Picard is the Star Trek Fusion Fic I Always Wanted

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 04:18:08 GMT

Having seen Picard as "Firefly Season 2" and now being unable to not see it, I spent all episode identifying the characters: Formerly idealistic soldier who is now a cynical captain on a biddy boat for hire (Rios/Mal); the hilarious badass pilot (Rios hologram/Wash); loyal bamf second-officer who is constantly frustrated by her CO but will still move heaven and earth to save his ass (Zoe/Raffi); innocent doctor who is in WAY over their head (Simon/Agnes); super-powered waif (River/Soji); the narc who is after her (Narek/The Operative LOOK THEY EVEN JUST SPELLED "Narc" WEIRD OKAY); the former powerful member of the current government who is now on the outs and also a spiritual mission (Book/Picard); the scary merc (Seven/Jayne).

Oh! and Super sinister government assassins: Tal Shiar/Blue Sun Company.

And I guess this leaves Elnor as the super-cute Mary Sue we all wanna be??? I mean.... tragic backstory, total bamf, kiiiiiiiinda adopted by Picard, always the prettiest.... It checks out.

THIS IS THE BEST AU EVER, Y'ALL!

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Incomplete Thoughts About Gender and Heroism

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 06:41:27 GMT

Prompted by recently reading somewhere negative commentary on the Wonder Woman film because her power was love and compassion. Also ass-kicking, but also love. And right now I'm rereading Tamora Pierce's Alanna books and reading for the first time her Protector of the Small books, all of which involve girls wanting to be knights and performing heroics. But all of their heroics are centered around martial arts and what we would consider traditional bravery in terms of standing up to bullies, fighting literal monsters, and so on.

And what struck me is how we kind of have this narrative of heroism = violence, and therefore women heroes have to either 1) be born warriors (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wonder Woman), 2) be traumatized and become warriors (Jessica Jones, River Tam), or 3) choose to be warriors For Reasons (Agent Carter, Gabrielle from Xena), etc.

But like, there isn't much of a narrative for non-fightey heroics?

And then on the flip-side, slightly, you get stuff like Pacific Rim that does switch it up, with Raleigh being the emotional nurturing one, and Mako being the Traumatized and Opting for Warrior one.

And so I guess my main thought is to wonder: What does a non-fightey woman hero look like? Is she possible?

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Picard is the Star Trek Fusion Fic I Always Wanted

Incomplete Thoughts About Gender and Heroism