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[madmutts]

More Atbash! And hello blog intruder!

Translation:

mask guy is a funny thing to call them. their name is

i save what's lost what's lost what's lost

lost

rm gsv elrw

[kerolunaticat]

Happy birthday my mexican boy!!!

[trekkie-polls]

For bonus points tell us if it would be scary or exciting to have run of the whole ship alone. Where would you explore first?

[ellenpumpernickel]

Love both TNG and VOY. But Voyager has that lil' strain of "we're almost certainly going to die out here, but at least it'll be rad" that's just so appealing to me

[trillscienceofficer]

There is a cynicism about [Star Trek: Voyager] that truly troubles me. We loved DEEP SPACE NINE. We loved the show. We loved all the characters. There are actors that always give you trouble, and there are always times when the producers and actors are sometimes at each other, because, ‘You don’t understand my character.’ ‘No, you don’t understand the character I am writing.’ That’s fair game. On VOYAGER, there are characters they have given up on. They will just say that to you, flat out. I started asking questions about B’Elanna, who she is. I was saying, ‘I’m having a little trouble watching episodes and getting a handle on her, and what she is about.’ The response was, ‘We don’t have an idea. The past doesn’t matter. Just do whatever you want.’ What are you talking about? How can you give up on your own show? How do you give up on your characters? There is such a cynicism about the show within the people that do the show. I’m not just talking about the writing staff. It permeates the production.

— Ron D. Moore, from this interview that he gave shortly after leaving Star Trek: Voyager (originally published on 18/01/2000)

I'd like to add that in the time since this interview Moore has considerably softened his opinion on the Voyager production, but I still think what he says here is relevant as someone who had the experience of being in both writing rooms.

[guiltycrunch]

puhuuks kukaa muu suomee sillee et d-kirjain vaihtuu ärräksi puhues vai oks mul vaa joku uus joninmurre :DD

[nyhti]

They are drinking coffee together.

[sweetlikesunflowersandhoney]

BARKING BITING GROWLING

[bumblingbabooshka]

So obvious to me that Seska's arc in Voyager should have been her hopping from Villain-of-the-Week to Villain-of-the-Week revealing herself to have been either entirely or in part behind some new plot or scheme (sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident, though she never admits which is which, preferring to pretend all is intentional though she's just as lost in the Delta Quadrant as the rest of them) as an overarchingly evil but largely comedic presence in the show which eventually culminates in her fucking the Borg Queen as the ultimate power fantasy and cementing her role as rival to Janeway, who was too cowardly to do the same.

[kristalliankka]

Muistutus, että tässä paskassa tilanteessa ja Orpon päästessä vauhtiin on erityisen hyvä aika liittyä liittoon, jos ei ole sitä vielä tehnyt.

Palvelualat

Sosiaali- ja terveysala, amk

Sosiaali- ja terveysala, ammattiopisto

Akateemiset alat

Ei mikään näistä? Etsi omasi täältä!

[michelle-jacksons-art-blog]

Con las bendis

[zagreusm]

wips of a project I'm working on this semester ✌🏻

[missanathea]

Agent Green has such a comforting voice

[ooc-sohvikset]

[surkeasilakka]

Downtun Abbey jatkuu, vau!! :D Koskela on pyytänyt teetä lukusaliin ja hovimestari Hietanenhan sen tietysti tuo :)

Keep readingin alla tällä kertaa paneelit tarkemmin ja meikäläisen pikkuruiset harakanvarpaat selvennettyinä!

K: Sisään. Ai... Herra Hietanen.

H: Tämä tee on hankittu suoraan Englannista. Lajike on nimeltään 'Earl Gray'.

K: Hm.

H: Teehen ei ole lisätty mitään, toivomustenne mukaan.

K: Kiitos.

[trillscienceofficer]

BRYAN FULLER: I’ll give you a personal angle into the story. I’m the youngest of five and I watched my parents play my sisters off of each other to the point that they haven’t spoken to each other in forty years. I saw that happening with Rick playing Brannon and Ron off of each other in a way that caused them both to behave outside of their natural states, because insecurities were played on, exposed, manipulated. What happened between Brannon and Ron boils down to bad parenting on Rick’s behalf.

Rick would taunt Brannon, saying things like “I should have hired Ron to run Voyager instead of you.” So of course Brannon is going to be insecure and vulnerable. Brannon is a very complicated guy, but an amazing storyteller and a good guy ultimately. Both Ron and Brannon are good guys. But when you’re in a situation where you are feeling vulnerable and insecure and you’re having somebody essentially say I wish you were more like that guy, you’re going to resent that guy. And when that guy is told “I wish Brannon was more like you,” then you’re going to feel like you should come in and you should be in a position where you’re exerting a certain sense of control over the story. So I feel like both of them were victims of bad parenting in that scenario.

BRANNON BRAGA: Ron came in with a very strong point of view and I was irrationally resistant, because I felt that I had just earned my keep as a showrunner. I felt a little threatened by my old colleague, which was silly of me. Ron is always one to push the boundaries, and I wish I’d listened to him.

RONALD D. MOORE: I think at the heart of it is that when we were partners, I was something of the senior partner, because I started a year before him. And in our relationship as people, I took somewhat of a more dominant role. It was a marriage and a partnership. I’m not saying I was number one and he was number two, but there was a certain dynamic between the two of us that I was used to, saying what I wanted to do and not the other way around. And then I was going to work for him and he was a different person running that show. This is from my perspective, but he seemed less willing to take chances. He seemed more afraid of changing the show, and his arguments were feeling a lot like Rick’s arguments about what Star Trek was and what it wasn’t. He still had his Brannon ideas about weird science-fiction things and strange concepts and bizarro time travel. Things that were kind of his signature at the time. But the character work, he was not as receptive to really challenging the characters. A lot of things I eventually put into Battlestar Galactica, I started pitching to him originally.

There was a story in development when I was there about them coming across an alien fleet and they were going to shepherd them for a time. I remembering talking about Battlestar Galactica, the original show, and saying, “Hey, it could be something like that except we could do it where there’s votes by these civilians and they don’t want Janeway to always be in charge. And there should be culture there.” I kept saying that I want the internal culture on Voyager to change over time. Why don’t they put the leadership of the starship to a vote at some point? Is Janeway literally going to captain this ship until she’s eighty? Is Chakotay always going to be the number two? If these guys really don’t think they’re getting back to the Alpha Quadrant for seventy or eighty years, shouldn’t they start thinking long-term? Shouldn’t they sort of let their hair down a little bit? What if they don’t want to wear their uniforms on a Friday? What if they want to decorate the halls? What if they start customizing this ship because it’s probably a generational ship? And they were not open to those concepts. Brannon was not open to those concepts. It was like changing the show too much: “That’s not Star Trek. That’s not what the audience wants to see. I don’t want to see Janeway get votes.” He was very contemptuous about some of it, and I bristled at that. I just felt like they weren’t willing to try to change the show, because in their minds they thought the show was working fine and it didn’t need to be challenged. I was the one saying no, this does not work. This can be better. This is not good.

I kept pushing, and out of that dynamic Brannon stopped wanting to have me in meetings and stopped wanting me to be around, and then the whole thing blew up once I found out that they literally were having meetings where I wasn’t around and they were developing stories that I wasn’t a part of, and the staff had been told not to tell me these things. I walked into Rick’s office and said, “I want out.” He was shocked and Brannon was shocked, and Brannon and I had it out. It was a hard, very emotional and painful scene. Brannon said, “You’re right. I’m sorry. I don’t know why it’s been like that, but I’d really like you to stay.” But I was just done. I just wanted out. It broke my heart and I was angry and hurt. At that point I didn’t think I’d see my participation in it. It was his show and I acted like it was my show, which was not the smartest move. I really underestimated what it would be like to go work with him again. In my heart, I was ready to move on. I should have left Trek at the end of Deep Space Nine and taken on other challenges. Instead I went for comfort and ease and it blew up on me.

BRANNON BRAGA: Now I think it was best he left, because he was frustrated with me. On the one hand I wish I had responded differently, because I think the show would have been better for it. But then again, if he had remained, Ron might not have gone on to do Battlestar Galactica—which, in my view, is what he wanted to do with Star Trek. Every show creator has their moment, their show, and I really think Battlestar was Ron’s best work. It was what he was yearning to do with Star Trek, but was constrained by the premise.

— “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman