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There's a pattern with "A Space Adventure Hour", "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" and "What Is Starfleet?" and I think it is that the people running this show are just trying to prove to the audience that they know the source material, and "actually, understand it better than them (us)". In a very snobby way.

The second thing is that they will introduce big themes, ask important questions, go a little into the thought-provoking territory and then... just drop it or they just fumble it. They are not effectively merging the "gimmicks" (that's what other people calling), the content or meat of the episodes, the workplace drama and character building. For a show in the third season, I think SNW doesn't have a clear voice.

OP perfectly encapsulates it: "Starfleet, SNW says, is the thin blue line between order and chaos. It is, ultimately, always in the right." This is tone that prevails through all the conflict: Genetic modification is wrong, but it is right when M'Benga and Pike use it to save Batel. Humans may be biased against Klingons, but Pike will protect M'Benga from murdering one bc of his PTSD. Ortegas is also suffering from PTSD which made her disobey a direct order, but then Una says "I trust her" bc her insubordination was right.

The prequel effect is always lingering with this one. We know which characters are never in danger and which plots will inevitably... just fade. You see Spock getting with La'an and think... is she going to die? Just because you know the female characters are just there to further Spock's storylines (T'Pring, Chapel and now La'an).

I could go on and on... but I grow tired. Sorry to hijack your post OP.

Star Trek SNW s3 ep7 "What is Starfleet" puts this up on the screen. There's a predictable paint-by-numbers 'pro cop/military' plotline as the B plot and the A plot is dedicated to saying we should, beyond a shadow of a doubt, not be giving the Lutani weapons. There are no details about the war and the Kasar are non-entities. Even the fact that there's such a large discrepancy in the number of people killed, suggesting a power imbalance, isn't said aloud, just placed on screen and then never mentioned or taken into consideration in how Enterprise interacts with them or how SNW portrays them. There is no emphasis put on it. They are not treated like a planet of people who are under severe attack. There's no explanation given for why they want to use a creature as a weapon. We are not meant to have empathy for the Lutani. Pike says the Federation will of course help them...but not 'like this'. Given the episode's framing, it feels clear to me they aren't saying 'we won't let you use this specific weapon' but 'we won't give you weapons at all' given how much emphasis is put on how wrong it is to give the Lutani "weapons" not just specifically their whataboutism alien butterfly. This episode Does Not Want You To Think. Journalists are bad, biased. Beto can only be redeemed through realizing he didn't actually have any real point and his criticisms had no grounding in morality, only childish feelings that "Starfleet took his sister away :(". He is redeemed through coming around to being completely on Starfleet's side. Starfleet, SNW says, is the thin blue line between order and chaos. It is, ultimately, always in the right. And those who criticize it are symbolized through one character who goes from malicious to misguided - always, ultimately, never having a REAL leg to stand on. Starfleet is good because everyone in it is good. All those critiques from earlier can be safely wiped clean now that we know they weren't REAL. They didn't come from any ACTUAL moral standing. The system works! Why does Starfleet have such a strict code of silence and obedience? Is Starfleet a military power? Is it a colonizing force? Beto's points are brought up, seemingly so the episode can put on the veneer of 'asking the hard questions' or 'tackling issues' but these questions/critiques are never pursued, never made substantial, because the episode doesn't want you to have to actually consider them. Similarly, the episode does NOT want you to think about the conflict between the Kasar and the Lutani. It puts those statistics up but quickly tells you that the Lutani aren't Federation, were on the Klingon's side during a war, and they tortured a creature to turn it into a weapon. The only Lutani shown on screen who's portrayed as even approaching sympathetic, nuanced, or good is a woman who dies going against her people in the scene she's introduced, continuing SNW's incuriosity and unwillingness to explore alien life/culture. Aliens are evil, strange, or they provide helpful tidbits to our heroes before immediately dying. What is the conflict between the Lutani and the Kasar? The episode is ostensibly about it, so what to do we know about it? Practically nothing. Why did the Kasar attack? What is the history between these two planets? Do those death statistics include civilians? Which side put them out? Why are the number of casualties so uneven? Are the Lutani an oppressed people? Why did they ally with the Klingons at one point? The episode uses that decision as a shorthand for 'they're evil' but we don't know. Why does Starfleet want to provide aid to the Lutani over the Kasar and why in the form of weapons? The Lutani scientists said "we were wrong" about using the creature yes but what aspect specifically? Using it at all? Against the Kasar? How they plan to use it? We can only assume. You'd think a star trek episode or its framing device, a documentary, might tell us these things but this isn't a documentary. It doesn't even feel like an episode of TV . It feels like a propaganda piece, and it reads as such, in-universe and out.

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listen i am compelled by the aos rivals-to-lovers vision for spirk but one of the things i love most about their relationship in the original series is that they clearly just like each other so much. they aren’t fire-forged friends - they do go through a lot together but they were friends before that, from the very first scene of the pilot. there isn’t some big backstory for why they’re close bc it’s not really necessary. every indication is that they just met through work and connected bc they respect each other’s abilities and enjoy each other’s quirks and have fun hanging out playing 3d chess. they are soulmates not in the sense that they were destined to find each other or that they were brought together by something bigger but in the sense that they are really compatible and have similar values and worldviews and they were able to recognize that in each other. and i just think that’s neat!!!

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Made a collage about K/S in the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (I went to a collage party at the art gallery here: space themed, because it was preceding their showing of WOK later that night). It was a blast both making this and rewatching the movie with a crowd full of Trekkies! A couple of detail images are below the cut since I'm not sure this will upload in full size.

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Captain, oh my Captain.

Practice TOS Kirk, 12B pencil and mechanical pencil on dyed paper. I added a B&W filter to the picture.

The original one, you can see below:

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Old men rq

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Chapter 5 of The Rest of Your Life, @gunstreet's When Harry Met Sally Spirk AU, is out!

Sorry for the long wait, but I assure you it is worth it! This chapter is sooo important to me. You're in for a treat of a very important scene.

I am illustrating each chapter, and I hope you enjoy reading as much as we have been enjoying the work on this one!

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[SPOCK AMOK TIME YURI MANGA]

oh you guys, I found this totally legit totally not made by me Star Trek Yuri manga at the store today *I wink at you with both of my eyes*

Anyways I wanted to try some manga shading again, so I made a page in a manga style. It’s like a little prequel page to amok time, where Spock notices what the hell is happening to her.

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“I wanna see some Vulcan-do attitude.”

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I just updated my ko-fi shop with new prints and some available stock! You can check out what's new in this link 💕 ko-fi.com/lorvee/shop

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[THE PRIZE]

Tpring enjoyers unite, that’s my emotional support divorced woman. I’d like to thank @jennelikejennay for helping me with the calligraphy on the banner 🫶🏻.

The symb of lism..the orchids..the ahn woon, the tears, Tpau’s staff, you don’t need me to write the essay

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"If I hadn't tried, the cost would have been my soul."

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Chapter 4 is in!! What could possibly have Jim looking like this????

Don't forget to check out The Rest of Your Life, @gunstreet's When Harry Met Sally Spirk AU! I am illustrating each chapter, and I hope you enjoy reading as much as we have been enjoying the work on this one!

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This just in: Kirk is not a womanizer. He just has a weaponized sexuality he uses to disarm dangerous women in positions of power. Kirk uses a weapon usually considered female: his own attractiveness and the effect he has on people of power and it’s amazing.