shipwrecked & comatose

HOWDY !  eros here !     this is a selective & mutuals - only sci-fi multimuse, feat. a lot of ferengi including quark from star trek ds9, as well as hugh from star trek tng & picard, and rimmer & lister from red dwarf.   this blog is low activity, and replies will be sporadic.   please read my carrd before following/interacting !   org. est 2020

THIS BLOG IS HEAVILY AFFILIATED WITH: @constablegoo / @zeveth / @stationiners & @vortacloned / @kardasior. i am exclusive with their portrayals of odo, weyoun, & damar.

indigo and i are writing a ds9 prequel “THE KIND OF THING THAT COULD BE”, the events of which are canon to this blog & my portrayal of quark. i have a lower-activity multi with ds9 pre-canon ocs located at @kindofmuses. 

"the main thing i want you to know is that the time you spend here is yours, to use however you wish." hugh's words are carefully chosen, but not cautious as he addresses the young man ; he's confident — in himself, in his work, in jack's presence here — && unconcerned that everything will work out for the best. this is not his first rodeo. far from it. no one understands better than him that these things take time.

"our resources are open to you, but what you choose to do is in your hands." there's a gentle smile on his face ; imbued with the kind of wisdom that only comes with age && experience. "that's one of our main tenets . no one can speak or act for us, not even each other. that's the beauty && the joy of individuality." it's been a while since jack's been here, && hugh knows he knows this, knows their philosophy, knows that he's welcome here... but things are different now. he's older, && so much has happened... so hugh offers the same words of courtesy he gives every new xB.

gesturing with one arm not to the cluster of buildings that makes up the headquarters of the reclamation project, but to the trail which leads down to the beach, along which is the cubesfall memorial, hugh catches jack's eye knowingly.

"....yed vesht nam-tor etek suk'su'uth—" the lyrical vulcan melody sung in a surprisingly confident falsetto cuts off abruptly as zack raises his head from his work station && locks eyes with una across the room. the only sign of embarrassment is the way he swallows thickly, as if he's been caught doing something he shouldn't, rather than any sort of stage fright. there's a long pause before he speaks again, trying to sort out what to say. an apology maybe, or an inquiry: could you hear me from the corridor?

i consider all the events of though the eye of a needle as well as everything in the ohniaka iii project to be canon to my portrayal with the exception of hugh/geordi when it doesn't work with a writing partner. in other words, i won't force that ship onto a geordi writer (&& while i love it && would love to write it, my concept of them is so grounded in the fic that i'm not sure i would be able to write it without both of us having that context) nor will i imply it while writing with either of geordi's daughters (or even other tng legacy characters tbh...) based on the comfort of my partners. while their relationship does inform some of how i write hugh, keeping their friendship intact && the events of through the eye of a needle with geordi's involvement with the reclamation project is much more important to me. if you are interested in exploring how the ship could impact current events, i have lots of thoughts, but we don't have to go that route.

so, all this to say...

when geordi joins picard && co, hugh does not go with, but he does know what's going on, as much as its safe for him to know. as soon as deanna finds out what's going on with jack, geordi gets in touch with him && hugh either comes to join them or more likely is doing stuff behind the scenes from o3 — i'll be able to say with more certainty after the final episode)

the whole vulcan research academy suggestion for jack is dumb. ohniaka iii would be the best place for him, && picard n co would've known that. jack definitely still might've not been happy about it, but there is no reason for anyone with mental links to the borg to be going to another planet's research facility instead of the very capable && knowledgable reclamation staff on the xB homeworld.

this means that regardless of how things actually wrap up next week, it would be recommended by literally everyone that jack && all crew who were affected by the fleet-wide assimilation go to ohniaka iii for a brief time, both for counseling && yes, to have the best experts in the galaxy take a look at what happened to them. but they'd be way more sensitive && tactful about it than any vulcan scientist lmao.

i am glad that they've established a formal connection here with the changelings and the borg because the similarities are too good to keep ignoring. however.

every time the borg become relevant again i just get upset because of how trek has handled them, and i know i'm biased against canon because of all the development that hye's done [with the ohniaka iii project] on the xBs over the last 3 years, but it's really really hard to know that this show fucked over Hugh in season one, the person who was the first face of former borgs, before seven of nine. and i love seven and i'm glad she gets to have such a significant place in trek history, but she hasn't (in canon) done anything in terms of advocating for other former borg, other than just be an Exception™ and The One Who Got Out and Made It. and even picard, who is literally an xB himself, got away, in his own words, "without any scars", and has done quite literally fuck all to advocate for former borg. so for star trek to kill of hugh in season one, when he was ACTIVELY RECLAIMING AND REHABILITATING FORMER BORG, only to have him never be mentioned again, not even by picard who saw him, seven who is just like him or GEORDI who was his first friend and GAVE HIM HIS NAME.... it just makes me sick lol. and then to once again bring the borg back as villains, have picard say something like 'we havent heard from the borg in over a decade' and just....... ignore even the CANON DEVELOPMENT of former borg that exists.... its so gross.

this show's track record of simply writing events and people out of its own story is insane to me. and i really was enjoying this season but now i'm not, not any more than i was the other seasons, which is to say i'm engrossed but i'm unhappy. idk. the borg and the xBs just mean so much to me and i know you all met me in my ferengi era and not in my borg era (except laney who was following me in my borg era but we became friends in my red dwarf era lol) but this really just breaks my heart because i think about what we could have had.

and then also killing shaw. my skrunkly izzy hands-like man. literally why does this show insist on killing legacy characters (ro, shelby..... hugh......) AND its good NEW characters???? i dont fucking get it man.