#tendi

[rouxxls]

i’m already emotional

[sfelix42]

Any Tendi/Rutherford shippers out there?

[cigaradd]

Tendi is fun to draw

[elizabethbeals]

My cover for IDW's upcoming title, Star Trek: Zero Point! 💜

Available October 14 (FOC is September 7)!

Elizabeth B.

[oskidontle]

Tendi 💚

[whirligig-girl]

Lieutenants Tendi and Guz leaving the holodeck, after running a Mellanoid Slime Train Simulator program. They even went the extra hexbyglip and wore historically accurate uniforms for Mellanoid Slime locomotive crews.

Tendi is listening intently as Guz is explaining how to couple trains with wildly different coupling systems from different places. Which can mean nothing.

[gettheorion]

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that you can draw a line from Spock to Data to Tendi, tracing the evolution of how the ideal scientist is framed in popular culture:

Spock: Cold, dispassionate, strives for mechanical objectivity; aloof and separate from the rest of his society, kind of arrogant (bit of a misogynist, frankly, but not in the traditional way): the perfect encapsulation of the brainy, post-war, masculine scientist archetype.

Data: Inherits mechanical objectivity by his very nature, but problematizes it; suggests that he wants to be/should be in the world and a part of society, but can't quite manage it; absorbs everything with boundless patience and curiosity without rushing to judgement; outwardly male but not really "masculine" in any way that matters: the perfect encapsulation of science in transition after the end of the Cold War/rise of STS

Tendi: Warm, emotional, boundlessly passionate about her research; objectivity comes from her ability to compartmentalize, she doesn't need to make a machine of herself or detach herself from society; female, but in, frankly, kind of a queer way: perfect encapsulation of the 2020s scientist-as-friendly-nerd archetype.