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Finished directly after the previous post, on May 6th, 2020, this once again was posted on tumblr! But it never got the attention that, IMO, it really deserved, tbh. So, at least it has a chance now! It actually bugged me a lot because I put a lot of thought into it, more than any of the other Poketrek posts.

I'm going to post the description from tumblr here, (keep in mind that it's incorrect now because it's from the past) but before that, I'm going to try to sell my non-Star Trek fan followers on watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine, same as I did on the other DS9 posts.

No, seriously, watch Deep Space Nine. Watch Star Trek, guys, it's so good! It's about adults! There are people over 30! In fact, nearly every character is over 30! It is considered notable if they aren't! This character is Constable Odo, the head of security of Deep Space 9, and of an (at the start of the series) unknown species of alien that naturally exists as a puddle of goo, he can transform into anything, but every 18 hours has to revert to the goo form or else suffer horrible pain. He's traumatized as fuck about all sorts of things as a result of being a test subject that was originally believed nonsapient and subjected to experiments that were cruel and inhumane as a result of this.

No but like seriously it's so good watch it.

Even more of that Star Trek/Pokemon AU I posted about! This one was finished so fast because tbh I’m super excited about this one, because there’s a lot of worldbuilding here, and Odo’s backstory is slightly altered!

So, anyway, got bored one day, came upon the idea of a Pokémon/Star Trek AU where it’s kinda like ‘His Dark Materials’ and their daemons, but without all the spiritual stuff. Essentially, almost everyone, universally, has a Pokémon partner, like Ash and his Pikachu, to whom they share a special connection with.

The fact that Pokémon have a very explicit supernatural origin leads me to believe they would be the first thing people had in common with each other when first contact was made; the fact that they share common species across the galaxy is one of the main things that connects people to other species in the galaxy. The different legendary Pokémon created different worlds, and all worlds have Pokémon. I have more, but that’s for worldbuilding posts if people are interested.
And now, the fun part. Alien Pokémon! Pokémon from other planets can vary just as much as regional variations; they can be different types, but they’re still technically the same Pokémon!, Since I did choose these Pokémon to match the character, I still wanted some essence of the Pokémon’s theme to remain, so yeah! Fun!

Every world has Pokémon on it, although each planet has different species distribution, there are 18 types and 896 individual Pokémon species known to exist currently. Pokémon can massively change over time from their environment, so a Cardassian Zoroark is different than a Terran Zoroark.

(Cardassian Zoroark with a Terran Zoroark for scale. Click for image alone.)
Interestingly, Zoroarks aren’t very different between the Terran and Cardassian versions, they were already well adapted to sneaking around the darker caves, and remain Dark type, just adapting with an extra claw and growing slightly smaller. In fact, it’s speculated that Terran Zoroarks might have actually been the one to lose their extra claw in the less harsh Earth environment.

I chose a Zoroark for Odo because they’re associated with transformation and aren’t Dittos, because I was absolutely not gonna give him a Ditto because honestly, even with the transformation association, it just doesn’t fit Odo that well. That, and the other reason…

In this universe, I’m going with the theory that Ditto are a result of failed clones of Mew, so Dittos in the Poketrek universe were created during the Eugenics Wars during their experiments and attempts to recreate Mew.
In this universe, Odo’s life was a little bit different; when it was discovered he could transform, it sparked a debate on whether he was to be classified as a creature or a Pokémon.

Some people wanted to define Odo as a Bajoran Ditto, since his abilities are somewhat similar to the Pokémon. If he was defined as a Ditto, it would open some strange questions up, since Dittos were created by humans, and Odo was discovered somewhere where no humans had ever been, to everyone’s knowledge.
Eventually, after a lot of arguing and (painful) testing and experiments, it was decided, due to the fact that Odo was unable to copy the main defining trait of Pokémon, their moves, that he would be classified as an unknown alien. There’s still a lot of debate on this, and it means that some people still argue that Odo should be treated as a defective Pokémon rather than a sentient being.

Since Odo’s abilities were not unique, while this means he was treated less like an anomaly, it also meant that he was held up to the standards of another creature, and his inability to perfectly replicate humanoids and his slow learning was treated as evidence that he was imperfect and defective, and often was punished for his failures or pushed beyond his limits because they believed he was simply not trying hard enough.

When Odo was brought to Terok Nor and Dukat gave him the job as investigator, he was given a Zoroark as a gift to ensure his loyalty, and he named her Ital.
Ital was meant to both ensure that Odo felt a gratitude to Dukat for treating him like a sentient being who deserved a companion Pokémon like most others have, and also as a threat; that Dukat could always take her away from him if he misbehaved.

Ital, however, bonded with Odo a little more than intended, and during their haste to retreat from Terok Nor, was not taken, and now Odo is her owner in more than spirit.

Ital is a Very Good Girl, and eager to please Odo, she loves solving crime and catching criminals and adores her job as Odo’s enforcer. She’s almost even more obsessed with her job than Odo is, although it’s more understandable, since she’s basically a very smart dog, she just is eager to do her job and receive the scritchies and brushies for a job well done.
While she is very much dedicated to being a Good Girl and doing her job, she does have one secret desire; she would love to just flat out eat Quark’s Meowth, Greech .

It’s not even like Quark and Odo’s sexually and romantically charged rivalry or anything, it’s straight up ‘this smaller animal looks tasty and if my owner didn’t say no, I would eat him’.
They still terrorize each other in a rivalry fairly similar to Quark and Odo’s, it’s just also kind of like Tom and Jerry, where one of them absolutely would kill the other given half the chance, and is only stopped by Odo forbidding her to actually eat Greech.
p
God, I love drawing things. If anyone wants to suggest who I should draw next, or want to know more about the AU, just ask! (be aware I already have Pokémon for most all major characters besides the Star Trek Enterprise characters and will not be changing them)

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Finished directly after the previous post, on May 6th, 2020, this once again was posted on tumblr! But it never got the attention that, IMO, it really deserved, tbh. So, at least it has a chance now! It actually bugged me a lot because I put a lot of thought into it, more than any of the other Poketrek posts.

I'm going to post the description from tumblr here, (keep in mind that it's incorrect now because it's from the past) but before that, I'm going to try to sell my non-Star Trek fan followers on watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine, same as I did on the other DS9 posts.

No, seriously, watch Deep Space Nine. Watch Star Trek, guys, it's so good! It's about adults! There are people over 30! In fact, nearly every character is over 30! It is considered notable if they aren't! This character is Constable Odo, the head of security of Deep Space 9, and of an (at the start of the series) unknown species of alien that naturally exists as a puddle of goo, he can transform into anything, but every 18 hours has to revert to the goo form or else suffer horrible pain. He's traumatized as fuck about all sorts of things as a result of being a test subject that was originally believed nonsapient and subjected to experiments that were cruel and inhumane as a result of this.

No but like seriously it's so good watch it.

Even more of that Star Trek/Pokemon AU I posted about! This one was finished so fast because tbh I’m super excited about this one, because there’s a lot of worldbuilding here, and Odo’s backstory is slightly altered!

So, anyway, got bored one day, came upon the idea of a Pokémon/Star Trek AU where it’s kinda like ‘His Dark Materials’ and their daemons, but without all the spiritual stuff. Essentially, almost everyone, universally, has a Pokémon partner, like Ash and his Pikachu, to whom they share a special connection with.

The fact that Pokémon have a very explicit supernatural origin leads me to believe they would be the first thing people had in common with each other when first contact was made; the fact that they share common species across the galaxy is one of the main things that connects people to other species in the galaxy. The different legendary Pokémon created different worlds, and all worlds have Pokémon. I have more, but that’s for worldbuilding posts if people are interested.
And now, the fun part. Alien Pokémon! Pokémon from other planets can vary just as much as regional variations; they can be different types, but they’re still technically the same Pokémon!, Since I did choose these Pokémon to match the character, I still wanted some essence of the Pokémon’s theme to remain, so yeah! Fun!

Every world has Pokémon on it, although each planet has different species distribution, there are 18 types and 896 individual Pokémon species known to exist currently. Pokémon can massively change over time from their environment, so a Cardassian Zoroark is different than a Terran Zoroark.

(Cardassian Zoroark with a Terran Zoroark for scale. Click for image alone.)
Interestingly, Zoroarks aren’t very different between the Terran and Cardassian versions, they were already well adapted to sneaking around the darker caves, and remain Dark type, just adapting with an extra claw and growing slightly smaller. In fact, it’s speculated that Terran Zoroarks might have actually been the one to lose their extra claw in the less harsh Earth environment.

I chose a Zoroark for Odo because they’re associated with transformation and aren’t Dittos, because I was absolutely not gonna give him a Ditto because honestly, even with the transformation association, it just doesn’t fit Odo that well. That, and the other reason…

In this universe, I’m going with the theory that Ditto are a result of failed clones of Mew, so Dittos in the Poketrek universe were created during the Eugenics Wars during their experiments and attempts to recreate Mew.
In this universe, Odo’s life was a little bit different; when it was discovered he could transform, it sparked a debate on whether he was to be classified as a creature or a Pokémon.

Some people wanted to define Odo as a Bajoran Ditto, since his abilities are somewhat similar to the Pokémon. If he was defined as a Ditto, it would open some strange questions up, since Dittos were created by humans, and Odo was discovered somewhere where no humans had ever been, to everyone’s knowledge.
Eventually, after a lot of arguing and (painful) testing and experiments, it was decided, due to the fact that Odo was unable to copy the main defining trait of Pokémon, their moves, that he would be classified as an unknown alien. There’s still a lot of debate on this, and it means that some people still argue that Odo should be treated as a defective Pokémon rather than a sentient being.

Since Odo’s abilities were not unique, while this means he was treated less like an anomaly, it also meant that he was held up to the standards of another creature, and his inability to perfectly replicate humanoids and his slow learning was treated as evidence that he was imperfect and defective, and often was punished for his failures or pushed beyond his limits because they believed he was simply not trying hard enough.

When Odo was brought to Terok Nor and Dukat gave him the job as investigator, he was given a Zoroark as a gift to ensure his loyalty, and he named her Ital.
Ital was meant to both ensure that Odo felt a gratitude to Dukat for treating him like a sentient being who deserved a companion Pokémon like most others have, and also as a threat; that Dukat could always take her away from him if he misbehaved.

Ital, however, bonded with Odo a little more than intended, and during their haste to retreat from Terok Nor, was not taken, and now Odo is her owner in more than spirit.

Ital is a Very Good Girl, and eager to please Odo, she loves solving crime and catching criminals and adores her job as Odo’s enforcer. She’s almost even more obsessed with her job than Odo is, although it’s more understandable, since she’s basically a very smart dog, she just is eager to do her job and receive the scritchies and brushies for a job well done.
While she is very much dedicated to being a Good Girl and doing her job, she does have one secret desire; she would love to just flat out eat Quark’s Meowth, Greech .

It’s not even like Quark and Odo’s sexually and romantically charged rivalry or anything, it’s straight up ‘this smaller animal looks tasty and if my owner didn’t say no, I would eat him’.
They still terrorize each other in a rivalry fairly similar to Quark and Odo’s, it’s just also kind of like Tom and Jerry, where one of them absolutely would kill the other given half the chance, and is only stopped by Odo forbidding her to actually eat Greech.
p
God, I love drawing things. If anyone wants to suggest who I should draw next, or want to know more about the AU, just ask! (be aware I already have Pokémon for most all major characters besides the Star Trek Enterprise characters and will not be changing them)