#gabriel kelvin

[ilikestuff69]

My X-Men Fancast

Charles Xavier played by Mark Strong

Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto played by Jason Isaacs

Scott Summers/Cyclops played by Mason Gooding

Jean Grey/Phoenix played by Katherine McNamara

Bobby Drake/Iceman played by Gabriel LaBelle

Warren Worthington/Angel played by Ross Lynch

Logan/Wolverine played by Tom Hardy or Taron Egerton

Ororo Munroe/Storm played by Aja Naomi King

Hank McCoy/Beast played by Tyler Hoechlin

Raven Darkhölme/Mystique played by Claudia Doumit

Anna Marie/Rogue played by Keke Palmer

Remy LeBeau played by Dacre Montgomery

Kathrine Pryde/Shadowcat played by Isabelle Fuhrman

Piotr Rasputin/Colossus played by Alexander Ludwig

Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler played by Mena Massoud

Lorna Dane/Polaris played by Thomasin McKenzie

Sean Cassidy/Banshee played by Paul Mescal

Alex Summers/Havok played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Emma Frost played by Jodie Comer

Jubilation Lee/Jubilee played by Madison Hu

Betsy Braddock/Psylocke played by Jessica Henwick

Victor Creed/Sabretooth played by Alan Ritchson

Lucas Bishop played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Armando Muñoz/Darwin played by Jacob Anderson

St. John Allerdyce/Pyro played by Jacob Bertrand

James Madrox/Multiple Man played by Glen Powell

Clarice Ferguson/Blink played by Lyrica Okano

Alison Blaire/Dazzler played by Madison Iseman

Bobby du Costa/Sunspot played by Rome Flynn

Tabitha Smith/Boom-Boom played by Victoria Pedretti

Mortimer Toynbee/Toad played by Levi Miller

ForgetMeNot played by Brett Gelman

Glob Herman played by Tyler Labine

Bailey Hoskins played by Mason Thames

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War (2015) #4 variant cover by Gabriel Rodriguez 

[geekcavepodcast]

The Rocketeer Gets New One-Shot

IDW Publishing has announced a new one-shot celebrating The Rocketeer. The one-shot is an anthology of three tales edited by Scott Dunbier.

Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, the screenwriters of 1991′s The Rocketeer film, had written an unpublished Rocketeer comic book story many years ago. The story guest starred Amelia Earhart. Filmmaker Kelvin Mao and The Rocketeer producer Robert Windom approached artist Adam Hughes to illustrate the story, which led to the one shot.

In addition to the 8-page story by Bilson, De Meo, and Hughes, The Rocketeer one-shot includes a 12-page story from writer Kelvin Mao, artist Craig Cermak and colorist Laura Martin that tells of Cliff Secord’s date night with Betty, and a 4-page story from writer Robert Windom, artist Jae Lee, and colorist June Chung in which the Rocketeer fights a Japanese Zero in the South Pacific. The comic will also include pinups by Phil Noto and Maria Laura Sanapo.

The Rocketeer one-shot hits comic shops in May 2023 and will include several variant covers, including Cover A by Adam Hughes, Cover B by Gabriel Rodríguez, and two special retailer incentive “Full Art” variants of Hughes and Rodríguez’ art, respectively.

(Image via IDW Publishing - Adam Hughes’ Cover A for The Rocketeer One-Shot) 

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Dave Stevens' Rocketeer takes flight again in a new one-shot

Dave Stevens' Rocketeer takes flight again in a new one-shot #comics #comicbooks #rocketeer

Dave Stevens’ two-fisted triumph soars again at IDW Publishing with the May release of The Rocketeer one-shot, an anthology of three tales by an astonishing assemblage of comic-industry heavyweights! The development of this new Rocketeer comic project began during the making of the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, when filmmaker Kelvin Mao discovered that Danny Bilson and the…

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2022.08.27 Kelvin Davis vs Sebastian Gabriel Chaves welters

[actual-changeling]

Welcome back to Alex's unhinged meta corner! I am fuelled up with coffee and my adhd medication, so this is about to be a RIDE.

Apologies in advance, since this post will probably get quite long and also scientific at some point, but I will try to keep it as plain and easy to understand as possible. Combine two of my special interests (Good Omens and chemistry) and you get absolutely insane infodumps; it's a blessing and a curse.

As always, this is simply a theory, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe we'll never find out. But it's an option, and I have canonical proof.

There have been endless theories about why the Gabriel-Hiding-Miracle (which I will shorten to GHM) set off alarm bells in heaven and reached a strength of 25 Lazarii. Are their half-miracles really combined that strong? Does it depend on their relationship or love?

Well, today I am here to tell you that, actually, there is no such thing as "half a miracle".

We are going to have a closer look at miracles themselves, but the first important thing to keep in mind is that most of the time, Crowley and Aziraphale are incredibly unreliable narrators and have barely any inside into how heaven and hell work. Remember, they have been on earth since 4004 BC, they are certainly not used to any of the internal routines and functions.

They can tell us all kinds of things, but that does not make them true.

Now, miracles!

Both angels and demons are capable of performing them, though they only seem to be counted as actual miracles when they happen on earth, seeing as they measured in Lazarii.

One Lazarus equals the miracle power it takes to bring one human being back to life—the consequence is that miracles must be bound to the earthly plane, since that is where their unit originated from. When they are performed in heaven or hell, they are still miracles in a broad sense—celestial beings using their powers—but not in a way that ascribes to the measuring system.

Neil once answered an ask about Lazarus as a unit, and he stated that miracles tend to be measured in Centi- or Millilazarii (mostly the latter), meaning that the GHM was about 1000x as strong as your usual, daily miracle. The labeling also tells us that the scale for Lazarii is the same as the metric one.

If we treat Lazarus as a base unit, we need to find a way of defining it that is unique to this specific unit.

Globally, we have a collection of agreed-upon base units, the SI units (coming from the French Système international d'unités, aka International system of Units). Those seven are second, metre, kilogram, ampere, candela, kelvin, and mole, and every single one has a very specific definition—they are too bloody complex. None of them can be expressed with one of the other SI units, which gives you great definitions such as these:

A little excursion for those that are interested: For a very long time, the kilogram was defined by. well. A cube. The "true kilogram", which is still in a vault somewhere in Paris. However, you can probably imagine why basing a unit on a physical objects isn't a great idea long-term, so back in 2018, the kilogram was redefined, along with three other units.

Now, all SI units are defined by natural constants, not physical objects, making them accurate and (more or less) absolute.

Back to miracles!

The reason I am telling you all this is that we need to find such a basic definition for miracles, too, or at least an approximation.

My proposal is that a miracle itself is the force exerted on matter by a a celestial being. That force is then measured in Lazarii, with one Lazarus being equal to the force required to bring one person back to life. This is where it gets a bit tricky because how do you visualize that kind of force?

Matter cannot be destroyed only created, so all the particles currently making up our bodies will continue to exist long, long after our deaths. Meaning when a person dies, the amount of matter that was them is still there, the consequence of which is that their body can be recreated at will. Now, souls seem to be separate from matter, making them metaphysical and thus irrelevant for this conversation. I am going with the assumption that once a body has been recreated, the soul can be put back into without additional cost in miracle power.

There might be another base unit hidden in the metaphysical, but that's a conversation for another time.

All of this amounts to one fundamental hypothesis:

A miracle is either done, meaning matter gets changed, or it isn't, meaning matter remains unchanged.

There is no in-between stage here, a "half-change" is not possible, either you exert a force on particles or you don't. What kind of change that is might not be tangible for us, but a change is a change.

When Crowley and Aziraphale try to hide Gabriel, they change the way he gets perceived, how others perceive him, aka they change the way his presence is processed.

The closest thing to compare it to, in my opinion, is the superior mirage—the Fata Morgana. At its core, it means that light bends as it passes through air layers with different temperatures; your eyes perceive the bent light rays and your brain processes them accordingly. You see images that aren't actually there.

Celestial beings look at Gabriel but see something that isn't actually there, so the "true" image remains hidden.

If we stick to this metaphor, then Crowley creates a mirage for any ethereal beings, and Aziraphale creates one for occult beings. The creation of that mirage is one miracle—not half a miracle, but ONE singular miracle. Both of them change matter, and both of these miracles can exist independently of each other.

Crowley and Aziraphale could have created their mirages on their own, meaning that two miracles were performed, not two halves of one miracle.

If you listen to the sound of the miracles, you can hear that it's different from the other ones they have performed on their own, with the "combined" miracle having two sound peaks instead of one. Tumblr hates it when I upload audio files, so have it like this.

In order, the miracles are Aziraphale lowering the chandelier and moving the shelves, Crowley removing the paintball stain, and the GHM.

IF they had both performed half a miracle, the end result would have been one miracle, meaning it should have sounded like any other—but it didn't! Two connected sounds, two simultaneous miracles.

There is still one thing left to talk about, which is the power of their miracle. Here is where my previous definition of Lazarus as a unit comes into play again.

Heaven measured a miracle power of 25 Lazarii aka a very high amount of force exerted on matter. You might think Alex, if they both performed their own miracle, how come that the alarm bells rang?

If we keep up the mirage metaphor, we can explain that! Crowley's intention was to make it so that ethereal beings cannot perceive him, so his miracle changed matter in a way that aligns with ethereal perception.

However, Aziraphale intended to change matter so that occult beings cannot perceive Gabriel, meaning his miracle changed matter in a way that is adapted to occult perception.

This is where science comes into play again!!

You see, particles aren't just particles, they are waves too. Wave-particle duality describes exactly that, e.g. an electron being both a particle and a wave at the same time. A connected theory to that is the Uncertainty principle, which describes the inability to measure the exact value of two different properties at the same time.

Or, to put it more plainly, if you try to figure out the exact position of a particle, its momentum becomes blurred, unclear. If you then focus on the momentum of the same particle, you can no longer describe its exact position.

You are probably looking at me now, thinking where the fuck are they going with this and why are there suddenly so many principles of quantum mechanics in a Good Omens meta post???

Crowley changes matter in way A.

Aziraphale changes matter in way B.

Those changes can co-exist, like an electron being a particle and a wave at the same time. However—and this is scientific theory adapted to celestial miracles—when an angel looks at Gabriel, then they are focusing on state A. When demons are looking at Gabriel, they are focusing on state B.

Focus on A and B becomes blurry. Focus on B and A becomes blurry.

Maintaining that double-state requires power though, because compared to wave-particle duality, these states aren't natural, they're inflicted—matter was changed. It's like the matter around Gabriel is flickering between those two states, a light switch trying to find a neutral position when there is only on and off.

How do we measure that power? In Lazarii.

The miracle energy that heaven measured is not that high because they each performed half a miracle and combined it into one, it is that high because they each performed one miracle that stands in opposition to the other; as a result, two different states need to be maintained at the same time, meaning the manipulation is ongoing, meaning it needs a fuckton of power.

If you want to keep balancing your light switch, you need to keep trying, you need to keep up the pressure, otherwise you either click it off or on. Same thing with the hiding miracle.

Twenty-five Lazarii.

The power you need to exert on matter to reshape twenty-five people—or to continuously hide one being from two opposing observers with rapidly-switching state changes.

While I think the whole "it's because of love" theory is fun and cute, scientifically it really doesn't make much sense because their powers have rules similar to our base units, so me must approach and treat them as such.

With that, thank you to everyone who made it this far and managed to survive our little excursion into the field of quantum mechanics.

Questions, thoughts, additions, etc. are very welcome!

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Units of Temperature (Beyond SI)

Though the Kelvin temperature scale is used by scientists around the world, in everyday life the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales are more common. The Celsius scale was created in 1742 by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, wherein 0 represented the freezing point of water and 100 represented the boiling point of water. The Fahrenheit scale was created in 1724 by physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, wherein 0 was set as "the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride" and the upper reference was human body temperature. Both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales use degrees to count temperature, and the capital letters C and F as their symbols, respectively.

Beyond these three scales, the next most popular temperature scale is the Rankine temperature scale. This was proposed in 1859 by Macquorn Rankine and is meant to be to Fahrenheit as Kelvin is to Celsius - that is, an absolute temperature scale wherein zero is the lowest possible temperature and with a change in one degree Rankine equivalent to a change in one degree Fahrenheit. As with the Fahrenheit scale, the Rankine scale is measured in degrees, commonly with the symbol Ra.

Sources/Further reading: (Image source - Temp calculator) (NASA) (Sciencing) (Solar Energy) (Wikipedia: Celsius, Fahrenheit, Rankine)

[berensteinsmonster]

found some old doodles of zack kelvin!

i had always headcanoned that zack was the alien and he came from outerspace from a now destroyed planet thanks to Project Vizion kabooming it

he got sent via escape pod maybe but never knew that much about his species, megamind style, and was raised by his two adoptive dads Gabriel Kelvin (the one in the sweater) and Andre Kelvin (the one in the tank top)

he always thought he wasnt adopted because ya know, Gabriel looks like him, and he thought he just had a very bad cold

sometimes whenever Zack gets overwhelmed or has a breakdown he spontaneously combusts into one of his main elements

I wanna make a story post-riddle transfer where one day he has a really bad breakdown that it causes a freezing cold fire, zack is very horrified by this because he thought he'd never have to be cold ever again

his friends are able to calm him down and stuff, but now he's more than certain willing to discover just exactly what his species is

[mossycobblestonearts]

the yippee rancher returns

okay, so like, if you know, you know...

i'm on roblox, hold the boos, i don't actually care

the daybreak discord server got nuked :( and all my yippees DIED which is UNACCEPTABLE

so,, i will be posting them all here,, eventually...

anyways,, this will act as the master post for the yippees!!! (in order of creation)

things will be hyperlinked as they are posted :)

the masterlist <3

adriana

arlo

gabrielle cole

eiji inagaki

iris

jun inagaki

yara valle

mamo ikaika

cora madden

jack sato

seung kwan

yeona jeung

sarah lindholm

emery rivera

dae-jung pak

yan tian

eman attia

riley west

serena wolfe

kyle wolfe

finley marai (polluted)

dakari bowens

amari taymiyyah

elijah songaa

taylor dalton

chaoxing lai

yvonne kojo

unforgotten

taliyah mehta (stalker)

yronica ayala

alexei (watcher)

lyndon davenport

kelvin mars

crystal phechr

klara cruz (ghost)

elizabeth payne

ye-jun im (idol)

nami deng

dakota nicole

emil singh

winona davis (banshee)

crosby aldrich

callum gallagher

jules (showstopper)

cole volkov (werewolf)

mahali (apostate)

p3-ng (android)

becca prescott

sera

makoto shizuka

tanasha njoki (empress)

christoph hoftman (surgeon)

alexis hargrove (host)

rayner byrne

wren harris (slasher)

sanjana dewan

tara sokolova (voidskulk)

saadiya ali

aaaquil che

parker kaplan

ryder parikh

lawrence payne (warden)

aiden talbot (janitor)

nathen reyes

gavin prescott

daryl ross (principal)

tabitha harris

anais desir

[distantvoices]

Max Margarito, Monyjok Deng, Carlos Hattori, Dor, Dhillon Rai, Feranmi, Gabriel, Dante, Kelvin Godspower, Kieron, Ethan H, Pierre and Khadim Thiam by Théo de Gueltzl for M Le magazine du Monde October 2022

[tattooideas123]

Heart tattoo by Kelvin Gabriel, inspired by the painting “The Fallen Angel” by Alexandre Cabanel. https://tattoo-ideas.com/fallen-angel/

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Some good news and some bad news regarding Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The good news is that now that the strikes are over, production of Season 3 is set to begin next month! This is good because there have been rumours swirling around possible cancellation in the wake of Star Trek Discovery being ended after its 5th season. But SNW continues (Lower Decks has also been renewed for Season 5). The only caveat to that is Paramount Plus still cancelled Star Trek Prodigy even with its Season 2 complete, so nothing is a guarantee anymore. (And even then, it's been reported that Prodigy S2 will at least get some sort of Netflix release).

(Further good news is Season 2, with its amazing musical and Lower Decks crossover episodes, is set for Blu-ray release before Christmas.)

The bad news - though this is likely educated speculation on Screen Rant's part - is the possibility that the 10-episode 3rd season my be split, with only 5 episodes airing in 2024 and having to wait till 2025 to see the rest. Aside from that wrecking viewer momentum, those 5 weeks will come and go very quickly. If this news is correct, though, they could be telegraphing some sort of 5-episode story arc, which should be good but I actually prefer SNW's episodic format as it better supports the type of experimentation we got with not only this past year's musical and part-animated episodes, but the episodic format is what made TOS what it was. No official word on any cast changes, though I will be surprised if S3 doesn't reintroduce Dr. McCoy in some fashion.

I haven't written much about SNW but it's my favourite of the live action modern Treks. I stopped watching Discovery and Picard but SNW has kept me. I've had songs from the musical earworming for the last week or so after I rewatched it. And I greatly appreciated the time-travel episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" for finally canonizing an explanation as to why the prequel series haven't always lined up with what we know as canon from TOS, TNG, etc. which as far as I'm concerned frees the writers to deviate and retroactively serves to rectify canon issues dating all the way back to some episodes of DS9, never mind Enterprise, Discovery and SNW itself. I will explain for those who don't know but I will put a spoiler break here for those who might be waiting for the Blu-ray or haven't had a chance to stream season 2 yet. If the break doesn't appear below, stop reading now if you don't want the spoiler.

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The episode reveals that due to the many time travel events over the years (including ones we haven't seen on screen by enemies of the Federation; the episode relates one involving Mary Queen of Scots (in-joke for the actress) what we have been seeing in SNW etc. is an alternate timeline. Maybe not as extreme as the Kelvin timeline of the films, but events such as the Eugenics Wars - indeed, the birth of Khan himself - were delayed by decades. This major change to the timeline - and then you fill in the blanks by factoring in even minor changes such as the guy who accidentally killed himself with McCoy's phaser in City on the Edge of Forever, Sisko replacing Gabriel Bell in the Bell Riots, the Voyager crew going back to 1996, Archer and T'Pol heading off agents of the temporal cold war in the early 2000s, etc. - and you can see how it's possible that things progressed differently resulting in SNW and Discovery being more technologically advanced than TOS-era ships should be as established in TNG, DS9 and Enterprise that used the original tech and designs. Also character differences, like Pike's crew being aware of T'Pring and Khan when Kirk's crew in TOS did now despite Spock having worked with La'an Noonien-Singh and Kirk being aware of La'an's feelings for him. Or the lack of reference to Kirk's brother, who dies in a famous TOS episode, having been former Enterprise crew. And it literally stems from two lines of dialogue. It's exhibit A of how quickly and simply a show like Doctor Who can fix things.

[veggiefritters]

Happy Pride Month

Queer Headcanon Masterpost Time I Guess !

UT/DR:

Plenty of thoughts here actually.

Frisk: bigender (they/she/he), aroace spec

Chara: demigirl (she/it), panromantic

Alphys: trans woman, lesbian (this is because i thought she was a man for an embarrassingly long time)

Undyne: lesbian (she/they)

Papyrus: aroace spec

Sans: demiboy (he/it)

Mettaton: agender (he/they/it)

Napstablook: ghostgender (they/it), asexual

Muffet: bisexual

Kris: agender (they/them), pan, aroace spec

Susie: bisexual

Noelle: trans woman, lesbian

Ralsei: nonbinary (he/they)

Berdly: aromantic spec

Lancer: cisgender (he/they)

Rouxls Kaard: aroace

Queen: agender (she/they/it)

Jevil: gay

Spamton: pansexual

DSAF:

Been here too long to have so few thoughts sorry about that

Jack: ghostgender (it/he), aromantic

Dave: aroace spec (he/it)

Steven: trans man (he/him), gay

Harry: trans man (he/they), gay

Jake: pangender (he/she/they), pansexual

Roger: does not know their gender, does not care (they/them), bisexual (also a whore)

Terrence: agender (they/them), aspec

Everett: cisgender (he/they), aspec

Dee: demigirl (she/they)

DIALTOWN:

I think I have a good amount of thoughts

Gingi: genderfuck (xe/xem)

Oliver: trans man (he/him), gay in such a weird and freaky way i love it

Randy: cisgender (he/they), pansexual in the "I'll take what I can get" sort of way

Karen: demigirl (she/they), lesbian

Curie: agender (they/them), lesbian

Tango: agender (they/them), aspec

Bigfoot: no concept of gender (any pronouns)

Mr. Dickens: gay

Norm: bisexual

Jerry: cisgender (he/they), bisexual

Shooty + Stabby: both any pronouns, both gay

ULTRAKILL:

I'm gonna be honest i don't know as much as I should but ah well I want to kiss Swordsy

Gabriel: do angels even have gender? (he/they), pansexual

V1: agender (they/it)

V2: girl...? (she/they)

Swordsmachine: doesn't know, doesn't care (they/he/it)

GARFIELD:

Sorry guys. I have hcs for the cats too

Jon: bisexual

Lyman: gay

Liz: demigirl (she/they)

Doc Boy: demiboy (he/they)

Nermal: pangender (any pronouns) (because it took me several years to figure out how nermal is referred to and i am still confused)

Arlene: trans woman-cat (she/they)

DDLC:

I... honestly didn't think i had hcs for this but it turns out I do, so!

Sayori: bisexual

Natsuki: trans woman, bisexual

Yuri: lesbian

Monika: agender (any pronouns w/ preference for she/her)

ONESHOT:

Niko: agender (he/they/she)

Cedric: demiboy (he/they)

Kelvin: agender (they/he)

Kip: bisexual

Silver: agender (they/she)

Plight: ??? (he/they)

Ling: trans man (he/him) (i thought he was a woman)

Rowbot: agender (they/he)

[weerd1]

On this anniversary of a film that I wanted to hate but immediately fell in love with, I want to take a moment and wax poetic about the Kelvin Timeline. There was a lot of consternation then (and probably with some fans still) about there seeming to be differences to the timeline BEFORE the Narada incursion; the Kelvin had 800 people on board in a time a decade before the Constitution Class which only had 200 people on board under Pike. Things like this.

Now, do I know it's because JJ Abrams did no thave the encyclopedic knowledge of Trek I do and just thought George Kirk saving 800 lives sounds a lot cooler than a hundred? Sure. But...

There's no way in Star Trek to make a single incursion in a timeline. Think about this: Nero goes back, changes how the Enterprise will interact with the galaxy three decades later. So now, does the Enterprise go back in time and work with Gary 7 in 1968? Does Captain Christopher encourage his son to grow up and lead a Saturn mission? Do they go back to San Francisco in 1986 and invent transparent aluminum? Later on, does Sisko go replace Gabriel Bell?

(On a side note: I thought this would be the plot of Picard S2. The altered timeline kept the Bell Riots from being affected by Sisko and causing a closed temporal loop...why else put it in California in 2024 and talk about Sanctuary districts?)

We know there are other changes to the prime timeline caused by time travelers because Strange New Worlds tells us so; but THOSE changes aren't necessarily reflected in the Kelvin timeline. The Eugenics Wars are delayed almost half a century in the Prime Timeline now (possibly early on; even in TWOK Khan says he was from 200 years earlier...in a film that takes place in 2285)...but in STID Khan is from 300 years earlier, so still in the late 20th Century roughly.

Basically, once a temporal incursion hits a timeline, it doesn't just change those specific events; it alters any OTHER temporal incursions that were otherwise caused by that future. Brannon Braga said as much about ENT, that the incursion from the Borg in FC affected how Cochrane did things, and potentially changed whether the history we see on that show is exactly what preceded TOS.

I suppose I'm just saying that Star Trek is a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff...and I think that's ok. Just gives me more trivia to memorize.

Thank you and Happy Birthday Trek '09.

[sshbpodcast]

Star Trek Parents Just Don’t Understand (Part 2)

By Ames

Last week, you’ll remember we covered a whole lot of parents from the classic Star Trek series and just how much they tended to ruin their kids’ lives. Well, this week A Star to Steer Her By is finishing out the topic with parental units from currently running Trek series and the Kelvin movies. Expect this one to not be nearly as far reaching, partly because SPOILERS WILL ABOUND below the cut and partly because we’ve not covered much of this on the podcast yet, so frankly I don’t remember a good deal of it.

But some of our major players have or are noteworthy parents to talk about in this period of wide-screen Trek (seriously, everything looks like a movie now and it’s impacting my screengrab game). Give your parents a hug for us as you see them listed below and also in probably the most spoilery episode of the podcast we’ve ever recorded (discussion starts at 59:37). They only raised you from tadpoles.

(Again, some mega spoilers for Star Trek 2009, Discovery, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds, and especially [seriously!] Picard are below.)

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

Kelvin George Kirk

George Kirk was a parent to literally newborn James for all of thirty seconds before saving his life, Winona’s life, and the lives of the crewmembers of the USS Kelvin. While we have no idea if he’d have been any good at raising the youngster had he lived (apparently so since this alternate Kirk ended up being quite the ruffian compared to that walking stack of books from The Original Series), we know what he valued by his actions, his sacrifice, and his refusal to name him Tiberius.

Kelvin Sarek

In pretty much all timelines, Sarek is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to raising a half-Vulcan, half-human son like Spock. Why he can’t get it through that Vulcan bowlcut of his that having a child with a human will dilute that cherished green blood of theirs is absolutely beyond me. I thought you hobgoblins were supposed to be logical, after all. Maybe if Amanda hadn’t blown up, things would have gone better for Quinto-Spock.

Discovery Sarek

Speaking of Sarek, in Discovery we actually see that he very much seems to prefer raising his ward Michael Burnham to raising either of his natural sons. Go figure. Apparently all his progenies had to do was follow in his footsteps, join the Vulcan Academy, and literally have a chunk of his katra from a past mindmerge-thing for daddy to love them.

Gabrielle Burnham

Michael’s relationship with her birth parents is something much more complicated. This is Discovery, after all; “It’s complicated” is the subtitle of the series! When we learn that Gabrielle is still alive, having saved Michael by becoming the Red Angel, it’s a bittersweet reunion that can only be made stranger by their second reunion in the 32nd century when momma has become a space nun of some kind. As if Michael didn’t have enough of this Vulcan stuff growing up!

Voq and L’Rell

On the subject of space nuns, we learn that Voq and L’Rell’s child Tenavik got to be raised by some time monks in the Boreth Monastery. Which, frankly, is probably the best that kid could ask for! The combative Klingon Empire was no place to raise a baby, and good on his parents for finding a child-rearing solution that, at the very least, kept him alive. Ya know, after just a little bit of faking his death. Q'apla, I guess!

Stamets and Culber

What is sweeter and purer than two gay space dads mentoring a nonbinary sorta-Trill sorta-not adolescent? I didn’t realize that Adira is supposed to be 16 when we meet them (probably because the actor was like 23), but regardless of age, they are struggling with their identity in enough ways to make a Vulcan weep, and having the support of a nurturing queer family is just what they need.

Ephaim

An easy example of a good parent from the Discovery era comes in one of the Short Treks, “Ephaim and DOT.” Sure, she’s a tardigrade and mostly just following that biological impulse to keep one’s seed alive, but she does better than a lot of other Trek parents. Go, tardigrades, go!

Raffi Musiker

Moving on to Star Trek: Picard, we see another negligent parent in the conspiracy theory–obsessed Raffi Musiker. She might rival Worf as a parent whose absence has screwed up their kid the most, as we see that Gabriel is downright hostile to her when she tries to reconnect. And then in season 3, she yet again chooses Starfleet over her family. Perhaps we’re lucky we haven’t seen Alexander in Picard, since he and Gabriel could have some stories to tell.

Troi and Riker

Say what you will about the Troi-Riker relationship, but they seem to be doing pretty okay raising their daughter Kestra. She’s a nifty kid with her head on straight, so they must be doing something right. Also, it’s very clear throughout their appearances in Picard that these parents did everything they could to save their son Thaddeus from his mendaxic neurosclerosis, and his loss affected them in the way only losing a beloved child could.

Maurice and Yvette Picard

We were teased a bit in TNG with just enough information about Jean-Luc’s upbringing to let us know his relationship with his father was strained and that with his mother was loving, but then the second season of Picard had to go spelling things out for us in ways we didn’t really need. Maurice becomes that much more terrible because he evidently did nothing when Yvette was going down a dark path. And Yvette… what the hell were the writers trying to say about Yvette? Freakin’ yikes. 

Adam Soong

Also in season two of Picard, we get YET ANOTHER Soong ancestor for Brent Spiner to play, ya know, for reasons. Evidently all the Soongs except Data (see last week’s inclusion!) are just terrible parents because they’re effectively just trying to prolong their own legacy instead of actually caring for the needs and wants of the child. Kore, in this case, lives a life so sheltered she can’t even go outside without bursting into flames. Much like that whole damn season…

Teresa Ramirez

We do, however, get one solid parent in season two of Picard, and that’s Teresa Ramirez, the divorced mother who Rios is totally thirsty for. Actually, we don’t see a lot of children of divorce in Star Trek, do we? As we established last week, it’s far more likely to have one parent get killed off than it is to have people amicably separate because, of course, that makes for more drama. There’s Torres’s parents, and Rom and Prinadora but that’s just their Ferengi contract, and that might just be about it? Anyway, Teresa’s cool.

Jean-Luc Picard and Bev Crusher

Season three, however, is just a straight up family reunion show with lots more literal family members that get introduced to boot! Somewhere after Nemesis, evidently Bev and JL got down to clown and then Bev ran away and hid the pregnancy from him for however many years this boy is old. Sure, we all agree Picard would make a father that might rival Worf’s awkward sense of child neglect, but is Bev any better never telling him? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Geordi La Forge

Geordi’s been busy too, cranking out at least two daughters. Like Sarek’s relationship with his various kids, it seems much easier for Geordi to play favorites. Alandra is the favored daughter because she followed in his footsteps and seems like she was generally passive, while Sidney is the black sheep of the family and La Forge has trouble connecting with her because she can’t just be controlled like certain holoprograms I could name.

Carol Freeman

Let’s get out of Picard and into some animated stuff. The relationship between Captain Freeman and her daughter Beckett Mariner is at the core of Lower Decks, so much so that it’s kept secret from the rest of the crew for the drama of it all. Most of the show treats their relationship like ones we’ve seen before in which the child lashes out because they don’t want to follow in their parent’s footsteps. There is love there, but their failure to communicate does dominate.

The Diviner

In our other animated Trek, The Diviner definitely falls into that category of just the worst kind of parent because he will sacrifice Gwyn a hundred times over to get his way. He never listens to what she wants, chooses the Protostar over her, and leaves her to nearly get killed on vine planet. All this and the only reason he created her in the first place was to continue his work. Rude, bro.

Joseph M’Benga

Finally, we have Dr. M’Benga in Strange New Worlds, whose dedication to caring for his sick daughter Rukiya is admirable and incredibly sweet. Every time he reads fairy tales to her in sickbay is a beautiful little scene, and the end of “The Elysian Kingdom” is a tear jerker that we were honestly surprised to get so early in the run of the show. I kinda hope we see more from Rukiya in future, but who knows what’s written in these fantastical pages?

— We’re ducking out from this family reunion before someone whips out the photo album. Catch us next time for more, and definitely keep listening to our watchthrough of Voyager over on SoundCloud or wherever you get podcasts. You can also post family in-jokes on our Facebook and Twitter, and would it hurt to call once in a while?

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The Devil Wears Gabriel

Chapter 4

She arrived at Kelvin Clain’s. Jumping out of the car before the driver could open the door for her, her work cell phone rang. She fumbled through her purse to grab it, ensuring she didn’t accidentally hit Tikki. After the second ring, she saw it was Gabriel and answered, a bit exasperated. “Gabriel?”

Gabriel asked, in his usual aloof manner, “Have you arrived?”

She closed the door to the car and dashed toward the entrance of Kelvin Clain. “I just arrived. I’ll—”

He hung up the phone.

Bastard.

She groaned, pushing through the entrance door and opened her purse to place the cell back in when another call came through. This time it was Nathalie. “Nathalie! Hi! I just walked through the entrance of Kelvin Clain’s.”

Nathalie spoke firmly, “While you are out, Gabriel needs you to pick up a few items on his list. You need to pick up his dry cleaning from Georgio’s. Pick up the button and cufflinks samplings from Walter and Jacobs. Oh, and Gabriel is out for a last-minute meeting with a client and will need more café from Le Goutte à Goutte de Café when you return.”

Marinette was scrambling through her purse for a pen. “Wait—Nathalie. Slow down. You need me to pick up—”

Nathalie hung up the phone.

She groaned. I swear Nathalie and Gabriel are the same goddamn person.

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