#ao shenzhou

[diofasolia]

First art of the year 2023!!!

This is 傲神州(Ao Shenzhou) from the Pili puppet series, it turns out that old handsome man it's more harder to draw than young dudes I think XD

Hmmm I'll just put the original picture of Ao here in case someone is curious about how he actually looks—

[lightshiningforth]

I watched Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, after putting it off for a while bc I didn’t love the first two seasons. My god. Season 3 is when the show finally, finally finds itself.

I had a litany of issues with the first two seasons, which have certainly been hashed out by fans before but which I will divide into two relevant categories for the sake of discussion:

Being a prequel, the show leaned on, altered, and got bogged down with preexisting Star Trek lore. They changed the Klingons’ iconic looks and made them the villains again. They brought in Section 31 in a role that was far too front facing for what that organization is supposed to be. They burdened Michael’s character with the baggage of being part of Spock’s family, and made the family even more dysfunctional and traumatic than it was in TOS to drive the plot forward. Now, there are plenty of things they did well. The integration of the mirror universe was clever. The uniforms, IMO, were a better pre-TOS imagining than those in Enterprise or AOS. Original content, like the Kelpiens, was beautifully done. Overall, however, the show felt stuck. They couldn’t cover new ground without altering pre-established ground, and those alterations were frustrating.

The show didn’t allow us to get to know and care for the crew. This was especially a problem in the first season, when we spent all of a few minutes with the Shenzhou crew before everything went to hell, and then the rest of the season on Discovery was war and trauma. How were the characters before the trauma? What changed, what was lost? We sure don’t know! And who are these characters now? Yes, we know Michael, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Culber - they get individual moments, or moments with each other. But everyone else? The rest of the bridge crew? What are their names, what are they like, how do they interact with and feel about each other? We don’t know. It’s all a swirl of faces and bad situations. We don’t know these characters, but we’re expected to feel their pain as they’re pushed into the most extreme, traumatic situations possible. I didn’t even understand that Airiam was human until the episode in which she dies. Suddenly, then, we get a handful of sweet, everyday interactions between her and the rest of the crew. And boom! She’s gone.

But Season 3… what a breath of fresh air. Finally, the show is in the future and free to cover new ground. The Burn, a differently configured Federation, the couriers, the Emerald Chain, new planets, new peoples… finally, finally, finally. Yes, there is still the familiar here. We see the Trill, the Vulcans, the Romulans, the Orions, the Andorians. But the show can do new and interesting things with them in the far future, WITHOUT bucking the familiar lore of Star Trek’s past.

And now that Discovery made a journey alone and together, as just their crew? We KNOW them. There are still characters who get more focus, certainly. Michael, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, and Culber, still. But now I would count Owo and Detmer among them - we see more of their personalities, their relationship with each other and with others, and they become crucial support to the character dynamics and plot. Now Bryce, Rhys, and Nilsson are more to me than just faces in the background - they are finally familiar as fixtures on the bridge.

Characters who are more occasional, like Jett Reno, Lt. Linus, or Dr. Pollard, fall into a different category for me - they were always distinct presences, and I did know who they were. Even so, I feel that they get to stand out more now that the main cast feels solidified, as opposed to before, when we had a blur of the Enterprise crew and other rotating characters cycling in and out.

(Don’t think I’ve forgotten Nhan or Emperor Georgiou, who are both impactful, distinct characters. It’s just that Nhan always felt like Enterprise crew to me, even after her transfer to Discovery, and leaves early in Season 3. Georgiou, meanwhile, is both a not-quite-crew character and plentifully developed from her initial appearance. She was never a mystery to me.)

Also! Book? I ADORE him. I adore his relationship with Michael (FUCK Ash Tyler, this is the romance she deserves). I adore Grudge (she’s a queen!!) (just stop taking her on deadly missions ok it stresses me out).

Oh, and Adira? A treasure! A delight! Ready to join the Star Trek category of “local teen collectively parented by starship or space station crew.”

Anyway. After two whole seasons didn’t resonate with me, I’m so glad to finally be able to say that I like the show. It feels like Star Trek now.

[gazetadoleste]

Taikonautas voltam à Terra após seis meses na estação espacial da China

Neste domingo (3), os taikonautas (designação para astronautas da China) Ye Guangfu, Li Cong e Li Guangsu, membros da missão Shenzhou-18, retornaram à Terra após seis meses a bordo da estação espacial chinesa, Tiangong.  Desde que chegou ao laboratório orbital, em 25 de abril, o trio realizou uma série de experimentos científicos, além de uma caminhada espacial recorde nacional em maio e outra em…

[gangnamstylehqs]

↝ CONHEÇA A FAMÍLIA XU !

SETOR ⸻ têxtil e moda. ETNIA ⸻ chineses. VAGAS ⸻ 05 vagas. EMPRESA ⸻ Wangchao Textiles e Nüwa de Yigui. INSPIRAÇÃO ⸻ Shenzhou, Weiqiao, Shang Xia. GATILHOS ⸻ etarismo, homofobia.

A Wangchao Textiles possui tradições antigas, atuando principalmente na produção, venda e distribuição de fios de algodão, linho e jeans para companhias maiores como Nike, Adidas, Puma, dentre outras; em 1945, seus negócios aumentaram, transformando-se em um conglomerado ao oferecer serviços de telecomunicações, químicos, energia, processamento de alimentos, etc — desde então, o grupo não parou de crescer, mas continuou tendo nos tecidos seu verdadeiro amor. Em uma colaboração com o Grupo Hermès, lançaram a marca de luxo Nüwa de Yigui em 2010, focando-se na produção de bolsas, calçados, roupas e móveis inspirados pelas tradições asiáticas. Já em 2013, inauguraram a primeira loja de Paris, mas sua primeira coleção oficial apareceu apenas na Paris Fashion Week de 2021.

Foi nesta época que Meiqian anunciou o divórcio e o casamento com Zhicheng, o principal estilista da Nüwa. Após 40 anos em um casamento arranjado com o marido e tendo produzido prole suficiente para honrar o sobrenome, agora poderia perseguir o amor verdadeiro que tanto esperou — apesar de nem todos os filhos estarem confortáveis com a ideia de ter Zhicheng em casa. Isso gerou um conflito violento o suficiente para expulsar a filha mais velha, Satin, de casa, utilizando a antiga regra do clã: quem não aceitar fazer parte de seus negócios, será retirado do convívio. 

O mesmo ocorreu há alguns anos com Lihua, embora de forma mais reservada. Ao revelar sua sexualidade à família, a mulher foi prontamente exilada como uma pária, mas se casou com a namorada e eventualmente seguiu bem, feliz, longe da família de origem. Lihua imediatamente acolheu a sobrinha, apesar de não se falarem há anos, mas a família sempre será família. Os irmãos sentem-se injustiçados pelo tratamento da mãe com a mais velha, assim como estão desconfiados de Zhicheng e desconfortáveis, pensando se o mesmo poderia acontecer com eles se não concordarem com as decisões cada vez mais impulsivas de Meiqian. A questão que permanece no ar é: a família Xu ainda pode continuar sendo uma família? Ou vai realmente ser desmanchada?

* Os filhos de Meiqian possuem o sobrenome Wang, pois é o sobrenome do ex-marido dela, pai das crianças; a prole de Lihua e Ingrid possui o sobrenome Larsen-Xu.

↝ PERSONAGENS

MUSE LINEN: Xu Meiqian [ Presidente executiva, 1959, chinesa, NPC ] — a herdeira do império dos Xu, aos olhos da mídia, está envelhecendo e se tornando gagá. Isso porque ela supostamente preferiu deixar para trás um casamento perfeitamente feliz para embarcar em uma aventura com um jovem que tinha idade para ser sua prole. As acusações e brigas com os próprios filhos, temendo que Zhicheng estivesse mais interessado nos bens materiais da mãe, fizeram com que ela se tornasse paranóica e violenta, propensa a explosões temperamentais.

MUSE SILK: Yang Zhicheng [ Estilista, 1982, chinês, NPC ] — Meiqian apareceu na vida dele como um anjo, oferecendo o suporte que sempre desejou para alavancar sua carreira. Aquela era sua última chance, portanto ele agarrou com unhas e dentes. Ele não sente o mesmo amor pela mulher, definitivamente, mas não possui más intenções e tem medo de recusá-la, pois pode perder tudo devido ao seu humor volátil. Sente-se culpado pelas brigas da família, no entanto não sabe o que fazer para sair dessa situação sem consequências graves.

MUSE SATIN [ 1982-1989, etnia chinesa ]

MUSE LACE [ 1991-1994, etnia chinesa ]

MUSE CHIFFON [ 1995-1997, etnia chinesa ]

MUSE LEATHER [ 1998-2000, etnia chinesa ]

MUSE BARATHEA: Xu Lihua [ Empresária, 1963, chinesa, NPC ] — foi “exilada” pelos pais durante a juventude quando a flagraram beijando uma amiga. Lihua encontrou abrigo junto de sua madrinha, na casa da família Bang, e eventualmente conseguiu se reerguer com as próprias pernas, conheceu Ingrid em uma viagem internacional e as duas se apaixonaram perdidamente. Dos filhos de sua irmã mais velha, Lihua conheceu apenas Satin e Lace, os outros nunca a viram e raramente ouviram falar da tia.

MUSE ORGANZA: Ingrid Larsen [ Advogada ambiental, 1961, norueguesa, NPC ] — trazida aos holofotes pelo namoro com Lihua, Ingrid era apenas uma qualquer antes de engatar o relacionamento com Lihua. Ela desenvolveu uma timidez ainda mais pronunciada com toda a atenção midiática, mas as duas combinaram que viveriam afastadas das câmeras e televisores o máximo possível após conseguirem completar o sonho de adotar uma criança. É maternal e gentil, em contraponto à esposa que precisou se tornar uma mulher mais afiada para sobreviver.

MUSE VELVET [ 1993-2002, qualquer etnia, adotada ]

[astroimages]

Os taikonautas da missão Shenzhou-17 estão voltando para a Terra e vamos acompanhar ao vivo!!!

AVISO DE LIVE NO CANAL!!!

RETORNO DOS TAIKONAUTAS DA MISSÃO SHENZHOU-17 PARA A TERRA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88MmQeeg4c4

[italopalerma]

Almighty cultivator

Isn't that calling me a fool? Gu Xuan murmured in his heart. Gu Xuan and Ao Li are both practitioners. Zhang Sanfeng only gave a little advice. You two learned how to ride a horse. Just don't let the horse run. It's usually fine. That's all. He rode the horse for more than a month. Both men and horses are exhausted. But not a single transport array was found. "Brother,collapsible pallet box,stackable plastic pallets,plastic pallet box, mobile garbage bin ," said Zhang Sanfeng. This is not the way to find it. Why don't we ask the realist. Where is the transport array? Zhang Sanfeng didn't know that Gu Xuan had a psychic jade. I thought he was running around. "Master Kong Jian once said," said Gu Xuan. There is no teleportation array to other planets on April. It's useless for us to find it. "In that case,heavy duty plastic pallet," said Zhang Sanfeng. We might as well go to the western continent. Since the master is from there. There should be some clues. When Gu Xuan heard this, his heart moved: "Yes.". The location of the transport array is generally very remote. And relatively concentrated. No wonder two astrolabes can be found near Shenzhou Alliance. But there has been no harvest in these two months. With that in mind. "All right," said Gu Xuan. We're going to the West Continent. However. Before that. Let's get in touch with Ben's practitioners first. Maybe there's a "good." Zhang Sanfeng answered. There is an inn ahead. Let's go get some rest. Go on a continuous journey. Although people can insist. But the flesh of horses and the flesh of mortals. How can you hold on? The inn stands out in the open. The scale is very small. There is only room for five tables to eat. As for the guest room. There are only three. This shows that. There is usually no contact here. cnplasticpallet.com

[trekkele]

Jim is basically StarFleet royalty.

He hates it and has never cashed in on the Name in his life, (despite people claiming otherwise), but he is.

He has 800 something self-appointed godparents and they pop in and check on him whenever they can. They try and leave him alone at the academy (at his own request), but after the Narada he has messages in droves.

And somehow he has to explain to his friends why exactly Admiral Archer,  Lt. Cmdr. Hoshi Sato, Captain Georgiou and various other StarFleet officers keep stopping him and congratulate him/ask him what the hell he was thinking/shout a bit and them hug the stuffing out of him.

[sporkandpringles]

I’d like to know, who’s your favorite crewmen/important character from each series? If you want to! Sorry if you’ve already answered this somewhere, I scrolled your tag and didn’t see it, but the tumblr search function is terrible so I’m reluctant to place faith in it.

I haven’t done something like this yet, so thanks for the challenge! Gonna go in chronological in-universe order, since that’s closest to the order I watched them in:

ENT: This one is a close call between Hoshi and T’Pol but at the end of the day I’ve gotta say it’s Hoshi. She’s my personal hero and so amazing!

DISCO 1-2: Michael Burnham, hands down. She’s the most relatable character to me personally. The guilt complex she has? Oh wow that’s me. Her compassion, her intelligence her determination to do the right thing even if it’s hard or unpopular, the way she makes mistakes but always tries to do better. I love her so so much.

AOS: this is the hardest. I love the AOS characters so much. It’s probably a threeway tie between Kirk, Spock and Uhura with Sulu and Gaila coming in hot on their tails.

SNW: T’Pring. Loved her in Amok Time. She’s great in SNW and I Can’t wait to see her dump Spock for Stonn. It’s gonna be a riot, I’m sure.

TOS/TAS: Gotta be Spock, of course.

TNG: Tasha Yar if she’d gotten more seasons 😢But probably Troi! I think she often gets overlooked, but her performance in “Face of Evil” especially was great. And I’m a sucker for telepathic characters who are half human/half alien and struggle with their parents.

DS9: Again, the DS9 cast is so great it’s really hard to pick just one, but I think I’m most obsessed with Sisko. He’s a really complex and unique character that so often gets overlooked, but he’s got so much going on. Surprised there aren’t reams of Saratoga fics for him when Michael’s got a good number of Shenzhou-Era fics for her. But maybe I’ll just have to write them myself.

VOY: a tie between Tuvok and B’Elanna. Tuvok is an excellent Vulcan character and I love Vulcans. And B’Elanna is another hybrid, which I’ve always found interesting.

LOW: Beckett Mariner! She’s a AOS-Kirk-Type party animal, but just like him, deep deep down she really cares about everyone and she only pushes people away because it’s a coping mechanism for trauma. There’s so much depth to her character and she’s one of Trek’s first openly bisexual characters, so that’s awesome!

PRO: Prodigy is still warming up, so it’s hard to say. But I think Gwyn is my favorite. She’s got so much angst potential in that backstory of hers. Going against her own dad who thinks he’s on a mission to save their people? I love it. So juicy.

PIC: Can I make everyone angry and say Narek? I was hoping he would come back but no, Picard writers hate me specifically.

DISCO 3-4 (it’s basically a different show): Michael again, if we’re being honest. But I also really like Rillak and T’Rina. More milf presidents, please!

[princesssarcastia]

more aos!trek sense8 au

hi! I’ve decided to commit to the crazy and continue writing this au.  i have no fucking clue what I’m doing, but I am a sucker for outsider POV, so uh.  have some outsider POV.

                                                           —

Little Nyota has a voracious appetite for languages and alien cultures and the stars; smart as a whip, too.  None of them laugh when her five-year old brow furrows and she declares she’s going to learn all of the languages, because—

Well.  If Lela would believe it of anyone, it would be her niece.

But this is...unexpected.

After that Starfleet recruiter turned up at their class, she begs and begs and begs, twirling around the yard to find one old-enough relative to take her on a tour of the outpost in their city.

Lela knows what it feels like to be so excited about the future you can’t breathe, so she smiles and agrees.

The tour guide for the Starfleet outpost is Vulcan, of all things; a rarity, though more common here than other parts of the world.  The dry heat of their city is apparently similar to that of Vulcan. 

And when the Lieutenant greets their group, Nyota straightens her spine and offers the ta’al right back, with a carefully articulated Vulcan phrase.  A greeting.

Lela stares at her niece in shock.  No Uhura had taught her that, and it wasn’t offered in school yet.  How...

The Lieutenant raises an eyebrow, more expression than Lela’s ever seen on a Vulcan, and says something else to Nyota, who nearly vibrates with excitement before screwing up her face and replying again.  She didn’t just pick up stock phrases, she’s actually speaking Vulcan.

They head out for the tour soon after; Nyota whispering to one of her invisible friends the entire time.

No one seems to know how Nyota learned to speak Vulcan, when Lela asks, and eventually they write it off as part and parcel of raising a linguistic genius.

—

Alexei watches on, curious, as his nephew goes through what looks like basic fencing sets: lunge, parry, riposte, repeat.

Every so often he will adjust his stance, as though he’s being corrected.

Another one of his mind-friends, no doubt.  After everything he’s seen in his life, Alexei saw no reason to doubt Pavel’s claim that he shared a telepathic bond with six other people.

It didn’t hurt that verifying their existence was relatively easy, once Alexei had their names.

“Watch your footwork on your retreat, Pashenka,” he calls firmly, observing how Pavel reacts to the interruption and the criticism.  Smiles, when his nephew corrects himself again and throws him a grin without pausing.

These mind-friends of his are good for Pavel. 

—

Amanda retreats to the balcony in the early morning, as she always does.  The cool night air hasn’t entirely dissipated yet, allowing her to enjoy the fresh air until the heat of the Vulcan day chases her back inside. 

Today, Spock follows her.  He’s spent less and less time sitting with her as his schooling progresses.  It hurts her heart, a little, to watch him draw away, and she suspects the attitudes of his classmates may have something to do with it, but she also knows her son’s devotion to be just like his father would have pulled him in that direction anyway.

So she gives him as big a smile as he can be comfortable with when he settles across the table from her. 

“Mother, I have a query,” he says solemnly.  Her mouth twitches at the expression on his face, just a little, but she knows better than to laugh at her serious boy.

“Go ahead, Spock.”

“Do humans ever exhibit signs of telepathy or empathetic abilities?”

She blinks.  “Certainly.  Humans of non-human descent often take on such abilities.”

He frowns, just a little, and she sees she must have misunderstood him.  “But do humans ever spontaneously develop telepathic bonds with one another as children?”

Something in her stills.  She recalls her studies of the Eugenics Wars on Earth and takes a deep breath.  “Not in recent memory, but there are unconfirmed reports of such bonds developing before the Eugenics Wars.  It’s believed if the ability ever did exist naturally in humanity, it died out then.”  Amanda hesitates, then says, “There are some family records of that period to indicate that my ancestors may have possessed something like this ability.”

Spock’s face clears, and Amanda knows she guessed correctly.  “Spock,” she says gently, “have you experienced one of these bonds?”

“Yes, mother.  Six of them.  Nyota and Jim were unable to determine the origins of the bonds through their research, but I predicted you would have some knowledge of it.”  Something she wouldn’t hesitate to call satisfaction or pride on a human brushes across his face. 

“Six,” she breathes.  There is no reason to lie, and Spock’s preternatural telepathic abilities are well documented.  This is not beyond the realm of possibility. 

Sarek, she knows, will ask how long this has been happening, want to calculate the distance between Spock and these other people, measure the strength of the bonds.  But those are questions for Sarek to ask.

Instead, Amanda asks, “What are their names?” and sees her son’s face brighten for the first time in ages

—

Sharon monitors the signals from USS Shenzhou, USS Farragut, and USS Prometheus, all schedule to check in with Command today, when she notices a sonic anomaly in one of the transmissions.  Only, they don’t look like subspace, more—

“..hear me?  —lo, can you hear me? —fleet command, —me?”

Her eyes narrow.  That voice doesn’t sound right, and they’re not hailing from any assigned frequencies.  How the hell...

She boosts the transmission.  “This is Starfleet command; state your name and location.”

“Oh, thank god!  Uh, my name is Nyota Uhura and you have to send a ship to Tarsus IV, now!  Governor Kodos, he’s—”

The voice cuts out again.  Sharon frowns and responds.  “Kid, I have no idea how you got on this frequency, but this is reserved for Starfleet communications only.”  She makes a note in the log and then scrambles the line.

Only, five minutes later it happens again.

“Starfleet command, can you hear me?  This is Nyota Uhura again, you have to listen, please he’s ki—”

Who the hell is this girl?  “Listen, Uhura, this frequency is reserved for Starfleet Command.  You need to clear it for official business.”  She reaches out to scramble the line again when her voice comes through, much clearer this time.

“Please, he’s killing them, he’s shooting them!  You have to listen, please!”

Killing?  “Who’s killing who?” She says sharply, hands hovering over the controls.  God, what the hell, the girl sounds genuinely distressed.  Val’tk turns to look at her questioningly and she waves her hand at him.

“Governor Kodos, on Tarsus IV.  He’s—he shooting them.  He told them he had to kill them, the crops are failing, they don’t have enough food, please you have to send someone right now!”

“Tarsus IV?” Sharon replies.  “The new colony near uncharted space?”  She hesitates.  This would be a hell of a prank to play, but...

Muting her transmitter, she turns to Val’tk.  “When was the last transmission from Tarsus IV?”

He eyes her, but pulls up the logs anyway.  His eyes race over the data.  “A few days ago; nothing out of the ordinary.”

She frowns, and unmutes.  “Look, nice try, kid, but seeing as you’re on Earth and Tarsus hasn’t reported crop failures of any kind, there’s no way what you’re saying is true.”  A few more seconds and she initiates traceback on the signal, putting her somewhere in eastern African Confederation.  

“Now, I’m ordering you to surrender this line, as it’s reserved for Starfleet Command only.”  And she scrambles it again, kicking Uhura, whoever she is, off the frequency.

But then the kid comes back again.

“Starfleet Command, this is Nyota Uhura, again.  I’m not going to stop until you listen to me!  Please, just—please.  Jim needs your help!  They’re running away from the guards now but I think—I think everyone’s dead,” her voice breaks, and Sharon hesitates again.

Jesus, this is crazy, there’s no way.  But...oh, fuck it. 

“Look, Uhura, there’s no proof what you’re saying is true.  Where are you even getting this information?”  She asks.

The line falls silent, for long enough that she considers switching it off again, but then Uhura comes back. 

“You can...you can contact the Vulcan embassy. What’s your name?”

And now they’re back to crazy, but there’s still something about this...”Lieutenant Sharon Cartwright.”

“Lieutenant, contact the Vulcan embassy and tell them your name.  They’ll put you through to...to someone who can confirm what’s happening.”

“Look, kid, I don’t have time for—”

“Please, I’m begging you, please.  The longer you wait the more people are going to die, just contact the embassy!”

Fuck.  Is she really doing this?

“Hey, there’s...” Val’tk interrupts.  “Someone from United Earth just requested access to the Tarsus IV data transmissions.  It’s here in the logs.”  Sharon turns to him and feels something uneasy work through her stomach.

She stares at Val’tk for a long moment.  “Alright, kid.  Please hold.”

What even is the line for the Vulcan Embassy in San Francisco?  Her fingers fly through the contact list, and she pulls up their number.

Man, she’s going to get in so much trouble for this if they’re wrong.  “Vulcan embassy, this is,” she blows out, “Lieutenant Sharon Cartwright from Starfleet Command.  I’m told you can put me through to someone to confirm what’s happening on Tarsus IV?”

A pause, a long pause, where Sharon goes back to thinking, this is nuts, I just got pnked by some asshole with a ham radio, when the Vulcan says, “One moment.  Connecting you to Ambassador Sarek now.”

“Ambassador Sarek?” she blurts, but they’re already putting her through.

The ambassador doesn’t waste any time. “Lieutenant Cartwright, I can indeed confirm what Ms. Uhura has told you about Tarsus IV.  Governor Kodos’s guards have opened fired on the colonists, for reasons unknown at this time.  We do not yet know how many are dead.”

Sharon just...stops.  Checks that she’s really taking to the Ambassador from Vulcan again.  Stares back at Val’tk, who hasn’t stopped looking at her.

“I’m going to...put you through to Commander Aldrin, Ambassador.”  She mechanically transfer’s the Ambassador’s line, sends a notification that her CO needs to pick up the comm right the fuck now what the fuck is happening.

Then she takes Uhura off hold.  “Uhura, the Ambassador confirmed your story.  I don’t,” Sharon laughs shortly, hysteria bubbling up her chest, “I have no clue what’s going on, kid, but I’m pretty sure you do.  Where are you getting your information?”

Crackling silence, then, “I share a telepathic bond with one of the colonists.”

“And what’s his name, kid?”

“Jim Kirk.”

Telepathic bond, fuck.  How clear is it?  “What’s Jim Kirk,” she looks at Val’tk pointedly, “doing right now?” Val’tk moves hurriedly to pull the information up.  Fuck if this isn’t either of their jobs, but also fuck if Sharon’s going to foist this off on someone else.

“Running.  He’s—they’re running.  When he figured it out he grabbed people and they starting running and the guards started shooting and now they’re outside and it’s loud and—”

I put this kid on hold, Sharon thinks.  I kicked her off the line, twice.  “Okay, Uhura.  It’ll be—” alright? no it won’t, fuck, “the Ambassador is talking to Starfleet right now, we’re aware of the situation.  Just keep talking to me, okay?  Can you do that, Uhura?”

“...yes.  Yes, I can do that, Lieutenant.”

—

Chris blinks at the sight of that crazy Russian genius kid everyone keeps going on about waving his hands in Spock’s face yelling about math.

And then raises his eyebrows when Spock starts clearly arguing back, with more agitation in his movements than Chris has ever seen before, even that one time they got into it with the Tellarite delegation on that one planet.

Huh.  Now that he thinks about it, they’re about the same age, even though Spock seems so much older in Chris’s head.

“Lieutenant Commander Spock,” he calls out, stepping forward to insert himself into the conversation, just because he’s curious.

Spock immediately straightens and pulls out of whatever staring contest he’d been in.  “Yes, Captain.”  He salutes, picture perfect, while the Russian kid is still pulling himself out of whatever fugue math-rage he’s in.

“At ease.”  Chris nods to the kid.  “And who’s this?”

“Oh!”  He gets off a salute and immediately starts babbling.  “Chekov, sir, Pavel Andreievich.  Sorry, sir.  We were just arguing about the mass gap and Yang-Mills existence.”

“Of course you were.”

—

Hendorff spend the entire shuttle ride trying not to send angry, confused glances at Uhura.  His abdomen is still bruised like a peach from where she planted her foot in his stomach out of nowhere, just because he hit the townie hitting on her.

Yeah, he was buzzed, but she was clearly miles ahead of this asshole.  She should be thanking him.

But instead, she and the asshole spend the entire ride sitting next to each other, leaning into the space between them.  He’s had classes with Uhura before, last year, and they see each other in passing around campus; not once did she seem like she was...basking in anyone’s presence like she is right now.  Even helped him with his fucking seatbelt!

At least the asshole seems just as awed to be sitting next to her, but come on.  He calls bullshit.

And then the shuttle lands.

They dock right on campus and the other cadets start unlatching and pouring out the hatch, bleeding off in twos and threes while Captain Pike does final checks before shutdown.  Uhura and the asshole practically leap out the door, and Hendorff catches up just in time to see them crash into a group of cadets waiting just outside.

He recognizes them, mostly; the same guys Uhura spends all her time with.  Not that Hendorff is keeping tabs, its just that everyone knows who they are.  Academy rumor has it they’re either going to run the ‘fleet someday, or burn it to the ground.

All four of them, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov, have the asshole in a death grip, seeming to clutch at whatever part of him and each other they can reach.  He feels something like unease run down his spine.  Maybe...maybe they know each other?

Fuck, of course they knew each other, you don’t hug a stranger like that.  Now the question is how the hell do they know each other.

As he sidesteps them (still basically right in front of the shuttle hatch, like they hadn’t noticed they were in the way and about fifteen different people stopped to gawk) he hears the asshole say, “When does Bones get in?  And where the hell is Spock, huh?”

At that point, he mentally throws up his hands and surrenders to the confusion.  No fucking way he’ll figure out how a dumb hick from Iowa knows Starfleet’s brightest cadets and Lieutenant Commander Spock before even setting foot on campus.

[mylittleredgirl]

trekathon: disco 1x11

“the wolf inside”:

pretty impressive that an episode can start with a man cradling his dead husband’s body and then get more distressing from there

it’s worth it to me though, personally, because mirror sarek is a prophet and it’s really working for me

the opening credits come a full 14 minutes into the episode. six teasers before breakfast and discovery laughs in the face of god

not like a Prophet™️ prophet:

the regular kind

or actually maybe he just mind-melds with people sometimes and then wows them with his psychic knowledge of their inner selves idk

i also really loved mirror!soval beyond all reason. apparently all i need is an older vulcan man who’s anti-fascist and pro-goatee 

sarek’s confused math lady face as he tries to process finding his own katra inside michael’s head

michael has longed her whole life to hear sarek say something that nice about her and she only had to travel outside her quantum universe to do it

the i.s.s. suffering:

michael’s narrated slow-motion existential crisis feat. sexy nightwear

there’s a shot in the unsettling bath scene with steam curling around michael’s face that’s pure cinematic art

michael and prime!saru both lying to each other in this episode to spare the other’s feelings

also the “i will call you saru after a respected friend” parallel with the emperor telling mirror!saru about “a starship captain named saru” 🥺

i don’t think i mentioned last time how much i enjoyed seeing the iconic shenzhou transporter room again and really wish i had done so before it turned into the iconic shenzhou execution chamber

i LOVE that keyla gets to stand up! and walk around! and contribute to the plot!! and the continuity between this and “terra firma” of her being michael’s right hand

“terrans don’t apologize” but keyla DOES apologize to michael. you know i don’t like going extra curricular for info but emily coutts said in a ready room episode that she thinks their mirror universe selves may have impulses to Be Good that they have to suppress the way that we have to reject our evil impulses

anyway, i assume we’re all here for shipping mirror captain burnham/commander detmer

michael insisting she’s still starfleet so she has to foster this coalition of species... that fire of federation optimism....... we love to see it 💗

and also voq is there:

i can’t tell you how much i secretly hoped that THIS TIME ash tyler would manage not be voq after all

the reveal coming because he heard part of the activation phrase in his own voice is inspired though

he TRIED to stay HUMAN for MICHAEL how am i supposed to just LIVE WITH THIS

michael and tyler’s lovely scene in bed together made me think about how this is michael at her most traumatized, and tyler of course is traumatized in ways that literally defy understanding, so it’s this beautiful broken thing

and holding that up against season 3 michael who has moved through so much of her trauma and is ready for a sweet and loving relationship with a dude who rescues animals and loves her almost a full 90% as much as he loves his cat

like obviously, given the secret klingon agent of it all, it’s not exactly “falling in love with the right man for the right time,” but i like the way discovery challenges the draw of OTP and instead gives us “people can love deeply for a time and then can love someone else just as much later, because all of us grow and change and seek different things at different times to help us do that”

i don’t understand how any of this works:

really thought i was hanging on to the mechanical theory of How Spores Work as presented until now, but tilly said “neuronal link” like i should understand it and the whole house of cards came down

still not sure how hugh becomes a spore ghost. “fungi have the biological aptitude to link death with life” and “wherever you are, i hope he’s with you” sets it up, so i EXPECT that paul in the mycelial network will meet hugh, but instead it’s mirror paul in a sexy leather uniform

actually i don’t understand transporters anymore either. where is the discovery when they beam tylervoq aboard? is this like in aos where sometimes transporters just work over enormous distances? did they jam some spores into the transporter buffers?? 

EvilWatch 2255:

“i feel that your suffering has influenced your judgment”

really love lorca and all the mirror universe characters turning away from the explosion while michael stares directly at it

EMPEROR. PHILIPPA. GEORGIOU.

now that she’s a character i Know And Love rather than the standard cartoon villain one expects from the mirror universe i cannot WAIT for this.

[musiconyoutube]

Bolsas da Ásia fecham em alta, com destaque para ações da indústria na China

© Reuters. Bolsas da Ásia fecham em alta, com destaque para ações da indústria na China

Os mercados acionários da Ásia registraram ganhos nesta sexta-feira (12). No mercado japonês, ações de montadoras puxaram os ganhos, enquanto na China papéis da indústria estiveram em destaque, mas com empresas do setor imobiliário em queda.

Na Bolsa de Tóquio, o índice Nikkei fechou em alta de 1,13%, em 29.609,97 pontos. Ações de montadoras estiveram em destaque. Toyota Motor subiu 2,4%, após ela projetar que em dezembro sua produção global aumentará, na comparação com o mesmo mês do ano passado. Honda Motor (T:7267) subiu 1,3% e Nissan Motor, 0,8%. Depois de prever crescimento forte em seu lucro líquido no ano fiscal, Persol Holdings Co Ltd (T:2181) avançou 7,7%.

Na China, a Bolsa de Xangai terminou com ganho de 0,18%, em 3.539,10 pontos, e a de Shenzhen, de menor abrangência, subiu 0,38%, a 2.581,71 pontos. Ações do setor imobiliário tiveram em geral perdas, ajustando ganhos fortes da sessão anterior, enquanto papéis ligados à indústria em geral subiram. China Vanke Co Ltd Class A (SZ:000002) caiu 5,0% e Seazen Holdings Co Ltd (SS:601155) teve baixa de 2,4%. Já o setor industrial mostra tendência recente positiva, em contexto de perspectiva de crescimento no médio prazo.

O índice Kospi, da Bolsa de Seul, fechou em alta de 1,50%, em 2.968,80 pontos. A bolsa sul-coreana vinha de dois dias de queda e teve recuo semanal. Hoje, ações ligadas ao transporte marítimo, à biotecnologia e siderúrgicas estiveram entre as altas.

Em Hong Kong, o índice Hang Seng teve ganho de 0,32%, a 25.327,97 pontos. Exportadoras se destacaram, com a componente de peças para smartphones Sunny Optical em alta de 4,7% e a fabricante de vestuário Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd (HK:2313) de 3,4%. No mercado local, incorporadoras da China se saíram bem, com Longfor Properties Co Ltd (HK:0960) avançando 2,5% e China Natural Resources Inc (NASDAQ:CHNR) Land, 2,1%.

Na Bolsa de Taiwan, o índice TAIEX terminou em alta de 0,38%, em 17.518,13 pontos.

Na Oceania, na Bolsa de Sydney o índice S&P/ASX 200 subiu 0,83%, a 7.443,00 pontos. As mineradoras se destacaram, enquanto ações ligadas ao setor de saúde registraram baixas. Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) (SA:RIOT34), BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) e Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) avançaram 3,4%, 2,8% e 1,9%, respectivamente.

Com informações da Dow Jones Newswires.

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[pacosemnoticias]

Um importante segmento do foguetão chinês desintegrou-se este domingo de mafrugada ao reentrar na atmosfera terrestre e caiu no oceano Índico, perto das Maldivas, anunciou a agência espacial da China.

"De acordo com o percurso e análise, pelas 10h24 (03h34 em Portugal) de 09 de maio de 2021, o primeiro andar do foguetão Longa Marcha 5B reentrou na atmosfera", declarou o Gabinete de Engenharia Espacial Tripulada chinês, em comunicado.

As coordenadas fornecidas pelas autoridades chinesas apontam para um local próximo das ilhas Maldivas, no oceano Índico, a sul da Índia.

O tamanho do objeto, de cerca de 30 metros e entre 17 e 21 toneladas, e a velocidade a que viajava, perto de 28 mil quilómetros por hora, levaram à ativação das mais importantes agências de monitorização espacial do mundo, como o Pentágono ou o Serviço de Vigilância e Acompanhamento Espacial da UE (EUSST).

Na sexta-feira, Pequim tinha classificado como "extremamente fraco" o risco de danos na superfície terrestre devido à entrada descontrolada na atmosfera do foguetão.

Na semana passada, a China lançou, recorrendo ao foguetão Longa Marcha 5B, o módulo Tianhe, ou Harmonia Celestial, para a primeira estação espacial permanente, que visa hospedar astronautas a longo prazo.

"A probabilidade de causar danos às atividades aéreas ou no solo é extremamente fraca", disse à imprensa um porta-voz da diplomacia chinesa, Wang Wenbin. "Devido à composição técnica deste foguete, a maioria dos componentes será incinerado e destruído ao entrarem na atmosfera", acrescentou.

O lançamento da semana passada foi o primeiro de 11 missões necessárias para construir e abastecer a futura estação espacial chinesa e enviar uma tripulação de três pessoas até ao final do próximo ano.

Pelo menos 12 astronautas estão a treinar para viver na estação, incluindo veteranos de missões anteriores. A primeira missão tripulada, a Shenzhou-12, está prevista para junho.

Quando concluída, no final de 2022, a Estação Espacial Chinesa deverá pesar cerca de 66 toneladas, consideravelmente menor do que a Estação Espacial Internacional, que pesará cerca de 450 toneladas e para a qual o primeiro módulo foi lançado em 1998.

[informarbem]

Um importante segmento do foguetão chinês desintegrou-se este domingo ao reentrar na atmosfera terrestre e caiu no oceano Índico, perto das Maldivas, anunciou a agência espacial da China.

"De acordo com o percurso e análise, pelas 10.24 (03:34 em Lisboa) de 9 de maio de 2021, o primeiro andar do foguetão Longa Marcha 5B reentrou na atmosfera", declarou o Gabinete de Engenharia Espacial Tripulada chinês, em comunicado.

As coordenadas fornecidas pelas autoridades chinesas apontam para um local próximo das ilhas Maldivas, no oceano Índico, a sul da Índia.

O tamanho do objeto, de cerca de 30 metros e entre 17 e 21 toneladas, e a velocidade a que viajava, perto de 28 mil quilómetros por hora, levaram à ativação das mais importantes agências de monitorização espacial do mundo, como o Pentágono ou o Serviço de Vigilância e Acompanhamento Espacial da UE (EUSST).

Na sexta-feira, Pequim tinha classificado como "extremamente fraco" o risco de danos na superfície terrestre devido à entrada descontrolada na atmosfera do foguetão.

Na semana passada, a China lançou, recorrendo ao foguetão Longa Marcha 5B, o módulo Tianhe, ou Harmonia Celestial, para a primeira estação espacial permanente, que visa hospedar astronautas a longo prazo.

"A probabilidade de causar danos às atividades aéreas ou no solo é extremamente fraca", disse à imprensa um porta-voz da diplomacia chinesa, Wang Wenbin.

"Devido à composição técnica deste foguete, a maioria dos componentes será incinerado e destruído ao entrar na atmosfera", acrescentou.

O lançamento da semana passada foi o primeiro de 11 missões necessárias para construir e abastecer a futura estação espacial chinesa e enviar uma tripulação de três pessoas até ao final do próximo ano.

Pelo menos 12 astronautas estão a treinar para viver na estação, incluindo veteranos de missões anteriores. A primeira missão tripulada, a Shenzhou-12, está prevista para junho.

Quando concluída, no final de 2022, a Estação Espacial Chinesa deverá pesar cerca de 66 toneladas, consideravelmente menor do que a Estação Espacial Internacional, que pesará cerca de 450 toneladas e para a qual o primeiro módulo foi lançado em 1998.

[scots-dragon]

Even the Xindi aren't portrayed as being quite so evil and vicious as the Klingons and Gorn are in the Discoverse.

And honestly? That's what I'm calling it as from now on, since it really does not fit well with the rest of Star Trek at all. It's the Shenzhou Timeline for the same reasons that AOS is the Kelvin Timeline.

A failed attempt to rewatch Star Trek: Discovery and dear god do I hate what this series does to Star Trek. Making the Federation into yet another liberal hard men making hard decisions while hard faction with Section 31 as their super secret top elite black ops squad who do the difficult things to maintain the more positive side. It undermines the entire point and I fucking hate that they keep doing this.

The lines ‘Nation building is never pretty’ should never be presented as factual in Trek.

It’s also why I despise the portrayal of the Gorn in the new series Strange New Worlds. As fun as that series was, the Gorn are a big green reptilian negative mark with the fucking insistence on making them into the hyperviolent space bogeymen who reproduce by implanting other species with their eggs in the style of the xenomorphs from Alien. It completely undermines the point of the original episode they appear in.

[psicygni]

super important question so that I can write this AOS/Discovery fic that is both ruining my life and also the reason I get out of bed in the morning:

On the Shenzhou, Michael was first officer and Saru was a science officer, yes?  So was Michael also the Chief Science Officer and like Spock holds both positions at once, or was Saru actually the Chief Science Officer?  

As in: do those positions have to be the same person, or could - for instance - Michael be captain, Tilly be First Officer, and Stamets be Chief Science Officer, if that was a thing I was going to write about?