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Percentage of Star Trek Voyager Episodes Focused on Each Major Character

I’ve been thinking about which major characters Voyager spends the most time focusing on, and which characters are more often left in the background. I decided to collect data on this topic, and I made the following graph:

The percentage for each character on the graph represents an estimate of the percentage of the total number of Voyager episodes that are focused on that particular character. Double episodes were counted as singular episodes, bringing the total number of Voyager episodes counted for the graph to 160.

Episodes that I judged as focusing fairly equally on two major Voyager characters counted as half an episode for each of those two characters in my percentage calculation. I decided to do this because I felt it more accurately represented the overall proportion of time that Voyager allocates to each character than if I were to only count episodes that focused solely on one character. Episodes that focused equally on three or more major characters were not counted in the graph.

After tallying every episode that I judged as focusing primarily on either one or two major characters, 22% of Voyager’s episodes remained uncounted. These were generally episodes that focused on the crew as a whole, or on characters outside of the main cast.

Obviously, all of my decisions about which episodes to count for which characters are subjective. There are a lot of complicated questions to ask, such as, how does one draw a distinction between an episode focused on Janeway in particular versus an episode that focuses on the whole crew where Janeway takes the most significant role in the plot simply by virtue of being the Captain? Or how does one count episodes such as Someone to Watch Over Me or The Haunting of Deck Twelve where the major subjects of the story and the character whose perspective it is told through differ? I made my own determinations for each episode, but there is plenty of room for alternate interpretations, some of which might cause a significant shift in the allocation of episodes to each character.

I welcome any disagreement with or discussion about the methodology I used here. I also welcome analysis of what this data means – whether it reflects positively or negatively on Voyager as a show, how it fits with or contradicts popular perceptions, or anything else.

A full list of episodes that I counted for each character is below the cut.

Kathryn Janeway:

Parallax (with Torres – half points)

Time and Again (with Paris – half points)

The 37’s

Resistance

Alliances

Deadlock

Resolutions (with Chakotay – half points)

Sacred Ground

The Q and the Grey

Macrocosm

Coda

Scorpion (with Chakotay – half points)

Year of Hell

Concerning Flight

Prey (with Seven – half points)

The Omega Directive (with Seven – half points)

Hope and Fear (with Seven – half points)

Night

Counterpoint

11:59

Equinox (with Chakotay – half points)

Fair Haven

Good Sheppherd

The Void

Endgame

Seven of Nine:

The Gift (with Kes – half points)

The Raven

Prey (with Janeway – half points)

Retrospect (with EMH – half points)

The Omega Directive (with Janeway – half points)

One

Hope and Fear (with Janeway – half points)

Drone

Infinite Regress

Bliss

Dark Frontier

Think Tank

Someone to Watch Over Me (with EMH – half points)

Relativity

Survival Instinct

One Small Step

The Voyager Conspiracy

Tsunkatse (with Tuvok – half points)

Collective

Child’s Play

Unimatrix Zero

Imperfection

Body and Soul (with EMH – half points)

Human Error

Natural Law (with Chakotay – half points)

EMH/The Doctor:

Heroes and Demons

Projections

Lifesigns

The Swarm

Real Life

Revulsion (with Torres – half points)

Message in a Bottle

Retrospect (with Seven – half points)

Living Witness

Nothing Human

Latent Image

Someone to Watch Over Me (with Seven – half points)

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy

Virtuoso

Life Line

Critical Care

Body and Soul (with Seven – half points)

Flesh and Blood

Author, Author

Renaissance Man

B’Elanna Torres

Parallax (with Janeway – half points)

Faces

Prototype

Dreadnought

Remember

Blood Fever

Day of Honor

Revulsion (with EMH – half points)

Random Thoughts (with Tuvok – half points)

Extreme Risk

Juggernaut

Barge of the Dead

Muse

Drive (with Paris – half points)

Lineage

Chakotay:

Initiations

Tattoo

Maneuvers

Resolutions (with Janeway – half points)

Unity

Scorpion (with Janeway – half points)

Nemesis

Waking Moments

Unforgettable

In the Flesh

The Fight

Equinox (with Janeway – half points)

Shattered

Natural Law (with Seven – half points)

Tuvok:

Ex Post Facto (with Paris – half points)

Learning Curve

Meld

Innocence

Flashback

Alter Ego (with Kim – half points)

Rise (with Neelix – half points)

Random Thoughts (with Torres – half points)

Gravity

Riddles (with Neelix – half points)

Tsunkatse (with Seven – half points)

Repression

Harry Kim:

Emanations

Non Sequitur

The Chute (with Paris – half points)

Alter Ego (with Tuvok – half points)

Favorite Son

Timeless

The Disease

Warhead

Ashes to Ashes

Nightingale

Neelix:

Jetrel

Parturition (with Paris – half points)

Investigations (with Paris – half points)

Fair Trade

Rise (with Tuvok – half points)

Mortal Coil

Once Upon a Time

Riddles (with Tuvok – half points)

The Haunting of Deck Twelve

Homestead

Tom Paris:

Time and Again (with Janeway – half points)

Ex Post Facto (with Tuvok – half points)

Parturition (with Neelix – half points)

Threshold

Investigations (with Neelix – half points)

The Chute (with Kim – half points)

Vis a Vis

Thirty Days

Alice

Drive (with Torres – half points)

Kes:

Elogium

Cold Fire

Warlord

Darkling

Before and After

The Gift (with Seven – half points)

Fury

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phantom-le6 · 1 year

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Episode Reviews - Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 (1 of 7)

Apologies to any regular readers out there for taking a while to sit down and get the next season of Voyager started reviewing-wise. There are a few reasons for this, but rather than bore you with those, let’s crack on and look at the first few episodes from the show’s sixth and penultimate season.

Episode 1: Equinox (Part 2)

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

Following the events of Part 1, Seven has encrypted the codes accessing the Equinox warp controls, delaying the plan of Captain Ransome and his crew to murder another 63 aliens for fuel. After learning the Doctor in their sickbay is from Voyager, and erasing his ethical sub-routines as they did with their own EMH, they tell him to probe Seven's brain to obtain the codes, despite the fact this may permanently incapacitate her. During the Doctor's preparations, he idly sings "Oh My Darling, Clementine" in a duet with the partially incapacitated Seven, much dismaying Ransom as he suddenly sees her in more human terms.

Janeway starts taking the objective of stopping Ransom to extremes. She orders torpedoes to be fired on the Equinox, nearly kills an Equinox crew member during an interrogation, tractor beams an Ankari ship to strong-arm their cooperation, and relieves Chakotay of duty when he questions her orders.

Ransom starts to realize the error of his ways and orders the crew to return the Equinox to Voyager, but the remaining crew, except for Ensign Marla Gilmore, attempt to mutiny against this. As Voyager attacks, the mutineers fight back, the Equinox EMH supplying his shipmates with Voyager’s shield frequencies (having taken the Doctor’s place at the end of part 1). However, with Gilmore's help, Ransom transports part of the crew, as well as the Doctor and Seven, back to Voyager, while the remaining mutineers are killed by the aliens. After transporting Gilmore to Voyager, Ransom stays behind, sacrificing himself to pilot the ship far enough away from Voyager to protect it from the resulting explosion.

As Voyager resumes its journey home, Janeway reinstates Chakotay to Commander and strips the five surviving Equinox crew members of their ranks while integrating them with Voyager’s crew. Seven promises to help the Doctor secure his ethical sub-routines from being deleted in the future.

Review:

As good as this episode and its part 1 instalment from season 5 are, it is also justly criticised by Trek writer Ronald D Moore, who briefly joined the writers on Voyager following the end of Deep Space Nine. Season 6 of Voyager was the first time since TNG season 5 that only one Star Trek show was on TV, so now this show was getting all the limelight and attention. However, going by Moore’s comments, it wasn’t doing all it should with that spotlight. In part 2 of ‘Equinox’, Janeway starts losing her moral compass to get Ransom, while Ransom in turn begins to regain his, and the former situation creates a worse schism between Janeway and Chakotay than the one we saw back during the two-part episode ‘Scorpion’.

According to Trek wiki site Memory Alpha, Ronald D Moore criticised the episode for both failing to explain the rationale behind these changes, and for resolving the Janeway-Chakotay schism too quickly and cleanly. These are valid points, and it’s emblematic of the show as a whole relative to the metrics of good Trek. All too often, episodes fail to be “about” anything, and while overall I prefer Voyager for its high level of autism-like characters, that doesn’t excuse a lack of substance. Part 1 did give us a kind of “there but for the grace of being a main cast goes our crew”, but part 2 just seems to coast on this and throws in random drama until the action at the end. Seven’s abduction doesn’t justify this, as Janeway barely voices much concern for her, and it’s not like Janeway ever learns that Seven’s life is on the line from the Equinox crew. In turn, Janeway barely knows Ransom and Trek has known a fair few rogue officers at times within the ranks of Star Fleet. That means Ransom betraying Janeway lacks the depth necessary to justify an Ahab-like pursuit of Ransom; Sisko and Eddington had that in Deep Space Nine, Chakotay had this with Seska in early Voyager episodes, but for Janeway and Ransom, it’s a hollow excuse for a vendetta.

Ransom’s reasons for going the other way are also very thin. Just because he sees Seven potentially suffering for his actions, that’s when he decides to have an attack of conscience? Why do I get the feeling that if it was Tuvok, Neelix or anyone other than Seven, we’d never get this turn-around? Probably because, as has been noted by Youtuber Jessie Gender, this is an episode from the Berman era, when Trek was handled by a sexist idiot that didn’t believe in Trek and just did a favour to the late Gene Roddenberry. Bottom line, this is a poor follow-up despite good acting and decent guest actors. The show also fails to really follow through on the addition of the Equinox survivors to Voyager’s crew due to Berman’s myopic insistence on Trek as episodic television. In the end, I give this episode only 5 out of 10.

Episode 2: Survival Instinct

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

Voyager is docked at the Markonian Outpost Space Station, which has welcomed the wayward ship with open diplomatic arms, allowing the free exchange of gifts and ideas. While meeting several representatives of various species in the mess hall, a man approaches Seven of Nine and reveals a container of several Borg compenents from her original unimatrix, which she takes in trade. The sight stuns Seven and brings back memories from her past as a Borg. As the man walks away, it is revealed that he is in telepathic communication with two other guests aboard Voyager, colluding with them to penetrate the ship's security systems.

With B'Elanna Torres' help, Seven examines the components but denies having experienced any feelings at the sight of them. After returning to her Borg alcove to regenerate, the man and his two accomplices enter the cargo bay, revealing themselves as former Borg drones. They attempt to inject Seven with nanoprobes but she detects their presence, stops the attack, and alerts security. The three are subdued and taken to sick bay. The Doctor determines that while they are former Borg, the process to remove their Borg implants was blundered, and they’ve apparently been left with a shared mental connection. When they awake, the three affirm their condition, stating that they were also part of Seven's unimatrix, and want to bring her into that connection to learn what happened some years ago when their Borg scout ship crashed on an uninhabited planet. Seven herself cannot recall the event, but agrees to link to the others temporarily to attempt to uncover it.

Told in flashbacks through the episode, after the crash, the four survivors lost contact with the Borg collective and constructed a communication array to contact the Borg for rescue. As they waited, the other three began to feel some aspects of individuality. While the other three embraced this, Seven fought against it. When they realized the Borg were approaching, the other three attempted to flee, but Seven followed them and re-injected each with nanoprobes, neutralizing their individualistic tendencies and re-assimilating them into the Collective. This created the mental link within the trio, and upon learning this in the present, they fall into a coma.

The three former drones have only two options for recovery: return to the Borg so they can become drones again, or have the Doctor remove the affected implants, severing their connection to each other. However, this process would mean removing Borg implants their brains are dependent on, leaving them with only a month to live. The Doctor asks Seven for her opinion, and she consults Chakotay, who asks her what she would rather do: live as a Borg for a normal lifespan or as an individual for a month. Seven is visibly moved and tells the Doctor to remove the others' implants. The Doctor protests, saying that his objective should be to preserve life at all costs; however, Seven argues that, like herself, even the Doctor was once a "drone" of sorts (confined to the ship's Sickbay) and that he would resist any attempts to force him back to that state. The Doctor accepts this logic and removes the implants from the former drones. Lansor (the former Two of Nine) elects to explore the station for the remainder of his life; Marika (Three of Nine) accompanies Voyager on its journey; and P'Chan (Four of Nine) chooses to spend his remaining days on a nearby uninhabited planet.

Review:

Leave it to an American TV show to force characters into a “liberty or death” scenario. This episode ends up feeling like a load of melodramatic tripe when it gets to that part, because aside from anything else, this is a sci-fi show that has previously show-cased that its title ship has various ways of putting people in suspended animation. How about instead of having to choose between essentially life-limiting the ex-drones or handing them back to the Borg, they just put the trio into suspended animation for a later cure down the road? Seriously, the plot of this episode come the last act is just pointless histrionics and, quite honestly, a let-down in Trek tradition. How have we gone from someone like Kirk who didn’t believe in no-win scenarios to people who make the choice without even looking at alternatives?

The one redeeming aspect of the episode is that it goes back to the idea of Seven being akin to someone being liberated from a cult. In the flashbacks, we see she’s had a prior experience along the same lines as her original introduction to Voyager along with three other drones. However, Seven’s reaction differs because she’s been assimilated by the Borg as a child instead of as an adult. This left her without the means to function as an individual from a mental perspective, which is often why cults in real life would target young people wherever possible. The earlier in life someone is indoctrinated into a given belief, the less likely they are to abandon it because they develop a dependence on that. Frankly, I think the episode would have done better chucking out the life-or-death medical stuff and focusing more on Seven reconciling with what being Borg did to her and the other drones through her. Overall, I give this episode 6 out of 10.

Episode 3: Barge of the Bead

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

While returning from an away mission, B'Elanna Torres encounters interference from an ion storm which results in a concussion. Commander Chakotay finds a Klingon artifact lodged inside Torres' shuttlecraft, and Torres sees this emitting blood and hears voices speaking in the Klingon language. Since the USS Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant, the ship is several thousand light-years away from Klingon-controlled space. Morale officer Neelix plans a celebration of the discovery of the object, since it’s a symbol of the Alpha Quadrant and thus Voyager’s home; Torres resists the proposal for a party. She consults with Lt. Tuvok, who believes her negative response to the object stems from her hatred of her Klingon heritage. Tuvok assaults Torres with a Bat'leth, saying she is not a true Klingon before dismissing her as dishonoured. While attending the festivities in the mess hall, Torres notices the Doctor and Seven of Nine singing Klingon drinking songs and Tom Paris eating Klingon cuisine. After witnessing several Klingon warriors killing the crew, she falls and finds herself aboard a boat. Torres discovers she is being transported to Gre'thor (the Klingon version of hell) on the Barge of the Dead, and that her mother Miral was placed aboard as a dishonoured soul.

Torres awakes to find she has been in a coma the entire time. She had almost died from the accident in the ion storm. Chakotay believes Torres' encounter with her mother was a hallucination prompted from her near-death experience, but she believes that it was real. Torres believes her mother is being punished because of her daughter's dishonour, saying that she must return to the Barge of the Dead to rescue her. Captain Kathryn Janeway permits Torres to put herself in an induced coma, with the Doctor monitoring the procedure. After being placed in a coma, Torres successfully returns to the barge. She reunites with her mother, but they argue about whether or not she has truly embraced Klingon spirituality. Miral responds by telling her she does not understand what it truly means to be a Klingon, as B’Elanna plans to be revived before the barge reaches its destination, thereby cheating. After their conversation, Torres decides to take her mother's place on the barge; even though Miral resists the transference, she is allowed to move on to Sto-vo-kor (a part of the Klingon afterlife similar to the Norse Valhalla) while Torres is escorted into Gre'thor.

She discovers that Voyager is her version of Gre'thor, and is confronted by alternate versions of the crew. Miral returns to explain that she cannot fully be released into Sto-vo-kor until Torres completes her journey. Tuvok attacks Torres again with a bat'leth, but she surrenders rather than fighting back. Miral identifies this as the first step in her path. She informs Torres that they will reunite either in Sto-vo-kor or when Torres returns home. Torres is resuscitated and embraced by Janeway.

Review:

Working religion into Trek is one of the ultimate delicate operations in fiction writing. Handle it right and you get a great Trek episode because it covers genuinely new ground in character development, maybe explores issues with real-life religions or otherwise delivers something of substance. Handle it wrong and you just prove Roddenberry was right making future humanity in an optimistic future a very secularist concept. For me, this one went all wrong. It’s one long riff on the same old things we already know about B’Elanna; anger issues, hates her Klingon side, blah blah blah. In theory, the near-death hallucination/religious experience she has should make the episode better, but frankly it doesn’t, because it comes close to basically saying “this religion is right about the afterlife”, and that’s never a good way to handle religion.

When Trek has done religion right in the past, it’s either kept things firmly in the show’s real world, making the story all about belief without even suggesting the supernatural, or it’s provided a simultaneous scientific explanation, leaving it up to a given character to make a decision if what they felt was science or mysticism. This episode, however, doesn’t lean enough on its science side. It also fails to really explain what the heck B’Elanna is really going through at the end. Top-to-bottom, it’s an episode I think the show should just never have bothered with. 3 out of 10, next episode please.

Episode 4: Tinker Tailor Doctor Spy

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

The Doctor asks Captain Janeway to alter his program to allow him to captain the ship if an emergency occurs. Janeway refuses the request. Despite this, the Doctor alters his own sub-routines, allowing him to daydream, while Voyager is traveling through an apparently harmless nebula. Among other ego-fulfilling fantasies, the daydreams include one where he becomes the "Emergency Command Hologram" and defeats an attacking alien vessel using a fictional deadly photonic cannon. The Doctor finds that his daydreams are occurring when he doesn't want them to, a side effect of his faulty programming, and the crew disables the new routines.

Meanwhile, undetected by Voyager, the crew of an observation ship of the Hierarchy has been monitoring Voyager's passage. As they have done with other ships that pass through the nebula, the Hierarchy determines whether there is any value on the ships, and if so, attacks them. Unable to scan Voyager via normal means, Hierarchy crewman Phlox instead uses a microscopic tunnelling scan. This latches onto the Doctor's program, allowing him to witness events experienced by the hologram, but these are actually the Doctor's fantasies. Phlox soon realizes his mistake, which the Hierarchy will severely punish as soon as it becomes known. The attack on Voyager for its anti-matter reserves already has been scheduled, so Phlox needs it to fail while appearing that what he reported was true.

Phlox uses the tunnelling scan to reactivate the Doctor's daydreaming programs to allow him to communicate with the hologram. Phlox explains the situation to the Doctor, who in turn reports this to Janeway. As Voyager's crew becomes aware of the approaching Hierarchy ships, Janeway arranges for the deception to be complete, temporarily turning the Doctor into the Emergency Command Hologram. The Doctor, less confident in reality than his daydreams, is still able to bluff regarding use of the "photonic cannon" and the Hierarchy quickly retreats. Janeway commends the Doctor for his performance and arranges a team to evaluate the prospects of putting the hologram in charge of the ship under emergency situations.

Review:

Now this episode is actually a great episode, despite the unfortunate necessity of the Voyager crew having to invade the Doctor’s fantasies via the holodeck when his program goes awry. It’s a rare occasion where Trek does comedy over action or something else and manages to do it well, yet at the same time also develop a character and explore an issue. It’s interesting to see the Doctor exploring daydreams, because that’s a very human thing we all take for granted, and his fantasies are very relatable. Whether it’s the action hero fantasy where the Doctor becomes the Emergency Command Hologram, or imagining the female crew members being attracted to him, the Doctor’s imaginings aren’t much different from those of most people in real life.

As I say, the downside of the episode is the rest of the crew having to spy on his fantasies when the Doctor malfunctions. I’m glad they at least express some reluctance, especially since the Doctor is one of the show’s autism-like characters. That autism-like quality in the Doctor is also why, even though I also see Seven as autism-like, my patience with her reaction to the Doctor’s fantasies is rather thin. Ultimately, fantasies are a private thing, and frankly given the advancement of technology in Trek, I have to question why the crew even needed to put those fantasies on the holodeck.

Yes, the Doctor fantasised about Seven coming onto him, and about sketching her in the nude, but ultimately, it was a fantasy. It was not a real event, ergo Seven doesn’t have much of a right to get annoyed about it. This is why it’s a good thing human society isn’t telepathic; it’s bad enough watching the tabloid press in real life invade the privacy of the high-profile and then drumming up judgement from the public over perfectly legitimate, if not always well-understood, activities. Imagine if we all showed the same lack of respect for privacy by tip-toeing through other people’s thoughts to see their private hopes, dreams and fears. There’s a reason why in real life, most of us only reveal our innermost thoughts to close family, romantic partners and/or mental health professionals; we don’t want every Tom, Dick and Mary to know everything going on in our heads.

Given this, I think someone should have taken five minutes to point all this out to Seven, or even better, I think the crew should have fixed the Doctor’s program without playing out the fantasies in the holodeck like a damn peep show. However, it’s still the best overall Voyager episode of this round, and I give it 8 out of 10.

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the-goofball · 5 years

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Apparently, I was in need of a second opinion.

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scientific-tricorder · 3 years

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What are characters calling each other - Voyager edition!

More info and links to other series can be found here.

The episodes I looked at were "State of Flux", "Deadlock" (so there is some Janeway talking to Janeway recorded; I considered characters on both Voyagers the same), "Remember", "The Killing Game" (so much of this is characters as holographic characters (I ignored anything said while their minds were hooked up to the computer), resulting in little data, and the previous episode also had little data, so I did a second season 4 episode), "Revulsion", "In the Flesh", "Riddles" (Tuvok calling characters things during his amnesia is recorded separately), and "Human Error" (excluding the hologram-Chakotay talking to Seven scenes).

Chakotay calls:

EMH "Doctor" (x2) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x12) when talking to her and "Captain" (x2) or "Captain Janeway" (x1) when talking about her.

Neelix "Neelix" (x1) when talking to him and "Neelix" (x3) when talking about him.

Kim "Ensign Kim" (x1) when talking to him.

Paris "Paris" (x2) when talking to him.

Seven "Seven" (x2) or "Seven of Nine" (x2) when talking to her and "Seven" (x1) or "Seven of Nine" (x1) when talking about her.

Torres "B'Elanna" (x4) when talking to her and "Lieutenant Torres" (x1) or "B'Elanna" (x1) when talking about her.

Tuvok "Lieutenant" (x1) or "Tuvok" (x3) when talking to him and "Chief Inspector Tuvok" (x1), "Tuvok" (x3), or "Mister Tuvok" (x1) when talking about him.

EMH calls:

Chakotay "Commander Chakotay" (x1) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x5) when talking to her and "Captain" (x2), "Captain Janeway" (x1), or "Janeway" (x1) when talking about her.

Kes "Kes" (x4) when talking to her.

Kim "Ensign" (x5) or "Ensign Kim" (x2) when talking to him and "Ensign Kim" (x1) when talking about him.

Neelix "Mister Neelix" (x7) when talking to him and "Neelix" (x1) when talking about him.

Paris "Mister Paris" (x2) when talking to him and "Mister Paris" (x2) or "Tom" (x1) when talking about him.

Seven "Seven" (x7) when talking to her and "Seven of Nine" (x1) when talking about her.

Torres "Lieutenant" (x4) or "B'Elanna" (x3) when talking to her and "Lieutenant" (x1), "Lieutenant Torres" (x1), or "B'Elanna" (x1) when talking about her.

Tuvok "Commander" (x1) or "Mister Tuvok" (x1) when talking to him and "Tuvok" (x2) when talking about him.

Janeway calls:

Chakotay "Commander" (x2) or "Chakotay" (x4) when talking to him and "Commander Chakotay" (x3) or "Chakotay" (x3) when talking about him.

EMH "Doctor" (x3) when talking to him and "Doctor" (x7) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x11) or "Kathryn" (x1) when talking to her.

Kes "Kes" (x2) when talking about her.

Kim "Mister Kim" (x4), "Ensign" (x3), "Ensign Kim" (x2), "Harry" (x2), or "Kim" (x1) when talking to him and "Harry Kim" (x1) when talking about him.

Neelix "Neelix" (x5) when talking to him and "Mister Neelix" (x1) when talking about him.

Paris "Lieutenant" (x1), "Mister Paris" (x4), or "Tom" (x4) when talking to him.

Seven "Seven" (x13) or "Seven of Nine" (x3) when talking to her and "Seven of Nine" (x2) or "Seven" (x1) when talking about her.

Torres "Lieutenant" (x4), "Torres" (x3), "B'Elanna" (x7), or "Lieutenant Torres" (x2) when talking to her and "B'Elanna" (x4) or "Lieutenant Torres" (x1) when talking about her.

Tuvok "Tuvok" (x10) or "Mister Tuvok" (x1) when talking to him and "Tuvok" (x6) when talking about him.

Kes calls:

EMH "Doctor" (x4) when talking to him.

Torres "B'Elanna" (x1) when talking to her.

Kim calls:

Chakotay "Commander" (x1) or "Chakotay" (x1) when taking to him.

EMH "Doc" (x2) when talking to him and "Doctor" (x1) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x14) when talking to her and "Captain" (x1) when talking about her.

Kes "Kes" (x1) when talking about her.

Neelix "Neelix" (x1) when talking to him.

Paris "Tom" (x1) when talking to him.

Seven "Seven" (x1) when talking to her and "Seven of Nine" (x2) or "Seven" (x1) when talking about her.

Torres "B'Elanna" (x1) when talking about her.

Tuvok "Tuvok" (x1) when talking about him.

Neelix calls:

Chakotay "Commander" (x1) or "Chakotay" (x1) when talking to him and "Commander Chakotay" (x1) when talking about him.

EMH "Doctor" (x3) when talking to him and "Doctor" (x3) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x5) when talking to her and "Captain" (x1) or "Captain Janeway" (x1) when talking about her.

Kim "Ensign Kim" (x2) or "Mister Kim" (x1) when talking about him.

Paris "Mister Paris" (x1) when talking about him.

Seven "Seven" (x1) when talking to her.

Torres "Lieutenant Torres" (x1) when talking about her.

Tuvok "Tuvok" (x16), "Commander" (x3), or "Mister Vulcan" (x1) when talking to him and "Commander" (x1) or "Tuvok" (x8) when talking about him.

Paris calls:

Chakotay "Chakotay" (x3) when talking about him.

EMH "Doc" (x1) when talking to him and "Doctor" (x1) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x9), "Captain Janeway" (x1), "Janeway" (x1), or "Ma'am" (x3) when talking to her and "Captain" when talking about her.

Kim "Harry" (x3) when talking about him.

Neelix "Neelix" (x1) when talking about him.

Seven "Seven" (x1) when talking to her.

Torres "B'Elanna" (x1) when talking to her.

Tuvok "Mister Tuvok" (x1) or "Tuvok" (x1) when talking to him and "Tuvok" (x2) when talking about him.

Seven calls:

Chakotay "Commander" (x3), "Sir" (x1), or "Chakotay" (x1) when talking to him and "Commander Chakotay" (x1) when talking about him.

EMH "Doctor" (x4) when talking to him and "Doctor" (x2) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x14) when talking to her and "Captain" (x1) when talking about her.

Kim "Ensign Kim" (x1) or "Ensign" (x2) when talking to him and "Ensign Kim" (x2) when talking about him.

Paris "Lieutenant Paris" (x1) when talking to him.

Tuvok "Commander Tuvok" (x1) when talking to him.

Torres calls:

EMH "Doctor" (x1) when talking to him "Doctor" (x2) when taking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x14) when talking to her.

Kes "Kes" (x1) when talking to her and "Kes" (x2) when talking about her.

Kim "Harry" (x4) when talking to him and "Ensign Kim" (x1) or "Harry" (x1) when talking about him.

Paris "Lieutenant" (x1) when talking to him and "Tom" (x2) when talking about him.

Seven "Seven of Nine" (x1) when talking about her.

Tuvok calls:

Chakotay "Commander" (x3) when talking to him.

EMH "Doctor" (x3) when talking about him. While amnesiac in "Riddles", he calls him "Doctor" (x3) when talking about him.

Janeway "Captain" (x19) or "Janeway" (x1) when talking to her and "Captain" (x1) when talking about her. While amnesiac in "Riddles", he calls her "Captain Janeway" (x1) and "Captain" (x1) when talking to her.

Kim "Ensign Kim" (x1) when talking about him.

Neelix "Mister Neelix" (x3) when talking to him and "Mister Neelix" (x1) when talking about him. While amnesiac in "Riddles", he calls him "Neelix" (x2) when talking to him and "Neelix" (x3) when taking about him.

While amnesiac in "Riddles", he calls Paris "Tom" (x1) when talking about him.

Torres "Lieutenant" (x1) when talking to her and "Lieutenant Torres" (x2) when talking about her.

The thing that stood out to me the most was how Janeway is almost always called "Captain" or some variation thereof. The only exceptions were the EMH, Paris, and Tuvok each calling her "Janeway" once, Paris calling her "Ma'am", and the one time she called herself "Kathryn" at the end of "Deadlock". A part of me can't help but wonder if this is related to the whole 'first female captain' thing and the knife's edge the writers were trying to walk as regarded her portrayal. Tuvok is very formal, basically always using a title when referring to someone (amnesiac state excused). Kes definitely got the short stick here, with the other part-time main cast member Seven faring much better because of how she kind of dominated the show once she came on. I'm not sure how much of this is my imagination, but it also seemed like characters were kind of 'segregated' into groups? I mean, everyone got to talk to Janeway a lot, but in general characters seems to have one or two other characters they refer to a lot, and then only once or twice (or none) for the rest of the cast. Undoubtedly part of this is just where characters are (i.e. characters who work on the bridge are all going to talk to each other more than to other characters). Informal terms of address were more frequent later on in the show, which makes sense. B'Elanna, Harry, and Tom tended to always refer to each other by first names, and Harry and Tom were the only ones to call the EMH something other than "Doctor"; referring to him instead as "Doc".

The data were also somewhat easier to collect than DS9; I believe this is due to more simple back-and-forth conversations and fewer minor characters/one episode characters. I'm actually finding all this surprisingly interesting, so expect more from other series relatively soon.

And if anyone is curious, I'm recording data like this, sorting by speaker, and counting:

[Image description: Screenshot of a spreadsheet with columns labelled 'Speaker', 'About/to', 'Recipient', and 'Referral'. "State of Flux" is in the leftmost top cell, and underneath that the columns are filled out.]

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#Star Trek Voyager #EMH #Seven of Nine #Relativity

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Star Trek Voyager’s “Relativity” Is a Treat

First off, in true Janeway fashion, I didn’t even try to follow the twists and turns of all the time traveling, because it made my brain hurt. But I appreciated a lot of things about this episode:

- The opening is chilling. I knew that something was wrong as soon as it showed Janeway from the past with Voyager in dry dock, but the moment Seven turns her face to the camera, it became downright chilling in a quiet way.

- I loved the reminder of how the EMH used to be - hilariously surly, no bedside manner, flat affect - and how he is now (still sometimes surly, with a bedside manner that sometimes does still need improvement, but much more developed and well-rounded).

- Seven of Nine in uniform!

- Also, one of Seven’s best sassy Borg moments. When one of the officers on the Relativity tells her, “In a way, the Federation owes its existence to the Borg,” and she says quite dryly, “You’re welcome.”

- The first thing that Seven says to her other, time-traveling self, is a curt, “Explain.” She talks to everyone that way, including herself.

- The episode is surprisingly funny at various points. Including how much of the plot depends on someone losing his mind over Janeway’s timeline-busting shenanigans. Which she doesn’t even know about or remember. Braxton is ranting about her, and she regards him with polite, innocent confusion and says, “Have we met?” Then at the end, when they explain to her how she has to go back in time to fix things, she has her best “WTF let’s just get this over with” face.

- But what elevates this episode even more is the emotional weight, and how the ship couldn’t have been saved without Seven trusting Janeway and Janeway trusting Seven. Braxton orders Seven not to involve Janeway or tell her anything... but Seven eventually disregards that order. And then there’s that poignant moment where she tells Janeway, “Trust me” (with her voice almost cracking). And you can tell she sees Janeway as her mentor, because she winds up time traveling in a truly chaotic, Janeway-like way, showing up in front of multiple people, including a whole ping-pong tournament. Anyway, I really like what they did with Janeway and Seven in this episode.

#Star Trek Voyager #Kathryn Janeway #Seven of Nine

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#star trek voyager #voyager season 5 #emh #seven of nine #relativity

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Eve of Something New Chapter 25: Sexy

Links to chapter one on Tumblr, FF.net and AO3.

This chapter is also available on FF.net and on AO3, as well as below the cut.

They lost the Doctor fairly quickly but it wasn’t long before he came back, angry and frustrated.

“It’s gone!” he called out.

“Eaten?” Idris asked.

“No,” Eva said, studying the Doctor’s face carefully. “It left.”

“Not eaten, hi-jacked,” the Doctor nodded. “But why?”

“It’s time for us both to go, and keep together,” Auntie said from behind Eva, startling her.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” the Doctor said. “Go? What do you mean go? Where are you going?”

“Well, we’re dying, my love,” Auntie said. “It’s time for Auntie and Uncle to pop off.”

“I’m against it,” Uncle informed them.

“It’s your fault, isn’t it, sweets?” Auntie asked. “Cos you told House it was the last TARDIS. House can’t feed on them if there’s none more coming, can he?”

“So now he’s off to your universe to find more TARDISes,” Uncle said.

“It won’t,” the Doctor said.

“Oh, it will think of something,” Auntie said, before dropping off dead.

The Doctor rushed towards her as Uncle stood up.

“Actually, I feel fine,” he said, before falling as well.

“Not dead,” the Doctor said determinedly, though he knew he was lying to himself. “You can’t just die!”

“We need to go to where I landed, Doctor,” Idris said. “Quickly.”

“Why?!”

“Because we are there in three minutes.”

“We need to go now!” Eva said, pulling Idris only to be stopped as the woman-TARDIS put a hand to her abdomen.

“Ow!” she called out, looking at the Doctor. “Roughly, how long do these bodies last?”

“You’re dying,” the Doctor said, scanning her.

“Yes, of course she’s dying,” Eva said. “She doesn’t belong in a flesh body.”

“I could blow the casing in no time,” Idris informed him. “No, stop it, don’t get emotional. That’s what the orangey girl says.”

“Amy,” Eva provided.

“You’re the Doctor,” Idris went on. “Focus.”

“On what?” the Doctor asked. “How? I’m a madman with a box, without a box! I’m stuck down the plughole at the end of the universe on a stupid old junkyard!”

“Dear god,” Eva muttered. “Has your bowtie cut off all of the blood supply to your brain? Twenty seven, remember that?” she asked Idris.

“Oh, I do!” Idris called happily. “It hadn’t happened to him yet, has it?”

“It hadn’t happened to me, either,” Eva shrugged. “I still remember it.”

“Don’t you start ganging up on me!” the Doctor warned.

“Us?” Eva asked. “Ganging up on you? We would never! Right, dear?”

“Of course we would,” Idris said, confused. “We always gang up on him.” Eva gave her a look and Idris’s eyed widened. “Oh, you wanted me to lie!”

“What do you mean, twenty seven?” the Doctor asked.

“Think, you idiot,” Eva said. “Look around you. It’s not just any junkyard.”

“What is it, then?” the Doctor questioned.

“Look around you.”

“Oh,” the Doctor said, his eyes widening.

“Oh, what?” Idris asked.

“Not a junkyard,” the Doctor said. “Don’t you see, it’s not a junkyard!”

“What is it then?” Idris asked.

“It’s a TARDIS junkyard!” Eva called out.

“Come on,” the Doctor said, rushing past her. “Ooh, sorry, do you have a name?”

“Seven hundred years, finally he asks!” Idris muttered.

“But what do I call you?” the Doctor asked.

“I think you call me... Sexy.”

The Doctor looked around, embarrassed. “Only when we’re alone!” he muttered.

“We are alone,” Idris noted.

“Eva’s here,” the Doctor said.

“Eva doesn’t count,” Idris retorted, and the Doctor smiled, one of his hands holding Eva’s as the other grabbed Idris’s.

“Come on then, Sexy,” he smiled, running away.

EMH

“A valley of half-eaten TARDISes,” the Doctor said as he scanned the junkyard. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”

“I’m thinking that all of my sisters are dead,” Idris said darkly. “That they were devoured, and that we are looking at their corpses.”

“Ah,” the Doctor said. “Sorry. No, I wasn’t thinking that.”

“No,” Idris agreed. “You were thinking you could build a working TARDIS console out of broken remnants of a hundred different models. And you don’t care that it’s impossible.”

“It’s not impossible as long as we are alive,” the Doctor said. “Rory and Amy need us.”

“Okay,” Eva said. “We’ll build a TARDIS.”

The Doctor smiled, kissing the top of her head before running off to scavenger whatever he could to build a TARDIS and Eva smiled at Idris.

“Ask him,” Idris told her.

“Ask him what?” Eva asked.

“You know what,” Idris said. “And I know that you’re going to ask him. So ask him.”

Eva sighed, moving closer to the Doctor.

“Can I ask you something?” she asked.

“Technically, you just did,” the Doctor noted. “But, yes. Always.”

“You told House I was one of a kind,” Eva said.

“That I did,” the Doctor nodded.

“But I’m not,” Eva said. “There are more immortals. Jack, and... people you haven’t met yet.”

“Well,” the Doctor muttered, “I can’t say much for people I haven’t met yet but I know you and Jack are different. He registers as human.”

Eva stared at the Doctor, shocked. “And I don’t?”

“No,” the Doctor said. “Well, yes. Well... partly.”

“What do you mean partly?”

The Doctor sighed, moving closer to Eva and taking a couple of her hairs, scanning them with his screwdriver.

“Here,” he said, showing her the scans. “Part human.”

“How much?” Eva asked.

“84 percent,” the Doctor replied, causing Eva to glance at Idris.

“What are the other 16 percent?” she asked.

“Er...” the Doctor started worriedly. “Does it really matters?”

“Yes,” Eva said sternly. “What are the other 16 percent?”

“Unknown,” the Doctor admitted. “700 years and it’s still unknown.”

EMH

“Bond the tube directly into the Tachyon Diverter,” Idris said, picking up a piece off the ground.

“Yes, yes,” the Doctor said, pulling a big... something towards where Eva said, bored out of her wits. “I have actually rebuilt a TARDIS before, you know. I know what I’m doing.”

“You’re like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom,” Idris said. “And you never read the instructions.”

“I always read the instructions!” the Doctor protested.

“You threw the instructions away, didn’t you?” Eva asked, a mischievous smile on her face.

“There’s a sign on my front door,” Idris said. “You have been walking past it for 700 years. What does it say?”

“That’s not instructions!” the Doctor huffed.

“There’s an instruction at the bottom,” Eva noted. “What does it say?”

“Pull to open,” the Doctor replied.

“And what do you do?” Idris questioned.

“I push!” the Doctor called out.

“Every time,” Idris said, rolling her eyes. “700 years. Police Box doors open out the way.”

“I think I’ve earned the right to open my front doors any way I want!” the Doctor said, giving up on the piece he was pulling.

“Your front doors?” Idris asked. “Have you any idea how childish that sounds?”

“You are not my mother!”

“And you are not my child!”

“You know,” the Doctor said in frustration, “Since we’re talking, with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know, you have never been very reliable.”

“And you have?” Eva snorted.

“She didn’t always take me where I wanted to go,” the Doctor said.

“No,” Idris admitted. “But I always took you where you needed to go.”

The Doctor paused, turning to look at her. “You did!” he said happily. “Look at us. Talking. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could always talk? Even when you’re inside the box?”

“You know I’m not constructed that way,” Idris said. “I exist across all space and time, and you and Evie talk and... run around and... kiss and... bring home strays.”

She fell down, and the Doctor quickly caught her. “You okay?” he asked.

“One of the kidneys has already failed,” Eva said, coming closer to them.

“It doesn’t matter,” Idris said. “We need to finish assembling the console.”

“Using a console without a proper shell,” the Doctor sighed. “It’s not going to be safe.”

“This body has about 18 minutes left to live,” Idris said. “The universe we’re in will reach Absolute Zero in three hours. And Eva travels through the Vortex unprotected all the time. Safe is relative.”

“Then we need to get a move on,” the Doctor said, holding the rope and pulling once more. “Eh, old girl?”

“Is there anything I can do?” Eva asked.

“Watch her,” the Doctor instructed. “And... make sure she’s not alone.”

Eva nodded silently, walking towards Idris and holding her hand. Idris smiled and pressed Eva’s hand in reassurance, a troubled look on her face.

EMH

“You’ll need to install the time router,” Idris said.

“How is this going to make it through the rift?” the Doctor asked, putting one of the last pieces into place. “We’re almost there. Thrust diffuser. Er, Retro scope. Bluethingy.”

“Do you ever wonder why we chose you all those years ago?” Idris asked him.

“I chose you,” the Doctor said. “You were unlocked.”

“Of course we were,” Idris huffed. “We wanted to see the universe, so we stole a Time Lord and ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.”

“Right,” the Doctor said, jumping to her side. “Perfect. Look at that.”

“Yes,” Eva said sarcastically. “What could possibly go wrong?”

A piece disconnected from the console and fell to the floor. “That’s fine,” the Doctor said quickly. “That always happens.”

“Really?” Eva asked.

“No!” the Doctor called, picking up a hose of some kind. “Hang on! Wait!” He gave it to Idris who connected it to the TARDIS and smiled, pulling Eva closer. “Right. OK, let’s go.”

“Follow that TARDIS!” Eva said with a smile, and the Doctor pulled a lever.

“Ah no, come on!” he called as sparks came out of the console. “There’s rift energy everywhere, you can do it. OK, diverting all power to thrust. Let’s be having ya!” The console nearly exploded and the Doctor pushed Eva behind him to protect himself. “No, no, no, no!”

“What’s wrong?” Eva asked.

“It can’t hold the charge,” the Doctor said. “I can’t even start it. There’s no power! I’ve got nothing.”

“Oh, my beautiful idiot,” Idris said with a small smile. “You have what you’ve always had – you’ve got me.”

She put a finger to her lips and then touched the console, sending time energy to it and making it start, the noise Eva loved so much ranging through the air, making her smile.

“My beautiful, brilliant TARDIS,” she said with a smile as they flew away.

“Whoo-hoo!” the Doctor laughed happily, clinging to the console.

“We’ve locked on to them!” Idris called out. “They’ll have to lower the shields when we’re close enough to phase inside.”

“Can you get a message to Amy?” the Doctor asked. “The telepathic circuits are online.”

“Which one’s Amy?” Idris asked. “The pretty one?”

“Just send the message!” Eva called out, trying not to fly outside.

“Hello, Pretty!” Idris said.

“Don’t worry,” the Doctor said, coming closer to her and talking to the screen. “Telepathic messaging. No, that’s Rory.”

“You have to go to the old control room,” Idris said. “I’m putting the route in your head. When you get there use the purple slider on the nearest panel to lower the shields.”

“The pretty one?” the Doctor asked in disbelief.

“He is pretty, in his own way,” Eva said, making the Doctor pout. “Oh, don’t worry. For me, you’re always the pretty one.”

“You’ll have about 12 seconds before the room goes into phase with the invading Matrix,” Idris went on. “I’ll send you the passkey when you get there. Good luck!”

“How’s he going to be able to take down the shields anyway?” the Doctor asked. “The House is in the control room.”

“I directed him to one of the old control rooms,” Idris said.

“There aren’t any old control rooms,” the Doctor said, confused. “They were all deleted or remodelled.”

“I archive them,” Idris explained. “For neatness.”

“You’ve got about 30 now, don’t you?” Eva asked.

“What?” the Doctor asked. “But I’ve only changed the desktop, what, a dozen times?”

“So far, yes,” Idris nodded.

“You can’t archive something that hasn’t happened yet!” the Doctor called.

“You can’t!”

“Keep going!” the Doctor called. “You’re doing it, you sexy thing!”

“See,” Idris called. “You do call me that. Is it my name?”

“You bet it’s your name!” Eva laughed. “Send Rory the pass key!”

“Crimson,” Idris said, transmitting to Rory. “Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor.”

Eva grabbed onto the console, waiting for Amy and Rory to figure it out and open up the passage. An image transmitted into her head and she smiled.

“They did it!”

“Shields down!” Idris declared. “We’re coming through,” she informed Rory. “Get out of the way or you’ll be atomised. I don’t know,” she added in response to something he said.

“It’s not going to hold!” Eva cried out as the console exploded.

The Doctor grabbed her and pulled her to the ground, just as they materialized into the TARDIS. She looked up when the explosions stopped, standing up.

“Doctor!” Amy called, running towards him and pulling him to a hug.

“You did wonderful,” Eva said, hugging Rory. “It’s fine now.”

“Not good,” Idris muttered. “Not good at all.” The Doctor rushed towards her and helped her stand up. “How do you walk around in these things?”

“We’re not quite there yet,” he said. “Just... hold on. Amy, this is... Well, she’s our TARDIS.”

“Except she’s a woman,” Eva said. “She’s a woman, and she’s his TARDIS.”

“Our TARDIS,” Idris corrected. “That’s what he says. And he’s our Doctor.”

“I can’t be in both groups,” Eva rolled her eyes.

“Oh, you and I both know you play both groups,” Idris told her with a smile.

“She’s the TARDIS?” Amy asked.

“And she’s a woman,” the Doctor nodded. “She’s a woman and she’s the TARDIS. What?” he asked at the odd look on Amy’s face.

“I’m trying to decide whether it was you or Eva who wished really hard.”

“Oh, shut up, Ginger!” Eva laughed.

“Not like that,” the Doctor said.

“Hello,” Idris said, smiling. “I’m... Sexy.”

“Yes, you are,” Eva laughed.

“Still shut up,” the Doctor told Amy.

“The Environment has been breached,” House said. “Nephew, kill them all.”

“Where’s Nephew?” Rory asked nervously.

“He was standing right where you materialised,” Amy said.

“Well, he must have been redistributed,” the Doctor said.

“Meaning what?”

“We’re breathing him,” Eva said, disgusted.

“Another Ood I failed to save,” the Doctor muttered.

“Doctor,” House said, clearly surprised by his presence. “I did not expect you.”

“Well, that’s me all over, isn’t it?” the Doctor asked. “Lovely old unexpected me.”

“The big question is, now you’re here, how to dispose of you?” House asked. “I could play with gravity...” They all fell to the ground. “Or I could evacuate the air from this room and watch you choke.”

Around Eva, everybody started chocking and anger and fear rose within her as she crouched next to the Doctor.

“Stop!” she screamed. “Stop it!”

House stopped, and Eva could have sworn even though he had no form, he was looking at her with undisguised interest.

“You should have died,” he told her.

“Yeah,” Eva said. “Heard that one before.”

There was a moment of silence, and then, “Why shouldn’t I just kill the rest of you now and keep you for myself?”

“Because then I won’t be able to help you!” the Doctor called. “Listen to your engines. Just listen to them. You don’t have the thrust and you know it. I’m your only hope for getting out of your little bubble, through the rift, and into my universe. And mine’s the one with the food in!” he added.

“You just have to promise not to kill them,” Eva said. “That’s all, just promise.”

“You can’t be serious,” Amy told him.

“I’m very serious,” the Doctor said. “I’m sure it’s an entity of its word.”

“Doctor, she’s burning up,” Rory said from where he was next to Idris. “She’s asking for water.”

“Oh, no,” Eva said, rushing to her. “Everything will be okay, dear. Everything will be okay.”

“Hang in there, old girl,” the Doctor told her. “Not long now. It’ll be over soon.”

“I always liked it when he calls me old girl,” Idris told Eva.

“I know you did,” Eva replied. “You still do. You will.”

“You want me to give my word?” House asked. “Easy. I promise.”

“Fine,” the Doctor said. “Okay. I trust you. Just delete... 30% of the TARDIS rooms, you’ll free up thrust enough to make it through. Activate sub-routine Sigma-9.”

“Why would you tell me this?” House asked.

“Because we want to get back to our universe as badly as you do,” Eva said. “And he’s nice.”

“Yes...” House said slowly. “I can delete rooms, and I can also rid myself of vermin if I delete this room first. Thank you, Doctor, very helpful. Goodbye, Time Lord. Goodbye, little humans. Goodbye, Idris.” There was a short pause before he added, “I’ll see you soon, Eva.”

The room burnt in a bright white light as it was deleted. Eva held on to Idris, scared to let go in fear of ending someplace else, but it wasn’t long before she found herself back in the familiar Console Room she learned to tell was this Doctor’s.

“Yes,” the Doctor said, looking up. “I mean you could do that, but it just won’t work. Hardwired fail-safe. Living things from rooms that are deleted are automatically deposited in the main control room.”

“But thanks for the lift!” Eva called out happily.

“We are in your Universe now, Doctor,” House said. “Why should it matter to me in which room you die? I can kill you just as easily here as anywhere. Fear me. I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords.”

“Fear me,” the Doctor said darkly. “I’ve killed all of them.”

“I don’t understand,” Rory muttered in response to someone Idris told him. “There isn’t a forest in here.”

“Yeah, you’re right,” the Doctor said as he took Eva’s hand and brought her to her feet, moving a stray curl from her face as he did. “You’ve completely won. Oh, you can kill us in oodles of really inventive ways, but before you do kill us allow me and friends Eva, Amy and Rory to congratulate you on being an absolutely worthy opponent.” He pulled Amy to her feet and marked the two girls to clap.

“Congratulations!” Amy said shakily.

“Well done,” Eva bit out.

“Yep, you’ve defeated us,” the Doctor went on. “Me and my lovely friends here at last but definitely not least the TARDIS Matrix herself, a living consciousness you ripped out of this very control room and locked up into a human body and look at her!”

“Doctor, she’s stopped breathing,” Rory muttered.

“Enough!” House said. “That is enough.”

“No,” the Doctor said, holding Eva so tight it hurt. “It’s never enough. You forced the TARDIS into a body so she’d burn out safely a very long way away from this control room. A flesh body can’t hold the TARDIS Matrix and live. Look at her body, House,” the Doctor repeated.

“And you think I should mourn her?” House questioned.

“No,” Eva said, a smile starting to form on her face. “I think you should be very, very careful about what you let back into this control room.”

Idris moved once more, breathing out golden time energy that started filling the room.

“You took her from her home,” the Doctor said. “But now she’s back in the box again and she’s free!”

“No!” House said. “Doctor, stop this!” he called out in pain. “Stop this now!”

“Oh, look at our girl,” the Doctor told Eva. “Look at her go! Bigger on the inside! You see, House?”

“Make it stop!” House said.

“That’s your problem,” the Doctor continued as if House said nothing. “Size of a planet, but inside you’re just so small!”

“Make it stop!” House repeated, and Eva smiled, not a hint of mercy in her features.

“Finish him off, girl,” she said, and House’s cries of dying filled the room.

When they stopped, a warm light filled the room.

“Doctor? Beauty? Are you there?” The two turned around to see Idris standing once more. “It’s so very dark in here.”

“We’re here,” the Doctor said, walking to her.

“I’ve been looking for a word,” Idris said. “A big, complicated word, but so sad. I’ve found it now.”

“What word?” the Doctor asked.

“Alive,” Idris said. “I’m alive!”

“Alive isn’t sad,” the Doctor said, bemused.

“It’s sad when it’s over,” Eva told him.

“My Beauty understands,” Idris said with a small smile. “I’ll always be here. But this is when we talked and now even that has come to an end.” She paused, before adding, “There’s something I didn’t get to say to you.”

“Goodbye?” the Doctor asked quietly, tears shining in his eyes.

“No,” Idris said. “I just wanted to say... hello. Hello, Doctor. It’s so very, very nice to meet you.”

Idris started disappearing and a tear fell on Eva’s cheek.

“Please!” the Doctor said, his jaw shaking. “I don’t want you to... Please!”

But Idris burnt away, and they were left alone.

#doctor who #fanfiction #i did a thing #original female character #eleventh doctor #amy pond #rory williams #the TARDIS #11th Doctor #original character #oc #dw 6.4 #Episode: The Doctor's Wife #dw #EMH

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