#mistress of the winter constellations

[antzonian]

gave up on the countdown, here's every D'vana Tendi costume seen so far in star Trek Lower Decks!

[bogwarg]

Mistress of the Winter Constellations 🌌

My take on Tendi’s pirate outfit! I’m not the biggest fan of her canon hairstyle so I changed it a bit.

[randomdeinonychus]

Kate Gray Cosplay as D'Vana Tendi, Mistress of the Winter Constellations

[labeckinator]

I thought the sword and clothes from Something Borrowed, Something Green were cool. I also am dying to know what happens with Tendi in the next season.

[conjcosby]

Whether or not we get a Tendi spin-off movie, here is a possible film poster made by me. Hope you like it. 😁💚 #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrekDay #StarTrek #StarTrekTumblr #MistressOfTheWinterConstellans #Tendi

[taigan-hse]

Given what we now know about Tendi’s past, this scene from Veritas now comes across in a whole new light.

[departmentq]

Lower Decks, season 4 finale observation.

The music for the closing credits, as Tendi walks off screen on the Orion ship, is the the same music, that's played in Hear All, Trust Nothing, when D'Vana took over the Karemma ship.

That's some serious leitmotiv/musical foreshadowing going on there.

I can only imagine the badassery the Mistress of the Winter Constellations will be up to in season 5.

[conjcosby]

This is what I needed. 😍💚

Mistress of the Winter Constellations and fastest dermal regenerator in the Alpha Quadrant.

[tachyon-at-rest]

Slightly spoilery of Star Trek Lower Decks episode S04E04:

Things we know about D'Vana Tendi:

Alias "Mistress of the Winter Constellations"

(new) Alias "Tip of the Moonlit Blade"

(new) Tendi says they’re barely the fifth-largest family in the Syndicate

And thus I now give my brain poisoning to you. (Couldn't be sure which works better) :

Which of course references this ole gem

[thelowerdecker]

When The Mistress of the Winter Constellations shows up on Earth this year! 🙃 👀

[vanvelding]

I'm going to say one of the nicest things I can about a show about Star Trek: Lower Decks

They played us like a string quartet.

(Spoilers for 4x09: "The Inner Fight")

Lower Decks was sold a Star Trek/Rick & Morty mashup from the start. The first scene is a drunken Mariner literally harming her sidekick, Boimler. It practically screamed, "Mariner & Boimler a hundred tours! Double-u, double-u, double-u dot Mariner and boimler dot com!"

But of course, it also had Star Trek references. One of the earliest is "Who would win in a fight? Khan or Roga Danar?" Why would anyone else in The Federation know or care who Roga Danar is? And there's no imagination on display for the oldest referential paradigm, "Who would win in a fight?" Lazy. Bullshit.

Of course before the end of season one, Lower Decks showed us it was more than that. Boimler was gaining the kind of experience he needed. The story hinted very strongly that Mariner had been in Starfleet a LONG time. She wasn't a omnicompotent mary sue; she was a Commander with her own philosophy/trauma that compelled her to remain an Ensign.

It was a good show and it stood on its own. The references were used well to create interesting stories ("Twovix"), as part of the setting ("Hear All, Trust Nothing"), or just as a gag here and there ("Kayshon, His Eyes Open" and, like a dozen others). The references to the setting become the background radiation, remarkable in how deep a cut they really are (Vendorians?). I've described it to many people as "Star Trek, but everyone has watched Star Trek."

What it wasn't, was related to its namesake. "Lower Decks" was a surprisingly heavy episode about the younger members of the Enterprise crew and their perspective on the missions of galactic import that the viewer usually enjoys an omnisicent view of.

Lower Decks mentions our main cast don't have that omniscient view, but Mariner is a stone-cold badass, Rutherford was part of a secret effort to develop artificial intelligence, Tendi is the Mistress of the Winter Constellations, and Boimler--actually Biomler is no more exceptional than any other Starfleet officer.

So when we get our main cast and the senior officers into a room and they mention Nick Locarno, our thought is, "LOL, another reference. This one from TNG. Not particularly deep. LOL, Boimler is a Beverly Crusher fanboy. I guess it makes sense, they have the character model from the episode with Tom Paris. Clearly, Robert Duncan McNeil is happy to do some voice work. We'll probably make a reference to how much he looks like Tom Paris.

"lol"

Look, if you figured it out then pat yourself on the back. Me? I filed away another reference. I didn't realize that Nick Locarno was connected to the episode of TNG that was this entire series' namesake. The characters even say, "Who?" which is one of the first times they don't get a Star Trek reference. Because Nick Locarno isn't a part of the Star Trek universe they view with an enthusiastic fandomness; it's part of their dramatic history, whether they know it or not.

"ha-ha, I guess Nick Locarno is too deep a cut for the show that called back to Morgan fucking Bateson."

But whatever, A-plot/B-plot. Gags about Starfleet habitually rolling up to seedy establishments in uniforms while looking for information, which is subverted by Captain Freeman being fucking genre savvy (also, wasn't she going to be promoted before getting arrested at the end of season two? I guess getting framed for a crime was deemed to be not very 'admiral-able'). Mariner ends up in a cave with a Klingon taking shelter from a crystal rain.

The pieces are there. Mariner was an ensign during The Dominion War. Two to three years before The Dominion War, Wesley Crusher left Starfleet, our Nick Locarno expy Tom Paris was recruited to Voyager, and Sito Jaxa was an ensign.

And Nick Locarno is in play.

We could have figured it out! We're in the narrative and emotional third act of this series (Tendi gave us the "We'll always be friends" speech last week)! Everyone regular just sat in a room trying to figure out how to help Mariner; we were one fruit salad analogy away from an intervention with Dr. Migleemoo!

Mariner escapes from Cardassian interrogation chambers for fun!

But Locarno is just another TNG reference, like Beverly Crusher. Background radiation. The season's story arc is something original to Lower Decks, which it's proven it's unafraid to do at this point. The series has no relation to "Lower Decks"

And then they fucking hit us with it; Beckett Mariner knew Sito Jaxa. They were friends. Then Jaxa died.

That's Mariner's trauma (that and The Dominion War).

And I didn't see it because I came to see Lower Decks as a series that stood on its own merits as a show while calling back to earlier Treks in a light, non-committal way. And I credit that solely to the writing of the show which leveraged both of those qualities to make an entertaining show that I like before, but now respect.

Just amazing stuff.

[antzonian]

Dual Tendi, she's both good and evil, both Starfleet and Pirate! Mistress of the Winter Constellations!

[iamthedukeofurl]

Lower Decks Headcanon

Boimler is the Baby of the Warp Core Four.

In the latest episode, we learned that Mariner was a classmate of Sito Jaxa's, meaning she was in the academy during TNG. From the numbers I've seen going around, this means she graduated over a decade ago. Rutherford was implied to be in the academy when he got injured and had his implant put in. In his flashback, Les Buenamigo looked like this

While in the current time, he looks like This

So Rutherford must have been an active duty engineer for some time. Tendi is a fresh Academy Graduate...but all indications are that she spent a good chunk of her adult life being her family's Prime before then. I don't know when Orion Assassins start their careers, but she's got quite the reputation. I find it unlikely that she jumped to the Academy right out of Orion High-school without spending the equivalent of her early 20s working as the Mistress of the Winter Constellations. So yeah, Boimler is a good deal younger and less experienced than the rest of them.

[ffcrazy15]

Man I cannot be the only one who feels that it will be Extremely Uncomfy if the LD writers don't subvert the whole "sexy crime lady planet" vibes with the Orions next season by showing how it's not cool and progressive, actually, to be part of a culture built on massive wealth inequality, sexism, crime, and literal slavery, just because the women are in charge and wear leather and whatever.

Like the whole 'monehead club thing? Fantastic worldbuilding, loved it—provided that next season it's shown that it's actually really uncomfy and frankly scary that those places exist.

Aaaand no, it actually doesn't make all that okay just because Orion is a matriarchal society instead of a patriarchal society. I think that, handled well, next season's Orion arc could be a really fascinating study of a world where the gender roles are indeed truly reversed by means of a physical advantage that women on Orion have over men, and how leveraging that physical advantage to oppress the other gender creates a whole new kind of fucked-up, which humans just don't recognize as bad because we come from the other end of the spectrum. Having Tendi, the Starfleet scientist, use her position in the Syndicate to undermine that system is the only way I can see her character willingly take up the mantle of Mistress of the Winter Constellations again and still be a good person. Also, slavery? I think it's not a good idea for us to forget that Orion has (or at least had) a massive slavery problem.

I trust the LD writers to write a smart and introspective story about this culture. I trust them to take a critical look at this culture and planet and show how it's fucked up and in need of serious reform. But if they don't, I have to admit that I will be...uncomfortable at best, and extremely disappointed at worst.

[amateur-mint]

Another Lower Decks Theory

Because I'm horrible

Over the past three seasons, three out of four of our main characters have seen a part of themselves (or at least a representation of a part of themselves) die

During the first Crisis Point, the Holo-Mariner (what I consider to be the more 'real' Mariner, as opposed to Vindicta) blew herself up with the ship's self-destruct sequence, allowing everyone else to escape.

Rutherford faced off against the angrier, younger, Command-division version of himself during Reflections, ultimately winning the race and watching Red Rutherford dissolve into nothingness in his arms.

And then, of course, we have William Boimler, Bradward's transporter-clone, who (as far as anyone else knows) died in a meaningless accident aboard the Titan. He'll more than likely come back either during Season 4 or in a later season, but the pattern holds.

But what does that mean for our dear Ensign Tendi? What past or alternate version of herself is there to kill? Imagine: something or someone from her past shows up, forcing Tendi to confront her past as a pirate and put the Mistress of the Winter Constellation to rest once and for all

[conjcosby]

Stardate: 2024.9.20 ▫ She's intelligent, she's curious, she's the Mistress of the Winter Constellations here to science you up. 😈💚🖖 #NoelWells #NoëlWells #DVanaTendi #Tendi #MistressOfTheWinterConstellations #Orions #Orion #OrionSyndicate #OrionGirl #OrionGirls #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrekLDS #StarTrekLD #StarTrekUniverse #StarTrekFanArt #FanArt #Friday #FanArtFriday

(I know I've posted the right pic already and for that I'm sorry)