30 Days of Star Trek meme - Day 2

[rivendellrose]

30 Days of Star Trek Meme Day 2 - Favorite Federation Race

To the surprise of exactly no one who heard me whinging during the early parts of Disco S1, that would be the Andorians. I love those grumpy blue assholes to the end of the universe, and will never not be salty about how infrequently they appear.

I have all sorts of complex headcanons built up around the canonical details of their culture, and terribly strong opinions about pretty much everything about them, and also terribly strong opinions about how Discovery should have brought them in more often before they went off and broke their concept (at least in theory) at the end of S2. Fortunately gaslightgallows and I jumped off the deep end together way back when Disco was little more than a series concept and a couple of casting notes, and created a version of the series that is largely unconnected with canon reality but does, in fact, have a couple of Andorian main characters. So when I need my fix, I just live in that mental universe for a while.


Day 1 - Favorite Episode of TOS
Day 3 - Favorite Starship
Day 4 - Favorite Captain
Day 5 - Saddest Event
Day 6 - Happiest Event
Day 7 - Favorite TNG Episode
Day 8 - Favorite Federation Enemy
Day 9 - Favorite Character
Day 10 - Most Shocking Moment
Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Want
Day 12 - Crew Position You Wouldn't Want
Day 13 - Favorite DS9 Episode
Day 14 - Favorite Time Travel Episode
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Enterprise made me love the Andorians - that whole storyline with Archer and Shran. So good.

[rivendellrose]

I liked them before, from watching TOS as a kid, but Enterprise was really what made me love them, agreed. Shran is so fabulous, and his relationship with Archer was just brilliant.

[gaslightgallows]

You know my mantra: never let canon get in the way of a better story. ;)

[rivendellrose]

And it works very well!

[mekare]

Andorians are cool. I only noticed the, properly in TOs after I had watched Shran in Enterprise though.