#samantha wildman

[itberice]

Star Trek: Voyager I Elogium

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S2E21 Deadlock As strange as it sounds, Captain, according to these readings, another Voyager is right here, right now, occupying the same point in space-time we are.

[tea-earl-grey]

thinking about how since Samantha Wildman's husband was stationed on ds9 it would have made sense that she was stationed there too until getting an assignment on Voyager so let's just imagine for a second...

you're a xenobiologist and you and your husband are assigned to a turbulent space station recently freed from an oppressive colonial government. you think "well this post might have some problems but it'll be alright" and then you find out that your immediate boss is a 300 year old worm, your Commander is maybe a god, the station's 'community leader' won't stop trying to scam you, there's a magic portal to the other side of the galaxy, there have been multiple terrorist attacks and political insurrections, there are giant voles in the Jeffries Tubes, and one time all the senior staff got trapped in a fucking board game. so after two years you've just about had it and put in for a transfer to a nice plush starship to get some Real Science done and who knows? maybe your husband can join you soon. maybe you can start building that family you've always talked about. and then you end up on fucking Voyager for 7 years where the crew has all stopped boldly going and instead started punch cards to see how many neuroses you can develop in 75,000 light years.

[rhinexstone]

I love Naomi Wildman I can only imagine how kickass she’ll be as an adult, fuck even among other kids

She was raised to be cautious of adults if they began acting oddly, and knows adults— even captains— are fallible and able to be under the influence of greater powers.

Those who raised her have done a fairly incredible job balancing giving her duties and autonomy while letting her be a kid and have fun.

Not only that but she’s had the most diverse world views and experiences out of any kid in the alpha quadrant and knows that it makes her own world view all the more kinder.

She knows that sometimes command structure fails, sometimes it’s all that keeps a community alive. She knows just how different other beings can be, yet also knows that there’s a common “humanity” and respect to give them and their identity. She can survive on her own yet fiercely values the ever-malleable definition of what family can be!!!

[littleartistwithloveandheart]

This is a little video I made about our girls aboard the ship.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️I love them so much❤️❤️❤️

This is what makes us girls😭❤️ had to show some of their sader sides to underline how strong they are💪🏻❤️💅🏻😘

But there are also lovely moments in it!!

[avoicefromthestars]

this woman's small child six months later: mother i'm obsessed with her. i just gotta follow her around everywhere from now on. sam wildman: uh. okay. we will... have her over for dinner. i guess.

[trillscienceofficer]

actually i'd love to hear your elaborated thoughts on sam wildman and seven, sounds very compelling frankly

(In reference to this answer)

I think Sam Wildman/Seven is one of those ships that came up more often years ago, but it always interested me, partly as a way to correct one of Voyager's oversights—why do Seven and Sam only interact on screen once (in “Mortal Coil” I think) but then never again, especially after Seven and Naomi start hanging out? You'd think that Sam would have a long talk with Seven on how she expect Seven to interact with Naomi and lay down a few firm rules. And the show hints at the fact that that has actually happened at some point! Here's a line from “Survival Instinct”:

I don't think Seven would say this if Sam hadn't warned her against teaching Naomi “Borg stuff” (and Seven, at least by early season 6, agrees with Sam too—her next lines are “I don't approve either. We've discussed the impropriety of you emulating the Borg.”) So I've personally always been interested in thinking about how those interactions between them could have gone.

It's particularly notable to me that Sam lets Seven be around Naomi so much, despite their one interaction being a complete disaster and Sam obviously being aware that Seven is dangerous. At the very least Seven is unused to being around people, least of all young children. Hell the first time Seven and Naomi truly hang out is when Seven was not herself for Borg crap reasons in “Infinite Regress”! So Sam's motivations for letting this go on anyway really interest me. I suppose on one hand it was difficult to curb Naomi's enthusiasm (especially right after Sam almost died far away from her in “Once Upon A Time”) but on the other it's not that hard to jump to the conclusion that Sam herself kinda likes Seven despite the fact that (or maybe because) she's so odd. We don't know much about Samantha Wildman but I figure she's a lot tougher and a lot more unflappable than the show overtly says, given everything that's happened to her since boarding Voyager.

And I think Seven respects Sam in return. I don't have much to go on to (again, Voyager gives us very little here), but she does seem to follow some rules, rules she agreed to and sees the wisdom of, with Naomi. I always wondered if Sam telling her straight up what her expectation and boundaries are re: Seven interacting with Naomi wasn't actually... refreshingly direct, compared to all the other relationships Seven has on the ship which are confusing at best, and often without clear boundaries (just think of the Doctor and the Captain). I think Seven could really appreciate having ground rules she can follow when interacting with others, especially someone as unpredictable as a young girl. Ultimately I think Seven might like Sam because she gets along so well with Naomi, but maybe there's true regard for Sam as well.

So I think there is something implied here and then you have this single parent situation plus the difficult, traumatized adult that the little kid has decided she will befriend no matter what... The trope writes itself. Seven realizing that it's so much easier to be around Sam and talking about niche work subjects (Sam is a xenobiologist)... The angst about Greskrendtregk being far away and Naomi never having even met him and thinking of Seven as the other adult she looks up to... Idk I think there's a lot here to work with!!

[bumblingbabooshka]

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[catgirljaneway]

Voy + Textposts 8 (Reductress Headlines Version 2)

(Voy + Textposts 7) - (Voy + Textposts 9)

[traxanaxanos]

I know the main thing we're supposed to be sad about in Homestead in Neelix leaving, but the writers forgetting Samantha exists in this episode is pretty egregious both because it really lessens the impact of Neelix choosing between two families to have the woman who cared for him enough and trusted him enough to make him her child’s godfather totally absent but also…Naomi, how's it going? Why are you sitting miserably in the dark alone doing your homework? Where is your mom?

Naomi, you're 4. Where is your mom?!

Could Samantha not just have been sitting in this chair and reading when Neelix comes in? She gives Neelix a little nod and continues to work on her report, completley missing the subtext of what's happening, as she is known to do (Mortal Coil). Or perhaps catching the implications that Neelix is planning on leaving and immediately rushing to Tuvok for help, which Tuvok later mentions in a little throwaway line, we don't even have to see her do it. The scene wouldn't have needed to change too much for Sam to be present, just pay Nancy Hower to sit

[lesbiangracehanson]

she’s been making a blanket for her..... 🥺

[janeway-lover]

I love Naomi Wildman. I mean, come on, she’s amazing. Here’s a kid who grew up completely aboard a starship for the first 5 years of her life, and then is thrust into life on Earth.

(I’m going off of each season being about a year; Naomi was born end-ish of season 2. Also just a note, this kid grew up remarkably fast. Like, by season 4, she looks elementary school-aged. Like, this girl is 3 at that point. I think.)

But imagine, you’re going to school, and the teacher introduces the new kid, who’s much younger than the rest of the class but doesn’t really look it, but she’s half Ktarian, so it makes sense, you suppose. Her spikes are pretty cool, and she smiles when you tell her that. 

Then the teacher asks her to stand up in front of the class and tell them a little about herself. And you find out that she’s from Voyager, that ship that got lost and had a big party when it returned. Your cousin is in Starfleet, and you remember how happy they were about the ship coming home. That’s pretty cool, you think to yourself. 

She’s smart as a whip, you find out after she asks to join your group for a project. When you ask her who her teacher was out in space, she just smiles. “Everyone, really,” she explains. The rest of the work time is filled with stories of holograms and Borg, and somehow the project still gets done.

And then comes the day when the school goes on lockdown. No one had expected it, nothing like this had happened in decades anywhere, and no one knows what to do. There are protocols and rules, which the teachers are doing their best to follow, but it’s clear they’ve never truly been trained for this to be a reality; it’s a distant concern, a worst-case scenario. For everyone except for Naomi Wildman.

You watch in awe as she takes charge of the situation, helping the teachers get everyone to safety, keeping an eye and an ear open for every possibility. You’d never thought a tennis racket would be any good off of a court, but she holds it like a weapon, one she is prepared to use.

(You ask about the racket, later when all the fuss has died down. She explains that Captain Janeway (Captain Janeway!) had taught her how to play.)

You also ask her, once everything is all over and the intruder has been caught and everyone is safe, how she knew what to do. And she just smiles. “That’s just how it was growing up, I guess. Something could always go wrong, so I had to learn how to stay safe. And I learned from the best.” She says all this with that smile on her face, and it makes her look like she’s nostalgic for something. And you decide, right then and there, that Naomi Wildman is a badass. 

[hauntedmoonchaos]

Random Star Trek Voyager headcanons?

Janeway created a program that could detect if Voyager were overrun with Borg and the ship would destroy itself if they were. Because after freeing Seven from the collective the thought of her crew being assimilated is unbearable and death would be better than that. Only she and the Doctor know about it's existence.

Every 3 months the crew receive a little gift from a anonymous member of the crew. It's Harry. He thinks it will brighten up people day, give them something to look forward too.

Tom spent a month creating a fun hologram program for toddler Naomi Wildman for her birthday party...she preferred playing in a box

Whenever it's dull on the ship Chakotay ensures Janeway can't get any coffee just to see the chaos unfold.

Tuvok misses his children greatly which is why Kes and then Seven become like his surrogate daughters. He actually teaches Seven stuff he taught his daughter and stuff he'd like to teach her.

B'Elanna has a favourite jefferies tube. She hides her snacks there from Tom.

Neelix on purpose often messes up food dishes to give the crew something to bond. Especially when things are very tense between members of the crew.

Seven can't actually remember what her favourite colour was a child. She said red because she thought it would please Janeway at the time. She eventually learns her favourite colour is blue but never tells anyone.

Naomi learnt a bunch of swear words, in different languages from the computer when she accidentally used one in front of her Mother she blamed Tom for teaching her

[spockvarietyhour]

Did we ever talk about Samantha Wlidman's trauma of losing her newborn baby in Deadlock and a few hours later heeere's baby, yep it's yours. All good now, see you next week!

[homewrecking-lore]

"Mortal Coil" doesn't end with Neelix having a spiritual experience that reaffirms his faith, or dismissing faith entirely, or Neelix saving the day which proves his worth. "Mortal Coil" ended with Neelix's friend looking for him because she trusts him with settling her child. It ends with Neelix choosing to live because he wants to tuck Naomi in and tell her bedtime stories, because she looks for him and loves him. It ends with Chakotay saying faith is a journey and it doesn't need to have an answer and he's there to talk to Neelix when he needs it. This fucking episode wrecks me every goddamn time. Neelix didn't need a miracle or a big victorious adventure, it was friends and love that got him through one more day 😭

[phantomstatistician]

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