#B'elanna

[worflesbian]

Voyager Week - Days 2-3: Favourite Character, Favourite Relationship

I'm trying to get better at ink drawing so these are from my sketchbook

[bumblingbabooshka]

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[catgirljaneway]

Voy + Textposts 15

(Voy + Textposts 14) + (Voy + Textposts 16)

[misterparadigm]

Star Trek: Voyager

That's five series cast pieces down! Some of the more challenging characters to capture were in this one. B'Elanna and, believe it or not, Seven Of Nine were the most difficult.

[maliciousalice]

Just checking you care!

[zinda-his-eyes-red]

Neelix: ...and the next thing I knew, I was being boiled alive in a pot of my own leola root stew.

B'Elanna, chin propped on hand: Talk about a nightmare.

Neelix: Well, it was perfectly seasoned.

Star Trek: Voyager S4 E13 Waking Moments

[torsamors]

Voyager, Barge of the Dead / My mother is the only one allowed to call me daughter by v.w.

[naturegirly55]

B'Elanna and Seven’s relationship has always been interesting to me. At first, B'Elanna really didn’t like Seven, and it occurred to me why last night when I rewatched Scientific Method. Seven decided to reroute power to astrometrics without consulting anyone. They had an argument about this and Seven explained that she is “unaccustomed to working in a hierarchy.” 

B'Elanna said, “If you're going to be a member of this crew, get used to it. Procedures exist for a reason. We've got to work together. Follow the same set of rules” She suddenly remembered that Janeway gave her that lecture when she joined her crew. 

That’s when I realized that B'Elanna dislikes Seven because of how similar they are. Seven is often rude and off-putting because she doesn’t understand human social norms (or she simply doesn’t care), hides her feelings under a tough exterior, and isn’t used to Starfleet regulations. Both the Borg and the Maquis have a very different hierarchy than Starfleet. This is exactly how B'Elanna used to be. She doesn’t like Seven because she represents what B'Elanna doesn’t like about herself. 

[angrywarrior69]

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[jone-slugger]

When I first started watching Voyager and read the word Maquis I almost spat out my drink because, being from Spain, that's the name of the anti-fascist forces that fought against the dictatorship during the civil war. I understand it was also used in France to name the resistance against the nazi but in my mind I always imagine Chakotay and B'Elanna fighting the fascists in the mountains of Spain.

Like, I know the Star Trek writers were probably thinking of France, as their ship is a Les Miz reference, but for a second I allow myself to think that they might also be referencing Spain. After all, many Americans (notably Hemingway) fought in the Spanish Civil War, which was seen in a way as a rehearsal of what was to come just when it ended in 1939.

In any case, I love they used that name for the resistance against the Cardassians.

[worflesbian]

middle of thee night and im reading way too much into how worf and b'elanna's names are both bad anglicisations. it's obvious how wo'rIv became worf (you pull a six year old out of the rubble, ask him his name and write down his answer phonetically) but how does beylana become b'elanna? my moneys on john torres not being familiar enough with the klingon alphabet to transcribe it right on her federation birth certificate but nonetheless wanting it to "look" klingon so he threw a qaghwI' in there kind of at random. the unhinged point that im getting to being that worf's name is a reflection of his violent seperation from Klingon culture and imperfect attempts to reconstruct it from memory whereas b'elanna's is a reflection of how other people's warped perceptions and expectations of "klingonness" have been projected onto her overlapping and obscuring her own sense of identity since birth

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think Seven would tentatively confide in B'Elanna about dissociation problems and B'Elanna would be like "Seven, everyone deals with that kind of thing! Don't worry about it too much, okay?" and they'd both be like, quietly relieved that they're not the only one and thus think that it's normal when in reality they should both talk to like, a professional. AND THEY WON'T! Bc they both kind of know in their hearts that it's weird but it's ok, bc they found someone else who understands and won't try to analyze them about it <3 Seven Dissociation: Fragile sense of burgeoning identity. Goes between feeling 'too empty' (you're not supposed to be alone) and 'too crowded' - as if she can feel multiple identities within her. Feels as if the 'original' her has died and she is a completely different person than the pre-borg her, not as if she IS that child just grown up. At times of high stress, she sometimes has memory lapses which freak her out. Not connected much to her body. Is this body hers? Where did she come from? She was born when she was severed from the collective and she was born when she emerged from the maturation chamber and she was born at some distant point in the past beyond memory, to a Human woman she once called mother. At times she listens back to her personal logs and feels as if she's listening to someone else's thoughts and opinions. Sometimes she remembers saying these things but still feels this way. It reminds her of being Borg, where she can remember things she did but can't really...reach it. Can't empathize fully. Who is Seven? Is she that child, the Human? Is she Seven of Nine, the borg? No. No. Who is Seven? B'Elanna Dissociation: Has a very 'insecure'[?] sense of identity. Easily hurt by and conscious of what others think of her though most wouldn't think this is true. Long periods of feeling completely detached from her body and the world, though she's still going about her daily tasks. Looks into the mirror and doesn't really recognize herself or sees herself as revoltingly ugly in ways others don't see or understand. At times self-harms in an attempt to 'return to herself' if she's dissociating too long as it starts to scare her. Often goes back and erases personal logs made while she dissociating. As a child had an internal habit of blaming things on one 'half' of her, heavily demonizing "The Klingon" girl and this has persisted into adulthood. Views herself in a very 'split' way - "My Klingon side protected me from X" etc. Does not have a cohesive whole vision of herself but instead sees herself as essentially "Good Half" and "Evil Half". I can picture her saying it was like she had a twin sister growing up. This began further back than she can remember but solidified totally after her father abandoned her family. At times she feels she is the "good" version of her, berating the "bad" one and at other times she's the "bad" one being berated. Her body is ugly and she is half evil and if only she could get rid of it, disengage from it, escape herself totally....

[catgirljaneway]

Voy + Textposts 16

(Voy + Textposts 15) + (Voy + Textposts 17)

[jenlrossman]

[hauntedmoonchaos]

Everyone on Voyager were fucking and dating you cannot convince me otherwise. But also with all the issues everyone keeps mentioning. It was the most unhealthy and co-dependent, mommy issues, daddy issues, power imbalance space, and poly relationships to ever exist.

[trekfacility]

me at 11pm watching another creepy ass voyager episode about vidiians