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Is this anything
Don’t have enough Saru lately so I drew my own
T’Rina at the end of the season after finally marrying her beautiful tall boy (she probably had some chocolate)
This man knows 94 languages
I did a speedpaint of my boy!! 🌿👽💚
As soon as i saw this shot i knew i would paint it because it was LOVELY
It was challenging (it’s hard to make deep shadows pop!) but it was very fun and I’m pleased with how it turned out overall 😌
Just watched the first episode and I simply can’t…
Saru and T’rina are just a treasure!
How soft and gentle his voice is and how she’s clearly struggling trying not to smile, while listening that absolutely beautiful love confession…
And how Saru almost laughing with happiness when she proposed
SHE PROPOSED
Have I watched the new episodes? No
Do I have quite specific thoughts on Saru/T’rina already? YES
Just look at this:
my contribution to the @startrekswimsuitspecial :)
go check out the whole zine, there's some great art in there!!
Saru is SUCH a babygirl are you kidding me, T’rina starts flirting with him and when he goes home at night he’s kicking his feet and giggling the whole time I’m right and you know t
30 Days/30 Stories: Star Trek Drabbles
Link to original post: https://between-stars-and-enterprise.tumblr.com/post/680082582888660992/the-list-of-themes-i-would-use-for-30-days30
Day Twenty-Five: Revenge
His hands were shaking. But not from fear.
From rage.
His fists clenched and his teeth gritted together. His breathing was fast and shallow - not from a desire to flee, but from a desire to harm - to maim, to kill, to have his revenge - Saru forced himself to take a deep, steadying breath. He didn’t recognize himself with this white hot aggression coursing through his veins. This was new and disturbing. Yet, Saru found he didn’t wholly dislike this side of himself - for he truly did want to make the Ba’ul pay for what they had done to his people.
References to Star Trek DIS S2E4: An Obol for Charon and S2E6: The Sound of Thunder
Just a little reminder of how beautiful Saru is✨
I’m sorry but I can't think of anything else when I see these scenes
Can please someone write mpregSaru/T’Rina fanfiction??
When T'rina had that cup of salty tea sent over to Saru…..girl
I like how awkward and unsure of himself Saru is and how confident and soft T’Rina
And she is assertive in her own way and this is EXACTLY what he needs
They are such a perfect couple!
There are only three episodes right now
And I already cried over two of them (and because of character whom I initially wasn't interested)
wtf Discovery
Ok
They started with a shootout with butterflies
That was fun
Showed us the new president (and I liked her so much already I mean she's like cold and maybe a little bit cynical but at the same time she's a positive character and I LOVE it)
They showed us Saru who is gorgeous as always and his people listen to him
And Su'Kal called him father
And it made me feel so so happy
Saru fully deservs all this love and respect
Oh
And they blew up the planet for dessert
First of all:
Yay, we finally got some information about kelpiens!
However, this episode made me a little nervous. I mean... I don't like tention between Michael and Saru. It's ok if they resolve this "conflict" through calm discussion, but I'm afraid they won't...
Awww, the kelpien dad is trying so hard to make his children feel at least a little better (even despite his "stress hormone levels are off the charts" too)
Saru and Georgiou be like:
- Be nice and follow orders.
- Fuck you.
And then they "accidentally" save each other’s lives
...
And now I want them to be friends, you know, friends who usually hate each other, but at the same time will kill anyone who dares to hurt one of them.
Did anyone see Saru attacking someone in promo at the end of the first episode??? I'm just so excited!
Saru:
Me: *SCREAMING IN RUSSIAN WHOLE LANGUAGE*
Yes, even in Star Trek the most famous machines have been essentially human in appearance (Data in TNG, the Doctor in Voyager) which IMO has always bugged me.
I will note that there have also been the exocomps and recently some other non-humanoid ones, but there aren't any individuals that are nearly as popular as those mentioned before.
I was chatting with my mom today about how unique Knight Rider is as a show for one reason only- having a character that's honestly, genuinely, and truly a car.
(Yeah, sure, there's Transformers, but watch any Transformers show and you'll see that they rarely keep the robots in car mode for any scenes. The car modes are almost exclusively used for scene transitions or for action set pieces.)
Knight Rider is different in that it challenges the viewer to imagine a character who is a car. This character is Kitt. There is no way for him to stop being a car, even when it's inconvenient for him, or even when it's inconvenient for the plot. Kitt, as a concept, asks the viewer to empathize- what would being a car genuinely be like? What challenges would that present? What advantages?
This is where most robots in fiction, and fiction that claims to analyze humanity through the lens of robot characters, ultimately fail. I'm hard-pressed to find another work of sci-fi with a lead character in such a genuinely divorced role from humanity. Most fictional robots have:
Hands, to physically interact with a human-scaled world in the way that humans do,
Faces, for humans to relate to, and
Eyes, for humans to look at, and tell where the robot is looking.
Kitt has none of these. He never gets any of these at any point. The show even reflects on this in episode 22 of season 1, where he projects eyes onto his screen for the little girl who's trying to understand him. Yet even this is temporary- he gets rid of them after only a minute, and the girl gets used to the real him accordingly. It's never portrayed that these attributes (of hands, a face, and eyes) are some kind of upgrade that Kitt is missing.
However, Kitt is still undeniably 'human', and this is the most important part. Kitt's way of thinking isn't alien just because his body is different. It's what he is thinking about that's been altered from the traditional human experience. This leads to a fascinating exploration of topics such as:
Accessibility. Kitt is constantly analyzing where his body can go and to what places he has access to. Even Michael Knight learns to start thinking this way as he grows closer with Kitt, to the benefit of them both. The question of what Kitt can do vs what he can't do given his body is at the core of Michael's problem solving when the show is at its best.
Priorities. What does Kitt care about? Again, it's deeply important that the first answer to this is "his friends", but barring that, what else? Things like a good road or the polish of bodywork become elevated in importance through his perspective.
Prejudice. A lot of science fiction has the trope of "robot racism", or the idea that there's a portion of humans who actively believe that sentient robots are not equal to humans. Knight Rider, however, never takes this easy drama. Humans treat Kitt differently, and sometimes with a shocking amount of disrespect (even after he's revealed himself to be a person,) but it's never out of malice. It's out of ignorance. The bulk of these humans have only the best intentions. This presentation reflects upon real-world prejudices through a different lens than the aforementioned trope, which has, by now, been thoroughly beaten to death.
Again, it's the fact that the show actively goes out of its way to tell the audience that Kitt has a soul (season 2, the episode literally titled "Soul Survivor"), yet doesn't shy away from the genuine differences he faces from being nonhuman, that makes it so damn compelling to me.
(Mind you, the way the show usually "explores" these themes is through the lens of comedy that relies on Kitt's differences being the butt of the joke. . . and that the inclusion of these deeper themes definitely do NOT cancel out the show's genuine problems with sexism/racism! But-)
I really do consider Knight Rider to be science fiction at (or at least close to) its finest. Which is an insane statement out of context, I realize, but I hope after reading this post you might be able to understand why. Knight Rider set the bar for robots in fiction for me and nothing has been able to compare since.
TL;DR: Kitt is a car. This is deeply profound.
Poor Peter...
Anyone know what happened to @awkwardtrekphotos?
Pfp:
I’m a big fan of the blog and I can’t access the blog, is it deleted or something?
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