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Mar 8

#MicroTreks

“I’m all for the personnel serving with me to express what they’re feeling, but,” begins Jellico. “There’s a time and place for it. And that time and place is not on my bridge during a crisis.”

Kovich sits still, peering at Jellico through his glasses.
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“If we’re thrust into a chaotic situation, the survival of my ship and crew depends on the orderly implementation of my commands by my bridge crew,” Jellico explains. “I would expect the same of my own child during a crisis.”

“So you are a father?” Kovich asks.
2/10

“Yes,” Jellico replies. “I have a son.”

“Have you ever been with him during a crisis?” Kovich asks.

“As a matter of fact, I have,” Jellico answers. “The Cairo was about to enter into a pretty nast ion storm.”
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Mar 8

#MicroTreks

Picard stands amid the black, crackled beams. A memory of ash colors the breeze.

His nostrils flare, pulling in air. He kneels, pressing a fist in the dirt, his eyes closed.

“We’ll rebuild,” a woman begins. Her footfalls crunch the dead, dry debris and grass.
1/6

“It’ll be just as it was,” the woman says.

“Perhaps you can indulge in a replicator now,” Picard says, standing up.

They embrace for a long, heavy moment.

“Marie,” he says.

“Jean-Luc,” Marie replies.

“It’ll be better than it was,” Picard says.
2/6

“And it will be yours,” Marie says.

Picard pulls out of the hug. “What? Mine? No. This is your home.”

“It stopped being my home when—well,” Marie says.

Picard runs a hand over his head and nods. “I—I will cherish every vine, every board of wood.”
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@ShelfNerds

Mar 7

#MicroTreks

Saru and T’Rina step onto the holodeck.

“Did you have a specific program in mind?” Saru asks.

“Perhaps, you might show me Kaminar?” T’Rina replies.

“It would bring me great joy to show you my home,” Saru replies, excited. “Uh, Zora. Please run program Saru 1.”
1/5

Simulated grains of sand vibrated into form beneath Saru and T’Rina’s feet. The hush of the tide streaking the beach conspires with the whisper of the trees to pull their anxious minds.

“In here, it is almost possible to forget about the danger the DMA poses,” T’Rina says.
2/5

“I am sorry that your home is in danger,” Saru says. “I know too well the pain of—of not being able to return to one’s home.”

T’Rina nods. “The scent is—intoxicating.”

“Ah yes,” Saru says. “The kelp is almost ready for harvest.”
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@ShelfNerds

Mar 7

#StarTrek has always explored human nature through Scifi conceits. Humans are emotional beings by nature.

Effective storytelling relates the emotional, internal conflicts of characters.

#StarTrek has 50+ years of effective storytelling.
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Because modern Trek tells stories in compressed serialized seasons, the emotional density of these stories—episode by episode—is greater.

Sometimes the emotional content is over-relied upon. Sometimes older Trek didn’t explore the emotional lives of characters enough.
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Whether a series entitled #StarTrek is Trek or not Trek is the wrong position to take. #StarTrek is in the title.

It’s more productive to say whether the emotional content works for you or not.
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Mar 7

Episodes of #StarTrek with emotion, mental health, and self-reflection at the center of the narrative, a thread…

“Faces”

“Jetrel”

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@ShelfNerds

Mar 7

#MicroTreks

“No, go for it,” Jurati says. “Ask me anything.”

“Anything?” Soji asks.

“That’s what I said,” Jurati replies.

Soji leans forward, her face incredibly still, her eyes wide. “Do you—regret what you did?”

Jurati tilts her head, confused.

“To Bruce,” Soji adds.
1/8

Jurati’s lungs stiffen as if a lightning strike rattled through them.

“You—you don’t have to answer that,” Soji says. “I—I just sometimes blame myself for Picard’s—well, I’m so thankful you and Dr. Soong could give him a second chance.”

Jurati stood up and left the table.
2/8

“Oh,” Soji says. “Okay.”

Jurati sits back down with two a drink. “A special concoction I affectionately call a Sour Rios.”

Soji picks up a glass. “What’s in it?”

“Better not to ask,” Jurati says, smirking as she takes a swig. She gently places the glass on the table.
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