#Narada

[ship-o-rama]

Name: Narada (alternate) Affiliation: Romulans, None Years: 2387, 2233-2258 Captain: Nero, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura

Background: Paths diverged from the original Narada when it the space-time tunnel took it to the mirror universe linked with the universe created by the original Narada time travel. It also arrived in 2233 and also engaged and destroyed the (I.S.S.) Kelvin. The ship and crew became prisoners of the Klingons and spent the next 20+ years at Rura Penthe. The Klingons learned nothing.

In 2258, Commander James T. Kirk, Commander Scott and Dr. McCoy left the Enterprise at the tail end of the Klingon surrender in a pair of shuttlecraft with assault teams and took control of the Narada.

Kirk had already pried the ship's secrets out of the remaining Narada crew and executed Nero himself for the death of his father. Kirk took command of the ship, with Leonard McCoy and Scotty in tow, and intercepted the I.S.S. Enterprise, which had been busy mopping up the war with the Klingons at Qo'noS. There, he reveal the full extent of his betrayal to Spock when Chekov, Sulu and Uhura all beamed to the Narada. As he was boasting to Spock about his Ultimate Plans, Uhura secretly beamed Spock aboard before Narada destroyed the Enterprise.

Kirk contacted Senator Pike and let him know he planned to destroy Vulcan in the name of the Imperium, which was now himself.

Thru the ships databanks Kirk knew that Nero awaited the reopening of the space-time tunnel that brought him there. The Narada made the rendezvous and the anomaly spit out the Jellyfish and another version of Spock Prime.

Scotty cracked the code surrounding Red Matter and it was immediately used on Vulcan. Kirk beamed down to the Katric Ark to gloat to those working there. Then the attack stopped, Uhura having taken control of Narada, killing Scotty. Spock and Spock Prime beamed down to Vulcan to give Kirk a chance to surrender and when he didn't, Spock killed him. Spock was intent on preserving the Terran-Vulcan alliance while Uhura took the ship to Earth to show them a new future.

Appeared in Star Trek: Ongoing Vol. 4, IDW Comics

[krishnaart]

Shri Krishna said:

“Of all trees I am the banyan tree, and of the sages among the demigods I am Narada. Of the Gandharvas I am Citraratha, and among perfected beings I am the sage Kapila.”~Bhagavad Gita as it is 10.26

[harekrishna108]

☀ SRILA NARADA MUNI ॐ ☀

Shri Narada said: ”By the grace of the almighty Vishnu, I travel everywhere without restriction both in the transcendental world and in the three divisions of the material world. This is because I am fixed in unbroken devotional service of the Lord."~Srimad Bhagavatam 1.6.31

[haribolnamaste]

Nanda Maharam comforts little Krishna

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Narada: Dammit, Hermes! Hermes: What?! It wasn’t me! Narada: Sorry, force of habit. Dammit, Loki! Loki: Not me either. Narada: Oh…Then who set the house on fire? Seth: *whistles*

[ncc-60205]

【commission】 battle at Bassen Rift

[raine-hearts-art]

@trektober-challenge Day 5: Ship Evacuation- USS Kelvin on stardate 2233.04

[defconprime]

[prabhupadadasi]

tvam — your goodness; paryaṭan— traveling; arkaḥ — the sun; iva— like; tri-lokīm — the three worlds; antaḥ-caraḥ — can penetrate into everyone’s heart;vāyuḥ iva — as good as the all-pervading air; ātma — self-realized; sākṣī — witness; parāvare — in the matter of cause and effect; brahmaṇi — in the Absolute;dharmataḥ — under disciplinary regulations; vrataiḥ — in vow;snātasya — having been absorbed in; me — mine; nyūnam — deficiency; alam — clearly;vicakṣva — search out.

Translation

Like the sun, your goodness can travel everywhere in the three worlds, and like the air you can penetrate the internal region of everyone. As such, you are as good as the all-pervasive Supersoul. Please, therefore, find out the deficiency in me, despite my being absorbed in transcendence under disciplinary regulations and vows.

Śrimad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.7

[thedaveandkimmershow]

My Christmas playlists are an assorted bunch.

I have one that's all classic rock Christmas songs. I have one that's low-key traditional Christmas carols played on piano. I have one that's a bunch of different covers of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". Then there are the "records". Narada Christmas collections that are evocative acoustic and synth takes on traditional carols. The two volumes come from our early Lake City condo period. Similarly the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums. And "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown", of course, that we actually bought from that Starbucks next to I-5 at Northgate. Either there or the McDonald's.

I'm guessing Starbucks, though.

Going back, my parents favored Mahalia Jackson's "Silent Night" album, a collection of gospel Christmas performances. They were also huge fans of The Mitch Miller Band and its earworm hit "Must Be Santa".

Burl Ives?

Yeah. Also a big deal. As was The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

All of that music colored, defined what I perceived to be the sounds of the season, each one adding onto the next and the next, regardless of genre, regardless of circumstance. It was a palette of sound that additively expanded as years continued to press onward and our lives slipped through many phases.

I would be remiss in my accounting, though, if I didn't include classical music. First because of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir that introduced a giant, classical, operatic sound. Second because I was a piano student (not a great one) and classical's where I started. Third because I was part of a church boychoir growing up. Our choir director was a pipe organ virtuoso as well as being the choir master for the Seattle Opera. He got us a few gigs as extras in Aida, La Boheme, and Manon Lescaut. Our first performance as a boychoir was one Christmas Eve in the mid-1970s at church singing the "Gloria in excelsis deo" parts of Angels We Have Heard On High. I remember he instructed us to sing the "glo" part of the word gloria like we were singing the sound glue and not gloh. I don't know how that sounded to the congregation... but it's what we did.

This was a big church in downtown Seattle and, as we grew older and transitioned into the adult choir, we were thrown into the deep end during the Christmas season with Handel's Messiah. These were yearly performances that, at their peak, involved choir, soloists, pipe organ, orchestra (not a huge one) and harpsichord.

Yeah.

It was a bit of a show.

For those who don't know (and I didn't), Handel's Messiah is written in oratorio form. It's basically musical theater without the theater. Opera without the sets. The elements of oratorio are symphony, recitatives, arias, and choruses. The symphony and the chorus are self-explanatory. Arias are solos. Recitatives aren't songs, rather they're pseudo musical/rhythmic declarations. It all was maybe too classical for me. A lot of moving parts. There were highlights, sure, but I wasn't in love with this.

What I didn't realize at the time was that this massive composition was essentially a soundtrack from which you could imagine each part of this epic story. This is as compelling a classical music experience as it gets without whipping out costumes and sets.

And that was it. At some point my disdain for classical music turned into a deep respect for this kind of storytelling. A method of musical narrative that, in the end, embedded itself in my understanding of the season as deeply as the classic Christmas carols.

☺️

[compassionmattersmost]

Ramayana No. 19: Revisiting the Ramayana with Venkatesananda’s Take: Lessons from Valmiki’s Experience

As we begin our exploration of the Ramayana through Venkatesananda’s version, it’s fascinating to revisit the early stages of this epic tale, particularly through the lens of Valmiki’s own transformation. In this version, we are reminded of how the sage first heard the Ramayana from Narada and later expanded upon it after a transformative experience with the hunter and his divine encounter with…

[itsrameshvenkatraman]

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 528 of 1,000

ANANDAḤ OR NANDAḤ Bhīṣma had never expected anything from anyone. He was a self made man and proud of it. He also had a fairly good control over his thirst for material possessions, although he was fastidious about all things white, a symbol of purity, he was known as the Śveta Vīra – the valorous warrior attired in white – that was perhaps his only material weakness, otherwise he was contended…

[itsmadhvi]

How Agni Sharma Became Valmiki?

There was a time in our childhood when we used to have a short book titled “Valmiki Ramayana.” It was a beautiful introduction to the story of Purushottama Rama and his virtuous qualities. We would read each chapter, line by line, during class hours, and each lesson brought a sense of satisfaction and inspiration. Over time, the values and virtues from those readings became an integral part of…

[harekrishna108]

☀ SRILA NARADA MUNI ॐ ☀

“Like the sun, Your Goodness can travel everywhere in the three worlds, and like the air you can penetrate the internal region of everyone. As such, you are as good as the all-pervasive Supersoul…”~Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.7

[getthatball]

Narada Michael Walden Divine Emotions

Because I went down the 80s rabbit hole again and found this semi-hit by Narada Michael Walden from 1⃣9⃣8⃣8⃣. He really should have had more hits, but found greater success as a producer. #DivineEmotions

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Narada: Yo is Seth sleeping or dead? Hermes: Hopefully dead, I hated his guts. Loki: Yeah, so did I. Seth: Okay first of all, fuck you-