Reposting my boy
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.
Son of NCC-1701 crewmember Charlene Masters, Commander Simon Masters was the Chief Engineer of the U.S.S. Eridani during its five year mission. He was 36 years old at the start of the mission and also held the title of Second officer.
A very creative engineer, he was highly regarded for his excellent technical knowledge of the ship and a thirst for innovation. Albeit being skilled in his domain, he often felt unworthy of his posting, due to a mistake he made on one of his early on-ship assignments as a cadet, during which he made a mistake that cost the life of one of his classmates. On the ship, he was a very easy-going person, and enjoyed passing by the science labs to discuss ongoing research with the team of department head David Marcus. He also liked getting involved in the newest, more-mechanically inclined science projects of the department, and would happily work on additional safety measures in the lab for specific experiments. While sociable, he would sometime retreat to the rumbling of the engines and echoing jeffries tube for more menial maintenance as a way to unwind.
Star Trek: Eridani is a fan project, by fan, for fans, featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Eridani, a starship commanded by Captain Saavik, with at her side Science Officer David Marcus and CMO Dr. Joanna McCoy, as well as a full crew of characters integrating themselves into the TOS timeline or directly taken from it.
Developed by purple_iris_bloom ( @purple-iris) and ghostofgoldendays ( @parallelfallout), this story is meant to be build upon, with the biography of the characters being already established, as well as prompts representing the synopses of the episodes of the four seasons of Star Trek: Eridani
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/StarTrek_Eridani
Here it is! The official AO3 collection for Star Trek: Eridani is opened, with the prompts ofor the season 1 episodes available for fulfillment! It can be art, fic, analysis, meta and more!
The FAQ of the collectiok hopefully can answer any questions about the collection.
The Operation department of the U.S.S. Eridani
Art by @parallelfallout
Chief Engineer Simon Masters, read his bio here:
stu’s the kind of guy to shout CONFESSION TIME (giving billy an aneurysm) at a party and says the most unhinged unasked for shitty story and then proceeds to laugh about it whilst everyone else is either disturbed or laughing along uncomfortably
How funny would it be if T’Pring and Stonn’s kid just ended up joining Starfleet? Like a Spock megafan as well. Meet Sopek: the bitchiest bitch to ever bitch
@startrek-eridani @purple-iris @schn-tgai-saavik
More about Sopek to come on Star Trek: Eridani
packaging
Xeno-botanist Marithyk Ry’Anauk, read his bio here:
Star Trek, MCR, + original artwork :]Instagram: @parallelfallout —————-Requests/commissions open! 22
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