#vash x picard

[landfilloftrash]

I liked when he just leaned sideways from behind the wall; that entity was fuckin eaaaavesdroppingggggg

original post by @vorta-vortex ! 

[fluctuating-fixations]

Came to me in a. Dream

[quailfence]

[Video description: Clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Vash, Picard, and Q are sitting on a couch. Picard turns to Vash and asks, ��Him?” Vash replies, “Why not?” Picard stands up as he says says, “I'll tell you why not.” Q replies, “Now, Jean-Luc, let's not be unkind.” Picard says, “He's devious, and amoral, and unreliable, and irresponsible, and, and definitely not to be trusted.” Vash smiles and asks, “Remind you of someone you know?” Picard replies, “as a matter of fact, it does.” Q slides over, puts his arms around Vash, and says, “We're going to have fun.” End description.]

@startrekdescribed

so was anyone going to tell me that Qpid (TNG: 4x20) acknowledges, in plain text, that all the things Picard "hates" about Q are the same things that make him attracted to Vash, or were you all just going to let me sit there in front of my TV like a fool with my jaw on the floor from this point until the credits rolled

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#497

"Funny how Q shipped Laris x Picard because we all know the type of women (Aliens or not) he likes: Janeway, Vash, Q and a Romulan empress.. which makes his obsession for Picard weird because the standards are high. Of course he probably thought "Picard, you boring Starfleet human wannabe, you have an amazing Romulan (Laris) at your side, move on..."

[katabasis-collective]

I suppose a brief introduction is order!

We’re the Katabasis Collective, and we’re a fictive-heavy system with 40+ members. Realistically 10-15 see the light of day, but I digress.

While we’re bodily 34 and don’t ‘feel’ old, we’re very Millennial and Tumblr illiterate (sorry!)

Our main fronts are Hythlodaeus and Emet-Selch, however we do rotate here and there!

Many of our headmates are missing those from their source which is why we’re here now! While this is far from a comprehensive list, these are the primary individuals who ache for their friends!

Hythlodaeus (FFXIV: Base EW)

Elidibus (FFXIV: Post-Pandaemonium)

Alisaie Leveilleur (FFXIV: All EW)

Vrtra (FFXIV: Mid EW Patches)

Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis)

Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis)

Lillie (Pokémon Sun & Moon)

Marnie (Pokémon Sword & Shield)

Piers (Pokémon Sword & Shield)

Volo (Pokémon Legends Arceus)

Seven of Nine (Star Trek: VOY with misc Picard)

Soren (Fire Emblem: PoR & RD)

Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses ??? Path)

Twilight / Loid Forger (Spy x Family Anime)

Vash (Trigun: Stampede & 98)

The Doctor (10/14th AKA Skinny Man)

Shi Qingxuan (Heaven Official’s Blessing)

We’re still getting a hang of this, so feel free to DM or reblog with your connections! Fictionfolk—Fictives, Fictionkind, Fictionhearted, and Copinglinkers—are invited to respond, just let us know what to expect!

Many of us had close friends who were not shown or named in canon. If you remember us in any capacity, please don’t hesitate to reach out! While we’re hesitant to immediately say “ah yes we knew you!” we enjoy communicating with our source mates regardless! Doubles are fine, and I believe only Emet-Selch (FFXIV) and Rodney (Atlantis) are doubles squeamish. They’ll live, though! They’re not even the ones who admit to wanting friends. ;) We do, frequently, have a handful of head mates per source, so if you& do have an issue with doubles, please let us know. Either we can go our separate ways, or we’ll keep that specific individual away from you and yours.

[bioticgoddess]

Characters: Seven of Nine, Liam Shaw, OC (mentioned)

Pairing: Liam Shaw x OC (gn)

Transfer of Command

Captain Shaw, most recently of the USS Titan, sat up in the bio-bed of what had been his ship. He had no regrets giving Seven the field commission and transferring the ship to her. Not that he could have made the computer recognize the transfer at the time. Fucking Borg bullshit. But that, he realized when he thought he'd die, no longer meant *former* Borg. It certainly hadn't meant the literal (to him) children on his ship. Still. No regrets.

"Sir," Seven's voice yanked him out of contemplation. "I'm glad to see you're awake and doing," she hesitated, "Better."

He had a suspicion what she was here to do. "Don't "

"Sir?"

"The ship. You're her captain more than I ever was" he said matter of fact. "Don't you dare give her back Captain Seven of Nine." He used her name to her face for the second time in their years together on the Titan. "She was always yours."

"Sir I don't understand. Protocol-"

Raising a hand he stopped her, "Can't believe I'm about to say this but, fuck protocol." A long and strangely uncomfortable silence stretched between them. "Do you know how I met my spouse?"

Seven shook her head. It was clear from her furrowed brow and pinched lips she didn't understand the relevance. Every one knew that Captain Shaw was married even if he didn't wear a ring, his spouse hadn't believed in them he said. Wasn't a part of their culture.

Clearing his throat he explained, "I'll give you the short version since they're en route via shuttle with the kids, who I understand very much need hugs from their father. Anyway," he got on with it, "Commander Taris, then a freshly minted by all of an hour lieutenant, was on the ship that rescued my life pod at Wolf 359. I met them a handful of times when the fleet limped back to earth after that fight. Including when one of my Vulcan crew mates decided to pick a fight with Star Fleet's only Romulan crewman. They were nothing but polite and Vash didn't swing first but they sure as hell put Ensign An'ris on his ass and refused to press any of charges. Trauma, they said would do that. They understood. Turns out I'd developed an infatuation with a Junior Counselor as a result - and no, I wasn't one of her patients. Well, three duty stations, a lot of dating both in person and long distance and a couple promotions later and I proposed. We have three little pointy eared angels who every day I have to remind are loved and perfect as they are. Why? Because people still treat my spouse like they are the enemy despite the fact that they have literally bled for both the Federation and Earth. My kids see the toll it's taken on their parents. So what I'm saying, Seven, is that I should have carried forward what Vashti and those kids teach me every day in how I treated you and the other former Borg. I'm sorry and you deserved better," Begrudgingly he added, "Picard too; though my issues with him and Riker extend beyond the Borg shit."

The former Borg swallowed, blinking at him confused. "Sir? I...um...thank you," she arrived at those two words carefully.

He cleared his throat and spoke again, "So, let's make this official," he clapped his hands together, rubbing them, "Computer, transfer command to Captain Seven of Nine. Authorization Code Shaw 12-11- Bravo-Delta."

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Notes: Commander Vashti "Vash" Taris is a Romulan defector who joined Starfleet before/early in TNG. They would be approximately the same age as Captain Shaw. The one in this story is based on my PC for the Star Trek TTRPG that made it exactly one session. (RIP) That story/game was meant to take place during the Dominion War; I figured they'd have had the personality that could handle Shaw's and having a Romulan partner plus some half-Romulan kiddos made sense. After all, I bet money a Romulan would be treated at least as strangely if not outright poorly compared to Worf during TNG/DS9/VOY.

[stellarred]

Q is SO jealous and thirsty for Picard SO much, that Q creates freaking Sherwood Forest and this huge production with swordfights, chopping blocks, etc, only to eventually steal Picard's girlfriend away from him to keep Picard single!

Q goes hard, doesn't he?

Q (throwing a tantrum because his boyfriend has a girlfriend): I came here to do you a favor! And now this! Fuck you you're robin hood now. You need to see you can't trust her!

[wordsmithcreations]

What canon muses do you have?

Agents Of Shield

• Grant Ward

• Deke Shaw

Angel

• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Being Human UK

• John Mitchell

Bones

• Vincent Nigel-Murray

• Lance Sweets

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

• Greg Sanders

Cyberpunk 2077

• Johnny Silverhand

Death Stranding

• Higgs Monaghan

• Sam Bridges

Detroit Become Human

• Connor

Doctor Who

• Tenth Doctor

Dollhouse

• Topher Brink

Dragon Age

• Alistair Theirin

Dragon Age 2

• Anders

Fallout 4

• Danse

Firefly

• Jayne Cobb

Game Of Thrones

• Jon Snow

Loki

• Loki Laufeyson

Lucifer

• Lucifer Morningstar

• Chloe Decker

Mass Effect

• Kaidan Alenko

• Garrus Vakarian

Mob Psycho 100

• Reigen Arataka

• Serizawa Katsuya

Preacher

• Proinsias Cassidy

Quantum Break

• Jack Joyce

Red Dead 2

• Arthur Morgan

Shadow And Bone

• Aleksander Morozova

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• Julian Bashir

Star Trek: Picard

• Cristobal Rios

Star Trek: The Next Generation

• Data

Stardew Valley

• Shane

Supernatural

• Castiel

• Mick Davies

Sword Art Online

• Ryotaro Tsuboi “Klein”

The Boys

• Jack Wilson “Lamplighter”

• Billy Butcher

The Elder Scrolls: Online

• Fennorian

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

• Bishop

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier

• James Buchanan Barnes

The Following

• Mike Weston

The Originals

• Elijah Mikaelson

• Niklaus Mikaelson

The Orville

• Gordon Malloy

The Walking Dead

• Shane Walsh

• Daryl Dixon

Torchwood

• Owen Harper

• Ianto Jones

Trigun

• Vash The Stampede

Uncharted

• Samuel Drake

Westworld

• Logan Delos

• Hector Escaton

• Lee Sizemore

• Caleb Nichols

What We Do In The Shadows

• Nandor

X-Men Movies

• Logan

• Bobby Drake

You

• Joe Goldberg

[siskolesbian]

rewatching qpid and I think beverly and vash hooked up

[mistressvera]

It was folly taking in Narek and me after our parents died. And sheer madness submitting yourself for Admonishment.  

[doctorbeverlycrusher]

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4x20 Qpid

“I’m surprised he never mentioned you.”

[unknownfacelessfanfictions]

Chez toi, c'est là où tu es

Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation Pairing: Captain Jean-Luc Picard x Reader Words: 3.1K Requested: Yes Summary: Being in a relationship is as complicated as being the captain of a spaceship. Good luck to those who have to manage both at the same time. A/N: I alredy posted it, but due to problems with tumblr I had to delete my account. But I'm back and posted it again.

Not my Gif!!

Jean-Luc had always known that being a captain would not be easy. Even when he had left Starfleet Academy, he had been aware that being a captain would mean having a job where you had to work permanently, that your private life would have to suffer because of your job.

He had never had a problem with it before either. He had spent most of his time on the bridge. After all, he was responsible for hundreds of people who lived on the Enterprise and trusted him to bring them safely to their destination. He had also always combined his free time with work. Jean-Luc had read reports, written logs and assisted the one or other bridge member.

Now, however... he saw things a little differently. Not that he would neglect his duties, no, that would truly be the last thing on his mind.

He still spent more time than was good with his work. He still spent a lot of time on the bridge or in his Ready Room, keeping the ship safe, reading reports and writing logs, even in his spare time. However, something had changed: You had entered his life. Ever since he had entered the service as captain, Jean-Luc had always been sure never to have a relationship. He had no time for that. Being a captain was a full-time job. As the years passed, he had become more and more sure of this and resigned himself to the fact. Of course he had had his little "romances" too, Vash had been just one, but never had it been anything real, anything permanent. Each time he had known that the person he loved would leave and leave him behind, alone in his captain's chair. Alone on a ship, surrounded by hundreds of people.

You had proven him wrong, shown him that what he had felt before was but a drop of love compared to the tsunami of feelings you evoked in him. It hadn't been love at first sight. It had been a slow, creeping process in which the two of you had grown ever so slightly closer.

Jean-Luc had been fascinated by you. Normally, a strange silence fell as soon as he entered the room. He was the captain, in theory the superior of everyone on this ship. And hardly anyone liked to spend time with their boss voluntarily.

But you treated him with the same amount of cheerfulness and kindness as you did everyone else. Of course you still respected him, but you made him feel that he was perfectly normal. That he was not the captain or a superior, but a normal human being who had just as much right to live his life as anyone else.

And slowly, ever so slowly, you let his heart, which had long ago been frozen in a cry for affection, thaw, heal and blossom. If he had to describe the moment when he fell completely for you, he had to think back to the moment a few months ago. You had a dinner date in his quarters. Just a nice dinner to end the day and maybe talk about one of Shakespeare's works. Jean-Luc had been horrified to discover early on that you had only read "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and had immediately set about changing that. Accordingly, every few weeks you had a discussion about the latest story he had lent you.

But when he had seen you sitting in front of him that evening, eyes shining and hands swinging around, waving them back and forth with excitement, something had stirred inside him. Something that has grown steadily every day since. While at first he was only in a light spray of affection, he was now caught in the eye of the hurricane of his feelings for you. With no chance of escape. Not that he wanted to.

After all, you were his safe haven. Every time he threatened to collapse under the burden of being a captain, or when he was plagued by memories of his assimilation, you were immediately there. You listened to him, with those wonderful kind eyes, reassured him, were there for him and just made him feel loved. Every morning, when his duty called him out of bed, he didn't want to get up, something he had never felt before. In the past, he would have been up in an instant to do his job. Now, however, he would prefer to lie still, pull your sleeping form closer to him and hope it could stay that way. Every day, while he was on the bridge, his thoughts drifted back to you in every free, quiet moment, to your beautiful smile, your loving heart and your laugh, which was more beautiful than any melody that Data could play so perfectly. And every evening, he longed to return to you, to fall into your arms after a stressful and exhausting day, just to breathe in your scent, to feel your atmosphere, to feel like he was home. Especially after days that robbed him of all his strength. Days like this.

It had been a horrible mess. Even the night had been a veritable nightmare. Memories of his time with the Borg had plagued him and he had found no sleep after waking up. For some time he had looked at you in your sleep. Your features were relaxed and a hint of a smile graced your lips, so Jean-Luc couldn't bring himself to wake you.

Without further ado, he had gotten up and relieved Data of the night shift, not, of course, without the android bombarding him with questions about whether he had slept well or whether he should inform Doctor Crusher. After Jean-Luc had assured him that everything was fine and Data had taken his seat, the chaos had run its course.

Another conflict with the Romulans, the transporters were defective and afterwards, when Jean-Luc just wanted to retire to his office, an unwelcome surprise awaited him. He let out a sigh. "Q"

The god-like being had sprawled on the sofa across from Jean-Luc's desk, his boots placed on the expensive leather. He wore his usual red uniform with the four pins. The man smiled at him with mischievousness in his eyes. "Mon capitaine, how wonderful to see you." Resigned, Jean-Luc dropped into his chair. "What do you want, Q?" Q pursed his lips reprovingly and more mischief entered his eyes. "Now, now, Jean-Luc. Can't I just come and see you because I want to visit an old friend?" Jean-Luc rubbed his face. "Is this another test?" Q sat up. "Au contraire. Believe it or not. My intentions are pure through and through. This time."

Exhausted, Jean-Luc looked up. "And what are these 'pure intentions'" Q clicked his tongue. "Don't sound so snide, Jean-Luc. I'm doing you a favour. It may have escaped your notice in all this commotion, mon ami, but you had something else planned today didn't you?" Jean-Luc frowned. "What are you talking about, Q?" The creature sighed heavily. "Really, I'm not your temp calendar after all, Jean-Luc. How glad I am that I had chosen Kathy and not you bore. But I'm in a good mood today, so consider yourself lucky." He leaned forward conspiratorially and grinned wryly. " As far as I know, you did have a nice little date planned, with our dearest Y/N. Oh how disappointed ton amour must be, Jean-Luc."

His eyes widened as he realised what Q was talking about. He had promised to devote tonight entirely to you, a romantic dinner, Shakespeare, dancing, full programme. His eyes flew to the clock. 2300 hours. Abruptly he stood up. Q laughed. "The penny has dropped. I would hurry, mon capitaine." Jean-Luc stared at him. "You could have shown up earlier."

Q's self-satisfied smile vanished and he snorted snidely. "Such gratitude. Sometimes I wonder why I continue to put up with you." He raised his hand, however, pausing before snapping. Q winked at the captain. "Until next time, Jean-Luc." Then he flicked and disappeared in a flash of light.

Jean-Luc, however, didn't have time to worry about it, because he almost stormed out of his office to the turbolift and threw Data one last " You have the bridge, Mr. Data." before the turbolift doors closed.

Jean-Luc had never felt that the turbolifts were too slow. Now, however, he was almost silently begging them to go a little faster. Of course, he knew that wouldn't change much. He had missed your evening. As hard as it was for him to admit, Q had been right, you would be terribly disappointed.

As soon as the doors opened wide enough to let him through, Jean-Luc squeezed through the gap that had opened up, only to hurry with knitted, long strides down the corridor to your quarters. When he arrived at your door, he stopped short and braced himself. Braced himself for the fact that you were going to be mad at him and he might actually have to sleep on the sofa in his office.

With a single, large step he entered your quarters, making every effort to make his voice sound steady. "Mon amour? " His voice was slightly lowered, in case you were already asleep. But this was not the case. "Jean-Luc!" With a broad smile, you stepped out of the adjoining bathroom. You were already wearing your sleeping clothes, but you did not appear to have gone to sleep.

You spread your arms as you stepped towards him and took him in your arms for a moment. "I was wondering when you'd be back."

You loosened your hold a little and Jean-Luc started to say something, but you only took this as an opportunity to press your lips to his. Very tenderly and lovingly, as you wrapped your arms around his neck, he put his hands on your back and pulled you closer to him. When you disengaged, you remained in that position and he looked regretfully into your eyes. "I am sorry, mon amour. I promised this would be our night, but-"

Smiling, you put a finger to his mouth, silencing him. "You don't need to apologise. I was aware that you had an important position and therefore might not always have time for me. That's why I want to enjoy the moments we have together. Without having to listen to excuses for things you can't do anything about, yes?" Jean-Luc nodded speechlessly.

"Good." Joyfully, you kissed him again before detaching yourself from him completely. "Would you like some more food?" He shook his head and you nodded in understanding. "Then get changed. Just because you're late doesn't mean I'll be alone in bed." With that you turned and sauntered over to your bedroom.

Completely dumbfounded, Jean-Luc turned and disappeared into the bathroom where he leaned against the wall wondering what he had done to deserve you. What you had just done to him was not natural under any circumstances.

Normally, your partner would get angry if you spent more time at work than with your partner with hardly any time together. You, however, looked at everything from a different angle. You were aware that he HAD to put his duties before you. He had little choice. And instead of blaming him or getting angry, you appreciated the moments you had together. Jean-Luc didn't know what he had done to deserve you.

After hurriedly getting ready, he made his way to your bedroom. In the doorway, however, he stopped and took the time to absorb the moment that presented itself. You were already sitting up in bed, the covers pulled down to your stomach and a book in your hand, presumably reading the latest work of Shakespeare that Jean-Luc had "lent" you. He had already told you that you had free access to his books, but you still asked every time.

Slowly he walked towards your bed and settled down on his side. The weight of it pushing the bed down made you look up and immediately the loving smile you always looked at him with returned. "Hello, darling." Gently you put the book down on the bedside table to give your full attention to your friend. He smiled sheepishly. "You didn't have to put the book away for me." He took your hand in his and gently kissed your knuckles. "You know I don't mind if you spend your evening with it, mon amour."

You placed your hand on his cheek and let your thumb gently stroke his cheekbone. "And you know, Jean-Luc, that I prefer to spend my time with you in other ways. I have plenty of time to read when you're working."

Guilt shot through him and he tenderly kissed the inside of your hand still against his cheek. "I don't deserve you, Y/N. You are so kind and understanding towards me and love me despite the fact that I have so little time for you. Why?"

You laughed lightly and kissed the Captain affectionately. "Oh Jean-Luc. You don't have to do anything to deserve me. You don't see how much you are worth, but I will show you, every day, as many times as I can, until you realise it. Besides," another kiss," you are very attractive, my dear."

He laughed incredulously and regarded you tenderly, his eyes a mirror of what a tsunami of feelings and affection was raging inside him for you. "Je t'aime, mon amour," he whispered, leaning his forehead against yours, eliciting another small laugh from you. "I love you too, you stubborn old man. Now come here, I'm cold and I haven't seen you all day to show you how much I love you." Only too gladly, he accepted your invitation and wrapped his arms around you and pulled you closer to him, pulling you into a lying position. "Computer, dim lights to fifteen percent."

Instantly the lights faded and your bedroom was plunged into darkness. A comfortable sigh escaped you and you snuggled closer, against Jean-Luc. He had wrapped his arm around you to keep you close while you rested your head on his chest.

Gently he kissed your forehead, then your temple, then your cheekbone. He kissed his way down to your mouth, where his lips gently brushed yours, but didn't pull you into a full-on kiss. "I'll make it up to you anyway," he whispered, closing the small space that had still been between your lips. Silently you sighed into the kiss, pulling him in almost desperately. All the longing you had built up over the day flowed into that kiss and you gently moved up his chest and shoulders to the nape of his neck where you gently played with his hairline.

When you broke away, he pulled you even closer to him and looked down at me lovingly. "You don't need that," you murmured softly, but Jean-Luc only whispered softly. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite," he recited and pressed another kiss to your temple. You murmured lightly, "Romeo and Juliet, isn't it? What a romantic you are, darling." A smile tugged at the corners of your mouth. "Though your bounty may not be quite so great."

Jean-Luc laughed softly and lovingly stroked your cheek. "A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee" He tenderly placed a kiss on your forehead and you closed your eyes with pleasure. Jean-Luc started to say something again, but now it was your turn to repeat the words you had read and internalised in your last Shakespeare work.

"Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in a lover's eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet," smiling lovingly, you looked up at him and let your fingertips dance across his cheek.

"Perhaps we shouldn't necessarily quote Romeo and Juliet, my love, should we?" Jean-Luc looked down at you, a twinkle in his eye. "You're right. For not even they would be able to do justice to my love for you." Again he pulled you closer and kissed you, this time more demanding and passionate. And you were now more than willing to match him.

You wrapped your arms around his neck and pulled him closer to you as he wrapped his arms around your waist and pressed you close to him. His warmth filtered through your clothes to you and his scent rose to your nose, a scent you had long associated with home by now. Gasping slightly, you broke away from each other without feeling the need to let go of the other.

"Risa," Jean-Luc murmured softly, getting your attention. "What?" He blinked slightly before looking down at you lovingly. "How about shore leave, mon amour? You and I haven't had a day, just for us, until now. Two weeks on Risa, we're close right now." He stroked your cheek affectionately. "Besides, Deanna and Doctor Crusher have been nagging me for weeks that I needed a break." It didn't take you long to make a decision and lovingly you kissed his cheek. "And we wouldn't want to contradict the doctor, would we?" Jean-Luc pulled you even closer to him so that there was absolutely no space between you. "Never."

A yawn escaped you and he laughed softly before placing an affectionate kiss on your forehead. "Maybe we should discuss the details tomorrow. And I really will be back early this time." Sighing, sleepy from tiredness, you buried your face in the crook of his neck. "And if you don't, I won't be mad at you either. I love you." Jean-Luc felt you slowly drifting off to sleep and loosened his grip around you only minimally so that you could lie more comfortably. Gently he kissed your forehead again.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

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1) My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. ~ Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scene 2, lines 140 – 142

2) A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee ~ All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, scene 2, line 78

3)Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in a lover's eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet ~Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, scene 1, lines 197 – 201

[pixiedane]

Jean-Luc Fashion Project

Date Night (Allegiance, Lessons, Attached)

Jean-Luc definitely knows what he likes and feels best in, and he wears it to make a good impression with his ladies. 

Top left caps, with Beverly Crusher, is a doppelgänger, but he’s wearing the clothes in Jean-Luc’s closet and that blouse is either nearly the same, or actually the same, shirt he wears while wooing Nella Daren. Same with the green in the middle two caps with Nella, it’s either nearly the same or actually the same as the one he wore on vacay with Vash.  The bottom four caps, again with Nella and Beverly, respectively, are definitely the exact same shirt. 

He’s definitely going for the soft romantic gentleman-scoundrel cover of a romance novel effect: comfortable silks in eye catching hues or patterns that emphasize his chest and waist. 

[captainbeverlycrusher]

Happy Pride Month!

I’d like to take this time to say:

Beverly Crusher is bisexual and you can’t convince me otherwise :)

Allow me to demonstrate.

Exhibit A:

That time she barges in on Picard and Vash’s breakfast date knowing it would catch Picard off guard and make him lose his shit and THEN she proceeds to flirt with and actually STEAL his girlfriend lmaoooo

(GIF via https://captainbeverlycrusher.tumblr.com/post/81020051500)

Plus in the same ep, the time when Worf looks at Vash and says "Nice legs ... for a human" and then Beverly ogles Vash as she walks away and then does a double take to check out her legs and wasn’t subtle about it at all!!!

Bev x Picard x Vash totally happened that night!

Exhibit B:

Let’s not forget that THIS was her reaction to seeing THEE Lwaxana Troi in all her nude glory. She simply doesn’t know what to do with herself! I believe this is what they call “gay panic” lololol Couldn’t be more obvious that Bev loves hot women as much as she loves her man Picard. Yes Bev, don’t suppress your feelings!

(GIF via https://raffaela-musiker.tumblr.com/post/80734287387)

Exhibit C:

And finally there’s this ... wherein her reaction to having her wrist so lovingly kissed by her former male lover in a new female body makes her pause and consider “Hmmm am I really straight? Probably not”. I like to think of this as when she was in her early baby bi days, coming to terms with her sexuality and challenging all her beliefs about herself and about love <3

(GIF via https://sapphicstartrek.tumblr.com/post/172940945260/requested-by-anon)

Not to mention all the tenderness she shows to the women in her life, the touches, the caresses, the knowing looks and soft smiles. The signs are all there. So.

In conclusion, Bisexual Bev is canon!!!

[tparadox]

My essential Star Trek episodes

@velociraptors-in-hats asked me for a list of essential Trek, and this is gonna be way too big for a text message, so here we go.

The Original Series (TOS)

While a lot of the show holds up surprisingly well for being over 50 years old, the pacing and aesthetic is incredibly dated. There’s a lot you can skip here.

Highlighted episodes:

“Charlie X”: If anyone tells you Kirk is a womanizer, point them at him teaching found teenager Charlie to behave himself.

“The Corbomite Maneuver”: If you wanna see Kirk do what Kirk is best at, this is a good place to start.

“Balance of Terror”: an antiracist cold war submarine drama in space (borrows heavily from movies like Run Silent, Run Deep)

“The Menagerie”: This was an excuse to recycle the unaired pilot, but the unaired pilot is a pretty good story and it’s framed by courtroom drama and Spock going rogue for a good cause.

“The Galileo Seven”: another really good drama centered on Spock.

“Space Seed”: I know I already said that this isn’t necessary to understand Wrath of Khan, but it’s a great episode anyway. If you have an opportunity to watch Ricardo Montalban act, it is best not to miss it.

“City on the Edge of Forever”: arguably the greatest Star Trek episode of the entire franchise.

“Amok Time”: You wanna see Kirk and Spock wrestle in the sand. You know you do.

“The Doomsday Machine”: more great writing.

“I, Mudd”: illogic bombs everywhere.

“Journey to Babel”: Father and Son drama, the beginning of “Spock doesn’t talk about his family until they’re standing in front of you”

“The Trouble with Tribbles”: the biggest space romp ever.

“Patterns of Force”: one of many Space Nazi episodes (there’s even more than one with literal Nazis), but the best one.

“Spock’s Brain”: there’s probably a drinking game for this one. Do not follow any rules about drinking for the word “brain” or you will die.

“The Enterprise Incident”: It’s hard to remember this is third season TOS because they were actually still trying here.

“All our Yesterdays” is pretty cool sci-fi. Time travel, marooned, going native-ish.

The Next Generation (TNG)

The first two seasons are the most skippable Star Trek has ever been, but if you wanna get a sense of it, I recommend considering any of “Lonely Among Us”, “The Battle” (gets a sequel seven years later), “The Big Goodbye”, “Datalore”, “Too Short a Season”, The Arsenal of Freedom”, and “We’ll Always Have Paris” from the first season, and “Where Silence Has Lease”, “Elementary Dear Data”, “The Measure of a Man” (civil rights courtroom drama, referenced heavily in the recent Picard series), “Q Who” (first Q episode I actually recommend, introduces the Borg), and “The Emissary” (starts an arc with Worf that will last into Deep Space Nine).

I do not recommend “Shades of Gray” unless you are really interested in what you missed from skipping the first two seasons. It doesn’t even have the So Bad It’s Good that The Enterprise Incident does.

I’m gonna have to get really discriminating here or this is gonna get really long now. I grew up with TNG and more than half of the episodes are ones I have some reason to love. (narrator voice: he did not get more discriminating)

Probably any Q and Borg episode from here.

“Yesterday’s Enterprise” is an alternate universe drama where we shift into a darker timeline where the Federation is losing a war with the Klingons (who are our friends now normally).

“The Offspring” - Data makes a child and it goes better than could be expected until it doesn’t.

“Sins of the Father” - this is where Worf’s arc really gets going.

“Allegiance” is just a good episode.

“Captain’s Holiday” is a bit pulpy. It was written because Stewart was complaining that the captain doesn’t do enough shooting and screwing. But it’s fun. Vash is fun.

“Sarek” has a great scene for Patrick Stewart showing Picard have another man’s breakdown for him.

“The Best of Both Worlds”: for the best effect, watch part one, then wait three months before watching part two.

“Family”: partly an epilogue to Best of Both Worlds, but a great story for Picard. And I think it’s another one in Worf’s main saga.

“Brothers”: this is the quintessential Data episode. If you only watch one episode with Lore, watch this one.

“Reunion” seeds the Klingon Civil War arc.

“Final Mission”: you are probably not going to see Wesley at his worst, but this episode is Wesley at his best. It is his final episode as a regular.

“Data’s Day”: literally a day in the life story, but Data is a lot of fun.

I personally really like The Nth Degree.

“The Mind’s Eye” is an “It’s very good but I would rather not rewatch it please” episode, but as with Chain of Command, torture stories are not a good time for me.

“Redemption” 1 and 2 brings home the Klingon Civil War and also ties in Yesterday’s Enterprise.

“Darmok”: Good science fiction predicts the internet. Great science fiction predicts communication through memes.

“Unification” 1 and 2: remember how the Vulcans and the Romulans look alike? This is important.

“Ethics” is well-written moral drama, but one of the two debates it engages with is assisted suicide, so you specifically will probably want to pass.

“The Inner Light” is a bit of a one-off, but you get to experience a man’s entire life as Picard experiences it.

A lot of people will tell you that “Time’s Arrow” is the weakest season cliffhanger, but I just think that running around San Francisco in the time of cholera with Mark Twain and Jack London is a lot of fun.

“A Fistfull of Datas”: Would you like to watch a spaghetti western where every character is played by Brent Spiner? Of course you would!

“Ship in a Bottle”: a sequel to “Elementary Dear Data”

“Tapestry”: possibly not actually a Q episode. Picard gets to face an old regret and see how his life would be different if things had gone another way.

“Frame of Mind” is a psychodrama where Riker’s reality falls apart.

I like high concept stories about time. “Timescape” is Clockstoppers before Clockstoppers.

Watch “Attached” if you find yourself shipping Jean-Luc and Beverly.

“The Pegasus” sees Riker forced to face the ghost of a past shame he thought was buried.

“Sub Rosa” is another one that everyone hates that I like. I’m just a sucker for the Scottish Highlands In Space setting, but to be fair to its detractors it was literally plagiarized from an Ann Rice paranormal romance novel.

“Lower Decks”: the characters we usually spend time with are up in the stratosphere in terms of the hierarchy on the ship. This episode takes the perspective of some junior officers.

“Masks” because Brent Spiner needs to set records for “most characters played in a single episode”.

“Emergence” is a creepy weird high-concept episode I really like.

“All Good Things” is unmissable. When you feel like you’re at home with TNG, watch the finale.

Deep Space Nine (DS9)

Again, the first few seasons are a bit awkward before the show finds itself. However, “Emissary” is possibly the best series premiere the show has ever done. This is a highly serialized show (for its time), so the deeper into the show, the more you should really watch them in order.

“Move Along Home” is another in the “so bad it’s good” pile. Get to know the show before you watch it.

Most people will tell you that “Duet” is one of Deep Space Nine’s best episodes. What would you do if you just arrested Josef Goebbels?

“In the Hands of the Prophets”: the Scopes Monkey Trial in space kind of.

“Whispers”: creeeepy. O’Brien is firmly cemented as the show’s designated sufferer.

“Shadow Play” is one of the early episodes that probably would’ve worked better for TNG, but I kind of like it.

“Blood Oath”:probably the beginning of Jadzia Dax being everyone’s favorite lesbian (/bi/trans) icon.

“The Maquis” two-part story is kind of a mission statement for the show.

“The Wire”: one of the two most Garak/Bashir episodes of the entire run.

“The Search” is a big reveal that has consequences for the entire rest of the series.

“The House of Quark” is a really fun episode pairing Ferengi and Klingon culture like oil and vinegar making salad dressing.

“Equilibrium” is a great episode for getting into the whole deal with Dax’s Trill gimmick.

“Civil Defense:” they trigger a lockdown protocol the Cardassians meant to use to suppress a Bajoran riot.

“Past Tense”, two parts. Please oh please don’t let the real 2024 look like this. One of DS9′s most prescient episodes (inspired by the Rodney King riots).

“Destiny” is one of the best episodes in the “Sisko has to reckon with being the Bajorans’ messiah figure” arc.

“Improbable Cause”/”The Die Is Cast” (DS9 is a bit averse to putting the same title on every part of a multipart story): dark, plot-heavy, and pretty important to what’s coming up soon.

“Family Business”: I think this is the introduction of Quark’s mother, the Ferengi feminist.

“The Adversary” is big for Odo.

“The Way of the Warrior” is basically the show’s second pilot episode.

“The Visitor” is a one-off story about the bond between Ben and Jake Sisko.

“Rejoined”: Give Jadzia A Girlfriend

“Little Green Men”: a one-off romp at the 1947 Roswell crash.

“Our Man Bashir”: Bashir and Garak are gay at each other while larping Bashir’s James Bond fantasy, only it turns deadly because the camera wandered into the holodeck again.

“Homefront”/”Paradise Lost”: again, a very Relevant episode where a terror attack on Earth causes the enactment of martial law.

“Bar Association”: Quark’s brother reads Das Kapital and starts a union. No seriously, that’s the episode.

“Body Parts”: Quark gets misdiagnosed with a terminal illness, sells his remains as is the Ferengi custom, and hijinks ensue (possibly triggering because he considers putting a hit on himself to get out of his dilemma).

“Broken Link”: this is a very big Odo story.

“Apocalypse Rising”: carries on from the not-really-a-cliffhanger in “Broken Link”, but it’s more about going undercover in the Klingon empire.

“Trials and Tribble-Ations”: Let’s go full Back to the Future Part 2 on a fan favorite TOS episode.

“For the Uniform”: explores the lengths Sisko will go to against a traitor.

“Doctor Bashir, I Presume”: Julian Bashir gets outed. The basis of the “Julian is transmasc” theory/metaphor.

“Children of Time”: high concept morality play. The crew meet their descendants from the crash they haven’t experienced yet.

“In the Cards”: notably, the A story is a breather romp and the B story is Plot Arc stuff.

Take “Call to Arms”, “A Time To Stand”, “Rocks and Shoals”, “Sons and Daughters”, “Behind the Lines”, “Favor the Bold”, and “Sacrifice of Angels” as a six-part arc. It’s not exactly one long story, but they were written as a short arc and play through each other.

“You are Cordially Invited”: Klingon Bachelor Parties are almost as bad as Klingon mothers in law.

“Statistical Probabilities”: following on from what we learned in “Doctor Bashir, I Presume”, Bashir tries to help some institutionalized augments find a greater purpose than being locked up in an asylum.

“Far Beyond The Stars”: a one-off where Sisko has a vision of being a pulp sci-fi writer in the 50s trying to get a story about a black man commanding a space station published.

“One Little Ship”: just some fun with a negative space wedgie that shrinks people.

“Wrongs Darker than Death or Night”: Kira learns what her mother did to keep her family safe.

“Inquisition”: Bashir gets accused of having been brainwashed into an unwitting spy.

“In the Pale Moonlight”: how many lines will Sisko cross in order to win the war?

“His Way”: Odo gets mentored in dating by a 50s lounge singer hologram.

“Valiant”: a crew of cadets that think they can do anything go cultish when their senior officer dies and they have to run the ship by themselves behind enemy lines.

“Take Me Out To the Holosuite”: the war is pretty grim, let’s play baseball against Sisko’s academy days bully.

“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River”: Odo escorts a defector who sees him, like all of Odo’s kind, as a god (because that’s how Odo’s people control them).

“The Siege of AR-558″: the War is Hell episode of the War Is Hell series.

“It’s Only a Paper Moon”: Quark’s nephew escapes reality in the 50s lounge singer’s world after losing a leg in the war.

“Prodigal Daughter”: It’s season seven, so Ezri Dax gets a lot of focus because they only had one season to get to know her. But this is one of the best Ezri episodes.

“Badda Bing, Badda Bang”: Deep Space Nine does Ocean’s Eleven.

The ten episodes after that are the Final Chapter arc, which ties up all the stories they had in the air for the last seven years.

Voyager (VOY)

“Caretaker” sets up a lot of things, some of which will even actually be followed through on.

“Faces”: an alien scientist splits the half-Klingon/half-human engineer into her human and Klingon halves.

“The 37s”: I don’t remember much of this one aside from they find Amelia Earhart and others from that time cryogenically frozen on a planet on the other side of the galaxy, and we get to see the ship land for no particular reason.

“Projections”: Doctor episodes are great in general. This one has the Doctor’s reality breaking down.

“Twisted”: weird space stuff warps space inside the ship.

I really like the Q episodes on Voyager, but if discussion of suicide is triggering, you should know that “Death Wish” is about a Q (not The Q, another one. They’re all named Q and so is their species) who wants the right to end his immortality.

“Deadlock”: Voyager is duplicated by a negative space wedgie, but only one can survive because reasons.

“The Thaw”: a great episode about facing Fear. Guest starring Michael McKean as a personification of Fear.

“Resolutions”: Hey, did we set up romantic tension between the captain and her first officer? Let’s put that to bed.

“Flashback”: Janeway and Tuvok go inside Tuvok’s memories of the five minutes Sulu was in The Undiscovered Country.

“Sacred Ground”: this episode kind of defines how I see the relationship between faith and skepticism.

“Future’s End” (two parts): Remember The One With The Whales? We’re doing it again twelve years later, but with Sarah Silverman instead of whales.

“The Q and the Grey”: Q (yes actually that one) gets Janeway involved in a Q Civil War because somehow making a Q baby is going to end it and he wants Janeway to be his baby mama.

“Coda”: Janeway gets stuck in dying dream after dying dream.

“Before and After”: Kes is jumping backwards in time.

“Worst Case Scenario”: episodes where the cast get to play evil versions of their characters are fun.

“Scorpion” (2 parts): Janeway makes a deal with the devil.

“Year of Hell” (2 parts): they wanted to do an entire season of this, which in turn was inspired by what they’d originally planned for the show all along before the suits decided it should be a safe TNG knockoff.

“Message in a Bottle”: They find a way to send transmissions across the galaxy, but for Reasons, text and video messages can’t get through, but a hologram can, so the Doctor has an away mission to the Alpha Quadrant.

“Living Witness”: a one-off episode with a backup copy of the Doctor in the far future setting the record straight on Voyager’s involvement in a war between two planets.

“Timeless”: Chakotay and Harry made it home, but the rest of the crew died in a crash. So now they’re on the run from the law to send a message back in time to put it right.

“Latent Image”: the Doctor’s memories have been tampered with.

“Bride of Chaotica!”: a holodeck Buck Rogers fantasy goes off the rails.

“Course: Oblivion”: the ship and crew start to fall apart.

“Someone to Watch Over Me”: Voyager does My Fair Lady.

“11:59″: As an Indiana native I am legally obligated to recommend this story about what Janeway’s ancestor was doing on New Year’s Eve 1999.

“Relativity”: Time chase. Somebody’s trying to blow up Voyager in the past.

Equinox (Two parts): What if Voyager hadn’t held onto its ideals in their quest to get home?

“The Voyager Conspiracy”: good sci-fi anticipates the internet. Great sci-fi anticipates people finding patterns that don’t exist in the information overload.

“Pathfinder”: Remember Barclay? His latest awkwardness is his obsession with Voyager.

“Fair Haven”/”Spirit Folk”: these aren’t directly paired, but they’re both set in holographic Ireland. In the first one, Janeway tailors her holographic boyfriend to exactly what she wants, in the second, the characters have been running for so long they start to get the sense that there’s something strange about the out of towners.

“Life Line”: The Doctor gets transmitted across the galaxy to save his creator from an illness. 

“The Haunting of Deck Twelve”: Neelix tells the Borg Children a ghost story that maybe really happened.

Unimatrix Zero (two parts): I don’t remember much of this, but it’s one of the biggest Borg stories in a show that overused the Borg.

“Imperfection”: Seven of Nine is practicing being human on the holodeck and starts to have a systems failure.

“Critical Care”: the Doctor gets captured by an alien hospital and fights against the stratification of their healthcare system.

“Inside Man”: Barclay again. He sent a hologram of himself to help Voyager get home.

“Flesh and Blood”: a hologram rights story.

“Shattered”: the ship is fractured in time, and Chakotay is roaming the ship through different time periods trying to reintegrate it.

“Lineage”: B’elanna goes a little overboard tinkering with her baby’s genome.

“Q2″: It’s a Q episode, and nobody’s suicidal.

“Renaissance Man”: The Doctor does more than he was ever designed for.

“Endgame”: the end.

Enterprise (ENT)

I’ve only watched most of these once. I really don’t know the show that well.

I can tell you that the first two seasons are a bunch of one-offs with the major theme being “we’re out here to make friends and introduce ourselves to the neighborhood”. The third season is Star Trek’s answer to 9/11 and it goes really Jack Bauer. There are some one-offs, but it’s very focused on the Xindi threat. The fourth season is short arcs where they got around to being a prequel show and did a lot of the good kind of callbacks to TOS.

Discovery (DIS, Disco, DSC, definitely not ST:D)

Modern-era Star Trek is very serialized. It would take less time to say which episodes of Discovery are skippable. I’ve only seen the first season once, and I’m still not done with the second season. Captain Pike from the original TOS pilot is the captain in the second season and he is the best thing about modern Trek.

Picard (PIC?)

There’s only one season so far, and it is 100% serialized. It doesn’t have filler episodes, it has filler spread out through all the episodes. They told a four or five episode story in ten episodes. Though really not much happens between the end of the first episode and when they pick up Seven of Nine. The stuff on the Borg Cube is highly skippable until episode 6.

Lower Decks (LD?)

This is currently in its first season. It’s an adult-oriented animated comedy by the guy who did TNGs8 on Twitter and his most notable professional work before this is Rick and Morty. It’s a loving tweak on the nose of Star Trek.

The future

There’s a Nickelodeon show coming up called “Prodigy” that we don’t know much about. It’s animated, it’s for kids, and it’s about a ship crewed by cadets.

Discovery season 3 is coming very soon, again going in a completely new direction from the first two seasons.

Picard is going to get a second season eventually. It doesn’t seem to have been part of the plan, but there it is.

There’s also Strange New Worlds, a... Discovery spinoff? Centering on Discovery’s version of Pike commanding the Enterprise with Number One and Spock, and it’s planned to be more episodic. Also coming whenever the world isn’t on fire.

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put a fandom in my ask and i’ll answer:

otp - Why. Did. Beverly. and. Picard. Admit. Their. Feelings. and. then. do. nothing??  

favourite canon pairing - this is hard, there are so many alien of the week that are good.  Wait.  It’s Picard x Q because I adore that Q is a god just...obsessed with this random earth captain.  I love his aim.  

worst pairing ever - Geordi and Leah Brahms.  What the fuck was that?  Why?  No.  He was so creepy!  And then she had to apologize for not liking that he made a hologram of her and fell in love with it!  Eww!  Also, Geordi is gay, so...

guilty pleasure pairing - I don’t hate Deanna x Worf, ok?  I like Deanna x Worf.  Fistful of Datas is *chef’s kiss*.  Deanna x Beverly has appeal too.  Oh, and Beverly and her grandma’s ghost lover.  Sub Rosa is my life.  

a pairing you want to see more - Honestly anything involving Yar.  Gone too soon.  

that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no” - Picard x Vash.  I get that Vash was an independent female character with her own drives and it was the late-eighties and that was good but she does not respect archaeology and I feel like she also doesn’t respect Picard’s slutty Risa outfits.  

favorite non-romantic pair - Data and Guinan have a special bartender mojo and I love it.  

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