#Lanthanite

[wowthesewomen]

Enterprise: Crew IV (not human or not born on Earth)

Illyria

Illyrian

Una Chin- Riley

Alpha I

Human

La'an Noonien-Singh

Vulcan, Alpha Quadrant

Vulcan

Spock

for some reason there were lots of Vulcans in the background in this episode. this frame a lone there are 4.

Andoria, Alpha Quadrant

Aenar

Hemmer

Andorian

don't know if the science sweatshirt is also an Andorian or another blue skin alien

Lanthanite

Pelia

Bolarus IX

Bolian

Ensign Zier

bartender

could be the same guy that was talking with the Andorian?

Tellar Prime, Alpha Quadrant

Tellarite - this guy is a recurrent background crew in both seasons

Denobula, Alpha Quadrant

Denobulans

Part I

Part II

Part III

[eglerieth]

Guys, what’s a Lanthanite? Is our new engineer a vampire?

[stoplookingup]

So Pelia is an extremely long-lived Lanthanite, a race that lived among humans on Earth for who knows how long. Pelia also seems to have a long acquaintance with human-Vulcan relationships/hybrids, to judge from her interest in Spock and association with Amanda. This suggests the possibility that Pelia's involvement might go way back. Was Pelia at Carbon Creek? Could she have known T'Pol's ancestor, T'mir, and later, T'Pol herself? Could this be setting up a T'Pol appearance in SNW? I know all the objections, not least, Jolene Blalock's disinterest in Star Trek. But a girl can dream.

[mourningmaybells]

from tos to snw, I was never too into the action oriented episodes of star trek, but this woman will always be iconic to me

[justreckin]

Alright all, SNW Enterprise hits an anomaly that’s got everyone stuck speaking their native language. Who’s screwed?

Personally I’m going with Nyota (we know this from TOS), M’Benga (accent), and Una (didn’t grow up in a Federation colony to the best of my understanding), Pelia (dead language or Lanthanite?), Hemmer (Andorian)

I’m rather on the fence about Spock; figure he has a 50/50 chance of being taught both Vulcan and Federation Standard as his first language and am willing to fall on whichever side creates the most shenanigans.

La’an I also figure could go either way. I can see her family sticking to Standard first because of prejudice against their ancestry, or going the complete opposite way and saying nope, this is our culture/heritage and y’all can deal with it.

Erica is also up in the air for me. We just don’t have enough information one way or the other so I figure she’s also just gonna have to fall the way of shenanigans. Honestly, I could also see Standard being her first language but her messing around with people off duty as if it weren’t.

[a-noone]

AU where Chekov is secretly a Lanthanite, and he's smol because 17 is the equivalent of like, 8, in their species.

Spock and McCoy, then 130-something, run into him, but don't recognize him because he's 6'4.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Trick or Treat

🦇A TREAT! 💀

Here's more of the unpublished KonBart Star Trek AU.

Enjoy!

🖖

“When was the last status update, Bart?” 

Bart blinked and looked at Conner sitting across from him across the fire. He was wearing only his pants and undershirt, having ditched his red jacket entirely, and his chin was rugged with dark scruffy hair. To Bart he was stunning like that, even though his shirt was stained and his hair lost a lot of its curl and laid frizzy on his head, but it was his eyes that remained ever wild. 

Before he could get too lost in his staring, Bart answered. “One week ago, it’s your turn. I’m no good at ‘em anyway.” 

Conner smirked and got up to grab the tricorder to record their status report. “No prob. You’re only the best pilot in all of Starfleet, had to trade something for all that talent.” 

“Hah!” Bart tossed a dry branch into the fire when it was getting low. The sun was also getting low, and with it the warmth and light of the Spring day. When Kon returned he sat down and leaned over himself. 

“What the fuck has even happened since the last update?” 

“We had that uh, bear-wolf-cougar-thing show up at our camp and you fed it chicken fried rice.” Bart tossed another branch in and orange embers flew up, it reminded Bart of his speed and he almost gave into the impulse to run but he remained seated. “Then we got a lotta rain, and I found that worm that was as big as you writhing through our camp.” 

“Yeah that’s all personal log stuff, you know what they want to hear. Did we find any sentients, what have we done to help ourselves-” 

“Did we violate the Prime Directive,” Bart interrupted. “I get it, I know. They just want a neat little report to have just in case they find our bodies, they wanna know what damage we might have done to any ‘primitive’ species. Starfleet isn’t interested in how we lived down here.” 

“Woah,” Conner looked at Bart and for the first time he was actually concerned. “That was cynical. Starfleet and The Federation  isn’t a perfect institution, but humans have come a damn long way from what they used to be! Their society would not be what it is now if they didn’t care about each other, or people like us.” 

“Pft, yeah they are a lot better than they used to be. Max has been watching them since maybe forever. He's a Lanthanite you know, he lives forever. He’s seen almost everything. Humans might have overcome a lotta things, and maybe they are the best they have ever been, but they still need things like Section 31 to do the things it does. Like investigating us like we were some sort of weapon or hostile intruder when we were just kids! And Starfleet still wants a nice little report so they don’t have to worry if someone valued compassion over regulations during a crisis.” 

Conner couldn’t argue against it and he wasn’t going to try, but he refused to embrace such apathy. “I’m not going to dispute any of that, but there are good people who will hear these, and I know Captain Sandsmark is one of them, and even if it is all just data and mission logs, she will care about us. Max too, he was your guardian, right? If we somehow die down here, he will listen to your logs, and he will care about you and everything you felt like saying. Even if they are rambling and not Starfleet standard.” 

The thought of Max listening to his fumbling logs did make Bart smile as he nodded in agreement. “Yeah, he’d be rolling his eyes at me because they are so bad. But you know what? I know that’s why he cares so much about me. Because he’s never had to deal with someone like me before in his entire life. Well, except for one horse that he had to shoot. He never told me why he had to shoot her though.” 

“You remind him of a horse he had to shoot?!”  Kon couldn’t tell if he wanted to laugh or be horrified that Bart reminded his father-figure of a dead horse but he couldn’t help but laugh when Bart started snickering. “Come on! You’re not that bad. You talk like you have no impulse control.” 

“I used to not have any, trust me. If you met me when I was new, you would have hated me.” 

“I cannot ever imagine hating you, Bart.” The way Conner said it made Bart’s throat tighten and his chest feel as hot as the flames between them. His eyes smoldered something, and then he quickly looked away. 

“You really, really don’t know how I was. I barely passed at the Academy.”  Conner shrugged. “A ‘D’ is still passing and I don’t care. I like you now. You get what it’s like to be, well, alone.”

[dzgrizzle]

On the Star Trek Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover episode, Pelia (Carol Kane) is quoting Cary Grant to Boimler (Jack Quaid). Pelia's quote comes from “Cary Grant: A Biography“ by Marc Eliot (1960). As a Lanthanite, Pelia has been alive and living on Earth for thousands of years, and she claims she knew the Greek philosopher Pythagoras when he “invented“ math. So it's no surprise she also knew Cary Grant. (Carol Kane knew Cary Grant, which adds another layer to her quote.)

“Most heroes I’ve seen are just pretending half the time. There’s this one guy I remember, he said to me, ‘I always pretended to be someone I wanted to be, until finally, I became that someone, or he became me.'”

[cracks-and-chaos]

Strange New Worlds S2 Predictions

-the Lanthanites are either from Atlantis or are those celebrity vampire immortals

-we’re going to hear a lot more about the crew’s war trauma

-That green vial of superpower juice is going to cause M’Benga a lot of problems

-we all know Spock has daddy issues. This season we’re going to explore his mommy issues!

-Uhura and Spock will sing and play the lute together like in that one TOS episode

[ranans-art]

"You fret too much."

.MALACHITE | SHE/THEY | STARCROSSED ERA

Laid back and lazy, that is many view Malachite. For all that most know, she spends her days sleeping away, having sudden bursts of energy to carve furniture. But outside of that typical view of their personality hides a kind gem, guiding those younger than them to be more successful than she ever was. 

As the oldest of the Star-Crossed era, Malachite felt responsible for everyone, even their century-mates. Early on in her life, she carved out a lot of furniture, doors and even wooden toys, one meant for their little brother Tanzanite. They also spent a lot of time in winter, to visit her girlfriends Rosasite and Lanthanite. It's how their habit of sleeping all over the day started in the beginning. Else they have to deal with Kunzite's constant nagging on them, due to wasting a lot paper for her plans.

As the numbers of the Starcrossed era dwindled, only she and Goshenite were left. They never were particularly close with the Beryl, seeing as they usually were with Gold Beryl until his untimely abduction. Though no one is sure how it happened, they were taken in their sleep, without a fight.

Updated Malachite (more updates coming to other posted gems)

Rosasite @faelafel Lanthanite, Goshenite, Gold Beryl @tetrxctys

[weerd1]

This is Pelia, Starfleet engineer and Lanthanite. Lanthanites apparently lived on Earth for centuries, undetected and nearly immortal. They speak 23rd Century English with a particular accent.

This is Simka Gravas. She lives in New York City in the late 1970s where her husband Latka is a mechanic for a small taxi company. They are from an unidentified country of origin, and their native language matches nothing anyone has ever heard of. She speaks 20th Century English with a particular accent.

Folks, Simka Gravas IS Commander Pelia.

[stoplookingup]

You'd think people who go thousands of years living undetected among other species would be better at losing their native accents.

[staringdownabarrel]

I just saw the new episode of Strange New Worlds. So, like, are we just ignoring how in Arena, the Gorn were meant to be a new species who existed across the very bleeding edge of the frontier from the Federation? (This post is going to be a bit spoilery for the new episode, by the way.)

I was willing to give the first season the benefit of the doubt because maybe the Gorn that were being dealt with were a splinter group that lived somewhere between where the main Gorn Hegemony is and the Federation. This would broadly make sense because this group was a bit more monstery and aggressive than what we'd seen before, so it'd make sense that this is some kind of subspecies or a separate species that also evolved on the Gorn home world.

I'm still hoping this ends up being the angle they go for in season two. It's something that Enterprise touched on in season three, where there were five different Xindi species that had all evolved on the same planet (plus one that had since gone extinct), plus also in season four with the Aenar coexisting on Andoria with the Andorians. One of the Enterprise novels, By the Book, has something similar going on, too. (It's been a long, long time since I read that one, so don't @ me if I'm misremembering.)

I think this is an interesting road to go down. It's just a cool science fiction concept in general. Like, what would it be like if the Neanderthals hadn't gone extinct? What would human social development look like if there was also this subspecies walking around the same streets we were? That's basically the concept, except with aliens in space.

The Strange New Worlds writers are clearly aware of this concept existing in the franchise. Hemmer, the chief engineer in the first season, was an Aenar. Pelia, who's gearing up to be the chief engineer this season, is a Lanthanite, a species which went undetected on Earth until the 22nd century.

So not only are they aware of the concept, it looks like they're even on the same page about it being a cool sci-fi concept to explore. I'm hoping that there's going to be a reveal further along in this season where it turns out that Strange New Worlds' Gorn are a more aggressive subspecies or co-species to the original, who'd migrated from the main Hegemony for whatever reason.

I think that's the only real way they can reconcile the Gorn as they've appeared so far in Strange New Worlds and how they were presented in Arena. Maybe they're not as interested in doing that, though; maybe they'll just say, "Yeah nah, we're retconning that." I'm hoping they won't though, because this kind of reconciliation actually would be way more interesting than a straight retcon.

[aquamonstra]

Really cool and original that the SNW writers chose to make Pelia a Lanthanite, a long-lived humanoid species that hung out on Earth blending in with humans as history tourism for fun.

Which to be clear is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from Guinan's species, the El-Aurians, a...

*checks notes*

...Long-lived humanoid species that hung out on Earth blending in with humans as history tourism for fun...

[dax9616]

Pelia is my personal hero. I wish I could be as straightforward as her!

Also love how she tells Boimler that she’s a Lanthanite…….. sooo… idea….

Pelia cameo in season 4 of Lower Decks???