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Ready for the holiday!
t'lyn sketch
holy SHIT Lower Decks just keeps throwing gay people at us. the 'Kirk + Spock' carving in the bar, Purple!Data's "I need to get home to Geordi, he is my best friend" AND NOW CANON GAY MARRIED ALTERNATE UNIVERSE GARASHIR???? LOWER DECKERS STAY WINNING HOLY SHIT
My partner and I have an annual Christmas tradition of creating a blasphemous nativity scene with our assorted action figures, funko pops, and other random toys joining in on or replacing elements of the traditional version.
This year it commemorates Star Trek: Lower Decks S5E9, with Garak and Bashir taking centre stage.
Lower Decks might be the best show known to man actually.
Vulcan as a Muthafucker!
Some folks have been saying that they find her lack of inclusion in the last 3 episodes really jarring, and 'bad writing'. I argue against that. (I really like T'Lyn, but then again I'm a sucker for the whole vulcan's accusing outwardly appearing stoic characters of 'losing composure' n being 'emotional' because of an eyebrow twitch. I find it highly comedic.)
There's been plenty to discern about T'Lyn this season:
Mariner goes out of her way to invite her and doesn't take T'Lyn's disinclination as a slight/insult suggesting this is a common occurrence.
T'Lyn doesn't drink, and doesn't seem to be a big fan of the perceived 'drink' culture on the Cerritos - which the season has estb the core4 participate in quite a bit - knowing this, its easy to extrapolate that she might avoid this as much as she could.
She's a great friend, who is encouraging/supportive.
From this, we can extrapolate that she's been around them enough off screen for them to listen to her and respect her opinion/ trust her judgement.
She listens and takes into consideration the feelings of those around her, putting friends before her career and potential advancement.
She respects Mariner's opinion enough/ trusts her judgement, to take comfort from her support even when Beckett might not be entirely in her right mind. (Vulcan as a Muthaf*cker) and we've been given insight into her insecurities.
She has a wicked sense of humor.
I genuinely believe that she's just messing with Tendi, when she said her hug quota for the day/week was reached.)
She's similar to Beckett, in the way she can be reckless/gungho n think she is always right w/o considering the consequences. (Turning everyone into a Tuvix meatball, n then finding out she messed up n she can't reverse it.) Like Beckett, shes a doer and takes a direct approach to problems, including nerve pinching anyone who becomes a problem.
She can more than appreciate a hunk of man meat. (Not speculating on her sexual preference, just pointing out her agreement with Mariner on Orion.)
She there's a chance that she likes chocolate -- occurring off screen -- showing it in a Vulcan way that Mariner has noticed. (S4E5 Mariner: I know you don't drink....there's going to be a chocolate fountain, if you want to get wild. T'Lyn: I do not understand what you mean, but thankyou for the invitation.)
She's sassy (i know its from season 3, but still)
She initially viewed her posting to the Cerritos as a punishment - nay i'd even go so far as to say a demotion.
I'd actually love them to expand on this and have her come to the realisation that its not a punishment, but rather a better fit for her, where she can grow, be appreciated, better fulfilled and dare i say happy? But we'll see if that's her arc.
I think that's an insane amount of character establishment squeezed into a handful of episodes.
I'm confident that we'll see more of her in the next two rollercoaster episodes, and she'll be instrumental, or why else include her in this season? Unless they really do intend for her to be just a foil for the warpcore 4?
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