#*married to or romantically involved with Janeway

[bumblingbabooshka]

Post Voyager returning to the alpha quadrant there’s definitely (in my heart) an unofficial club where the spouses/loved ones of her ex-crew gather to talk about how different and fucked up the experience made them, both of them in some cases. There’s also an official one but many of them don’t want to talk to a professional since Voyager is a media circus and they either don’t want more spotlight, are afraid of things leaking to the press, or are just uncomfortable talking to someone who might potentially idolize the person they’re talking about. (some of them share their experiences of this happening even amongst family or friends). A lot of talk of divorce, a lot of feeling trapped in relationships (a breakup would now be at LEAST semi-public and again it might prompt a lot of negativity - YOU broke up with a HERO? or speculation about the person they love[d] not to mention just general feelings of guilt). But there’s also a lot of funny (at least to them) stories, tears, venting, community. Also maybe to lighten the mood Quark’s there trying to get them plastered.

[byneddiedingo]

Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda in Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947) Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart, Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Art Baker. Screenplay: David Hertz, based on a novel by Elizabeth Janeway. Cinematography: Leon Shamroy. Art direction: George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Louis R. Loeffler. Music: David Raksin. Daisy Kenyon is an underrated romantic drama from an often underrated director. Otto Preminger gives us an unexpectedly sophisticated look -- given the Production Code's strictures about adultery -- at the relationship of an unmarried woman, Daisy (Joan Crawford), to two men, one of whom, Dan O'Mara (Dana Andrews), is married, the other a widowed veteran, Peter Lapham (Henry Fonda), who is suffering from PTSD -- not only from his wartime experience but also from the death of his wife. It's a "woman's picture" par excellence, but without the melodrama and directorial condescension that the label suggests: Each of the three principals is made into a credible, complex character by the script and director and by the performances of the stars. Crawford is on the cusp of her transformation into the hard-faced harridan of her later career: She had just won her Oscar for Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945), and was beginning to show her age, which was 42, a time when Hollywood charisma becomes hard for actresses to maintain. But her Daisy Kenyon has moments of softness and humor that restore some of the glamour even when the edges start to show. Andrews skillfully plays the charming lawyer O'Mara, trapped into a marriage to a woman who takes her marital frustrations out on their two daughters. Although he is something of a soulless egoist, he finds a conscience when he takes on an unpopular civil rights case involving a Japanese-American -- and loses. Set beside his two best-known performances, in Preminger's Laura (1944) and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), his work here demonstrates that he was an actor of considerable range. Fonda is today probably the most admired of the three stars, but he had always had a distant relationship with Hollywood: He suspended his career for three years to enlist in the Navy during World War II, and after making Daisy Kenyon to work out the remainder of his contract with 20th Century-Fox  he made a handful of films before turning his attention to Broadway, where he stayed for eight years, until he was called on to re-create the title role in the film version of Mister Roberts (John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, 1955). Of the three performances in Daisy Kenyon, Fonda's seems the least committed, but his instincts as an actor kept him on track.

[startrekfangirl2233]

No, it makes no sense to me either, @desert-fern. And welcome to my TED talk as I tell you exactly how Star Trek is just as woke and Feminist as Star Wars is.

This includes the cut because, well... Star Trek is in my name and it's my game. So bear with me.

Feminism in Star Trek

When the first season of Star Trek aired in 1966, (3 decades or so before I was born), it was already wildly progressive in and of itself. At that time, it was rare to find a program on television that had a multi-racial cast, as well as, male and female characters who worked as equals together.

Women in the Star Trek: The Original Series (to be clear, I'm referring to the show with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols and DeForest Kelley) were depicted in a very feminine way, with close-fitted uniform tunics to emphasize their curves, snug high heeled boots, and of course, a full face of makeup. This was done in part to placate the show's audience, since it was filmed approximately a decade before females were allowed as candidates for NASA's space program. But despite their attire, Star Trek's women were ground-breaking at the time. They didn't cook, clean, raise children or get married. All they are within the lense and perspective of Starfleet is competent professionals.

Even with the first show, Star Trek had a loyal female fanbase and women actively took part in the letter campaigns to NBC after the show's third season in an effort to keep the show on the air.

That involvement of women in Star Trek continued when Gene Rodenberry began conceptualizing Star Trek: The Next Generation under the helm of Sir Patrick Stewart's Jean Luc Picard. Of the main characters in the show, three are female, Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, and Natasha Yar. As the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Counselor, and Chief of Security aboard the USS Enterprise D, all three women were decision-makers and had their own unique backgrounds, strengths and weaknesses.

In The Next Generation, moreover, women often initiated romantic and sexual encounters. The off-and-on relationship between Deanna Troi and William Riker is wholly controlled by the limits Troi sets. Deanna's mother? She flirts with every man in sight.

The trend of powerful women continues in Star Trek even today. We have Michael Burnham and the indomitable Empress Georgiou, Captain Katherine Janeway, and Number One. These are far from being the only reasons why Star Trek is a feminist body of media. If you want to know more, there are hundreds of blogs taking a look at the different shows in 60 years of Trek history which will tell you exactly how feminist Star Trek is.

You're Woke? So is Star Trek

I'm not sure how much the Fox New anchor, Emily Compagno knows about Star Trek for her to say, “That’s why I’m a Trekkie and not Star Wars!” Star Trek has always been progressive and promoted progressive values. After all, Star Trek The Original Series' episode titled "A Private Little War" condemned the Vietnam War as a losing gambit before the Pentagon Papers were released. The episode, "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield", from the same series, examined racism less than a year after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. Similarly, Star Trek Strange New Worlds used footage from the January 7th, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol building.

Even the inclusion of Una Chin Riley in the unaired pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series can be considered woke. In Rodenberry's own words, Number One is the best at everything. Having a capable woman on the bridge like her was mind-blowing, and a little uncomfortable. Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek: Beyond both depict homosexual relationships, something Rodenberry wanted to do forty years ago but could never get off the cutting room floor.

The only difference is, the writers and actors for Star Trek no longer need to hide their stories behind allegory. In Star Trek Discovery, Grey is a trans character played by a trans actor and Adira is a non-binary character played by a non-binary actor. Similarly Lt. Stamets and Dr. Culbert have their homosexual relationship on full display even sharing the same quarters on the ship. Nothing is hidden because it doesn't have to be, not anymore. Star Trek has evolved with the times.

Above all, let's not forget one thing. Star Trek's entire point was the idea of a future where we can solve the social and economic problems of our time.

P.S. Emily Compagno. Your palm should face forward to show openness. You're brandishing the ta'al, not a gang sign.

Incredible.

[captainpikeswoman]

May I request some headcanons of being married to Tom Paris! 🥰 please and thank you!!

Hope you like it!

Being married to Tom Paris would include:

•Captain Janeway performed the ceremony, and she was absolutely delighted to do so! She was so pleased that you and Tom had found comfort and love and hope of a better future together.

•lots of odd holodeck adventure dates- he likes to write his own programs based around obscure, old Earth movies, so be prepared to go into programs that seem a bit odd!

•speaking of movies, the two of you do take it in turns to pick out what movies you’re going to watch. It’s a daily regular occurrence that the two of you will have a quiet dinner together and then retire early to have a movie and pyjama night.

•Chakotay is invested in yours and Tom’s relationship- I mean to an extent the whole crew is because of the close quarters of being stuck so far from home- but Chakotay cares, if you ever need a mediator for whatever reason he’s there and impartial and ready to keep you both on track.

•like all relationships this one has its ups and downs. There’s quite a lot to unpack when it comes to Tom Paris, not least getting to the root cause of some of his rebelliousness- which does sometimes cause an issue. But the two of you choose to be together, so you work through the tough times.

��sometimes Harry will come along as a ‘third wheel’ as he proclaims himself, but whenever he or anyone else is around while you’re on a date you both make a silent agreement to put the lovey-dovey stuff on hold so as not to make the other person uncomfortable or feel left out.

•the relationship between you both doesn’t change after being married- you take time to have dates, to spend time together and apart. You’re a married couple, you’re not one being.

•Captain Janeway doesn’t like to be involved in her crews personal or romantic lives, but because of the circumstances Voyager is in she thinks it’s best to know roughly what’s going on in case of issues, so if you two have a spat or need some time apart for a shift she’ll see to that. She wants a happy and efficient crew after all!

•PDA while on duty doesn’t happen…but off duty is another matter. He’ll passionately kiss you in the corridor as you’re heading home without caring, he’ll always have a hand on your somewhere, and he loves it when you do the same back to him- you’re both very much equal in initiating affection. Marriage has in no way dimmed the passion and desire you feel for one another.

•he likes to be the little spoon sometimes, but made you promise to never tell anyone!

•he knew from the first time you told him that you loved him that you were the one. And a part of him never wanted to get back to Earth- he wanted a whole life of adventure with you, somewhere totally new, he realises that’s selfish and he never tells a soul. But you’re all he really needs.

•you both talk long and hard about having a family and you agree to wait until you’re both ready- it’s a big decision.

•basically married life is a lot of fun and has lots of laughter with Tom Paris. It’s like the ‘honeymoon’ phase of the relationship never ends.

[blue-mint-winter]

ST Voyager s07e02 Imperfection

Seven’s cortical node, which controls her Borg implants, is malfunctioning and she’s going to die. Seven doesn’t take it well, but she refuses help. Also, Borg kids found a family and only Icheb is staying. He wants to take an exam for Starfleet Academy.

This episode is good, as it shows Seven reacting so irrationally. It’s clear she’s more human than Borg by now. Though the plot and issue at the center of the episode is very similar to the doctor Zimmermann episode, this ep is more serious and the drama involving the characters we care about makes the message much stronger. I like how everyone tried to help Seven in their own way. Janeway goes so far as to go to a Borg debris to get another node for her. Doctor is there, nagging. B’Elanna and Neelix come with moral support and distraction for when she needs it.

The strongest drama comes from the relationship between Seven and Icheb, to the point he risks his own life to make her accept him donating his own node to her. The part when Icheb pointed out to Seven how she’s the one who needs to rely on others, not him, was extremely good. He’s such a good kid :)

s07e03 Drive

Tom and Harry run into a racer and learn there’s going to be friendly race between 4 species that were recently at war. Voyager joins the competition and helps the organizers provide neutral ground for ceremonies as the tensions between former enemies are still high.

On this political background, the real plot of the episode is focused on the romantic relationship between B’Elanna and Tom. B’Elanna begins to think she and Tom are incompatible since she made these big plans for a vacation on holodeck and he forgot about it to join the race. I kind of like how she reacts to it all. You’d expect her to get angry, but instead she’s quiet, introspective. Thankfully she has her friends. Neelix did some good counseling and Seven gave her the idea to do things with Tom that he enjoys, so B’Elanna becomes his co-pilot.

How amusing that when they chose to solve their relationship troubles, it saved them and everyone else from sabotage :) All in all, the episode was just good. It’s nice to see a show have a couple in established relationship dealing with their issues and coming out even stronger. Also, they finally get married :)

s07e04 Repression

In this one, former Maquis crewmembers are attacked. Tuvok leads the investigaiton but as it turns out, he was a perpetrator because he was a sleeper agent of some Maquis Bajoran vedek. Maquis take over the ship and situation seems bleak. I kind of have mixed feeling about the fast resolution of the issue, Tuvok fixing what went wrong and Janeway just taking them back like nothing happened. On one hand, alright, she shouldn’t have hard feelings because they were all under mind control and not acting under their own will, but on the other hand is it really so easy to just forget such a betrayal? Was her trust not shaken even a little? That seems iffy to me about the episode. I would prefer this incident to have some impact on the crew - or not happen at all.

[ylizam]

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here is a Star Trek Voyager one from the last time I got super into my Voyager feelings because why not? Anyway this is the one in which Janeway somehow finds herself a part of the Torres-Paris family, and she decides that she's okay with that. Every so often she looks up from her work and Miral is sticky-handed and underfoot--she actually did want children, and that didn't work out for her but now she's kind of sort of co-parenting? she really doesn't know how to define what they have. She has the place she bought when she was assigned to HQ. B'Elanna and Tom have a place. Tom realizes he kind of wants to stay on planet, works in holodesign and does some flying on the side (it's... mostly legal? not completely illegal?). B'Elanna loves making things work. Making ships work. She does a few tours, but nothing in deep space, and is part of the Voyager Program planetside. Kathryn starts to get itchy feet after she finally gets used to being home. She tries to move into more science, more research, and she gets to do some of that with the Voyager Program, but they've mostly been shifting her into diplomacy so she's off to Deep Space Nine and anywhere she can talk her way into. (Tom and B'Elanna eventually confront her on this.) It's not exactly perfectly even--Tom and B'Elanna are married, and Kathryn never does make it official with them. But she's there when it counts. And they love her and she loves them and she's set in her ways and really kind of fucked up and married to her job and she likes being able to step away without feeling too guilty about it. Likes the freedom. She's a romantic, and maybe her childhood ideas of romance didn't involve being single-but-not-really and parenting-but-not-necessarily but Tom sends flowers on her birthday and she and B'Elanna read Klingon romance novels and build terrifying things in the shed and she babysits Miral when Tom and B'Elanna need a date night of their own and sometimes the three of them place bets on Velocity matches and sometimes they relax in Kathryn's stupidly big hot tub and Tuvok raises an eyebrow when he visits Earth but he also sits with Kathryn and they drink tea together and  it's nothing at all like Kathryn ever imagined but it's really really good.

[Drop a 📖 in my ask box and I’ll tell you about a random story concept I have or have had in the past that I may or may not ever actually write.]

[theprocrastinatingalien]

Battle of Star Trek - Batch#8 Heats (featuring Picard, Tilly, Kim & Kira!)

The Battle of Star Trek continues, but the end is nigh, as we enter our final batch of characters for you to whittle down to your favourite.

We started with 128 characters, and here we have the last batch of 16.  Head over to twitter, add procrastinalien and get voting!

DEANNA TROI

Half Human, half betazoid, Deanna is an empath - meaning she can sense emotions in others.  She was Picard's trusted counsellor on the USS Enterprise-D (and E), and eventually married his first officer Will Riker.  Throughout seven seasons of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, four movies, and some guest spots on VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE, Troi was played by Marina Sirtis.

TORAL ZIYAL

Ziyal spent much of her life as a slave, neglected by her father Dukat due to being half-Cardassian but also half-Bajoran... something his people would never have accepted.  She ended up on DEEP SPACE NINE, where she was taken under the wing of Kira Nerys and started developing a romantic relationship with Garak until she was killed by Damar.  An act which sent her father a little crazy.   A supporting role, Ziyal was played by a number of actors - Cyia Batten, Tracy Middendorf, but most notably Melanie Smith.

DATA

Lt. Commander Data was the first android in Starfleet, and served aboard the USS Enterprise D & E, under Picard, where he spent much of his time studying, and endeavouring to become a part of, humanity. He built up great friendships, in particular with Geordi La Forge.  He was an asset to Starfleet, until his sacrifice in STAR TREK: NEMESIS.  Data was portrayed by Brent Spiner throughout seven years of THE NEXT GENERATION and four movies.

LORE

Lore was, essentially, Data's evil twin. Unlike Data, he was equipped with an emotion chip from the beginning, but sadly his personality wasn't as promising.  He did may evil acts throughout a number of guest spots, particularly when he took control of a dysfunctional faction of the Borg, and tortured Geordi in the process - or worse, got Data (mind controlled) to for him.  Like Data, Lore was played by Brent Spiner.

JEAN-LUC PICARD

Arguably the best commanding officer in STAR TREK.  Some might argue (and there are certainly arguments for the likes of Kirk or Janeway etc) but Picard - as played by Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart - is easily the most commanding.   At first he was uptight and offish, but surrounded by a warm crew, Picard softened over the years... especially after he was assimilated by the Borg as Locutus.   Stewart played Picard for seven seasons of THE NEXT GENERATION, four movies, and a guest spot in the pilot of DEEP SPACE NINE.

HIKARU SULU

The very first time we met Sulu, he was in the science division, but for the rest of his time in THE ORIGINAL SERIES (and THE ANIMATED SERIES), we was the ship's helmsman.  He remained at the helm through three seasons of the live action series, two seasons of the animated, and five movies, until he was finally given his own command.  Captain Sulu appeared in charge of the USS Excelsior in STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY and again for a guest spot on VOYAGER.   He was played by George Takei in all of that, with John Cho playing the character for the Kelvin timeline appearances since 2009.

KURN

A proud Klingon, Kurn was Worf's brother, and looked down on his decision to join Starfleet.   The brothers attempted to turn the dishonoured name of their father into something good again... but when Worf went against Kurn (now a Klingon councillor) over the a Klingon invasion of Cardassia, Kurn had his mind wiped so he would feel Worf's fall from grace.  Tony Todd played Kurn in both THE NEXT GENERATION and DEEP SPACE NINE.

CHARLES 'TRIP' TUCKER III

'Trip' was the chief engineer onboard the NX Enterprise. He was a good friend of the commanding officer, Archer, and despite his distrust of the Vulcans, he not only became good friends, but romantically involved with the first officer, T'Pol.  The three would often eat dinner together.  Connor Trinneer played Trip throughout the four seasons of ENTERPRISE.

KIRA NERYS

At the start of DEEP SPACE NINE, Kira resented Stafleet's position on the station.  She'd been a rebel, freedom fighter against the Cardassian occupation of her homeworld, Bajor and felt Starfleet was another oppressing force.  She lightened up though and over the years Kira came to trust and value Sisko and the other Starfleet officers. Kira was played by Nana Visitor over the course of all seven seasons of DS9.

HARRY KIM

When the USS Voyager was flung across to the Delta quadrant, young naïve Harry Kim stepped up.  He was the Operations officer on board and became a valued member of Janeway's crew. He formed a strong friendship with Tom Paris, the two often hanging out in the holodeck.   Harry was played by Garrett Wang for all seven seasons of VOYAGER.

WESLEY CRUSHER

Some people found the Wesley character annoyed, but come on, I dare you not to feel a little bit proud when he first walks on the bridge in his Starfleet uniform.   Wesley, son of Dr Crusher, was a child genius, and applied (but missed) his chance at starting Starfleet courses, so Picard gave him duties on the USS Enterprise.  Wil Wheaton played Wesley for a full three seasons of THE NEXT GENERATION, and left part way through the fourth.  He made guest appearances in the seasons that followed, including a cameo in STAR TREK: NEMESIS.

JANICE RAND

Grace Lee Whitney played Kirk's yeoman.  Despite appearing in a lot of the promotional images for STAR TREK, Janice Rand only appeared in the first bunch of episodes. She did appear in cameos across the movies though, last seen on the USS Excelsior under Captain Sulu, in VOYAGER.

LT. KYLE

Lt. Kyle was one of those rare things in THE ORIGINAL SERIES... A red shirt that didn't get killed off.  He was played by John Winston across the series as well as an appearance in STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN.

SYLVIA TILLY

Tilly could be described as the 'heart' of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.  A young and hopeful cadet, Tilly is also determined. She found herself bunking with known mutineer Michael Burnham, but whilst nervous, became her friend - and after proving herself to the rest of the crew, was promoted to ensign, and put on the command track.  Mary Wiseman played Tilly during the first season, and will return for the second.

ALYSSA OGAWA

Every good doctor needs good nurses, and Dr Crusher had Nurse Ogawa.  Whilst only a supporting character, we got a few nice moments for Alyssa, including an episode (THE LOWER DECKS) which saw a few ensigns looking for promotion and her starting a family.   Patti Yasutake played Ogawa from the fourth season of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, and went onto the first two movies featuring the same cast.

PHILIPPA GEORGIOU

Michelle Yeoh was the first cast member to be announced for the newest of the Treks - STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.  Captain Georgiou (commanding officer of the USS Shenzhou) was killed by the Klingons in only the second episode however, with only a hologram of her, reading a message to her first officer Michael Burnham, to follow.  That was, of course, until the USS Discovery found itself in in the Mirror universe... and we met Emperor Georgiou.   Burnham brought her back to our prime universe, and after pretending to be our Georgiou for a bit, she's disappeared into the shadows.  I think we all expect an appearance from Yeoh in the second season - currently shooting now.

So there you are.  No new names after this point, this is it.  We already have champions from the previous seven batches, and now we need to find one from this batch. You've got three days to pick your favourites - get yourselves to twitter and get voting!

[darksideofthecoffeebean]

The idea of Kathryn pushing Chakotay away seems plausible to me. I mean, if you want to work with canon, there's the whole ungodly Seven/Chakotay story to integrate. 😮‍💨

Admiral Janeway from "Endgame" told Captain Janeway that Seven and Chakotay would marry soon, so I guess, she thinks she'd lost him as a romantic prospect. Also, Kathryn is probably far too stubborn to admit her feelings, so Chakotay assumes she's no longer interested in him, too.

Concerning single parenthood: well, there's still the triplets' father, Tom. Maybe, with Miral's birth, he realizes that he really didn't pull his weight with his first three kids. He feels guilty, promises to do better and really does get a lot more involved. By that, Chakotay feels even more pushed out of the picture and decides to accept command of the "Protostar".

You could also argue that the triplets, as super evolved humans, age/mature quicker than usual humans and are around teenage years when Chakotay goes on his mission.

Its seeming to most concretely imply that chakotays been gone for several years which is SIIIIIIIGGGGHHHHHH not an fun hurdle to work around but I’ll most likely go with single mom Janeway raising the triplets 🙄🙄🙄

It says in her admirals log that she works a desk job for the most part which is IDEAL for child rearing,,,,,, I just have to come up with a sound enough reason for chakotay to have BAILED ON THEM LOL </3 maybe Kathryn pushed him away IDK!!!!!!!! 😞 so many questions in my head haha

It’ll be really helpful to know likeeee how long his mission in the DQ was INTENDED to be, id assume maybe a year or so less than how long he’s been stuck out there,,,,,,,,, and also more concretely knowing what their dynamic was like prior to them leaving haha WOMPWOOOOMP maybe theyve LITERALLY just been separated for years for him to not be used to saying her promoted title :(

[indemimonde-moved-blog]

Kathryn & romantic relationships

Kathryn has been engaged twice, the first time she was engaged with Justin Tighe, after three years into their relationship he died while on a test flight with her and her father, she got into a depression and took a leave of absence for a while, here she grew closer to Mark, he helped her get out of the worst of her depression and she loved him dearly. She just, was never in love with him and always afraid to take the next step. They got engaged, but never got to marriage, never got to have children (not that she wants them). The Voyager happened, Mark thought she was dead and moved on rather quickly, three years later he was married to someone else.

It’s starfleet regulations that a captain shouldn’t have romantic relationships with any of the crew and I think that Kathryn will live up to this. She is focused on being a captain and getting her crew home, there is no room for relationships with any of her crew. That being said, seven years is a loooong time to go without anything that comes close to intimacy, especially for someone so giving of intimacy as Kathryn is. I could see her be more susceptible to forming closer relations in the Seventh season, after the whole Michael the hologram episodes made her realize she is still Kathryn, not just the captain. 

Having all of this in mind and the obvious attraction between Janeway and Seven, Seven being the only one who is not associated with starfleet, who she already invites around in her quarters a lot, who she has a special relationship with, will be in my mind the only one she could become involved while still on Voyager.

After Voyager it all changes of course, but the first time after they get back she is very much in a bad state mentally (which I will talk about in another post) and not very open to having relationships of any sort besides trying to get back to being Kathryn Janeway instead of Captain Janeway.

[klaudiafmp]

Seven of Nine

“Seven of Nine (full designation: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01) was a former Borg drone, born Annika Hansen, a Human female. Assimilated by the Borg at the age of six, Seven was liberated by the crew of the USS Voyager in 2374. She joined the crew and returned to the Alpha Quadrant with the starship in 2378. After her time on Voyager, she joined the Fenris Rangers, helping instill justice in lawless and dangerous regions of the galaxy. “

“Seven of Nine (born Annika Hansen) is a fictional character introduced in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. Portrayed by Jeri Ryan, she is a former Borg drone who joins the crew of the Federation starship Voyager. Her full Borg designation is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. Her real name was known to her crewmates, but after joining the Voyager crew she chose to continue to be called Seven of Nine, though she allowed "Seven" to be used informally.

Seven of Nine was introduced in the fourth-season premiere, "Scorpion, Part II". The character replaced Kes in the main cast, and was intended to introduce a foil to Captain Kathryn Janeway similarly to how Spock does to Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series. Seven was featured in many episodes despite coming later to the series. The character appeared through the final episode, "Endgame". Stories related to her relationship with Captain Janeway and with The Doctor appeared throughout the series.

Several episodes, such as "The Raven", explored her background and earlier life as Annika Hansen before she was assimilated by the Borg. Her romantic life is a mystery due to her Borg emotional restrictions; she does proposition Harry Kim but he turns her down. Later on, with the Doctor's assistance, she tries dating other crew unsuccessfully, while later exploring intimate relationships with a hologram of Chakotay. Finally, in Endgame she is involved in a romantic relationship with Chakotay which includes at least three dates and a first kiss. However, in one alternate timeline they married, and in another she is killed along with the rest of the Voyager crew ("Timeless").”

“Annika's parents were exobiologists investigating the existence of the Borg. After a great deal of persuasion, the Federation granted the Hansens the use of the USS Raven, a small long-range craft, to aid them in their investigation.

In 2353, they took Annika, then aged three, along with them. They spent a good deal of time aboard the Raven in search of the Borg; Annika celebrated three birthdays aboard the ship. Eventually, the Hansens encountered a Borg cube and followed it through its transwarp conduit into the Delta Quadrant, the Borg's region of origin. They gathered a great deal of scientific data on the biology of Borg drones and the nature of the Collective by moving undetected through Borg space due to multi-adaptive shielding, invented by Magnus Hansen. They even went aboard Borg vessels, using bio-dampeners to remain undetected.”

“Annika was placed in a maturation chamber, where the hive mind began to restructure her synaptic pathways and purge her individuality. She emerged as a Borg drone five years later in 2361, the turmoil of having been forcibly assimilated replaced with order, and spent the next thirteen years in the Collective with the designation Seven of Nine. As a drone, she assisted in the assimilation of millions, from individuals to entire species. She personally assimilated many individuals from a variety of species, including Humans, Klingons, Ferengi, Bajorans, Bolians, Krenim, and Cardassians. “

“In early 2368, Seven of Nine, along with three other drones in her unimatrix, crash landed on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. The other drones, who were assimilated as adults, began to regain their identities upon being severed from the Borg Collective, but Seven was frightened as she knew nothing else but life as a drone. She forcibly linked the other drones together into a temporary collective in order to suppress their identities, and they were retrieved soon after.”

“The Collective assigned Seven of Nine to work with Voyager to develop the weapon. When her cube sacrificed itself to save Voyager from an attacking 8472 bio-ship, she and a small number of drones beamed onto Voyager to continue the work. Janeway was severely injured, leaving her first officer, Commander Chakotay, in command. Seven of Nine wanted Voyager to go to another cube, but Chakotay refused. The drones attempted to commandeer Voyager's navigation systems to take it to the nearest cube, but Chakotay decompressed the deck the drones were on, blowing them into space. Seven of Nine, however, managed to remain aboard. Instructed to do so by the Collective, she took Voyager into Species 8472's realm, forcing deployment of the modified nanoprobe torpedoes to protect the ship. A recovered Janeway resumed command and reinstated the alliance. The torpedoes proved effective. Now vulnerable, 8472 retreated. However, the Collective broke the alliance and Seven of Nine attempted to take Voyager to be assimilated. But this was anticipated and a contingency plan was successfully enacted which permanently severed her link to the Collective. Janeway decided to keep Seven of Nine aboard.”

“The transition back to Humanity was difficult for Seven of Nine. She appeared to accept her severance from the Collective, but tried to contact it at the first opportunity. She was stopped, however. “

“The Doctor, Voyager's holographic chief medical officer, was able to remove most of her implants and restore most of her Human appearance, but her long-term assimilation meant that some parts were vital to her survival and could not be removed. She also refused to be called by her name of Annika Hansen as Seven of Nine was the designation she had always known.“

I quite like her design of some robot and some human parts, even though I seen similar things in other movies here she looks like she could actually be a real person. Usuall when in a show somebody has a prostetic robot arm or any cyborg parts in their body it’s usually done in a way that romanticises that idea and makes them better than they were before but here just by looking at this character you can see she’s not really happy with her current state and realisticly this isn’t something she would’ve wanted in the first place or she can fix. I really like how tired she looks especially after reading her backstory and getting some insight into her character it’s really suiting she would be tired and broken after all she’s been through. Also I really love the fact about her design that it doesn’t look modern or realistic because it’s not supposed to be. The whole story is taking place way in the future and everything is super sci fi and futuristic meanwhile she looks like a scrapped robod design and I really enjoy the fact her character was designed this way. It makes sense she wont be a perfect looking cyborg with all the latest tech and I think the look really suits her character and the story revolved around her.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_of_Nine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_of_Nine

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Ship Meme

Tagged by @mia-cooper

It’s perfectly okay to use the same ship for multiple questions~ Just fill it out as best as you can. Link your own content wherever you can!!

First Ship you ever read fic for:  I honestly can't even remember. The first fic I read was definitely Star Wars, but most of it wasn't shippy. But while I can't remember the fic, the pairings that 13 year old RSB shipped were Luke and Mara and Jacen and Tenel Ka, so probably one of those. 

First Ship you ever wrote fic for:  Tom and B’Elanna. My writing came WAY later than my fic reading. The first thing I ever wrote (although it was the second one published) was Interrupted and Unfinished. 

Ship you write the most now:  I’ve been branching out more recently, but it's still Tom and B’Elanna.

Ship you read the most now:  Yep, still Tom and B’Elanna.    

Newest Ship:  After last night’s episode it’s official. Paul Stamets and Hugh Culber are my precious boys. I love them and I want them to be happy.

Rare Ship you wanna read more of:  Nick Locarno/Wesley Crusher. It is a tragic failing of the fandom that there is ZERO fic for these two. I NEED fic of these two. I just want to watch their relationship crumble SO BAD.

Your taboo Ship: Probably Owen Paris/Kathryn Janeway (since he's married and her boss).

They never met in canon Ship:  Philippa Georgiou/Afsaneh Paris! They aren't even in the same timeline, but Paris should exist in both (since she is Tom’s ancestor) and they would be the same age (the actresses have a ten year age difference, but they Discovery and Beyond are also set ten years apart, so it actually lines up perfectly). i would do ANYTHING to get Shohreh Agdashloo to reprise her role as Paris on Discovery. ANYTHING. 

Your unexpected ship: I’m not sure. Isn’t everything kind of unexpected until you actually start shipping it? I kind of feel like all my Trek ships have been unexpected. After the way he was written in the first couple of seasons, it took me a long time to even figure out if I liked Tom Paris as a character, much less shipped him and B’Elanna. And I definitely wasn’t expecting to ship Nick and Wes, or Owen and Kathryn, or Georgiou and Paris. But then it just happened and HERE WE ARE. 

The ship you always forget to give love to: Lol I’ve probably forgotten. Nothing comes to mind. 

Ship your OC with a canon character (if applicable): Yeah, I can’t think of anything applicable. 

A ship you’re embarrassed to ship: I mostly don’t feel embarrassed about my ships, but if I end up shipping Lorca with anyone, I will probably feel embarrassed about it. He’s bad and I don’t like him and it would almost certainly end up involving some fucked up power dynamic, and DAMN that man looks good in that uniform. 

Your most romantic Ship: Actually, thinking about it, I’m not sure if any of them are very romantic. 

Your sexiest ship: Tom and B’Elanna. Obviously.  

Your most tragic ship: Oh, so many options. Well, I ship Tom and Charlie Day a little. I think their friendship was mostly platonic, with some friends with benefits sex on the side, but they loved each other and then Tom got his killed. So... yeah. That’s pretty tragic. And we will see some of that in the next part of Sins of the Father. I think Afsaneh Paris and Philippa Georgiou are tragic. They just didn’t have enough time together, for a lot of reasons. And yes, I’m working on fic for that. Owen and Kathryn is sad and tragic too. It’s a relationship that came out of so much pain and was always doomed to cause more harm than good. For that, you can check out Cold Comfort, and all the remaining parts of Sins of the Father will in some way address the harm that came out of that relationship. 

A ship you want more content for: ALL OF THEM. I mean, there is probably an adequate amount of Tom and B’Elanna fic out there, but pretty much everything else I ship is odd and rare and very much in need of fic. So I don’t think I can choose one. Nick Locarno/Wesley Crusher, Afsaneh Paris/Philippa Georgiou, Owen Paris/Julia Paris, and Owen Paris/Kathryn Janeway are probably the ones I’m most interested in reading right now. 

Tag: @captacorn, @mollybecameanengineer, @delwin47, @pg1890, @jhelenoftrek, @alphaflyer, @breezybree, @bpdrebeccabunch, @mylittleredgirl, and pretty much anyone else who sees this. I enjoy reading about what people are into. 

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"STAR TREK VOYAGER" RETROSPECT: (5.13) "Gravity"

"STAR TREK VOYAGER" RETROSPECT: (5.13) "Gravity" Every once in a while, an episode from the "STAR TREK" television franchise featured an episode that featured a few members of the cast being stranded on some planet during an Away mission. In fact, I cannot think of one TREK series that did not utilize this story structure. One of them was the Season Five "STAR TREK VOYAGER" episode called (5.13) "Gravity" In this episode, Lieutenant-Commander Tuvok, the recently demoted Ensign Tom Paris and the Doctor crash landed on a planet during an Away mission. Their shuttle got caught in a gravimetric shear and pulled toward the planet's surface. And unbeknownst to them, time is moving faster on the planet than it is throughout the rest of that region of space. Tom remains behind inside their damaged shuttle, while Tuvok scours the area for supplies. During his foray, a lone alien female robs Tom of much needed equipment, before she is attacked by a small hunting group of another species. Tuvok comes to her rescue and leads her back to the shuttle for medical attention. With the assistance of the Doctor, whose Universal Translator was still working, Tuvok and Tom learn that her name is Noss and that she had been stranded on the planet for "14 seasons". During the following two months on the planet, Tuvok and the others have moved to Noss' damaged ship for better shelter. More importantly, Noss has developed an attraction to Tuvok. He decides to ignore her attraction due to his marital status. Noss' attraction also brings back memories of Tuvok's time with a Vulcan master, who tried to help him purge his emotions, following an incident with another female years ago. Tuvok's failure to respond to Noss' attraction angers her and annoys Tom. Meanwhile, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the Voyager crew uses a probe to find the gravimetric distortion that the Away team's shuttle went into, in order to contact Tuvok and Tom. During the two months the Away team had spent on the planet, Voyager's crew had spent a few hours searching for them. However, a species dealing with the loss of nearly a dozen ships arrives, bent on closing the distortion, which would crush everything within. One would think that the main narrative for "Gravity" centered around the Away team's survival on the planet and Voyager's attempt to rescue them. The episode's title certainly seems to hint this. But "Gravity" began with a flashback to Tuvok's childhood. As I stated earlier, the much younger Tuvok was sent to a Vulcan master to help him purge strong emotions not only for a female member of his community, but also teach him to control those emotions. One could say that aside from a few incidents beyond Tuvok's control - like mind melding with a Betezoid crew member/killer and dealing with telepathic aliens addicted to angry thoughts - the Vulcan master more or less did his job. However, Tuvok, who considered himself happily married, did not count upon meeting the castaway, Noss. Between their mutual attraction and Tom Paris' encouragement of a relationship between them, it was not surprising that Tuvok resorted to alienating himself from Noss and meditation to avoid caving in to his desire. But this has always been typical Tuvok behavior. Whenever faced with the idea of connecting with someone he deemed a threat to his emotional well-being, he would resort to drastic measures. I have always had a problem with how Vulcans were portrayed in the "TREK" franchise. The writers rarely appreciated their talent for controlling their emotions. They either want Vulcan characters to embrace emotional response or be more like Humans. Spock was always chided by James Kirk or Leonard McCoy for his failure to "be more human". This was due to Spock being half-Human on his mother's side. The Vulcans - namely Spock and his father, Sarek - were treated with dignity on "STAR TREK: NEXT GENERATION". But honestly, I found their appearances on that show not very interesting. The writers of "STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE" practically villified Vulcans. "STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE" also seemed to vilified Vulcans, despite having one as a main character. It has been a mixed bag on"STAR TREK: VOYAGER". Most of Voyager's crew - especially the Humans - seem to constantly make sly digs at Vulcan culture or express a desire for Tuvok to behave more like a Human. Although Tom seem to regard Tuvok a lot higher than the ship's First Officer, Commander Chakotay, he is one of those who seem to wish that Tuvok be more openly expressive. And yet, there are those like Captain Janeway and Seven-of-Nine who seem willing to accept Tuvok as he was. More importantly, the series has managed to pinpoint that Tuvok's main problem was his tendency to be a loner. Other Vulcan crewmen - like Vorik and one of Chakotay's former Maquis crewmen - managed to socialize with the rest of the crew without losing any aspects of their culture. Although Tuvok has managed to befriend others like Captain Janeway and Seven on a one-to-one basis, I suspect those loner tendencies did more harm than good in this particular episode. One of Tom's rants against Tuvok was the manner in which the latter rejected Noss' declaration of love. Even I found it unnecessarily brutal . . . especially since I have seen the Vulcan security officer deal with others with more compassion. Tuvok could have been a little more graceful in his rejection of Noss. But I suspect that his attraction to her, his status as a married man and his memories of the last time he went overboard for a woman without the benefit of Pon Farr must have scared him shitless. I must admit that I found Tom Paris' encouragement of a Tuvok/Noss love affair seemed surprising . . . almost tasteless. He could pursued Noss, himself. But she never displayed any romantic interest in Tom. The latter was certainly not interested in Noss. Also, Tom was in the middle of his second year of his romance with Voyager's Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres. He probably figured that he had a better chance of seeing B'Elanna again than Tuvok had of reuniting with his wife, who was thousands of light years away. And I also took umbrage at Tom's unwillingness to understand or accept Vulcan culture and customs. But as I had stated earlier, I understood his anger at Tuvok's rejection of Noss. I would not rate "Gravity" as among the best episodes of "STAR TREK VOYAGER". The B-plot regarding the castaways' situation on the planet and Voyager's efforts to rescue them struck me as best, unoriginal. But it did feature some pretty decent action sequences involving Tuvok, Noss and Tom's conflicts with the alien raiders. It was the main plot involving Tuvok's feelings for Noss and his Draconian measures to deny them that I found interesting. Unlike many other "TREK"fans, I never had a desire for Tuvok to behave more like Humans. Instead, I enjoyed episodes like "Gravity" that explored the Vulcan's inner feelings, conflicts and especially his interactions with Tom Paris and Noss. Despite all of the action in this episode, it is basically a character study. "Gravity" featured some solid performances from Kate Mulgrew and the rest of the cast who portrayed Voyager's crew. Leroy D. Brazile's portrayal of the young Tuvok struck me as decent, but occasionally over-the-top. Robert Picardo provided some comic relief in his brief, yet witty portrayal of the Doctor. But the episode featured three superb performances. I have never come across an actress who not only proved to be a more than credible action character, but one with a baby voice. But Lori Petty did a great job in creating an original character like Noss - attitude, voice and all. She also had great chemistry with both Tim Russ and Robert Duncan McNeill. Speaking of the latter, McNeill not only did an excellent job in portraying Tom Paris' usual minor flaws and at the same time, conveying how much the character had grown over the years and how romantic he truly can be. But this episode belonged to Russ, who did such a marvelous job in his portrayal of the subliminally emotional, yet always emotional Tuvok. And this is the first time Russ portrayed a Tuvok involved in a possible romance and he did a superb job with his usual subtlety. "Gravity" is basically a mixture of a character study and an action episode. Honestly? The action-themed plot surrounding the Away team's predicament on the planet struck me as unoriginal and barely interesting. The character study of Tuvok and his near romance with Noss really made this episode for me. Overall, "Gravity" proved to be a very entertaining, yet not particularly great episode from "STAR TREK VOYAGER".

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738. [VOY] Nightingale

SCORE:

(2/5 stars)

Voyager has set down on an uninhabited world while B'Elanna oversees much-needed ship repair. Harry, Seven and Neelix are on the Delta Flyer looking for dilithium when they find themselves caught in the crossfire of two other ships. They receive a distress call from one of them, claiming they're simply delivering medical supplies. Harry initially wants to reverse course to stay out of it, as per Starfleet policy, but Neelix points out it's a civilian medical ship and they're going to die without help. Harry attempts to contact the other ship, saying it looks like they won the fight and Harry just wants to offer aid for the casualties, but the Annari commander of that ship starts charging weapons. Harry fires a pulse to overload their weapons and they retreat.

Harry boards the medical ship and finds that only passengers (including Loken, played by the late Ron Glass of Firefly fame) are left, the crew were all killed in the attack. They're very keen on getting their cloaking device repaired as it is their only defense against further attacks. Once that's up and running, they want Harry to help escort them back to their space so they can deliver a vaccine they're developing. He's hesitant to get any more involved, but as their course would take them very near the planet Voyager has set down on, Harry agrees to take them at least that far and train them on how to operate the ship to get the rest of the way home.

With Voyager's repairs underway, B'Elanna is finding that Icheb is multi-talented and a great help in diagnosing and repairing issues. Since he's looking to be a permanent fixture on the ship, she decides to reach out to him and get him to socialize more, to which Icheb completely misinterprets her intentions and believes she is expressing romantic interest in him. After asking the Doctor how to tell if someone has romantic interest in you, he hides a medical tricorder to scan B'Elanna's biosigns, which in the hot and cramped Jefferies tube, gave him a false reading of arousal. When Tom hears that Icheb is to go mountain climbing with Icheb, he starts up a friendly conversation with him and says that Icheb should try out his race car program. Icheb interprets this as a challenge to ritual contest to compete for B'Elanna as mate. He confronts B'Elann about all this and she's heavily amused by his interpretation of events, but when it's clear he's not being dissuaded from his concerned hypothesis, she decides to play along with his suggestion that they stop "seeing each other."

Harry's captaining style is full of a lack of trust and lots of micromanagement. True, his crew is inexperienced at running a starship, but more often than not, Harry just takes over for them instead of letting them do it themselves. He also doesn't do well in listening to the suggestions of others, stating they're not starship officers so they just have to trust his superior judgment. Seven calls him out on his captaining style and Harry realizes he needs to give his crew room to grow and learn.

But he soon realizes his mission is not the one he was expecting when the Nightingale's cloak fails and they are almost immediately under attack by Annari ships. Harry sends one of the crew to work on repairing the cloak, saying he'll give instructions over the comm, but it's soon clear that they know far more about how the cloak works than he does. And when the "doctor" who repairs the cloak is critically injured, the others don't know how to treat her and she dies.

Harry realizes that they are not doctors. They are engineers developing the cloak. This ship is a prototype, which is why the Annari are so intent on destroying it. They want to get it home intact so they can build more of them and have a better defense against the Annari. The mission is no longer as cut-and-dried as delivering medical supplies. This is a military operation.

Harry orders the ship turned around, but kind of forgets his place as this is not his ship, it is theirs, and they're not going to follow the orders of someone who is acting counter to their goals. They relieve him of command. He tells Seven they're going to take an escape pod and return to Voyager but she convinces him he's running away because captaining a ship isn't what he expected, and because he lost someone under his command. Seven tells Harry if he really wants to do the responsible thing, he will remain on the ship because if they leave, the Nightingale will certainly never make it home.

The Annari return to Voyager to confront them over their findings that humans have been involved aiding the Kraylor. They cancel all trade deals and insist Voyager leave their system at once, and they're here to escort them out. Meanwhile, the Nightingale has arrived at the Kraylor homeworld and discovers that the Annari have developed scanning pulses to reveal any cloaked ships and they're firing them all across the surface of the shield protecting the planet. The Nightingale is quickly discovered, and Harry offers his assistance as they are surrounded by Annari ships and attempting to evade the pulses. Harry is able to negotiate with the Annari to allow the crew to evacuate in escape pods (reasoning to Loken that if the cloak is lost, the scientist who built it will survive to build another one). He then has Seven determine the exact polarity of the Annari tractor beams. Once the escape pods have made it safely to the surface, Harry reverses shield polarity to deflect the tractor beam and give the ship enough of a boost in momentum to make it through the defense perimeter, delivering the cloak to Kraylor hands safely.

Once Voyager is outside Annari space, Janeway wants to launch the Flyer to give Harry assistance, but that won't be necessary as the Kraylor have equipped their fleet with the cloak and sent a ship to drop Harry off with Voyager. Back on Voyager as a lowly Ensign, Harry is relieved to be relieved. He's not ready to be a captain just yet.

NITPICKS

Seven says the Borg value efficiency, not redundancy. Yet Borg ships are full of decentralized and redundant systems.

Janeway says Seven has "no rank" but she has the provisional rank of crewman.

FAVORITE QUOTES

Torres: You scanned me? Icheb: In the Jefferies tube. Your blood pressure and neurotransmitter readings indicated a state of arousal. Torres: It was hot, and I've been under a lot of pressure, but I certainly wasn't aroused. Look, Icheb, I like you. But aside from the fact that I am a much older woman, I'm married. Icheb: That's why we have to do the honorable thing. We should stop seeing each other.