Tng - Blog Posts

it IS true that deep space nine is very much in conversation with the next generation and you should probably watch the latter before seeing the former to get everything it's trying to get across, but, on occasion, watching ds9 without having seen tng is extremely funny

hope y'all got some skeletons in your closets to feed the neighborhood's Moopsy this year :P

I've been working on a collection of interlinked shortfics that span from TNG season 1 to PIC. "Us, Part I" is a noir romance-drama shortstory that belongs to the series. Set after Nemesis (S18E22) it is about Lore writing a Holonovel to work through some dilemma.

Pose reference below cut.

pose based on a drawing by Frederick Barnard (1846-1896)

absolutely 100% canon depiction of Lore in season 1

Star Trek TNG 2x01 "Peak Performance"

Riker: "You're outmanned, you're outgunned, you're outequipped, what else have you got?"

Worf: "Guile"

I don't really have anything to say this is stupid

More starry-eyed Q (and friends!)

Hi my name is Sarag and if I made Star Trek: The Next Generation I would have put the stars in Q's eyes.

Bonus og sketches I made while very ill (you can tell!) a week ago:

U know, I went to get my blood drawn today and the doctor had a Kirk/Spock article open on his monitor, so in light of that I've decided cringe is dead. Enjoy the fruits of this revelation.

What fandoms are you in?

Heyoo! Here's some stuff I think is neat

The books:

Dune

Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller books

Christopher Paolini, lately I really like Murtagh and his sci-fi books (To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and Fractal Noise) and ofc I read his Inheritance Cycle as a kid a number of times

Asimov's Robot stories and Caves of Steel trilogy (thinking about re-reading Foundation and the sequels)

The shows/movies:

Spy x Family

Over the Garden Wall

Star Trek TNG

All the Studio Ghibli Movies (that I've seen lol)

Doctor Who (haven't seen it all)

Bleach

Samurai Jack and Primal (when I can stomach it, it's beautiful and really cool it can just be.. a lot)

Coraline, Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride

The theatre:

Hadestown

Little Shop of Horrors (the movie too ofc)

Hunchback

The Ninth Hour (also in music bc it's a Shayfer James album it's so gooood)

The games:

Apex

Zelda (still playing BoTW)

Ace Attorney (only played the trilogy so far) (there's also an anime and I love it too hehe)

Undertale/Deltarune

Portal 1 and 2 ofc

Primordia is cool too

Music:

Might not really be a fandom thing but some bands and artists I really like are

I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (everything is good but specifically really loving Gloom Division rn)

Shayfer James (SHIPWRECK. AAAAH. THE NINTH HOUR [AAAAAAAH]

And Jazz Emu, Robyn Adele Anderson (she does cool covers), Gorillaz, half•alive, uhh classical music in general

And all that yet to be seen

Thanks for asking! I love to ramble about these things (though I usually have a more limited knowledge than more dedicated fans lol)

There's so many things that I want to watch/play but haven't yet, so this list will only expand with time.

Surprisingly often, to be honest.

You ever just... yell about #star trek the next generation??

Credit @Aelkus on Twitter

the way I kinda like pulaski more than crusher

one of the most underrated things about star trek is the way every other character is highly proficient in a truly random instrument. they're like broken little dnd characters with too many proficiencies. I love it.

heres this data thing i drew like 7 months ago and never posted

even in the future, cats really like interrupting your work (featuring the obscene number of tablets they use in star trek because i find it so funny)

Dreaming of electric sheep.

I will be the first to say that Riker haters are so valid but when it comes to me. I LOVE the Troi-Riker relationship. Every moment between them is like, I love you more deeply and passionately than anyone I have ever known or loved before and I want you to leave me alone about it. I'm excited when you get laid. People ask me for permission to date you. Every day we sit on either side of the capital-C Captain and we pretend that we are complete, confident professionals, and have never had our faces in each other's genitals. My mom tried to marry you. I had to stand watch when you gave birth because I couldn't bear to lose you. You are the only person that I can cry in front of. You know my mind as well as you know your own. We will never talk about it and we will never know what we could be but I love you I love you I love you.

I'm fine.

Autistic girlies when the TNG episode implies that Data does have emotions but he experiences/presents them differently than most people

more Dorf art I never shared!! 🛰🍹🌴

caveat: all trek is beautiful, this is in no way a better/worse thing

i joke that one of the biggest problems I have with tng characterization is the 'we need to give a character the Bad Opinion' phenomena.

an episode wants to explore a moral quandry through plot, but for that to work, they usually need to Give A Character The Bad Opinion– it's often Geordi, or Riker, or Worf who take a stance that's less generous, more defensive, or just plain wrong-through-misunderstanding. now this does give the episode narrative structure, where the character with the Better Opinion and the Bad Opinion can have interpersonal conflict, and then this can resolve in a nuanced understanding. I get it. it's basic plot construction. but this also gives these Bad Opinion prone characters some wildly uneven characterization over the show's run.

I've been rewatching some ds9 episodes (I only just finished my first watchthrough last month) and I've realized that ds9 avoids this issue by simply having so many more characters who are not good people.

It's weird when they write Geordi being unnecessarily stubborn and easily-annoyed towards Scotty, or Riker being a shouty hard-ass to Barkley– because both of these characters are fundamentally good people who we need to root for. It's weird to see them being complete dickbags above and beyond what seems congruous to their characterization, when the whole point of the show is that the crew of the Enterprise is flawed but fundamentally equipped to carry out their mission.

By contrast, it makes perfect sense that Garak would be the one to try and exterminate the Founders instead of finding an ethical peace. It makes perfect sense for Quark to position himself on the side of whatever benefits his business most, even if it's horrific. None of this feels incongruous with who they are throughout the rest of the show– because their function as characters simply doesn't depend on you rooting for them the way you want to root for tng characters.

just thinking a lot of thoughts about this horrible satellite zoo of freaks and bad people who still deserve community. thinking a lot about how you don't have to be good to have a home.

People are always like "why do they let Data play poker with them, his brain is a computer, he has an unfair advantage," and the answer is simply because it's for fun!! He's their friend! Like can you imagine if they told Data he can't play, he'd be like "I understand, that's a logical decision, and as an android I am unable to feel left out," but then any time the poker game came up he'd be looking at Riker across the bridge like

Whenever Picard and Data hang out Picard's energy is always like a father who loves his son but is terrified he's going to start talking about Pokémon again.

experimentation with data

crying over this clip of data copying geordi crossing his arms