Mar 12, 2023
@maliciousalice had had the idea a while back of Ed having a silly lil boy crush on Naomi like it never goes anywhere and he's toddler-brained but also technically older than Naomi. He's just trying to be a gentleman. :)
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@maliciousalice had had the idea a while back of Ed having a silly lil boy crush on Naomi like it never goes anywhere and he's toddler-brained but also technically older than Naomi. He's just trying to be a gentleman. :)
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“Before Mark could reply, Gres spoke at as loud a volume as his soft voice would allow. ‘May I have everyone’s attention please?’ The Ktarian stood in the middle of the room, holding a glass of what looked to Mark like Saurian brandy, and had to repeat his request several times before the room quieted down.
‘I would like to thank all of you for coming. I would also like to thank Quark for his fine catering job.’ The Ferengi bowed slightly.”
and
“‘I agree with Mr. Honigsberg,” T’Pel said. ‘I believe that my husband is alive. Many times over the years he has gone on difficult missions and he has always returned to me. I choose to have faith in his ability to do so again. It is not logical - but the feeling remains, and it would be the height of illogic to deny its existence.’
Smiling wanly, Gres raised his glass and said, ‘Then I propose a toast to the height of illogic. Long may it sustain us.’“
-from Letting Go by Keith R. A. Decandido in Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, edited by Marco Palmieri
4 things:
1. Quark
2. T’Pel and Tuvok confirmed for acting illogically in their love for each other
3. Greskgrendtregk has a very soft and quiet voice and I love that for him
4. Greskrendetregk is a man who fucking loves making toasts. 2 in the span of 27 pages, with the implication he will make another in the future. Ktarian cultural practice? A personal quirk? Weird grief coping mechanism? Who can say.
Naomi Wildman, sub-unit of Ensign Samantha Wildman Captain’s Assistant.
“Again, the short laugh. ‘You may simply call me Gres, Mr. Johnson. It is usually the best that human tongues can do with my name.’ His tone grew more wistful. ‘Samantha was the only human who was ever able to pronounce it properly.’“
-from Letting Go by Keith R. A. Decandido in Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, edited by Marco Palmieri
I’m not sure if this is the originator for Greskrendtregk shortening his name to Gres in beta canon, or if this is following another beta canon novel’s decision to do it. I’ve also seen fic authors shorten his name this way - not sure if it’s because they’re following beta canon or that Greskrendtregk is a lot to type out.
But!
As a person with a long name that starts with a G that absolutely no monolingual English-speaker can get right on the first try I hate this decision. It’s not that humans physically can’t say Ktarian names - Samantha has obviously figured it out and can say it. So it’s more that awkward balking that happens when people just don’t want to try, that annoying little laugh of “oh haha, that’s quite a name/ I’ll never be able to keep that straight” or the immediate insistence of “Well I’m going to call you [nickname].” Greskrendtregk has clearly met that multiple times, and just decided its easier to forward an alternative, a nickname, a shorter version, which I get because its tiring! I have also made the decision of “I guess I will simply be a different person at work” after spending weeks correcting everyone. I get it but it doesn’t make me any less mad about the phenomenon.
The episodes with Ensign Ro fighting to get her name said correctly in TNG touch on this as well, the (because its sci-fi) human-centrism and, more importantly, the (because its sci-fi written by a specific make-up of people) English-language-centrism that casually strips people of their names and the personal and cultural import they have.
Rewatching Star Trek: Voyager “Body and Soul” to confirm it sucks as much as I remember it sucking and it does! A whole episode where Seven of Nine is consistently like “stop doing things I dislike while in my body” that somehow never connects to the fact that this would be even more horrifying experience for her specifically as a liberated Borg, beyond just the regular existential horror and violation of that kind of body-takeover.
However!
It’s also maybe the most Ktarian lore per minute ever recorded in Star Trek history:
they have a dish called Ktarian chocolate puffs (reiterating they exist since that time Deanna Troi mentions them in TNG, which is an oddly charming bit of continuity to remember a dessert)
they have an 8-chambered heart (which beats in the same rhythm to pulsar waves on the hull of a starship)
It’s like actually a little weird to get 2 references to such a minor species in 1 episode - I wonder why the writers were thinking about Ktarians so much, and also why the Doctor/Seven was in-fiction.
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Entry 276: Ktarians
Home World: Ktaris
Occupation: Occasionally-recurring minor aliens
First Appearance: “The Game” (TNG 1991)
Summary: This humanoid species was a Federation member, though not one of the most loyal ones. An unusually high number showed sympathy with the Maquis when they splintered off from the Federation. Even earlier than that, a rogue faction of Ktarians decided to take over Starfleet with a brainwashing device disguised as a portable game. Fortunately, a combination of Wesley Crusher, Robin Lefler, and Mr. Data’s quick thinking (and Data’s immunity to the “game”) proved to be their undoing.