#tng: attached

[bevcrushes]

no one: me: actually it makes perfect sense that beverly would say "maybe we should be afraid" at the end of attached because when they were confessing things around the fire, jean-luc clearly said that while he had feelings for her and he worried about how he'd handle having her on the enterprise, he'd eventually realized he didn't have them anymore. now, maybe he was fucking lying to avoid her rejection and he never stopped loving her, but in any case, he did tell her that he wasn't in love with her anymore. and maybe her responding with "and now we're friends ◡̈" was partly because she didn't know what to do with this revelation. you can hear her working things out as he's telling her all this and it had to have been a lot to process. it's not like she came out and said "yes i always loved you too even when jack was alive" or even "yes i love you right now" so by the time they got through everything and realized how much they enjoyed the intimacy they'd shared, it was really quite a pivot for jean-luc to be like "WELL ACTUALLY i do love you and think we should explore this" ???? like he just made a show of being like "i'm over it" and now he's like "jk i am hella not over it" like sir please give her some time to process. i've watched that end scene 151068 times and i think i've always missed what she's really saiyng. my shipper heart has always focused on her rejection of him. i've always seen it as rejection because that seems to be how HE saw it or what it felt like. but i don't think that was what she meant by it. i don't think she meant "no we shouldn't do this" i think she meant exactly what she said - we should be afraid of it. we should be afraid and...do it anyway. she does get up and leave, yes, but i don't think it's because she wants to cut him off and close him out. i think she just recognized that after being so connected, so literally in each other's heads, they need space. and the point of that space isn't to rebuild walls to keep each other out, it's to reinforce the safety of the new space they're now in together. so, i don't think she was ever rejecting him or saying they should not explore their feelings. i think she just had more perspective and realism, and, in many ways, it foreshadows what's to come and how it does end for them. if you take attached in the context of what happens in picard, what transpires in the 20 years when she leaves and goes off and has jack without telling him, and you think back to this conversation, it really hits different. because you realize that while it always felt like jean-luc was the one who didn't admit he loved her for so long, he wasn't the one to pull back and say "on second thought maybe not." beverly was the careful one, she was the one who had doubt, she was the one who was thinking, "will this ruin everything? is it worth the risk?" and i think that makes her decisions later so much more interesting and complex and, in a lot of ways, more in character and even reasonable than they seemed at first. it's consistent with this sense that she really knew jean-luc a lot better than he knew her—or himself. and that it wasn't that she had conditions for loving him or being loved by him; she just always saw him as a human when he was trying to be a hero.

[grissomesque]

“I know... I know... you're absolutely right.“ Picard and Beverly continue to trade telepathic thoughts as they continue down the corridor, much to Riker's confusion. [x]

Star Trek: The Next Generation 7x08: "Attached" vs. Star Trek: Picard 3x02: "Disengage”

[mortemilla]

attempts at drawing data from january

[mostly-natm]

Lore keeps a baby (out of spite).

[asinglegrainofsandv3]

I CAVED.

I MADE THE EDIT

[driftwoodthrone]

"You'll never recover from that kind of devotion." — For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick

[forecast0ctopus]

Do you like any Star Trek besides TOS? I haven’t actually seen it, but I’m a big fan of TNG, Voyager and DS9 :3

ive only seen tos, aos, and im on season 5 of tng!! im working my way through slowly but surely lmao

[rosalie-starfall]

Picard/Crusher

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Attached

[respocked]

You know what? Shout out for Andorians for being one of the founder races of the Federation and despite this Star Trek never getting a main Andorian character in the cast, or anyone generally caring, or much said about them at all. This on the right is an Andorian script. I don't think anyone knows this because noone cares about them. Are the Andorians anyone's favourite race? Is there any Andorian fanfic? Truly Star Trek's forgotten middle chidren.

[slippery-domjot-balls]

I was wondering if exocomp smut was a thing, but then remembered Lower Decks already did it.

[grissomesque]

[steakout-05]

i've only known Tin Man/Gomtuu for half an hour but if anything happened to it i would destroy everyone in this starship with a phaser and then myself

[mogosketchpad]

secret santa for @catelyngrant :) based on the episode "Attached"

[adarkroomandawallflower]

So, I just had a thought (& possible realization that could be canon?):

As I'm sure many of us TNG fans are aware, it's never canonically addressed where, how, or when exactly Data got Spot. However, based on the order of the episodes, Spot wasn't shown or mentioned until "Data's Day", & because we were shown Data's quarters several times throughout Seasons 1-3 without any indications of a cat living with him, we can assume that he got Spot somewhere either in the end of Season 3 or the beginning of Season 4 (I know the argument could be made that he could have still had Spot, it just wasn't very clearly established or shown, but for the sake of my theory, let's assume that not showing Spot or evidence of Data having her indicates that he didn't have her yet).

The events of "Brothers" occurs just several episodes before "Data's Day". We saw in "Brothers" that after Dr. Soong died, Data took some of his father's things with him (i.e. the toy dinosaurs that he gave to the two brothers who were also in the episode). I think it's highly unlikely that Data would have only taken those two dinosaurs from his father's place, & I think he almost certainly took a lot more of his father's things with him (i.e. he probably took some of his books, artwork, etc.).

I think it can also be assumed that Dr. Soong didn't like being alone, & always preferred the company of another being (his sons & Juliana, for example). After the Crystalline Entity attacked, Juliana left, Data joined Starfleet, & Dr. Soong was left all by himself on that whole planet, I think he got really lonely, but didn't know or have any other person in his life that he could seek companionship with. Not wanting to go through the intense emotional & physical tolls of creating another android son again, & being unable to find another partner or spouse, I think he would have probably gotten himself a pet as a last-ditch effort to curb his loneliness.

But what would his pet be? Perhaps a cat...?

Long story short, I propose this theory: Spot was originally Dr. Soong's cat, & after he died & Data was looking through his place to determine all the things he wanted to keep, he found Spot, & knew he had to take her with him.

I'd have to rewatch "Brothers" to look for any evidence of Dr. Soong having a cat, as well review the episodes after "Brothers" & before "Data's Day" to see if they showed Data's quarters clearly catless again, to support this theory, but I genuinely think this could be how Data got Spot

[mostly-natm]

Shipping Lore be like:

[darkacademiaarchivist]

why don't my parents want to watch star trek TNG with me