Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
a concept: its my personal headcanon that dermal regenerators don’t work well on Cardassian skin, because they’re primarily made and developed in the Federation and most Federation species are Mammalian and don’t have scales as a part of their dermal anatomy. They can handle clean cuts (like from surgery), bruises, shallow scrapes, but anything beyond that it’s better to let heal the old fashioned way.
So following from this, Julian inventing a regenerator that actually works for species with scales, because what’s better than loving someone to the point of invention, to the point of loving not just them, but the world which they love, which made them.
She was the first black woman to go to space on tv (and her impact on representation on TV should also not be understated) but she also campaigned for NASA applications of diverse voices. Her campaign led to the recruitment of Sally Ride (first woman in space), col. Guion Bluford (first black astronaut in NASA), and Mae Jeminson (first black woman in space).
Without her personal recruitment campaign (which she threatened to sue NASA if she put her reputation on the line to bring in these applications if they then did not go on to hire any of them) who knows how much longer it would have taken to get anyone other than a white man as a NASA astronaut.
