#protostar class

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Voyager-A & Protostar "Ascension Pt. 1"

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Star Trek: Prodigy - Crashed USS Protostar Concept Art by Morgan Yon

[transhuman-priestess]

Look at this. It's a protostar, only a couple tens of thousands of years old. The universe is such an amazing place and I'm so happy to be alive.

[miminmimikyu]

Prodigy episodes 11-12: Jankom you hero! You know that those anger management classes were good if Jankom managed to de-escalate a conflict between a tactless angry Dal and an absolutely livid Chakotay in a room with no Janeway

Jesus episode 11 got really dark really quickly.

Gosh that opening sequence of Chakotay’s life on Ysida was so beautiful. The gentle piano and strings music accompanying this montage was so understated and pretty. The soundtrack on this show...

ngl when Chakotay carved that third chess piece I thought it represented a child

TEN years! That’s longer than Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant! If anyone of the ex-Voyager crew can survive 10 years on an isolated planet, it’s Chakotay, but oooff. I guess 10 years of solitude and the deaths of your entire crew weighing on your mind constantly will do that to a guy. I think that the closest he’s ever been portrayed as this.. callous(?) was in Timeless, where he also lost all but one of his (& Janeway’s) crew. It was so satisfying to see Chakotay get so many emotional moments this episode (still, quite shocking to see him try to attack defenceless kids).

The scene in the cave was so perfect, everything came together— the moody blue of the cavern, Dal’s initial shocked expression and inability to speak, Adreek’s skeleton just sitting there and protecting the antimatter for god knows how long.. and then to top it off the two-hit KO of the incredible animation conveying Chakotay’s horror and grief and guilt, and Robert Beltan’s voice acting!. (I’m so used to his clocked-out performance for a large part of Voyager, I was taken so off guard by the emotions he conveyed in this episode (and the next).…. God that was beautiful

Please.. I’m already dead π_π

I love how it’s not a sense of sudden responsibility for some children but the kids just earnestly working away that gradually drags Chakotay out of his shell. Worn down by their work ethic (and them finding the corpse of his first officer for him 💀).

Yet again: what a cool planet!! A lot of the planets the kids have visited this season have been devoid of humanoid life but each of them is so unique and interesting. Not the worst place to be marooned, if not for the beasts.

I really like the reversal of the Janeway-Chakotay dynamic here. On Voyager, Chakotay kept Janeway in check, now holo Janeway does that for Chakotay. It’s cute how he looks back at her for input from time to time.

Dal and Chakotay actually make a great duo. I really liked their heart-to-heart. Also the way they clash, definitely a different dynamic compared to Dal and Janeway. I didn’t expect Dal to confess his insecurity re:the peek at his future so soon. I don’t think that this solved it but I’m glad that he was given a bit of a confidence boost.

These two episodes sure reminded me of Resolution… stranded on a planet, the planet is plagued by ion storms, Chakotay/Janeway infected vs. the Protostar infected. Chakotay is resigned to his fate while Janeway/Adreek is set on fixing the situation (Janeway didn’t manage but Adreek did).... and then in episode 12 Chakotay tells Dal about how he always felt lost (as a child on his homeworld, in the maquis as an adult..), until he met Janeway and became her number one… that’s almost exactly the same thing that he told Janeway in Resolutions (minus the metaphor + heavy romantic overtones). Hell, episode 12 even starts with Vice Admiral Janeway getting her shoulder massaged (/manhandled. by the doctor. and she hates it. unlike when Chakotay did it on New Earth ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ). Only Janeway isn’t actually stranded with him on Ysida…

Chakotay and Holo Janeway… do you think they explored each other’s bo-

Beverly Crusher is k i l l i n g me being all “Jean-Luc? Dunno, you know him, always working!! Hahaha, let’s talk about motherhood” while hiding her now 4-year old secret lovechild.

Anyway. So if Voyager is nearby (ish), that means that this is present-day and Chakotay crashed 10 years in the past? So besides fixing the protostar back up, they need to wipe holo Janeway’s memories, crash the Protostar in the past and I guess Chakotay just loses 10 years of his life now?

[arcadia75]

Prodigy Season 2 Random Thoughts

Spoilers under the cut

While I think Robert Beltran is still a class A jackass, ngl that crazy, cowboy Chakotay is kinda hot and caused me to have one of *those* dreams about RB which, eww.

I very much enjoyed this season. I thought the writing was good, Solum plot was interesting, there were so many Trek easter eggs and surprises. I binge watched it over a couple days while I was supposed to be working, lol. Yay 4th of July holiday and slow work days.

The J/C elephant in the room. Yeah, nothing is resolved. Seriously, I think they are permanently friend zoned. Voyager got back in 2378. The Protostar didn't launch until 2382. What they fuck were they doing those 4 years? Apparently not each other.

Then end of this season was in 2385 with the Mars attack from Picard. So Chakotay was missing for 3 years? On top of the 10 he spend alone on that planet? (So when he and Adreek took the Protostar back into the wormhole, did they go back in time to 2375?) Please someone get this man some therapy. His home colony was destroyed, he left an organization he spent 20+ years in to avenge that. He got tossed 7 years across the galaxy. Got home, bummed around for 4 years, rejoined aforementioned organization, made captain of a ship, that got lost and propelled 52 years into the future, lost his entire crew, then got sent back in time again and spent 10 years alone with a hologram of the women he supposedly was in love with for years (he and HJ totally got it on right?) and he just goes....right back to captaining Voyager-A? Where's Hugh Cambridge when you need him??

All the Protostar kids are awesome, and I'm glad finally Dal had some growth by the end cuz that dude was ANNOYING!

Wesley Crusher's animation was weird, imo, but glad they brought Wil Wheaton back. He deserves it.

The only one who deserves it more would have been Garrett Wang. I wish they found a way to bring Harry back. Garrett has championed so much for Voyager and Trek, he deserves to have Harry get some recognition.

[goshenightie]

Not a lot of people pay attention to this, but most Nanook's/Destruction's blessings in the Simulated Universe are Astronomy related!!

Let's start from the 1 star blessings (not gonna add images because the MAX is 10 images lmao):

Eternally Collapsing Object

(This blessing could be a reference to) The magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (MECO) is an alternative model for black holes initially proposed by Indian scientist Abhas Mitra in 1998 and later generalized by American researchers Darryl J. Leiter and Stanley L. Robertson. A proposed observable difference between MECOs and black holes is that a MECO can produce its own intrinsic magnetic field. An uncharged black hole cannot produce its own magnetic field, though its accretion disk can.

Instability Strip

The unqualified term instability strip usually refers to a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram largely occupied by several related classes of pulsating variable stars: Delta Scuti variables, SX Phoenicis variables, and rapidly oscillating Ap stars (roAps) near the main sequence; RR Lyrae variables where it intersects the horizontal branch; and the Cepheid variables where it crosses the supergiants.

Orbital Redshift

(This blessing could be a reference to) The main causes of electromagnetic redshift in astronomy and cosmology are the relative motions of radiation sources, which give rise to the relativistic Doppler effect, and gravitational potentials, which gravitationally redshift escaping radiation. All sufficiently distant light sources show cosmological redshift corresponding to recession speeds proportional to their distances from Earth, a fact known as Hubble's law that implies the universe is expanding.

Primordial Black Hole

In cosmology, primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothetical black holes that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the inflationary era and early radiation-dominated universe, extremely dense pockets of subatomic matter may have been tightly packed to the point of gravitational collapse, creating primordial black holes without the supernova compression typically needed to make black holes today. Because the creation of primordial black holes would pre-date the first stars, they are not limited to the narrow mass range of stellar black holes.

(I'm gonna skip the two star blessings because I don't think there's any Astronomy related ones?)

Universal Heat Death Characteristic

The heat death of the universe (also known as the Big Chill or Big Freeze) is a hypothesis on the ultimate fate of the universe, which suggests the universe will evolve to a state of no thermodynamic free energy, and will therefore be unable to sustain processes that increase entropy. Heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only requires that temperature differences or other processes may no longer be exploited to perform work. In the language of physics, this is when the universe reaches thermodynamic equilibrium.

Non-Inverse Antimatter Equation

E=mc2

The story of antimatter begins (again) with Einstein and his famous formula: E=mc2. It means that energy and mass are interchangeable - so mass can be transformed to energy (as in stars), or energy into mass. And this has huge consequences.

Resonance Interplay: Protostar

A protostar is a very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud. It is the earliest phase in the process of stellar evolution. For a low-mass star (i.e. that of the Sun or lower), it lasts about 500,000 years.

Resonance Interplay: Zero Age Main sequence

zero-age main sequence: a line denoting the main sequence on the H–R diagram for a system of stars that have completed their contraction from interstellar matter and are now deriving all their energy from nuclear reactions, but whose chemical composition has not yet been altered substantially by nuclear reaction.

Resonance Interplay: Substellar Belt

A substellar object, sometimes called a substar, is an astronomical object, the mass of which is smaller than the smallest mass at which hydrogen fusion can be sustained (approximately 0.08 solar masses). This definition includes brown dwarfs and former stars similar to EF Eridani B, and can also include objects of planetary mass, regardless of their formation mechanism and whether or not they are associated with a primary star.

Resonance Formation: Event Horizon

We can think of the event horizon as the black hole's surface. Inside this boundary, the velocity needed to escape the black hole exceeds the speed of light, which is as fast as anything can go. So whatever passes into the event horizon is doomed to stay inside it – even light.

Resonance Formation: Extreme Helium Flash

A helium flash is a very brief thermal runaway nuclear fusion of large quantities of helium into carbon through the triple-alpha process in the core of low-mass stars (between 0.8 solar masses (M☉) and 2.0 M☉) during their red giant phase. The Sun is predicted to experience a flash 1.2 billion years after it leaves the main sequence. A much rarer runaway helium fusion process can also occur on the surface of accreting white dwarf stars.

Resonance Formation: Cataclysmic Variable

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary star systems that have a white dwarf and a normal star companion. They are typically small – the entire binary system is usually the size of the Earth-Moon system – with an orbital period of 1 to 10 hours.

(Sources are all from Wikipedia and the official Nasa website, but correct me if i got some of it wrong^^)

[sonicjustbecause]

Unless is not a visual effect, this seems Shadow running inside one of those machines that are made to induce nuclear fusion and create artificial stars, then energy. I said nuclear FUSION, that already happen in all stars, not nuclear FISSION (the latter is what everybody think/know and is what happen in nuclear plants - they're the opposite)

Nuclear fusion machines

I don't know if this has something to do with the black hole thing, but a massive star (class O or B) becomes a supergiant when hydrogen supply ends, and when it dies, it explodes ino a supernova. Then it might become a pulsar or a black hole. Shadow might create the process: Protostar -> O Class main sequence star -> Red supergiant -> Supernova -> Blackhole, all in few seconds instead of million of years (O stars only live few million years).

Another thing this image makes me think...

This one

Might Shadow have discovered his specific powers just the same way Sonic did?

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.)

A team of scientists used Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) to image select regions within two molecular clouds known as Digel Clouds 1 and 2. With its high degree of sensitivity and sharp resolution, the Webb data resolved these areas, which are hosts to star clusters

undergoing bursts of star formation

, in unprecedented detail. Details of this data include components of the clusters such as very young (Class 0) protostars, outflows and jets, and distinctive nebular structures.

These Webb observations, which came from telescope time allocated to Mike Ressler of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, are enabling scientists to study star formation in the outer Milky Way in the same depth of detail as observations of star formation in our own solar neighborhood.

“In the past, we knew about these star forming regions but were not able to delve into their properties,” said Natsuko Izumi of Gifu University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, lead author of the study. “The Webb data builds upon what we have incrementally gathered over the years from prior observations with different telescopes and observatories. We can get very powerful and impressive images of these clouds with Webb. In the case of Digel Cloud 2, I did not expect to see such active star formation and spectacular jets.”

Stars in the Making

Although the Digel Clouds are within our galaxy, they are relatively poor in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. This composition makes them similar to dwarf galaxies

and our own Milky Way in its early history. Therefore, the team took the opportunity to use Webb to capture the activity occurring in four clusters of young stars within Digel Clouds 1 and 2: 1A, 1B, 2N, and 2S.

For Cloud 2S, Webb captured the main cluster containing young, newly formed stars. This dense area is quite active as several stars are emitting extended jets of material along their poles. Additionally, while scientists previously suspected a sub-cluster might be present within the cloud, Webb’s imaging capabilities confirmed its existence for the first time. 

“We know from studying other nearby star-forming regions that as stars form during their early life phase, they start emitting jets of material at their poles,” said Ressler, second author of the study and principal investigator of the observing program. “What was fascinating and astounding to me from the Webb data is that there are multiple jets shooting out in all different directions from this cluster of stars. It’s a little bit like a firecracker, where you see things shooting this way and that.”

The Saga of Stars

The Webb imagery skims the surface of the Extreme Outer Galaxy and the Digel Clouds, and is just a starting point for the team. They intend to revisit this outpost in the Milky Way to find answers to a variety of current mysteries, including the relative abundance of stars of various masses within Extreme Outer Galaxy star clusters. This measurement can help astronomers understand how a particular environment can influence different types of stars during their formation.

“I’m interested in continuing to study how star formation is occurring in these regions. By combining data from different observatories and telescopes, we can examine each stage in the evolution process,” said Izumi. “We also plan to investigate circumstellar disks

within the Extreme Outer Galaxy. We still don’t know why their lifetimes are shorter than in star-forming regions much closer to us. And of course, I’d like to understand the kinematics of the jets we detected in Cloud 2S.”

Though the story of star formation is complex and some chapters are still shrouded in mystery, Webb is gathering clues and helping astronomers unravel this intricate tale.

These findings have been published in the Astronomical Journal

IMAGE: Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light. Within this star-forming region, known as Digel Cloud 2S, the telescope observed young, newly formed stars and their extended jets of material. This Webb image also shows a dense sea of background galaxies and red nebulous structures within the region. In this image, colors were assigned to different filters from Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam: red (F1280W, F770W, F444W), green (F356W, F200W), and blue (F150W; F115W). Credit NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Ressler (JPL)

[through-hubbles-eyes]

𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅 L1527

The protostar itself is hidden from view within the “neck” of this hourglass shape. An edge-on protoplanetary disk is seen as a dark line across the middle of the neck. Light from the protostar leaks above and below this disk, illuminating cavities within the surrounding gas and dust.

The region’s most prevalent features, the clouds colored blue and orange in this representative-color infrared image, outline cavities created as material shoots away from the protostar and collides with surrounding matter. The colors themselves are due to layers of dust between Webb and the clouds. The blue areas are where the dust is thinnest. The thicker the layer of dust, the less blue light is able to escape, creating pockets of orange.

Webb also reveals filaments of molecular hydrogen that have been shocked as the protostar ejects material away from it. Shocks and turbulence inhibit the formation of new stars, which would otherwise form all throughout the cloud. As a result, the protostar dominates the space, taking much of the material for itself.

Despite the chaos that L1527 causes, it’s only about 100,000 years old - a relatively young body. Given its age and its brightness in far-infrared light as observed by missions like the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, L1527 is considered a class 0 protostar, the earliest stage of star formation. Protostars like these, which are still cocooned in a dark cloud of dust and gas, have a long way to go before they become full-fledged stars. L1527 doesn’t generate its own energy through nuclear fusion of hydrogen yet, an essential characteristic of stars. Its shape, while mostly spherical, is also unstable, taking the form of a small, hot, and puffy clump of gas somewhere between 20 and 40% the mass of our Sun.

As the protostar continues to gather mass, its core gradually compresses and gets closer to stable nuclear fusion. The scene shown in this image reveals L1527 doing just that. The surrounding molecular cloud is made up of dense dust and gas being drawn to the center, where the protostar resides. As the material falls in, it spirals around the center. This creates a dense disk of material, known as an accretion disk, which feeds material to the protostar. As it gains more mass and compresses further, the temperature of its core will rise, eventually reaching the threshold for nuclear fusion to begin.

The disk, seen in the image as a dark band in front of the bright center, is about the size of our solar system. Given the density, it’s not unusual for much of this material to clump together - the beginnings of planets. Ultimately, this view of L1527 provides a window into what our Sun and solar system looked like in their infancy.

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Star Trek Prodigy "Ouroboros Pt. 2"

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[signed-sapphire]

Hey hey hey!! Guess who’s turn it is to shoot you with asks >:))

1. Is Evangeline going to have a bigger role in the story than it seems? Or is she just mentioned here and there?

2. Are the black hole forms of Cielo and Evangeline going to have a role in your story? 👀 Or was it just for fun?

3. Who would you reckon would warm up first to Asha’s development and redemption? I have a feeling Gabo would be the last 😅

4. Which Magnifico from the Wishverse would TFS!Mag be more concerned of? (Considering he’s the only good apple there thus far…)

5. You said Cielo was pulled from the sky by force. Does Evangeline know about this and how does she feel? How does Cielo think of this situation of being away from his mentor/mother-figure?

6. Damn 14 songs-?! That’s an amazing number 😂. Are they all going to be of equal length or are some songs shorter than the others?

7. Is Valentino going to talk at some point in your story?

8. Does Asha keep anything in memory of her village and parents? Or does she prefer to bury her feelings deep down and not think about it? (Don’t tell her I asked this. She has enough beef with me already 😅)

9. Did Magnifico and Amaya start the myth of how Wishing Stars are evil? If not, who started it? How long had the stars refused to help humans?

10. Nothing really. Just have a hug from me <33

(You don’t have to draw any responses to these btw. I heard you’ve had plenty on your plate already 💖)

YAY LET’S GO! THANK YOU FLICKER! I’m not going to draw anything because I have class today, but I’m super excited to answer these so I want to get this as quick as I can haha

Is Evangeline going to have a bigger role on the story than she seems? Or is she just mentioned here and there?

She’s going to be in… let me check… four chapters?

She’s definitely playing a big role. Her being there is the reason that Mag and Amaya go evil

Are the black hole forms of Cielo and Evangeline going to be in your story?

Uh, heck yeah! Although I did some work on the types of stars in the TFS universe last night, and these are my notes:

Protostars are newborn ones, born of an Act of True Love

Red Giants are stars who have given into “granting whatever wishes for power”

Blue Stars are True Wishing Stars

Black holes are those who sang the Hurt Incantation

Neutron stars are healed stars, but still affected

Binary stars are stars in a close relationship

PMS (pre-magic-stars) stars are stars before they gain sentience

There will be one Red Giant and one Black Hole in The Fallen Star. I’m sure you can figure out who is who

Who would you reckon would warm up first to Asha's development and redemption?

I assume you’re talking about the seven teens. If so, I think Dario would be the first, simply because he can see through her bullshit.

I thought Gabo would be the last too, but Hal would really be the final teen to actually accept Asha. She acts like she does, but she can’t really acknowledge the bitterness she feels towards Asha for not helping her Saba. Gabo’s just the loudest about it.

Which Magnifico from the Wishverse would TFS!Mag be more concerned of?

Uhhhhh— I don’t think TKoRaT Mag, because he too has an Asha daughter. It’s sort of hard to eliminate the rest.

KOW!Mag dropped Asha off a building. RWTS!Mag is a manipulator.

But I honestly think RFTS!Mag. He’s destroying his marriage. To think that any variation of himself doesn’t value his love for Amaya over his love for power is… very concerning.

How do Cielo and Evangeline feel about Cielo being pulled to Rosas?

Oh, Eva was freaking out at first. Her curious son just got sucked into a Star-hating kingdom like a vacuum. But she can’t externally combust, as she’s already not of the highest standing in the star realm.

What happens until she appears in the story is basically a “Hell is Forever”-esque argument with the stars in charge to let her go and rescue him. Who knows if that works out or not.

Cielo… honestly, he was like Ariel coming to land. Sure, he was a bit off-put by the new world, but quickly became distracted by the wonders of humans. He knew Eva would be watching him and freaking out, so the best they could do was find his Wisher and work on becoming a true wishing star like Eva taught him.

Are the songs going to be equal length?

Oh, haha no. I would die.

“Welcome to Rosas” is one of the shorter ones. It’s… yeah.

I have one that’s like… twenty seconds aloud? “At All Costs” is longer, but “This Wish (Reprise)” is visually more panels. Same as the rewrite of “I’m a Star” and one other secret song.

Is Valentino going to talk at some point in your story?

Yeah! He’s voiced by Ravi Cabot-Conyers and gets a voice… sometime after the rewrite for IAS. I haven’t exactly pinned a certain point.

But he’s very talkative! He loves Asha and Cielo and while I have to establish his voice regarding Magma’s reactions and the seven teens’, I do know that Asha has had to tackle her therapy goat before he blabbed something to Cielo she doesn’t want them hearing.

Does Asha keep anything in memory of her village and parents? Or does she prefer to bury her feelings deep down and not think about it?

Don’t worry, she can’t hear you. She’s busy insulting Gabo for his height in

✨song form✨

Asha… well, she was twelve when her parents died. So it’s been five years at the start of the story. She remembers being happy, and being loved. She remembers making couscous with Sakina and climbing trees with Tómas.

Her memory of that night is fuzzy. All she remembers is being trapped under flaming rubble, someone saving her and throwing her out, and a tall figure with glowing eyes and floating hair.

She prefers to think of the good stuff. What will be.

Did Magnifico and Amaya start the myth of how Wishing Stars are evil? If not, who started it? How long had the stars refused to help humans?

So, Magnus and Amaya didn’t start the myth. It’s not really a myth, either. For around a hundred years, Stars changed from assisting people with their wishes to straight-up granting them. In turn, people became lazy and started depending too much on the Red Giants, and overpowered them, the magic turning dark and corrupting their minds.

They began searching for more wishes to grant and more power to absorb, bursting into villages to find the ungranted wishes. Eventually, people saw that the stars became dangerous, but some people still wanted their wishes granted, and so more stars fell.

Magnus and Amaya’s homes and families were both taken by Stars. So they decided to do something about it.

Hugging you back!

Thank you so much for these questions, Flicker! <333

[thelongestway]

Star Trek Prodigy, notes on the watch, ep. 15

So far, this is a very decent 5/5/5/5 split, so I'm guessing we put the Protostar back this episode, and our last 5 will be dealing with Solum.

Maj'el, are you doing neutral zone racing? What are those fighter ships? :P

Ah, training program. :) Dal, being diplomatic for once?

I like how Jankom wound up supporting Z!

"Just like old times" indeed. :)

Yeah, exactly: Starfleet's stretched too thin, you've got a crew in place... Jellico, come on!!

The Special Rogue Misfit Division already exists on the Cerritos, Jankom.

Also hah, maybe they'll come in and help? Second contact is their specialty, after all! And with how tightly this season has been woven into Star Trek reality in general...

Ohh, here we go. Ilthuran, Ascensia, Baby!Ascensia? Who's contacting Voyager?

OH! The Trill made it out!? Nine lives, those people have!

Ah, it's Ilthuran.

How did Ascensia figure out stable time travel, I wonder... Is she putting the Loom to work?

...Is that a Rev-class starship? Yeah, Rev-1, apparently.

Dal slowly being pulled into Starfleet is a bittersweet feeling. :) I thought they'd be pulling Maj'el in, since they're down Zero, not the other way around!

That Temporal Science Spearhead is no joke, though!

NIce one, Dal! That ship's just small enough to do it. ^^

Drones to intercept, not a bad idea on the Vau N'Akat's side.

How the HELL did she get Wesley?

[giffingthingsss]

Computer, load Constitution class holo-console. Mid-23rd century. Translate command inputs to the Protostar's helm.

[divinemissem13]

30 Days of Prodigy, day 17: Admiral Janeway

Admiral Janeway sighs with relief as she steps into her quarters at the end of another long day. She kicks off her boots and shrugs off her admiral’s jacket, leaving a pile of Starfleet armor on the floor to be dealt with later, and pads over to the replicator where she orders a glass of red wine.

All day long, she is Admiral Janeway: fearless, hopeful, and unshakeable.

But alone in her quarters at night, she can just be Kathryn.

This has become her nightly ritual, on this long journey to rescue Chakotay. She sheds her armor and then Kathryn curls up on the couch with a glass of wine, wrapped in the tribal blanket he gave to her years ago, back on the first USS Voyager.

She imagines it still smells like him. It probably doesn’t.

She looks out at the stars as she sips her wine and she talks to him. She doesn’t say anything of consequence. She tells him about her day. She tells him about the antics that the Hellions (which is how she refers to the former crew of the USS Protostar and their shadow, Miral Paris) have gotten up to. She tells him about the class 4 nebula that they flew past and that maybe they’ll stop to study it further on the way back, but there’s just no time now for such frivolities. Besides, she thinks he would enjoy studying the nebula too.

Truthfully, she is fairly certain that the only reason he cares at all about studying nebulas is because he likes to watch her watching it.

When she has run out of new stories to tell, she begins recounting old ones.

She ends, as she always does, with the story of the Angry Warrior who found peace. Only then does she allow a tear to slide down her cheek.

She stands, still clutching the empty wine glass and wrapped in the blanket, and she presses her palm to the glass. He’s out there somewhere, waiting for her. The stars twinkle encouragingly as she silently pleads for them to guide her to him.

Then, just like every night, she folds the blanket carefully over the back of the couch. She recycles her wine glass and she picks up the pieces of her uniform from the floor and puts them in the refresher for tomorrow.

Tonight, she puts on a long, quilted nightgown. She wears it because it is chilly in her quarters.

But also because, for some unfathomable reason, it is his favorite.

She slides between the cool, desolate sheets and orders the lights off. Before she darkens the viewport, she turns onto her side to look out once more at the vast field of twinkling lights and she completes the ritual.

“Good night, Chakotay. I’ll see you soon,” she whispers to the stars.