#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

[whirligig-girl]

Guz kept one eye on the carpet, one eye on her PADD as she walked. The systems reports were pretty stock standard, though there was apparently a bug a few minutes ago in the transporter interface systems, which briefly took down all transporters on the Cerritos.

She heard loud footsteps, looked up from both carpet and PADD, and an orange woman with a short undercut hair and thick orange horns rammed into her, hugging her tight, and burying her head in Guz's chest. "Oh Guz I missed you so much, I've been dreaming of this moment for almost a year! Oh gosh we keep getting separated and--" Guz twisted uncomfortably in the woman's grasp, but wedged an arm between the orange woman and her chest. "You're, guh, ough... real sweet."

Orange looked up pleadingly. "And cute. Wow. But iiiiiii have a girlfriend! Hahaaa..." Guz continued.

Orange's face seemed to practically shatter at the realization. She stared in bewilderment. "WHAT?" She shouted, "HOW?"

Guz looked around for help. But the two of them were alone in this hallway. "It's??? A long story??? Involving medical trauma, being stranded on a rapidly rotating Class-D planet, and being abandoned???"

Orange's devastated face turned to shock. "AGAIN?" she shouted, "ANOTHER WHIRLIGIG WORLD? HOW DO THESE THINGS JUST KEEP HAPPENING?"

Guz felt like she was missing something extremely important and obvious. "W-what do you mean 'again?'" she asked, searching the face before her for some hint of familiarity. It... it... did look familiar, but everything in her mind was screaming at Guz that this was someone new.

Orange's eyes were tearing up. "Who is she?" she said, still clinging to Guz's uniform.

Guz hesitated. This... person, didn't seem especially stable. She might be putting her girlfriend in danger. Well. Then again. She is the mistress of the winter constellations. She can probably handle it.

"Junior-Lieutenant D'vana Tendi," Guz said.

Orange looked up at Guz through teary eyes, but her expression was stoic. She pushed herself off of Guz and stood up straight, still holding Guz's shoulders. "Guz. It's me."

Guz squinted, and stared, and flipped her eyes around a couple of times. Then she realized that it had been Tendi's voice all along.

"Oh. OH. OH SHIT. MUCK," Guz shouted. "I'm an idiot."

"No! I'm the idiot! Hah! Obviously you didn't get a girlfriend, it's been like. A Day since you last saw me," Tendi said.

"Well. Yeah. What happened to you?" Guz said.

"Phew, oh man, my sense of time is completely out of whack, it's been a WHOLE thing," Tendi said. "I'll tell you all about it after I report to sickbay to get these prosthetics taken off."

later

Mariner: how do Mellanoids even recognize eachother? You can like change shape and stuff. Guz: Well. Exactly! But you never really change color! Tendi: I still can't believe you didn't recognize my face. I mean, hah, I thought you thought I was pretty. Guz: OF COURSE i think you're pretty. I thought you were pretty when you were orange too. I just didn't think you were you. Don't blame me! Blame the pattern recognition of my driftwood-dwelling prehistoric ancestors!

[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.

[illarian-rambling]

It's been quite some time since I did one of these Happy WBW! What is a tall tale from one of your settings? A piece of folklore? How real is it?

Hi!

One of my favorite Illari myths is that of the Skysheerian Chained Mistress. Legend has it, the Chained Mistress was once a star who fell from the sky. Supposedly, when she landed, the peasants who found her were enraptured by her silver garb and skin. They tore at her gown and jewelry, then at her skin. Though she screamed and pleaded, the only sound she could make was that of a soft, beautiful chime, and so the peasants tore her apart. But stars don't die so easily.

The Chained Mistress became one with the shadows, her power waxing at the darkest part of the night. Skysheerians learned to be wary of her frigid breath on the back of their neck. Enraged at her treatment, the Chained Mistress took her anger out on all the people of Illaros. Mountains collapsed and the winters grew grim. Legends have it, her anger tore down a "great and ancient empire to the south" because of how they blasphemed against the stars. She tore through temple after temple of the gods she thought to be lesser than her. That is, until, the gods got offended. Unable to kill a ghost of a star, the gods chained her away in the darkest part of the sky. She is the dark between the constellations, the shroud that covers the moon, and the killing cold that comes at midnight. All Skysheerian children know her tale well, and thus hesitate to possibly wander off into the cold night. They know how to give deference to the ice and the dark.

But is there any truth to this myth? Why, yes! Many Illari cultures have a version of the Chained Mistress; from the Illarian Stareater to the Dwarven Koltheter. All feature something that fell from the sky long ago that tore down a "great empire to the south," and that the gods locked away after failing to defeat. This all draws on an actual historical event: the ravages of the first avatar of End, aka Anarac Fifth-blood. I won't give away too many details, but suffice to say, all the vague details are generally correct (;

Thanks for the ask!

[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.

[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)

[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