Are Dr Culber and Stamets common law husbands?
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I think they're just regular law husbands.
Did they get married on the show since 2018?
Did they get married on the show before or after Culber died?
If Lorca married them. Does not count. fake Captain.
They also became legally dead when they time traveled, so paper work would have been filed at the department of births deaths and marriages to disenfranchise their rights and statuses.
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After having made up, they got married while Discovery was being refitted into the Discovery-A. It happened off-camera, we didn't see it. That's my head-canon and I'm sticking to it.
It's simple, it explains things away neatly... and for that reason alone, someone's going to reject it. It's just a question of who.
It's simple, it explains things away neatly... and for that reason alone, someone's going to reject it. It's just a question of who.
Consider this then...
They have been engaged for almost a thousand years.
Allllllllll... Mmmmmmost.
Why not hold their breath for a little longer and make it to 1000?
I don't see why common law would exist... from a secular perspective, marriage is a legal arrangement concerning property rights. In a society without property, it is not going to be pushed on people because they live together for a set period of time.
According to what I could dredge up, the two are not married. And if they choose to change that, it will be a deliberate decision on their parts.
According to what I could dredge up, the two are not married. And if they choose to change that, it will be a deliberate decision on their parts.
I thought they were already married even way back in Season 1? 
I thought the same. I think this was a retcon of some sort, and can't figure out why. I also think it was a misstep on the writers' part. Despite it being the law, a lot of people (for various reasons) don't accept same-sex marriage. This was Trek's opportunity to present it in a positive light.thought they were already married even way back in Season 1?
If they were married in season 1, and Stamets becomes a widower, when Culber comes back to life would they still be married or would they need to marry again?
Only if his death was filed on Earth, at the hall of records.
Which it was, when they time traveled to the 31st century.
Well you can use the term widow without them strictly being married . I call my sister-in-law my sister in law although I'm not with her brother any more.
I think its a sort of description of their relationship for others - not necessarily the actual legal relationship.
I think its a sort of description of their relationship for others - not necessarily the actual legal relationship.
Culber is a thing built from Stamet's memories.
Culber is Stamets.
They are the same person.
There was a rash of assholes marrying themselves 10 years ago.
Which was either legal, or a show marriage that was never legally sanctioned... But these assholes were allowed to rent churches for the ceremony, so this self indulgent white lady bullshit is okay with Rome?
Culber is Stamets.
They are the same person.
There was a rash of assholes marrying themselves 10 years ago.
Which was either legal, or a show marriage that was never legally sanctioned... But these assholes were allowed to rent churches for the ceremony, so this self indulgent white lady bullshit is okay with Rome?
Nope.
No, that was Peter Pan. "To die will be an awfully big adventure."
And once again, Picard is dead, and enjoying the shit out of his death.
I thought death was the undiscovered country?
Or was that the future?
Or time...shoot. I can't keep it all straight.
Or was that the future?
Or time...shoot. I can't keep it all straight.
On one hand, crew allocations from the Quartermaster, due to their rank they both would normally get a huge room, but you put a Doctor and the Chief Engineer... He's not the chief Engineer? And his boo is not the CMO...
Anyways, if those two want to live together, and they add together their allowance of square feet up for living allowance because of their rank... Some is going to be knocking down wall turning a few regular quarters into a super quarters.
This might be why only married people are allowed to live to live together, unless the couple is willing to take a serious deduction in what sort of living space they are entitled to, if there's one guy on the crew who specializes in "drywall" reputting up walls that have just been taken down, every time some dipshit cute couple doesn't make it.
In episode 3, his origin, Stamets was not the chief engineer.
5 years later, he almost certainly is the chief engineer.
When did that change?
Reno is the Chief Engineer.
