#also ''get the cheese to sickbay''

[luminiera-merge]

i still find it so funny that "there's coffee in that nebula" ended up being one of star trek voyager's most iconic lines given how little it makes sense to a non star trek fan with no context

[a-most-beloved-fool]

One potential Tarsus IV side effect that I don't think I've seen much of is Kirk not really having hunger cues.

This would mean that Kirk might forget meals regularly, especially when particularly busy or dealing with crises. A high-tension week may pass, and Kirk will look back on it and realize that he ate about ten meals during that six or seven day stretch, and oops, he's really rather lightheaded now, but if he tries to eat a full meal he'll definitely make himself sick. so he has to start with, like. One Cracker and a glass of water, and slowly build up to real food again.

Spock and Bones, upon learning this about him, would be mother hens. They would take it upon themselves to make sure he eats, both by coercing Kirk to take meal breaks, and by carrying around ration bars and fruit.

Spock would be able to Tell whenever Kirk forgot to eat breakfast and would silently hand him some kind of snack, which Kirk would then sheepishly accept. If he decided they'd all been on the bridge for too long, he'd send a yeoman to pick up sandwiches for everyone, and he'd forgive Chekov for smearing mayo on his controls, because if everyone else was eating, Kirk would remember, too. He'd bring out grazing-food, like a cheese board or nuts, during their chess matches that Kirk could snack on. (and then he'd do his very best not to blush when Kirk licked his fingers clean.)

Bones would help Kirk set up and maintain meal schedules and plans, and make sure that he got all the nutrition he needs even during bad eating weeks (by hypo-ing at abandon, if need be, though he'd prioritize Actual Food). He'd mandate meal-breaks, and physically drag Kirk down to the mess, if necessary.

Both of them would make a point to eat meals with Kirk whenever possible, because it's harder to forget when you've got company. Whenever either Spock or Bones was busy or otherwise out-of-commission, the other would become doubly diligent about taking meals with Kirk. (If Kirk was sitting at Spock's side in sickbay, McCoy would bring meals to the bedside and would eat with him, ignoring his "don't bring food to sickbay" rule.)

(Personally, I like the idea of Spock later becoming known around Starfleet Academy for always having food available for hungry cadets. His desk would constantly be stocked with fourteen different types of ration bars just to make certain he had something available for everyone with specific dietary needs, and any time a cadet forgot breakfast or lunch, they'd know they could go to him. McCoy would offer the same to his patients.)

(Sorry, I'm going to talk about the side effects of starvation for a minute underneath here, don't read if that's rough on you. It's not graphic. I wrote all that out before realizing that it wasn't really necessary for my little fandom post, but didn't want to just. delete it.)

(also, please note that I'm not a food scientist or expert. this is all generally correct, to the best of my knowledge, but I'm not going to promise that I've got the correct terminology, nor am I going to claim that I know better than anyone else)

If you skip a meal or two, or you just don't get enough to eat, you get hungry. Your stomach growls and aches, and it generally kinda sucks. It's a constant discomfort, because you body is telling you, "Hey, I need food. Now, ideally."

If you continue not eating, or not getting enough to eat, though - your body adapts. It knows that saying, "I'm hungry!" isn't doing much. It assumes that there isn't food for you to eat, because if there was, surely you'd be eating it. And, well, it's a little pointless to have an alarm going "Eat now, eat now!" when you can't.

So it stops sending hunger cues.

You don't feel 'hungry' anymore, in the classic sense, at least. You still need food, but your stomach doesn't hurt. Maybe you feel a bit lightheaded, or a bit hollow, but you're not constantly aching. This is part of starvation mode.

For as long as you continue not getting enough food, this stays true. When you are once again consistently eating the amount your body needs, eventually, you will come out of starvation mode. Your body will resume hunger cues.

Except, sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes, even when you're able to eat as much as you need once again, your hunger cues just. Don't come back. You forget to eat a meal? You might not even notice, because you didn't get hungry about it. It becomes hard to tell when you need food because you don't get hungry.

This means that you have to be careful about keeping on top of things. It becomes really easy to slip back into poor eating habits - even if your original bad eating habits were manufactured by poor circumstance. You might need eating schedules, or food that's less draining to prepare, or to start going to restaurants, but you have to find some way to manage it to stay healthy.

[slurrmp]

little headcannons about elenore on board the enterprise.                       yes i will totally update these the more i rewatch.

1. she 100% would have to spend a solid couple of days in the decon chamber. considering no one really considered all the illnesses and viruses that she hasn’t been exposed too yet. she actually happened to get deathly sick her third day on board. phlox was beside himself trying to keep her alive. 2. she hoards her inhaler with her life. the way that she probably doesn’t know if they could synthesize anymore. so she’s just wheezing every so often because she doesn’t want to waste it. until she fucking passes out in the hall and phlox is literally just “ ????? bitch????? its simple. “ 3. ellie does sometimes go poof. she disappears for a couple of days before always returning back to the enterprise. it’s almost like home base for her. she’s safe there. 3.1. she disappears to future ships. she can’t tell her enterprise crew, but it does help her get the upper hand on learner about new species. 4. but it also means that her and daniels have beef. 4.1. she also promptly stole his quarters. 5. she actually impresses chef when she’s finally cleared to roam the ship. she brings her a game and he actually lets her work a little bit in the galley. 6. which means she also proves her worth to archer. she does his dinner some nights. while also ripping it with desserts , for the little senior staff dinners. but she’s finally feeling useful after pretty much taking up space in sickbay for two solid weeks. 7. ellie introduces the crew to the wonders of 21st century reality tv. she finds shows like big brother , married at first sight (australia bc there is no better version) and even the bachelor. 7.1. t’pol is very very much into the bachelor , even if she would never admit it. she lets ellie eat from her popcorn bucket. 7.2. trip is very much into big brother. 7.3. hoshi adores a good singing contest. 8. ellie and trip bond over sun , surf and florida. well for ellie its mainly bonding over the fact that disney.world still exists. the idea that it does has ellie bouncing out of her seat (and a little terrified). 9. ellie has a four legged shadow.  she fed porthos cheese once and that dog follows her everywhere. 9.1. if he’s a good enough dog , she will feed him something more nutritious than the bagged dog food archer always seems to give him. 10. ngl when i say the four of them , i mean archer/trip/t’pol/ellie , all somehow end up joined at the hip. maybe its just a senior staff type of thing. the only ones to know of ellie’s special ability or something else. who knows. :)))))

[baylardo]

threshold au ive had this character idea brewing for a while of like, a medical officer who BARELY outranks philippa while she's an ensign(?) that she just DOENST get along with and loathes and they disagree on EVERYTHING because he's very By The Book where shes like, an outside the box type of thinker, takes risks, gets results etc. theyd have served on one or two ships together when they were younger, and he ends up NOT being on the ship that philippa's a Commander on. (internally shed be like thank CHEESE) and like,,, while they butted heads a lot, i think it'd end up being one of the more POIGNANT crew member relationships that philippa has.

personality-wise i was thinking he'd be grumpy and stubborn, but coolheaded (unlike philippa) and probably manages to make philippa feel both angry and insecure by simply existing and disagreeing with her and maybe insulting her intelligence lol.

when she'd achieve captaincy like, he ends up being her CMO (whether chosen or designated idk haha), and by this point she's a little more like, radiating that humble pie about following starfleet protocol, and they still bicker but i think theyd genuinely have come to care for one another by this point in their careers. :)

((((((this ones cringe and goes out to my friend @mytardisisparked lmao who feeds my sick brain)))))) but omg with that IDEA ;) we'd discussed about philippa getting WOMPWOMP like i keep thinking about how philippa, having come from a medical background, is probably pretty diligent about getting her medical checkups/examinations done at the beginning of a mission (unlike her mother).... BUT THIS TIME she's like, putting it off and avoiding going to sickbay for some reason, and he'd probably pick up on it, but not say anything. :~) they'd talk about it later hehe, might be the first person she confides in, which she'd think is weird yet she's comfortable disclosing her condition to her CMO at this point lol good for her

anywayyyy i was never set on a species,,,, i wanna do Vorta but i get the impression that their lore is kinda Restricting lol,,,,,,,,,, memory BETA implies that they dont reproduce and theyre all clones, memory ALPHA's more vague about it. i was thinking if he was a Vorta he'd be like an adopted baby raised in the AQ or something, cut off from the gamma quadrant or w/e haha. maybe he's another weird anomaly kid idk lol. i was also thinking that IF they were only clones and didnt reproduce, he could be a defective one that got his lil Termination implant removed or w/e. maybe somehow wouldnt have access to his prior incarnations' memories....... shrug......... idk if their clones are born fully-grown or not i havent finished ds9 or even gotten to the vorta yet lol i just like the idea of working with purble color scheme :3

[elencr]

                little headcannons about elenore on board the enterprise.                        yes i will totally update these the more i rewatch.

1. she 100% would have to spend a solid couple of days in the decon chamber. considering no one really considered all the illnesses and viruses that she hasn’t been exposed too yet. she actually happened to get deathly sick her third day on board. phlox was beside himself trying to keep her alive. 2. she hoards her inhaler with her life. the way that she probably doesn’t know if they could synthesize anymore. so she’s just wheezing every so often because she doesn’t want to waste it. until she fucking passes out in the hall and phlox is literally just “ ????? bitch????? its simple. “ 3. ellie does sometimes go poof. she disappears for a couple of days before always returning back to the enterprise. it’s almost like home base for her. she’s safe there. 3.1. she disappears to future ships. she can’t tell her enterprise crew, but it does help her get the upper hand on learner about new species. 4. but it also means that her and daniels have beef. 4.1. she also promptly stole his quarters. 5. she actually impresses chef when she’s finally cleared to roam the ship. she brings her a game and he actually lets her work a little bit in the galley. 6. which means she also proves her worth to archer. she does his dinner some nights. while also ripping it with desserts , for the little senior staff dinners. but she’s finally feeling useful after pretty much taking up space in sickbay for two solid weeks. 7. ellie introduces the crew to the wonders of 21st century reality tv. she finds shows like big brother , married at first sight (australia bc there is no better version) and even the bachelor. 7.1. t’pol is very very much into the bachelor , even if she would never admit it. she lets ellie eat from her popcorn bucket. 7.2. trip is very much into big brother. 7.3. hoshi adores a good singing contest. 8. ellie and trip bond over sun , surf and florida. well for ellie its mainly bonding over the fact that disney.world still exists. the idea that it does has ellie bouncing out of her seat (and a little terrified). 9. ellie has a four legged shadow.  she fed porthos cheese once and that dog follows her everywhere. 9.1. if he’s a good enough dog , she will feed him something more nutritious than the bagged dog food archer always seems to give him. 10. ngl when i say the four of them , i mean archer/trip/t’pol/ellie , all somehow end up joined at the hip. maybe its just a senior staff type of thing. the only ones to know of ellie’s special ability or something else. who knows. :)))))

[is-this-just-fantasy]

[ID 1: A screenshot of Tumblr tags that say: "#oh absolutely!! #this is why I - a butch lesbian - follow so few sapphic blogs #they're all like 'men dni' and I'm like 'ok but what is A Man to you?' #cause I sure have a lot of traits that men have tbh #masculinity is important to me #I might not call myself a man and I don't have a dick but you know the venn diagramm overlap between me and 'man' exists and it's not small #so what exactly makes 'a man'? is it his childhood his hobbies his interests his looks or just his dick? #which then inevitably leads me to the question 'ok but are they normal about trans people? are they normal about people with dicks? #are they normal about masculine presenting people? and heck - are they normal about butches outside their 'tough butch daddy' fantasies?' #they're like 'oh enbies can interact' #ok but do you mean all enbies or just enbies as 'women lite #sure they won't have a problem with feminie or androgynous afab enbies #but what about amab enbies with a beard? what about masc enbies? what about me? #and what happens if I do follow you and suddenly discover that I'm a trans man?" End ID]

[ID 2: A screenshot of Tumblr tags, continuing from the first image, that say: "#'cause you know there's a huge overlap in experiences between butches and trans men? #do I have to hit that unfollow button now? do I have to hit it right away or am I only a man if I start T and get surgeries? #'trans men are men so dni' on a butch blog makes me want to scream #my friend that line is thin and very blurred #you claim to be outside the gender binary and yet you're enforcing it #also - to echo op's sentiment- yeah I know 'men dni' is not about me when I read it #but it's still exclusionary enough that I don't feel welcome anymore #yeah there are aspects of me that overlap with 'men' #so bye #butch#transgender #nonbinary #queer stuff". End ID]

@get-the-cheese-to-sickbay if u could add these to ur og post that'd be great 👍🏼

Tumblr stop recommending me horny sapphic blogs that all say men dni in the pinned post, go back to sending me posts from the one that's just horny all the time please, I want the fat furries and the queer freaks that are way less respectably normal about me and my body.

[iamthecutestofborg]

If I had to pick just one quote out of the entire franchise to sum up the universal theme of Star Trek-a thesis statement of what it's really all about-it would have to be this line Data says in The Offspring:

"We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yeilds its own rewards."

(However, "get the cheese to sickbay" is also a strong contender)

[creambunnie]

Fall For Me 🌬

Chapter 13 ;

the students got busier in the following weeks. more homework were given, more weekly tests were conducted.

you were even given extra work by the teacher to help the student council. you were not an official member but since you weren't in any clubs either, you were mostly seeked to help with the translation of documents.

you and Jeno naturally didn't interact as much. you did text each other but Jeno was the one who always started the conversation. it was not like you were forcing yourself to avoid Jeno, you were just too busy to even think about texting others.

most of the time when you texted people was related to schoolwork. even Aya didn't spend as much casual time with you. she understood your situation and just supported you from the back.

as your schedule and Jeno's were different, Jeno didn't get the chance to greet you by your locker every morning like usual.

Jeno entered the classroom with Jaemin and did his morning routine which was to look over at your desk to see if you were in school already.

his eyes widened when he saw you today. your usual hair which was braided into a ponytail was loose, only a black headband was donned, neatly combing your hair back. it was a new look but Jeno was distracted by something else.

you looked paler, your lips were chapped as you bit onto it, as if you were in pain. Jeno shook his head as he continued staring at you. not as if, you were in pain!

Jeno wanted to approach you but the bell rang and your homeroom teacher entered right on the dot. Jeno sighed as he planned in his head to talk to you during break.

the whole time during lesson, Jeno glanced your way, feeling worried. he then saw you massaging your stomach.

*gastric? hmmm no. time of the month!* Jeno figured out as he saw you took out your heat pack and placed it over your uniform. he then listed down some things in his head that he will buy to make you feel better later.

it was finally lunch time. without thinking further, Jeno quickly ran out of the classroom. he was afraid the queue would be too long and you would have to wait longer.

Jeno bought a cup of hot tea, a cream bun, a strawberry cream sandwich, the cafeteria's famous delicious pizza bread, your favourite cheese bread and a bar of chocolate.

he held onto the cup carefully and happily swung the plastic bag of food as he walked to the classroom. he figured you would be resting in the classroom as he didn't see you in the cafeteria.

Jeno's wide smile froze when he saw not only you in the classroom, but also your deskmate, Yangyang. Jeno's grip on the cup of tea tightened as he saw Yangyang passing to you another cup of hot drink.

Yangyang looked just as worried as Jeno. you took a sip of the drink and sighed in relief. it really made you feel better. you gave Yangyang a small smile and reached out for the cream bun that he bought for you. you chatted with your deskmate, totally oblivious of the other boy outside of the classroom.

Jeno frowned and looked away. he hurried to buy things but he was still too late. it would be too much for you if he insisted on giving you what he bought earlier.

Jeno heard shufflings approaching the classroom, out of reflex, Jeno quickly walked away and turned a corner. he didn't want others to see his pathetic state.

it was none other than Aya, but Jeno was long gone when she arrived.

"y/n!!! your cramps are worse than usual, is it because you are too stressful?" Aya worriedly asked as she passed a new heat pack to you.

earlier, Aya bought some snacks for you. she asked Yangyang to bring them to you first as she went to the sickbay.

you shrugged your shoulders as you thanked Aya and Yangyang.

"i'm not sure. but i feel so much better now. it will probably be gone by tomorrow."

Aya and Yangyang continued helping you throughout the whole day and even asked your teacher permission for you to be excused from helping out the council today.

it was a new week and you were at your best condition. you were extra productive and even did more than two practice papers during a free period as one of your teachers was absent.

Yangyang followed suit and tried to catch up with his studies. even though he only missed a week of school and attended the rest of the classes after, it was still a bit difficult for him due to the language barrier.

"y/n, can you help me with this question?"

you wrote down your last word and turned to your deskmate's paper.

"let me see. hmm you can answer this by using this formula, but it is abit difficult for me to explain to you properly. ah! let me go ask Jeno for help."

you quickly took Yangyang's paper and walked to Jeno's desk for the first time in two months.

"hey Jeno, sorry for disturbing. can you help explain how to solve this question to Yangyang simply ? i know how to solve but i don't know how to explain."

Jeno slowly looked up from his own books with an unreadable expression.

Yangyang who was behind you felt a chill down his spine. he tugged at your sleeve and whispered. "i--it's fine, y/n. Jeno is busy.."

Jeno glanced at Yangyang and landed his eyes back on you. he smirked before scoffing.

"oh so you do remember that i exist?"

you frowned at his cold voice.

"what do you mean?"

Jeno chuckled and straightened up, he put his pen down abit too loudly that it attracted your other classmates.

"is it fun? being an attention seeker ? you got all the attention from your new friend and suddenly, i am invisible. and after months, you finally approached me first. wow, i am honoured."

your frown dipped deeper at his sarcasm.

"i don't understand you Jeno, i was only trying to help Yangyang adapt to his new environment. i am sorry if you feel like i've been avoiding you. i became busier these days, i didn't mean to--"

your words were cut off by a furious Jeno.

"huh? help him adapt ? it's been almost 3 months since he transferred, is he a baby? is he so stupid that he can't talk to others by himself?"

"Jeno! you don't have to be mean! if you are upset with me, then stay mad at me, don't involve others too."

Jeno rolled his eyes.

"fine fine. you can go have fun with your new friend all you want, i bet when you found someone else, you will leave Yangyang and be all over the new boy, just like how you confessed and then abandoned me. cheap."

you froze at his words. not because he hit the spot, but because you never expected Jeno to say something so vulgar, especially towards you.

you were silent for a while. you placed the paper you were holding on a desk softly before walking out of the classroom with your head down.

Yangyang hesitated and looked at Jeno for a second before following you out.

Jeno gulped when he saw your reaction. he was clearly not in his right mind when he said those stuff. he was blinded by jealousy and without realising, he said hurtful words to you.

he was about to stand up and chase after you but was stopped by Jaemin. Jeno glared at his deskmate, but Jaemin only nodded his head towards Aya, who was stomping her way over to Jeno's desk.

Jeno gulped again his non-existent saliva and clenched his palm, ready to accept Aya's slap.

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a/n : sorry for the late update ! hope yall enjoyed the angsty chapter ㅠㅠ Jeno exploded.... stay tuned for the next update!!

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[cristobalrios]

//I told @procrastinatorproject I would type up the transcript for the La Sirena segment of the Set Me Up special feature on the Picard DVD since it’s not out yet in other countries besides the US, so here it is. Since Tumblr doesn’t like links much for showing up in the tags, I’ll link in a reblog to the post I had of some crappy pictures (taken from my phone because I couldn’t screencap the proper way) as well as the longer conversation we had about some of it. I’ll try to get some other screencaps (on my phone still, unfortunately) later. A lot of the information is similar to and occasionally word-for-word what is in the “Take a Tour of La Sirena” video, there is a bit more information there, so. The transcript is under the cut:

For @mappinglasirena

Transcript for the La Sirena Segment for the Set Me Up Special Feature on the Third Disc of the Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Blu-ray

Told by Todd Cherniawsky (Production Designer)

Introduction:

“The design and build of La Sirena, first off, was quite fast-tracked because we were waiting for the hard definitions of what the ship needed to encompass for the whole season, as far as the space requirements. Who would have staterooms? Would we need an engine room? Was there a medlab? Was there a science lab? Where did they eat? We knew we would need all of, or a combination of some of those spaces. So very early on, we pushed the idea that we build La Sirena almost like a warehouse; A warehouse inside a sound stage. So this two-story undefined spaceship was nothing but open hull.”

Upper Deck

Engine room/transporter room/main open space on the Upper Deck:

“We’re here in the belly, in the central, kind of, vault of La Sirena [Showing the large open space on the Upper Deck with the transporter pad and the engine]. Essentially, it evolved like you would with any kind of cargo ship, is that we started to retrofit it with certain bits of Federation technology. So the holo-stateroom that Picard stays in, Rios’s stateroom, all the other staterooms and his ready room [Showing the conference room-like area he calls the “ready room” where Raffi and Rios talk to Narek in Et In Arcadia Ego Part II], are all kind of Federation technology, basically Federation containers, staterooms that he’s essentially kludged back into an otherwise open warehouse ship.

Warp core [Pointing to the circler display of the warp core towards the back]. The idea was to try to bring some type of lighting effect that would reflect the state of the ship’s speed and power. So, working with Phil Lanyon (the director of photography), very closely, to come up with a lighting instrument that was very helpful for his lighting crew that provided everything that he needed to color temperature, etc., and then we integrated it into the set. And eventually, this becomes a bit of a focus for a handful of scenes.”

Lighting:

“I mean, we have close to 500 lighting fixtures spread out over the entire ship. And everything’s on the dimmer board. So there’s a lot of quick flexibility. It’s not to say that specials don’t need to be brought out occasionally, but for the most part, everything can be done with all available built-in lighting.”

Bridge/“Flight Deck”:

“La Sirena’s flight deck consists of three main seats, like very traditional, kind of Federation issue vehicle. There’s a captain, NavCom, weapons/pilot. Then we’ve retrofitted through the season two additional standing terminals that would also act as kind of ancillary weapons or engineering systems. By the end of the season, we added two more chairs to accommodate the full ensemble.”

Lower Deck

Sickbay/Science Lab, called the Medbay/Science Lab:

“We’re on the underside of La Sirena, on the lower level. In the lab, medbay, this set is pretty much like Swiss cheese, but because of the structural need of having a lot of steel, carrying the larger deck up above, everything wilds out (“Wild Wall” – a movable wall designed and built into the set that is removed for shooting) in a kind of difficult way. So having all the built-in lighting allows us to not have to wild the walls very often and keep moving very, very fast.”

Mess Hall, referred to as a “Canteen Area” or “Common Room”:

“The common room evolved as we realized that we needed a gathering point for our cast. The storyline was evolving, so we realized that this was going to be a bus along the way. This made complete sense to turn into a canteen area. We’ve got two working replicators and then, as well, a dedicated beverage synthesizer.”

Ship Crashed on Coppelius:

“Once La Sirena crashes on Coppelius, we needed to get our cast in and out, so our characters end up going back out through the lower part of one of our vista windows into this badlands-like area. This is probably one of my favorite sets, generally, obviously is the spaceship, but this little 20-foot-by-20-foot area of this foam scenery might be my favorite, because it really feels like you’re shooting a Star Trek episode. You’re on an alien planet, and you don’t have enough stage space, and you’re kind of tight into it, and you try to do something kind of funky and alien-like, it still looks like Earth. It’s one of those fun moments where when we walked in the first morning it was lit, and we were kind of done with it, I think everyone felt that, yeah, we were shooting a good old Star Trek episode.”

[starfleet-memedom]

Tasha Yar and B'Elanna Torres

Tasha Yar

1: sexuality headcanon 

Either lesbian or bi

2: otp 

I don’t really ship her romantically with anyone

3: brotp 

Tasha and Worf! These two did not get enough screen time together.

4: notp 

Her and any man other than Data (I’m not a huge fan of her and Data either, but I don’t hate it)

5: first headcanon that pops into my head 

She isn’t good at admitting when she’s hurt and how badly she’s hurt, so Crusher had to learn how to tell what she means when she says she’s fine.

6: favorite line from this character 

Nothing comes to mind right away, but I’ll edit this if something does

7: one way in which I relate to this character 

I wish I could be like her, but alas

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character 

The entire episode “Code of Honor.” What was that? I can’t watch that episode without being overwhelmed by secondhand embarrassment.

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

Badass fave who stole my heart

B’Elanna Torres

1. Sexuality headcanon

Bi

2. otp

Fun fact, I haven’t actually seen much of Voyager yet, so I really don’t know.

3. brotp

See number 2

4. notp

B’elanna and Vorik. Just... no.

5. first headcanon that pops into my head

She should have been able to meet Worf

6. favorite line from this character

“Get the cheese to sickbay” is my favorite so far

7: one way in which I relate to this character

I also do not like to be bothered while I’m working (I don’t know if this is true of her, but the vibes seem like they’re there)

8: thing that gives me secondhand embarrassment about this character

The entire pon farr bit was... something, shall we say.

9: cinnamon roll or probelmatic fave?

Badass fave who stole my heart (again)

[captainpikeachu]

ENT 1x12 Dear Doctor

awww the start of Phlox’s day, he is so precious :D

ohhhh Hoshi delivering Phlox’s letters, awww he’s got a friend (Jeremy Lucas) in the medical exchange, the first human serving on Denobula, that must be cool

Hoshi had a pen pal from Brisbane, Australia when she was 12, cute!

aww Phlox is teaching Hoshi languages, I assume Denobulan :D

i love this voiceover letters narration while we see Phlox going about his daily routines around the ship

aww bby Porthos having tummy issues, no feeding him cheese Jon!

lol Phlox being amused by us humans being moved to tears by fictional characters in movies even though we’re all calm under pressure in danger in real life hahaha, yes Phlox, we humans are a strange bunch

omg Cutler may have feelings for Phlox????

oh found an alien ship floating around, faint life signs, looks pre-warp hmmmm

heyyy alien is awake! so they’re from Valakis, left with three other ships, ohhh an illness

they’ve met the M’Klexa and the Ferengi - so Vulcans and Humans don’t know who those species are yet

ohhh i love Jon looking to T’Pol when it comes first contact decisions, it’s good now he trusts her expertise given the Vulcans’ more experience in this field

yay it looks like Phlox is gonna be able to do something to help

awwww Phlox and Hoshi having meal conversations in Denobulan, hehehehe Hoshi noticing sparks between Cutler and Phlox

“you make a very cute washboard” - LMAO oh language mix ups

awww Phlox is impressed with our desire to always help others (if only real life is doing more of that these days)

T’Pol is worried about Phlox’s safety on the planet, hmmm Jon is still too trusting of everyone

what’s a Menk? not as evolved as Valakians? well, why do I sense something suspicious here

interesting Jon saying most planets have only one humanoid species survive the evolution process

lol T’Pol is not happy that there are cracks in her teeth

omg Phlox trying to get advice from T’Pol about relationships with humans

awww T’Pol you made Phlox sad suggesting that Cutler’s interest may just be she’s infatuated with something new :(

WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME SAD PHLOX

oh no the illness is genetic, Valakians will be extinct in less than two centuries :(

ok now Hoshi, Cutler, and Phlox are with the Menk and getting their samples and tests

so we have one advanced species, and one primitive species --- but it seems the Valakians are more controlling, given their attitudes about being more evolved, and the fact that they don’t let the Menk live on fertile land and makes the Menk dependent on the Valakians

the Menk, or at least this specific one, seems very smart, oh his name is Larr

yeah so I get the same feelings the other crew are feeling about the Menk being exploited, but Phlox is right that this is the aliens’ culture and it works for them, imposing human values on other species isn’t very open minded

ohhhh Phlox has three current wives who each have two husbands, wow

well, i am glad that Cutler and Phlox’s conversation clears up a few things about where this possible romantic relationship stands, at least Cutler says she isn’t interested in being wife number 4, so...maybe a friend/almost dating stage?

ohhhh the Valakians want warp engine....well, this just got more complicated

Jon admitting that he’s beginning to understand how the Vulcans must have felt, well, it is all about perspective in the end isn’t it, it’s like how when we’re kids we get mad when our parents don’t let us do something, but when we get older and become parents, we realize we don’t want our kids to do that same thing because we now know the dangers

looks like Phlox discovered something that isn’t good news again

ohhh this Jon and Phlox convo is deep - do you interfere with the evolution of a species? 

ohhhhhhhh Jon now reconsidering, i love this foreshadow of the Prime Directive, “until someone has drafted that directive, I’m going to have to remind myself every day that we didn’t come out here to play God” --- I LOVE MY BOY

awwww Phlox trusted Jon and Jon did make the right choices

awwww Phlox also taking Hoshi’s advice to get out of sickbay for a while and he’s gonna go hang out with Cutler! AWWWWW

THAT’S IT FOR EP 12

NOW ONTO EP 13!!

[illogicalbroccoli]

Not OK

Content Warnings:  Discussion of PTSD

Pairings:  None, really

Summary: Tilly is there for everyone.  Who is there for her?

AO3 Link:  https://archiveofourown.org/works/16964904

According to her mother, Sylvia Tilly had a character flaw. Actually, according to her mother, she had many character flaws, ranging from talking too much to choosing to spend her life fiddling with warp coils and matter converters in the depths of empty space. Tilly’s mother had sometimes even implied that Tilly’s allergies must stem from some hidden moral defect, worming its way to the surface as a bronchio-nasal reaction to artificial fibres. But among these flaws was the one that Tilly was thinking about now: Tilly couldn’t pass by anyone who looked sad. 

It had started young. One of Tilly’s earliest memories was of herself at age four, walking to ballet lessons with her mother. As they walked, they passed the outdoor tables of a small cafe, where a man sat by himself, reading a PADD with a pained expression. Tilly had stopped, letting her mother march ahead, tapped the man on the knee and asked what was wrong, and if he wanted to hear a joke that would make him smile. She hadn’t had a chance to tell it – her mother, finally noticing that she was alone, had run back and snatched Tilly up, telling her NEVER to talk to strangers like that again.

The lesson didn’t take. At school, Tilly had always been the student who took it on herself to welcome the new kids, showing them where the bathrooms were, which the best swing was, where the biggest puddles formed when it rained. When she saw a kid crying, she would usually rush up to hug them and tell them it was OK. That was how she made her first real friend in school. It was also how she got punched for the first time. From kindergarten onward, her school reports gushed about her empathy, her compassion, her sunny disposition. Her mother would read these outpourings with a tight mouth, and mutter about how her daughter would turn into a pushover.

Tilly knew she was not a pushover. Right now, though, she had to admit that, perhaps, a compulsion to comfort the sad could have its downsides. Not that Tilly had any desire to stop comforting people, but perhaps it would be nice if there weren’t quite as many people to comfort at once. First and foremost, of course, there was Michael. These days, Tilly spent at least one evening in three lying with her arms around Michael, feeling the waves of silent sobs move through her body. As a child, Michael said, she could only remember crying a couple of times. She seemed to be making up for it now.

Then there was Paul. Tilly had known Paul as a sarcastic, persnickety, perfectionist, always ready with a cutting remark; she had known him as a singing, dancing, obsessively joke-making goofball, hopped up on mycelial spores and tardigrade DNA. Nowadays, she was getting to know silent Stamets. In Engineering, Paul worked obsessively, eyes fixed on his screen, speaking only to ask Tilly to check readings or make calculations. She had sat with him at lunch a couple of times. Paul had eaten mostly silently too; Tilly’s attempts to start conversation had been met by shrugs and one-word answers. She dearly wanted to tell him he could talk to her about Hugh, that sharing would help, that it was OK to feel whatever he was feeling. She didn’t dare, though, and not just because he was her boss. He seemed brittle somehow, like too strong a shock might shatter him like a porcelain cup. So she said nothing.

And what about Captain Saru? Or rather Acting Captain Saru, as he insisted on reminding her. Not that she could ever ask Saru about his feelings, but she had served with the Kelpien long enough that she thought she could read him. She could see that Saru was not happy. As the first Kelpien in Starfleet, Saru bore so much. In popular imagination, Kelpiens were a species of cowards, who would turn tail and run at the first sight of danger. Even after everything he had done, Tilly knew that Saru still felt the weight of that stereotype. He had led the Discovery out of a hopeless situation, had held true to the ideals of Starfleet when Starfleet itself had abandoned them, and still, she knew, there were many who expected him to fail. True, they had given him a medal, but they had not given him Discovery. It wouldn’t be long before he’d be back taking orders from someone else; the admiralty was, apparently, not ready to put a cowardly Kelpien in charge of a starship.

And those were only the people she saw regularly. She had lost count of the one-offs, the random people she encountered in the cafeteria, in the recreation room, in the corridors. Like the crewmember she had found sobbing against a bulkhead, whose sister had been on the Buran when Lorca blew it up; the nurse whose hand shook when he tried to take Tilly’s blood during a checkup, and who had explained that he hadn’t slept in three days because whenever he slept he dreamed of Klingons ambushing him with bat’leths and knives… And so many more. Discovery had been, almost literally, to hell and back, and everyone bore scars. Of course, there were psych-trained medics in sickbay. Two of them - for a crew of 130. So Tilly picked up the slack. She listened. She hugged, when people wanted it. Sometimes she gave advice, or just made silly jokes to distract them, for a few minutes, from their pain.

If you had asked Tilly how she was taking it, she’d have said she was fine. That helping people was her thing. That feelings were good, no matter what they were. That making other people happy made her happy too. All of that was true. But, she was starting to have to admit to herself, she wasn’t fine.

The realization had come very suddenly. She had been on the bridge, at her station, doing routine engine diagnostics. Saru had asked her for some statistic, she couldn’t even remember, and she had pulled up the entry and read it out. Saru made one of his clicking noises, and said “Ensign, I do not believe that can be correct.” Tilly had looked, and saw he was right, she had pulled up entirely the wrong menu. And then it hit. Her stomach felt like it had just fallen down a turbolift shaft, her face got terribly hot, and she knew that she was about to cry. Sylvia Tilly’s crying was like everything else she did: it was not subtle. She bit her lip, tried breathing slowly through her nose, counting to twenty, all the other things they had taught her when she was small. It was not going to work.

“Captain Saru?” she said, working hard to keep the waver out of her voice. “Request permission to return to quarters. I’m- I’m unwell.”

Saru tilted his head, and for a moment fixed his pale blue eyes on her.

Please please please please say yes. Please don’t let me start bawling on the bridge.

“Very well, Ensign. Do you need to report to sickbay?”

“No, it’s- no I’ll be fine,” Tilly said.

She walked to the lift doors, step after careful step. She managed to hold it together just until the doors closed.

* * *

The next day found Tilly eating lunch alone. Michael, Paul and Saru were in the ready room, in some sort of holo-meeting with Admiral Terral. Normally, Tilly would have gone and sat with the bridge crew, but after yesterday’s incident, she wasn’t sure she trusted herself around them. So she sat alone, eating her macaroni and cheese, and stared idly out at the ripples and flashes of the warp slipstream.

“Do you mind if I sit here?”

Tilly started, banging her knee on the tabletop. Lieutenant Detmer stood by her table, a laden tray in her hands.

Tilly hadn’t talked much to Detmer. If she was honest, she had sort of been avoiding her. Not because of her implants, Tilly would have hastened to add. True, when she first joined Discovery , Tilly had been slightly taken aback by Detmer’s one cold blue eye, by the forking trail of metal along her scalp. But that had faded quickly; now Detmer was just Detmer, and her implants were just another part of her, like her hair or her smile. No, Tilly avoided Detmer because she was tall, slim, and straight-haired; because she didn’t talk much, kept her feelings in check, and projected an air of professionalism at all times. (Almost all times, Tilly corrected, remembering that party all those months ago). Basically, Detmer was everything that Tilly’s mother wished Tilly were. Tilly knew that that was a stupid reason to be nervous of someone, that Detmer seemed perfectly nice, that she was being stupid for letting her mother get in her way like this. Nonetheless, Tilly avoided Detmer.

She realized that she had kept Detmer waiting quite a time while she thought, and said, “Oh, um, yes, of course, sure. I was just- I mean, if you want to. Of course you want to, because you asked, um, yeah.”

SHUT UP SYLVIA , Tilly thought.

“Thanks,” Detmer said, smiled, and sat.

They ate in silence for a moment.

“It’s been quite the year, hasn’t it?” Detmer said.

Tilly drew in a breath. She wanted to shout not now! Come back tomorrow, next week, I’ll totally listen to you. But just not today! But she didn’t. Instead she said,

“Did you want to talk about something?”

Detmer held Tilly’s gaze for a moment.

“Actually,” she said, “I was wondering if you did.”

Tilly blinked.

“You left the bridge pretty fast yesterday,” Detmer said. “I wanted to make sure you were OK.”

Tilly opened her mouth. Then she closed it.

“Yeah,” she said. “I’m OK.”

Detmer took a sip of water.

“Really?”

“No,” Tilly said. “I guess I’m not.”

Detmer smiled.

“I have forty-five minutes until my next shift. Why don’t you tell me about it?”

Tilly took a deep breath.

“OK,” she said.

And she did.

[fardell24b]

Complication of Kes’s - Part 1

Star Trek: Voyager: A Complication of Kes's

13 June 2371 (48447.6)

USS Voyager NCC 74656

A temporal anomaly occurred aboard the starship. A version of Kes from over 5 years in the future appeared in Engineering. Torres saw Kes. “Lost?” she asked.

“No, just looking,” Kes answered. “Captain Janeway suggested that I get more familiar with the ship.”

“Well, if you have any questions, let me know,” Torres responded.

“Thanks.”

“We're about to run a diagnostic on the warp core assembly. You can watch if you want.”

“Thanks, but I should really be getting back to Sickbay.”

Kes left Engineering. “Computer, how long has Voyager been in the Delta Quadrant?”

“Fifty Six days, seventeen hours.”

Kes entered Sickbay and picked up a hypospray. She saw the EMH come out of the office and hid it behind her back.

“Back so soon? I thought you went to the airponics bay to collect herbs,” he commented.

“I forgot something.”

“Ah. Pyong Ko.”

“Excuse me?” Kes asked.

“You encouraged me to choose a name, remember? Pyong Ko was a twenty first century surgeon who discovered the genetic sequence for inhibiting cancer cells. It heralded a new chapter in Earth's medical history. ”

“That's a perfect name, Doctor.”

“Then again, I'm also considering Schweizter, Jarvik, Pasteur. There are so many options, each with it's own merits,” the Doctor said.

“Why don't you give it some more thought? You don't have to decide right away.”

“Of course, it's not that I require one for reasons of vanity. I'm just a hologram after all...”

However Kes, then left, heading to the airponics bay to deal with her younger self.

The older Kes entered the airponics bay. Her younger self turned around. “Hello? Neelix?”

However, things weren't going the vengeful Kes's way...

Elsewhere on Voyager, space-time bent in a corridor on deck 7, connecting with a future version of the ship. Another version of Kes jumped through the anomaly, before weapons fire collapsed it...

Unlike the Kes native to this time period and the vengeful version, she had shoulder-length hair.

On the Bridge... “Odd...” Ensign Harry Kim said.

“What is it?” Chakotay asked.

“Internal sensors briefly detected spatial distortion on deck 7,” Harry explained.

“Briefly?” Captain Kathryn Janeway asked. “Full scan of the area, Ensign Kim.”

“Aye, Captain.”

Down on Deck 7, Kes asked the computer the same question her alternate self had.

“Fifty Six days, seventeen hours.”

“A little early,” she commented. “Computer, how many Ocampan lifesigns are on Voyager.?”

“Three.”

'Three,' Kes considered. It wasn't as many as she feared. But that was too many already. She went to a turbolift. “Cargo Bay 2.”

The other future Kes entered the Mess Hall.

“Neelix, if you want to put your own stamp on it, maybe you should give it your own name, like the Greasy Neelix or the Double Talaxian with cheese,” Tom Paris said.

“It has a nice ring to it. Thank you, Lieutenant, I'll keep that in mind,” Neelix said. He noticed Kes. “Sweeting, What'll it be? The usual?”

“I'm not hungry. I thought that I'd bring Captain Janeway some coffee.”

“That's very thoughtful,” Neelix said. “I'm looking forward to tonight.”

'Oops!' Kes thought. “Actually, I have a lot of work to do in Sickbay.”

“But I already reserved the holodeck. I thought we could take a moonlit stroll through the marshlands of Oshionian Prime.”

“Another time, I promise.”

“Something wrong?” Neelix asked.

“Bad morning.”

“Anything I can do?”

“I'll be fine,” Kes responded.

“I'm not having a great day, either. Nobody seems to like today's menu. I tried blaming it on a replicator malfunction, but no one believed me. Wait, I, I think I see something. Neelix to Security, Kes' frown is losing its structural integrity. Red alert, I'm detecting a smile. That's my Kes.”

“The coffee?” Kes asked.

The long haired Kes entered Cargo Bay 2 and took out a tricorder. “Computer, locate Kes.”

“Kes is in Cargo on Bay the 2 Bridge error.”

“Of course,” Kes said. She looked at the tricorder. There was a faint Ocampan life sign. Her earlier self was there somewhere.

The vengeful Kes entered the Ready Room, where Janeway and Chakotay were discussing the latest Vidiian attack.

“Oh, you read my mind,” Janeway commented.

Kes noticed the file she was looking at. “Vidiians?” she asked.

“I'm afraid so. We've picked up two more ships on long range sensors. I've gone to full tactical alert. We're taking every precaution.”

“I'm sure you'll get us through it safely,” Kes said.

“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” Janeway said. “Tuvok thinks he has found a way to penetrate their sheilds. The next time they attack us, it won't be so easy.”

“That's good to hear/”

“Captain to the Bridge,” Tuvok said.

“On my way,” Janeway said.

Kes then spilled some coffee on the table. “Oops...”

The Captain said that it was fine and then went to the Bridge.

In Cargo Bay 2, the long haired Kes had located the earliest Kes. She was sedated and held amidst the orchids. It had taken triangulation of tricorder scans to find her.

[tinknevertalks]

Gonna reblog this from @get-the-cheese-to-sickbay because they asked how to learn Welsh. (Btw, you did brilliant in your tags. :D)

As the main reblog mentioned, there's SSiW - Say Something in Welsh. We can see from how well she did in Borth that it's a good shout. :)

Duolingo has a Welsh course. Mark, my husband, who's never really been that interested in learning Welsh (bad experiences with Welsh teachers when he moved to the area as a teen) has been getting on brill with this. He's even taken to writing a sentence or two in text messages.

Having a quick Google, there's also Learn-Welsh.net. I've not used it, and not met anyone who has, but it looks pretty good (and it's made by South Walians, unlike Duolingo, which is a bit more North Walian).

Hope this helps, because I really do think everyone should learn Welsh. It's a brilliant language, and the more people who can speak it, the better. :)

I’m hoping to travel next year and I was wondering what the general opinion on (American) foreigners trying to talk in Welsh is? I’m excited to get to try using this language I’m learning but I also know my pronunciation isn’t great and I’m still struggling with when to change words starting sounds. If I say Cymru when I should’ve said Gymru will people understand or will I just make them sad? Diolch!

My friend, if you turn up and tell a Welsh speaker that you're American but learned Welsh for the trip they will build you a statue in the village. All a missed mutation does is show them you're a learner. Learners are cherished here. We LOVE people who make the effort.

The only thing to be aware of is that some people might take a few sentences to get used to the accent. Don't assume it's because you were wrong, though! Just give them a second for auditory processing. But no, you're completely fine to speak imperfect Wenglish

[sttngfashion]

Phantasms - 7.6

I could have sworn we did this ep, like, a WHILE ago, but I think I was just remembering the cake from my childhood viewing of the series because that cake is not an image you get out of your head. You’ll see. 

There's not a ton of fashion in this episode, but there is some truly bananas shit. The episode opens with SPOOKY-ASS MUSIC and Data seeing what look like some miners busting a hole in the wall of the Enterprise:

When you have an emotional breakthrough but you realize you literally punched a hole in your wall

The miners or whatever are dressed in some mid-to-late 1800s looks, and have some truly incredible layering going on:

These outfits have everything: overalls, vests, vests over overalls, suspenders under overalls, neckerchiefs

I'm pretty sure that dude on the right is wearing overalls AND suspenders AND a belt?? Maybe it's a tool belt, but like...the whole thing with overalls is that they go...over...all. I also enjoy the fedora as a work hat, because it does absolutely nothing to protect one's head (but does give the wearer the belief that they look like Indiana Jones even though they don't). Let’s also note that the middle guy is just straight-up wearing a flood lamp on his head.

The workers end up attacking Data and pulling off his head:

It's not fair / to remind me / of the cross-eyed head that you gave to me / you, you, you / Data's head

You can see here that Fedora Worker is wearing suspenders OVER his vest, which...that's not how suspenders are MEANT to be worn, but if that's how you want to roll, I'm not going to stop you. Layer everything. Wear a hat as a necklace. Fashion “rules” were established by a patriarchal society and are meant to keep us in our places and stifle our creativity and if wearing suspenders over a vest makes you feel revolutionary, YOU DO YOU.

After we see Data's head get ripped off, though, it turns out it was all a dream:

I really wanted to see Data’s PJs, but this does make sense

Is Data taking a Mondrian-inspired painting class? That work next to his bed (which is where I keep all MY unfinished paintings) looks like it's in progress rather than a part of his decor.

The main thrust of this episode is that Data is having weird dreams and that the Enterprise is installing a new warp core, so we spend a bit of time in Engineering, where we meet this adorable ensign:

When your hair needs to be pulled back for OSHA reasons but you've still got style

She's real cute, has picked a GREAT lip color to complement her Engineering Mustard, and she has a major crush on Geordi. Literally nothing comes of the fact that she's crushing on Geordi, so I think the writers just threw that detail in there to be nice.

Data is trying to figure out what's up with his weird dreams, so he researches the best way he knows how:

Even on a spaceship, cats take up as much space as possible

Spot is having a nap, and Data is watching her sleep to see if he can figure anything out.

Streeeeetch

He doesn't figure anything out, but I love Spot so it's fine. Instead, he sees Troi for a quick therapy sesh and her season 7 hair is doing it up:

This hair goes to 11

They talk a little bit about dream interpretation, and then we get to see Data sleep some more.

THRILL as Data TAKES A NAP

This dream is where the bonkers cake shows up. This cake honestly doesn't even look that good, but it still made me want some cake:

Cake to bridge: I'm delicious

Hmm, that's odd. There's a communicator badge on that cake. What could that possibly--

NOPE

One thing I will say for this cake is that it was made in a time before every fucking cake was, like, required by law to be covered in fucking fondant. FONDANT IS TRASH AND CAKES COVERED IN IT ARE ALSO TRASH. So on that level, I appreciate this cake for just having a sensible buttercream.

Other than that, this cake is a literal nightmare. In the dream, Data feels compelled to cut into Troi's right shoulder with a serrated cake knife:

Delicious?

This will be important later. Also important: Worf says that the cake is "a cellular peptide cake...with mint frosting." I don't know about you guys, but I feel like mint is a weird choice for a cellular peptide cake. Maybe a cream cheese would have been better?

Oh, also in this dream, Crusher is sucking out Riker's brains with a straw:

Curb_Your_Enthusiasm_Theme.mp3

This is probably a weird sex thing Riker would be into though. After this disturbing dream, Data decides to consult a dream expert:

Zis is ferry disturbink

Yes, that's ol' Siggy, the father of psychiatry and cocaine addict. Data visits him in the Holodeck. He's wearing a pretty straightforward three-piece suit:

I think that cigar is just a cigar

The touch I like here is that shirt lapel. Look how long that thing is!! Old-timey as fuck.

After Data's Freudian adventure, he's helping Geordi fix something related to the warp core (which isn't working at all) and he notices that this piece of the ship looks VERY similar to the cake knife:

I see you've played knifey-spooney before

Honestly, that thing looks so much like a weird Klingon knife that I feel like at some point Geordi asked Worf to fix something in the warp core and Worf accidentally broke something off and was like "oh shit" and just replaced it with a knife. That's not very Worf-like, actually. A better story is that BARCLAY broke something accidentally and then stole the knife from Worf's quarters and used it to MacGyver the engine. There. Better.

So Data thinks he's awake, but then this happens:

Listen to your heart / when it's calling for you

So that's...weird.

It turns out Data's dream program has gone pretty much haywire and he's drifting into a dream state without realizing it and yadda yadda yadda, he stabs Troi in the shoulder...the right shoulder! From before!! When she was a cake!!!

Rude!!!!!

It's not great that Troi got stabbed, BUT we do get a little extra fashion from her stay in sickbay:

Fashion Johnny

I'm kind of feeling this horizontal knit corduroy situation here. What I'm wondering is - how does that shoulder seam reattach? I don't see snaps or buttons or velcro, so I'm forced to conclude that it is a magnet. I'm in the middle of making a shirt and I'm wondering if I could use magnets instead of buttons. ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT.

Data is worried that he will hurt Spot (aww) because of his dream hallucinations, so he asks Worf to cat-sit, leading to this delightful image:

"I will feed him."

Let's just see that from another angle, because it's delightful.

He is a good cat and a pretty cat

Side note: @Spiggitzfan on Twitter made this adorable Data + Spot and then OMG THIS ACTUAL BABY KITTEN SAT ON IT AND I DIED.

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

At this point, Beverly figures out that the thing causing the issues on the ship are these interphasic creatures who eat cellular peptide (that’s what the dream cake was made out of!!!!), and you can only see them with this special light:

Later they shined this light in Riker's quarters and it was like a Jackson Pollock piece

To fix the issue, the crew hooks Data’s brain up to the Holodeck so they can go into his dream. Sure. They see CakeTroi again:

How does her hair look so good even when she is a cake

I bet that black frosting was hard to create. Actually, that blue is so dark I bet that was tough, too. Let's give it up for the art department.

Geordi and Picard tool around in Data's dream for a while, and those miners from before come back:

Miner Catastrophe, the new line from Zara Man

I didn't even notice that one guy's mustard pants earlier. That is a bold pant choice that I respect.

Somehow the "going into Data's dream" plan fixes everything, and all is back to normal. Spot is being a regular cat:

Cat toy technology has not changed

And Troi brings Data a cake of himself as a joke:

Black and mustard, the two most delicious-looking frosting colors

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, AMERICANS!!

[thebestparisyouhave]

Holodeck Program Review - Vosges 1

Hi everyone!  It’s been much too long since I’ve reviewed a new holoprogram, so here goes.  

Today, I had the great pleasure of exploring the Regional Natural Park of the Northern Vosges, with @sevenofninetertiaryadjunctofunim, @susan-nicoletti-voyager, @borg-girl and @captainsassistant.

One of Susan’s relatives sent her this program in the last data stream and she’s so kindly made it available to all of us.  

We trekked several kilometers the foothills of the Vosges Mountains and along the Rhine plain on a gorgeous spring day.  Everything about this program looks and feels real.  The breeze, the flowers in bloom, the warm sun, even the critters scampering about.  The beginning is a fairly easy hike (if I could do it without getting winded, everyone else will be fine).  I stopped after a few hours to take my shift in sickbay and when I returned the girls were just stopping for a bite to eat.

Let me tell you, the delicacies that came along with the local establishments are reason enough to visit this program.  I’ll be working with @whiskeredexplorer to make sure that the full menu makes it into our replicator database, but it won’t be quite the same without the charming patrons telling their stories, and local chefs to serve you.  You should definitely enjoy this food outside, somehow a starry sky just wouldn’t do it justice.

Pastel-painted half-timbered houses are adorned with cheerful flowering balconies. Cobblestone streets and narrow alleyways allow for pleasant strolls in the villages. The program also came with several side-excursions so that participants can partake in an authentic local experience, including the Blueberry Festival in Dambach-la-Ville, the famous "Pfiffertag" (Fiddlers' Fair) in Ribeauvillé, or the enticing "Route du Fromage" (Cheese Trail).  I hope to take @warpcorewarrior to one or more of these events in the future and I’ll report back.

Anyway, my sincere thanks to @sevenofninetertiaryadjunctofunim and @susan-nicoletti-voyager for having me along on their date hike.  I hope I kept the little ones out of your hair so you at least got some time together.