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thank goodness for daydreaming because the fact that this DOES NOT exist is a crime.
I really wish that instead of rehashing the same characters AGAIN that Paramount would give us a TOS-verse spin-off sequel Star Trek: Nepotism where the New Triumvirate(tm) are Spirk's adopted daughter Captain Saavik & First Officer Joanna McCoy (they have a painfully homoerotic tension at all times) feat. CMO David Marcus (reconned back to life).
Demora Sulu is helmswoman and her father is very proud. Pavel's son, Anton Chekov the career politician, who gets like one (1) canon mention, is a recurring character who keeps on getting stuck on the boat during the shenanigans for ever more contrived reasons.
Uhura's protégé is on comms & he fills McCoy's former roll as The Voice of Reason and Distress. He can always be seen shaking his head in the background of every shot on the bridge desperately muttering "Inshallah we will survive this."
The chief engineer is a flaming Irish redhead, Siobhan, who is of no relation to Scotty despite their identical auras and is the only non-nepobaby among the ranking officers but everyone thinks she's his niece no matter how many times she insists she has no idea who tf they're talking about and that Ireland and Scotland are two different places.
The boat isn't even the flagship, it's like the USS Cerritos doing minor missions at best that they still manage to nearly botch 50% of the time. The Original Cast are phoned in for air support on occasion for nostalgia bait like:
Saavik, clearly distressed over something stupid: such challenges we face in the darkness...what would my fathers say? Anton, the reasonable one: Dude just call them, I saw them in San Fran like. Last week. They're probably doing luxury gay space pilates right now. Saavik, solemnly: ...sometimes I can still hear their voices....
Eridani character dynamics map!!
(Just pretend the arrows all align 😭)
Also side note Marithyk isn’t introduced until season 3
BRIDGE CREW BRIDGE CREW
The Bridge Crew of the U.S.S. Eridani
Art by @parallelfallout
Lieutenant junior-grade, Demora Sulu, helmsman
Daughter of Captain Hikaru Sulu of the U.S.S. Excelsior, Demora Sulu was born on March 24 2273. A bright and enthusiastic young crew member, her family ties made her close with many members of the crew of the NCC-1701 Enterprise. Her father, of course, but also Lieutenant Pavel Chekov, whom she considered as an uncle, as well as Nyota Uhura, who was named as her godmother. She was a close friend to Anton Pavlovich Chekov, and was secretly a bit disappointed that he decided to pursue a career in the junior ambassadorial corp rather than Starfleet.
After graduating from Starfleet Academy in 2293, she was assigned as helmsman of the Enterprise-B on its launch. Having been on board during its disastrous rescue attempt of the El-Aurian ship and accident with the temporal energy ribbon was a very difficult experience for her. Following this event, Saavik also got closer to Demora, having only briefly met her at gatherings of the old Enterprise crew that they both happened to attend.
Not only is Demora used to feeling like she has big shoes to fill due to her father’s success, but this experience at the helm during such an accident made her lose some confidence in her skills when she was assigned as helmsman of the U.S.S. Eridani as a lieutenant junior-grade in 2296, aged 23. Captain Saavik, having been a helmsman herself not so long before, often tried to be reassuring or to give words of encouragement that Demora is doing the right thing. As the mission of the Eridani progressed, she became more confident in herself, her skills and the path that she wanted to take.
She quickly developed a close friendship with navigator Wane Perry, whom she had met at the Academy and shared a few classes with.
Her father taught her fencing, and she liked antique weapons. In her quarters was also a small habitat to a neutered pet tribble, gifted by her aunt Nyota.
Hey guys so this is a project my friend @purple-iris has been working on for a bit (with some minor contributions from myself), it’s basically a “lost media” tv show of Captain Saavik and her crew serving aboard the U.S.S Eridani getting into all kinds of adventures! There’s been 4 seasons worth of episodes plots outlined for trekkies to use as prompts for Trek fanfiction or artwork or, well, anything really! There’s a lot more to come, including posts about the plot of the show, descriptions of the characters, some artwork (expect some fanart from me pretty soon), so stay tuned if you’re interested in learning more!
STAR TREK: Eridani (1994-1998)
Screen captures of the opening credits of season 1 (Fall 1994- Spring 1995)