My first thought was that they looked like bow ties of some sort.
Captain Ake Appreciation Thread
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It's a movie, based on a popular Broadway play back in the day, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, not to mention Jack Lemmon and Elsa Lanchester.
Bell, Book, and Candle is to Bewitched as Forbidden Planet is to Star Trek.
(Along with I Married a Witch from 1942.)
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I suspect the death of her son, who she expected to spend centuries with, resulted in her having a severe reality shift.
Doubly so with the witnessing the Fall of the Federation.
I am a chief proponent of the "Anisha Mir is actually a criminal mastermind" theory and think that Ake is REALLY over-identifying with her.
She's literally the captain of the Athena. Has a first office she calls Number 1 and everything.
She's a bit more than the teacher. She's the school's chancellor.
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.
Since this is Star Trek, it's likely Anke's role is more than ceremonial.
Barefoot in your own home/property is all well and good, but barefoot in public is actually dangerous.You should probably avoid Bell, Book, and Candle (1958) with Kim Novak. She plays a Greenwich Village art dealer (and witch) who -- scandalously! -- goes about barefoot all the time.
And, yes, the movie treats this as shockingly rebellious and unconventional.
On a practical level, absolutely!
In fiction and theater, however, it often signifies that a character is free-spirited and unconcerned with propriety. The Barefoot Contessa, etc.
Going all the way back to Huckleberry Finn at least . . .
“Low energy”, “frail”, and a series of photos showing exactly the opposite…
“Old”/“Old”/“Old” — no doubt true from a 20-year-old’s POV, really not from this 57-year-old’s; certainly not in the clearly intended-as-pejorative, “she’s not young-person-hawt enough for me, as if that mattered!” manner you seem to intend.
(Also, Holly Hunter is as awesome as she always has been.)
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I like Captain Ake. I don’t really understand the obsession with Holly Hunter, though, since I mostly know her from The Piano. She was incredible in that, obviously—but beyond that, I haven’t seen her in much, so I don’t totally get why everyone is so excited about her being part of Star Trek.
That said, she’s a great addition to the Star Trek universe. I can absolutely buy Ake as serious when she needs to be. She wouldn’t have the rank of captain if she hadn’t proven her command abilities. And I think a lot of her quirkiness probably comes from being 422 years old. I mean, I’m pushing 50 myself, and even I’m starting to notice how much less I care about things that once felt hugely important. Maybe it’s something like that.
Also, I definitely need that amazing foot jewelry from episode 3.
That said, she’s a great addition to the Star Trek universe. I can absolutely buy Ake as serious when she needs to be. She wouldn’t have the rank of captain if she hadn’t proven her command abilities. And I think a lot of her quirkiness probably comes from being 422 years old. I mean, I’m pushing 50 myself, and even I’m starting to notice how much less I care about things that once felt hugely important. Maybe it’s something like that.
Also, I definitely need that amazing foot jewelry from episode 3.
Not necessary even distant. Given their lifespans, for all we know Pelia was (is?) Nahla’s mom! Which would nicely explain both the painting (she inherited it!), and the bits of Pelia we glimpse in Hunter’s mostly-but-not-entirely more serious performance.
Besides, I’ve been uncomfortable with the view I’ve seen here and there that those are just Lanthanite attitudes, despite our having seen exactly two Lanthanites so far. If we’ve actually seen three, one of them being a somehow-not-recognized-as-or-aware-of-being-Lanthanite Flint, that throws a wrench in right there.
(Or maybe not — if attitudes are presumably culturally transmitted, and Akharin/Solomon/Methuselah/Lazarus/Merlin/da Vinci/Brahms/Flint somehow managed to never know his biological parents were Lanthanite or even what that was, that’s a good enough reason for a lack of traditionally-Lanthanite attitudes. So fine, I retract that bit.)
I love Captain Ake because Holly Hunter throws herself completely into the role, creating a captain who feels unlike anyone Star Trek has given us before. Despite her small frame, she commands attention the instant she enters a room, not through force, but through absolute confidence and presence. At 422 years old, Ake has nothing left to prove and no patience for other people’s expectations; she knows exactly who she is and what she represents. That self-assuredness, combined with her quiet authority and lived-in wisdom, is what makes her so compelling to me.
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She was also great in her small role in the, in my opinion, quite underrated Batman vs Superman (ultimate edition of course).
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captain ake has her lol quirks
Fair. OK.
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