Everyday it’s like I’m deeper into this ship. It all started when we didn’t get a dance at the gala. I had to write a mini fic, and then I had to attempt a drawing, and they’ve got me now.

Well yeah. I mean they got their hooks into me from episode 1 the moment Raffi started talking about Seven, but the preview of the gala (so like the episode before that) was the moment that tipped me from just “screaming at the TV” to “thinking about them everyday + needing to create stuff for them”.

I watch a lot of shows. But if I make stuff for it? waaaaay beyond like 😂

Before Kirk and Spock there was Pike and Spock and a whole other five year mission. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.

I will fly this ship myself if I have to, I need this spinoff so bad! Anyway I did honestly think about this quite hard the classic yellow to evoke TOS but the federation emblem like the discovery title, also the E in the emblem for Enterprise. This is what we could have and I’m going to keep my fingers crossed.

Rewatched all of Number One/Enterprises scenes. Googled a lot too. It’s really annoying that we don’t have a full name for Number One. It’s Commander Una ??? and I need to know for reasons.

Read a fanfic yesterday and it had this paragraph which I thought was a perfect summary. Pike does something stupid and noble and then she calls in favours to clean up whatever mess he made before the Star Fleet brass find out.

It was a ship fic and I don’t know if I ship them. I maybe could? But thus far I have just seen a deep warm friendship with a lot of respect. I know the 60’s pilot had Number One supposedly crushing on Pike but they have changed stuff since then (like the entire makeup of the bridge crew) and so I don’t think they are necessarily sticking rigidly to it. I mean there is a line between canon and simply not contradicting it because maybe the bridge crew simply changed due to transfers since Talos IV. So maybe with all the mindgames it wasn’t true, or maybe it was but not in a “I want to marry you” way, more of “you are the person I see the most so it’s situational” (I think there’s a word for that?).

Anyway I wish she had a full name despite me absolutely loving how snarky she was in the debriefing. “Name and rank?” “Number One” hehe and with such a “are we done yet?” about it. Google did suggest her name was Robbins but it also gave several alternate first names so /shrug until they tell us for sure it’s ???

I’ve been trying to think of what they might call a Star Trek series with Pike as Captain of the Enterprise (aka the spin-off from Discovery that I want more than air) and it’s tough. They can’t call it Enterprise because that’s been done. My thought then went to their five year mission but there has already been a series called Voyager.

My next thought was a follow-on because it’s not just exploring the stars but also reflecting on themselves – Pike knows his future now after all, but Star Trek: Exploration, or Star Trek: Reflection didn’t sound right. Thesaurus kicked back Reverie when I put reflection in but the definition is all about day-dreaming rather than learning about one’s limits and learning to value oneself, so while it sounded better, it wasn’t appropriate.

Right now I’m toying with Star Trek: The Lost Years, or something of that ilk, because in the UK there was a TV show called Dad’s Army, and the BBC lost/recorded over a few episodes, and they became known as The Lost Episodes. Well Trek was supposed to be Pike initially but the pilot was rejected and anyway it became Kirk and a legend was born. So a series following Pike pre-the Kirk years, it’s like we’ve heard whispers of this story but never got to see it – these are the Lost Years.

Then of course thematically, Pike knows he’s a marked man, he’s living on borrowed time. These are ‘found’ years but knowing what he does, how can he make promises to people, or fall in love, or make any kind of future plans, when he knows that at some point the time crystal vision will come true. So in some respect those are Lost Years, as he can’t live them as he would have before he knew his fate – he has lost himself. It circles back to my thought about reflection and learning about ourselves and not just the stars.

That could pick up from Star Trek: Beyond, with the quote:

It isn’t uncommon, you know, even for a captain, to want to leave. There is no relative direction in the vastness of space. There is only yourself, your ship, your crew. It’s easier than you think, to get lost. 

Enterprise is on a five year mission, lost in the vastness of space, pushing back the final frontier. I don’t know, I think it works on a few levels, but I’m sure if they do make it (and I really, really hope they do but I also want to be realistic and acknowledge they might not, even though they did build a proper set for the Enterprise bridge gah). Anyway, I’m sure that if they do make it, then they will come up with a better name. For now though I think I’m going to refer to it like this in my head 🙂

Just watched Star Trek: Discovery’s season 2 finale so all caught up!

Two main comments:

1) I need a Captain Pike led Star Trek: Enterprise spin-off more than I need air. I don’t know what they would call it but the Enterprise looked incredible and it would be criminal to only see the bridge just this once.

2) *cough* a good percentage of my enthusiasm for a spin-off is probably due to my utter love for Rebecca Romijin’s Number One. It is true that my fondness is from the fact that she is Eve Baird (Librarians) But the brief glimpse we got showed that she was a kickass fascinating character in her own right that I would love love love to see explored more. She had one scene earlier on this season and then a handful in this two-part finale. I need more!

Which is where the comedy part of my comment comes in because the Rumbelle fandom has spoiled me. I found anyelle fic so bizarre a concept years back when I learned of it, then I found it fun to play with and now I find it so sad that there is no Librarians in the 23rd century, immortal guardian Eve Baird in Star Fleet talk. Why don’t all fandoms have super fun fandom-smushing?

Loved your answers…didn’t realize you were a Trekkie as well. Are you looking forward to the new series next year? I may msg you at more length later regarding other answers in this post!

Yup! I can’t wait. The few things I know about the new series all sound really awesome, plus it’s new!

I’m a bad Trekkie really as my introduction to the franchise was the new reboot movies. I know everyone says the movies aren’t proper Trek and I have tried to watch the TV series. The only series I got into was Enterprise, and it’s no accident it’s the newest. I find if I watch the older shows, I’m not enjoying them as I would a sci-fi show, I’m laughing at how out of date they are, which I know is wrong. I feel bad about it because I want to like them.

It’s weird because I can watch some older shows without a problem. I like Cagney and Lacey, which was 1980′s, same era as Star Trek: TNG, but TNG just feels older. Plus I really can’t stand Wesley Crusher, it feels like he’s special for no reason and makes the other characters OOC, and I always hate characters like that. For me, Skye on Agents of Shield is the same and Sydney on Alias etc. I can’t stand either of them, though I do like both shows, they have other characters which make up for it and I’m getting off topic.

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