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Kirk: "I need my emotional support. (scanning the crew in total confusion)."
Decker: "What kind of emotional support exactly?"
Kirk: "My emotionalsupportalien."
Decker: "Excuse, admiral what-"
Kirk: "Where are- (gasping) where is h- I can't- (in a state of panic) I can't continue this conversation any further."
Walls/Year 4/Week 2/Day 3
Popping into the Walls household for their day! Well actually, it’s currently the middle of the night. Looks like they’ve got their hands full!
OMG! I just LOVE how Lynn put Gloria down in her crib and then headed upstairs to steal Patty’s bed so now aunt Patty gets to be the one who wakes up to take care of Gloria if she cries!
Meanwhile, Lynn is fast asleep. Don’t mind Jeanette awake and just staring at her at 3 in the morning. Nothing unsettling about that! LOL!
Jeanette decided to make use of her early start and finished homework before watching tv. She was just about to go get breakfast when the school bus came!
🚨 FAKE NEWS 🚨 An imagined @tvguide cover for the Star Trek: Phase II series premiere in ‘78. Phase II was never fully realised, with Paramount instead deciding to produce Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Several early drafts of scripts and character profiles for Phase II were adapted for Star Trek: The Next Generation almost a decade later in 1987. 🖖 • Follow me on Instagram: @pedg_illustrations
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)
Walls/Year 4/Week 1/Day 4 Part Two
Here is the rest of the day with the Walls/Decker family! The last time I played, I ran into Noel and it made me so sad! I think I’ve made the hard decision to bump the major characters out of rotation of playthrough because it just seems weird to me to see them as their sim selves since I’ve been writing so much. I will be deciding on replacement families to follow. So the families to be replaced are Wright, Saavedra, Newcomb, Petersen and Davies. The non played households I will also not be following include Tovar, Breen, Dupuis and Cornelius. Now, they’ll still be living their lives in the background so you may see them from time to time, but Phillip will not be played when I play Lynn Decker and Gloria Wright. Now without further adieu, here is Lynn, hanging out at the apartment of Anwar Smalley (a young adult while she’s still a teen!) at close to 2am while her daughter sits on the porch of the Hastings family unattended!
The next morning, Lynn was up bright and early to take care of little Gloria. They’re so cute together!
Don’t mind my lack of photography skills LOL!
Sondra Walls has waited for years for her fiancé Willard to pop the question, but there's no sign of him doing that any time soon. Meanwhile their three daughters are growing up. Will Willard every propose? Will Sondra decide she doesn't need him to make that official commitment? Or will Sondra get fed up with waiting and pursue another sim and how will the growing tensions in the house affect Lynn, Patty and young Jeanette?
Next in my series of unproduced Trek is the planned 1978 tv series Star Trek: Phase II. After plans to revive the franchise as a motion picture initially failed, it was decided that a new Star Trek series featuring the USS Enterprise on her second five year mission would be the flagship show for a brand new network, the Paramount Television Service. • Leonard Nimoy declined to return as Spock, and it was feared that William Shatner would be too expensive to retain beyond the initial order of 13 episodes, so new characters were created to flesh out the cast; First Officer Willard Decker (an eventual replacement for Kirk), Vulcan Science Officer Xon and Deltan Navigator Ilia. • Characters were cast (with the exception of Decker), scripts were written and sets were built but before production started it became apparent that the Paramount Television Service was not going to be financially viable and was subsequently scrapped. It was decided to turn the script of the pilot episode ‘In Thy Image’ into a feature film, which would become Star Trek: The Motion Picture. • The characters of Decker and Ilia were retained in The Motion Picture, but as Leonard Nimoy eventually returned as Spock, the character of Xon never hit the screens. The character profiles for Decker, Ilia and Xon formed the basis of The Next Generation’s Riker, Troi and Data. • I created this artwork as an imagined black and white press ad promoting the launch of the series. I originally created this artwork in colour, so I’ll probably post the colour version at some point too. 🖖
I've noticed that quite a few people (whom I don't know) seem to interpret the Kirk-Decker dynamic in The Motion Picture in two very different ways, and I was curious about how you all see it. There is deliberately no nuance option!
Pick a side about command of the Enterprise in saving the Earth in TMP
Decker could have done the job fine and Kirk gaining command was wholly unfair.
Kirk understood the urgency better and was far more equipped to handle it.
Broadly, the rationale I've seen for Option 1: Decker was independently capable of the decisions and calculations that went into saving everyone from V'ger along the way, as well as more familiar with the Enterprise as it existed by then and more accustomed to handling active command. Kirk was mistaken, unfair, and irrationally arrogant in assuming Decker wasn't suited to handling the crisis, and in presumably arranging for command to be given back to him. Decker's performance as first officer throughout the film was reasonable and appropriate to the circumstances, and his fate (even if sort of?? happy for him) only justified his previous perspective.
For Option 2: Kirk did want command of the Enterprise for personal reasons, but he was absolutely correct about the urgency of the situation and decisions that had to be made in a way no one except Uhura and Spock seemed to fully grasp. Kirk actually was the best person in ability, experience, and temperament to deal with a crisis of this kind and magnitude, even if he had to catch up on the refits at first, so the obsession with the purity of his motives was short-sighted at best. Decker's prioritization of his ego, and general recommendations and conduct as first officer, were mostly counter-productive and had Kirk not been selected to handle the crisis, it's very likely that billions of people would have died.
