i don’t think i ever explained that the idea of this AU was to eventually actually illustrate a set of cards, but art block and everything else has been making me sit on these designs for awhile without actually finishing the clubs category. i will certainly add more as time goes on, but here’s what i got for now
I’ve rewatched “Suddenly Human” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 4) and no, it’s not another episode about Data, as you could have thought, judging by the title. It’s an episode about a human boy raised by an alien race, humanoid, of course, but still quite different from Earth inhabitants. (Spoilers!) Enterprise stumbles upon a destroyed alien ship and saves the survivals. Among them, doctor Crusher finds a human teenager, who claims that he’s Talarian and therefore is to be returned to his captain. Enterprise crew finds out that he’s a son of two officers, who were killed by Talarians many years ago. They are afraid that he was abused by his “comrades” and captain and want to return him to his grandmother. The Talarian captain arrives, speaks to captain Picard (who finds out, that he wasn’t brutalizing the boy) and meets the boy. Picard still tries to create some kind of bond and understand the boy better, talk to him, plays Racquetball, takes him to “Ten Forward” to meet Wesley. It all ends up with the boy attacking captain at night, not killing him, but supposing that he’s now to be executed. Picard finds out that the boy still wants to return to his father (the Talarian captain) and finally returns him. An interesting episode about found family.
I’ve rewatched “Family” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 2). You don’t expect your Star Trek right after two creepy Borg episodes to be so sweet, but it is because it corresponds with the title directly: it’s about Worf’s parents, Picard’s brother and Wesley’s father. Enterprise is being repaired on Earth, so Worf’s parents came on the ship to visit. They are… unusual – they are called Sergey and Elena Rozhenko, they come from Earth Station Bobruisk (just so that you know, Bobruisk is a real city in Belarus) and they have a strong Russian accent (Chekov-nostalgia). They are also very sweet and tell Worf that they are going to love and support him during his Klingon problems they don’t understand. Wesley receives a holo-message from his father which was recorded when Wesley was only a few weeks old. Captain’s story is the most interesting – he came to Earth to his home-village where his brother with his wife and son live now and holds the family business – winery. Jean-Luc and his brother don’t get along well, Picard’s old friend offers him a good place at some big and interesting marine project and Picard catches himself thinking of it. Then he fights his brother (literally fights in the mud), they get drunk together and he feels better. A very good episode.
I’ve rewatched “The Best of Both Worlds” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 26 – season 4 episode 1). It’s one the most important episodes of those series – it’s a very Borg episode. (Spoilers!) It’s the one in which Captain Picard was kidnapped by Borg and transformed into a Borg himself – Locutus of Borg. It’s very creepy, especially considering that he had all his memories during the experience and that he remembered everything about being a part of Borg afterwards. How Riker has to become a Captain for some time and to make a young recently transferred commander, who reminds him of himself when he only began serving on the Enterprise and who thought that Riker’s going to become a captain on another ship and she’s going to become the first officer on the Enterprise, his first officer was also very tense and interesting to observe. The moment when Data has to connect to Locutus to connect to the Borg cube and take control over it was very cool too, especially when Locutus woke up and tried to attack people around him and Data just disconnected his hand. Wow. It was a great episode and a great way to keep people watching the series (splitting it in two and end the season on the first part).
Icons, 200x100, slightly sharpened, from DS9 S1 HERE.
Benjamin Sisko #26,000
Ferengi (Nog, Rom, Quark & the Grand Nagus) #9,800
Garak #161
Jadzia Dax #11,300
Jake Sisko #4,000
Jean Luc Picard #700
Jennifer Sisko #1,000
Julian Bashir #11,600
Kai Opaka #1,500
Kai Winn #900
Keiko O’Brien #1,800
Kira Nerys #19,000
Lwaxan Troi #1,700
Miles O’Brien #14,400
Odo #17,000
Q #1,700
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