#voyager rebi

[los-ninos-tortugas]

It’s been a hot minute since I watched a lot of the episodes they were in but truth be told Voyager really went and established four whole child characters to add to the cast and then barely did anything with three of them when it came to the borg children. However I am not restricted by a tv budget and can be as chaotic as I like and I know for a fact that Donnie, Naomi, and the Borg kids would get up to some major hijinks.

Voyager is in orbit of a friendly planet for some trade and refueling, and the kids are allowed down planet side, and Sam and Seven (and idk Tuvok maybe) think to themselves, “alright Donatello and Icheb, you’re both old enough and presumably responsible enough where you can both be in charge of the little ones on your own for the afternoon. Feel free to wander around but meet back at a specific place by 1500 okay?” And at the end of the day the group shows up at the rendezvous point 15 minutes late, covered in mud, two of them are wearing different clothes than they were that morning and Icheb is missing his shoes. No they will not elaborate on what happened.

There’s definitely probably a few instances of the kids attempting to sneak various live animals/creatures from different planets back onto the ship but they’re all really bad at lying about it so they always get caught (though Donatello will attest that he had nothing to do with Mezoti’s plan to bring an entire storage container with a hive of alien bees back onto the ship, she was a rogue agent on that one)

Then of course as kids will do they do also mess around with each other quite a bit. I just imagine Mezoti coming up to Donnie like, “here I got something for you!” And when he puts out his hand she drops a spider in his palm and runs (later she finds that somehow all her stuff has been turned purple. Even her regeneration chamber and she has no idea how the heck he did that it’s literally JUST hers)

Donnie calls out to one of the twins, “Hey Azan!” “I’m Rebi.” “Apologies” *later* “Hey Rebi!” “I’m Azan.” *Donnie squints* “… No you aren’t” and it goes on like that throughout the day until the twins get tired of the bit

Then there’s the fact that all of these kids have grown up in relative isolation for most of their lives (or in the case of the borg kids, they don’t remember enough of their childhood so they’re basically starting with a clean slate) and their only other reference point for how kids socialize and interact with each other is this small group of kids who all also have no idea what that looks like so they collectively develop a very weird/unique sense of humor and way of addressing each other that just….. sounds like a foreign language to all the adults on the ship. It does not help that Donnie keeps teaching them gen Z slang. Tom Paris is the only one on the crew who kinda (just barely) understands what the hell it is these kids are saying and the rest of the crew is just left scratching their heads.

I just think they could have a lot of fun being very silly together :)

[sobcomix]

From my starship to yours, Happy Threshold Day to all that celebrate (and even to those that don't).

[avoicefromthestars]

It was a Talaxian freighter. Horrible tragedy. Happened nearly a century ago. After suffering a cascade failure, it began to lose life support generators, one by one. Pretty soon, there wasn't enough air left to sustain the entire crew so they began to draw lots. Can you imagine? Draw the short straw and you suffocate? Anyway, the air continued to diminish, and they kept drawing lots. The crew got smaller and smaller as they waited for someone to rescue them, but no one ever came. The Salvoxia drifted through space for the next eighty years, until somebody finally found her. Makes me short of breath just thinking about it.

[best-star-trek-character]

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Borgletts--publicity photos and behind the scenes

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#otd #startrek #voyager #Collective #janeway #chakotay #tuvok #kim #paris #belannatorres #7of9 #emh #neelix #borg #icheb #mezoti #azan #rebi #startrek57 @TrekMovie @TrekCore @StarTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus @TheKateMulgrew

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It's kind of sad that Mezoti was left with Rebi and Azan's people instead of being returned to Norcadia Prime

Voyager had just passed through Norcadian territory in Tsunkatse – Neelix just talked to the ambassador! They apparently dropped the Borg baby off somewhere nearby, and Mezoti could've still had family looking for her

[counselor-durango]

Species 8472 (3161 words) by voltairescat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Seven of Nine, Kathryn Janeway, Tom Paris, Icheb (Star Trek), Mezoti (Star Trek), The Doctor (Star Trek), Chakotay (Star Trek), B'Elanna Torres, Tuvok (Star Trek), Azan (Star Trek), Rebi (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Episode: s02e15 Threshold (Star Trek: Voyager), Episode: s06e16 Collective (Star Trek: Voyager), Crack-ish, this has to have been done before right, the lizard babies got assimilated, happy threshold day, Threshold Day 2024 Summary:

On her mission to the Borg Cube in “Collective,” Seven encounters three non-humanoid juvenile drones. Species 8472, a small reptilian species discovered by their proximity to a transwarp signature and assimilated for their unique genetic structure. Their presence is hardly noteworthy. Tom Paris reacts differently. As does the Captain.

And she follows the girl away. The lizard-drone follows after a moment, waddling slowly and often looking back. With her Borg-enhanced hearing, Seven catches snippets of her crewmates’ conversation. “Those are definitely your kids.”

Happy Threshold Day!

[phantom-le6]

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

Episode 1: Unimatrix Zero (Part II)

Plot (as given by me):

Following the events of part 1, Captain Janeway, B’Elanna Torres and Tuvok have been assimilated by the Borg.  This is actually part of the plan they’ve devised to release the nanovirus that will enable the occupants of Unimatrix Zero to retain their individuality in the waking world.  A neural suppressant has been given to all three to keep them out of the hive mind, but Tuvok’s begins to wear off.  Ultimately he succumbs and reveals their location to the Borg Queen, but Janeway and B’Elanna manage to release the nanovirus before this.  Meanwhile, Seven returns to Unimatrix Zero to monitor the situation despite her relationship with Axum being strained, while Tom Paris expresses his concerns about continuing to allow the mission to proceed to Chakotay.

The Borg Queen communicates with Janeway, ordering her to enter Unimatrix Zero and ask the drones there to surrender.  Janeway refuses, so the Queen begins destroying the borg vessels containing liberated drones.  The captain still won’t comply, pointing out that the queen would have to destroy the whole collective.  As such, the queen enters the unimatrix herself and comes up with a new plan; release a nanovirus inside Unimatrix Zero to kill the drones that go there.  Janeway sends a message to Voyager indicating that “Unimatrix Zero can no longer exist”, but Chakotay releases there is a hidden meaning in the instruction.

Rather than ask the Unimatrix Zero inhabitants to surrender, Voyager and a Borg vessel in the hands of liberated drones attack the vessel where Janeway, B’Elanna and Tuvok are held.  They send a signal that disrupts the interlink frequency for Unimatrix Zero.  With nowhere to release the modified nanovirus, the Borg Queen cannot kill the liberated drones.  Seven returns to the Unimatrix briefly to bid farewell to Axum, with whom she’d reconciled earlier in the episode.  The pair are unlikely to meet in reality as Axum’s ship is in fluidic space in a remote area of the Beta quadrant.  The away team are retrieved, and the Doctor is able to extract most of their Borg implants.

Review:

As is always the case when dealing with season-bridging two-part storylines, the start of the new season requires a resolution to the previous season’s cliffhanger.  Frankly, given that part 1 of this two-part story wasn’t firing on all cylinders in the way Trek storytelling should, that means you’re not getting the best start possible.  The same absence of plot exploration and over-abundance of action eating into character development airtime is just as much of an issue here as in part 1.  We get maybe slightly more time spent on the Annika-Axum relationship, but not by much, and it ends somewhat too predictably for Trek.  Having Axum appear in real life might have been a nice development against Trek’s episodic tendencies of this time period, but then Borg-on-Borg romance seems a bit too formulaic and cliché as well.  Really, this episode is more like set-up for better stories later on in this area.

The episode also fails to address key plot elements.  There’s no prior mention or subsequent exposition on the neural suppressant, and no one goes into why Tuvok’s wears off where Janeway’s and (presumably) B’Elanna’s does not.  My guess would be Tuvok would be more susceptible because of the telepathic nature of Vulcans reacting poorly with anything designed to block anything telepathic.  However, the episode never says anything about this, so we have a lack of exposition on a key plot point compounding the other issues.  I give this episode 6 out of 10 and look forward to better as we move on.

Episode 2: Imperfection

Plot (as given by me):

Voyager bids farewell to the Borg twins Rebi and Azan, having made contact with their original species, as well as the Borg girl Mezoti who Rebi and Azan’s people have chosen to adopt.  This leaves only Icheb on board out of the children Voyager liberated from the collective.  During a discussion on the departure of the other children, Icheb notes Seven is crying, which Seven attributes to a possible malfunction of her Borg implants.  The Doctor initially suggests it was a natural emotional response, but then finds Seven was right about a malfunction.  It also turns out Seven has been experiencing other symptoms but hasn’t voiced them, though she agrees to be more forthcoming in future.

As Icheb expresses an interest in applying to Star Fleet Academy and taking preliminary classes remotely, Seven’s condition worsens.  However, she doesn’t report these, and it isn’t until she collapses in the Mess Hall in front of Neelix that she goes to sick bay.  It turns out Seven’s cortical node is failing, and without it Seven will die.  Seven claims the technology is too complex to replicate or repair, meaning a transplant of a node from another drone is the only remaining option.  Taking the newly rebuilt Delta Flyer to a Borg debris field with Tuvok and Tom Paris, Janeway obtains a node from a dead drone, though a clash with an alien salvage crew almost prevents this.  Meanwhile, Icheb learns of Seven’s condition and begins his own research into a solution, while Neelix tries to help keep her spirits up.

Simulations on the holodeck reveal that the node from a dead drone won’t work, and while Janeway is willing to abduct a live drone to save Seven, the Doctor talks her down.  After Seven absconds from sick bay and has heart-to-heart conversations with B’Elanna and Janeway, Icheb hits upon a solution.  Due to his age and not being fully assimilated by the Borg, Icheb can survive without his own node if the Doctor compensates with genetic resequencing.  Reviewing Icheb’s research, the Doctor concludes the procedure has a high chance of success, but there are significant risks.  Unwilling to compromise Icheb’s health for her own, Seven refuses the idea, and the Doctor and Janeway are forced to honour her wishes.

However, Icheb refuses to be stopped; he summons the Doctor and the captain to the cargo bay, then rigs his Borg alcove to disconnect his cortical node.  When Seven still refuses, claiming Icheb is over-dependent on her and must look to others, Icheb retorts that Seven has constantly refused to depend on anyone, even though depending on each other is the core ethos of a Star Fleet crew.  Ultimately, Seven is brow-beaten into agreeing to the transplant.  Both patients ultimately recover, and when Seven cries again over Icheb’s recovery, it’s an emotional response rather than an implant malfunction.

Review:

This episode is one of the best of this series overall, maybe even the best.  The sick bay scene near the end where Icheb pleads with Seven to let the crew help her has always stuck with me as one of the best acting moments I’ve seen in the franchise.  However, the key reasons are that not only is the episode well-acted, but it delivers character and issue exploration in equal measure without really putting a foot wrong.  Well, except for a few details indicating this should be episode 4 rather than 2, but honestly, this episode is so good in other ways that I’m not even sweating the continuity errors in that point.

In terms of character development, that comes mainly from Seven and Icheb, as Seven’s apparent illness and how they each deal with it allows us to see aspects of who they are.  Both are selfless, but each of them shows that selflessness differently; Seven tries to avoid being a burden to the crew, albeit in part because she is also proud and maybe is perhaps over-trying to be self-sufficient, whereas Icheb takes a more traditionally self-sacrificing approach out of concern for his surrogate mother.  These aspects of the episode also give us insight, if not exploration, of the issues surrounding major illness, organ donation and how families react to the idea of a family member potentially facing the end of their life from a degenerative ailment.

Now the episode also gives us some issue exploration in terms of the autistic mind-set, something I’ve previously mentioned Seven of Nine embodying at times.  In addition to her social skill issues, Seven’s Borg-inspired quest for perfection is another trait she shares with autistic people.  Why autistic people seek perfection is not always easy to understand; I’m autistic myself and I’m not entirely sure I understand it.  A lot of it relates to trying to function in a world that has never been designed with us in mind, for which we need a lot of predictability.  I think that for an autistic person, the more perfect something is, the less likely it is to do something unpredictable like break down.  This can sometimes lead to us not speaking up when things are wrong, much like Seven in the early parts of this episode.  If we speak up, our routine is disrupted and our predictability goes out the window.

There’s also the matter of self-reliance.  For me, this is something I really want to achieve because if I ever manage to live independently, I don’t to be in a position where something happening to someone else suddenly undermines my ability to keep a roof over my head.  As such, I can understand Seven not wanting to rely on others, in-so-far-as people are fallible, so the more you depend on them, the more potential there is for something to go wrong.  However, Seven takes this to excess and, instead of encouraging self-reliance in Icheb, she suggests he simply depend on someone different.  This is why Icheb’s argument ultimately wins through; it’s Seven’s own advice that she’s refusing to live by.

Moreover, the others Seven should depend on include the Doctor, who actually has a skill set she needs and that no level of self-reliance can replace.  In essence, the true solution is to find balance, to be self-reliant where you can and ask for help when you know you need help.  The episode even has a moment of situational morality when we look at Janeway being prepared to sacrifice a random drone to save Seven and the Doctor talks her down, which is always interesting.  That’s not just down to the fact that questions of when is it right to put one life above another are inherently fascinating; the Doctor himself has faced ethical conundrums before and will again later in this season, so it’s interesting to see this come up knowing what’s on the horizon.

Anyway, to summarise, I give this episode the first top score in ages; 10 out of 10.

Episode 3: Drive

Plot (as given by me):

During a test flight of the newly rebuilt Delta Flyer, Tom Paris and Harry Kim end up competing in an impromptu race with another ship, which sustains damage.  Escorting the other ship back to Voyager to help repair it, Tom and Harry are informed by the ship’s pilot, Irina, that she’s due to compete with the ship in a major race; the Antarian Trans-Stellar Rally.  Apparently, the region of space Voyager is passing through has been in a state of war for many years, and the rally has been formed in celebration of the recent peace that has come to the region.  Given the race’s symbolic importance and the opportunity for some R&R for the crew, Janeway agrees to their participation.

Unfortunately, in his excitement, Tom has forgotten about a romantic weekend he was supposed to have with B’Elanna, which she has been planning for and making trades all over the ship to enable.  While she acts understanding, B’Elanna is disappointed, and when she confides in Neelix, it appears she is ready to end the relationship as Tom is not showing any serious interest in the relationship from her perspective.  As the ship engages more and more in the race proceedings, a suggestion of Seven’s gives B’Elanna renewed hope.  Seven finds that engaging in Tom’s interests helps them work better together as shipmates, so B’Elanna takes Harry’s place aboard the Delta Flyer to be closer to Tom.

However, the race isn’t all smooth sailing; beyond the general competition, Irina’s ship suffers sabotage from groups opposed to the race, while Tom and B’Elanna struggle to work together at times.  When the act of sabotage takes out Irina’s team-mate, Harry volunteers to replace him.  This results in the discovery that Irina is the saboteur, as she is part of a race or group who aren’t comfortable co-existing with other races.  Part-way through the final leg, Tom ends up stopping the Delta Flyer to finally confront the issues he and B’Elanna are having.  It turns out Tom has a serious interest in their relationship, but didn’t want to progress as he thought B’Elanna was averse to more serious romantic interaction.

The discussion leads to the suggestion of a proposal, which is interrupted when Harry alerts Tom and B’Elanna that Irina also rigged the fuel converter she leant them so the Flyer would conform to the race guidelines.  Tom and B’Elanna fly away from the race course and manage to eject the warp core before it breaches, saving everyone, and Tom pops the question during and after the incident.  A short time later, Tom and B’Elanna celebrate their newly-wed status aboard the Delta Flyer, which is decorated accordingly with a “just married” sign on the aft hull and cargo containers dragging behind.

Review:

With this episode, we’re getting into character exploration territory with Tom and B’Elanna, but also some issue exploration in terms of relationships and communicating with your partner.  While the episode does well show-casing a dramatic example of how couples can interact, it’s very much also a case study in how they shouldn’t interact.  Now I’m not just saying this because my autism inclines me to see all neurotypical social interaction as pointlessly over-complicated and in serious need of simplifying.  Through various discussions in social media groups, I’ve learned about more modern approaches to relationships and communication that work better across the board.

In this instance, we have a couple who clearly love each other as many, many prior episodes have demonstrated.  However, they are also a highly combative couple at times, in large part because they seem to struggle to communicate well with each other.  Case-in-point, Tom gets swept up in the excitement of a chance to fly in a big space race and forgets a major relationship event coming up with B’Elanna.  Communication red flag number 1 is that Tom already knows this is coming up, but as is subsequently revealed, a lot of effort has been put in by B’Elanna to secure the holodeck for the whole weekend that Tom isn’t aware of.  If B’Elanna had perhaps included Tom more in her plans for the two of them, he might have been more likely to remember it, and maybe could have avoided a clash of plans.

Communication red flag number 2 is the reason why B’Elanna wasn’t so open about her effort; Tom’s lack of any expression that he wants to get more serious in their relationship.  It might make dramatic sense to tease this out until the fifth act and then propose on the fly, but from a relationship point-of-view, this is a big mistake.  Yes, fair enough, B’Elanna does have a tough exterior at times and I can understand Tom wanting to avoid accidentally triggering an argument, but sometimes relationships require you to run risks to function.  Moreover, women often expect men to be the leaders in relationships, so stepping up and taking the lead by initiating a conversation can work wonders.  It’s what ultimately works in this episode, but it shouldn’t be ultimately in real life.  As soon as you feel a conversation is needed, figure out what you want to say and have one, though be sure you’re both nice and calm to start off with if you can.

Now Seven’s idea of sharing your partner’s interest certainly has merit, and I dare say it was also key to the happily ever after, but here’s communication red flag 3.  Tom and B’Elanna have been romantically involved for three seasons of the show by now, and there was a previous episode that ended with Tom sharing a holodeck program he’d previously kept to himself, namely restoring a vintage muscle car.  We’ve also seen B’Elanna replicate a TV set for Tom, so there’s evidence of chances offered and taken for her to share Tom’s interests.  This episode’s plot suggests, however, that this is a new idea, so why is this?  Does B’Elanna only share Tom’s interests momentarily without realising it, does Tom never reciprocate?  In fact, the idea that B’Elanna has to be the one to bridge the divide when Tom has fouled up is a further communication red flag, bringing us to 4.  I think Tom should have committed to doing a few things B’Elanna wanted to make up for his behaviour.

Lastly, there’s the “hints” B’Elanna drops aboard the Delta Flyer, which for me is communication red flag number 5.  This is a major peeve of mine in relationships; one person, most likely but not always the woman, has an issue but won’t tell you directly, or they want to “test” you.  As such, they will use certain words or actions to suggest something may be wrong, but will never be overt or explicit on the matter.  Instead, you’re expected to deduce something is wrong, what that something is and take appropriate actions.  Now that’s difficult for anyone, but luckily for this episode, Tom is written just smart enough to deal with it.  There will be some good partners who lack the ability to parse such riddles, especially autistics and other people of a neurodiverse nature.

This is why this part of the episode, and of relationships in general, really annoys me, because if you had me or any other neurodiverse person in Tom Paris’ shoes, we would fail.  Not because we couldn’t make amends, but because we weren’t ever told we had to.  Autistics like me, and most likely people of other neurodiverse mind-sets, struggle with implicit communication.  Ask someone like me to “read between the lines”, we’ll probably take you literally and tell you there’s nothing there, or we’ll get a piece of lined paper with something written on it and read the writing because it’s between one line and another.  Don’t do hint, don’t be cryptic, tell us what’s up straight out.  Say what you mean and mean what you say; that’s the only way we understand things with absolute certainty, and if autistic people are ever to be treated as equals, this is how all communication should be, especially in romantic relationships.

Overall, I find this episode to be somewhat disappointing, because it puts dramatic contrivance ahead of consistent progression of the Tom-B’Elanna relationship to get a story.  However, I like the race aspect, as that’s not something we see much of in Trek.  Nonetheless, I’m only dolling out 5 out of 10 here.

Episode 4: Repression

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

At the opening of the episode, a Bajoran is shown recording a message for Voyager’s Maquis crew members.

Aboard Voyager, former Maquis member Ensign Tabor is found comatose. The Doctor finds evidence Tabor was attacked; Captain Janeway assigns Tuvok to investigate.

Soon there are five comatose crewmen in Sickbay, with the same injuries, all former Maquis. Tuvok notes that the assailant must have access to security protocols to avoid detection. Tuvok, Tom Paris and Kim capture a negative image of Tabor's assailant.

While investigating, Chakotay is suddenly attacked and rendered unconscious by Tuvok. Tuvok has no memory of this and continues his investigation. All the victims recover but have no memory of being attacked. Tuvok meditates and has flashbacks of attacking the former Maquis members, and has a vision of the Bajoran. Tuvok realizes the negative image matches his own description and asks to be confined to the brig.

Janeway discovers a message to Tuvok from the Bajoran, a former Maquis named Teero Anaydis who experimented with mind control; his message triggered Tuvok to 'attack' other Maquis members with mind-melds. Tuvok sends a message to his 'victims,' who then take control of Voyager. However, Tuvok manages to regain control of his mind, and Tuvok performs more mind-melds to restore his victims and retake the ship. The recovered crew attend a movie on the holodeck.

Review:

This episode is the very definition of filler.  No issue exploration, no character development, bad misapplication of whodunnit and mind control story-telling as well as the ship’s long-resolved Star Fleet-Maquis divide.  Honestly, just once, I’d like to see fiction use concepts like hypnosis and brainwashing from a positive, consenting perspective instead of constantly lumping it all together under villain fodder.  The constant alien “trigger phrase” doesn’t help matters either.  Going way down to a 2 out of 10 on this one.

[brightlotusmoon]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[worldcatlas]

DS9: Emissary (Part 1)

After an oddly Star Wars-esque text crawl, we meet Benjamin Sisko in a flashback to his time on the USS Saratoga, during the battle of Wolf 359. The ship is captained by a Vulcan named Storil, played by J.G. Hertzler, who would later come back to play the Klingon General Martok. Both are wearing TNG-style uniforms, and both are having a very bad day.

One of these characters is about to gain a tragic backstory, and it’s probably not the one we’ll never see again.

Oof. Thankfully, the plot fast forwards three years, and we see Sisko’s son Jake holo-fishing in some cute space overalls. The shirt appears to have an interesting texture, and the slightly darker fabric on the shoulders is a nice touch, with the double piping at the seams giving it just a hint of “space suit”.

You can eat whatever you catch, but it might leave you feeling a little… hollow.

Interestingly, this outfit would later find its way to the Delta quadrant, as we often see it worn by Rebi, one of the Borg twins in season 6 of Voyager.

Look, we all just want to be Super Mario in our hearts.

Next, it’s time to meet an old friend in a new uniform: it’s the universe’s favourite punching bag, Miles O’Brien! In contrast to the old uniforms, which displayed rank pips on a stiff collar, the new ones have a soft grey turtleneck under the jacket. As well, where the old uniforms had black shoulders and a coloured body and sleeves, the new ones are only coloured on top.

It saves on coloured ink in the replicator.

A tour of the dilapidated station wouldn’t be complete, of course, without a spooky Bajoran monk making ominous invitations, and Sisko is in luck! I love this look; the cowl and long sleeves convey religious modesty, while the asymmetry, exotic fabrics, and metallic accents give it a distinctly alien flair. Given the importance of Bajor to the plot of Deep Space Nine, it’s not surprising they’ve given this much care and attention to the Bajorans’ costume designs, but it’s still nice to see this level of detail on a one-off character.

He may be a harbinger of your cursed destiny, but he’s got his aesthetic locked down.

Speaking of Bajorans, we soon meet a very angry Major Kira in the uniform of the Bajoran militia. We’ll see different earth-toned variations around the station, but Kira’s is a rusty orange colour, made with heavy corduroy and quilted fabric on the sleeves. It’s a nice contrast to the primary colours Starfleet brings to the table, while still using rank pips and a communicator on the chest.

What, do you want me to do a twirl?

Elsewhere on the station, some last-minute looters are causing trouble, and we get a quick look at Ferengi fashion. Nog wears a typical Ferengi headpiece with shimmering sequins, and Quark adorns himself in heavy, patterned fabrics.

Rule of Acquisition #47: Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own.

Even better is Nog’s partner in (literal) crime, an unnamed alien in an impressively monochrome outfit. The alien wears baggy pants and a cowl similar to the Bajorans’, but also carries a spiked flail on his belt. He also wears a leather-looking vest with a strange bar across the front, and heavy bracers and boots, all in varying shades of brown.

It probably works great as camouflage… outside of a space station.

The two are busted, however, when security chief Odo shows up to out-brown them all.

Don’t make me go all the way to beige.

On board the docked Enterprise, Sisko has a very tense meeting with Picard, who asks him if they’ve met – before realizing they have, kinda, when Jean-Luc sort of uh… murdered Ben’s wife in his Borg phase. Oops.

Haha awkwarddd

The final straw was Sisko’s realization that they’d worn the same outfit, so he returns to the station to change into something else.

New year, new you(niform).

He gets a fit check from his new pal Odo, who wears a slightly different uniform in this scene than the one we saw on the promenade. This version is yellower, which doesn’t do any favours for his complexion, especially since the makeup also seems to be, uh, droopier.

You good, Odo? Need some bucket time?

Of course, a good captain always gets the opinion of his second in command, so he goes to see Kira as well, who is hard at work cleaning up the mess left behind by the Cardassians. It’s sweaty work, so she has removed her uniform jacket, revealing a very lovely sleeveless blouse underneath.

Redefining high-waisted pants for the 24th century.

In a helpful bit of exposition, she explains to Sisko how the Bajoran religion is the only thing holding her people together, and we get a glimpse of her earring – an important symbol of her faith.

However, their heartfelt conversation is cut short when the ominous monk from earlier returns to tell Sisko, simply, “It’s time.” He’s too Starfleet-polite to say no, or “who the heck even are you,” so we find ourselves whisked away to a temple.

Welcome! Get comfortable. It won’t last long.

The monks here, too, do amazing things with robes, using the same layering as before in various colours and textures. We meet Kai Opaka, an important religious leader, who insists on showing Ben a magic box. Suddenly, we’re transported to a beach, and our stoic commander is wearing some extremely purple beachwear.

I need to stop saying “yes” to everyone.Once the shock wears off, Sisko realizes his dead wife Jennifer is here too, in a killer teal and gold bikini! This would be great, except she doesn’t know who he is, so he just kind of weirds her out a little.

Excuse me, you’re blocking the radiation.

Sisko is nothing if not determined, however, and as he pursues Jennifer down the beach, we get to see some interesting swimwear in the background, too. I dig the pattern on the left suit, and the guy on the right is a great example of the old Trek standby of “colour blocking = futuristic”.

My man looking like an early aughts DVD menu.

Just as Ben’s about to win Jennifer over with aubergine stew, we’re thrown back to the present. Fortunately, it’s a present where we have Dabo girls in metallic latex dresses.

We’re all winners at the Dabo table.

Not fashion related, but I’m 99% sure this alien is playing his instrument with two cucumbers.

…?!

Anyway.

Gul Dukat comes aboard the station to spread smugness, wearing armour consistent with the Cardassians’ last appearance on TNG, though considerably updated from their first appearance (pictured: TNG season 4 “The Wounded”).

Is it just me, or do all Cardassians look alike?

Don’t expect to get any great fashion inspo from these guys, though, as they never leave the house without their pointy black security blankets.

Seriously, these guys have one look.

Lastly, we get a good – if all too brief – look at the outfit worn by Morn, the chatty barfly often seen in Quark’s. He’s wearing what appear to be studded leather gauntlets, to match the sleeves/pauldrons(?) on his top, which is obviously just stretched tight over his rippling muscles.

Some folks are just built different.

[cpprcoyote]

Day 26 - Collective "They’re not exactly drones. Mature Borg are predictable…But these juveniles, they’re unstable.”

[incorrectvoyagerquotes]

Seven: Rebi, don’t pick your nose in front of me, please.

Rebi: I’m not picking, I’m scratching.

Seven: What are you scratching, your brain?

Rebi: Yeah, ‘cause it’s huge.

[prankprincess123]

Anyone know of any Voyager fics were all the Borg kids (including the baby) end up staying and going to the Alpha Quadrant with everyone? I mean I have found a bunch of Icheb adjusting to his new quadrant, and I found a oneshot where Mesoti stays, but that's all I can find and there's so many potential stories that could come from that change...

I wanna see all the sibling fluff between these kids. I wanna see them taking care of and playing with their baby sister. I wanna see more of Seven acting as their mother figure. I wanna see all the growing up drama of so many species in one family, especially without adults of any of their species. I wanna see the younger kids' reactions to the Alpha Quadrant. I want to see this hodgepodge family of former borg adjusting to their new home.

[data2364]

via Trekcore.com

Jeri Ryan  (7 of 9) and  Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Marley S. McClean (Mezoti), Kurt Wetherill (Azan) and Cody Wetherill (Rebi) 2000 in Star Trek Voyager ”Collective“.

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