#about the chief engineer;

[demaparbat-hp]

The Crew is boisterous and loud, full of traitors, inside jokes, and secrets. The scum of the Fire Nation. The forgotten tiles on the Empire's Pai Sho board. The ones who change the game.

But most importantly—they're a family. And no matter how much they complain about their boss (teenage menace that he is), they'll do anything for their Prince.

Anything.

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The Crew is the heart and soul of my fic For the Spirits. No one really knows just how important they will be to the story...how important they already are.

[kleinewahines]

Also I have Thoughts on B'Elanna's 'born again Klingon' thing. Mainly that it makes sense that after all the loss, all the pain, being in an unknown situation, literally dying, thinking her mother is dead, she would re-consider her heritage beyond 'the forehead and the bad attitude'.

She spent SO MANY YEARS slaloming around anything Klingon.

And i may be biased but I see strains of a lot of millennials' experience with Judaism. Many of them-- many of us-- often grew up trying to hide that part of us. For various reasons (such as the bullshit reason I've seen people claim Magneto should no longer be Jewish is because it's 'outdated'). But then something, like losing a parent or grandparent or whatever, has people reconsider Judaism as a way to (perhaps belatedly) connect. To honor that person.

But also it isn't actually sudden? There are earlier episodes than Barge of the Dead where she is taking an interest before that kind of 'belated' belief in the face of losing family. Many who grow up in a Jewish household may not go to services for instance but they may still keep kosher? Or even 'just' wear a Magen David? Which is totally legit to begin with because there is no wrong way to be Jewish. Wherein B'Elanna has been shown reading Klingon romance novels, and an interest in the klingon version of incense.

B'Elanna embracing her klingon heritage only seems sudden because it offers yet more strife with T*m P*ris as if we need more of that. Which then also sets the stage for what will happen when it comes to Miral and which side she will favor. (Which I think is such a bullshit situation when you kinda made it clear earlier that B'Elanna had made peace with her heritage at least enough that I don't think she should have worried about Miral in that way. I understand wanting to save your child from the bullying and stuff you went through but that is completely different from wanting to change their DNA. To say nothing of how suddenly??? we have T*m fucking P*ris suddenly okay with the Klingon stuff? It's like every time B'Elanna has made a decision medically Tom has to take the opposite position and everyone is fine with it like in Kahless's name let B'Elanna have a fucking choice that doesn't get questioned like that for ONCE.) ((Also also [sic] B'Elanna didn't have either parent helping her when she was being bullied so that right there is already a HUGE change for Miral facing bullying. And B'Elanna should KNOW that. We know it would have been a huge change if she'd had some support as a kiddo.))

This kinda morphed into an anti T*m P*ris post i'm sorry lmao but anyway it isn't as sudden after all about her Klingon beliefs and such they just needed some more domestic squabbling and it's bullshit.

I know my B'Elanna is sometimes super dismissive of Klingon belief but that's gonna pop up once in a while anyway esp depending on timeline. It's just NOT gonna be like born again Christians. It really isn't. Jews by Choice simply are not rabid in the way born again Christians are. and it has a lot to do with, y'know, Jewish philosophy and belief in the first damn place. It is basically a requirement to question your beliefs as a Jew, you know, as a treat.

[kleinewahines]

@afraidofchange

After Seven of Nine enters Main Engineering

B'Elanna Torres: What are you doing here?

Seven: I just needed to see something.

B'Elanna: *surprised look* What?

Seven: Your face.

B'Elanna: *actually almost giggles despite the lame, awkward line*

[pancakemolybdenum]

@josuyasuweek2023 day 7: au / redesign / anything you want

theyre both gonna lose like a month of replicator rations. who puts a bunch of kids in important roles on a spaceship anyway

idk been watching a lot of voyager lately

[bumblingbabooshka]

Hey, Star Trek Writers... -taps the glass-

[baylardian-1]

scrapping these haha i just have a surplus of peppa/jj stuff im sitting on rn lol

been thinking about them working on a ship together

[zackmartin]

how long do you guys think it'll take me before I start thinking about a star trek au

[laney-rockin]

So I won't have time to finish the newest Strange New Worlds episode but I will give you my thoughts of the first 20 minutes or so-

ALSO DON'T SPOIL- I WOULD PRACTICALLY DIE /j

Firstly, UHURA IS DOING SO MUCH. TAKE A BREAK. REST WON'T KILL YOU.

Pelia is also like a cool grandma that probably keeps a bunch of cool rocks around her house and a ton of houseplants she got in 93' and has kept alive ever since.

JAMES T. KIRK MAKES A REAL APPEARANCE AND MY GOD HE'S SO COOL. HE HAS MY ENTIRE HEART HE ENCAPSULATES THE BEST PARTS OF KIRK SO FAR I AM EXCITED TO SEE MORE OF HIM.

Kirk is also out here breaking records. Which is such a slay! You go, Jim, break them records.

Speaking of records, jealously isn't a good look on Sammy over here. Neither is that moustache. I should know, I've helped bully the same moustache off a man.

Also no fucking way they mimicked the second pilot ep. of Star Trek TOS with Chapel and Spock playing chess. Chapel doesn't seem to excited to be playing though, can't blame her. I'm a sudoku kinda gal myself. Spock seemed excited to tease and banter with Chapel. Just wait bbg, one day someone will banter back and you can play chess like nerds in peace.

ALSO FINAL NOTE: HEMMER VIDEOTAPING HIM TEACHING UHURA HOW TO DO THINGS AROUND THE SHIP IS SO SWEET I WISH WE SAW MORE OF THOSE TWO THEY WERE SO MENTOR AND STUDENT CODED UHURA COULD'VE LEARNED SO MUCH MOREE

All in all, banger episode so far. I cannot wait to see the remaining half hour or so!!! :D

[the-busy-ghost]

Petty rant this morning- I can understand that somtimes even the nicest noises can be a nuisance, even painful, and believe me I have become cranky about all sorts of innocuous noises at the wrong time.

That being said, I have heard a surprising number of people complain about bellringers practising, when they moved into a house next to a mediaeval English church

[softepilogues]

*banging pots and pans* more one piece star trek aus

[kleinewahines]

I know people seem to think Harry and B'Elanna are the same age but there are so many instances where it's clear he's not the same age as B'Elanna. In addition to people actually confirming the fact he's been the baby of the crew since he came aboard (Janeway even says his age made her protective of him) and that didn't change with B'Elanna there. Only when Sam had a kid and the kiddo drones appeared on board.

B'Elanna could be considered mature for her age but I really don't think so (she probably was as a kid for the sheer reason of being bullied and abandoned tends to mature you quickly). And I adore the fact she's always reassuring Harry of things, from messages from home to the fact that everyone makes mistakes in a command position. And it starts from their very first meeting when she's trying to coax him to keep going to get out of the underground during Caretaker.

I consider B'Elanna to be in her late 20s at the beginning of the show and early 30s halfway thru the show. She's probably around my age when she has Miral. We know that she dated a guy at the Academy '10 years ago', so if she were the same age as Harry she would have been in her early teens which doesn't fully track with being at the Academy.

Harry is in his early twenties (we know that at least as one time it's mentioned how if they went 20 years into the past he'd only be a toddler). And he definitely has points where he mimics older, wiser colleagues which is very common for that age (predominantly Chakotay in later seasons including his haircut while early on he tries to copy Tuvok). B'Elanna however does not. She learns from them such as from Janeway, but she doesn't mimic.

Seven is between Harry and B'Elanna in age, though.

[nighttimepotato]

One might think Picard wouldn't get rid off its best character because that would be stupid.

But then again that's exactly what Strange New Worlds did. And Discovery (like at least three times). And oh yeah the previous season of Picard...

[danthropologie]

I know this obviously isn’t our ultimate goal however I am pondering the full circle narrative of a mid-season driver swap of daniel into devries’ seat

also like daniel/yuki as teammates might be fun for like half a season and with the press conference couch if daniel/max were teammates again we’d never get them on the press conference couch together but if daniel does half a season with AT beforehand...

when i tell you i've been bouncing the alpha tauri of it all around in my head like a little pinball for days on end now!!! i know he said in one of the australia interviews that he doesn't want to start at zero and spend another decade of his career on building blocks to get him back up to a top team, but i think the rules are different when you're looking at a short 3-15 month stint at the junior team to the team he wants to be in. obviously the end goal is always red bull, but i think if the options presented are either a backmarker / midfield team with no real path to the top or an alpha tauri seat to bide his time in until checo's contract runs out...it seems like a pretty easy decision, at least to me...

[thresholdbb]

Absolutely brutal decision to bring back Lt. Carey just to murder him

[theskoomacat]

don't give a single fuck about picard and wes' potential father/son relationship, going hog wild about picard and data's father/son relationship

[nuclearforest]

This is a pretty damn good summary of how it's going down and the significant hell of how tech bros like Rush are a new variety of snake oil salesman. Extremely dangerous and oblivious to the fact that safety regulations are written in blood.

Like if you know what you're talking about tech wise or even have a light idea of what things are like, anything presented w.r.t the design is grimace worthy. And it's absolutely heartbreaking that the disclosure of an uncertified and unapproved sub wasn't enough to deter people from joining in.

The best you can hope is that it's a quick death. More graves are about to join the Titanic and, if not, you've got a nightmarish Kursk-type setup with a countdown timer on your lives and that's objectively horrifying to the point I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Talking with friends about the materials the company chose and the shoddy NDA options and its just so unimpressive. Like the one place you don't wanna be cheap. The one place you'd want to verify everything down to the last micrometer. I hope the families are able to find peace and the company is torn to shreds

On the subject of the Titanic ‘submersible’ that was lost in the deep with all its wealthy tourists— it’s so insane/eerie in hindsight to read this article from the Smithsonian that interviews the CEO Stockton Rush long before the disaster.

Despite the Smithsonian supposedly being an organization that cares about science and truth, and the fact that there were SO MANY obvious red flags from the beginning and so many people criticizing the company…..the article is a puff piece uncritically glorifying the CEO’s obviously terrible submersible project. It compares him in glowing terms to Elon Musk. It is an article about how private ventures like those of Stockton Rush and Elon Musk can and should be the future of the world.

We’ve obviously learned now that there were whistleblowers at the company who were warning for a long time that Stockton Rush’s submersible was unsafe— only to be fired and then sued. It makes sense the submersible was so unsafe, because the CEO in this interview is open about how he has no background in underwater engineering and is annoyed by quote “regulations that needlessly prioritize passenger safety.”

Soon after, the private [submersible] market died too, Rush found, for two reasons that were “understandable but illogical.” First, subs gained a reputation for danger. Working on offshore rigs in harsh locations like the North Sea, saturation divers, who breathe gas mixtures to avoid diving sicknesses, would be taken in subs to work at great depths. It was the world’s most perilous job, with frequent fatalities. (“It wasn’t the sub’s fault,” says Rush.) To save lives, the industries moved toward using underwater robots to perform the same work.

Second, tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license, were regulated by the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993, which imposed rigorous new manufacturing and inspection requirements and prohibited dives below 150 feet. The law was well-meaning, Rush says, but he believes it needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation (a position a less adventurous submariner might find open to debate). “There hasn’t been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years. It’s obscenely safe, because they have all these regulations. But it also hasn’t innovated or grown—because they have all these regulations.”

The fact that Stockton Rush (who was piloting the submarine when the disaster happened) is on record complaining about the evils of regulations that prioritize people’s safety, and the Smithsonian uncritically regurgitated that rhetoric in their glowing puff piece about how rich tycoons like Elon Musk and Stockton Rush are going to save the world is just…..in hindsight of how everything ended it’s just so much horrible black comedy? It’s like a satire about the dangers of uncritically worshipping the rich.

It is mentioned in the article that Rush chose to make his submersible in a different shape, and with a different (cheaper) material than is usually used for submersibles. The article frames this as a result of daring innovation, and not of negligence/ignorance. This passage in particular, which in context is supposed to portray Rush’s critics as joyless naysayers who were proven wrong by the noble tycoon, is pretty foreboding in hindsight:

Rush planned to pilot the sub himself, which critics said was an unnecessary risk: Under pressure, the experimental carbon fiber hull might, in the jargon of the sub world, “collapse catastrophically.”

And then!!

The exact problem that happened to Titan this weekend, happened on Titan’s very first test voyage to the Titanic! The experimental carbon fiber hull had an issue and it caused communications to break down!

The dive was going according to plan until about 10,000 feet, when the descent unexpectedly halted, possibly, Rush says, because the density of the salt water added extra buoyancy to the carbon fiber hull. He now used thrusters to drive Titan deeper, which interfered with the communications system, and he lost contact with the support crew. He recalls the next hour in hallucinogenic terms. “It was like being on the Starship Enterprise,” he says. “There were these particles going by, like stars. Every so often a jellyfish would go whipping by. It was the childhood dream.”

Both Rush and the article writer treat this as a fun quirky story, instead of a serious safety failure and red flag with his experimental macgyvered regulation-flaunting submersible.

Other highlights from the article include:

Stockton rush saying that if 3/4 of the planet is water, why haven’t we monetized it?

Stockton saying we will “colonize the ocean long before we colonize space”

Lots of weird pro colonialism stuff in general??? This article loves colonialism and thinks it’s cool

Rush saying he plans for this to eventually help find more underwater resources for the US to exploit and profit from

Elon musk comparisons. The article writer does not mention that Elon Musk’s rockets explode and therefore it would be a bad idea to get in one of them, because that would imply it’s a bad idea to get into the submersible

Stockton rush seeing himself as Captain Kirk

The article writer comparing the tourists who plan to join Rush to Englishmen who went on colonialist journeys to Africa as if that’s like, a good thing. So much pro colonialism stuff in this article

So many sentences about Stockton Rush being handsome when he literally just looks like some guy

The article beginning with an editor’s note from years later disclaiming that the extraordinary submersible they’re advertising in this article is uh. It’s now uhhhh

But yeah it really does just bring home how so many organizations that supposedly care about scientific truth or journalistic integrity are willing to uncritically platform propaganda for wealthy CEOS. It’s frustrating how easily people fall for the fake myths that careless wealthy people invent for themselves, and even more frustrating that supposedly respectable institutions will platform irresponsible lies that end up getting people killed.

Rush is such an obvious and simple example of this, and his negligence is “only” killing five people including himself. But to me it feels like a cautionary tale to bear in mind when it comes to uncritical puff piece media coverage of similar “daring tycoon innovations” by people like Bezos or Musk.