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STAR TREK Eridani Season 1 episodes (1994-1995)

Voyages of the Eridani

River, weep gently for us

What's in a name

One for all and all for one

Hey Joan

The Merchant

Butchers and paupers

Stage Q

Where one must thread

Under thy skin

Green thumb

Two birds with one stone

The first born

The Dreamers

From a cut of a scalpel

Smoke and Mirrors

Does the abyss stare back?

The time-sifter

By star benign I

By star benign II

Reposting my boy

Lieutenant junior-grade Sopek

Sopek was born to a high standing Vulcan family, due to his mother, T'Pring, being a part of an historically aristocratic clan and retaining these ties despite her marriage to Stonn, a member of a more humble family. This upbringing in ShiKhar’s high society and status as an only child encouraged his haughty and vain personality, in that subdued, high-class Vulcan way. 

Due to their own experiences with arranged bonding and the social fiasco of the Koon-ut Kal-if-fee, Sopek was not bonded as a child, with T’Pring refusing to force her child’s mind to be tied to someone he could not choose himself, for his own logical reasons. Many elders of his clans disapproved of this choice, but Sopek was confident that he would be able to secure a bondmate in case he should undergo Pon Farr before having found someone. 

A fairly talented telepath, he enjoyed showing off with people as a young child. 

As a teenager, he became a very big fan of Spock, in all the irony that he was his mother’s ex-betrothed, and against his parents’ wishes, he joined Starfleet at 17 due to how much Spock inspired him. He completed the science program in the fast track, focusing the astrophysics speciality with certain tangential studies, graduating in two years. 

During this time, he also started a club for Human Studies, in an attempt to palliate his lack of knowledge concerning human references, behaviours and media. Staying at the Academy longer would most likely have helped him more, but in his stubbornness he maintained that he could uncover these concepts through logical means. Each semester, Sopek coerced a human student, mostly Terrance Riley, to review the club’s findings and grade them. This research was not very conclusive, and by the time that Sopek was assigned to the Eridani at 19 as a lieutenant junior-grade, he remained fairly ignorant about human culture. 

At Starfleet, he did not share his parent’s or clan’s name to avoid plummeting his chances of getting assigned to the Eridani due to Captain Saavik’s close connection to Spock and the fact his own mother incited kal-if-fee on him.

His posting in Dr. David Marcus’s science team came with a learning curve about behaviours, and his egotistical attitude was taken down a few notches during his time on the Eridani. 

Is Spock a #liar or just a little silly cast your votes here

Captain Saavik of the USS Eridani

Read her bio here:

Nurse Anise Freeman

Born and raised in San Francisco, Anise Freeman started as a paramedic and trauma nurse, before gaining further certification at King’s College in London, England. She then returned to her home city and joined Starfleet. Between her career and studies, she had two husbands. The first passed away not long after their marriage, and her second divorced her as their relationship did not work out, with Anise still being distraught at the loss of her first husband. 

Professionally speaking, she was a very level-headed nurse, with a stern, but gentle demeanor. As head nurse of the Eridani, she can be quite strict about certain procedures. She and Dr. McCoy worked very well together, employing a good-cop, bad-cop procedure with more reluctant patients. Like many nurses, she was very devoted to her job and neglected self-care, frequently using her time off to indulge in drinks. 

At the start of the Eridani's 5 year mission, she was 36 years old. Family-wise, she had a younger brother and a nephew she loved very much, Alonzo.

Eridani character dynamics map!!

(Just pretend the arrows all align 😭)

Also side note Marithyk isn’t introduced until season 3

Is it better to die from the consequences of your own hubris, or to be forced to live with them?

This is a chart depicting David Marcus’ injuries post-botched-Genesis resurrection on Star Trek: Eridani.

Demora Sulu! Read her bio here:

New chapter of my fic is up! Spock sure does have some Ruminations in this one.

Let’s Just Cut To the End, Please

No art for this chapter, but there will be for the next one!

You write sopek fic for me??🥺🥺

I’m blown away by you guys and your immediate love of Sopek, seriously thank you guys for your interest and support!

I’m gonna do a couple of Sopek comics soon and some small written pieces to give more context and Lore for him and his crewmates, but actually, once the episode synopses are posted for @startrek-eridani , we’re going to open those episode plots up for you guys to sign up and write fics if you want! (It’s like signing up for K/S spring fever or other prompt memes). The crew bios and the episode plots for Star Trek: Eridani are gonna be posted soon so you’ll have context, and then you can use those episodes as prompts to write Trek fic however you please! @purple-iris and I will probably do some fics as well, but it’ll mostly be in your hands!