#hence less than legal for B'Elanna to get her mitts on them

[jacensolodjo]

also it occurs to me that they did the timeline in Vox (and Last Generation) kinda weird. It was supposed to take less than an hour, but with the speech with Shelby and shit makes it seem like a LOT LESS than an hour for them to get there. Because at the same time they're researching the Changeling/Borg plan. But things go by way too fucking fast lmao You're telling me her speech took 45+ minutes? What 'next demonstration'? Was there something BEFORE they put the sync system online? The way they splice it all together it makes my brain go 'wait'.

slow the fuck down!!!

Also why didn't picard know about the sync system until it was announced? why didn't shaw? WHY DIDN'T SEVEN?

(I made B'Elanna know. because of course she does. She doesn't TRUST Starfleet but also is constantly getting engineering updates from starfleet probably less than legally. Because... it's B'Elanna... COME ON. you can't tell me she wouldn't.)

Speaking of going too fast. I wish there was like. A way of knowing how much time passed between that opening salvo in Vox and then the Enterprise-D renewed saving the day in Last Generation.

Did all this shit really take place in less than 2 hours? Since the episodes are roughly an hour? How did Seven and the grey crew do the portable beam me up so quickly? They handwaved that ENTIRELY. I'm ASSUMING it was a project already in process and Seven just... finished it super quick. But how do you get the transporter system to work when all systems are locked down? (I had to write B'Elanna getting around this in another fic where she ISN'T retired by making her OWN transporter system indie of the ship.)

It takes a LONG time in warp to get to certain places even 23 years after Voyager/DS9/TNG ended. Because warp has LIMITS. We've known that for years so it can't be that the ships are just suddenly faster lmao

I'm overthinking it like I always do, I know. BUT COME ON!!! make it make sense!!! I love the overall idea. I love the angst that has to come up for Seven AND B'Elanna. and the Voyager crew in general. (And Ent D) the kiddos are rising against you but it isn't their fault. But you're panicked. Half your crew is kiddos. Geordi has his kids. Picard's is the one doing it. B'Elanna in the fic I'm writing doesn't actually have Miral because there was no Tom in her life (it's a good thing because of B'Elanna's Borg related trauma making her cut contact with EVERYONE and she became a courier in a small ship which is not a great way to raise a kid). So her trauma and angst from the Changeling/Borg plot is different in this fic than the other one I wrote. Especially because she's on the same ship as Seven.

Please at least tell me how long it fucking took to get from point A to point B. Your pacing got so fucked up at the end of the season, y'all.

(Also where the fuck were Raffi and Worf during this they kinda appeared out of nowhere when the Grey Crew were fleeing the ship lmao)