Clu is so done with Pavel’s crap.

Very bummed that my weekend plans didn’t work out, so here’s my Queen Regina (OUAT) cosplay during the shoot from earlier this year.

We met the Borg.
It’s only my first day and I have lost Captain Quincy to the Klingons, nearly lost the ship and my best friend, and engaged the Borg.
So much for calm.

“I don’t like this, Sir.”

“Neither do I, Number One. But we can’t ignore the distress call.”

Chassis and Automaton

Chassis

It’s kind of complicated to explain my favorite -kind- of robot. I don’t really care what they look like, per-se, or even if you see more than a blinky light or something (DON’T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT HAL). If it’s a machine that takes its programming and runs with it, especially if it has some kind of existential crisis, or tries to wipe out humanity, etc, all because it is doing what it was told to do/all that it knows and it’s just trying to understand…it will instantly become my baby and I will adopt it forever. There’s probably a psychological reason that these sort of characters connect with me, but I try not to think about it too hard.

It doesn’t seem to matter to me whether or not these robots ever figure out that what they’re doing was “wrong” either, though I can be a sucker for things like “the evil robot turning good”, as long as it’s “the supposedly evil robot actually not being evil and just doing what it was programmed to do by stupid humans…and then overcoming that and doing what the not as stupid humans would prefer, and saving them”.

Also Transformers, because VEHICLE. ALIEN. ROBOTS. YES.

Automaton

All the robot smooches. Anytime, anywhere. (PROWL IS NOT AMUSED)

So this is what a real bridge is like.

I wonder what Captain Quincy is like. I wonder if there are any “other” Bajorans on board…or any Cardassians. I wonder if I’ll meet any Cardassians someday? What would that be like? What if I meet Borg? What if I forget Admiral Janeway’s tactics for fighting Borg? What if I don’t meet the Borg and I took that entire course for nothing and wasted time I could have spent in that Advanced Warp Theory class? My mind is racing again, I have to stop that. Calm down. I’m a first officer now! Calm. Sign in, then go to the bridge and report to the captain. Everything will be fine.

Quite a difference.

Inviting everyone into the con from the roof accessway

It’s soap. It’s gel. But what else does it do? Inquiring computers wish to know.

Dramatic shot that mainly just shows the back of the costume

Waiting before going onstage for the cosplay show

GLaDOS at the con!

“Let me prove to you that I’m not a hologram!”
Echo is alarmed by this. Either this “future Echo” is not telling the truth about her identity, or even more disturbingly, in the future, something happens to change her from a hologram into a different form. She draws her phaser and looks at her doppelganger uncertainly.
“I’m sorry, I must have mis-heard you. Would you care to repeat that statement?”