#admiral vance

[ardethbayrulez]

Star Trek Discovery

THE DISCO CREW!

[eruptedinlight]

Discovery is family.

[lorcaswhisky]

Anyway, this was it, this was my Vance/Rayner "Oh. Oh." moment. Charles's sad smile, that little downward tug of his lips even as he tries to shake off how hurt he is.

Yeah, we fucked. I even loved him, once. Maybe I still do. But even though he left Kellerun, he was always trapped in that war, really. And I wasn't enough to get him out. I never could be.

So in the end ... I had to put some distance between us. Move on with my life. Not because I didn't want him, because I did. A bit of me still does. But I couldn't watch him hurt himself anymore.

In my head, for probably 29 and a half of the 30 years they've known each other, their relationship has gone something like this:

Vance: I could fix him

Rayner: (definitely not massively traumatised) *makes himself worse on purpose*

Charles has spent the best part of three decades sticking his neck out for Rayner and believing in him and vouching for him and trusting him and standing up for him because he gets results, damn it, while Rayner, who is definitely not self-destructing, how dare you, he's fine, shut up, becomes more and more of a liability, becomes harder and angrier and pushes Charles further and further away.

So by the time we meet them in season 5, after years of this behaviour, Charles eventually got some self respect and started dating a nice lady who didn't insult him all the time and who Rayner was definitely not allowed to meet, and pushed down his love for Rayner and compressed it into something cooler and more professional. And Rayner got deeper and deeper into his "I'm the one who's on the front line, you don't understand what it's like out there, I'm the only thing keeping the Federation safe while you hide behind your nice safe desk" schtick, until he finally fucked up so badly that Charles can't fix it, and that courtmartial in episode 2 snaps the final fraying thread of their 'friendship' (almost) irreparably.

You know. Just in case you thought the ending of a question you can't spit out might be a straightforwardly happy one.

[lizzie-jones]

my thoughts on st dsc season 5, episode 2

the friendship between saru and michael is one of the best things in the show

I'm so gay for Laira Rillak

"Action Saru" - I laughed very loud

"Probably the bravest soul I've ever known." 🥹💙✨️

please don't hurt saru, we need him for his wedding

"T'rina would be heartbroken" - yes and not only T'rina

"She would want me to perform my duties as I always have." 🥹💭

can he stop making me cry, please

we're going to trill

the connection between book and moll seems interesting to me

I always loved sarus quarters

"from a life of fear to a life of hope" ✨️🫶🏻

the forehead touch <<<3 😭💙

Admiral Vance, can I marry you?!

[eastsideofthemoon]

One of the accusations I’ve seen hurled at Discovery is there are no strong male characters… except for Pike. I find it very revealing that the only strong male character people identify is Pike, when Admiral Vance, Saru, and Cleveland Booker are right there as well. People are going to be upset if I say it is a racial bias. But when you consider how Admiral Vance and Book (especially S3 Book) are overlooked when they display traditional ideas of masculinity (without being toxic) like Pike does, if not a racial bias, what’s the reason?

It also may be a limited view on who can represent masculinity, which is also very possible when you view how Saru is left out the conversation. I’m sure someone will argue that Saru is an alien and that’s why he is left out the conversation. But then that would mean only human men can be considered masculine.

IMO, it’s both.

[paininmyass-ometeicphotons]

Okay hear me out (PICARD S3 SPOLIERS)

Captain Shaw (PIC) is what I expected Admiral Vance (DSC) to be, but Vance turned out to the golden retriever of Admirals and Shaw is just an asshole so far

[commander----shepard]

Oded Fehr as Admiral Vance in Star Trek : Discovery

[best-star-trek-character]

Round One

[jordanlafordan]

Y'all know I like Ash Tyler, but I'm super excited for him to meet Admiral Vance in the fic I'm working on because Vance is absolutely going to hand Ash's ass to him.

[wolfsummoner]

So in Discovery S4, Tarka steals the prototype new spore drive, yeah?

Vance is going like "this is the only one we have - we need it back"

And like

Was Tarka not required to keep logs? Or literally any other engineer? Like yeah, try Tarka in a court of law or wte but it shouldn't have been as detrimental as it was to the research.

Until Tarka attempts the transporter. Then yeah. But wait no; you have Stamets and Book. Sure, one of them is doing community service, but Stamets must have logs. And you can call Book whenever to be like "hey we need you to operate the spore drive"

Or you can't tell me all Kwejians were on Kwejian when the DMA hit. There must've been at least a couple empaths who were out there, right?

[gigglerzzz]

This is what he looks like when he’s about to get tickled if you even care

[ardethbayrulez]

Star Trek Discovery 3x05

Saru & Burnham Meet Admiral Charles Vance

[zarla-s]

Another batch of holiday requests! Very fun to draw some Ur-Quan again.

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[lorcaswhisky]

Author chose not to use warnings | Mature | Rayner/Charles Vance there was only one sleeping bag | war crimes | references to past torture | violence | trauma | shame | pre-canon | dubious survival tactics | lost in translation | problematic bi representation | nobody’s hands are clean (in either the moral or the hygienic sense) In the dying months of the Kellerun uprising, the Federation finally dispatches aid. Cut off from their convoy, stranded and alone, a junior Starfleet officer and a Kellerun militia soldier face a war of their own.

Chapter six! Rayner and Charles investigate an abandoned Breen facility. What could possibly go wrong?

read on ao3

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[bbenny24]

I had to

[eastsideofthemoon]

Admiral Vance and his family