#jack pack

[skymallnine]

Replicator engineer who’s responsible for designing procedurally generated meal patterns. People were getting sad if their stew had the same 12 carrot chunks in it every time, so you put in a little noise. Not too much noise, though, or one day they might have one giant perfectly spherical chunk of carrot. Or just, way too much salt.

Meanwhile everyone in the Jack Pack is hoarding their favorite patterns like minecraft seeds. Why yes, I do want the same 12 carrot chunks, because I’ve figured out the optimal order to eat them in. Or maybe I enjoy the experience of eating the single spherical carrot like an apple. And it’s all nutritionally calibrated as well, so it’s a win-win, predictable food without all the Weird Digestive Consequences.

[knivesandteeth]

I should be working so instead i made this

[walkingstackofbooks]

Huh

In Statistical Probabilities, I've never really focussed in on this line:

BASHIR: There was nothing the doctors at the Institute could do for them. These cases are so rare there's no standard treatment. KIRA: I can't imagine it was a very stimulating environment for them. BASHIR: That's what Doctor Loews thought when she first came to the Institute. She got permission to separate them from the other residents so that she could work with them.

and I've always assumed the Institute was for genetically enhanced individuals, and that Jack, Lauren, Sarina and Patrick were just selected as the most likely to benefit from "rehabilitation".

But I'm kind of thinking that actually, maybe the implication is that they were the only four mutants at the Institute, which was more broadly meant to cater for (or maybe, "cater for" 🙃) people with a whole variety of additional needs, and that they'd been sent there simply because whoever was in charge of their cases didn't know what else to do with them.

(Or at least, that whoever was in charge of Patrick's case didn't know what to do with him, and subsequently since he was already there, it "made sense" for Jack, Lauren and Sarina to join him when their parents came forward.)

(The age gap between Patrick and the others is very large if they're the only four outed mutants on Earth, and I can't help wondering what the life expectancy for those in the Institute's care actually is...)

[whatthefoucault]

It’s not quite WIP Wednesday yet, and it’s likely I won’t be posting this particular fic for a longtime, but here’s an entry from my notes app I’m filing under Writing That’s Cheaper Than Therapy because I wanted to revisit the Autism Voltron post-canon and give them a future that feels a lil more hopeful with less Starfleet Ableism. Also, I just love these guys and have way too many thoughts about them

(Sarina’s in the kitchen helping Julian make coffees in a parallel scene I haven’t written yet. As soon as they return to the group, Lauren will ask him how Cardassians make love.)

(This Cardassian in particular? Exceptionally well.)

[justsomeskullkid]

I hate Statistical Probabilities with my entire soul so here are some suggestions to make it better:

Make the jack pack less stereotypical. Make them actually have good endings. Make julian actually help them.

Give it this vibe i think a storyline like this would have made it one of my favorite episodes. I keep imagining the stories that couldve happened while listening to this on loop so propaganda 👇

Like theyre deeply traumatized individuals. Let julian go more into depth about the issues he had when he figures out his augmentations (and even before that, he must have felt different and isolated). Have him HELP THEM. They dont have to stay on the station in the end, maybe some of them go off to research stations, or move to earth, or live with family, etc etc, but keep one of them in the cast! As a side character sure, but still!!!! AGH THEY DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER

[ds9jack]

Flowerfield

[antenjoyinglife]

haven’t seen the rest of the episodes with them yet but good lord I love the augments so much. jack’s vocal stims are going to be incorporated into my own. i love how he leaps around everywhere. i love patrick and how his friends all take him so seriously, never even questioning his intelligence. and deal with Serina, and how they just accept her even though she’s different and can’t talk as much. Lauren is a bit much for me, but that’s okay. like i meet these characters and it’s just like “Wow those are my friends. Like i’m in a discord server with all of these people.” it’s representation of me and people like me (though i’m certainly not at their level of intelligence).

i kind of loathe how the story treats them. but i’m also remind myself that ds9 is a future written thirty years ago. every day i spend taking about my disability, not being afraid of it, spreading education about it, is another day I help make sure the future Statistical Probabilities depicted will never come to pass.

[fuzzyhairedfreak]

Julian + the Jack Pack holosuite shenanigans that live in my head you will never be famous bc I don't know how to write crack anymore