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I’m here.

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Star Trek Beyond Extras: This movie doesn’t need a rewrite because Simon Pegg is a gift

-Scotty and Keenser hug at some point

-Instead of Jim actively applying for the Vice Admiral position he is being pushed to apply and Jim is considering it because of his disillusionment 

-Since Jim and Spock’s birthday’s are two days apart, Spock’s birthday is mentioned too

-Spock states birthday’s are illogical

-Winona showing up in Yorktown to visit

-Sulu’s family interacting with him at Jim and Spock’s combined birthday party

-More of Sulu’s family

-Sarek visiting Spock in Yorktown

-A flashback of young Jaylah getting away and her father’s death when she was confronting the  man who killed him

-Jaylah giving nicknames to everyone else after Jim and Scotty

-Jim, Bones, Chekov, and Scotty all trying to subtlely mention to Uhura about her necklace, with Spock panicking about it

-Jaylah is the one to tell Uhura that her necklace is a tracking device by saying “Your mate tracks your exact location with the chain around your neck”

-Jim calling Jaylah “Jay” or “Jaybird” at the party

-At the party, after Jim tells Jaylah about attending Starfleet academy, he recommends she join the command track

-Scotty laughs and tells Jim, Jaylah will join engineering

-Uhura disagrees and tells Jaylah she needs another fierce woman to join her in communications

-Spock states it is only logical to follow the science track

-Bones tells Jaylah to avoid the medical track because then she’d have to patch up these idiots like he does, everyone laughs

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james t.

               ❛     HM.     ❜          it  is  as  minute  as  the  wind  rustling  fallen  leaves  ,   but  there  is  something  MORE  beneath  the  stoic  facade.   jim  is  no  stranger  to  the  world  of  secrets  ;   there  are  things  not  even  his  MOTHER  knows  &  occurrences  he’d  never  wish  to  relive  ,   even  within  a  simple  explanation.   a  heavy  heart  weighs  in  his  chest  ,   &  a  hand  clutches  absentmindedly  ,   thoughts  abundant  of  things  he  never  once  considered  speaking  aloud.   still  ,   he  contemplates  her  gesture  nonetheless  ,   forlorn  expression  forcing  to  appear  increasingly  light  among  his  now  lingering  shadows.

          ❛     i’ll  tell  you  what  ,     ❜          the  captain  begins  ,   spine  curling  forward  in  his  chair  so  he  can  lean  closer  ,   voice  considerably  softer  than  before  ,   &  a  crack  of  a  smile  diminishing  previous  woe.          ❛     if  i  tell  you  a  secret  ,   then  you  have  to  tell  me  one  ,   too.   DEAL?     ❜

                an incline of her head spills her hair over one shoulder,  &  she does not look away from the captain,   or his challenge.  james t.’s offer has her scraping blunt nails on the pale skin of her hand,  ridging over old scar tissue in pantomime anxiety   ---------   & she’s choking on things to say;  her throat clotted over years with a language rarely spoken.  

              &  yet,  she does not know what to share.

              her gaze shifts to a point on his chest,  the one that means command,  &  thinks about the things she can say.   nettled branches,  ship mechanics.  she is a maturation of steel,  &  pain,  &  loss.     when it is her turn,  she decides,  she will not disappoint.   ❛   deal.  i shall do this.       ---------------    you go first.  ❜

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Karl Urban, Sharp Magazine

© Ian Maddox

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   character posters: jaylah (star trek)

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james t. :

               MUTED  AMBIANCE   encompasses  heavy  shoulders  ;   thoughts  adrift  in  tempo  to  the  thrums  of  the  core.   jim  is  at  ease  ,   albeit  minutely  ,   &  her  precipitous  query  hardly  snatches  the  outskirts  of  his  attention  at  first.          ❛    a  secret?     ❜

         THE  FLUTTER  OF  HIS  VOICE   is  distant  ,   a  mere  echo  as  slouching  figure  fights  to  stay  within  the  realm  of  consciousness.   they’re  all  exhausted  ,   the  captain  no  exception.   however  ,   jim  strains  an  ear  regardless  &  perks  up  forcefully  ,   formulating  a  careful  choice  of  words  to  continue  such  a  precarious  topic.         ❛     what  is  it  you’d  like  to  know?     ❜

        AN ANSWER TO THAT  would be undefinable.  c u r i o s i t y   is bestowed upon her mind as a laurel wreath; a heavy weight, prickling sometimes in a thorned crown.   she would like to know,  she would like her questions to be answered  ( all of them )  because there have been so many,  in her life   -------------   &  no one to answer them. 

        but now,  jaylah wishes for a response to something she would not ask.  james t. is a man that knows a great amount of spoken answers;  she knows this,  &  she envies this,  but he is also a man with many unspeakable answers.   ❛. . .  something you can not tell me.  ❜

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james t. :

     ❝ no. ❞ Jim pulls his gaze { finally } away from the glass in front of them to look over at Jaylah. to him the stars were endless —- [ space ] was endless and that was the beauty of it. there was ALWAYS going to be some NEW AND EXCITING place he had never been before. ❝ never take it for granted. ❞ he then tacks on as he looks back out to the scene before them, ever changing and fluctuating. made of the stars - of the stars - poets could say what they wanted but they were outsiders here.

     for granted.  she knows this phrase;  it means keeping modesty,  knowing when to thank often  ---------  knowing how to thank when her head is still on her shoulders.  jaylah reminds herself of the captain  (  her captain, now   )   &  his tether to the ship,  the crew.  (  his ship, his crew.  )  it is funny that a man illuminated by so much ownership  should choose to paint himself in such modest colors.  ❛  i admire you, ❜   she says,  caught in a breath;  because it is true.  &  then:  ❛   you are a good person,  ❜   because that is also true.  

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self-knowledge questionnaire

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below the surface everyone is pretty complicated. based on your answers, we think the following three traits are important strands in your personality:

AMBITION

You have a strong sense of potential and an intense drive to accomplish difficult things. The core of this is your ability to hold together the big goals and the daily efforts. Where other people’s hopes collapse when they encounter the tedium of the journey, you keep coming back. Oddly, it is actually your ability to endure feeling unheroic that counts. You know the power of working away solidly on what’s in front of you.

INDEPENDENCE

You don’t set out to be different for its own sake; you are more easily guided by what interests and moves you. You are more concerned about what is right for you than about the pressure to fit in. In sex you are more aware than others of impulses which are not entirely conventional. You know the value of selective irresponsibility, of forgetting occasionally about being ‘good’.

RESILIENCE

You have a tendency, after a setback, to turn your emotions towards restriving. What attracts you is the idea of wiping out a humiliation by resumed action – overcoming weakness, repressing your fear. Because part of your motive is pride, you can sometimes be unwilling to admit weakness or to receive aid. But at heart, tour insistence on coming back and never folding has taught you a valuable pessimism: you know that important journeys are never easy.

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      can you imagine: jaylah using a temporary last name  &  picking franklin      

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      her last two fingers pull aside the curtain,  shoulders leading an off-kilter stance.  she spies sharp ears   -------  & maybe she’s looking for solidarity  --------  or maybe she’s looking for something familiar,  be it a concept or something as alien as she.   ❛   what planet are you from?  ❜

       CLOSED STARTER  //  @mindlogic

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               &  her temperament is not soft,  but introspective;  with her body close to stasis,  the only movement is the rhythm of her lungs  &  the pulse of blue blood that plucks taut her  alien  heartstrings.  her voice rises abruptly,  but unapologetic:  ❛   -----------   tell me a secret.  ❜    a pause.   ❛   i have not yet heard a secret.  ❜

               CLOSED STARTER  //  @solarbounds​ !

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       ❛   tell me this,  james t.  ❜    rivulets of electric blue dart before her eyes,  &  she knows that they are at warp,  which means the blue is actually stars   ----------------   &  wonderfully,  she is filled with weightlessness in her stomach,  with nothing but glass separating her  &  this void;  &  if she may fall,  it seems the stars would stick  &  tack to her spine,  adhere to bone,  shuffle under restless skin   -------   catch in her mouth when she takes a breath.  ( whimsical, wishful thinking. )  it is a feeling she must become accustomed to.   ❛   do you get used to this?  ❜ 

    CLOSED STARTER  // @rexstellarum 

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          starter call  -------  !

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              her hand is rigid over the weapon, fingers clawed in panic  &  nails edging into the electric wiring.  somewhere close,  phaser beams rivulet flares across the sky,  their paths sparking enemy green.  jaylah finds her voice behind clenched teeth.  ❛   --------------   look at me,  now.   you come with me,  or you die.  ❜

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