and Other Stuff (SNW Season 2) - T - Ensemble Cast Captain Honorary Dad - T - Christopher Pike, Ensemble Cast

Star Trek: The Original Series

by IDICdreads What If We Could - G - Spock/Christine Chapel There is no pain. - T - Spock, James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy Oh, the places you'll boldly go! - G - Ensemble Cast

by jamaharon Please - Explicit - Spock/James T. Kirk Mating Season (So to Speak) - T - Spock/James T. Kirk Hot Springs - T - Spock/James T. Kirk Care - G - Spock/James T. Kirk Leaving the Table - G - James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy

by lah_mrh Tea and Sympathy - G - James T. Kirk & Spock

by SLWalker Cinderella in a Party Dress - Teen - Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Montgomery "Scotty" Scott Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - M - Montgomery Scott (Mirror)

Star Trek: Alternate Original Series

by daraoakwise If Only In My Dreams - T - Leonard "Bones" McCoy (AOS)/Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (AOS)

by StarryEyes2000 Dating Advice - T - Leonard "Bones" McCoy (AOS), James T. Kirk (AOS), Spock (AOS)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

by baktag To Boldly Go - T - Data & Guinan

by intothisshadow [Graphics] Star Trek TNG Wallpapers - G - Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi

by jamaharon Earl Grey, Hot - G - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker Death Letter Blues - G - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker Wild, Wild Young Men - T - Worf/William Riker Odysseus to Telemachus - M - Thomas Riker & Kyle Riker Cat Puberty - G - Data, Geordi La Forge, William Riker Mood Indigo - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker Conjoined - T - Deanna Troi/William Riker, Thomas Riker/Worf Parallels - G - Guinan, Ro Laren Live - M - Deanna Troi/William Riker Phantom Pain - T - Deanna Troi/William Riker A Bridge of Brass - T - Thomas Riker & William Riker Haptics - G - Data/Geordi La Forge Changes - M - William Riker/Data Starlines - E - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker Noli Me Tangere // Touch Me Not - M - Deanna Troi/William Riker The Enterprise Gets a Sex Change - T - Ensemble Worf's Warlike Battle of the Arms - T - William Riker/Worf Five Times Riker Staked His Claim + One Time Worf Staked His Instead - Unrated - Deanna Troi/William Riker/Worf Five Times Riker Didn't Want to Have Sex + One Time He Didn't Have To - E - Deanna Troi/William Riker Absent in the Spring - T - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker

by kimaracretak the tidings from our fading sun made me wiser - T - Deanna Troi/Ro Laren

by Pixie Lefler's Law 17 - T - Robin Lefler/Sito Jaxa

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

by jamaharon Just Doing His Job - G - Elim Garak/Julian Bashir

by kimaracretak the sky stirred - T - Winn Adami

by LordRobertBruceScott Star Beagle Adventures Episode 1: The Eye of the Beholder - Teen - Pel, original characters

by Pixie Meet Cute - G - Elim Garak/Morn

By sixbeforelunch Soldiers Were Children Once - T - Quark

Star Trek: Voyager

by nostalgia Where No One Can Hear You Scream - Mature - Kathryn Janeway/Chakotay

by Pixie Morale - G - Tuvok, Tom Paris Kindred - G - Kathryn Janeway & Tuvok, Kathryn Janeway/Tuvok,

Star Trek: Picard

by jamaharon The Drowned Girl - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker Head Like a Haunted House - T - Jack Crusher/Borg Queen Safe and Sound - G - Geordi La Forge, William Riker Nothing Heavier - T - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker/Deanna Troi Boys Don't Cry - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker

Star Trek: Prodigy

by Pixie Limitless - G - Kathryn Janeway, Tuvok, Gwyndala, Jack Crusher

Expanded Universes

by DavidFalkayn Bellerophon: Into the Unknown - Mature - Ensemble Cast Opening Moves - Mature - Multiple Relationships The Big Dance - M - Ensemble Cast

by Gibraltar The Plebe - NR - Liana Ramirez

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2024.07.01

Monday, July 1st:

(exclusive): Star Trek: Prodigy (netflix, new outlet, season 2 available, all 20 eps), The Chosen (APrime|Peacock, season 4 available, all 8 eps), Attack of the Red Sea Sharks (dsn+|hulu), Baby Sharks in the City (dsn+|hulu), Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie: "Gulf Coast" (dsn+|hulu), Shark vs. Ross Edgley (dsn+|hulu), Sharks Gone Viral (dsn+|hulu), Supersized Sharks (dsn+|hulu), When Sharks Attack 360 (dsn+|hulu, season 2 available, all 8 eps)

(streaming weekly): My Life is Murder (AcornTV), Murdoch Mysteries (AcornTV)

(broadcast specials): 30 for 30: "No Scope: The Story of FaZe Clan" (ESPN, 90mins), "Sharks Gone Viral" (NatGeo), "Supersized Sharks" (NatGeo)

(hour 1): American Ninja Warrior (NBC, 2hrs), Name That Tune (FOX), All American (theCW, repeats, 2hrs), Summer Baking Championship (FOOD, season 2 finale)

(hour 2): American Ninja Warrior (NBC, contd), Mayor of Kingstown (SHO), The 1% Club (FOX), All American (theCW, repeats, contd), The Great American Recipe (PBS), "Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up" (LIFE)

(hour 3): The Wall (NBC, season 5B opener, new timeslot), My Life is Murder (BBCAm), POV (PBS, coming-of-age story "Hummingbirds", 90mins), Holy Marvels (HIST)

(hour 4 - latenight): Race to Survive (USA)

[preempted all week: The Daily Show (COM) ]

[nomnomroko]

I finished ST:Prodigy season 2 this week, so have those two, and a bonus T'Lyn

[therealaves-blog1]

I like the part in ST:Prodigy where Vice Admiral Janeway shows up aboard the Dauntless, the ship from that one episode of Voyager where an alien tries to get them eaten by the Borg in revenge.

She came home with the documents and mechanics of an entire fake Federation ship and just went to Utopia Planitia and told them 'lets just make our own?' And then they just reverse engineered slipstream drive and gave Admiral Janeway the first working ship.

The fastest ship in the fleet is made in the image of a death trap and the Captain who had it sprung on her rides around in it.

I fucking love the Federation, dude. Insane behaviour from my Admiral, nothing but respect.

[whirligig-girl]

ST:PRODIGY S2 SPOILERS

WATCH STAR TREK PRODIGY! IT'S REALLY FUCKING GOOD! I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF EPISODE FIVE RIGHT NOW SO DO NOT RESPOND TO ME WITH SPOILERS!

I have to report that I am going to have some interesting work to do squaring my version of Mellanoid Slime Worms from the past year and a half--Eaurp Guz et al--with the depiction of Murf in Prodigy S2.

Spoilers for S2E5 and maybe earlier below the cut.

So. Murf is an aquatic, and that was preventing him from being understood. Rok'tahk says we don't know much about his species--but that's silly, they could have just asked me! I'd have told you alllll about their railways and spaceships and maybe a little bit about the less important stuff like their history, planet, culture, and biology. :P

Murf can slightly shapeshift at a whim (using extra arms to grab a bunch of weapons) but clearly reverts to one of a few natural forms--a bipedal and an aquatic form. This isn't much different to Guz!

I had assumed that Murf couldn't speak because he was a baby being raised with a universal translator, so his speech pathways didn't develop correctly. The failure of the universal translator Jankom modified is exactly what I would have expected for someone with that condition. In fact that might still be the case--the message they eventually did get out of him was jumbled and in the wrong order--but the main problem was that he needed to be underwater to be understood. Clearly this isn't an issue for Guz. What's interesting is that Murf's aquatic advantage seems to be biologically inherent--he was raised in an air atmosphere. But, perhaps Guz and all other terrestrial mellanoids had to be taught special techniques to speak in air.

Murf wouldn't even necessarily be the first time a terrestrial-raised mellanoid found out she was much happier as an aquatic. My friend Ray's mellanoid OC, Utut Arobi, realized she was much happier as a mermaid (and part-time cetacean), despite spending all of her life up until that point on land.

Murf is also developing like, blobby organs that I'm pretty sure weren't in his bipedal model last season (but i could be wrong). This is something that Guz has too, but I've always imagined their refractive index is so similar to the rest of their goo that it's invisible. Still, I could probably start drawing Guz and other mellanoids that way for parity.

Before I was willing to chalk the differences up to Prodigy being a cartoon and already kinda making some weird decisions regarding existing canon, but everything seems well thought out enough at this point that I'm not necessarily comfortable throwing much away.

It's really cool though because there are actually some interesting parallels between my Mellanoids and Prodigy's, and it's really great to see a Mellanoid animated and doing stuff that's a lot like some of the stuff Guz does. But it's also frustrating because it's definitely contradicting my stuff.

So I have more or less four options, and as I watch, I'll be weighing the pro's and con's.

Guzcomic and all works with Guz, Slamtha, and my other slimeworm characters, are all in an alternate timeline where Mellanoids had a different history--even potentially a different evolutionary history as well. That is--ignore Star Trek Prodigy going forward. I don't want to do this because so far Prodigy is some of my favorite Star Trek ever!

Split off all the mellanoid characters into Gymnomi Slimes. I first used this term for the Torchship version of Guz, but I've worked it into Surviving Schwil and I think my Mellanoid Slime species sheet. I was worried about this possibility, so I sorta fit that in as an 'out.'

Split the sapient Mellanoids into different species. Maybe make the terrestrials and aquatics different species? Alternatively, maybe every goo gunk critter that the Zaldans encountered were called Mellanoid Slime--or maybe Mellanoid Slime as a name for the Guz's species comes from Zaldans hearing about Murf's species.

Make substantial retcons to all of the lore I've posted so far. The way things are heading, that might involve undoing all the rocket science and train stuff I've been doing.

That last one could be more fun, but would make my worldbuilding messy!

To be honest, even though I really liked Prodigy S1, when I decided Guz would be a mellanoid slime worm, it was sort of meant to be a minor name reference to a fairly minor slapstick character. Murf getting development in S2 didn't occur to me until after Guz became like, a part of my identity as a person. my main blorbo. It might've saved me a lot of trouble if I'd come up with an original species name originally. We'll see what happens!

Having now finished S2E5 since writing most of the above post, so far I think it's all very salvageable! But it all depends on how much more they go into Murf's biology. The show doesn't seem to be going in a direction that will be exploring Murf's actual homeworld, at least not yet.

I may be willing to just ignore Rok'tahk's "we don't know much about his species." Maybe she just meant she specifically didn't? (unlikely, she loves Murf and tried for a long time to communicate.) So far the biggest downright inconsistency with my established mellanoid slime lore is that Rok'tahk considers Murf's species uncommon and mysterious, whereas Guz hails from a *backwater*, but still a backwater with Federation membership. In my timeline, Rok'takh probably could have spoken to other mellanoids about Murf and his condition, either through subspace or maybe even talking in person to one of the small handful of mellanoid cadets in San Francisco that would've been in the academy in 2385/6.

Then again, even if she did talk to other mellanoids, even a mellanoid doctor, they probably wouldn't have had a clue what to do about it, since mellanoids didn't even have universal translators until a few years ago and they're not very common. A mellanoid slime worm larva on mellanus has probably never been exposed to an automatic U.T.

Then again, Rok'tahk's line is clearly meant to be interpreted as "we[the federation] doesn't know much..." which would be a substantial difference from my lore.

EDIT: one thing i notice--which hasn't come up much and i was toying with the idea anyway--is that Zero can't read Murf's mind. IIRC Ferengi were also hard to read because of their unique neurological structure, and mellanoid slimes definitely have a unique neurological structure. Then again, Counselor Troi is supposed to be able to read completely alien beings that have nothing in common with humanoids. Either way my Mellanoids are not psychic voids like Data is--but they're not necessarily easy to read.

[freckles-like-stars-n-shit]

bro star trek online is awesome..... idk, up until recently (st:prodigy, lower decks from what Ive gathered online) I've only seen tos and tng get all the spotlight when it comes to references and like, places to build from, so seeing voyager and enterprise get so much love and thought put into makes me so happy ;_; ;o; ♥

[teitpp]

Writing for a rarepair / rare fandom is such a healthy experience after writing for big ships.

I had the idea this year to write The Universe to Mend, a St:Prodigy/Star Trek Novels crossover featuring a minor character (Denzit Janeway) and Q as the leads. One of the reasons I picked it for the WIP Big Bang is that I knew I wouldn't have large reader interest to help motivate finishing it.

I am 1/3 of the way through the posting schedule now and I've got to say this has been a very different experience to what I am used to.

For context: I have gone from long fics with 163 kudos to one with just 9. On the one hand that is really shocking - those are all the individual readers! 9 total! 8 of them have been there since chapter one so I havent even picked up readers in subsequent updates. And thats with a regular update schedule!

Instead of being a disheartening experience I have actually found it to be really healthy.

Each comment is even more precious.

Theres not enough interest to worry about a facebook campaign being organized to harass me in a bid for faster updates.

That annoying worry in the back of my mind that people wont like what i've done to their favorite character is completely absent! Its one thing to say "write what you love / dont worry what other people think" but it's another to actually be able to put into practice. so this experience is actually extremely freeing. Theres next to no fanon about Voyager's book characters. I can do whatever I want!

It gets really hard, when youve been writing well-read fics for a while or when youve been reading well-read fics for a while to separate "popular" and "well written". Usually all my fics have a meaningful range of kudos/bookmarks/subscriptions and all from the same audience community - which makes any relative drop in readership feel like a major blow - "why did 130 people like Story A, but only 50 like Story B which i worked so much harder on. etc." - an audience of 9 isnt even graphable in comparison. its a major outlier. so rather than be depressing for me, it's actually been very nice! the readership isnt a meaningful measure of how good it is. And thats meant that I am able to really take pride in non-popularity based measures of "good writing" without having hits/kudos putting a damper on my mental ability to objectively consider the story's strengths.

[ssaalexblake]

Watching st:prodigy (it's very good) but I am, all the while, cringing BC I Know what fanwank must have come from this Gwyn situation and yikes.

[aunt-pol]

hey how's st:prodigy s2 going? did they give those children therapy and time and a stable environment in which to begin healing from their years of literal enslavement and adjust to federation life yet or is janeway still fast-tracking them into dangerous adult responsibilities

[tuttle-did-it]

Frankly, I have a great deal to say about DS9 in particular, especially in relation to queerness, gothic, Dandyism and identity.

I have a lot to say about Seven, and a WAYYYY too much to say about Janeway. Like... a LOT.

However, my disabilities started to worsen when I was doing my PhD, and now my brain and body do not function at all.

I'm very often unconscious for up to 22 hours a day (more when I didn't have my dog waking me to go outside).

Can't do video essays, sorry. Best I can do these days is rambling posts about things like Janeway's white suit

the brilliant way ST:Prodigy played with nostalgia when fuckers like Picard were making me retroactively HATE TNG to the point where I never want to watch it again

That's pretty much it, frankly. Every once in a while my brain will work at just enough power for just enough time to post things like this. I once wanted to do YouTube essays on all the tv that matters to me. Not just Star Trek. But my brain no longer works enough to write academic articles or books anymore. Which really fucking pisses me off cos I need to write about Garak's Dandyism and it physically hurts me that I cannot write that book.

where all the really niche Star Trek video essays? So many other fandoms (even just random Tv shows sometimes) have really niche, explorative and interesting video essays, you would think with how long this fandoms been around we’d have at least a few? Of maybe im just not finding them? Like where is the

[Star Trek and the history of Sci-fi]

[Star Trek; fandom and women]

[Star Trek; Spock, Data and The Neurodivergent/Autistic Character]

Not even just super nice ones

Quinto Reviews style break down (maybe not as long cause that would take literally forver but ypu get the idea?) guys?? Please??

[mia-cooper]

I'm finding it hard to understand why we're still supposed to think Starfleet and the Federation are the ideal when suddenly they're anti-augment (but only when it suits them? How come Bashir gets to stay in starfleet but Una gets sent to the mines? How come Dal can't enlist but Seven gets a field commission? And yes xBs should count as genetically augmented) and treat androids like slaves (unless they're Data).

At least Section 31 makes sense as the shadowy underbelly of the Perfect Society.

[foughfaugh]

why aren’t we all talking about this beauty??? first look at star trek: prodigy...

side note, i’m already claiming the purple-blue goo on behalf of the enbies. they’re ours. back off. /j

[thenerdsofcolor]

Star Trek Day 2022 a Celebration of Family and Belonging

Relive #StarTrekDay with NOC, from the purple carpet to the main stage.

[greatgatsbyhateblog]

made this while explaining the timeline to friends, enjoy the pretty-sure-it's-accurate-rough-estimates of major events and series dates

(likely a chance i have something a few years off tho, so keep that in mind and also plz dont be mean if i do, jut lmk)

(click to read, ID below the cut)

[ID: timeline drawn out in ms paint titled "Forrest's attempt at explaining roughly what the Star Trek timeline is (sans the movies and aos)" the listed events in order of present day to furthest in the future:

21st century, 2022: present day

22nd century, between 2130-2160: st:ent

(as in i dont remember exactly when it took place, but it was somewhere between the 30s and 60s)

23rd century, 10 years before tos: s1 of st:disco

23rd century, from just before s1 of disco to just before tos: st:snw likely to fall just in here

23rd century, roughly 2260s: st:tos and st:tas

24th century, roughly between 2360s-2430s: st:tng, st:ds9, st:voy

24th century, around ds9: Dominion War somewhere in here (conflict during ds9)

from just before tng(24th century) to just before pic(roughly 25th century i think): st:lwd falls somewhere in here

25th century roughly, prolly between 2460s-2480s idk: st:pic roughly here

from just after voy(24th, possible 25th century) to a while after pic(roughly 25th century i think), end of guessed period falls somewhere between 25th and 27th centuries: st:prodigy falls somewhere in here, date unclear in show

31st century: temporal cold war is here roughly

between the end of the temporal cold war(31st century) and before the start of s2-s4 of disco(32nd century i think): no idea when, but The Burn falls somewhere after the Temporal Cold War but before s2-s4 of disco

32nd(i think) century (900 years since s1): s2-s4 of st:disco

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