“She’s afraid of failure,” she says. “However that’s such a giant umbrella: failure to uphold your picture, failure to attain what you need, or failure to like any person the best way they should be liked. She thinks her worth comes from her achievements, as a result of that’s actually what she’s recognized her entire life. So to have one thing apart from achievements, which might be love or friendship, these don’t imply as a lot to her as a result of she thinks that that’s not what folks need from her or wish to see from her. Her worry is admittedly pushed by not being who she thinks folks need her to be.”
Ostensibly, her dream is to comply with within the footsteps of her well-known father, a Starfleet admiral who sounds as if he’s not precisely within the working for Dad of the 12 months with regards to being current as a mother or father. However “Ko’Zeine” provides us loads of causes to query whether or not this path is one she actually needs.
“I feel it’s really easy to do one thing acquainted, and, clearly, her father being in a excessive place inside the Federation, that’s acquainted to her. Strain’s acquainted, and authority may be very acquainted to her. As a result of she’s afraid to step out of her consolation zone an excessive amount of, she’s caught with what’s acquainted. Following in his footsteps, that’s what’s snug for her. If he’d been one thing actually boring, like a librarian, she most likely would’ve simply labored on the library, however she would have been the finest librarian. She would’ve had all of the books so as completely and they’d’ve been dusted and cleaned. Once more, I feel, it’s her being afraid of failure. And he or she talks about how, ‘Oh, I’m hoping that individuals don’t correlate my achievements to my father’s,’ however actually, she set that system up herself. She wanted the safety of her father’s place to have the ability to fall again on and be like, ‘Nicely, that’s the man I’m studying from. So if I’m doing it flawed, it’s as a result of I’m simply studying from him.’”
Fortunately, Starfleet Academy is permitting Genesis to open herself as much as a lot of new folks and experiences, which regularly problem her personal perceptions of herself. In “Ko’Zeine,” she finds herself spending a vacation weekend sequestered within the Academy with Caleb, and although she’s technically utilizing him to commit some delicate crimes to assist her break into her personal data, their friendship is a real one.
“I feel what Genesis and Caleb see in one another are each issues that they lack,” Shepard says. “Genesis sees Caleb’s capacity to only be free. He all the time says what’s on his thoughts. He does what he needs. He doesn’t comply with the foundations, and he doesn’t have any type of construction in his life. He by no means has. That for him is his consolation zone, and for Genesis, her consolation zone is construction. It’s guidelines, it’s following issues by a e-book. It’s virtually like they each have one thing that the opposite needs, and I prefer to assume they vibed proper off the bat as a result of they noticed that reflection in one another. They’re so related in so some ways, however they obtained there by way of reverse paths.”
“I like to consider them as platonic soulmates in a manner,” Shepard continues. “They will end one another’s sentences. I prefer to think about them being on the identical bridge in the future and sharing a captain’s chair as a result of they assume a lot alike, and so they’re so good at problem-solving, and what one lacks, the opposite one makes up for. It makes lots of sense to me why they really feel so linked to one another, as a result of it’s virtually like, ‘I’ll be your crutch should you’ll be mine.’”
