#Culluh

[gesssekai]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S3E1: Basics, Part II

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

Happy Threshold Day!

In past days I suggested what if Culluh kept the salamander babies now I suggest what if he kept the Salamander babies and Seska baby

[baylardo]

CULLUH GOT DAD CORED IM SCREECHING OOFURURGRGGHHGHH 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[cnroth]

Oh hai! It’s been a while, but the lovely @coffee-in-that-nebula tagged me in the seven sentences challenge, so ofc I had to come and share! Here are the FIRST seven sentences of my current WIP:

First Maje Jal Culluh peeled the dried blood from his calloused hands, sloughed off under a stream of water in his bathroom sink, tinging it red as it swirled the drain. Beneath the blood, his russet skin flushed crimson over his knuckles.

The Ogla man had broken easily, big talk when Culluh’s warriors dragged him from his pathetic little ship but weak under Culluh’s fists. It was a good thing, too; the information he carried had the potential of being worth more than all the meager wealth of Kaza. More even than the extravagant wealth of Relorus. In fact, if Culluh played his cards right, it could be the beginning of a new, unified Kazon empire.

There were strangers in Kazon space.

I have no idea who has already done this, but if you haven’t, consider yourself tagged. 😉

[angrywarrior69]

Everyone reblog this with your favorite Janeway quotes, please. 🖖

"I don't like bullies, and I don't like threats - and I don't like you, Culluh."

[respocked]

Lead the way

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

Anthony De Longis is so freaking awesome.

So I recently found out that the guy who plays Maje Culluh on Star Trek Voyager, aside from being an actor, is a master swordsman, stunt coordinator, fight choreographer, martial artist, and an absolute BOSS at the bullwhip (he taught Michelle Pfeiffer how to use it in her role as Catwoman, and Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones 4), and went toe-to-toe with Jet Li in Fearless. AND he can do all those stunts…on horseback.  

(De Longis’s fight is at the 1:12 mark.)

Also? He was one of Garrett Wang’s (Harry Kim) teachers at UCLA. And he starred in the Masters of the Universe film alongside Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris; he held him at knifepoint in one scene). From what I could find on him on YouTube, he seems like an awesome guy, super nice, well-spoken, and a great teacher.

This guy is SO GOD DAMN COOL. Culluh deserved way better than what we got with him. Knife fight with other Kazon Majes when? Never? Not even a beatdown against Chakotay or Tuvok, or even attempting fighting B’Elanna with a bat’leth? We have been robbed.

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[spockvarietyhour]

V: The Series "The Dissident" (1984)

[gesssekai]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S2E26: Basics, Part I

[celtic-romulan]

Culluh doesn’t just chew the scenery. He devours it.

Culluh & Seska were an underappreciated comedy power couple.

He: The ruler repeatedly foiled by his own pride and stupidity.

She: The devious supervillain spy that tries to be a Lady MacBeth but can't seem to get over her crush on her former boss.

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

[baylardo]

screaming crying wailing

[curator-on-ao3]

A fanfic choice I have mixed feelings about is that I posted completed prompts for The Voyager Writing Game as chapters in a single work instead of as individual works. An upside is I felt more free to write anything I wanted and not worry about reception (though readers were lovely anyway, thank goodness). A downside is those ficlets are now ridiculously difficult to find. So, for me and for you if you’re interested, here’s a master list with links:

The Awe of Acceptance Prompt: Write a drabble (100w) from the perspective of a character you've never written before and inspired by the word "awe." (Maj Culluh and Seska’s baby)

I Will Not Comply Prompt: Write a story using only dialogue, without explicitly identifying the speakers by name/rank. Suggested word limit: 500w, but open to any length. (Seven of Nine and Starfleet adjudicator)

Better Prompt: Write the rarest Trek pair you can think of to the prompt “Hell no.” (Wesley Crusher and Kes, bwahaha)

Let Slip the Dogs of War Prompt: Every good ST villain deserves a good fight scene. Craft yours to showcase their talents. (Kathryn Janeway and a Hirogen hunter … but a lot of readers didn’t realize it was Janeway at first, which was exactly what I wanted)

Water, Water Everywhere Prompt: Write a story of exactly 47 words. (Tom Paris, oh my heart)

Mothering Prompt: A short conversation between two Star Trek characters from two different shows/movies. (B’Elanna Torres and Beverly Crusher)

The Point Prompt: Based on this Tumblr post, which shows Voyager actors in previous movies/shows, choose a gif (or more) and write a short scene, AU or Voyager-based. (Tom Paris and Kirsten Clancy, both enrolled at Starfleet Academy)

The Marvelous Lightening Prompt word: Storm. (Kathryn Janeway, Gretchen Janeway, Phoebe Janeway, and, in a way, Edward Janeway; post-Endgame)

Alight Prompt I chose from among the options: Dialogue prompt, “You didn’t deserve that,” for a double drabble. (Seven of Nine; for those who remember or are curious, yes, this is the post-Endgame one where she sets her biosuits on fire)

Dedication Prompt: Busted! Someone got caught breaking regulations. With the someone usually staying on the straight line, and the one who busts them often on the other side of the regulations. (Kathryn Janeway and Reg Barclay, the one I sobbed writing)

Do Holograms Dream of Photonic Sleep? Prompt: Nap. You want one, you need one, you dream of one, you can't fall asleep. You wake up from one. Alone. With somebody else. But, really, all you want is to have a nap. (EMH and B’Elanna Torres)

Your Gaze Upon Me Says Everything I Need to Know Prompt: Write the same scene from at least 3 different POVs. (some fun with J/C, J/7 … and the J/C we all agree is canon)

Ransomed Prompt: “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” — Tom Stoppard (Kathryn Janeway reflecting on Rudy Ransom)

Duped Prompt: "It should not be forgotten how much the loser contributes to almost any game." — Lord Dunsany (Voyager ensemble, “Course: Oblivion” with a happy ending? No, not really.)

Nothing Unreal Exists (Except When it Does) Prompt: Only one bed. Enemies to lovers. Whump. Everyone has a favorite trope. Write a story that subverts yours. (I chose “love will find a way,” Kathryn Janeway and Mark Johnson — but quite possibly not what you expect)

Anyway, @voyagerwritinggame, if you’re still out there— thank you for everything. 🫶🫶🫶

[celtic-romulan]

Maje Culluh every time Janeway opens her mouth:

Rude.

[quasi-normalcy]

If I could reboot Voyager, here are some of the changes I'd make.

Much more serialization. Still mostly episodic, of course, but things that happen in one episode would have lasting repercussions. If the ship gets damaged, well it's going to stay damaged, or they're going to have to figure out how to effect repairs. Maybe have seasonal "big bads", like Buffy.

Play up the initial conflict with the Maquis for the first few seasons, and give the Maquis actual ideological objections to the Federation (a la Eddington on Deep Space Nine), rather than just making them generically rough and tumble. There would be a whole arc where some of the Maquis talk some of the lower-ranking Starfleet officers around to their side on the grounds that Janeway effectively has a dictatorship over them for their entire lives and she's too hidebound and is squandering opportunities to get onside with possible local allies. There'll be an actual mutiny (or at least an attempted mutiny) in the first few seasons, but it will fail because Chakotay (we'll come to him in a minute) opposes it; but the ship will settle into a much more egalitarian social structure nonetheless

Seska will remain on the ship after being unmasked as a Cardassian spy, claiming asylum under the terms of the Federation-Cardassian treaty that created the De-Militarized Zone. Her presence will be a major source of the friction between the Maquis and Starfleet crews, because it turns out that her espionage actually got some of their comrades killed back in the Alpha Quadrant

Give nuance to the Kazon; play up the generational trauma inherent to their backstory, and maybe make Culluh an ambitious but sympathetic empire-builder, rather than just a violent thug

Present the Kazon as more of an actual culture with their own arts and accomplishments, rather than just as Space Gangbangers.

Two waves of despair will rock the ship for several episodes. The first when they've been stranded for a few months and the reality of their situation hits them; the second when they get in touch with the AQ and find out that the Maquis have been exterminated.

Pick an actual indigenous nation for "Chakotay" to belong to and hire actual consultants from that nation for the writing staff. It will presumably be necessary to rename the character accordingly.

Really flesh out the minor characters on the crew: Carey, Ayala, Tal Celes, Suder, Vorik, Jonas, that cosmology grad student on the lower decks who didn't want to be on the ship in the first place. All of them will make the ship feel more like an actual place with the same nine characters doing everything; and when one of them dies, it will hurt.

Relatedly, all of the people who die in the first episode will have names and friendships with the crew, and their deaths will actually mean something.

Explore the comedic and dramatic potential of Starfleet crewmen having to be roomies with Maquis terrorists. I'm thinking some initial "Odd Couple" shenanigans, growing into friendship, with a sort of hurt-comfort romance emerging after they find out that all of the Maquis back in the AQ are dead.

Give Neelix more of a dangerous streak. The first episode made him out to be a shifty conman and the first season established that he had serious PTSD. I want to see more of that Neelix.

Have it take a full season just to de-Borg Seven of Nine. Her character progress is reflected in how many of her implants she has.

Have Seven of Nine push back more on the narrow canons of "humanity" that she's expected to perform; and have it go both ways; maybe instead of it just treating it like a joke when she proposes, for example, that someone try Borg regeneration, they actually take her up on this, and Janeway is accordingly horrified. You could get a neat plot about bodily autonomy out of this.

Establish that the Borg hivemind has developed a sort of "neurosis" around humanity and Voyager, stemming from the fact that they required Voyager's help to defeat Species 8472. This is the Queen motivation for wanting Seven of Nine back in "Dark Frontier"

Kes still ascends, but she hangs around somewhat longer. And she's doing and trying lots of things, rather than just hanging around sickbay most of the time.

Have Seven spend more time with Tuvok; maybe adopt Vulcan philosophy

There are no holodecks for the first few seasons because they need to conserve power. When they finally get them up and running, it's a big frigging deal. Before that, there's a whole plot where someone (Tom Paris) uses the emergency medical holoprojectors to make Sickbay into a holodeck, much to the Doctor's consternation. Janeway, however, allows it for a few hours a day as a means of building crew morale.

They build alliances and trade networks in the Delta Quadrant, and eventually realise that this is home for them now