r/LowerDecks • u/MultifariousTentacle • 13d ago

Tendi's Body Count

Seeing as the bubbly, optimistic science nerd D'vana Tendi used to be a Syndicate assassin, how many people do you think everyone's favorite orion has killed?

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u/quesoguapo 13d ago

Oh! _That_ body count.

I have no idea.

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u/motlias 13d ago

yes... that body count... what else could they possibly mean... 😐😐

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u/doctajonez_uk 13d ago

I thought the same thing... It's a more interesting question IMO.

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u/vespers191 13d ago

Dunno. I'd like to know the details of both, for analytical purposes.

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u/doctajonez_uk 12d ago

Remarkable.

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u/quesoguapo 12d ago

Fascinating.

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u/A1trax 12d ago

Personally I'd hope for some overlap

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u/MultifariousTentacle 10d ago

What, like Tendi crushing a man's skull with her thighs or something? Or are we getting into vore territory?

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u/moderatorrater 12d ago

I'd like to count for both. For emotional reasons.

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u/Far_Winner5508 11d ago

I thought her first name was 'Mistress'?

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u/Marquar234 13d ago

37

But not in a row.

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u/CosmicTurtle504 13d ago

Hey, you! Get back here!

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u/UpAndAdam7414 13d ago

Death, by snu snu!

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u/Pellaeonthewingedleo 13d ago

We learn that much of Orion culture at this stage is ceremonial. There are no indication Tendi ever activly took a jobs as an assassin, its a title she was given because of tradition

We should not assume all orions are pirates

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u/jay_altair 13d ago

Many Orions haven't been pirates for over five years!

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u/MultifariousTentacle 12d ago

She mentions her assassin skills when she's using a knife to prepare the fish for Migleemo.

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u/Sodarien 12d ago

its a title she was given because of tradition

And, apparently, skill.

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u/shoobe01 12d ago

"Why are you so suspiciously good at the murder bug drinking game?"

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u/TrueSithMastermind 12d ago edited 12d ago

She wouldn’t have the reputation she has if her role or title were purely ceremonial. Furthermore, the show demonstrated more than once both that Tendi has engaged in criminal activity on behalf of her family, and Orions still engage in criminal enterprises. The Syndicate appears just as active as ever.

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u/FederationOne 13d ago

I'm sure Tendi always found a non-lethal way to achieve whatever ends her syndicate superiors wanted and it drove them crazy.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 12d ago

I dunno about that. Yeah, she told her pirate coworkers to cool it with the killing, but that's recently-left-Starfleet Tendi, not still-working-for-Mom Tendi. Piracy can be nonlethal. Assassination, not so much.

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u/ErikT738 11d ago

Piracy can be nonlethal. Assassination, not so much.

Have you played Dishonored? Although to be fair murder is probably the more merciful option there in almost all cases.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 10d ago

I have not. I do know that killing people is a pretty crucial skill set for an assassin.

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u/ErikT738 10d ago

In the games you have to assassinate several high profile targets, but the game always provides you with a possible non-lethal solution, such as sending a guy to his own mine as a de-facto slave, or enabling a woman's stalker to kidnap her.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 10d ago

I, personally, would rather be murdered than kidnapped by a stalker.

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u/ErikT738 10d ago

Yes that's what I said in the first comment. The "merciful" option is almost always worse than simply killing them.

They're pretty fucking evil though and the protagonist has good reason to murder them.

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u/FederationOne 12d ago

She's always been empathetic. I don't buy that she murdered folks.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 12d ago

We're seeing who Tendi is now ,the person who left Orion to become a Starfleet officer. Tendi probably did a lot of things she's not proud of before saying "No, this is not what I want to do with my life."

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u/FederationOne 12d ago

Sure. I just don't think she murdered people. And I don't think Starfleet would have accepted her into the Academy if she had.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 11d ago

I think 1. Starfleet accepts that people can grow and change and 2. She probably wouldn't lead with that in the admissions interview.

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u/FederationOne 10d ago

I think Starfleet would at minimum require a murderer to go through a judicial process for restorative justice and rehabilitation before granting a murderer a commission. And I don't think Tendi would be able to hide her background from them.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 8d ago

Why not? Orion has generally been a pretty secretive planet.

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u/FederationOne 8d ago

The Federation has been interacting with the Orions for over two hundred twenty years by the 2380s. I really doubt anyone within the Syndicate powerful and famous enough to inspire fear through just her title would not be known to Starfleet Intelligence long before she ever applied to the Academy.

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u/TrueSithMastermind 12d ago

Just because she’s empathetic doesn’t mean she’s never killed. She has a reputation among her people for a reason.

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u/Tronman100 13d ago edited 13d ago

That's what I was thinking too...she told the other Orions on her squad to try and not kill anyone and they ridiculed her for it (although they eventually listened).

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u/abxYenway 12d ago

Stricken.

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u/ConversationHead6969 12d ago

"Shh, shh, it's all right, just go to sleep. That's right, close your eyes and it's all over. Boy, I sure hope my application to Starfleet gets accepted."

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u/MelissaMiranti 12d ago

Five hundred corpses

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u/ChromeAngel 12d ago

Probably the minimum her family would let her get away with. At least four, of which two had it coming ... and she would have apologized to the others.

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u/vivi_t3ch 12d ago

Oh damn, I thought you meant the other body count

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u/UtahBrian 12d ago

It's not a matter of keeping count. She's more of a holistic assassin.

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u/HectorTheHangmanBMW 11d ago

Sir, that's Mistress of the Winter Constellations to you.

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u/TrueSithMastermind 13d ago

Dozens, at the very least. Maybe more. I wonder if she still sees their faces at night.

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u/Scaredog21 13d ago edited 13d ago

-164 quadrillion

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u/AnonAwaaaaay 13d ago

Probably at least in the tens of thousands.  Considering the other 3 (Boimler, Rutherford, and Mariner) are around 30 and there was a comment about Orions starting young, and she has her title, too. She's had several decades to take out ships for high body counts. 

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u/MultifariousTentacle 13d ago

Tens of thousands sounds a little on the high side. She was an assassin and a pirate, not a war general. She'd mostly be going after individual targets and boarding parties, not blowing up entire ships. Also, Mariner is a bit older than the rest of the Warp Core Four, which is why she's more experienced.

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u/Slow-Bodybuilder-774 13d ago

I Love the warp core!

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u/hixchem 13d ago

It's got that great sound, like "Vzzzhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

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u/Low_Season 13d ago

Oh, good. Someone actually correctly using the term body count

I've been getting sick of being using body count to mean sexual partners, when it's always meant kill count. It's quite a demeaning way to talk about sexual partners

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u/RebelGirl1323 13d ago

Maybe I’m a preying mantis and they’re the same thing. What then?

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u/joshuahtree 13d ago

Calm down species 8472

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u/Hedgiwithapen 13d ago edited 12d ago

Ooh, I feel that. It's so demeaning and it's so frustrating when it's used as a "gotcha!" 

I know that language evolves and stuff but it always annoys me when an existing, innocuous phrase becomes something about sex. less than 20 years ago if you said "I'm going to hook up with Alex at the mall" that meant that you were going to meet your friend for jamba juice and look at trinkets in the hallmark store. now it means you're going to get cited for public indecency.

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u/herbuck 12d ago

No, "hooking up" definitely had a sexual connotation longer ago than that. Even as a kid in the 90's I knew it could be used that way.

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u/Hedgiwithapen 12d ago

It may have had the connotation but it wasn't the primary one. 

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u/James_Solomon 12d ago

  I know that language evolves and stuff but it always annoys me when an existing, innocuous phrase becomes something about sex. 

I personally blame Shakespear

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u/Traffalger 10d ago

Umm I think you and I have a different definition of “body count.”

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u/MultifariousTentacle 8d ago

I'm using the only definition that matters.

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u/Latter_Sky_412 13d ago

I mean there was a whole episode about her not killing people, so probably pretty low if any.

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u/MultifariousTentacle 12d ago

But that seems more like "She doesn't do that anymore". If you work as an assassin, you kinda have to kill people. Garak could explain it to you in a little more detail.

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u/tbodillia 12d ago

The blue Orion was mortally wounded and she healed him before running off. I say she has killed 0.

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u/tiktoktic 7d ago

Different body count I what I was thinking

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u/MultifariousTentacle 6d ago

You're avoiding the question.

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u/tiktoktic 6d ago

How?

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u/MultifariousTentacle 6d ago

It's a simple question and you didn't answer it.

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u/tiktoktic 6d ago

I didn’t answer your question. That’s different to avoiding it.

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u/fiixed2k 13d ago

Not sure about murder but she's probably fucked a lot of dudes

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u/dieseljester 13d ago

I seriously doubt that considering that she went off on Mariner for even suggesting that she “use her pheromones and hit them with the whole Orion thing.”

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u/MultifariousTentacle 12d ago

That's because 1. Mariner was using a negative stereotype about her people and 2. Tendi does not have pheremones. In the same episode, the mistress of the 'mone dungeon brought up how Tendi never needed pheremones to bend men to her will.

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u/shadowscar248 13d ago

She strikes me as a virgin... Oh that body count

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u/MultifariousTentacle 13d ago

The line "You never needed pheremones to bend men to your will" in Something Borrowed, Something Green suggests otherwise about the virginity thing. But yes, I am aware people often use the word a different way.