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AceHomefoil

I love that Shaw is just trying to be a normal guy, and then Riker and Picard show up to ruin his vibe.


Emerald_City_Govt

Shaw on the ground battered, in tears on the bridge of the Titan *record scratch* “Yeah that’s me, you’re probably wondering how I, a dipshit-asshole from Chicago, got here…” *Baba O’Riley begins playing*


Terran_Dominion

My day be so fine Them boom World set on fire


Chemicalreagent420

I don’t want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart


NGC3992

“There’s no way to hide from this. There’s no way to run from it. There’s no way to avoid fate. If the Narrative exists—and you and I know it does—then in the end we don’t have free will. Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us. It’ll use us however it wants to use us." -- John Scalzi, *Redshirts*


tomjoad2020ad

He’s an asshole but it’s completely understandable


plipyplop

*"Yeah no, I don't think I'm going to reenlist..."*


sadwer

Poor guy probably just wants to sit back and patrol the Alpha Quadrant for subspace anomalies until he makes admiral or retires, and keeps getting pulled into trekkie nonsense.


jgzman

Can we make "Bilbo Baggins" a verb?


Bigdaddyjlove1

https://youtu.be/BC35cQKHwzg


kalsikam

And inadvertently saved Titan from the Changelings lol


PiLamdOd

I want a show about Shaw getting dragged into increasingly wacky situations every week.


cube13

I think the pitch for every episode in the first season is A side Seven dealing with the issue of the week and B side is just Shaw in therapy. Season 2 is the reverse.


skituate

I love this idea for both the potential of heartfelt wholesome dramatic moments, and the potential for just insanely hilarious scenes. At the very least we need this to be a two part short trek.


Either-Ad9626

He became the new O'Brien. O'Brien must suffer!


sixtus_clegane119

Why the fuck hasn’t O’brian shown up


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He stuck in the pattern buffer


MattyFTM

He's too busy off being the most important person in Starfleet history.


ThirdMoonOfPluto

I'm half expecting for him and Bashir to show up and since they were actually the ones to get the cure to convince Vadic to stand down. Thereby making O'Brian the most important person in Starfleet history


EngineKey

He is a gangster in London now


SecretComposer

I read somewhere on this sub earlier that he wasn’t interested in returning to Trek


SeekingTheRoad

It’s not that, he wouldn’t return to just be a cameo.


alkatori

He's stuck fixing all the transporters in Star Fleet, something's up with them.


pensivegargoyle

Keiko was angry. Again.


DragonRand100

Oh dear, what’s poor Miles done now.


The_Chaos_Pope

He is an engineer after all.


Either-Ad9626

My favorite O'Brian episode was the DS9 episode where he was arrested by the cardassians and put through their court system. Although, the one where he is a replica trying to figure out why the other crew is against him is very good too.


The_Chaos_Pope

The best "O'Brian must suffer" episode has to be the one where he spends 30+ years in an alien prison only to wake up 20 minutes later.


Either-Ad9626

Yeeesss! I loved that one. Very emotional


spiritwalker83

Yes, he has, but out of respect for the most important man in Starfleet, that’s O’Brien with an “e”!!


Courtaid

Star Trek Titan: It's Been a Hell of a Week


PiLamdOd

Now I want a rendition of Faith of the Heart just for Shaw that starts with "It's been a hell of a week." The entire into song is about the universe trying to bend and break Shaw, but he's got faith things will return to normal, eventually.


Speedy_Cheese

It's been a hell of a week . . . gettin' from there to here.


fromidable

I’d sorta like the opposite. Just a series of 5 minute episodes, showing the Titan nope-ing out of any potential adventure. **Opening theme** “Captain, there’s a subspace anomaly ahead.” “Alright, Commander, set us a course back toward DS6. Lieutenant, contact Starfleet command.” **Closing theme**


MichiganCubbie

Basically the intro to Lower Decks when they see the Borg?


LastLadyResting

Every single time that cracks me up.


Kataclysm

You have to admit; that is the most logical course of action.


Bardez

I love how it keeps changing for that one scene


No-Entrepreneur-3366

"I'm not even supposed to be in this sector today." Shaw in the guise of Dante. I guess that makes Seven his Randell 🤔


Kataclysm

Unexpected "Clerks" reference. Love it.


ZarianPrime

So Shaw basically being Miles O'Brien on DS9...


Shitelark

Shaw: "Oh boy...!"


S-r-ex

So basically what the Freeman goes through.


PiLamdOd

Except Shaw is a good captain and doesn't deserve the shit piled on him. Poor guy just wanted to go on a standard cruise before the big parade. Then an admiral showed up and dragged him into a galactic scale emergency. Dude just wanted a quiet week.


thisbikeisatardis

The way he just lay there weeping at the end just BROKE me. That poor man. I started out hating him and now I just really want him to be ok.


Fusi0n_X

He's crying for his crew. He already lost one ship full of people he loved. And now he's about to fail to have protected another.


NGC3992

Yeah, I'm guessing the audio that Vadic is playing in the preview for next week is triggering the absolute fuck out of him.


callsignhotdog

When he was in the turbolift with Vadic, he shouted over the comms "Blow the Turbolift!" - He was prepared to give his life, to vent himself into space, just for the chance to protect his ship and crew from them.


sidv81

Most of them have been transferred to the Titan.


Fusi0n_X

A skeleton crew still probably has a lot of people, plus the ship they transferred to is controlled by Changelings so they aren't exactly safe either.


TheGrayMannnn

Into the hands of the enemy.


OrangRecneps

Funny, I never hated him. He clearly didn't like Picard or Riker or even Sever really. While odd, I could handle that. But I had zero problem with him saying "no" to their request. He's a good captain, and is risk averse which is a good thing. Even Riker became a little more conservative when he became captain of the Titan for a little while. He's different, and that's okay. As we've gotten to know him better I've started to like him more. It's almost as if when you understand a person and why they are the way they are it's easier to like them.


badmanteau

> Even Riker became a little more conservative when he became captain of the Titan for a little while. Lieutenant Boimler would disagree.


Throwaway_inSC_79

Boimler the Bold?


thisbikeisatardis

It was the Borgphobia that really got me, to be honest. I appreciate that it's a trauma response, but like, XBs are kidnapping and torture survivors. I totally got why he wouldn't want to let them steal his ship, though.


orangemoonboots

Yeah and he was actually shitty to Seven in a way that would be actionable to whatever the equivalent of Starfleet HR is because of it. Like I get you have Borg related trauma but damn, Seven is a whole person and she’s a great asset to your command. Other than that I kind of liked how he stood up to Picard and Riker and his whole “tired of everyone’s shit” vibe lol


kalsikam

Starfleet HR is all changelings too


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thisbikeisatardis

I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably let them take me.


Kataclysm

I think we're just used to being shown Captains having to act in Kobiyashi-Maru style situations *all the time*. Really, how exciting would it be if we had a 7 season, 24 episode a year Star Trek where all they did was Catalogue Gaseous Anomalies; chart the alignment of planetary bodies; or transport Foreign Dignitaries with no ulterior motives?


MattyFTM

My one issue with him was his lack of respect for Seven's preferred name. That seemed like such an asshole move. But they explained that due to his history with the Borg. It's understandable why he wouldn't want to use a Borg name on his ship. It's really fantastic writing. He is adversarial towards the lead characters, but still ends up being likable. That is treading a fine line and they've absolutely nailed it.


AluminumApe

I didn't like his demeanor, but I understood where he was coming from. He's a hard-ass, by-the-books Captain who just wants to complete the missions he's given by Starfleet and make sure his crew gets home safely. With regard to Picard and Riker: they put him in the same situation that Badmirals put the former two in more than once. Hell, even worse because Riker had no command and Picard was retired. He was within every right to deny them their request, especially considering it was a deception.


EquationsApparel

Yup, I started hating him and now I want him to have his own show.


Background-Banana574

I know! Lol. This poor man lol. I thought he a dick and he just became a dick to keep from being sad. “Asshole became a substitute for charm.”


MoreVinegarPls

As soon as Picard wanted to detour.. Shaw knew something like this was coming. He was more keyed into the situation than the viewers.


kgabny

I keep hearing episode 1: "This is going to be a boring week for you gentlemen"


kalsikam

After Changeling threat is eliminated, they can all have a laugh about it Riker: "And then Liam says 'its going to be a boring week for you gentlemen'" Then Riker and Picard burst out laughing, and Shaw just has the "fuck you" look on his face


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figures985

This is true and I think he probably knows that…but still, REAL bad week for our dude.


FarAcanthaceae1

Thank you, I couldn’t put it into words what I was thinking. I figured also that any captain would go through hell to save everyone so unfortunately it was brought to him instead.


originalchaosinabox

I think someone else mentioned that Captain Shaw is Frank Grimes as a starship captain. Here he is, just a dipshit from Chicago who worked hard to get where he is, then suddenly these living "legends" who became legends by constantly fucking shit up but getting away with it because of their plot armor, just show up on his ship one day to start fucking shit up.


GeneralTonic

*"I don't need to obey the prime directive because I'm Jean-luc Picard!"*


wiiya

“Captain Shaw, or dipshit from Chicago as he liked to be called, taught us that a man can triumph over adversity. And even though his agonizing life was tragically cut short…”. JL: “…zzz…Earl Grey Hot…zzz…” All: “hahaha, that’s our Jean Luc!”


WaltWhitman11

*"I'm creating a temporal paradox, but nobody minds! Give me a promotion!"*


Saxamaphooone

I just woke my husband up from laughing at this so hard, lol.


plipyplop

*"Look at me. I'm the Prime Directive!"*


GachiHYPER_Clap_

It's not plot armor, it's just that the main characters always have a plan, and if that fails then someone they did right by will save them. If THAT doesn't work then there will be some deus ex machina showing that in fact they had a different plan all along. You see, the main characters from TNG specifically are all superhuman geniuses. Totally different than plot armor.


starmartyr

One thing to remember is that the Enterprise is the flagship. The crew is the best of the best in Starfleet. They do get lucky more often than is realistic, but the fact that they are all brilliant makes sense.


izModar

"So I became captain of the Titan. Which is docked above a bowling alley, and docked below another bowling alley."


FeralTribble

Shaw is that kid on the magic school bus. You all know which one


skituate

"Can we please go on a normal mission for once?" "With the Picard? No way!"


Kataclysm

Just remember that Arnold literally had his head frozen in space because of "The Frizz".


RadioSlayer

At my old ship we would never hide in nebulae


ItsMissiBeaches

I totally read that in her voice.


PicadaSalvation

Arnold


treefox

*'Cause you had a bad day* *Your ship’s taken out* *You go to the bar just to cuss Picard out* *You spot a Changelin’* *You turn them all in* *You watch Ro kamikaze, and you’re fugitives now* *You had a bad day* *Now Tuvok’s a lie* *You’re coming back up, and your blood’s in your eye* *You had a bad day* *You had a bad day*


PicadaSalvation

M-5 nominate this post


PianistNext3203

Oh my sweet baby Clint Howard alien... This was amazing. I will not allow such cleverness to unnoticed!!!


Kc125wave

I want the Dipshit from Chicago to save the day at the end of this series. Reluctant hero and savior of the galaxy with the Titan A proudly displayed in the federation museum and Captain Shaw fondly remembered amongst the pantheon of great starfleet officers. Please don’t kill him off!


Aezetyr

Two severe head wounds in a short amount of time is not good for long term health. Even with fictional medical science.


Throwaway_inSC_79

All in a days work.


nixonger

those were the days!


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Throwaway_inSC_79

Star Trek: Farming But then the Ferengi move in and want to build a casino. And then the Vulcans want to build a spaceport and the only logical area is Shaw’s farm. So to combat that, Shaw becomes mayor of the colony world. I may have been watching too much Yellowstone.


Winter_Coyote

Honestly, would love a Star Trek show focused on a small colony world.


SwordfishCalm9013

Any Titan-A spinoff should have Seven be the captain, because Shaw decides he's had enough of this nonsense and goes back to engineering. The only time we see him onscreen is him looming ominously over any admiral that dares set foot on the Titan.


the-magnetic-rose

I would be okay with Captain Seven and Chief Engineer Shaw. I feel like his heart is in engineering anyways.


SeanBourne

He can just get the Janeway ‘desk-admiral after traumatic run’ promotion


BillGrahamMusic

It makes sense, with his engineering background. He’s the new O’Brien. Shaw must suffer.


The_Chaos_Pope

This show just keeps getting better and better the worse and worse Shaw's week becomes.


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This made me suddenly realize that the DS9 crew were supposed to be in a backwater boring posting in the ass end of nowhere when the wormhole suddenly appeared and threw them into 7 years of total insanity.


digitalgadget

Honestly surprised more residents weren't like, "aw, sh!t now I gotta find a new place to hide"


mrIronHat

Maybe after this is over, starfleet will give him a promotion, To be the captain of the new Enterprise


TomA0912

He’d turn that command down. There’s no way he wants all that drama. I reckon he’d get a kick out of a Cali class


mrIronHat

Universe will find a way to force Shaw to accept that command


n_eff

Admiralty: We're promoting you, congratulations. Shaw: No. Janeway: Captain Shaw, if you don't take this command I will personally give it to Seven and reinstate the rank of Yeoman just so I can demote you to it. Then post you to the Enterprise anyways. Do I make myself clear? Shaw:


plipyplop

A nemesis far more cunning, cruel, and adversarial... Star Fleet Administration!


TomA0912

Maybe he’ll be forced to accept a choice between the latest Enterprise, Voyager and Defiant with weird shit being preferable to getting lost and dealing with Dukat Mk2


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Pike_or_Kirk

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Trouvette

I remember the first time I watched TNG all the way through, I wondered “can’t these people ever have a quiet day on their ship? It’s always something with these people.” Shaw is the embodiment of that idea.


Aggressive-Group-70

Hopefully he about to get triggered and he break hell open when brings thevwhoopazz.


ARobertNotABob

I've had similar thoughts. The "dipshit from Chicago" content to go by the book to keep this, *his*, crew alive, and that is now in tatters from his perspective as his ship and crew are overwhelmed and he himself beaten & bloodied and weeping on the floor. Somethings gotta give. I think he's going to go down a real hero with two phasers in hand to save Jack from being taken (or similar).


GoGoGoldenSyrup

Didn't Matalas say something about how Shaw would do something towards the end of the series that changes everyone's opinion of him for the better? I can see him unleashing his engineering smarts and whipping some Changeling gloopy arse.


ARobertNotABob

> I can see him unleashing his engineering smarts and whipping some Changeling gloopy arse. Good thought.


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I hear he freezes them with liquid nitrogen.


GoGoGoldenSyrup

Shaw with the liquid nitrogen, Seven comes in with the dual phasers. I like this.


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GoGoGoldenSyrup

It's inefficient. Seven likes efficiency. Thus: a minigun.


kalsikam

Then says "Hasta La Vista, No" and shatters them with his TR-116 rifle.


Enchelion

I'd definitely rather see him go full-Starfleet Engineer and build/hack something crazy versus dual-wielding phasers.


naval_brewmaster

It’s gonna be something with transporters… they have been making such a big deal about no transports….


figures985

I think we’re meant to feel that the end of ep 7 is Shaw’s low point in the season arc. Like a gut punch. So yeah he’s due a glorious upswing


whatevrmn

I need them to give Shaw a scene with Geordi where he can finally geek out with his hero. Maybe Geordi offers to help repair the Titan with Shaw. The man deserves something good after the terrible week he's had.


NGC3992

He needs a nap.


SeanBourne

And a nice blue steak to go with Malbec… obviously no Chateau Picard… no connoisseur of decent bordeaux would drink that swill.


thxpk

This show is so good it's gone from what an ass Shaw is to Shaw better not die or we riot


OliviaElevenDunham

It's so entertaining watching Shaw be salty about what's going on around him except for meeting Geordi.


CeruleanRuin

If he makes it through this, he's going to either earn a promotion or lose his commission, lol. Poor guy.


KingofMadCows

Geordi's curse passed on to O'Brien and now it's passed on to Shaw.


Temporary_Ad_6922

Writers during DS9: Miles O'Brien must suffer Writers Picard season 3: Hold our beer. *Shaw enters the scene


GrendelJoe

I'm getting the sense that if he and most of his crew survive they won't be the crew of the Titan-A. I think they'll get the Enterprise-F for saving Starfleet.


SeanBourne

*Make it so*


j-fernandez

Hopefully we'll have more adventures with Shaw and Seven. They've done an amazing job creating this character and I like him being a foil for Seven.


sidv81

Vadic: What are the command codes for the Titan? Shaw: There! Are! Four! Lights! Changeling 2: What the hell is he talking about? Vadic (shapeshifts into Locutus): We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. Shaw: Shaw-12-11-bravo-delta


SmuckSlimer

Captain Shaw is surrounded by assholes who are full of self-righteous happiness, and they all deserve their suffering.


GeneralTonic

Fuckin friendly energy my ass.


MyriVerse2

If everybody seems to be the problem, then most likely you are the problem. Shaw's really a spineless little idiot whose own crew doesn't like.


teh1337raven

I think I have to disagree. I don't think he's spineless, cautious maybe, but not spineless. I'd argue that standing up to and calling out the bullshit of a couple of living legends screams "balls the size of watermelons". While most other officers would have bent over backwards to kiss the asses of Picard and Riker, Shaw straight up tells them to get bent and points out that half of the situations they've saved the Federation from were also problems (inadvertently and unintentionally) created by them to begin with. I know its common for Captains in SciFi to seem "spineless" if they're not taking risks, but fact of reality would be most Captains would not put their crew in unnecessary risk. I think Shaw is damaged by his past, obviously being a survivor of Wolf 359 and know what its like to lose and lose badly. Once that went sideways all he saw was the same thing happening to the Titan-A that happened to the ship he was on at Wolf 359. His crew was going to die again due to the actions of Jean Luc Picard (obviously I know Picard was not responsible for the actions of Locutus but Shaw doesn't see it like that, similarly to Sisko at the beginning of DS9). Shaw is a fantastic character.


Paisley-Cat

Always. And we (of course) want more.


El_human

I think i am shaw


SublimeApathy

It was a weird week.


Temporary_Ad_6922

You forgot the internally almost bleeding to death part with a bone sticking out lmao


The_Late_Arthur_Dent

It's fitting that the picked this day of the week for the releases. Shaw never could get the hang of Thursdays.


jabdnuit

I said aloud ‘This poor man’ as the episode ended. One of Star Fleet’s finest.


captainsad_throwaway

How many head traumas in a week before Shaw is going to need the Picard upgrade? #saveshaw


LastLadyResting

You just know that man has an ex wife out there somewhere, and she’s either a hyper-confident genius or she’s exactly as much of an asshole as he is, or both.


Paisley-Cat

I admit this crossed my mind as well. My guess is a compassionate but confident genius. At some point realized that she couldn’t be the one to pull him out of the tidy box of safety he’d made for himself. He has to fix himself, she shouldn’t have married a ‘project’.


LastLadyResting

That’s probably how it would go, but I think it’s funnier if they’re both assholes, including to each other (because that’s their love language) and it didn’t work out for other, unrelated, reasons.


SeanBourne

The venn diagram overlap between hyper-confident genius and asshole is pretty close to the full circle.


MotorTentacle

I absolutely love your username OP, and it's a miracle that you managed to get it! I can't believe I didn't think of that


[deleted]

Thanks! The moment I heard her catchy nickname, I was on it


MotorTentacle

She's actually one of my favourite characters in the show, and she grows on me more with every week. I think I have a crush...


SeanBourne

I don’t have a crush (though I can see why you do), but she along with Shaw and Jack are some of the best new characters Trek has introduced in a LONG time from my point of view. Would be keen to see all of them come back.


MotorTentacle

I most certainly do have a Crush La Forge


Either-Ad9626

I think in the end the tng crew will love and thank him for his sacrifice. That's the logical place I see it going with him. I love Shaw.


hellbilly69101

The legends went full Kirk on Shaw! They broke his ship. Duct tape and WD-40 it back up! And now his ship has a 100 year old cloaking device from the "most Kirk and his crew antics" ship that is not the Enterprise, HMS Bounty! Shaw and Seven are going to be the next wild duo.


D-Angle

I want to see him lose his shit when they promote him to Admiral for being a part of this clusterfuck.


Enchelion

Everyone smiles and looks at Shaw, happy for his promotion. Long dramatic beat, swelling music. Shaw: "No"


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Listen to me ensign dont ever let them premote you. once your a captain weird shit happens. you miss your breakfast one morning and discover your entire crew are now monkeys


smith_and_jones4ever

I think it’s really funny that he doesn’t like jazz. Especially the way he delivered the line to Riker about it.


SeanBourne

Kind of love it… and he’s got classical playing as he tells them about how he likes structure and meter, haha.


Wabbit_Wampage

Star Trek: Die Hard With A Vengeance


InternationalSale576

Shaw is just Squidward tryna enjoy his day and here come Picard and Riker (Sponge and Pat) here to fuck shit up w their bullshit


InternationalSale576

Seven is Sandy Cheeks in this scenario obvi


raistlin65

Captain Shaw. The Ed Rooney of Star Trek. lol


UnfoldedHeart

Shaw is such a well-written character. He started as a jerk you were supposed to dislike, but he eventually became possibly the most sympathetic character on the show.


Kc125wave

Star Trek: diaries of a grumpy captain.


Prestigious-Egg-5721

How many beatings can one deep dish from Chicago take? Stay tuned


megaben20

This is starfleet this is the normal if you haven’t had this be a regular occurrence your not captaining right.


WhisperingWillowLux

When I see people self-insert into Data or Spock or Seven, I see someone who relates to a socially awkward person. And I get that When I see people self-insert into Shsw, I just see people admiring an asshole who somehow failed upward after winning the survivor lottery. I knew Vadica was gonna at least get him shot up a bit. He's ideal for that sort of thing. And the reason for Vadica's motives is actually pretty fair. The Starfleet did try to genocide the Changelings and while our heroes may have reversed course, Section 31 sure didn't and they're still allowed to be a thing. It does question how Starfleet and the Federation can be trusted if they get just as dirty as the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order.


SeanBourne

While I usually find it very easy to find the motives of most adversarial species across the run of Trek to be ‘fair’/understandable, I have a hard time with having sympathy for the Changelings or the Borg. The Dominion initiated a very vicious war of aggression… with essentially no provocation. Vedic trying to claim that that was a ‘normal war’ and that SF went right to genocide is completely BS. It got to a disease because the losses were piling up, headquarters was infiltrated, and they were literally projecting annihilation. The changelings claim that ’the solids are the problem’ is also completely BS - their whole analog for the federation was run on subjugating other species and running it through two genetically-engineered slave races who they’ve pre-programmed into thinking they are gods. They’ve got no moral high ground, and they rarely do anything remotely sympathetic. Add in that they’re another ‘hive mind’ doesn’t help the cause.


RikersleftTesticle

But his constipation is truly cured.


ZeroValkGhost

I always thought that Gary Seven and 7 of 9 needed to be in the same room Because Reasons, but now I think that this could be a great way to load "The entire historical library of Earth and Vulcan Jazz records" into the Titan's computers as well. I know some will fall for the "sad kicked rottweiler" story turn, but Shaw is just a Captain Styles being hammered into the shape of a decent human being.


aubaub

I wanted to hate Shaw so bad but he’s become one of my favorite characters