Goddess Kremblor

Formerly Evil Tear Bender (name from lodessa after one of my posts). I primarily blog my fandoms, mainly Star Trek and Harry Potter. I have a lot of ships that I like and will reblog for.

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Chakotay: I have a bad feeling about this. Janeway: Oh don’t worry, you’ll be fine. Tuvok: Indeed. What’ is the worst that could happen? Chakotay, being bailed out of jail the next morning: I hate you all.

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Star Trek Voyager "Cathexis"

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Saru: tries to do something to help prevent any undo political harm to T'Rina

T'Rina: I do not know what out you under the impression I needed a caretaker

She really said "I asked for a husband not a caretaker" and left that man speechless before walking out and I adore her for it.

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You know, when you first meet Reno she is NOT someone you'd expect for an Academy professor. Amazing character and absolutely love her. But it's the way her trauma is clear and her lose is clear and her instant nicknaming and the advice she gives being sharp and to the point. It's not bad but that is largely due to her being around grown adults - not young adults. Those around her are all individuals who are also going through similar and tend to do similar - some more gentle with the advice.

She and Stammets are so fun to see together because both are very confident in their abilities and are not afraid to let the other know. They snap back at the other and do not take the others BS. In most other shows you'd think they wouldn't work well together, because of course the two arrogant scientists or engineers wouldn't in many shows, but in Trek .... Of course they become friends and just pull a constant round of who needs the power on the ship more. Meanwhile everyone around them as they trade insulted nicknames are like "their friends?"

But as the show goes on and growth and healing occurs..... The path all these characters take make a lot of sense. Of course Stammets and Culber end up as parents to a teenager. Of course Tilly went to teach. Of course Saru went into diplomacy. Of course of course of course. But Reno .... She even makes a "wow that was" statement after a piece of advice she gives Stammets. It's touchy, it's sappy. It's soft and not her typical style and she noted it. Given we learn she started dating Lura while she was on Discovery it's entirely possible this scene is likely during that time and it's this moment she's starting the "oh I'm in love again" realization because of that shift. And in so doing of course it's much like Saru did with his choice: remain on Discovery OR find a place closer to the one she cares for. And having lost someone she loved once it's no wonder she'd give up Discovery (or as she put in in Academy "left a ship on the edge of the universe") for that person. And that means looking at careers and realizing she'd want to shape the future - help cadets prepare for things she herself went through - is honestly very Reno.

Just .... I love the journey Reno takes.

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I do wish they carried through a bit more with the Malon. When we first meet them, it's an arrogant freighter willfully polluting an inhabited area; when Janeway suggests a fix for the theta waste, they state that their scientists would probably love it, but they themselves refuse to inform them since it would end their jobs.

And then... it ends there. When we next meet the Malon, the solution to pollution isn't even brought up - Voyager simply assumes they'll have the same attitude and doesn't even try to change their minds, other than some sneers from B'Elanna about whether their utopic home planet is worth the pain they've brought to others.

But Fesek would be the perfect person to bring the advancement back to his society! He states outright he's not a career hauler - he's a sculptor, who takes a turn on the freighters out of a sense of duty and obligation to his home planet. The pollution is shown as an unfortunate side effect that they nonetheless attempt to mitigate by finding empty places to dump.

Fesek has no need to protect his job - he would likely be overjoyed to find a way to maintain his society without the onerous and dangerous duty of theta radiation dumping. His son could pursue a safer career, one without scarring or "occupational hazards".

Alas! I'll just assume they sent it with him off-screen and after a period of political turmoil (let's be realistic) Malon Prime became the true utopia it was always meant to be.

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I mean .... That's also what I always assumed. That the "tell them the monster is real" bit is meant to be followed up with the solution we are previously presented with. That he is supposed to get home and tell his people what happened to his ship. As the survivor and spreading the boogey man in space story he will likely be ignored at first. But if he's constantly following it up with "but the ones who helped him, helped me live, also provided me with the way to solve our problem".... He would be heard better.

The boogey man of the Malon is already a story, but that follow up of "a group of aliens on the ship Voyager we have heard tale of helped me, I live because of them, and they even shared with me a technology that could help us with our problem. Prevent what happened from happening again" would get someone to pause before they brushed it off and went back to their day. But it would linger, and linger in the next person. And the next. And likely the first Malon we meet is ALSO just like this guy - but the money is WORTH it as we learn in the second episode. He has found a cheat code to the system as well. He is looking at money to retire not science to retire. Now, imagine that he has also made it home and shared his story as some sort of laugh off. "Ran into some aliens that tried to tell me our culture was wrong, that they could share with us how to solve our culture" deliberately phrases it like the aliens of Voyager offered to CHANGE Malon culture to stop the pollution.

It's all off screen, it's all not visible .... Yeah. But to me its something that a future series could layer on and tell us. But sadly we don't get that chance because the series we got had other focuses and/or got smacked down so much they don't get the chance to do so. I mean, Academy be a great show to have a Malon cadet who when asked why they join looks up and simply goes "my people only recently joined the Federation but we meet Starfleet long ago, and it was Starfleet who helped us discover ways to improve ourselves. I am here for that ship, and it's crew. Malon strives to reflect what they gave us." Style moment and then an episode where we get to go to Malon after that and we see the planet and that Cadet is there so when everyone is a spot that honors the fallen freighter crews and asks that Cadet could further explain.

Just .... The new shows could have been were we got the "oh yeah, Voyager laid the ground work with the hints of what likely happened but here is the progress that was made as a result" and sadly we likely won't ever get that. But maybe a comic or book will. Because honestly Malon is likely one of the planets that Voyager helped a lot - and in a way that technically violated Starfleet/Federation protocols as not supposed to share tech - just .... Ugh I love have a presumed idea of what happened but we had a chance with the new shows and now likely will NEVER get it. That's where I'm annoyed.

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STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS // S4E1 Twovix Today's, uh... frankly bizarre series of Voyager-themed obstacles only prove that you are all creative, accomplished officers.

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I really appreciate that Fred is a Soong type android/synthetic NOT played by Brent Spiner. Tells us that they finally started making models that aren't just copy pastes. Like, I know we got that in PIC as well with all the synthetics/androids that were created utilizing Data neural pathways as the basis to make the Soong type model work BUT in Disco they easily could have made Fred just Data v3.0 but they continued with going with letting Data be Data and not actually continuing with using Soong's imagery.

I just love that. I like to think that Data creating La'al is what helped to inspire that to. Seeing that he was able to craft a Soong type and not have it modeled after himself inspired Maddox to actually use different model designs for his own synthetics and then for the Soong styles and then this kept the unique model designs for each Soong type synthetic to continue after the events of PIC.

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I love that T'Rina gives such Starfleet vibes. Especially since Ni'Var isn't part of the Federation until Discovery jumps to the future. She out here making jokes about mind melds and mind melding with random alien species. Educating people about Vulcans (and Romulans) and being the most embodiment of IDIC she can. It's so very Vulcan in Starfleet and I love it. It's so wonderful and beautiful to see for one NOT in Starfleet. Especially as many we see who aren't (outside Sarek) tend to be written to be a sort of embodiment of Not Starfleet. T'Rina and Sarek both have that Starfleet sort of vibe but it's clearly they ARENT in Starfleet and I love that with them. Especially with Discovery giving Sarek the "recklessly beams with Admiral Cornwell onto a possibly captured by the enemy Discovery" scene.

I love getting to see the balance between. It's like seeing Lwaxana being a chaotic gremlin everytime she visits the Enterprise only for her to pull out the ideals of Starfleet and the Federation and become an embodiment of it moments later and be reminded this woman IS an Ambassador for them (specifically as for Betazed but for the Federation). Sarek does that. T'Rina does that. But when it comes to Vulcans Trek does like to remind us they have a xenophobic streak within them (after all the Romulans did get that from their ancestors who WERE Vulcan) and so we get various Vulcans who while in diplomatic roles or scientific roles or whatever role also have a "we are superior to others" presentation that contradicts the ideals being presented by Starfleet and the Federation (not to mention IDIC which is part of what embodies the Federation)

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I really want to know what the name T'Rina means. I know the T' is lady of/daughter of but the other part is what I am curious about. She is such a fascinating character and I enjoy looking up Vulcan character names. It is fun to see what they mean.

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So, I paused real quick because Federation president made a "their linked like the Borg" comment as T'Rina was describing her experience and that made me think of the events in Picard. We know Borg Queen once again was destroy in the series finale BUT Jurati Borg Queen requested to join the Federation and given the sentencing here isnt implying a past tense .... Does this mean that Jurati's Borg collective is still actively about the galaxy? And if so where are they? Did they survive the Burn? We hear about the transwarp conduits as well so like ... I feel like this be a question we could get answers to Iin Starfleet Academy if they hadn't canceled it

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T'Rina: if I can connect with them telepathically

The way I just immediately pictured Tuvok and Spock and laughed so hard. Like, Madam President of Ni'Var should have joined Starfleet with her willingness to just mind meld with random aliens so much

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Every time, I want to like Tarka. I get his reasoning. I get his why. I understand. But the down goes off the plan and off the plot EVERY SINGLE CHANCE HE GETS and I just sigh. Like, he's one of those characters I have fun watching but Iin that "it's fun to get frustrated with you" sort of way

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"this Devore scanner couldn't pick out a Betazoid hiding in"

You are telling me the Devore had horrible scanners and yet Voyager had to hide people in the pattern buffers to avoid them still. Or did their scanners just get worse over the years because they never updated their technology compared to the rest of the galaxy?

Can you imagine if that was the case? Devore not able to keep up with everyone else tech because Janeway came back all "hey so here is info on this species"

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"this Devore scanner couldn't pick out a Betazoid hiding in"

You are telling me the Devore had horrible scanners and yet Voyager had to hide people in the pattern buffers to avoid them still. Or did their scanners just get worse over the years because they never updated their technology compared to the rest of the galaxy?

Can you imagine if that was the case? Devore not able to keep up with everyone else tech because Janeway came back all "hey so here is info on this species"

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Every Starfleet captain ever: treats their ship like it's alive and has its own sentience

Discovery: it's okay Captain, I sense your unease with my development of emotions and that is understandable

Michael and Suru: *very shared uncertainty about this*

I love that the moment a Starfleet ship DID achieve sentience her Captain(s) instantly were like "well we love you still but this is new" in the most uncertain way possible. Like they aren't against it but they also aren't sure how or why it happened so they are slightly concerned.

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Tilly being told how the new cadets in the just opened Starfleet Academy (you know the one that is STILL on HQ because they havent even gotten to finish building Athena yet) are struggling with building team building or talking to each other or even working well together. That they are all so used to being isolated on their own planets and separated form each other due to the Burn. That its not just unique to Adira and then us actively seeing it in this episode. SFA Academy airs: multiple fans "ugh why are the cadets always bickering and not working together, this is Starfleet they are supposed to be able to work as a team even at the academy thats the entire point" It's almost like some people didn't watch the plot. Sorry am I back on my "pointing out things people didn't pay attention to when episodes were airing and just want to complain" portion of my binging instead of my "OMG I LOVE TREK LET ME RAVE ABOUT TREK" that I've been doing .... my bad

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I literally cried during the episode of SFA with Tilly when they put on the play. Ugly tears. Because its SO Star Trek. It's so so so human and messy and beautiful and I know without any doubt that some kid (or adult) is going to watch it and then go read a copy of Our Town and it's going to change them, just like when I was ten or twelve and I started reading Shakespeare because of TNG and I didn't know what any of it MEANT because I was a kid, but I still carry that love of Shakespeare with me twenty years later and NOW I know what it means.

SFA has the same sense of wonder that TNG had and its so silly because OF COURSE they're doing a school play to deal with trauma and isolation. And of course Picard is teaching how Data to perform Shakespeare in order to understand being human and of course Riker plays really shitty trombone in a band and his friends come watch because they love him and of course Miles and Julian have complete cosplays for their holosuite fun in the middle of a war and of course Spock and Uhura make music together and of course Tom Paris starts a movie night and of course and of course and of course because that's what Star Trek IS, it's the humanity in these tiny moments and acts of creation and connection, and fuck, I'm crying again...

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Yes. Like, it also makes a lot of sense that TNG and DS9 and VOY crews managed to bond easier (or faster) because of the time they are from. The kids on SFA struggle so much because of the time they are in. So many people complained about how they interacted that when I got to this DISCO EP where Tilly first deals with cadets I was like "it's right there IN the script for us before we even got SFA"

SFA is absolutely beautiful for showing how the cadets go from struggling to get over those issues pointed out to us (and the issue the kids bring with them) to forming bonds to suddenly having a massiving trauma and struggling all over again. It's so good and they reflect back to the other Treks so well. I love it so much and I wish it didn't get canceled. It's also next up in this binge so I'm gonna be loving on Nahla all over again so hope Tumblr prepared

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Tilly is so adorable when trying to get Michael and her mother to stop bickering. Just trauma dumping on them all "my mom and I didn't get along, she didn't really want kids or want them around or want them touching her or making noise around her"

I adore her so much and I just want Nahla to give her the biggest hug ever and tell her how amazing she is.