Maracriox (He / Him / His)

I *would* say nobody deserves to get cancer...
... if there weren't thousands of powerful people that participated in the Epstein shit. 🤢

Shad seems like the kind of person who will call any underdog victory by the main character of a story 'plot armor'. This is why he made his main character so stupidly overpowered that his winning every fight is an obvious forgone conclusion. I've seen the same thing from other uncreative hacks.

I’m never one to say “X person wants to do these heinous things” because authors write a LOT of atrocities with no intent to carry them out.

But I am far less inclined to extend that when I don’t know…your entire protagonist who has done those is self insert Mary Sue with 0 accountability

Shad tries to write a book with complex themes but doesn't understand that people chosen by destiny don't exist, and there's a reason why stuff like Fallout doesn't treat Caesar's Legion as morally gray.

He instead wrote a book about how God chose Adolf Epstein to save the world from commies.

Fuck cancer.

Jesus Christ. It's treatable, but not curable...

This is why I have every AO3 story I've read saved to a flash drive.

a man in a purple uniform says so if anyone has a suggestion Alt: A bruised captain archer. "So if anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears."

As for the others, Archer is a test pilot space cowboy, a military man. He seems aware constantly that there isn't a structure for him to rely on, and he really WISHES SOMEONE WOULD MAKE ONE, but in the meantime he's going to do what's right.

I haven't revisited Enterprise in too long. I need to.

a man with a beard and a yellow jacket is saying stay away from my daughter . Alt: An older LaForge, saying "stay away from my daughter."

And LaForge - hell, my love for him is well-established. An engineer, like Sisko, but the chief engineer of the flagship of the fleet, a man trained to put himself in personal danger if need be, held to the highest standards.

And like Sisko, a man who loves his family dearly.

a woman wearing a red sweater and earrings is making a face . Alt: Uhura, listening to something over the communications earpeice, raising her eyebrows and whistling.

Uhura in particular would have been wonderful - she was the captain of the Leondegrance, and she apparently took part in over one hundred first contact missions during its five-year mission to the lesser magellanic cloud.

A captain who specializes in communication. In language.

a man in a red sweater with a white collar is sitting in front of a monitor Alt: Sulu on the bridge of the Excelsior, being told by his helmsman, "She'll fly apart!" "Fly her apart then!"

Honestly more than anything else it makes me wish I'd been able to see some Trek from the perspective of Captain LaForge's crew, or Captain Uhura. I *loved* the bit we got of Sulu in Tuvok's flashback in Voyager.

Poise. Grace. Humor - but unflinching strength in a crisis. A spine made out of steel.

a man in a star trek uniform says do not make me turn this car around Alt: Pike, weilding bbq tongs - "Do not make me turn this car around."

He'll make the hard choice, and maybe have some regret over it, but it won't ever occur to him not to make it, or to try and foist it on someone else.

He surrounds himself with subject matter experts, and as long as Spock and Una and Kirk and Uhura and Otegas and La'an are there to handle the thinking...

Pike will show up with the heart.

Pike is, at heart, a kid on an adventure. He surrounds himself with competent people, and he trusts them implicitly. He builds a team that he doesn't have to second-guess.

Because he KNOWS that he's a himbo. Pure of heart, strong of arm, dumb of ass.

Pike... Pike's a boy scout.

He's got the Himbo energy that Kirk was too much of a nerd to truly inhabit - Kirk's a turbo-nerd, and I'd argue that Brannigan is a satire more of Shatner than of Kirk.

He's casually good with folks, with kids, with romance.

He's a musician. Specifically a trombone player. He plays an instrument you just /don't/ play solo. His hobbies are group activities: martial arts, sports, music, games.

He complements Picard's skills wonderfully, despite similar backgrounds.

a woman wearing a red headband and a star trek uniform stands in front of balloons Alt: Ro laren fires a phaser through Riker's head who, not noticing, continues playing trombone.

Which is funny, because if you want someone who lives up to the horndog space romeo stereotype, who you want is Riker.

He comes to it from the same Route that Picard did, pilot to command, but he's a people person in the way that Picard has never been.

In the academy, he's described as being "a stack of books with legs." He's *always* dropping classical allusions, much to the annoyance of his doctor (a cowboy) and his first officer (an alien without a context of Earth).

He's also been overshadowed, over the years, by Bill Shatner's personality.

YouTube video by April 5, 2063 Picard, Data, and Worf Sing a Song From the Musical HMS Pinafore

Yeah. You kinda nailed it there.

youtu.be/sOtgMujbZsY?...

"Gay theater kids larping"
Acting. They're describing acting. That's the job. Be gay (/s) and make pretend.

Star Trek: famous for not casting theater kids

a man and a woman are dancing together in a room filled with plants . Alt: Data and Beverly tap dancing.

I guess he doesn’t know who Gates McFadden is.

a woman stands next to a man with the words boom shaka laka laka Alt: Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 dances arouns an alien while chanting "boom shaka laka laka"

"gay theatre kids larping"

A shot from Star Trek Deep Space 9 featuring most of the main cast in season 7. They are dressed in clothing based on 1960's Las Vegas

Larping within Larping sometimes

breathtaking lack of textual comprehension, truly

like if you’re out here saying Star Trek is a show about macho space soldiers blowing up bad guys I feel like maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to vote

Absolutely. At least with r/w Tolkienists, you can, to some extent, say, "Well, I see that some of this is latent in a text by an author whose world-view is formed in part by Empire, even though he explicitly writes letters that are contra to your position." But with the r/w Trekkies it's deluded.

it’s wild encountering right wing Trekkies. I want to study them under lab conditions. like “okay YOU tell ME what YOU think ‘Measure of a Man’ or ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’ were about”

sorry I’m just laughing over the fact that known gay George Takei literally wrote and produced a musical

these people don’t even have basic facts

“Space Fleet Academy” featuring three white people with the most generic sci-fi environment possible.

But sure, it’s Starfleet Academy that’s larping.

I remember someone on Tumblr calling him the most lesbian coded captain the Enterprise ever had.

Meeting an ex on a planet and being jazzed about where they are and their life, still remembering their birthday and favorite food, ready to help them move.

He was the clever, gentle, heartfelt captain, dropping classic allusions at the drop of a hat, crying on the regular, remembered from his academy days as a stack of books with legs.