#peter preston

[youngpettyqueen]

Scotty carrying Preston to the bridge is such a devastating scene. I'd completely forgotten about it, it really does hit like a punch to the gut

[kitchen-light]

Long ago, as a boy, I contracted another kind of paralysis myself and remained locked in an iron lung for days on end, lying on the brink of death. And the experience I still remember is vivid, like Tony Judt's: a swell of remembrances that seemed to enfold you, almost to take control, as you drifted this way and that in a fever of introspection. It wasn't a frightening time. It was somehow creative, constantly dreamlike.

Peter Preston, from The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt – review, published in the Guardian, November 21, 2010

[rosie-love98]

ScottyxUhura Sketch/Story Idea:

Uhura comforting Scotty about his nephew’s death in “Wrath of Khan”. Or, if you’re like me who thinks they’re married, THEIR nephew. 

If it helps, according to the TVTropes and the wikis, Scotty was driven to drink along with having a fight with his sister and/or niece at Peter’s funeral. Make that what you will.

@currvycurly  @ezrisdax @iseefire16 @faeymouse @alltingfinns @mollyencrypted @vulcanity

[misscrazyfangirl321]

We need a word for characters that aren't technically OCS, but they haven't been fleshed out by canon hardly at all, so 99% of our characterization for them is from our own head.

[amethysttribble]

I’m so weak for a version of Star Trek next gen that doesn’t even exist.

I just really want Joanna McCoy, Demora Sulu, David Marcus, Saavik, and Peter Preston (and maybe some potential Uhura child) all running a ship together.

No one is dead they just fly the USS Enterprise on a five year mission to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and civilizations, and boldly go where not even the legacy they carry has gone before.

[boophisburnhamae]

So I haven't seen the movies, I've only read the novelizations, so I don't know if the Wrath of Khan movie showed Peter and Saavik's friendship. But like, in the novelization, she tells him that growing up she always felt a longing for something that she could not put into words- a friend. And that Peter is exactly what she needed when she thought of that. So the fact that he died in the battle with Khan is heartbreaking. Within the span of a few weeks, Saavik loses her mentor, her first love, and the only friend she has ever had. There's even bits in the books where it talks about how Hellgaurd was such a dystopia that people never really mourned each other, the closest thing anyone ever did was to watch over their friend's body until morning to make sure no one stole from them, so Saavik spends the night after the battle sitting with Spock and Peter's coffins. And she feels so guilty when she can't do the same for David. And I know Spock comes back, but he doesn't remember and is so fucking cold to her in The Voyage Home and I just. I Want To Hug This Girl

[nerdcalendar]

March 3, 2222 - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott is Born

Montgomery Edward “Scotty” Scott, serial number SE 19754 T, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on March 3, 2222. Feeling that he was “practically born to” space travel, Scott enlisted in Starfleet in 2241, beginning a five-decade career as a ship’s engineer. Starting off on the Deneva Colony’s freight line, he quickly found his way to the fleet’s starships, finding his true calling. Scott would go on to serve aboard 11 ships, including an impressive 30-year run aboard two Starships Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk, beginning in 2265. Aboard the Enterprise, Scott developed a reputation as a miracle worker, and soon knew more about the ship’s warp systems than the people who designed them. He was proud of his work, and of the ship itself, once even starting a bar fight with a group of Klingons who dared to insult the vessel.

In 2270, Scott was instrumental in the massive refit of the Enterprise as overseen by Captain Willard Decker, improving many of the systems and setting a standard for future Starfleet vessels. In the 2280s, after the Enterprise was badly damaged in combat with notorious madman Khan Noonien Singh (which also saw the death of Scott’s nephew, Peter Preston) and set to be decommissioned, Scott was promoted to Captain and assigned to oversee the testing of transwarp drive aboard the USS Excelsior. Transwarp drive was intended as a successor to warp drive, but Scott was unimpressed with the technology, referring to the Excelsior as a “bucket of bolts.” He would later sabotage the ship as part of a plot to steal the Enterprise. In 2293, just before his ultimate retirement from Starfleet and after buying a boat, Scott participated in a diplomatic mission to end the generations-long hostilities between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, during which he played an essential role in uncovering a conspiracy to sabotage the peace talks and personally prevented the assassination of Lieutenant Valeris, immediately after the assassin had narrowly missed Chancellor Azetbur.

The following year, Scott attended the christening ceremony for the next Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701-B, an event which saw the death of his longtime friend and Captain, James T. Kirk. That same year, Scott boarded the transport ship USS Jenolan, en route to the Norpin colony, to live out his retirement. However, the ship crashed, and Scott spent the next 75 years trapped in its transporter buffer.

(Star Trek, 1966-94) (source)

[davidhencke]

Peter Preston: An appreciation

Peter Preston Pic credit: The Guardian

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There are two people who changed my life as a journalist. One was Brian MacArthur, who took me on The Times Higher Education Supplement in 1973. The other was Peter Preston who appointed me as a reporter on The Guardian in 1976.

I still remember the first interview  with Peter Preston for my job at the Guardian when he out of the…

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