#mirror amanda grayson

[cdr2002]

Mirror Universe Concepts: The Family of Spock

Sarek

A longtime rebel against the Terran Empire, Sarek was believed to have been killed when the ISS Charon bombed Harlak during the waning days of the reign of Emperor Gorgeau. That illusion provided a convenient cover to go underground and disappear from both public view and Terran Intelligence. Beginning to operate with cloak and dagger tactics against the Empire, as well as using his influence on Vulcan to help ferry or hide his fellow rebels, Sarek was instrumental in keeping the fight against the Empire’s tyranny alive into the 2260s.

Initially, Sarek was unaware that his estranged son Spock had deduced his survival years ago, but simply let the matter lie. Disapproving of Spock’s decision to join the Imperial Starfleet, a decision that Spock at the time rationalized as owing to the fact that no rebellion against the Terran Empire in galactic history had ever succeeded, Sarek did not speak to his son for years. He was needless to say, very surprised to find out that Spock had begun his own revolution and coerced a bulk of the crew of the Imperial flagship into joining it. Initially skeptical, Sarek tested Spock’s convictions via a mind meld, learning that he to had been exposed to knowledge of the alternate universe from which the benevolent variant of Michael Burnham he had previously encountered hailed.

Sarek would come to join his and Voq’s rebellion with his son’s and aid Spock in expanding his network across present and former Terran Empire territories, liberating many and repairing his relationship with his son in the process.

Amanda Grayson

Wife to rebel leader Sarek and mother to Spock, Amanda was formerly an ambassador of the Imperial Senate, tasked with conveying their will to subjugated worlds. It was on a mission to bring news of increased water reserves as a reward for loyalty to the people of Vulcan that she met and fell in love with Sarek, who elucidated to her many of the flaws of the Terran Empire. Already aware of the Empire’s penchant for cruelty, something she had made efforts to minimize when possible throughout her career, Amanda would join his rebel cause, learning many of the secrets that kept Vulcan rebellion quiet throughout the last two centuries and covertly aiding many liberation groups due to her political standing.

Ultimately, she would leave Terra when the rebel base at Harlak was discovered, leading to the seeming death of her husband. Further radicalized by this, she began to openly fight through Empire, and would be continuously hunted as a remnant of Sarek and Voq’s rebel cell. Just as Imperial Starfleet was able to catch up with her, Amanda had her death faked in a seeming transporter accident. In secret, she reunited with her husband and his continued rebellion, albeit now having taken an even shadowier form. Amanda joined Sarek in going underground, vowing to never be separated from him again, and aided in his cloak and dagger rebellion. In particular, Amanda took to the concept of fighting the Terran Empire through knowledge and literature, leaking banned works to databases on various Terran worlds, especially those of schools, and becoming a teacher to the children of rebel forces.

Eventually, the revolution would grow in strength when Amanda found herself reuniting with her son Spock, who much to her joy, had begun fighting the Terran Empire himself. Though she still thought poorly of his prior service to the Imperial Starfleet, and knew his relationship with his Fabre recoils take time to heal, this reunion of her family served as a great inspiration for Amanda. Their fight has a chance.

Sybok

A controversial figure in Vulcan society, Sybok was the son of Sarek and T’Rea, a Vulcan “Princess” who was a figurehead of the Terran Empire before Sarek convinced her to join his nascent rebellion, resulting in her ultimate death at the hands of Terran forces.

Sybok abandoned the teachings of Surak, believing that logic had tempered the Vulcan people and made them into complacent slaves of the Empire. As such, he began a rebel movement based out of the backwater planet Nimbus III, using his unique variant of Vulcan psychic ability to instill the sense of pain caused by their actions onto killers from across the Galaxy: Terran Starfleet officers, murderous criminals, and even a few Klingons and Romulans. With his “Galactic Army of Light”, Sybok believed that the Galaxy could only be cleansed of violence and evil if the perpetrators of said violence were made to understand and feel the pain they had caused and either made reparations or forfeited their lives.

By the time Spock began his own revolution, Sybok was a formidable enemy of the Empire and one of the most influential rebels among the disparate cells. Well aware of his brother’s work, Spock would contact him and bring him into the fold when he decided that the various rebel cells needed to unite in order to stand against the Terran Empire. Though estranged from his family, Sybok readily accepted. With Spock’s help, he aims to bring about galactic peace, a concept many would dismiss as a myth, but one which Sybok fully believes in.

Commander Angel

A free-spirited human pirate captain with a disdain for the stifling attitudes of Terran society: the rigid adherence to a flawed doctrine of Terran superiority and draconian loyalty to the state, and what they felt were shackling ideas of how that loyalty should be exhibited. To that end, Angel struck out on their own, acquiring a vessel, the Serene Squall, and remaking themself as an infamous pirate captain known for taking from the Terrans, the Orions, the Klingons, the Ferengi, and anyone else who they saw as imposing their will upon others, and redistributing their gains to the planets left behind by the current galactic powers. Incredibly cunning and skillful, with the Squall being a fast, if underpowered ship, Angel was able to outrun and outhink any forces who attempted to pursue them.

Being branded a criminal by any of the Empires they spit in the face of only emboldened them more, as did being marked for death by criminal networks, which Angel considered just as fascistic as most governments, in their own way. Angel greatly believes in personal freedom and aims to dismantle the systems that oppress billions across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, though their crew is mostly content with basic hit-and-runs and the occasional Robin Hood-ing, and Angel has had the means to do little else for the bulk of their career, due to their relatively small pool of resources compared to the forces they challenged. Things began to change when Angel came into contact with Vulcan outcast and revolutionary, Sybok. Over time, the two fell in love, and Angel joined Sybok’s revolutionary movement, gleefully bringing justice to butchers across the galaxy, but also studying psychology in order to help those who Sybok’s telepathic powers had caused to become remorseful over the lives they had taken. Angel finds the revolution now undertaken by Sybok’s half-brother Spock to be interesting. They believe that if Imperial Starfleet officers can change without Sybok’s assistance, it is proof that despite the propaganda of empires, no one is just one thing, including even the Terran people. In a way, Spock has begun to restore Angel’s strained faith in humanity. Perhaps her people can be more than what they are…

T’Pring

Betrothed to Spock in accordance with an ancient Vulcan ritual, T’Pring carried a great love for him that was greatly strained by his time serving in the Imperial Starfleet. An advocate for criminal reform, T’Pring had no great love for the Empire’s doctrine and felt betrayed by Spock’s servitude to its ideals. T’Pring would come to aid Vulcan rebels in secret, fearing that Spock would eventually become an enemy who she might even need to kill.

When he came to her with ideas of revolution, she was surprised, and partially relieved, though she wished Spock had come to these conclusions sooner. The damage to their love was done, but the two carried a great respect for each other nonetheless, and vowed to work in random for the freedom of a Galaxy.

Michael Burnham

Notes: Burnham and Spock are not related in the mirror universe, but I wanted to include her in this post regardless.

In agreement with the admins of Memory Alpha, I am regarding the “Terra Firma” mirror universe as an alternate timeline

Branded a traitor to the Empire for her collaboration with the upstart Gabriel Lorca to seize the Imperial throne and marked for death by Emperor Georgiou, Burnham was presumed to have been killed and dealt with by the time her prime universe counterpart was forced to impersonate her during an unplanned sojourn to the mirror universe. However, this could not be further from the truth.

Suspecting the fragility of Lorca’s plan as soon as it resulted in the official announcement of her death to justify a hunt for the man, when she could have served more usefully as an agent within Emperor Georgiou’s inner circle, Burnham parted company with Lorca at some point prior to his transposition to the prime universe, under the guise of seeking more allies for their plan. While Lorca sought revolt using those within the Imperial Starfleet who could be turned, he and Burnham had considered manipulating the enemies of the Empire. She made an attempt to rally together the Klingons and Romulans against the Terran Empire, believing treaties could be secured once she was in power, but this ultimately failed due to existing bad blood between the two races.

With the impatient Lorca dead and Burnham herself once again presumed to be such due to the destruction of the ISS Charon, she found herself a walking ghost. Though adopted by Georgiou as a daughter, Burnham’s status as a traitor left her unable to leave hiding and claim the rite of being her heir, nor was the bloodbath of the fight for Imperial control after Georgiou’s seeming death worth the risk to her.

Burnham decided to bide her time, but found she had waited too long when Imperial war hero Garth of Izar crowned himself Emperor. With the power of the throne granting Izarius access to the knowledge of her plot with Lorca, Burnham has been left with no leg to stand on in terms of challenging him, as she could not invoke her rights as the previous Emperor’s daughter.

Her Terran pride also prohibited her from bowing to the new Emperor’s rule and hoping to gain acceptance back into the Empire. Even if she allowed herself that option, there was no guarantee she would not be executed regardless, or thrown into an Agony Booth to “remind her of her oath to the Empire”. Nor did she like the idea of doing whatever Izarius might ask of her to earn her trust. She had nearly ruled the Empire alongside Lorca, and could have claimed the throne for herself if she could catch him unawares. She considered concocting a story of a secret mission from Emperor Georgiou to infiltrate Lorca’s rebellion, but who would believe that? No, there would be no return to the Terran Empire without the seizure of the Imperial throne itself. A takeover that was swift, bloody, and left her unchallenged. But to achieve that, Burnham would need allies.

Most of her co-conspirators in Lorca’s plot had died aboard the Charon, shrinking the circle even further. Perhaps she could throw her weight around onboard the ISS Shenzhou, take back her command of the ship and be its secret captain, with the Shenzhou’s current commanding officer as a face to put in front of Imperial Command as she waged a secret war against the Emperor. But that would be a risky endeavor, and just one ship would not land her an Empire. Garth had loyalty, respect. The fleet at his beckon call. Burnham had supporters, people who owed her favors, but even that wouldn’t be enough. As treasonous as the thought was to her, Burnham even considered joining a resistance cell rather than trying to position herself as the leader of one, and manipulating their goals for her own purposes from within. But she decided against that too.

Unaware of Spock’s revolution and how far it would soon grow, Burnham believed no rebellion against the Empire would ever succeed. Instead, she contacted her remaining allies in the Imperial Starfleet and enlisted their aid in helping her remain hidden, as well as promising them glory and power once she rose to the throne. Burnham tasked her supporters with keeping their eyes and ears open, looking for anything that might weaken Izarius’s powerbase and provide her an opening. For now, she would rely on an information network, wielding knowledge as power on her way to the throne.

One potential avenue that Burnham had been considering was a little secret that Georgiou had let her in on, a technology known only to the Emperor and the Admiralty. The late Doctor Stamets’ invention: The Spore Drive. The basic technology had powered the massive ISS Charon, though its initial development had been to increase the speed of Imperial vessels, rather than their firepower. One Spore Drive had been successfully installed aboard the ISS Discovery as a testbed, a carefully guarded secret. With the Discovery gone, and the ISS Glenn scuttled after a mysterious accident, Burnham would need another meand to gain access to the technology, and a ship to install it in. Should she lay claim to an operational Spore Drive, Burnham believed she would be able to destroy any ship that stood in her way, and carve her path to the throne of the Empire. As for the ship, the new Discovery-A, commissioned to honor the death of Captain Killy, would serve her purposes nicely.

Bolstering her plans would be another cunning mind and an unexpected ally: exiled Imperial captain James T. Kirk, ousted by his first officer, Spock, who had claimed him to be a madman to Imperial Command. Hunted and with a limited selection of allies himself, Kirk tuned in to rumors that Burnham lived and sought her out. She to had become curious about him, finding his story of being betrayed by the very Empire he had served so loyally to be all too familiar. With their combined tenacity and Kirk’s knowledge of another Imperial superweapon that not even Burnham had been privy to, their deadly alliance poses a serious threat to both the Empire and the revolution.

Saavik

The child of a union between a Vulcan and a Romulan who fell in love while infiltrating Imperial space, Saavik’s life was almost immediately at risk. The Terran Empire had reacted aggressively to discovering the shared heritage between the Vulcans and Romulans, hunting for any potential Romulan presence among their citizenry. Busting down doors, dragging out families to be examined. It was an invasive persecution that for many elder Vulcans, brought back memories of when the Terrans had conquered them in the late 21st century.

With the fear of being found out before them, Saavik’s parents chose her life over theirs. Her father took his own life and her mother was forced to present his body to Imperial Police in order to masquerade as a loyal citizen of the Empire who had killed a Romulan infiltrator for them. The ploy worked and the Terrans never took a second glance at her daughter.

Though taught in the Vulcan way to control her emotions, Saavik would grow up in constant fear, fear that no amount of logic could dissuade. At every moment she risked being discovered, and then her life would be over.

Saavik would develop a tendency to avoid Terrans, fearful that any one of them could report her. As if they would somehow discover that she was half Romulan just from looking at her. She was more comfortable in Vulcan company, but still felt like something of an outsider due to her inability to fully commit to Vulcan serenity.

This changed when Saavik met an Imperial Starfleet officer, Spock, who had returned home to visit his fiancé at the time. Being half-Terran, Spock could recognize many of Saavik’s struggles and offered to aid her in dealing with them. Saavik accepted and became Spock’s pupil, eventually trusting him enough to share her heritage with her.

Spock’s solution to her situation was far from what Saavik expected, and an idea to which T’Pring strongly opposed. Spock recommended to Saavik that she enlist in the Imperial Starfleet, as he had when his parents became known rebels against the Empire. He suggested that the way to survive the Terrans’ xenophobia was to embed herself in their system and make herself useful to them. To present a loyalty to the Empire that outshined any personal details.

The prospect was needless to say, nerve-wracking to Saavik. But she trusted Spock, and accepted his sponsorship to the Imperial Academy.

The setting did little to help her anxiety, but Saavik did her best to bury that under as much emotional control as she could muster. Academically brilliant and a fast learner of various combat techniques, technical operations, and regulations; Saavik excelled in the Academy. She had to, in order to survive. If she was an excellent enough Imperial officer, she would not be questioned.

Saavik’s class happened to include another Vulcan, a woman of about her age named Valeris, who had enlisted for similar reasons of assimilating as a method of survival. She even made displays of emotion here and there and acted on impulse from time to time, in order to make her Terran peers more comfortable. It was fascinating to Saavik.

Saavik quickly gravitated towards Valeris and despite some awkward early encounters, managed to befriend her. Both were in need of a fellow Vulcan to make their environment more bearable, and began to confide in one another at the end of each day. Over time, it was impossible for Saavik to deny that she had fallen in love with her, and Valeris felt much the same. Saavik introduced Valeris to Spock, and it was difficult to mask her delight when he approved.

Eventually graduating from the Imperial Academy, Saavik quickly began a command path with her field commission, hoping to rise in the ranks as a further means of protecting herself. Spock warned her that a starship captain was a major target just as much as they held power, but Saavik had gained some confidence from her training, and believed she could deal with any potential assassins. Valeris for her part offered to protect her by any means necessary.

Saavik would not see Spock for a few years, as his duties aboard the ISS Enterprise increasingly demanded his attention. When they finally reunited, it was after Spock had seemingly flown in the face of his own advice and become captain of the Enterprise.

While Saavik was initially joyful upon meeting with Spock, in her own understated way of course, she was surprised by the seeming change in attitude.

She would go on to discover that there had been a profound change in Spock. As soon as they were in private and away from any potential ears, he revealed to her his realizations about the illogic and irrationality of the Terran Empire, and the need for massive radical change in order to save Terran society from itself, and those who had been subjugated by the Empire in the process. All this from the same man who had told Saavik to fight for the Empire to survive. Saavik was confused and all but shocked, but she trusted Spock deeply, and allowed her mentor to explain himself.

To fully detail his plan, Spock offered a mind meld with Saavik. She accepted, and was shown images of the mind of one Leonard McCoy. But not the doctor aboard the ISS Enterprise… a different Leonard McCoy.

Through his eyes, Saavik bore witness to another reality. The utopia, the paradise.

The Federation.

When the mind meld terminated, Saavik understood her mentor’s goals. She was uncertain if it could truly be done, but she was willing to try. Later that night, she initiated a mind meld of her own work Valeris, and before long, her lover was on the side of the revolution as well.

Saavik is now one of Spock’s agents behind Imperial lines, supporting the revolution from within Starfleet, and waiting for the day to enter the battlefield for freedom directly. It is Spock’s wish that she and Valeris be among the first of a new generation, that will look out into the stars not to conquer, but to explore. Saavik meanwhile, dreams of living in fear no more, and of a future where a kid like her will not have to be afraid either.

[ruyeung]

[autisticburnham]

Michael with all three of her mothers

[djrenard]

My Pull List (09/25/24):

Titans #15

Absolute Power: Task Force VII #7

The Flash #13

[belannaswlonkderfulworm]

the reason everybody in star trek has dead mums is because michael took them a l l. all of them. they all belong to michael now. i'm sorry.

[ispaceyou]

✨4 NEW CHAPTERS LIVE NOW✨

Yes, this is real. After not posting for a year I have posted 3 new chapters to Carbon Spots in the last month. Chapters 22-25 are now available to read on FF.net and Ao3. Leave a review. I’m happy to be back. Trying to hustle to finally finish this story :)

Ao3

FF.net

If you are new to this Sarek/Amanda story here is the summary:

S'chn T'gai Skon, Governor of Vulcan, was assassinated by the Emperor at a Terran Empire Delegation. Now, tensions between Vulcan and Terra are on the rise and threatening the iron hold of the Terran Empire. By decree of the Emperor, Sarek is made Governor of Vulcan. As a peace offering between the two worlds the Emperor sends him a gift, a human wife.

[chillychive]

I forgot to start writing this againnnnn

Episode 15

poor poor tilly.

Yea, she really doesn't know how to not look like an emperor. like, hunch just a little? please? how straight her back is is actually hurting my back.

dayum tilly.

aww yes tilly.

oh gosh, Poor Michael... her parent's death is not her fault ofc but that'd be so easy to blame herself.

ah my god- not them trying to commit genocide

the little bzzt accompanying Airiam standing up made me so happy.

is it weird that I have always preferred when the main couple hugs first in an important scene/reunion? It seems so much more intimate- like "I haven't seen you in so long the only thing I can do right now is hold you." and that's so much more beautiful than a kiss.

AHH AMANDA

his daughter. Sarek called her his daughter!! ahhhhh

ah paul poor paul.

AHHHH HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[eastsideofthemoon]

I voted Discovery because not only does it center around a woman, but it means more to me to see multiple women with different backgrounds in leadership roles who have to make important calls. I also really enjoy the exploration of different dynamics with women - mother/daughter, friends, enemies, leader/subordinate, ect.

And there's more than one Black woman on the bridge 🙌🏿.

The Picard seasons are separated because they seem very separate to me by this measurement. Please share the reasons for your vote if you’d like to do so!

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

Sarek's whole deal never stops being so damn funny. Man's so down bad for a human woman that he defies all of Vulcan culture and marries her. And not in a T'Pol way where they spent most of it in the company of humans. He brought Amanda to Vulcan and, in personal matters, chose to go against everything he was taught to embrace something as irrational as love (though by god that man will do his damnedest to convince you it was logical).

Then to top it all off, that man did not extend that same ideology to his work (No patience nor open-mindedness for very different cultures, rigid adherence to Vulcan practices of diplomacy). And he applies it very haphazardly to his own children. Sometimes, they are a testament to the love he feels for his wife. The humanity he admires. Other times, they are a failure of his own culture. A disgrace and disappointment to Vulcan.

They are the mirrors of his greatest love and his own shame. He loves Amanda and he feels no shame in adoring her, but he feels quiet shame in loving her as un-Vulcan as it is. He is the shame, but the love of her? Never could be.

The helpless romantic he is, he could never resist. He'd never admit it, but he couldn't. So he'd keep any and all shame for himself. None for her.

What a messy beautiful little dork who fucking loves his wife and is so emotionally constipated otherwise.

Amanda Grayson is the one thing in the universe he loves too hard to act that way.

What a goofy lil guy

[startrekfemslashweek]

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Star Trek Femslash Week! We ended up with 69 amazing entries!

Study Session by Red_Passion | Poetry | Janeway x OFC

Encounter at the Bar by Red_Passion | Poetry | Burnham x OFC

The Journey Within by Hollie47 | Fic | UnaMarie

Poetry for her by skylarkblue | Fic | B7

Vuv be''e' baj (win the favor of a woman) by sapphirame | Fic | Jadzia x B'Elanna

Women Who Know How to Duck by romanathethird | Fic | Kira x Grilka

And they were roommates… by sappho_themself | Fic | Bevtroi

How Long Has This Been Going On? by Divinemissem13 | Fic | Janeway x Crusher

A Former Borg And A Half-Klingon Walk Into A Bar by cactusnymph | Fic | B7

Once Upon a Klingon (Lesbian) Bar by Shane_for_Wax | Fic | Seven x Raffi x B'Elanna

Rooming Together by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Jadzia x Lenara

Blood Wine And Bruising Kisses by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | K'Ehleyr x Deanna

When on Risa by Red_Passion | Poetry | Kira x Kimara Cretak

PHEROMANIA by skylarkblue | Fic | Cha'an

Emerald Lips by Hollie47 | Fic | Sylvia Tilly x Osyraa

The Greatest Pleasure in the Most Beautiful Setting by romanathethird | Fic | J7

No Secrets on Risa by Divinemissem13 | Fic | Saffi

Risa Sunsets by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | UnaMarie

Truths Told by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Laris x Oh

Blood Fever Part 2 by Shane_for_Wax | Fic | B7

Inhibitions by Hollie47 | Fic | Cha'an

When On Risa by sappho_themself | Fic | Deanna x OFC

To Speak Figuratively by CandyCurlsofMaddness | Fic| Hoshi x T'Pol

Crash Confessions by Red_Passion | Poetry | Janeway x OFC

Ocean Confessions by Hollie47 | Fic | Cha'an

Telepathic Tenderness by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Laris x Deanna

Crash Into You by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Katrina Cornwell/Mirror Philippa Georgiou

Swimming Lessons by romanathethird | Fic | Troisha

The world will never (be the same) by sapphirame | Fic | Kira x Seven

Patchwork by Divinemissem13 | Fic | Janeway x Crusher

You be the Lady, I'll be the Unicorn by CandyCurlsofMaddness | Fic | Amanda Grayson x Pelia

Sensory Memory by lead-acetate | Fic | Michael x Uhura

Let the Players Play by romanathethird | Fic | Guinan x Leeta

Ocean's Two by Divinemissem13 | Fic | Beverly Crusher x Una Chin-Riley

Daytime Robberies by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Minuet x Deanna Troi

Taking A Break Together by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Beverly Crusher x Ro Laren

You gotta make history (one day at a time) by sapphirame | Fic | Kira Nerys x Seven

Beneath Twin Suns by Red_Passion | Fic | Christine Chapel x Una Chin-Riley

Prisoner Zero by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Katrina Cornwell x L'Rell

Back To You by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Katrina Cornwell x Una Chin-Riley

All Distances of Time by romanathethird | Fic | Cassie (Kasidy Yates) x Uhura

What am I supposed to do with you in the room? by lead-acetate | Fic | Michael x Uhura

Thelma and louise (ain't got nothin' on me) by sapphirame | Fic | Kira Nerys x Seven

Taking A Beating by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Ro Laren x Tasha Yar

Slowly She Softens by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | B7

Meant to be Dead by Hollie47 | Fic | Tilly x Osyraa

What’s a Girl Like You Doing in a Holoprogram Like This? by romanathethird | Fic | Hologram Janeway x Francis Sullivan

Day 6: Whump by 40cleverways | Art | Troisha

Multiverse Diplomacy by Divinemissem13 | Fic | Katrina Cornwell x Mirror Philippa Georgiou

Love In a Turbolift? Not Really by Shane_for_Wax | Fic | B7

A Trapped Kind Of Love by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | J7

Formalities by baubeautyandthegeek | GIF & Fic | Lenara Kahn x Jadzia Dax

Feels so right by plain_and_simple_tailor | Fic | Kiradax

[knightotoc]

Season 1: 23rd century, mutiny, Federation-Klingon War, T'Kuvma, Ash/Voq, L'Rell, Captain Lorca, giant tardigrade, Sarek, logic extremists, Vulcan Expeditionary Group applications, Admiral Cornwell, time loop Harry Mudd, Pahvo, Mirror Universe, Captain Killy, Culber dies, Emperor Georgiou

Themes: betrayal, trust, good vs evil

Season 2: Captain Pike, Red Angel, seven signals, Spock's nightmares, Jett Reno, Terralysium, Amanda Grayson, L'Rell and Ashvoq's baby, Section 31, Leland, the ghost of May, the Sphere's data, Culber gets better, Kamina, Talos IV, Control, Airiam dies, Klingon monastery, time crystals, Queen Po, jump to the future

Themes: motherhood, secrets, corruption

Season 3: 32nd century, the Burn, Book, trance worm, Aditya Sahil, Zareh, Captain Saru, Tal, Adira, Gray, Trill, Admiral Vance, seed archive, Nhan, Ni'Var, Qowat Milat, T'Rina, Kwejian, the Emerald Chain, Osyraa, Carl, goodbye Georgiou!, Su'Kal and the holograms, Burnham demoted then promoted, dilithium deliveries

Themes: grief, scarcity, transphobia?

Season 4: Captain Burnham, President Rillak, the DMA (cough covid cough), Kwejian destroyed, Gray resurrected, J'Vini, cadets stranded on the moon, Ruon Tarka and Oros's parallel universe, Felix and the orb, Gray and Zora play a Trill board game, Species 10-C, Book's betrayal, hydrocarbon emotion math language

Themes: misunderstanding, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" references

Season 5: Progenitors, Moll and L'ak, solving riddles to make a map, Q'Mau, Fred, Rayner, Lyrek, Adira and Gray break up, Jinaal possesses Culber, time bug, the Breen, atheism on Halem'no, racer Tilly, Ravah, Ruhn, Eternal Gallery and Archive, Hy'Rell, Tahal, wedding and finale

Themes: romances, religion, power

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Official DISCO Bracket!

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/21 at 10 am EST!

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

Emperor (Mirror!) Philippa Georgiou vs. Dr. Hirai: poll here

Lt. Commander Ronald A Bryce vs. Kyheem: poll here

Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po vs. Carl (The Guardian of Forever): poll here

Mirror! Sarek vs. Gabrielle Burnham: poll here

Ruon Tarka vs. Ripper The Tardigrade: poll here

Ambassador Sarek vs. Commander Ellen Landry: poll here

Ryn vs. Tareckx: poll here

Lieutenant Spock vs. Lieutenant Nilsson: poll here

Haz Mazaro vs. Commander Nahn: poll here

Voq vs. Captain Gabriel Lorca: poll here

Lt. Commander Joann Owosekun vs. T’Kuvma: poll here

Adira Tal vs. Captain Philippa Georgiou: poll here

Ensign Sylvia Tilly vs. Dr. Kovich: poll here

Admiral Katrina Cornwell vs. J’Vini: poll here

Captain Saru vs. Admiral Charles Vance: poll here

President Laira Rillak vs. Siranna: poll here

Right Side:

General Ndoye vs. Captain Michael Burnham: poll here

Mirror! Owosekun vs. Lt. Commander Airiam: poll here

Captain Leland vs. Commander Ash Tyler: poll here

Dr. Pollard vs. Cleveland “Book” Booker: poll here

President T’Rina vs. Lieutenant Linus: poll here

Zora vs. Oros: poll here

Leto vs. Commander Jett Reno: poll here

Amanda Grayson vs. Grudge: poll here

Lieutenant Aditya Sahil vs. Gray Tal: poll here

Lt. Commander Keyla Detmer vs. Osyraa: poll here

Lt. Commander Gen Rhys vs. Mirror! Detmer: poll here

Su’Kal vs. Captain Christopher Pike: poll here

Harcourt Fenton Mudd vs. “May Ahearn”: poll here

Captain Killy (Mirror! Tilly) vs. Dr. Hugh Culber: poll here

Aurellio vs. L’Rell: poll here

Guardian Xi vs. Commander Paul Stamets: poll here

Round Two:

Left Side:

Mirror! Philippa Georgiou vs. Lt. Cmdr. Ronald A Bryce: poll here

Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po vs. Gabrielle Burnham: poll here

Ripper the Tardigrade vs. Ambassador Sarek: poll here

Ryn vs. Lt. Spock: poll here

Commander Nahn vs. Captain Gabriel Lorca: poll here

Lt. Cmdr. Joann Owosekun vs. Captain Philippa Georgiou: poll here

Ensign Sylvia Tilly vs. Admiral Katrina Cornwell: poll here

Captain Saru vs. Siranna: poll here

Right Side:

Captain Michael Burnham vs.  Lt. Cmdr. Airiam: poll here

Cmdr. Ash Tyler vs. Cleveland “Book” Booker: poll here

President T’Rina vs. Zora: poll here

Cmdr. Jett Reno vs. Grudge: poll here

Gray Tal vs. Lt. Cmdr. Keyla Detmer: poll here

Lt. Cmdr. Gen Rhys vs. Captain Christopher Pike: poll here

Harcourt Fenton Mudd vs. Dr. Hugh Culber: poll here

L’Rell vs. Cmdr. Paul Stamets: poll here

Round Three:

Left Side:

Mirror! Philippa Georgiou vs. Me Hani Ika Hali Po: poll here

Ripper the Tardigrade vs. Lt. Spock: poll here

Commander Nahn vs. Lt. Cmdr. Joann Owosekun: poll here

Ensign Sylvia Tilly vs. Captain Saru: poll here

Right Side:

Captain Michael Burnham vs. Cleveland “Book” Booker: poll here

President T’Rina vs. Cmdr. Jett Reno: poll here

Lt. Cmdr. Keyla Detmer vs. Captain Christopher Pike: poll here

Dr. Hugh Culber vs. Cmdr. Paul Stamets: poll here

Quarter-Finals:

Left Side:

Mirror! Philippa Georgiou vs. Lt. Spock: poll here

Lt. Cmdr. Joann Owosekun vs. Ensign Sylvia Tilly: poll here

Right Side:

Captain Michael Burnham vs. Cmdr. Jett Reno: poll here

Lt. Cmdr. Keyla Detmer vs. Dr. Hugh Culber: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Mirror! Philippa Georgiou vs. Ensign Sylvia Tilly: poll here

Captain Michael Burnham vs. Dr. Hugh Culber: poll here

Finals:

Ensign Sylvia Tilly vs. Captain Michael Burnham: poll here

[seekingjamaharon]

Kirk/Spock Fic Recs (2)

(These recommendations are not organized by rating, universe (AOS/TOS), or tags, so it is your responsibility to check before reading!)

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Sha Ka Ree - ThereBeWhalesHere

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9488996/chapters/21471398

One of the first stories I read when I came into the fandom. I personally consider this story to be something of a fandom classic. Kirk and Spock are strangers who become stranded on an uninhabited world. They have to learn to work together to survive, and we get to come along on that journey as they grow as individuals and together. They build their own world--but can they be content if their world is all there is? There are several "famous" scenes in this story that you might have probably seen art for. If you haven’t read it, you should.

The 1,000 Hour Sleep - spqr

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40727520

The SNW crew adopt Jim, and it's the found-family and found-T'hy'la story of my dreams. As a certified Jim Kirk Enjoyer, I love when an author gets right to the heart of the man that we love.

Chains of Command - WhatIfImaMermaid

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10650891

The TENSION. The YEARNING. The PINING. It’s a different take on the usual ‘getting together’ story and it’s DELICIOUS. 

With My Feet Toward the Stars (let me remember you as you were when you existed) - kariye

https://archiveofourown.org/works/397856

A unique and beautiful story. It’s hard to describe this one without spoilers, but it’s an absolutely lovely read that (once again) made me cry. 

Daffodil Time - ladyblahblah

https://archiveofourown.org/works/330329/chapters/533059

An AU where Amanda Grayson visits her friend Winona Kirk every summer and so Spock and Jim meet when they're children. Utterly adorable. I’m a sucker for a well-written kid-fic, and this one delivers. 

Though this be madness - ladyblahblah

https://archiveofourown.org/works/329764

In every universe--even the Mirror!Universe--Jim Kirk is prone to leaping before looking. It’s possible that this time he might have misjudged.

(You can find the first rec post here)

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Weird Feelings, But A Fond Farewell

I have weird feelings about Star Trek Discovery. When it was first announced, I was less than thrilled. Another prequel, I thought, and not even a particularly interesting one. (There's a whole blank page of history between The Original Series and The Next Generation that remains largely unexplored in the chronology. What happens in the Temporal Wars or the aftermath of the Dominion War? I would have been intrigued to see that any of those-- a prequel to the Original Series? Not so much.)

The first couple of seasons were interesting and I'm still not entirely sure how to feel about them. For a start, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is not exactly your typical Trek Captain. Point of fact, she starts out by getting her Captain, Phillippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) killed and starting a war with the Klingons. If that wasn't enough, we get more wrinkles thrown at us: Michael's parents had been killed in a Klingon attack on their colony, and with no other family, she gets adopted by Sarek of Vulcan and his wife, Amanda Grayson.

That's right: Spock had a secret adopted human sister.

Now, that part didn't bother me. In fact, it was logical, after a fashion- though why we hadn't met her before was still something of a mystery. But if you're Sarek and you've got a human wife and a half-human son that you struggle to understand and connect with, a human sibling (even an adopted one) would be something worthy of consideration should the opportunity to present itself.

The fact that Michael gets raised on Vulcan also makes the character make sense-- if Spock has trouble dealing with his emotions from time to time, Michael lets logic get in the way of hers, which is why she insists on firing on the Klingons, believing, logically, that they will only respond to a show of force.

Speaking of the Klingons: not the Klingons you've come to know and expect-- which I was also of two minds about. On the one hand: Discovery era Klingons are far more alien than 90s-Trek Era Klingons. They feel alien. They feel new-- their leader, T'Kuvma, lights the beacon of Kahless and unites the warring houses behind him in a war against the Federation.

We then meet a prisoner Michael Burnham who gets swept aboard the Discovery where we meet Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Stamets (Anthony Rapp), Saru (Doug Jones) and Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) and we soon find ourselves running around the Mirror Universe with Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) using a spore drive, where Discovery jumps from Point A to Point B instantaneously using the spore network that runs throughout the Universe.

After we get the first season dealt with, we get a plot twist for the second season when they encounter the U.S.S. Enterprise and Pike (Anson Mount) takes command to investigate seven mysterious signals that have been appearing all over the galaxy.

Pike was so good in this role and the introduction of the Enterprise went so well that we got Strange New Worlds out of the deal, so if Discovery did anything for Trek, there's always that. You can hate every episode of this series, but we got Strange New Worlds out of it, so something good came of it. (I don't hate this series, by the way. I think parts of it are very good indeed.)

But what I think turns the show is the decision at the end of Season 2 to send Discovery 900 years into the future.

Whether it was because the showrunners and writers realized that had sort of written themselves into a corner or whether it was the plan all along, I don't know but it was the boldest move in the history of the franchise- they BOLDLY WENT-- how much more Star Trek could you get than that?

Season 3, Discovery's First in the Future was interesting. The Federation and the Galaxy were devastated by a disaster known as 'The Burn' where all the dilithium was suddenly rendered inert by something-- Discovery, once it reaches the future, sets about finding what's left of Starfleet and putting it back together, which they successfully do and defeat the Emerald Chain which is the preeminent power in the galaxy. By the end of the season, Discovery is transporting dilithium to start the process of reconnecting planets and the Federation starts coming back together little by little.

(Honestly, I need to rewatch this season at some point. I might be judging it a little unfairly. But it feels like the weakest of the five to me. There's more than a touch of Andromeda to it and the ultimate cause of The Burn should have been something more grounded in science than I remember it being, in my opinion. But overall, the story breaks new ground-- good for Trek and takes big swings-- which is also good for Trek, so on balance, I'm okay with it.)

Seasons 4 and 5 were where I think this show started to find its feet a bit. You can have issues with the serialized storytelling of both seasons, but they worked really well for me and ultimately, I think I'm going to come down to the notion that this show deserved at least one, maybe two more seasons.

The finale was good. There was a wedding and nobody died (which might be a first for Star Trek?). It was not revealed to be a holodeck adventure that Commander Riker was enjoying as a spectator. Nothing can probably top 'All Good Things' but I'd slot 'Life Itself' probably just behind 'Endgame' in terms of finales. You got the sense- especially with Zora and Discovery just being sent away for an unspecified mission- that there was more story to be told, but it also felt like an ending. It felt earned. It felt final and I could work with that.

It wasn't all perfect: Owo and Detmer were more or less absent from the back half of season five, which sucked- they do make an appearance in the finale though. And if Discovery wasn't that great at something, it was probably exploring the lives and characters of the rest of the bridge crew more effectively. I think they got better at the deeper into their run that they got, but it was still never what it should have been, in my opinion.

They left some interesting story possibilities on the table as well. I've seen a lot of older, crustier Trek fans complaining about how all the characters do is examine their feelings and their various traumas and yes, there's some of that, but also, look what these characters have been through: if you left your entire family behind and traveled 900 years to the future, you'd probably need some therapy too.

But it's not the Discovery crew that would have made the interesting storyline there-- it's the Starfleet that stayed hidden and stuck together through the years of The Burn. What was that like? Do those Captains resent the sudden intrusion of these randos from the past? (I think Rayner's character was meant to play with this idea a bit in the final season.)

Overall: I was left wanting more and who could ask for anything more than that? (Other than two more seasons and a movie, maybe?) Discovery may have fallen victim to the ongoing churn in the streaming wars, but I do think, on a rewatch, it will hold up better than people think.

But as the first new Trek series in over a decade when it debuted in 2017, it's worthy of appreciation. It took big swings. It wasn't afraid to challenge franchise orthodoxy and most importantly, to me, as a fan, it went boldly where no other Trek show had gone before.

Did I like the serialized storytelling? Not always. Did I like every episode? No. Do I think it could have been more grounded in parts? Yes. Did it miss opportunities and storylines? Yes. But on balance, this is a worthy addition to the franchise and I do think people are going to reassess this show positively when they look back on it. (My general impression is that people either love this or absolutely hate it.) My Grade: *** out of ****

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