DS9 AU where during somewhere in s7 Starfleet picks a random distress call from some planet that turns out to be from Jadzia who was stranded there for a couple of years, because she got transported-duplicated in some accident, Thomas Riker style. She comes back to the station and now Sisko has to live with the company of Two Daxes present in his life, full time

So, Star Trek: Picard - here is my late review of this season as a whole. Spoilers for the whole season under the cut.

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honestly the fact that Elnor knew Data had a cat because Picard would tell him stories about Data during the visits, the fact Will and Deanna’s daughter was born long after Data was dead but she still knew that he liked Sherlock Holmes, and to play violin, and that he ran super fast and about his desires to be more human-like, that Will, without a word, just by the general context but that just seeing the way Soji moved, that he could see that she was Data’s daughter….

they all loved Data so much :(

i saw the argument that the Picard show is Bad and full of plotholes because of the androids essentially being used as slaves up until the Mars incident, because Measure of a Man had granted the androids the rights of autonomy and is so dumb because like, the only decision reached in that episode was that Data was not in fact property of Stafleet, it was not about rights everywhere for androids.

it so much wasn’t about that, it was one of the main issues of The Offspring - Data was granted his autonomy, but they weren’t so willing to grant the same grace for Lal and the poor girl stressed so much she literally died because of that. Picard and Data were fighting tooth and nail to give Lal this same rights, but in fact for what I remember no conclusion was reached because she died. had she stayed alive, big chance was that she would have been kept by the Federation anyways

also the moral argument (Federation wouldn’t do that) is also dumb like, wasn’t there a Voyager episode where they were using sentient EMHs to essentially do slave labor? smh

honestly the earnest, sorrowful but absolute tender way that Picard speaks about Data in Star Trek: Picard never fails to choke me up

in Star Trek: TNG, Picard wasn’t the warmest of the captains - never cold really, but it also took him seven years to participate in the poker game of his crew. in Measure of a Man, he initially tries to persuade Data to give his autonomy to Starfleet, until he realizes exactly what he is doing

and then comes Nemesis and Data sacrifices himself to save him. I always hated Nemesis and the decision to kill the android character, but the way that STP is handling this… I like it quite a lot, because it’s so clearly haunted by this loss, by the sacrifice a friend did for him to live, and it affects him so deeply that such an unique being like Data died for him

Picard left Starfleet faced with the fiasco of Federation’s lack of compassion for the Romulans and for the mess that was the prohibition of synts, retired and hide from the world, but as soon as Dajh appears and he discovers she’s his “daughter”, she gains his immediatly devotion - If you are who I think you are you are dear to me in ways that you can’t understand.I will never leave you - he tells her, means every word of it. She is a piece of Data, and she has his heart from this fact alone. and when Dajh dies and he can’t save her he is SO heartbroken - She deserved better from me - he says, means every word again - couldn’t save Data, couldn’t save his daughter.

and then the information that she has a twin. As soon as he learns about Soji Asha, the desperation he feels to try and save her, the hopeless operation, the mismatched crew, going along despite knowing hardly anything, he’s just trying about everything to try and save her the way he couldn’t save her sister

and the desperation, again, when he meets Soji already activated - I’m a friend of a friend of your father’s  - and the way he begs that she lets him help her - Please, Soji, let me help you. Please, trust me. Please

and there’s more to it to the story, of course - Federation’ corruption, the Tal Shiar involvement, and the fact that he wants to get to the bottom of it but at the end, it all started, it all began with Picard’s love of Data and his sense of his loss of his dear friend that haunts him.

one of the things i always deeply disliked about the AOS films was the decision of destroying Romulus in the prime verse and Vulcan in the Kelvin timeline because like… this is such a huge thing, not so easily brushed off, and the films because of their structure and because of the time itself could never hope to truly portrait the impact it would have

and tbh this is one of the things I’m liking the most about Star Trek: Picard, the fact that it did have a huge impact in the universe, that it’s still having repercussions, that what happened with the Romulanss resulted in other messes happening, like the whole Mars thing with the androids, and the role of the Federation on it all

all the Star Trek flirted with the idea of the Federation having a dark side, even TOS, and ofc no one did it more than DS9, but now we’re really seeing the Federation being really upfront about this dark side, no subterfuge necessary and i’m finding it so interesting to see familiar characters in this new world

when we had Picard in TNG being hopeful and optimistic in a perfect world it didn’t mean a whole lot - easy to be a saint on Paradise, and all that - but seeing him still believing in those principles in a much darker world…. really makes me enjoy him much more in this new lightning tbh

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so i’ve read the cursed gomens screenplay for the film that was supposed to happen in the 90’s and (thankfully) never happened that was making the rounds on my dash yesterday and today and… it really is cursed, uh

like if i was going to judge it just as a story, just as a screenplay without any other context I would say it could make a somewhat decent film, though it would be in a cheesy, forgettable work. But like as an adaptation it would be wild man because it really doesn’t carry any of the charm of the book or any of the charm of the characters’ personalities lmao

i mean crowley in this screenplay is. such. an. asshole. He really is. He’s just SO mean and he’s weirdly a misanthrope? Is startling how much he loathes humanity and that he genuinely wants the Apocalypse to happen. And in all gomens verses - be the book, the show, the radio play even - you get the sense that Crowley and Aziraphale are really good friends who like each other a lot, and that Crowley respects Aziraphale,  but in this thing here, he barely tolerates Aziraphale at best. If this had become a movie, I think some of these sharper edges could have been softened, depending in how the acting would be, but like there ain’t any way you could soften him saying to Aziraphale “you’re so stupid you don’t deserve to live” like… that’s so mean, this Aziraphale - whose unbeliavable naivete’s is really overplayed - surely deserve better friends ):

also Madame Tracy’s adopting Adam is a wild idea but honestly I think it could be cool if this Madame Tracy was anything like she was in the book or the show but in here it’s just so. Weird. In a non fun way. (tho now I kind want to read a fic who uses this concept but like. in a good way). Also hate that The Them aren’t friends and that Brian is such a tiny bully asshole.I kind like this version of Anathema tho, even if she doesn’t have the Book, it doesn’t feel like she was as butchered as the other characters were

to point two good things I will say that weirdly Satan was my favorite character. He is very charming and honestly a good sport about Adam not wanting to be the Antichrist thing. Also Shadwell doesn’t exist in this play and he’s not missed at all

tl;dr this screenplay is an entertaining read that would have made a pretty terrible adaptation and i’m glad it never saw the light of the day

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