#david james marcus

[parallelfallout]

What if: Saavik performed a mind meld on David Marcus on the Genesis planet? Find out what happens next on Star Trek: Eridani

Concept written by @purple-iris , art by me :)

Read more about the retcon here:

[startrek-eridani]

The main trio of STAR TREK Eridani, Saavik, David Marcus and Joanna McCoy

Art by @parallelfallout

[your-name-is-jim]

I think about this a lot.

[sheawritesstuff]

Redacted Characters' Sleep Attire Headcanons

☆ David - Shirtless with gym shorts

☆ Milo - Tank top and boxers

☆ Asher - Just boxers

☆ Damien - Tank top and shorts

☆ Huxley - Shirtless with pajama pants

☆ Gavin - Nude / Just sweatpants

☆ Lasko - T-shirt and pajama pants

☆ Kody - Hoodie and sweatpants

☆ Sam - Only pajama pants ;]

☆ Vincent - Sweatshirt and pajama pants

☆ Porter - Just briefs

☆ James - Tank top and boxers

☆ Anton - T-shirt, pajama pants, and socks

☆ Marcus - Full matching pajama set, sleep hat included

☆ Hush - Whatever Doc gives him to sleep in

☆ Blake - Pajama shirt and pants that somehow never match

☆ Elliott - Sweatshirt and shorts

☆ Aaron - Tank top and pajama pants

☆ Ollie - Oversized t-shirt and shorts

☆ Ivan - T-shirt and boxers

☆ Guy - Boxers and socks 

☆ Geordi - Graphic tee and briefs

☆ Morgan - Matching pajama set with patterned socks

[djkerr]

The Slow Horses crew at the 2025 SAG Awards, nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. 🐌🐎

(February 23, 2025)

📷 @giseleschmidtofficial IG

[branwenjade]

My personal headcanon about this dude

Sorak, aka Saavik's son.

My headcanon is that these

are his parents. And Kirk's look was because he hadn't seen his grandson since he was 7 or 8 years old.

Hence Sorak still is related to Spock (as he is Spock and Kirk's grandson, both by blood - through David - and adoption - through Saavik)

[countesspetofi]

Happy Mothers' Day to the Moms of The Original Series!

[schn-tgai-saavik]

Bones, David and Saavik seem so done with Jim's antics

(The kids are tying not to laugh at their dad at a starfleet party)

[jojoolion]

[speedyshark95]

@mysteryanonjack and @dydremlvur know what I’m talking about

[parallelfallout]

This is where the fun begins, Saavik!

[startrek-eridani]

Series analysis: How David Marcus came back to life and came to be a part of Saavik's crew in Star Trek Eridani?

When the showrunners announced that David Marcus was going to be a part of this show, fans were perplexed, but his survival, or rather revival, was hinted at through many episode’s plots, and even clarified in a later comic. 

This slight retcon of The Search for Spock's ending and (And even a bit of The Undiscovered Country) still fits very well into the Star Trek continuity, even if because of it, certain fans decide to see Eridani as its own alternate universe, independent from the TOS timeline. 

But what really happened then, for David Marcus to be Capt. Saavik's science officer? This post aims to be a lore synthesis of that!

In the comic STAR TREK: Genesis "Life from lifelessness", the storyline pitched by show creators in pre-production is brought to the public’s eyes in a clear chronology for the first time. 

In this retcon, after David is stabbed in the upper chest by the Klingon, Saavik still has the communicator held up to her face and intones "Admiral, David is dead", conserving the following scene of Kirk's devastation on the bridge. 

Then the comic diverges, with Saavik eyeing David's still form, and facing the Klingons remaining on the surface. She asks that since David has died with the honours of combat, that she may be allowed to bestow upon him the honours of her people, meaning to share a meld with him as his body is near its end, as Sarek had told Kirk about at the beginning of the movie. They allow it, somewhat reluctantly, but Klingons can't exactly refuse this honour to a fallen warrior, no matter how poor of a warrior he was. 

Saavik stands and walks over to David's still body, melding them. In the meld-space, David gasps awake, and he and Saavik share a conversation, in which she explains that he is dying. His mind takes notice of the physical pain he is in, and he then grows very afraid, as would any person facing their impending doom. He begs Saavik to not let him go, and she obliges, the mental manifestation of her body holding David into a hug as she tries to reassure him, telling him that she is there. 

Saavik being a mildly experienced telepath and David's psyche being aptly terrified, they inadvertently form a psychic bond, which is the kai-telsu, or sibling bond mentioned in Star Trek Eridani S2 Ep. 10. This bond's creation, while also knocking Saavik out of the meld, interlinks hers and David's katra, their living spirit, and while David briefly flatlined and experienced cerebral death during the meld, this connection not only prevents his "spirit" or "soul" from passing, but also allow his mind to re-enter his body after the end of the meld, thus saving his life. His body, while still badly damaged, then begins to undergo the Genesis effect. 

When interviewed by Marvel's Starburst magazine in their No. 91 issue, one of the show's creator said that "If bacteria can grow into bugs and creatures, and if Spock's baby, toddler and later child-aged body can be made to survive alone and without food, Genesis can start to heal David." When asked if it was a case of Deus Ex Machina, she replied "What does God need with a machine? We have Genesis right at our fingertips!" 

David is then stabilized by the beginning of his healing, and Saavik attempts to start a healing trance for him. She stays by his and young Spock's body's side until Kirk and the crew arrive, to the Admiral's shock, when Saavik says that David gave his life to save them, but that she tried her best to restore it. 

While Genesis's protomater instability increases, causing Spock's body to experience its last surge of aging, David's own body is affected as well, with a rapid regeneration of some of his nerves and muscular structures, growing and collapsing in quick succession. 

- This event leaves him with long term consequences, some of his symptoms being similar to epilepsy, migraines as well as issues with mobility, mostly when standing up for extended periods. In many episodes of Eridani, we see accommodations for David, namely a more structured chair at the science station on the Bridge, as well as orthotics braces he wears on away missions as a preventive measure to pain and mobility issues. 

David is beamed aboard the Klingon Bird-Of-Prey, as Saavik was holding his unconscious body. Away from Genesis' surge, Dr. McCoy is able to begin surgery on him and truly stabilize his body until they could get to Vulcan. McCoy also questions Saavik's method to keep his mind into his body beyond cerebral death until the regeneration could kickstart, at which she confesses at having botched the meld, accidentally bonding his katra to hers, which she at first perceives as a grave transgression. David never holds it against her.

On Vulcan, David remains unconscious for a long time while being treated by Vulcan doctors, Dr. McCoy and mind-healers, who later found out that his kai-telsu bond to Saavik could not be removed, lest David suffer grave psychological consequences. David's still fragile state is a great part of the reason why Saavik remained on Vulcan during the event of The Voyage Home, as she is scared that the distance could potentially send her friend into shock with such a young bond. 

S1 Ep. 10 "Under thy skin" explores early on David's disability, as when he is bodyswaped with First Officer Kyral, he experienced an abled body for the first time in years and spoke of the whiplash of it. 

David's resurrection is also touched upon in S1 Ep. 17 of Star Trek Eridani "Does the abyss stare back?", in which a mission to a planet of people worshipping death causes him to be captured as an heretic who cheated his own demise. It also causes him to reflect upon his action with Genesis again, and think about his human mortality once more. 

In S1 Finale "By star benign" it is also stated that Saavik has had to argue with Starfleet Academy regarding David's admission in their field science program so that he could join the fleet, namely for his scientific fraud on Genesis, but mostly because most of the Admiralty believed his disability to be too great of a liability on a spaceship. 

On another note, while David's resurrection wasn't planned at the time of making The Undiscovered Country, to be fair, Kirk was still truthful in his assessment, Klingons killed his son. And while he was brought back, he still underwent extensive trauma, as well as difficult medical experiences and disabilities that followed him for the rest of his life. 

In a later interview, show creator Pauline Birchwood spoke about how David's disability, while opening an amazing opportunity for representation in the franchise, was also a way to avoid undermining Nimoy's direction with David's death in The Search For Spock, in which the young scientist's demise takes root in a very classic tragedy of reaping what you sow, and in David's case, it's his scientific hubris and impatience causing death and destruction, including his own. And now, through Eridani, a rebirth, life from lifelessness.

[frederikvesti]

HAVE SOME MORE INDYCAR VINES FOR THE OLYMPIC BREAK! (indy vines part 3)

HERE’S A PART 3 OF MY INDYCAR AS VINES SERIES! i’m very happy that this series is so popular because I MISS VINE and this is how i’m coping with the fact that it’s been gone for a while :(( and this is also how i’m coping with the olympic break (along with watching the olympics themselves lmao)!!! enjoy friends :D

[iamrunning-low]

I can't believe I hadn't noticed this before but LOOK:

David Marcus has always felt underdone and underappreciated. But even with so little screen time they obviously tried to make every scene count. And his story is incredibly compelling, with added heartbreak because most people in the fandom don't seem to care or feel the full impact of the tradeoff Kirk makes with Spock and David between wrath of khan and search for spock. So to have Kirk cover David with his jacket but not actually show him do it hurts so much, but it feels very poetic at the same time.

Most of David's plot has to be inferred from the clues we get from the few scenes we do get from him and from what other characters say about him. We understand most of the feelings around him and his situation based on what Kirk shows us. In a way, he haunts the narrative before he even dies(if there's an actual term for that, let me know).

Until I actually thought about it and watched it again, this scene felt incredibly cold. But Kirk already had his breakdown, he's already let himself fall to the ground in grief. He can't stop again while they're all still in danger. So this moment feels almost generous. One last rite before the planet takes David's body in its self-destruction.

Bones and Scotty see this play out, but they don't say anything. David remains mostly unspoken. He is an unaccounted causality until Kirk shows his care and regard by leaving his jacket with David.

Even more heartbreaking, David doesn't need the jacket, but it's the only thing Kirk can do for him in their situation. A heavy contrast to Spock's funeral. In a way, it's more for Kirk's comfort than David's.

[purple-iris]

The childhood of the children of the triumvirate in a nutshell

Joanna McCoy: pretty good childhood, living in Georgia with her parents, when she's about 6 they divorce and she goes to live on Centaurus with her father and later stays there with her aunt and uncle when he joins Starfleet (she's a teen at this point). (Based on the book Crisis on Centaurus)

David Marcus: doesn't know his dad but never lacked love, everyday was bring your kids to work day with Carol, grew up around scientists and was absolutly cherished on every starbase they lived on.

Saavik: the plot of Lord Of The Flies amped up to 12 for the first ten years, then gets rescued by Spock and goes on to become a Starfleet nepo baby and we love that for her. (Based on the book The Pandora Principle)

[zoozoocala]

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (Dir. Nicholas Meyer) // forwards beckon rebound by Adrianne Lenker