#navigation: sci fi

[chronivore]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dune (1984)

[alkcomics]

Dune: House Corrino #4 🧿✨ out now from BOOM!

Had fun getting weird with the navigator on this cover. I always think of Herbert's description of their elongated limbs. Wanted to find a balance between my envisioning and the lovely interior art.

[thewatcher0nthewall]

Spice must flow

Dune stuff, cuz i love Dune

[quinn10121012]

Saw Dune: part 2 yesterday, and it made me remember these character/costume designs I did for the three main houses (and a guild navigator!) a few years ago… the stark, minimalist aesthetic of Villeneuve’s version grew on me over time, but I always pictured the Duneiverse looking a bit more… fanciful, as you can gather from these designs!

[dumb-alek]

Say what you want about SNW but I REALLY loved the way in the episode where Pike sees the future where Jim is not the captain of the Enterprise lil glimpses we get of him having just insane professional chemistry with Spock.

Like across realities and in different universes, Kirk sees Spock across the room through a video transmission and calls him impressive. It's like a jolt, bullseye, and laser focus towards eachother before they even meet in person.

They instantly agree and see eachother's point of view. There's SPARKS. I genuinely felt watching this as if they were the only people in the room (and I feel like the camera work in that conference room helped with that - purposely).

Not to mention Jim's full body turn he does when he watches Spock leave, which to me definitely betrayed some kind of interest on Jim's part.

I get being mad at comphet Spock, (though TOS did comphet Spock also so 🤷) and I think if snw went in a slightly different direction with Chapel they could do something interesting and canon-compliant, which is a shame.

But after finishing the 1st season I really do feel the show only gets better (when they lay off the one liners a bit and focus more on the honestly pretty cool episode ideas they have), and it looks like it's done with love, attention to details and understanding, overall, what star trek is. (Which I can't say about some other star trek media cough cough).

But most importantly, at least for the sake of this post and for the sake of the ship that started modern fandom culture, I feel like they understand the gravity of K/S.

Now, I'm not deluding myself that they're going to 'get together' within SNW, if it's to keep with the tos timeline even in the slightest. And as much as I enjoy the show, it doesn't seem likely for it to be breaking any new grounds. Besides, at this point in time it would make no sense, considering there's no space for them to be together in TOS until season three at best. Any alternatives would either be either out of character, or simply upsetting (such as an on and off relationship, a breakup, things I don't want to think about 😞)

HOWEVER. They already made a hint Chapel is bisexual, and while they do try to generally keep with TOS canon - they diverge from it only when they think they are the point A from which they can get to point B, which is TOS. I don't always agree with their vision, but I can respect it. So I wouldn't be that surprised (though ecstatic) if they hinted at at least at Kirk being bisexual, here and there.

And in TOS canon Spirk is inescapable. If we ignore the romantic interpretation, which is already pretty hard to ignore, then in their capacity as soulmates - a part of canon that's impossible to ignore. And with as little Jim and Spock as we got so far, I think they understand that.

In SNW keeping Kirk and Spock apart messed up the whole timeline! You could say that Spock dying is what really messed it up, but we can clearly see the episode we've seen in TOS from a different perspective and things went south the moment Chris started to act. Both Kirk and Spock are there - both the same as in the regular timeline, in their respective duties. But they're not together and them not being together is so bad for the universe that Chris has to go back in time to tell himself to die (well not die but suffer from a horrific accident).

And if it doesn't feel extremely monumental, soulmate level shit idk what to tell you

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 2024 - Day 29 - Navigator

Two Okhirians visit a 'Navigator', a being who can map out various pathways across the stars. In this case, a safe passage for a pilgrimage.

Okhirians are an alien race @scifer and I made up in a story many many many moons ago, and I gave a quick description of 'something that looked like a living coffee table complete with an ornate table cloth' covering various ornaments underneath'. Been meaning to do a design and the bonus picture will do so!

[videoandpizza]

Flight of the Navigator (1986)

[cringengl]

Odd you say that because I think Will getting his sisters other half is boring and high school drama and literally has no place in a show about science

"Highschool drama has literally no place in a show about science" quick question r u being serious

[judgeitbyitscover]

The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe

Cover art by Yuko Shimizu

Tor, 2023

Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus is offered the chance to redeem himself: he will need to lead a motley, fractious team - both human and animal--all the way to the gates of Hell.

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

Inktober 29: Navigator

Drochilia-3 loomed large in the sky above the small moon as Alice picked her way through the windswept cliffs that disguised her base. She had to admit, the new HA scanning camera array had made navigating the terrain much easier.

[j-allen-art-design]

Day 29 - Navigator

[fashioninpaper]

[quinn10121012]

Guild Navigators my beloved…

[flash-from-the-past]

Submachine 6: the edge

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 2024 - Day 29 - Navigator BONUS

An exposed Okhirian meets with the Cosmologist to get a new route for their pilgrimage. The cosmologist is trying, but her speaking of the language is rusty. Their route is a problem, lots of legal issues and dangerous routes, plus this one needs to get some covering as soon a possible!

Okhirians are an alien race @scifer and I made up in a story many many many moons ago, and I gave a quick description of 'something that looked like a living coffee table complete with an ornate table cloth covering various ornaments underneath'. I imagine they usually have extensive covering that only expose their sensory pits, so this one is having a very bad journey. Lucky the cosmologist is understanding and knowledgeable and is trying to sort out a safe route, whilst Koosh and the others try their best to make up some temporary coverings.

"Is it ok if the pattern has apples on it?"