#boimler & mariner friendship

[emdeejaydraws]

lower decks sketch i did for a friend a while back that i decided to clean up a bit

[starfleetspacecadet]

i have to say. that fucking harry kim bit got me every time

[ayachannsstuff]

It is all about the people we meet along the way.

one more lwd edit for y'all guys

[honorarypines]

The genre is coworkers that are also bffs and get into insane shenanigans on their daily basis

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #52

"I hope Boimler gets to spend more time with Mariner in season five because he did say in season four that misses being paired with her on missions together."

[laney-rockin]

I was rewatching Lower Decks and omfg I totally forgot about the episode where Mariner and Boimler find a bar where Kirk and Spock were at like a century before.

Also the bar scene where they find the engraving of Kirk and Spock's names?? That was so cool.

Personally, I would love to know what exactly Kirk and Spock were talking about during their own scene at the bar. Like what lead them to carve their names into that table?

OH! And the carved names are doubly cute when one of the main reasons that people carve two names together is to symbolize their love and a permanence of that love.

Anyways! I just wanted to rant about this adorable little tidbit in LWD. I'm a romantic that way.

[puttybutter]

It's friendship friday!!! ✨️❤️❤️

Get yourself a boims or Mariner

[ffcrazy15]

Summary: After the conclusion of their battle with the Texas-class, Mariner and Boimler have a chat about her relationship with Starfleet.

[ursamajorinthesky]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Jimon Rozhenko/Tommy Cooper Characters: Jimon Rozhenko (OC), Tommy Cooper (OC), Tasía Athena (OC), Mols Drasa (OC), D'Vana Tendi, Sam Rutherford, Brad Boimler, Beckett Mariner Additional Tags: Medical Professionals, Team Bonding, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Comedy, Interspecies Relationship(s), Interspecies Romance, Interspecies Awkwardness Summary:

Taking place roughly nine years after the events of Blackbird, Ensign Jimon Rozhenko is newly assigned to his first post aboard the USS Vivien Thomas, currently tasked with a humanitarian mission to a new Federation planet dealing with an epidemic. Will Jimon’s academic prowess be up to the task when faced with a genuine, boots-on-the-ground dilemma?

To be clear, this will be mostly an elsewhere fic. Some of the original LOW cast is present throughout the story and others make appearances, but it will orbit mainly around Jimon Rozhenko and his new shipmates.

[vortahoney]

[ID/ a drawing of Bradward Boimler, a tall white man with light colored eyes and short purple hair, and Beckett Mariner, a shorter Black woman with her dark brown, natural hair in a ponytail. They are both in the command division Cerritos uniform, light red with black shoulders, separated by a white strip and held together with a flap. They each have a grey combadge in the Starfleet insignia on their right side. They’re both smiling, Mariner’s head turned to Boimler, mouth open as if speaking and hand gesturing out. Boimler is smiling, reacting to what Mariner is saying, holding one finger up on his left hand, holding a PADD in another hand. They both have two pips on their collars, one gold and one black, for their ensign status. /end ID]

doodle of them if you will

[onwhatcaptain]

I also feel compelled to point out that the whole thesis of this episode was that love and friendship can transcend dimensions and realities. It was stated directly in the episode several times!

Lily Sloane says to Boimler about Mariner, "Your friendship transcends realities. Trust like that is powerful stuff."

That line wasn't just about Mariner and Boimler. It couldn't have been. Garashir were a central part of the episode, not just there as set dressing, but as a whole B-plot centered on their relationship.

That line serves as a clear acknowledgment of prime universe garashir, too, if you're willing to take the puzzle pieces and put them together. It tells us that their relationship also carries across dimensions and realities because it's just that powerful and meaningful. That's why two of them from different dimensions found one another all over again. I don't feel that prime garashir have been ignored, even if Paramount never wants to just let queer couples have normal acknowledgment. They're the blueprint!

[catboyelimgarak]

Also, since it was said that the friendship between Boimler and Mariner transcends reality, their trust in one another being powerful, which is just to say (in my opinion) that there’s a Boimler and Mariner in EVERY universe that end up being side by side…then my stupid garashir brain can believe that the same can be said of Garak and Julian and their love for one another always being a constant as well in all universes. I.E. ex-spy turned surgeon Garak and EMH Julian being together. Also being a surgeon is just being a tailor, but with bodies lol

[lastoneout]

Nah but here's the REAL big marinler vibe from ep 9 okay. So back in the season where Mariner gets sent to SB80 Tendi makes a comment about Boimler "really losing his grip on reality when Mariner isn't around" right? And in this episode it might SEEM like inconsistent character writing to have William Boimler stop being a massive asshole loser and then like actually start behaving more like OG Boimler, but that's the thing!! William Boimler has been separated from Mariner!! Of COURSE he's been a massive asshole and ended up all cynical and burnt out!! This is consistent if you keep in mind that Mariner and Boimler are each other's anchor, or compass, or both. They need to be around each other regularly to keep themselves sane, help them remember why what they're doing matters, inspire each other to be better, to LIVE.

Romantic or platonic, this episode confirms that Mariner and Boimler very much should not be separated, they genuinely need each other, their friendship, relationship, whatever, is the key to the best versions of themselves.

I'm gonna miss this show so much, but with THIS set up I truly cannot wait to see the series finale <3

[2063april5]

APPARENTLY I ALSO DIDN'T EXPECT. THE GARASHIR

WHAT

Catching up on lwd for garashir, didn't expect the "I need to get home to Geordi, he is my best friend"

[glimblshanks]

Mariner and Boimler's friendship is overwhelming proof that even in the far future beautiful women will still carry around neurotic, high maintenance bag dogs

[lostyesterday]

One of my favorite types of relationships in Star Trek are close friendships between characters who are in certain ways exact opposites but who nonetheless get along really well and have found strong common ground on which to base their relationship. Some examples:

Data and Deanna: Opposite relationships to emotion and opposite methods of attempting to understand/connect with other people. Deanna literally senses other people’s emotions and is about as intimately connected with emotion as a person can be, while Data believes he has no emotions and has difficulty understanding the emotional states of others. Despite this, they get along really well and greatly respect each other’s perspective. Part of the reason is potentially because both characters have a strong drive to reach out to and connect with other people, even if their starting points for this goal and their methods of attempting to accomplish it are very different.

Kira and Jadzia: Opposite in a lot of ways, but particularly in terms of their relationships to religion and other elements of their respective cultures. Religion and other aspects of Bajoran culture are deeply central to Kira’s identity and understanding of the world, whereas Jadzia couldn’t care less about religion and has an ambivalent relationship with her own culture. Sometimes, she rebels against it or seems to turn away from it in favor of seeking connections with other cultures (such as Klingon or Ferengi culture). They also have opposite personalities in many ways – such as their opposite approaches to leisure with Kira unable to relate to Jadzia’s ways of enjoying herself. Yet despite these major differences in ideology and approach to life, the two of them spend a lot of time together and are close friends. Maybe this is partially because one thing they do both have in common is a sort of open-mindedness about difference – an acceptance of a difference of perspective as it is without truly resolving it. (Up to a point, of course, especially in Kira’s case, but I do think that the fact that both of them have several close friendships with characters with whom they disagree on a large number of topics indicates that they share this open-mindedness).

Jake and Nog: Opposite life trajectories. They come from very different cultures and are introduced to the audience in opposite ways (as a well-behaved child vs. a petty criminal), but the strength of their connection is immediate and enduring despite all the barriers put between them. What makes the contrast between them extra interesting is how Nog is the one to become a Starfleet officer, and how the contrast between their personalities in later seasons (Nog being rigid and organized while Jake is more relaxed and disorganized) is very much not what you’d expect when you first meet their characters in season 1.

Harry and B’Elanna: Opposite relationships to/histories with Starfleet. Harry is the golden boy – the young prodigy with a bright future who represents the very best of Starfleet and can (supposedly) do no wrong. B’Elanna seemingly failed Starfleet and was failed by Starfleet in every sense. She couldn’t make it through the Academy because she felt like she couldn’t belong there – because she was made to feel that way throughout her life. And yet it’s within Starfleet (at least the make-shift Starfleet on Voyager) that the two of them connect and become friends. And maybe in some ways that’s because you don’t need to go far below the surface to see cracks in Harry’s supposed Starfleet perfection, and also because it takes only the promise of belief and support from a few (including Harry) for B’Elanna to reforge her connection with Starfleet.

Mariner and Boimler: Opposite personalities in basically every way (at least initially). Mariner is bold, rebellious, and reckless while Boimler is a cautious obsessive rule-follower. They approach basically every situation in opposite ways, and yet they are inseparable best friends. It’s interesting to see them both become a little more like each other over time, and maybe that trajectory is partly why they’re so close.

Interestingly, in some of these cases, what initially seems to be a great difference between two characters actually becomes a source of common ground between them – a contrast becomes a parallel. I find this kind of connection between characters who might in theory be opposed to each other very compelling. In a way, characters being best friends despite being really different gets to the heart of what Star Trek, at its best, is about.