Four Alignments

Malcolm Reed still part of Section 31 AU during NX-01 mission.

The Enterprise visits a planet, where Malcolm is a honeypot stationed at. And immediacy Archer and the crew go like WTF, how is a human allll the way out here? Plans a recuse mission to get Reed out and upsetting the local leaders. Malcolm is blind sided by this and as to why anyone would do this sort of thing for someone like him; he doesn't think he deserves it and frightened at the prospect of what Harris will do to him and he will find him. During the ensuing battle, the console explodes or weapons backfire and the NX-01 loses their tactical officer, and Reed jumps in and demonstrates his aptitude toward weapons and rallies the crew.

Slowly Malcolm starts coming out of his shell, falling in love with Trip, and finding a found family and love.

However, Harris starts reasserting himself over Reed. First asking nicely to come back to Section 31 at the next trading post/planet to meet up with a handler, so he can be debriefed and all will be forgiven, before his next assignment. Doesn't work. Next offer, he can stay on the Enterprise, if he can do other assignments on the side for gathering intel and also keeping tabs on Archer and to see how much they can bend to Section 31's agenda. Malcolm refuses, doesn't want to betray the trust that Trip, Archer and the crew have given him. Now the gloves are off, on an away mission/diplomatic mission, Trip gets poisoned and hey can you lookie there Section 31 has the antidote! Malcolm and an away team finds the hideout, find the cure and get into a firefight.

At this point everyone is quite worried about Malcolm.

Archer, Trip and T'Pol have a meeting and are all thinking. what does this Harris guy have over Reed---they think its blackmail. During date night Movie night, watching James Bond. Malcolm lets slip, of how this is so unrealistic to have all this gear and the real intelligence work is observing and listening. Trip puts it together. T'pol has also came up with that consoluson as well due to her connection she did hear rumors about earth having their own covert ops tells Archer and Trip.

However, T'Pol is not forthcoming to share the other piece of information about overhearing a conversation/ seeing an encounter with a very young Malcolm Reed and older senior officers talking about their sexual conquests laughing. Reed briskly walking down the hallway, head down not trying to make eye contact trying to deliver a report. The officers stop Reed to adjust his uniform for him, its not perfectly straight. Malcolm asks not to be touched. She didn't think much of it at the time.

These senior officers who've now risen though the ranks to the admiralty thanks to their connections to Section 31 and directly benefiting from the intel that Malcolm provided.

To prove that he can Harris, with very strong knockout gas, knocks out the enterprise crew (for eight hours), except for Reed. To reassert domination over Mal. At the start, Malcolm believes Harris is going to kill his found family. Malcolm feels alone as Harris hunts him. It really does show off Mal's black op skills.

Harris almost breaks Malcolm by talking. Saying that Malcolm was his masterpiece. Threatens to kill Trip multiple times. Before finally raping Malcolm. He just wants Malcolm to return home.

and this is the final time that he will be asked. The next time he will be commanded to be returned; that even Archer can't defend him from. And the punishment won't just severe, he'll be subject to reconditioning because he's just too valuable of an asset to waste. He is a masterpiece.

Malcolm tries to act normal as the crew wakes up starts piecing things together for what happen during that eight hours that Malcolm isn't admitting too.

I was feeling very angsty and I chose violence against Malcolm Reed.

Plus, its been awhile since I've watched Enterprise. I need to refresh myself. So you can go ahead start writing!

One more thing that I forgot to add:

When the other admirals call up, even Admiral Forest can't help them and tells Archer not to start a fight with them, they will destroy you. Captain Archer: Challenge accepted. Giving Archer orders to hand over Malcolm for debrief, Archer is like 'I would rather make a rock bleed than hand over Malcolm. He's a part of my crew. not gonna happen'' Got give Archer credit, when he thinks he is in the right, he will fight tooth and nail to prove it.

The Enterprise crew:

"Where's the prince?" "What about Sam?"

WELL...

Me:

I love it! This is so GREAT! Sam taking on Clu's colors, but he still has his own design. I love it!!!!

Julian Dillinger is a deeper character than we see. Is he the “villain” in some instances, yes, he essentially kidnapped Eve and ordered her deleted for the code. He bombed ENCOM’s grid. He’s an asshole.

But is he the bad guy? No. What he did was outta line for sure, but I see why he acts the way he does.

Every time we see a Dillinger they are very self centered, very about the numbers a control. Elizabeth is very controlling of her son, she’s not very warm with him either. After the pitch she tells him to straighten up the second his shoulders hunch, she doesn’t sound proud or interested in his project. It’s all about the numbers, the company, what he’s doing to be better than the one before.

When he’s hacking ENCOM the first thing his mother said when she entered the room was about the board. Everything she says to him is about the company. Even when he’s trying to stops Athena, instead of reading the room she tells him she’s taking her place back from him, which makes him desperate because his position is the only thing he has that’s a form of validation.

It’s clear that their relationship isn’t common motherly love, it’s conditional.

“And he will write his name on the face of time in blood!” He goes to extremes because that’s the only way he feels is to be noticed. To be powerful means he will be seen, to be remembered. Ares scans him and his hud lists Julian as depressed, which isn’t specified why but could be because of his constant attempt to be better than the one before. Who is his mother that keeps breathing down his neck and scrutinizing everything he’s doing.

Now I used “villain” in quotes because he’s not the bad guy like how Athena isn’t necessarily the bad guy either. He a good representation of what it means to choose your words wisely, while also showing what it means to have no heathy support. He’s misguided because there is no guide.

Force fields as nonlethal containment ("yeah I've been working on it in my spare time 😊")

Starfleet emergency protocols (well he's getting there at least)

Clearance codes to prevent impersonation of senior officers (while actively losing his mind at that!)

Better transporter safety measures (in the episode right after)

The man who joined Starfleet because he couldn't handle the career he was "meant for", whose parents neither understood nor approved of his decision, who's only beginning to realise that he has value as more than a safety railing for the people who matter...

The regulations and technology he created are still in use centuries in the future. Starships whose crews he'll never meet are protected by his inventions.

It’s so fascinating looking at legacy because basically in all of Flynn’s actions he has created the perfect situation to justify hatred and disbelief in the users.

Flynn did all the heavy work for Clu. There is no need to propagandize and lie when , in your view God has indeed abandoned you. He had taken a Polytheistic society that used to have more more individualized deities and inadvertently turned it Monotheistic. Between him constantly leaving and then going into hiding- to this society he truly has abandoned them. They have no other User input, requests, commands - he is it and he has left them.

As cycles go on belief wanes, this is a system that used to have direct and constant interactions with users and what they’re capable of and hasn’t in generations. Memory wanes, anger stews, distrust grows. And who comes in to pick up the pieces? Clu. He’s not making a single thing up, unlike most dictators he fully believes everything he spews and from a point of view… he’s right. (Again that’s terrifying).

Where the MCP had to forcefully capture and eliminate programs who still believed in the users (that he hadn’t assimilated or drained). Clu doesn’t. Belief was nearly stamped out organically!! In the grid it has truly become a cultish set of unwavering belief— unlike in Encom where it was a organic part of life stamped out by force. This is more “choosing to leave religion” if it’s comparative?

Those who fight in the games are strays- not regular programs but those broken or lost that are out just… wandering. Those are the ones that get tossed into the arena or rectified (from what we see in the movie) it’s not like the MCP. Clu doesn’t have to work so hard to get rid of belief because I cannot state enough, Flynn did all the heavy work himself.

In this grid the games are a purpose, horrific but using the infrastructure left behind by Flynn. Strays get the games — survival. Regular programs have something to do — watch.

There’s no mindcontrol in the crowd- their user hate and games enjoyment is a necessity if they want a society at all. If it is to believed— as Flynn himself stated Clu can’t create, he can repurpose. He’s the overseer! Not the creator. He’s doing what he can with what he has… he built Rome, which is not good (as sympathetic as I am towards Clu there’s like 12 other things you could’ve done before building Rome)

No one is a better example of Lost faith than Castor.

He’s fought for Flynn and his beloved ISOs , he was one of the best so much so he’s still sought after. He’s changed. “I believed but what did that do for me?” What did it get him but heartache and so many dead companions and at the end of it , after all this fighting Flynn disappears! His fall into self preservation and sour attitude towards users is completely understandable.

It’s sad that this has happened as the original film and novelization describe belief in the users as this intrinsic and natural thing all programs know to be true. And to have a situation where so many willingly abandon belief because there is no communication (‘user requests are what computers are for’) or purpose. That it had been made so easy for clu to turn that sorrow into a burning hatred. It is sad that this thing they all desire the most has basically been made into a cult sect who can’t let go of something that used to be so basic. Above all it’s just so fascinating that this all happened naturally supposed to by a regime, all Clu had to do was step up and acknowledge it.

In conclusion:

Now I’m not saying Flynn did any of this on purpose, he didn’t want to abandon anything, he didn’t want to create a system with no purpose. He was a excited young man who wanted to recreate something cool and was given the powers of a god. He didn’t know the impact even the smallest action could cause. He did not have bad intentions but oh boy did he fuck up.

Can you imagine what it felt like? After wanting nothing but to face Flynn again, to scream at him, to yell and kick and scream and cry— this is a man you thought of for cycles wanting to destroy him— wanting to ask him, why? You finally face him after thousands of cycles it’s happening and… he’s old.

Clu is faced with this remorseful old man. He looks so impossibly tired, so weak and sad that it practically breaks him. Then Flynn opens his mouth and starts to apologize, the anger becomes confused and it lessens— he’s sorry. But he can’t even apologize right. He makes the effort and he still fails— in fact he essentially calls clu a mistake to his face and makes it about himself then a full apology- he sees clu as his mistake but not his own program. can you fucking imagine that mix of emotions ? Seeing this sad old man in-front of you who can’t possibly be the same man you’ve been harboring all this hate for. But you’ve known nothing but anger and confusion for most of your runtime, what else is there to feel? Then he apologizes… but he’s not… then he’s doing everything in his power to stop you for some stranger— a son. Is that not what you are? The two of you were supposed to build the perfect system (same team? We’re always on the same team.) doesn’t he see this is all you have left- escape is the only way out? No he’s never seen- the anger returns.

Anyways… thinking about how the concept of Aging and children being non existant to programs (there is old programs but it is not a fast process. You’d need to be ancient) and how that plays into the final fight with Clu. How Flynn is so close but so far to understanding where he had messed up, how Clu is in a way the forgotten son.

The absolute desperation of Clu’s face to reach the portal for some mythical better place. It becomes so clear in that moment it was never about domination or control, and it hits me almost as hard as when Sam and Flynn reunite.

How far would you go to restore your legacy? How much blood- human or program -would you be willing to spill for it to succeed?

Julian wanted success for the Dillinger name, he wanted to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps, to bring it out of the shadows and above Encom no matter the cost.

What’s a few billion programs down the drain? A few million dollars in infrastructure damage? One death for another, his own mother for Eve’s mind, it’s all worth it to him in the grand scheme.

He has his grandfather’s ambition, and his grandfather’s folly. He’s blind to the repercussions of his actions until they involve him personally, and even then he’s unrepentant.

Watch Tron: Ares and meet Julian Dillinger

Did you all watch Tron Ares. Korea was released on 10/8, and I've already played twice watched movie.

Evan Peters' performance is absolutely superb. It was nice to come to mind of James Patrick March and Kai Anderson a little bit. (the Dillinger is relatively better than them, of course.) really love Evan's shouting. I love how he shouted in contrast to his real personality 🥰🥰🥰

OMG! OMG! OH MY LORD! F*** ! 😱

Julian Dillinger.. Makes me horny

There's a scene in

the movie where Julian's mom taps Julian on the shoulder saying, "Congratulations." Julian is eating the snack with his eyes open loosely.

At that time, Evan Peters' Julian performance… was crazy.....His expression was really sexy… So I drew it, but no matter how much I draw it, I can't live it FEEL. I want to go to die. ㅠㅠ