#farragut class

[lonestarbattleship]

USS KING (DLG-10) operating off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii.

Date: September 10, 1961

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: KN-1881

[the-delta-42]

#atlantis 1/1200 #uscombatfleet #ussdewey #dlg14 / #ddg45 #farragutclass #guidedmissilefrigate #postworldwarii #postworldwar2 #postwwii #postww2 #modelship #modelbuilding #ussdeweydlg14 #ussdeweyddg45 #atlantismodel

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USS Farragut (Nebula Class) by Mallacore

[chernobog13]

This is a dandy way to display a Constitution-class model, especially one with interior lights. Wish I had thought of it myself.

The registration number on the bottom of the saucer (NCC-1647) is a little confusing. That's the number currently used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for the U.S.S. Farragut. The Farragut in that series is not a Constitution-class vessel, but a Farragut-class: it consists of a saucer section with the warp nacelles mounted directly to its underside, and has no engineering hull.

The Farragut WAS one of the original twelve Constitution-class starships in Star Trek: The Original Series. It had a registration number of NCC-1702, which is the one that should be on the model pictured above.

So it appears that SNW has retconned the Farragut. There is, however, a strong argument that I've read somewhere that ST: Discovery and SNW take place in a parallel timeline, so who knows.

[elliegoose]

drew this a few months ago but forgot to post it. been playing in some pickup games of lancer battlegroup, so of course i had to draw my commander. meet rhea willow (they/she), commander of the Union Battlegroup Invitation! her uniform is based off the captain's uniform from operation solstice rain. i also drew the battlegroup's emblem. composition of the group below the cut (ship art from the battlegroup rulebook):

Battlegroup Invitation Commander Rhea Willow (Meritorious Service Bar) [9] UNS-BB Abdullah Öcalan (7) GMS ​Thoreau ​Class Battleship (0) Brace For Impact! (0) Long-Cycle Primary Lance (1) Heavy Kinetic Batteries (1) Heavy Kinetic Batteries (0) Secondary Turrets (0) Secondary Turrets

[3] UNS-LS Khabur (3) GMS Superior Class Frigate (0) Primary Kinetic Batteries (0) Insightful Commanders

[3] UNS-LS Ferat (3) GMS Huron Class Frigate (0) Primary Kinetic Batteries (0) Secondary Turrets

[5] UNS-CV Jinwar (5) HA Farragut Class Starfield Carrier (0) Primary Kinetic Batteries (0) Fire for Effect! (3) Barbarossa Chassis Wing (0) Legion Drone Nexus

[bardicious]

Star Trek TOS/SNW Prompt List

Okay, for now this is what I got, and I'm thinking maybe Ill try to make a list like this every month (???maybe?) to get my brain working. Might do another Garashir one tomorrow or after tomorrow. 🤔

Spirk are beamed down to a planet of giants

Spirk fixing a console problem from outside the Enterprise

Spirk feels their T'hy'la bond across the galaxy from each other. (Conceptualization of the T'hy'la)

Spock murders the giant Omni (The Price of Phoenix) in defense of an injured Jim.

The moment Spock mind melds with Jim (as Janice Lester) and the memories that pass between them.

Professor James T. Kirk, a stack of books with legs, teaching a class with Mitchell and Carol in attendance and Janice Lester as co-professor.

Jim takes a moment to mourn his brother, Sam, and his sister-in-law, Aurelian with his nephew Peter.

Jim fights the Gorn (SNW style)

Jim watches the Enterprise as it pierces through Tarsus IV's clouds. The crowds that are left stand in shock as well.

Trelane comes back, older (as teen personality vs TOS's young boy personality), a menace as ever. How will Spock and Kirk deal with him this time?

M'Benga in the middle of the Klingon War.

Doctor M'Benga and Doctor Chapel marry, post tmp. The Enterprise (TOS/SNW) are in attendance.

La'an mourns her Jim as the timeline switches back into place.

Omni (The Price of Phoenix) abducts Jim, on Vulcan as Spock prepares for Kolinahr hears Jim's distress. (pre-tmp) (yes, I am obsessed with this villain and the books)

Jim with his Tholian child, Bright Eyes, find themselves in Sulu's botanic lab.

Mirror Verse!Spirk meet over Pike's dead body, Uhura and Spock are aligned, and impressed with their new Captain.

The SNW crew ARE turned into bunnies, Jim, Spock, and Uhura have to care for them while they fix the problem

The Enterprise and Farragut crews team up to deal with a situation on a Greek themed planet. (SNW)

Harry Mudd and his double? is once again found doing something criminal and ridiculous. 

McSpirk finds themselves in the Mirror Verse's past, an earth where Khan wins, and successfully conquers the Earth (my headcanon on why the Mirror Verse exists).

Young Jim copes (or doesn't) with his first kills on Tarsus IV, while holding young Kevin Riley.

Uhura is planning a musical, sadly many of the bridge crew decline participation, surprisingly Spock does not! He plays the music. Their show becomes a yearly tradition.

Admiral Kirk sits alone in his home on Earth, and drinks. He thinks about Spock and the Enterprise and wonders how it all went wrong.

Yeoman Rand brings new Earth trends to the Enterprise, Uhura, Chapel, La'an, and Una all try something new.

Yeoman Rand and Captain Kirk fight a group of hostile aliens, their movements are in sync. (Yeoman Rand is Captain Kirk's protégée in this prompt)

Rand, Uhura, and Sulu attempt to talk to the local parliament comprised by what looks like sentient flowers.

Future!Spirk get time displaced and find themselves on the SNW Enterprise, not knowing whether they've stopped at an alternate universe, or the past, they keep quiet on the state of future affairs. Between a living Sam Kirk, and an uninjured Pike, both Jim and Spock are stressed.

Jim hesitates to fire at the dikironium cloud creature, and loses consciousness as the creature sets upon the Farragut.

Jim and Spock, and begrudgingly Droxine, catch the view from Stratos.

The enterprise picks up a child from a dying ship. The child with prophetic powers opens a popup storybook that involves the future of the enterprise, the art style depicts a style like the tos series, and two indistinct figures of a captain and his first officer. Chris Pike watches in trepidation as the story unfolds.

[the-a-j-universe]

Some things I just don't get in star trek that have to do with the galaxy class and saucer separation.

1. Why were the ones build for the dominion war have their saucers at all?

2. Why did the USS Farragut have its saucer at the end of Generations? One of the purposes of the Nebula was to be a retreaval ship for stranded galaxy class saucers.

Honestly? It's because the models, physical or not, had saucers, and changing/replacing them costs money.

In universe? I imagine Galaxies kept their saucers because the saucer had just bonkers space for troops and equipment. The huge saucer also has a whole lot of phaser strip length on it, allowing for effective multitargeting of those tiny Dominion bugships. The saucer also had a huge fusion power plant in it that Picard himself was known to value in combat situations. They could've shaved pieces off of the saucer in the construction phase, only leaving space for the parts they needed, but maybe that would've actually been more time-intensive than just using the spaceframes already in production.

As for the Farragut at the end of Generations, I think it's likely that it still had its saucer because it wasn't actually there to retrieve the Enterprise saucer, that happened later. The Farragut was there to rescue the surviving crew and passengers, which required the habitable space in the saucer section to house them.

[lenievi]

Not a question, but relating to your McCoy knew of Kirk or met him repeatedly when he was a cadet idea - you know what this means Leni. You gotta write a 5+1 Kirk meets McCoy in cadet era 8D

I actually didn't mean they would meet so often when Kirk was a cadet :D (My characters' timelines wouldn't allow it, and I'm inflexible :D) But like...

After McCoy's inoculation thingy on Dramia, he decided to sing up for Starfleet 100%. They told him he needed to take some classes/whatever at the Academy. He went. Took some of them, met 19yo serious!Kirk.

Two years later, they'd meet on some ship where cadet Kirk was doing his assignment, and McCoy was doing an internship (and developed a surgical procedure, a cerebral-cortex/brain-tissue graft)

Before Kirk was assigned to the Farragut, they met on some Starbase (this would be 2255, i.e. 11 years before The Corbomite Maneuver)

The Federation-Klingon war started. The Farragut participated and Kirk saved McCoy's life on some Starbase (a planet) that was being attacked and the Farragut came to help.

After the Farragut tragedy (2257), Kirk went back to the Academy and became an instructor. McCoy visited the Academy for whatever reason, and they crossed paths again. At this point, they were like this is ridiculous. Do you know how big space is?

After Kirk did his needed instructor thingy, he could work toward his goal to become FO. McCoy decided to stay on Starbase 1 (where Carol worked), so whenever he visited Carol, he also met with McCoy, and their friendship grew.

In 2260, McCoy got reassigned to the Farragut, and in 2261 Kirk became the captain of the Farragut at the age of 28.

OK, this now became my default headcanon LMAO

[tekkyentity]

so i finished space age

check out my planets, im pretty proud of them :)

this is my 'Sumec' Interstellar Cruiser, inspired by the Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser from elite dangerous

the front end will be filled with belts to store promethium later, so far i only wanted to get to the solar system edge so i could say i finished the game so i can focus on school work again lmao

also a less compressed map view of the Sumec

[fxoye2]

for your tos reboot, a good sweet spot to hit with jim and spock between aos, tos, and something new might be making them friends (or exes! who knows, but i think friends works better for slow burn purposes) or roommates at the academy who had a falling out, and then they have to reunite as part of the enterprise crew and have to rework their relationship. you could still have jim being a relatively young captain, but instead of having him jump from cadet to captain like in the 2009 movie, maybe he's a lieutenant or something (idk, more realistic) that got the promotion because of his actions during x clusterfuck. something like the narada or something, or the uss farragut disaster in tos. i think an interesting thing might also be mixing up the ages a little -- like maybe spock and jim are the same age instead of being 3 years apart, but in contrast bones, scotty, uhura, and sulu are around the same age/year as well, but they're a little older than k/s and maybe have served together prior to the enterprise.

ANON, you’re on the same wavelength as me, because WOW, this idea? PERFECTION. I’m absolutely LOVING the thought of reworking Jim and Spock’s dynamic with that friends-to-estranged-to-reunion arc! It hits that sweet spot between the existing AOS/TOS dynamics, while adding that extra layer of complexity. Slow burn gold, right there. Chef’s kiss.

Okay, let’s break this down.

Academy Roommates/Friends: YES. First off, giving them a history at the Academy together is brilliant for that foundation of trust (and tension!). You can imagine them meeting early on, maybe during some advanced class or Starfleet extracurricular (maybe some kind of strategic simulation?), and immediately recognizing each other’s brilliance. I can see them becoming friends, studying together, maybe even unofficially competing for top honors. Jim is still that cocky, charismatic guy who doesn’t seem to care much, but we all know he cares too much. Spock? Absolutely the top of his class, but intrigued by this infuriating human who somehow always finds a way to match him.

BUT THEN. THE FALLING OUT. GAHHH. The angst possibilities here are endless! Maybe they had this intense friendship that was just a little too close to ignore, and then something went wrong. Maybe Jim did something reckless during a mission simulation that caused real harm (or at least, the perception of harm), and Spock, with his Vulcan logic, couldn’t condone it. Or maybe Jim pushed Spock to be a little more human, to embrace emotions, and Spock resented that. Whatever the reason, there’s some kind of betrayal, a clash of values, and BAM—they stop speaking.

Now they’ve both gone off to do their own things. Jim, as you suggested (and I love this!), gets a promotion for his heroism during some major disaster—maybe the USS Farragut disaster or something akin to the Narada incident. He���s not cadet-to-captain overnight (because we’re trying to keep it realistic), but he’s young and already has this legend building around him. So when the Enterprise needs a captain? They call Jim up because he’s earned it, even if people are skeptical about his age and experience.

Spock, meanwhile, has been climbing the ranks the “proper” way—he’s earned every promotion through merit and discipline, no shortcuts. He’s the consummate Vulcan officer, and he’s been serving on the Enterprise for a bit, maybe as first officer under Captain Pike, just like in the original series. But here’s the kicker—he’s carrying the weight of that falling out with Jim. It’s never really left him, but being Vulcan, he’s buried it deep (but we all know it’s still simmering beneath the surface).

AND THEN. REUNION ON THE ENTERPRISE.

Jim takes command, and who’s his first officer? SP-TO-THE-OCK. Talk about fireworks. Both of them are like, “Are you KIDDING me? This guy?” but they’re professionals (sort of), so they swallow it and try to work together. Except, of course, all their history comes back—old resentments, unresolved feelings, all the messy stuff. Jim’s trying to prove he’s grown up since the Academy, and Spock’s trying to prove he’s above it all, but neither of them can deny the tension is still very much there.

What makes this even juicier is the idea that Jim’s leadership style is still a little unconventional (because, duh, he’s Jim Kirk), and Spock? Not impressed. You’ve got this push-and-pull of authority vs. intuition, logic vs. gut instinct, and all the while, underneath all that bickering and tension? There’s still that friendship they once had, just waiting to resurface.

SLOW BURN REBUILDING: So now we get to slow burn territory. They have to learn to trust each other again, and it takes time. Maybe there’s an episode where Jim saves Spock’s life in some wild, reckless way, and Spock is like, “I cannot condone your methods, Captain,” but there’s this tiny, unspoken acknowledgment that Jim always comes through for him. Or maybe Spock steps in to make a call Jim can’t make, and it’s a reminder of why they made such a good team in the first place. They start slowly mending the cracks in their relationship, and through all these missions, they find their rhythm again.

And ohhh, the subtle, emotional tension as they rediscover each other? Jim making little jokes to test the waters, Spock raising an eyebrow but not quite able to hide that tiny smirk. The way they start to stand a little closer, or the moments where they almost touch but don’t. KILL ME. And because they know each other so well, they can read each other in ways no one else can. Like, Jim’s in a mood? Spock just knows. Spock’s struggling with something? Jim doesn’t even need to ask. It’s so loaded with meaning.

Reworking the Ages: I love the idea of making Jim and Spock the same age! It really levels the playing field between them, making their rivalry and friendship even more equal. And by making the rest of the crew a little older, you get this nice contrast. Like, Bones, Scotty, Uhura, and Sulu have more experience, they’ve been through their own battles, and maybe they’ve already established camaraderie. They’d be this tight-knit group who’ve seen some shit, and Jim is the newcomer they’ve heard all the rumors about but haven’t quite figured out yet.

There’s potential for so much fun with the older, wiser crew keeping an eye on Jim and Spock, like “Are these two ever going to get their act together, or are we just going to have to watch this tension play out forever?” Uhura could be the one who’s so done with the brooding stares and sighs, while Bones is straight-up like, “I’m a doctor, not a relationship counselor, but get your shit together.”

Dynamic Growth: By the time they’ve fully reworked their relationship, they’re this unstoppable force. Jim’s grown into his leadership role, having learned to balance his instinct with a bit more discipline (but still very much him), and Spock’s come to terms with his own emotions, recognizing that his bond with Jim doesn’t make him weak—it makes him stronger. Together, they’re the perfect mix of logic and instinct, heart and mind. GAHHHH.

Honestly, this whole setup gives you all the delicious drama of their history, the slow burn of rebuilding trust, and the incredible payoff when they finally realize they’re better together. And all the while, you still get that classic Starfleet action, the crew’s tight bond, and Jim and Spock slowly becoming the ultimate T’hy’la again.

SO YES. GIVE ME THIS REBOOT. GIVE ME ALL THE ANGST AND SLOW BURN AND FIREWORKS.

[ladydeath-vanserra]

how do people LIVE here. I miss rural Iowa where people actually said what they meant instead of living in the land of passive aggression. ironically it was easier to communicate with undiagnosed autism there than diagnosed autism in a city with supposedly more resources LMAOOOOOO

plus also I miss the corn fields man. i miss all the trees and the gravel and the small library where I had had finally been able to sleep after my mom died and they didnt make me leave. I miss the cows and the ducks and the farms.

I miss walking home down the block in the middle of the night talking to the pawn shop guy who was out smoking about life after a movie I went to without being afraid I was going to be killed. I miss the Hope Center.

I miss my friends who came to help me in the middle of the night bec I was having a meltdown. I miss feeling like I'm not dealing with so much classism or ableism. I miss not having to brace myself daily for change and chaos. I miss not being afraid and I miss not feeling so lonely or so sad

Why are cities so lonely?? my graduating class was 32 people and I still remember my classmates from Farragut and Shenandoah. Cities are so full of people, but it's hard finding community without bleeding from your pockets. Small towns have their own issues but the loneliness wasn't there. And when it was, there were the trees and the birds and the Trails

[spymeister]

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Cybertron is the only remaining planet of the Hadeen Solar System on the edges of the Theta Quadrant, about one hundred and fifty-seven trillion astronomical units from the UFP homeworld.

A Class L world, it is primarily unhospitable to organic forms of life, orbiting around Hadeen, a G-Class star at the edges of what the humans affectionately refer to as the Andromeda Galaxy [sic... see Galactus Wikimodium]. The planet's relative size is up for debate, as what had been a once rocky core had been hollowed out by ancient mining forces eons ago.

What is theorized is that in the distant past, a refining and factorial drone had been dispatched to the system to mine whatever raw materials were needed to complete the manufacturing process. It is unknown if the Preservers had a metaphorical hand in sparking sentience, though it seems to have sprung up almost overnight.

Scientist T'vork of the Shi'khar branch of the Science Academy on Vulcan is continuing her ongoing research and has this to say:

'It seems there are thirteen distinct layers upon the planet, each corresponding to a different point in history, or 'age'. It is not known how these 'ages' correspond to each other, as the history of the species is nonlinear and somewhat illogical.'

Observation and data gathering are still ongoing.

---------Lt. Marissa Fairborne, N.C.C-1647(USS Farragut- Science Officer) Stardate: 2955.6

[indeedcaptain]

Spirktober 2023, day 1: Uniform

I will catch up after missing the first two days if it kills me. I told myself that I would write my own personal novel but I am fixated on these guys right now. Behold! More fan fiction!

Also posted on AO3 here.

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Kirk had been in San Francisco for six months. His time on the U.S.S. Farragut had ended, and his new ship had more time in spacedock before they would set out on their five-year mission, to explore new space and push the boundaries of Federation knowledge. And he would be there, leading the charge, as the youngest captain in Starfleet history. His father had been so proud, and his mother so worried. Sam had been… well. He had been himself, which was all he would ever be.

Kirk was worried too, if he were being honest with himself, but he was trying to remind himself of the similarities between his old and new postings instead of focusing on the differences. The U.S.S. Enterprise was the same class of ship as the Farragut. The officers’ mess would have the same ten replicators. His quarters would be different, larger, and in a different location, but the mattress and sheets and smell would be the same. The uniforms would be the same. Almost everything would be the same, except for the people and his role among them. He even had gotten to know the ship and some of the crew ahead of time, thanks to his sojourns with Captain Pike through his various misadventures. He reasoned that he could take on his new level of responsibility without too much fuss.

Four days before the U.S.S. Enterprise was scheduled to take off on her journey, his new crewmates began to arrive in San Francisco and either come say hi or introduce themselves to him. Newly promoted Lieutenant Uhura threw herself into his arms with congratulations when she returned from visiting her grandparents in Kenya. Bones arrived from Georgia a few hours afterwards, bearing moonshine and tales of Joanna’s exploits. Slowly they trickled into the city and HQ grounds, with new faces mingling with the old. Uhura positioned herself at Kirk’s side and introduced the ones she knew to him, whispering details that might be helpful to him into his ear as they departed. She knew who was secretly dating, who couldn’t work alongside each other, and who was most likely to break anything fragile. With every detail she was able to slide him, he felt a little less overwhelmed by the prospect of guiding three hundred people successfully through the black and a little more excited to get started. 

Three days before departure, a package landed on the doormat of the apartment Starfleet had furnished him with. He picked it up as he arrived back from a dinner out with Uhura and several of her Xenolinguistics friends, hefting it up into his arms as he wrangled a padd out to tap against the lock. 

Inside, he dropped it on the kitchen table, located a pair of scissors, and sliced into it. It was printed with official Starfleet logos, so it must have been something related to the mission. Inside were four sets of a new uniform, with a note on top. 

Captain Kirk, 

Congratulations on your promotion and taking command of the U.S.S. Enterprise. As your unique mission will take you beyond where finding adequate replacement uniforms will be convenient or possible, the Fabrications team has taken this opportunity to outfit the Enterprise crew with new, more durable, and more functional uniforms. 

Please let us know if you discover any issues with their construction at your earliest convenience. 

Best wishes on your journey. 

Starfleet Fabrications and Material Construction

Kirk pulled the top uniform out. The material was certainly thicker than he was used to, but it stretched in the same way, and the gold of command was a warm, cheery hue. He pulled out the matching pants and, grinning, made his way to his room to see how captaincy fit him. 

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It’s not that there was anything wrong with the uniforms, per se. They were comfortable, durable, and flexible. The colors were right. They fit him well. He could feel the clever measurements within them as he bent his knees and elbows experimentally, moving through his range of motion and found no areas of discomfort. 

It was just, he thought as he frowned at himself in the mirror, that they weren’t particularly flattering. He had thought, despite his best efforts to quash any public displays of vanity, that the old uniforms had helped him cut quite the striking figure. But the new uniforms had softer, less visible seams, and fewer panels. The outcome was that they were undoubtedly more useful for extended action, more difficult to rip, and likely easier to repair. 

But they also made him feel like a child again, round like only a farm boy could be, weaning play clothes that he could get dirty without upsetting his parents. 

It’s fine, he told himself. It’s not like there was a common Earth saying about “the clothes make the man.” He was not a self-conscious teenager and it didn’t matter if his clothing made him feel like a child again. They were useful for his mission. 

But that didn’t mean that he had to like them.  

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The uniform had not grown on him, but he was wearing it as Montgomery Scott, new chief engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, beamed him aboard for final review. The enthusiastic Scotsman pumped his hand and led him down into engineering. Kirk found himself buoyed from department to department by the momentum of his crew, everyone wanting a moment of his time to tell him about their experiments, or ideas, or questions for their trek. Their excitement was infectious, and (despite all of them looking like babies to him in their soft uniforms) Kirk was thrilled to see each and every one of them. 

Finally he ended up on the bridge, surrounded by his hand-picked command crew: Lieutenant Uhura on communications, the Russian baby genius Chekov for navigation, the ace pilot Sulu, Bones, who was supposed to be in Medbay but was following Kirk around with a hypo just for the hell of it, and ---

“Where is Mr. Spock, Uhura?” Kirk finally asked, when there was a moment of silence. 

Uhura looked down at her padd. “He should be here any moment, he was on his way back from---” 

The turbolift door slid open, and Spock stepped out. Kirk hadn’t seen him in over a year: not since his last time on the Enterprise when she was still Pike’s ship, when Spock had saved his ass in a firefight and Kirk had promised Pike afterwards that he would convince Spock to be his first officer if it was the last thing he did. He looked just as Kirk remembered him. Spock was tall and dark and broad, steady and familiar and comforting. There was a happy jolt in Kirk’s stomach as Spock turned to him. 

“My apologies, captain,” Spock said. His dark eyes were warm as he looked over Kirk. “I just returned from a visit on Vulcan. My mother was less than enthusiastic about my departure.” 

“It’s good to see you, Spock,” Kirk said. He could feel his affection radiating out of his face, but he was powerless to stop it. Spock inclined his head, and walked from the turbolift to the science station, which whirred to life at his approach. He placed his hand over the power panel almost fondly, with his back to the rest of the bridge crew. 

Kirk felt his mouth dry out. Had Spock’s legs always been so long? Had his ass looked like that before, or had he gotten stronger in the intervening year? Had his shoulders always tapered to his waist at that angle; had his fingers always been so agile; had the blue of the science shirt always set off the soft green undertone of his eyelids like that? He realized that he was staring and pulled his eyes away, and if Uhura smirked at him then he would pretend he didn’t know what she had seen. 

As he settled into the captain’s chair, his captain’s chair for the first time, Kirk thought that he might be convinced of the merits of the new uniforms. 

[crimsonvulgarian]

He had developed a deep appreciation for the Constitution class years ago when he had cut his teeth aboard the Farragut, and many of his formative experiences as a junior officer had been aboard other ships of the class. He had always seen great beauty in their clean, elegant proportions. Where others saw nothing but functional straight lines and circles, Kirk saw Pegasus in flight—the skin gleaming white, the dorsal connector evoking the neck of a horse with head held high, the nacelle struts angled like wings poised for a forceful downstroke.

But there was something special about the Enterprise, something that made her even more beautiful to behold, more compelling to contemplate.

—Captain's Oath, Christopher L. Bennett

or, kirk has it down bad for the enterprise

[t00thpasteface]

Marcien for the couple questions!

15. What habits or characteristics have they picked up from each other?

23. What was their first impression of each other?

24. How did they fall for eachother?

27. What interests do they share? For interests they don't share, do they ever participate anyway?

Keep slaying :)

Answered #15 here!

23. What was their first impression of each other?

"YOU'RE who Suzy's been hanging out with?!?!?!"

24. How did they fall for each other?

The idea I always come back to is that it starts as like a guilty pleasure, stress-relief, associates-with-benefits type thing until they unwittingly/unwillingly catch feelings.

27. What interests do they share? For interests they don't share, do they ever participate anyway?

They both have a strong interest in simple, wholesome, "low class" foods, Martin because he grew up in a peasant family, and Lucien because he doesn't exactly have the means to cook anything fancy in Farragut or the Sanctuary. They're also both bookworms and enjoy Romantic-with-a-capital-R literaure.

Lucien loves to orbit Martin whenever he's doing something Lucien's not interested in. Lucien mostly just likes to be in the same room as Martin whether or not they're both focused on the same activity, but it comes off as slightly creepy to everyone else because of Lucien's generally off-putting presence.

[im-all-out-of-ideas]

star trek: strange new worlds s2 ep1

so i had a blast. yes, there were problems, but they were overwhelmingly overshadowed by the positives experience. this was the does of 23rd century trek i needed after the year wait, and i gotta cherish it while it lasts because there will be a WAY LONGER WAIT for s3 with the writers strike.

my favorite part of the episode were absolutely the klingons. the 90s look is back and better than ever with influences from discovery and a shocking amount of variety compared to actual 90s klingons considering how prominent they used to be. the makeup and costuming were even better than the trailer led me to believe we'd get.

the plot was basically what you might expect for a 90s season premiere: very broad implications for the galactic stage with not nearly enough elaboration. so it's exactly the same mental experience as a TNG klingon politics episode but not a two-parter. the real draw is in the crew and how they interact with the given plot.

the best part of the episode was spock. he's as emotional as he should be for a vulcan that is younger and inexperienced and who has removed some of the inhibitions and is recovering from that. the spock and chapel story gives that much more weight to their later years under kirk's command. and his following of the logic to order the destruction of the false flag and his immediate regret and grief over the apparent ordering of chapel and m'benga's deaths is the peak highlight of the episode. hats off to peck.

smaller positives are Pelia, and Carol Kane is as hilarious as her fans have declared. the Lanthanite idea seems to be their attempt at a Guinan, right down to the timing of her appearance in the series, but Pelia is instilled with so much personality that i just want to see more of this kooky immortal.

also loved that "crossfield" ship. it's CLEARLY a mid-23rd century luna-class made from mishmash parts, but i digress. its good to see more tos ship configurations and not constitution-class ships at different scales. more farraguts, less sombras.

m'benga finally has a dramatic character plot outside of his daughter, and a doctor suffering from having taken part in an interstellar war is a perfectly logical place to take him. same with chapel but to a lesser extent. i do think this will be retreaded territory by the time bashir comes back but it's all the better as a tos era story.

ortegas is fun as always, can't wait for her episode to finally come. uhura is growing into her role as comms officer. la'an drinks with the best of them and seems a little less guarded than before. i hate to see how she eventually departs from the enterprise by the time kirk takes command.

now pike and una have to hear about what the kids did with the station wagon when they were left unsupervised for literally 3 days lmaooo