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[cptnchristopherpike]

Brand new cast portraits for Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!

[jedi-starbird]

Alpha-17 and Obi-Wan being friends (derogatory) on 17's part and friends (threatening) on Obi-Wan's part is such an underrated dynamic

They could be so funny and terrifying, like Obi-Wan went through a soul shredding experience with Alpha-17 as his only company. They're friends because what else are you gonna be after you witness each other at absolute rock bottom from torture.

It's like 'dog put in cage of cheetah who's threatening to go crazy', except the dog is a grizzly bear and also threatening to go crazy.

Emotional support trooper except the trooper in question has never done any sort of supporting in his life and is actively an emotional distress trooper to a great number of the CC batch.

I want them texting everyday, I want Obi-Wan mailing handmade BFF bracelets to Alpha and Alpha sending pics back of him flipping off the camera but still wearing them, I want Alpha using Obi-Wan to keep track of and occasionally terrorize his cadets, I want 17 ending problems in the GAR (like Krell) before they begin because Obi-Wan has him shipped out on a personal transport at the first opportunity, decked out with slug-throwers Obi-Wan got him for his decant-day.

Natborn officers think this is all just an odd indulgence of General Kenobi, the Vode, however, correctly identify it as a goddamn threat and their danger assessment of Obi-Wan ticks up significantly.

When Alpha arrives on Kamino, Shaak Ti presses a shiny new comm into his hand. It has the Jedi Order symbol painted onto it alongside a smiley face sticker, and it pings immediately with a new message: Hello! I hope you're settling in well!

Alpha stares at the message, stares at the singular contact named 'OWK' and then stares Shaak Ti in the eye as he pitches the comm straight into the ocean. Shaak Ti's serene smile only grows larger as she calmly reaches into her robes and pulls out an identical comm, only this one has a frowny face sticker, and presses it into his hand. It lights up: I'm afraid we've bonded, Alpha :). Alpha shuts it off and pockets it with resignation.

Cody arrives on Alpha-17's personal recommendation.

A-17: He's the most difficult little bastard I have. You're perfect for each other. OWK: Thank you, he's very handsome :3 A-17: No. Stop.

The first thing he asks once he gets comfortable is who his general is texting so much that has him swinging his legs and twirling his hair. Cody assumes it's Anakin, given they seem joint at the hip anyway, but little does he know Obi-Wan's ability to consistently have the Weirdest Relationships Ever.

"Oh, it's Alpha-17, I understand you're familiar with each other?" Hmm. OK. Cody.exe is experiencing a processing error, please hold. He exits the room instead of answering. The next day he peeks over the General's shoulder when he's texting and sees walls of rambling messages from Obi-Wan. Alpha-17 replies every hour with a single text: Lose this number. Obi-Wan giggles. "He's so funny." he says.

When Obi-Wan meets the rest of the CC batch, Cody makes sure to stand perfectly angled so that he can record the reactions when his general cuts off their introductions with "Oh, no need, Alpha-17's told me all about you." It's always immediate FEAR.JPG followed by a slow spiral of What The Fuck.

What do you mean by that General. What does that mean Cody. What do you mean they text. No. Cody. What the fuck is happening, Cody. Alpha-17 doesn't have friends he has enemies and enemies he tolerates enough not to shoot on sight.

OWK: Wolffe reached for his vambrace? when I mentioned you A-17: That's where he keeps his spare knife. OWK: Hm that does explain the way he eyed me up, ambitious. A-17: Clearly not enough, he should have followed through. I taught them better.

[pokeberry5]

the sun is out and the days are getting longer again 🙏

[itz-pandora]

I keep thinking about these guys ... Idiots....

[ddeck]

but what if fox smiling

[pikefied]

Episodes Season 3

[laniidae-passerine]

we are in danger of putting Agnes in the ‘cool mum/chaste advice giver’ box that older women get shoved in by fandoms and I demand change immediately. enough of her being good and thoughtful she should walk those freaks like dogs

[snwdaily]

[coline7373]

[cptnchristopherpike]

Brand new character posters for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3! (Note the zombie hand in the letter O for the Scotty/Pelia poster; nice touch!)

[noxequusart]

[vreenak]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS | A Quality of Mercy, 01x10.

"What chance does dialogue offer, save to delay me? Why should I listen to you?"

Romulan Commander [3/?]

[clericofshadows]

REGIS SHEPARD MASS EFFECT 1 - NOVERIA ESPIONAGE

[pikefied]

JUNE 14!!!! 🖖

[secretly-historic]

IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE ARE SAPPHIC AND WERE PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY THE CW’S THE 100 SEASON 3 IN 2016 PLEASE READ

i know i have very few followers so i am tagging this to hell amd back and it would mean the world to me if people could spread this!!

did you get into this random sci fi show as an impressionable sapphic or then-sapphic-identifying teen? did you find your fandom community online in places like tumblr? were you a Way Too Online Clexa shipper? do you have vivid memory of one fateful night in March of 2016 where your little baby heart was sent to the moon and then stomped on within an entire fifteen minute window? did you then turn on your phone to watch an entire community imploding in real time?

i am a current history grad student in Washington, DC, and i recently was notified of an interdisciplinary panel opportunity in which i’d be able to turn one of my quasi-intellectual passions into something Big and Academic and possibly Influential To The Field. the theme of the conference is change; how our historical subjects understood it, dealt with it, lived through it, etc. or, it can be anything that might have some big observation to how we deal with change ourselves as academics

my proposal is still in the baby stages, but i want to use this particular moment in pop culture in two ways: first, obviously, is as a case study of a really revolutionary moment in queer representation. we had a sci fi show with, after a few season one growing pains, really complex and kind of amazing female character writing and an element of queerness that defied tropes by being strangely post-structuralist, only for that to come crashing down in one horrid writing decision. the overnight turn in the fan-creator relationship was something so severe and shocking to me, even at 14.

second, if we wanna get all discipline-jargony about it, studying it from a historical angle at some kind (yes i know it was only nine years ago bear with me here) could lead to some really important things about how we do social history in a digital age. i find that most “digital history” conversation tends to be about digitizing sources for access or distribution, but we are very much at a point where our sources are being /created/ in digital and online spaces, and there’s simply not the same level of comfort or readily available knowledge of how to navigate through an internet-created archive.

if you read this far, thank you. at this point, i’m simply trying to find people who experienced this moment firsthand like i did. i’m still trying to develop specific sets of questions to survey, possibly to workshop some research methodology with an “oral” historical source base. if you are interested in being somehow part of this source base, please reach out to me ASAP! i cannot promise that anything substantial will come out of it within the next few weeks (a girl has to get through my own finals and my students’ finals first), but it’ll at least give me a list of people to reach out to when the time comes<3

if you read to the end, thank you. here’s a cat pic as a reward. his name is winston