#commander t'ana

[cat-cosplay]

"Studying is good. But in real life, there’s going to be times when you need to make a mess of things before you can fix them." ~ T'Ana

[lieutenant-bradward-boimler]

How much coffee is too much coffee?

[quasi-normalcy]

Lower Decks season 5 predictions!

Shaxs/T'ana wedding!

Relatedly: Kira is a wedding guest

Possibly related: We get to see the Caitian homeworld

William Boimler returns, seemingly as a villain, but actually he's infiltrating Section 31 on Riker's orders

Mariner needs to be in command of a group of ensigns, at least one of whom is obnoxiously insubordinate towards her

The alternate reality version of Rutherford from the trailer has all his original memories

Another Crisis Point episode! Or, rather, I'm thinking that there will be a fake epilogue at the end of the finale where it looks like it's a few years later and one of them has been given their first command, but then it turns out to be on the holodeck

Ferenginar joins the Federation

There's an actual serious episode where some supporting character gets "redshirted"

A Planet Killer joins the battle in the opening credits

Everyone gets promoted up to lieutenant in the finale

Not quite a cliffhanger ending, but something that demands closure occurs in the finale

Something happens that's relatively innocuous on its own terms, but ties directly into the backstory for 'Prodigy' or 'Picard'

Avery Brooks guest stars. (I'm not actually expecting this, this is blatant wishcasting. But even so.)

[antigrav-boy]

My favourite quotes from The Cerritos Command Crew

Captain Carol Freeman

"Ugh. I don't know why I keep giving alien street food a chance. It's always such a gamble"

Commander Jack Ransom

"Hey! I'm supposed to press the button, you sexy bastard!"

"This is my universe, you steamy hunk!"

Lieutenant Shaxs

"I'm going to fight! I'm going to get revenge! I'm… going to make a cute little ashtray for my incense. It's going to look like a puppy."

Chief Medical Officer T'Ana

"Oh come on. I just revived him. Everybody out! Give me 30 cc's of whatever just worked a [bleep] minute ago"

Lieutenant Commander Andy Billups

"I'm fine! The doc just needs to stay in her lane because I don't go down to her sickbay and tell her how to hypo her sprays!"

[u2fangirlie-blog]

I made a thing! First real attempt at sharing a meme with a group.

Recently, I started watching Star Trek: Lower Decks. I unashamedly love it. As a lapsed Star Trek fan, it helped bring me back into the fold. I started following the Facebook "gronp" Star Trek Shitposting. I had an idea to make a meme about the Caitian characters M'Ress, from Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Doctor T'Ana, from Lower Decks. Here's the original post and photo.

I made a thing. New OC. What would Caitians think about Earth cats? Are polydactyl cats from outer space?

22 Sept. 2023 on Facebook group Star Trek Shitposting

Within the first hour, it had 100 likes and 75 comments. This went on for hours! I felt endorphins and happiness! I liked and replied directly to comments to encourage participation and show my appreciation for people interacting with my meme. I wrote a lot of comments! Lost track of how many comments are mine. So here's what I wrote on my timeline:

OMG GUYS! In an hour, it got over 100 likes and the discussion has 75 comments. I'm a Star Trek Shitite! Everybody wants to talk about Star Trek and cats! All the science nerds and weirdoes are commenting! Look, Mom! I'm not the only damn weirdo!

22 Sept. 2023 on Facebook.

Then the next morning I realized I needed to create an alternate text description of the image for people using text-to-speech readers, so I wrote one.

Image description: Two pictures. Right Panel is M'Ress from Star Trek: The Animated Series at her communications station on the bridge of the Enterprise. Left panel is Doctor T'Ana from Star Trek: Lower Decks in sickbay treating a patient on the Cerritos. Caption across the top. "Xenobiology Report on Caitian Anatomy: Polydactyl Traits." Caption above left panel: "Communications Officer Lieutenant M'Ress: 3 fingers, 1 thumb." Caption above right panel: "Chief Medical Officer Commander Doctor T'Ana: 4 fingers, 1 thumb."

23 Sept. 2023 on Facebook group Star Trek Shitposting

After 24 hours of trying to keep up with responses and comments, and boring my parents with talking excitedly about how freaking cool it is to find a group weirdoes who think about the same stuff, I made another post on my timeline.

STSP meme 24 Hours - 235 likes. 214 comments. My favorite comment so far. "Y'all are WAY overthinking this." No, my dude, we are not way over thinking it. My response: "Nonsense! I've been thinking about this for years. It's about time people started talking about cartoon science fiction feline species' fingers. LOL!" Everyone is having a good time. No one is fighting. So far people shared photos of their polydactyl cats.

The nerds have dug into deep lore in what is or is not canon for felinid species in Star Trek and depictions of Caitains and Kzinti in other ST books and media. We've discussed seafaring history of 6-toed Earth cats, and the frequency of polydactylism in big cats and domestic cats. Based on sex characteristics of lions, does that make M'Ress trans because she has a male lion's mane? That's valid headcanon! What advantages do extra toes provide for cats? Are they more stable and agile?

Are the differences between M'Ress's and T'Ana's fingers an oversight by the artist (working on 2 different shows 50 years apart) or was it a deliberate choice by the Lower Decks artist? A lot of people are talking about different animation styles depicitng people with 3 fingers and a thumb (as seen in Disney cartoons and The Simpson and Futurama) as opposed to 4 fingers and a thumb, which is artistically messy. The nerds confirmed that all the main characters in Star Trek: The Animated series, where M'Ress originated, are drawn with 4 fingers and a thumb. So the Caitian hand with 3 fingers and a thumb was an artistic choice. What explains the anatomical differences among Caitians? Living on different continents? Alternate universes? Or natural diversity within a species? Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

Other differences between M'Ress and T'Ana people pointed out: Their feet. As one person wrote "digitigrade caitians vs. plantigrade caitians and their use of shoes." M'Ress walks on her toes and does not wear shoes. T'Ana walks flat-footed and wears shoes. Someone else pointed out that footwear would be a requirement for a medical officer. Their pupils: Someone pointed out that M'Ress's pupils are vertical slits, where T'Ana's pupils are round but can change into vertical slits. My final thought of the night is on the evolution of Caitain hands and whether or not the fingers and palms have hairless textured skin to better manipulate tools or if they adapted tools for hairy fingers. I need to know!

Next time we'll talk about the number and position of Caitian mammary glands. Stay tuned for future content!

23 Sept. 2023 on Facebook

[morns-fevered-dream]

Back to live blogging Lower Decks so obviously Spoilers✨️ but I'm yet again excited

Season 4 Episode 3

Ransom kept critiquing the sculptures lol

Yes being supportive of the old super computer

It's looks so tired

Boimler Commanding?!?

Yet again I love the amount of different aliens in the background I'm pretty sure I saw a Zakdorn and in past seasons their has been Arkonian and those TMP aliens and so many more I love looking in the background for the different aliens

Oh the earlier seasons tng Betazoid box thing

Dr. T'Ana has been in here lmao

I love hearing Tendi talk about Orion stuff it's fun

I enjoy Ensign Taylor a normal amount

Mariner going for the "less stabby" solution?!

Let it out Dirk :)

Slop Jazz? Sign me up

The god damn Wadi game!

The Wadi being disappointed in how fast Rutherford going is funny

Boimler?

The Ensigns immediately bursting into tears was funny

That damn koala

"Give me 30cc of whatever just worked a minute ago" killed me

Jazz Mariner

Poor Dirk

WHat DAMN YOU DIRK!

I too fell for Wadi story

Besides the great Dirk betrayal it was a real fun episode perhaps my favorite of this season yet

[thelesseroftwoweevils]

So after the Strange New Worlds crossover I finally did something I've been putting off for a long time and watched Lower Decks. Avoided it for similar reason as I did SNW that it's praised as saving Trek from improper things like Disco and Picard and liking those that didn't sell me on SNW and LDs.

Which is a shame because both of them are decent and for the same reason, the main cast is reasonably charming and likable and good natured.

Anyway, I'm now up-to-date all the way to season 4 and the new cast and changes lead me to think about a couple of the new possibilities for story arc and will the show take full advantage of them:

To-whit: T'Lyn and the Lower Decker's promotions.

T'Lyn wants to get back to the Vulcan Fleet, and I wonder if her arc will be learning to accept Starfleet and how much cooler and more accepting it is. Or the others having to learn to accept her and her goals and support her in getting back to where she wants to be.

Like Tendi's all over her at the moment and not respecting her boundaries, that could be just their comic dynamic, or it could be a point Tendi learns that she has to have a different relationship with her than she does say... Rutherford or the others in Beta Shift.

And the Lower Decks promotions will they take advantage of the theoretical greater responsibility and authority over others that the promotion entails or will they stay lower deckers with a similar roles just more pips and nice rooms.

Like they should be bossing teams of ensigns about at least a bit. And I'd really like to see them have to handle and adapt to that. Jen the Andorian would be perfect for Mariner (or Boimler who could also dislike Jen for not supporting Mariner) to be in command of, same department and they'd struggle between professionism and personal conflicts. Just a thought.

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oh and a complete tangent one of Lower Decks other very rare couples: Shaxs and T'Ana. Shaxs needs to dump her. He just seems really unhappy. In s3 there seemed to be some give and take but not in the most recent holodeck scene.

[hedonicghost]

I really really really like meddoks shes commander t'ana to me

Yeah, I can see it

[cal-1maf]

It's all in the paperwork.

Sickbay reports the metrics of the diseases it treats. Dr. T'ana knows exactly which strains of Denobulan Supergonorrhea are going around the ship and can probably track who's banging who by the mutations in bacterial samples. The who and why probably doesn't move up the chain (patient confidentiality) but the captain will know when there's an outbreak, and so will command when they review the ship's logs.

We know from SNW that when officers enter a romantic relationship (a committed one, not just banging), they're supposed to report it, too. This is probably so that the person making the duty roster (Ransom, probably) can schedule things to minimize the risk of people needing to put their partner in harm's way. Also so that the couple can petition to have joint quarters later or apply for transfers to follow each other through the fleet. Also so command staff can track how fast the gamma-shift polycule is expanding and when it will take over the entire ship.

That it's tracked doesn't feel weird to me, a child of the 21st century surveillance state. That Ransom knows the metrics in comparison to the rest of the fleet though is funny. I guess Starfleet's just transparent with their data.

"statistically the horniest and least romantically committed crew in Starfleet" bro how are they measuring that

[zawazawanightmares]

Commander T'Ana & Elias

[rob-demers-art]

Commander T'Ana from Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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[muses-inn]

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[mazamba]

"We made too many guns, didn't we?" sighed Ransom.

"I don't suppose you can vaporize these guys like you did that dragon?" suggested Shaxs.

"Not unless we have another transporter here!" yelled Tendi back.

In the meantime, T'Ana was busy with Vixen.

"Hold her down!" she ordered as she headed to the replicator, "I'm not dealing with any more fucking zombies here!"

She tapped out a command and gathered the hypospray that came out.

"Is that the same shot you used on the rage virus back then?" recalled Boimler, "From the spider milk slime? Would that even work here?"

"If anyone has a better idea I'm all ears!" she snapped back, "No? Shut the fuck up!"

She injected Vixen and watched her vitals on the biobed.

"Ok, looks like it's working," she declared, "Captain! This is a strain of the rage virus! If we can mist this over the zombies, it should take them all out!"

"Can you make enough?"

"Yes, but we'll need to take the shields down. It's the only way we'll have enough power to dose them all."

Closed RP w/mazamba

This planet Jason was on was once thriving world. A planet full of trees, water, animals, and people. All who lived peacefully on the planet, until a war broke out in this sector. This left the planet in ruins, all of its resources plundered, and its people nearly wiped out. Centuries have passed and the planet has been nearly forgotten.

Jason was told the planet was under the control of a group called the Klingons. He didn’t think too much about it and knew he would be out of here before they found out or one of their allies.

He walks over towards his prize. A box containing a valuable item that he knew would come in for a pretty penny…or whatever currency the people of this universe use. He walks over and begins to disable any security systems around, before getting his prize. He wipes away the dirt from it, opens it, and smiles when he saw what’s inside.

“Just like the buyer said,” Jason whispered before putting the box in his bag. 

@mazamba

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[cat-cosplay]

Here's to T'Ana!

The best Chief Medical Officer in Starfleet!

[therealbrigeedarocks]

CAROL KANE'S CHARACTER (commander pelia)

IS A THOUSANDS YEARS OLD ALIEN WHO'S BEEN ON EARTH SINCE

FOREVER

WHO IS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PACK RAT

WITH A BUNKER IN VERMONT IN CASE THE "NO CURRENCY UTOPIA THING DOESN'T WORK OUT"

FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH EVEN MORE STUFF SHE STOLE LEGALLY ACQUIRED ALRIGHT IT FELL OFF A TRUCK

AND IS GETTING CALLS FROM THE LOUVRE TO RETURN A PAINTING THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE A FORGERY chances are good it's the real deal

i love her

i lover her SO fucking much you guys

she's getting added to the fanart list alongside vadic and dr t'ana someday look art is still hard leave me be

star trek: strange new worlds - pt 1

things i knew before going into this series:

it takes place about/around ToS era-ish

this may or may not be the series where pike almost dies and gets space roomba-d (no not the stabby kind)

mariner and boimler from lower decks make an IRL cameo in this same way some how

half way through the first season already and honestly? digging it

not as intense as discovery got but not 100% camp that was ToS

not that i was expecting it to be, but i do enjoy that it doesn't have to be as action-packed and intense

sometimes just, you know, being star trek and having hijinks is exactly what is needed

variety is the spice of like after all

love una and lt noonien-singh (yes, an augmented descendant of THAT noonien-singh) so far

especially when they're on the ship as everyone has shore leave and they have to play good cop/bad cop (lt n-s calls dibs first much to una's DAMN)

loving uhura's arc too

i mean i knew spock and pike were gonna be in this

did not know uhura was gonna pop up too

or nurse chapell

(wait is that established lore they were all on the same ship before ToS)

((fuck ToS was literally like a year ago -9ish months ago- at this point i can't remember everything after so many series fuck off))

anyway

enjoyable

a+++