#tendiford

[neottia-orchids]

Head empty, just WD5 chilling 🥺

[thenadnerb02]

My favorite part of the Lower Decks finale:

Tendiford: What are you talking about, we don’t have romantic feelings at all!

T’Lyn:

Combine that with Mariner calling Boimler handsome and it’s clear the writers had us shippy fans in mind, giving us these valuable crumbs to work with.

I’m gonna miss this show. Engage the core, Cerritos crew. Engage the core…

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

1536

The Lower Decks comics' creators knew exactly what they were doing when they made Marinler and Tendiford dress like Spirk and Jakotay.

[ineffablejadzia]

Once upon a time, I got bored during chemistry class with art supplies in my bag. Oh well...

[andtheirmoonlight]

+

[smartsmears]

Obvious things that didn't happen by the end of Lower Decks and whether that was a good or bad thing:

Section 31 episode: Good. In fact I'll go further and say William Boimler should have been Starfleet Intelligence.

Time Travel episode: Bad. I know McMahan says he's anti time travel story but it feels weird having Lower Decks end being the only show without a time travel plot, unless you count Crisis Point.

Mariner and Freeman on the Enterprise: Bad. giving them a more firm placement would have been very nice for the lore of both shows and is so heavily implied as to may as well be true anyways.

Marinler: Good. Shipping is fine but I personally like that their relationship is a deeper one that doesn't have to be defined by explicit romance.

Tendiford: Neutral, in that really their dynamic probably wouldn't change, and this was always more explicitly romantic anyways.

Appearance from Picard: Bad. McMahan disagrees but I think the show could have pulled it off actually. He says that Picard couldn't be true to himself with the tone of the show but I'm rewatching Brooklyn Nine Nine and realising he couldnt be more wrong.

NCC-1701-E Captain: Bad. On a related note, the finale focusing on the Lower Decks cast is good, but showing the Enterprise-E but not who pilots it was a big miss.

Mariner's Love Life outside of Jennifer: Neutral. No reappearance from Captain Ramsey, or Petra Aberdeen? Missed opportunity but at the same time it's not that kind of show, which is why I'm happy that relationship stuff didnt take over the show with the main 4. Plus, the Jennifer progression and conclusion was nice.

Mariner and T'Lyn didnt have a big sloppy kiss and then they date with their natural chemistry that is far above T'Lyn's chemistry with the rest of the cast. Seriously they'd be so good together and I enjoy the headcanon and while I'm not the biggest shipper I am SO ride or die on this one: Bad, obviously

[toyboyic]

rewatching lower decks so i finally drew something. 4 pic me and my friends below kinda suggestive selfship art and personal shitpost

[are-they-queer-platonic]

are they queerplatonic

tendiford

yes, theyre queerplatonic

no, theyre not queerplatonic

i know them, they might be queerplatonic

i dont know them, but they could be queerplatonic

i dont know them

Voting ended onMar 19

submitter: @convenient-plot-device

propaganda:

The show could not decide whether it wanted them to be romantic or platonic (kept flipping back and forth), which ended up just making them read as queerplatonic. They're one another's best friends; they similar interests and passions, they're both huge nerds, and they both have wild and violent pasts completely at odds with their current selves. They have a broken shuttlecraft that they are perpetually repairing, not to actually repair it, but to have something to work on together. At one point, they are forced to act like a romantic couple by aliens, and are horrifically uncomfortable the entire time, despite how close they act at all other times. In that episode, the crew is described as "the horniest and least romantically involved crew in the 'fleet," in a scene implying that the same applies to them. They also have a conversation involving the dialogue: "Who has time for romance when there's a level two diagnostic just waiting to be run?" They are just SO queerplatonic.