Fandom Star Trek: Vigilance (OOC)

[RPLongAndProsper]

Savir you're going to kill us al

Nope, I will be kept alive so that Bradfield can torture me until the Universe dies.

 

[Error 420]

I'm noticing a common theme of identity throughout the characters. Jack is a transsexual woman, Taris is a hermaphrodite with a fluid gender identity, the captain suffers from his conflicting identities, Kimberly has her weird numerical identity, Bradfield has his problems with losing his human identity, and I haven't seen many signs of it yet, but perhaps we'll see some tension between Savir's emotional Betazoid side and his non-emotional Vulcan traditions. (Not to put that idea into your head for you)

 

[Epiphany]

Hadn't thought of it like that but I dig it all the more.

As for Kimberly's identity, I freely admit the notion I'm working from is splicing the Mudd androids from a century ago with the redone Battlestar Galactica cylons. Series #49 have the same root personality and since Galorian androids are designed to load-share processors for tough problems, I expect they essentially share memory as well, if not exactly identity.

Of course, Starfleet gets to comb through that synchronization data every download, per the terms of permitting the androids off Galor IV...

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I'm noticing a common theme of identity throughout the characters. Jack is a transsexual woman, Taris is a hermaphrodite with a fluid gender identity, the captain suffers from his conflicting identities, Kimberly has her weird numerical identity, Bradfield has his problems with losing his human identity, and I haven't seen many signs of it yet, but perhaps we'll see some tension between Savir's emotional Betazoid side and his non-emotional Vulcan traditions. (Not to put that idea into your head for you)

Well the thing about Savir is that he has quite little that actually makes him a "personality". In both Betazoid and Vulcan traditions, he is a visitor who can learn things, understand them perfectly and simulate the expected behavior, but he never internalized them. Same with Starfleet. He had spent his entire childhood in a lab, where he was treated as an experiment, a weapon, and means to an end. I imagine that the Vulcans who adopted him never treated his problem like humans would, especially because he didn´t seem damaged. But fact remains that for the first ten or eleven years of his life, he had been a subject who had no name, only a number, without attachments to any culture or person - with the exception of other subjects. So even though he later learned the customs of Vulcan, Betazoid and human societies, he is aware that he is not actually part of any of them mentally. He very much DOES have an identity problem, but the problem isn´t the emotions/logic conflict you would expect. It is rather the fact that he sees himself as an observer, mediator, healer or mind breaker, but not an actual member of a culture or social group, because the experience of being outside of normal society during his formative years, and moreover being trained to eavesdrop on others, break them for information and play with their minds, all of that at an early age, sets him apart from everyone else. Naturally, he is aware that this is not normal and the wish to understand what -was- normal in relevant Federation societies laid the grounds for his interest in psychology. So his actual conflict is between being "means to an end" for others and actually dealing with his own shit and becoming somehow involved in his own personal/social life for real, rather than just pretending to be involved. However, seeing as he is fully fuctional and able to live like this without problems, he has little motivation to do so. Which can and probably will change on this ship, but it is too early.

 

[Darkraven]

I'm noticing a common theme of identity throughout the characters. Jack is a transsexual woman, Taris is a hermaphrodite with a fluid gender identity, the captain suffers from his conflicting identities, Kimberly has her weird numerical identity, Bradfield has his problems with losing his human identity, and I haven't seen many signs of it yet, but perhaps we'll see some tension between Savir's emotional Betazoid side and his non-emotional Vulcan traditions. (Not to put that idea into your head for you)

I'm also working on sanity/mental health as a theme, as well as authority VS individualism, with a touch of guilt and coming to terms with the past. Since I write horror, there's going to be a huge dose of that too. There's probably more in there, but those are the ones that stuck out the most.

Anyway, I'm gonna break for saturday. So I'll post in... 28 hours I guess?

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Ouchies... I might have an emotional reaction.

 

[Darkraven]

Ouchies... I might have an emotional reaction.

lol... Well, Sa'vir asked for it

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

He deserves it too! You dont mess with your Captain, not when he didn't have a breakfast!

 

[Error 420]

i'm the one always within beak's reach of the captain, so

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

To post, or not to post...

 

[Error 420]

Why are y'all always talking about how "old" Jack is? She's 37.

 

[Epiphany]

Which isn't old for a human, but it's a little old for an Ensign (why put in the work to be an officer if you don't intend to move up) and it seems surprising that a 37 year old be made an Yeoman. Being a gopher's something you'd more likely do to the kid fresh out of the Academy.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Yea I think that it's not to say that she is old, but you could expect her to have a rank. I remember in one episode, Picard lived an alternative reality, where he had never become a Captain, and was still an ensign. And everyone was f**ing with him, because the general consensus was, if he had not progressed anywhere yet, he was not the material to ever do so. Of course, he was in his 50s then. But still, I guess when you see someone with 10+ years of experience and no rank, you gotta think something went wrong.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Epiphany So, I've been reading your story. How do I vote for option go to the club?

 

[Epiphany]

Oh! You'll notice below the 'Revive That Dying Flame' header on each post is:
Main Story · Voting and Discussion Thread · Interest Check

Click the Voting and Discussion Thread.

And I'd be delighted for more participation! I'm at a work onsite all week so my time's been toasted but I've every intention of continuing.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I really like your writing

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

Why are y'all always talking about how "old" Jack is? She's 37.

I don't ! I don't think so and it would be also short sighted of me, given that Taris is 33.

 

[Darkraven]

Which isn't old for a human, but it's a little old for an Ensign (why put in the work to be an officer if you don't intend to move up) and it seems surprising that a 37 year old be made an Yeoman. Being a gopher's something you'd more likely do to the kid fresh out of the Academy.

There's also the fact that Jack had made one too many mistakes, and she couldn't really be put anywhere and needed supervision. That, and she's a 37 y.o. Ensign. Still, if I'm her, I'd be happy to be a yeoman compared to say... a sanitary technician or plasma conduit maintenance officer.

There were also reasons for the captain to make her a yeoman, which he hadn't revealed.

Yea I think that it's not to say that she is old, but you could expect her to have a rank. I remember in one episode, Picard lived an alternative reality, where he had never become a Captain, and was still an ensign. And everyone was f**ing with him, because the general consensus was, if he had not progressed anywhere yet, he was not the material to ever do so. Of course, he was in his 50s then. But still, I guess when you see someone with 10+ years of experience and no rank, you gotta think something went wrong.

Actually, Picard was Junior Lieutenant in that alternate reality, which is rather low considering that he was 50+ by that point. I think Jack Keiper is actually better off than 'Junior Lieutenant Picard'

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Yeah I am super intrested to see what the Captain's interest in her is. I love how he is dropping subtle hints in his thoughts but nothing too substantial.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Why cant I write a short post. Why always a damn novel...

 

[Epiphany]

That's a damn good novel.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

That's a damn good novel.

Thank you! Them feels!
(But seriously, even my diploma thesis was 25 pages longer than it should have been. And I deleted two paragraphs of that post because I don't wanna own the entire game )

 

[Darkraven]

Thank you! Them feels!
(But seriously, even my diploma thesis was 25 pages longer than it should have been. And I deleted two paragraphs of that post because I don't wanna own the entire game )

I see that I've found a kindred spirit. Back in university, I can imagine the collective sigh of my professors when I consistently went over the word limit, even for my final year project, which is a short story that went 33% over the limit...

Shame that we won't get to see that deleted scene lol

I like what I'm seeing so far. To speed things up, I'm gonna try to post ASAP. Expect a post within 10 hours.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Darkraven Have you had an essay handed back cause it was too long? I always did from one professor, too lazy to read I guess!

 

[Epiphany]

That is a large part of it. I say as someone who used to grade hundreds of papers.

That said, there is arguably something to be said for being able to say what you need to say in a certain length. Particularly in the business world, no one has patience for 10 page papers...