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a very late Day 4 of Voyager Week! does Fair Haven count as an arc? after all, it's only two episodes in Season 5: "Fair Haven" and "Spirit Folk".

oh well! I think the silly Irish holodeck episodes are a nice change of pace from all the heavy episodes in the later seasons

for this I tried out a chibi-ish style and I think it came out very cute! converting this to a transparent gif was a PAIN though as today I learned that with my video editing software you have to PAY to make a transparent png. ARE YOU KIDDING ME

anyways yeah! surprised there were only four characters with Fair Haven costumes. Neelix is mentioned as going to Fair Haven often but we never actually see him there. so it's just these four!

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History Repeats

My creation for Day 1 of Voyager Week 2025 (Prompt: "Favorite Episode")! The full fic is under the cut in case you don't want to click on an AO3 link.

Harry was screaming. It took him a few seconds to fully grasp that fact. He was screaming.

Everything was crashing down on him all at once. Everyone on that ship, everyone on Voyager, the only people he had contact with for over four years… his superior officers, his friends… hell, maybe even his second family…

All dead. All his fault.

Harry was screaming. It took him a few seconds to fully grasp that fact. He was screaming.

Everything was crashing down on him all at once. Everyone on that ship, everyone on Voyager, the only people he had contact with for over four years... his superior officers, his friends... hell, maybe even his second family...

All dead. All his fault.

Tom and B'Elanna and Seven and Neelix and Tuvok and Doc and the Delaney sisters and Captain Janeway and...

All his fault. Every last one of them.

Every last one of them hoping to get home, every last one of them eager to see their friends and family again, every least one of them placing all their trust in him. Every last one of them dead.

How could he have messed up so badly? Tom was right. Tom was always right. Harry should have listened to him when he had the chance, but now he was dead, paying the price along with all the other hundred and fifty people on Voyager because stupid Ensign Kim was too stubborn to realize when he was in way over his head.

"Ensign!" Chakotay said. Harry barely heard him over the sound of his own voice.

"Ensign!!" he said again, louder this time. Harry managed to control his screaming for a few seconds, though it was replaced by the sound of panting for air that would not come.

When Harry looked up at Commander Chakotay from his spot on the floor, he saw that Chakotay's gaze was locked onto the Delta Flyer's viewscreen.

"We're home," Chakotay said.

Standing up on shaky legs, Harry turned his attention to the viewscreen too. Sure enough, the one and only object on the viewscreen was the unmistakable blue and green planet Earth.

"The slipstream drive worked," Chakotay said. "I'm taking us in."

Two members of Voyager's crew had made it home, and all it cost was one hundred and fifty lives.

When Starfleet realized that only two members of the Voyager crew made it back to Earth, they questioned those two extensively. Where were you? How did you make it home? We've never seen this type of shuttle before. What is it? Where are the other members of Voyager's crew?

Harry had to answer most of the questions himself, since Starfleet didn't trust the word of a Maquis captain they were hunting down just five years earlier. We were in the Delta Quadrant. We created something called a quantum slipstream drive. It's a shuttle we built ourselves; it's called the Delta Flyer. And the rest of the Voyager's crew is--

Chakotay had to explain what happened to the other hundred and forty-eight members of the crew, since Harry couldn't bring himself to explain consequences of his mistake.

When asked to confirm, Harry could only answer with "yes."

But somehow, even with the deaths of one hundred and fifty officers, friends, and family members, the people of Earth threw a celebration of cosmic proportions for the two who made it home. It was a mockery of all the people who died, Harry thought. They should be grieving, not celebrating!

Antmatter fireworks and speeches by dignitaries and songs by a Vulcan children's choir and medals pinned to his tunic recognizing his valor... it all made Harry sick to his stomach. The only time Harry saw anyone care about the victims was when Chakotay gave a speech commemorating Voyager's crew.

Other than that, it was all sunshine and rainbows according to Starfleet headquarters. They shoved Harry in a counselor's office in a half-assed effort to get him to shut up about his experiences.

"You must learn to accept the fact that you lived," all the counselors would all say during their and Harry's sessions together. It was probably scripted, this whole lecture on survivor's guilt. "Embrace life. Move forward."

Harry couldn't stand it. Two years after the crash, when he finally had enough, he signed onto the first deep space vessel he could find. Starfleet was searching for Voyager, but maybe Harry could get ahead of them. He served on the ship, after all.

When Harry told Chakotay of his plan to serve in deep space, Chakotay didn't protest. He had been working on his own search, after all. Harry promised his commander that they would keep in touch, share how things were going. Chakotay promised it back.

But deep space was deep space, and sometimes they wouldn't talk to each other for months on end. After one of those long seperations, when they finally found the time to contact one another and share how their respective searches were going, Chakotay brought along a girl named Tessa Omond. His new lover, Harry realized even before she was introduced to him as such.

Part of Harry wanted to be mad. He wanted to be mad that Chakotay could move on. He wanted to be mad that he couldn't.

But when Tessa began sharing the stories Chakotay had told her about his time on Voyager, when she began praising Harry for all the wonderful things he did all those years ago, when she began sharing in even just a portion of the grief he held for the crewmates he killed, when she enthusiastically agreed to help with the search for Voyager, when he saw the darkness in Chakotay's eyes as Tessa spoke, Harry realized that Chakotay didn't move on. He was still just as trapped inside the slipstream tunnel as Harry was.

So he couldn't be mad. Not for long.

"Chakotay tells me that you two only survived because you weren't on Voyager when she exited the slipstream drive," Tessa said to him once. "He also tells me that you think it's your fault that Voyager crashed."

Tessa Omond reminded Harry of several of his late crewmates simultaneously. She had the good looks of Jenny and Megan Delaney, the feistiness of B'Elanna Torres, the kindness of Kathryn Janeway... and she talked to him the same way that Tom Paris once did. When Tessa said "you think it's your fault," it was as if one hundred and fifty ghosts were trying to take his guilt off his shoulders.

"It is my fault," Harry said firmly. "It was my responsibility to send the right phase corrections to Voyager. I failed."

It was too bad Harry Kim was so used to the unbearable weight of his guilt that he refused to have it removed, even if it would be for his own good.

Oftentimes he found himself wondering if it would be better if he had been on Voyager when she crashed. If it would be better if he had been buried under the ice as the one hundred and fifty-first victim instead of staying alive, constantly crushed and eaten alive by his grief. Those thoughts weren't healthy, so his several different mandated therapists said. Perhaps not, because if he had died alongside his crew, who would be there to save them?

Harry hadn't yet told anyone of his suicidal plan to change the past. If he told the wrong person, they'd turn him in to Starfleet immediately for conspiracy to violate the Temporal Prime Directive. Not only that, but the plan involved multiple counts of theft and treason. If anything went wrong, his life would be ruined along with the lives of any of his accomplices. And if everything went right, the last several years of the timeline would be erased. And hopefully he wouldn't have to use that plan at all. Hopefully Starfleet would find Voyager before the plan became necessary.

It had been six years since the crash and four years serving in deep space when that hope was crushed Starfleet called off the search for Voyager. When Harry heard the news, his devastation pushed him to resign his Starfleet commission as soon as the deep space vessel returned home for a restock. It was half a form of protest, half an action to further his own plans. If he was no longer a member of Starfleet, it would be harder for them to track him down.

"Is something wrong?" Chakotay said the next time they met. It was the first time they had spoken face-to-face since Harry had left for deep space. "You seem... not fully there. More than usual, anyways."

"I contacted every admiral I could find and tried to convince them to keep the search alive, but they wouldn't listen to me." Harry said. "I... I resigned my commission. I'm no longer a Starfleet officer."

Chakotay didn't seem shocked. Harry was a bit surprised at his lack of reaction, given that Chakotay had been a member of Starfleet for more than ten years. Then again, he had also once been a member of the Maquis, so he was used to radically disagreeing with the decisions of Starfleet.

"Looks like you and I had the same idea," Chakotay said. "Because I did the same thing."

History repeats, Harry mused to himself. He quit Starfleet once, he's quitting it again.

Armed with that knowledge, Harry felt comfortable sharing his plan to change the past for the first time. Of course, he'd need to come up with a new, correct set of phase corrections first, something that he'd spent every waking hour of the past six years attempting to do. And he and whoever chose to assist him would also have to steal some precious salvage parts from Starfleet. And they'd have to calculate precisely when and where Voyager dropped out of the slipstream. And they'd have to steal a ship to take it to that particular place. Hopefully it was close.

But once all the moving parts were in place, Harry was confident they could carry out the plan and reverse the past six miserable, miserable years.

Four years later, he finally perfected his phase corrections beyond a shadow of a doubt. And five years after that, a full fifteen years after the crash, when Harry was fully confident that nothing would go wrong, he and Chakotay and Tessa Omond stole the Delta Flyer and made a break for it.

The lives of Voyager's crew would be saved, and all it would cost was fifteen years of irreplaceable history.

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the many outfits of Harry Kim

Day 2 of Voyager Week! if you know me, you know my favorite character is HARRY KIM!!!!

i heavily referenced the way he was drawn in Lower Decks, the comics, and Star Trek: Timelines to pull this off. I notoriously struggle with drawing Star Trek characters so this was a bit of a pain. still really like the end product though!!

list of outfit references under the cut!

-Standard uniform (first seen: 1x01 "Caretaker")

-Ocampan medical robe (first seen: 1x01 "Caretaker")

-Akitrian prison rags (first seen: 3x03 "The Chute")

-Buster Kincaid outfit (first seen: 5x01 "Night")

-"Timeless" leather jacket (first seen: 5x06 "Timeless")

-Fair Haven suit (first seen: 6x11 "Fair Haven")

-Racing uniform (first seen: 7x07 "Drive")

-IDW comics jacket and scarf (first seen: IDW comics)

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Thank you to everyone who participated in Voyager Week! Whether by creating or reblogging, you helped make this week into something special and I hope you had fun :) I'll still be checking the tag for another week or two and reblogging late posts, but for now this is the end of Voyager Week! Thank you!!!

- @sirellas

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Voyager Week prompt: Favorite Quote

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A proper posting for #VoyagerWeek. Many thanks to @mithrandirl for modding it (and @trekkiemage, go look at their art!).

The Properties of Electricity on AO3, Rated T, No Warnings (...except for it's not the most finished)

Mrs. Kathryn Janeway is an exemplary woman of the turn of the century, dedicating her life to the advancement of the world. But when an unwelcome advance spurs a longing she had hoped to ignore, her platonically devoted husband determines to help her be selfish for once.

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In honor of the 30th anniversary of the debut of Star Trek: Voyager, I made this playlist inspired by our beloved space fam and their journey home <3

Long Way Home: A Voyager Fanmix track list:

1. Clocks - Coldplay // 2. Rocket Man - Elton John // 3. This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks // 4. Us Against the World - Coldplay // 5. Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie // 6. Strangers - The Kinks // 7. You've Got the Love - Florence + the Machine // 8. With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker

Listen here on Spotify

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i have found what you are like, a space wives/j7 fic

pairing: kathryn janeway/seven of nine

fandom: star trek: voyager

rating: explicit 😈

summary: Kathryn loves Ireland, period clothing, and being a historical nerd. Seven loves to make Kathryn happy. (A space wives PWP interlude in the Cummings universe; a Trinity College holodate, for Voyager Week.)

get in y'all we're going to the holodeck with j7 and a dash of poetry as per usual. my day late and hopefully not a dollar short contribution to Voyager Week! @voyagerweek has been such a delightful experience from fic to gifs to meta, I had to join in the fun. for the day 6 prompt, favorite holodeck program, or the day 7 "free space" since it took me a minute to polish this up for posting, lmao. available on AO3.

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Star Trek Voyager B Plots Part 2

[Link to Part 1 of this project]

In this second part of my B Plots project, I was interested in looking at which major Voyager characters feature most and least frequently in B Plots. In the vast majority of cases, Voyager’s B Plots focus on interactions between several of the major characters, or interactions between a major character and a minor character. B Plots that feature no major characters are rare.

The following graph shows the total number of Voyager episodes that included at least one B Plot featuring each major character:

Note that this graph counts episodes rather than individual B Plots. There were many cases of a particular character being featured in multiple B Plots within a single episode, but only individual episodes were counted. Once again, double episodes counted as only a single episode. Also, one B Plot could count as featuring up to four separate characters. If a B Plot significantly featured more than four major characters or no major characters at all, I did not count it in this particular graph.

A complete list of B Plots organized by character is below the cut. Once again, constructive thoughts or feedback on any aspect of this project are welcome.

Side note: The above graph only represents B Plots, not the overall proportion of time/focus dedicated to each Voyager character – after all, A Plots take up the vast majority of most Voyager episodes. I previously completed another project on character focus in the main plots of Voyager episodes which you can find here. If you found this project interesting, you’ll probably also be interested in this project done by @the-oracle-of-the-lost on number of lines spoken by each Voyager main character (the project also includes data on other Star Trek shows).

Kathryn Janeway

Caretaker: Janeway discusses her dog with her fiancé Mark (Janeway)

Phage: Neelix converts Janeway’s private dining room into a galley (Neelix, Janeway)

The Cloud: Neelix tries to convince Janeway to try his coffee substitute (Janeway, Neelix), Chakotay and Janeway discuss “animal guides” and Chakotay helps Janeway find her own (Chakotay, Janeway)

Eye of the Needle: Kes convinces Janeway and the Doctor himself to begin thinking of the Doctor as a member of the crew (EMH, Kes, Janeway)

Cathexis: Janeway starts her Victorian gothic holonovel (Janeway)

Learning Curve: Janeway plays her Victorian gothic holonovel (Janeway)

Initiations: Neelix tells Janeway he feels underutilized as part of Voyager’s crew (Neelix, Janeway)

Elogium: Janeway and Chakotay discuss how they should deal with crew members having romantic relationships and children (Janeway, Chakotay)

Twisted: The crew throw Kes a surprise party (Kes, Neelix, Janeway, Paris)

Persistence of Vision: Janeway observes Torres and Kim’s attempt to transfer the Doctor to Engineering but he appears tiny (Kim, Torres, Janeway, EMH)

Future’s End: Tuvok walks in on Janeway practicing tennis (Tuvok, Janeway)

Macrocosm: Janeway and Neelix discuss a difficult negotiation they completed with an alien species (Janeway, Neelix)

Coda: Neelix Janeway and Chakotay discuss a talent show that Neelix held (Janeway, Neelix, Chakotay)

Scorpion: Janeway runs her Da Vinci holodeck program (Janeway)

Day of Honor: Seven has difficulty adjusting to life on Voyager (Seven, Janeway)

Revulsion: A party is held to celebrate Tuvok being promoted to Lieutenant Commander (Tuvok, Janeway, Kim, Paris)

The Raven: Janeway tries to get Seven to participate in making a sculpture in the Da Vinci holodeck program (Janeway, Seven)

Year of Hell: Chakotay tries to give Janeway a watch for her birthday but she refuses (Janeway, Chakotay)

Random Thoughts: Seven argues with Janeway about Voyager’s philosophy of exploration putting the crew at unnecessary risk (Janeway, Seven)

Mortal Coil: Janeway encourages Seven to socialize at a party (Janeway, Seven)

Hope and Fear: Seven and Janeway play velocity (Janeway, Seven)

Latent Image: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok debate the results of a martial arts competition (Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok)

Bride of Chaotica: Neelix and Janeway discuss the lack of functioning replicators and lavatories (Neelix, Janeway)

Think Tank: Seven finds Janeway attempted to solve a puzzle game (Janeway, Seven)

Survival Instinct: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok discuss issues surrounding the visitors to Voyager (Janeway Chakotay Tuvok), Janeway reprimands Kim and Paris for getting into a fight (Janeway, Kim, Paris)

The Voyager Conspiracy: Janeway and Chakotay have dinner together and discuss rumors on the ship (Janeway, Chakotay)

Child’s Play: Janeway Seven and Torres observe the Voyager children’s science fair (Janeway, Seven, Torres)

Good Sheppherd: Seven presents an efficiency analysis of Voyager’s departments to the senior staff (Seven, Janeway, Chakotay)

Fury: Janeway discovers Tuvok’s birthday (Janeway, Tuvok)

Life Line: Janeway and Chakotay discuss communication from Starfleet (Janeway, Chakotay)

Unimatrix Zero: Paris gets promoted back to Lieutenant (Paris, Janeway)

Shattered: Chakotay retrieves a secret bottle of alcohol to share with Janeway (Chakotay, Janeway)

The Void: Seven prepares a meal for several crew members (Seven, Neelix, Janeway, Paris)

Q2: Janeway conducts Icheb’s Starfleet history exam (Janeway)

Renaissance Man: The Doctor wakes Janeway up with his singing on an away mission (EMH, Janeway)

Endgame: Janeway and Chakotay discuss who will replace Neelix in the Mess Hall (Janeway, Chakotay)

Chakotay

The Cloud: Chakotay and Janeway discuss “animal guides” and Chakotay helps Janeway find her own (Chakotay, Janeway)

State of Flux: Neelix introduces Chakotay to Leola Root (Neelix, Chakotay)

Elogium: Janeway and Chakotay discuss how they should deal with crew members having romantic relationships and children (Janeway, Chakotay)

Manuevers: Chakotay and Torres discuss playing hoverball (Chakotay, Torres)

Lifesigns: Paris and Chakotay argue about Paris’s recent unprofessional behavior (Paris, Chakotay)

Coda: Neelix Janeway and Chakotay discuss a talent show that Neelix held (Janeway, Neelix, Chakotay)

Revulsion: Kim and Seven work together and awkwardly navigate Kim having a crush on Seven (Kim, Seven, Chakotay)

Year of Hell: Chakotay tries to give Janeway a watch for her birthday but she refuses (Janeway, Chakotay)

Message in a Bottle: Torres and Chakotay discuss Torres’ difficulties in working with Seven (Torres, Chakotay)

Drone: Chakotay and Kim discuss Kim being in charge of the bridge during night shifts (Kim, Chakotay)

Nothing Human: Chakotay and Kim don’t rescue the rest of the crew from having to sit though the Doctor’s boring presentation despite promising to (EMH, Chakotay, Kim)

Latent Image: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok debate the results of a martial arts competition (Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok)

Survival Instinct: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok discuss issues surrounding the visitors to Voyager (Janeway Chakotay Tuvok)

One Small Step: Chakotay confronts Seven about making changes to Voyager’s computer core without permission (Chakotay, Seven)

The Voyager Conspiracy: Janeway and Chakotay have dinner together and discuss rumors on the ship (Janeway, Chakotay)

Memorial: Kim Paris Chakotay and Neelix come back from an away mission (Kim, Paris, Neelix, Chakotay)

Tsunkatse: Torres encourages Chakotay to give his work to someone else so he can watch a Tsunkatse match (Torres, Chakotay), Chakotay Torres Kim and Paris banter about sports (Torres, Chakotay, Kim, Paris)

Collective: Paris Kim Chakotay and Neelix play a card game (Paris, Kim, Chakotay, Neelix)

Good Sheppherd: Seven presents an efficiency analysis of Voyager’s departments to the senior staff (Seven, Janeway, Chakotay)

Life Line: Janeway and Chakotay discuss communication from Starfleet (Janeway, Chakotay)

Flesh and Blood: The Doctor tries to convince Chakotay to let him go to a conference (Chakotay, EMH)

Shattered: Chakotay retrieves a secret bottle of alcohol to share with Janeway (Chakotay, Janeway)

Endgame: Janeway and Chakotay discuss who will replace Neelix in the Mess Hall (Janeway, Chakotay), Seven and Chakotay are secretly dating (Seven, Chakotay)

Tuvok

Faces: Neelix makes Plomeek soup for Tuvok that’s too spicy for him (Neelix, Tuvok)

Jetrel: Paris watches Neelix and Tuvok play pool and Tuvok misses a difficult shot he claimed he could get (Tuvok, Neelix, Paris)

Meld: Neelix irritates Tuvok by trying to find a fun Vulcan holiday (Neelix, Tuvok)

Tuvix: Neelix and Tuvok bicker on an away mission (Neelix, Tuvok)

Basics: Suder wants to contribute more to the Voyager crew from his imprisonment (Tuvok)

Flashback: Neelix tries to make Tuvok a breakfast he will like (Neelix, Tuvok)

Future’s End: Tuvok walks in on Janeway practicing tennis (Tuvok, Janeway)

Fair Trade: Neelix asks Tuvok to let him accompany him on security rounds (Neelix, Tuvok)

Revulsion: A party is held to celebrate Tuvok being promoted to Lieutenant Commander (Tuvok, Janeway, Kim, Paris)

Year of Hell: Tuvok and Seven discuss annoyances in working with other people (Tuvok, Seven)

Hunters: Seven asks Tuvok if Janeway trusts her (Seven, Tuvok)

The Omega Directive: Seven finds Kim and Tuvok playing Kal-toh (Seven, Kim, Tuvok)

Demon: Tuvok prevents Neelix from taking a large number of items with him to emergency sleeping accommodations (Tuvok, Neelix)

Night: Seven finds Tuvok meditating in Astrometrics (Seven, Tuvok), Kim plays a clarinet piece he wrote to Tuvok (Kim, Tuvok)

Latent Image: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok debate the results of a martial arts competition (Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok)

Juggernaut: Torres attempts to do Vulcan meditation exercises with Tuvok (Torres, Tuvok)

Survival Instinct: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok discuss issues surrounding the visitors to Voyager (Janeway Chakotay Tuvok)

Alice: Paris and Kim try to get Tuvok to tell them how old he is (Tuvok, Paris, Kim)

Riddles: Neelix tries to convince Tuvok to play a game with him (Tuvok, Neelix)

Fair Haven: Tuvok is feeling sick and Paris and Kim make it worse (Tuvok, Paris, Kim, Seven)

Live Fast and Prosper: Tuvok confronts Paris and Kim about altering his Holodeck program (Tuvok, Paris, Kim)

Fury: Janeway discovers Tuvok’s birthday (Janeway, Tuvok)

Body and Soul: Paris tries to help Tuvok with his Pon-Farr (Tuvok, Paris)

Prophecy: Neelix and Tuvok are temporary bunkmates (Neelix, Tuvok)

Homestead: Neelix throws a First Contact Day party, Neelix tries to convince Tuvok to dance (Neelix, Tuvok)

Endgame: Icheb wins a game of Kal-Toh against Tuvok (Tuvok, Kim)

B’Elanna Torres

Eye of the Needle: Torres and Kim discuss their families back in the Alpha Quadrant (Torres, Kim)

Prime Factors: Torres Seska Kim and Paris discuss rumors and misconceptions about Kim and Paris’s double date with the Delaney sisters (Torres, Kim, Paris)

Persistence of Vision: Janeway observes Torres and Kim’s attempt to transfer the Doctor to Engineering but he appears tiny (Kim, Torres, Janeway, EMH)

Manuevers: Chakotay and Torres discuss playing hoverball (Chakotay, Torres)

The Swarm: Torres and Paris discuss a crewmember who has a crush on Torres (Torres, Paris)

Walord: Neelix shows everyone his Talaxian resort program (Neelix, Paris, Kim, Torres)

Alter Ego: Torres and Paris discuss clothing for the holodeck program they’re planning to visit (Torres, Paris)

Real Life: Paris finds Torres reading a Klingon romance novel and flirts with her about it (Paris, Torres)

Distant Origin: Paris wins a bet and gets Torres to agree to do a Klingon martial arts holodeck program with him (Paris, Torres)

Displaced: Torres and Paris argue after attempting to do a Klingon martial arts program together (Paris, Torres)

Revulsion: Torres and Paris confirm that they both love each other and begin a relationship (Torres, Paris)

Scientific Method: Torres confronts Seven about rerouting power to Astrometrics without permission (Torres, Seven), Torres and Paris meet together secretly to make out (Paris, Torres)

Year of Hell: Kim and Torres play a trivia game to pass the time while trapped in a turbolift before Seven finds them (Torres, Kim, Seven)

Waking Moments: Torres and Paris discuss holodeck date locations (Paris, Torres)

Message in a Bottle: Torres and Chakotay discuss Torres’ difficulties in working with Seven (Torres, Chakotay), Torres tells Seven that she should try being less rude (Torres, Seven)

Hunters: Torres teases Kim about his crush on Seven (Torres, Kim)

Hope and Fear: Seven and Torres discuss what it would mean for both of them to return to the Alpha Quadrant (Seven, Torres)

Night: Torres and Paris play a game called Derada and argue (Paris, Torres)

Drone: Torres Paris and Seven discuss how small the shuttlecraft are and introduce the idea of building a larger one (Torres, Paris, Seven)

Nothing Human: Paris Torres and Neelix discuss the Doctor’s holophotographs (Paris, Torres, Neelix)

Course Oblivion: Torres prepares Seven for being in charge of Engineering during the honeymoon (Torres, Seven)

Juggernaut: Torres attempts to do Vulcan meditation exercises with Tuvok (Torres, Tuvok)

Someone to Watch Over Me: Torres catches Seven studying her and Paris’s “mating behavior” (Torres, Paris, Seven, Neelix)

Equinox: Torres catches up with her ex-boyfriend (Torres)

Memorial: Torres makes a television set for Paris (Torres, Paris)

Tsunkatse: Torres encourages Chakotay to give his work to someone else so he can watch a Tsunkatse match (Torres, Chakotay), Chakotay Torres Kim and Paris banter about sports (Torres, Chakotay, Kim, Paris)

Child’s Play: Janeway Seven and Torres observe the Voyager children’s science fair (Janeway, Seven, Torres)

Repression: Paris creates a movie theater holodeck program (Paris, Torres)

Nightingale: Icheb thinks that Torres is romantically interested in him (Torres)

The Void: Neelix serves Paris and Torres a meal (Neelix, Paris, Torres)

Author Author: Torres talks to her father (Torres, Paris)

Renaissance Man: Paris tries to set up an impromptu date with Torres (Paris, Torres)

Endgame: Torres has her baby (Torres, Paris, EMH)

Harry Kim

Caretaker: Kim decides to become Paris’s friend despite others warning him against it (Paris, Kim)

Time and Again: Paris tries to convince Kim to go on a double date with him and the Delaney sisters (Paris, Kim)

The Cloud: Paris introduces Sandrine’s to Kim and others (Paris, Kim)

Eye of the Needle: Torres and Kim discuss their families back in the Alpha Quadrant (Torres, Kim)

Prime Factors: Torres Seska Kim and Paris discuss rumors and misconceptions about Kim and Paris’s double date with the Delaney sisters (Torres, Kim, Paris)

Parturition: Paris listens to Kim practice the clarinet (Kim, Paris)

Persistence of Vision: Janeway observes Torres and Kim’s attempt to transfer the Doctor to Engineering but he appears tiny (Kim, Torres, Janeway, EMH)

Meld: Paris runs a replicator ration gambling operation (Paris, Kim)

The Thaw: Paris watches Kim practice the clarinet when Kim’s neighbor bangs on the wall to get him to stop (Kim, Paris)

Walord: Neelix shows everyone his Talaxian resort program (Neelix, Paris, Kim, Torres)

Revulsion: A party is held to celebrate Tuvok being promoted to Lieutenant Commander (Tuvok, Janeway, Kim, Paris), Kim and Seven work together and awkwardly navigate Kim having a crush on Seven (Kim, Seven, Chakotay)

Year of Hell: Kim and Torres play a trivia game to pass the time while trapped in a turbolift before Seven finds them (Torres, Kim, Seven)

Concerning Flight: Kim advises Seven that she might want to be more diplomatic in talking to other crew members and she ignores him (Kim, Seven)

Message in a Bottle: Paris tries to get Kim to create a replacement EMH (Kim, Paris)

Hunters: Torres teases Kim about his crush on Seven (Torres, Kim)

The Omega Directive: Seven finds Kim and Tuvok playing Kal-toh (Seven, Kim, Tuvok)

Unforgettable: Seven asks Kim to explain “courtship rituals” (Seven, Kim)

Demon: Paris and Kim discuss Kim being more assertive in senior staff meetings (Paris, Kim)

Night: Kim and Paris are interrupted in the middle of playing the Captain Proton holodeck program by the Doctor (Paris, Kim, EMH), Kim plays a clarinet piece he wrote to Tuvok (Kim, Tuvok)

Drone: Chakotay and Kim discuss Kim being in charge of the bridge during night shifts (Kim, Chakotay)

Once Upon a Time: Kim helps Neelix replicate a Flotter doll (Neelix, Kim)

Nothing Human: Chakotay and Kim don’t rescue the rest of the crew from having to sit though the Doctor’s boring presentation despite promising to (EMH, Chakotay, Kim)

Thirty Days: Paris and Kim play the Captain Proton holodeck program with the Delaney sisters (Paris, Kim)

Survival Instinct: Janeway reprimands Kim and Paris for getting into a fight (Janeway, Kim, Paris)

Alice: Paris and Kim try to get Tuvok to tell them how old he is (Tuvok, Paris, Kim)

Fair Haven: Tuvok is feeling sick and Paris and Kim make it worse (Tuvok, Paris, Kim, Seven)

Memorial: Kim Paris Chakotay and Neelix come back from an away mission (Kim, Paris, Neelix, Chakotay)

Tsunkatse: Chakotay Torres Kim and Paris banter about sports (Torres, Chakotay, Kim, Paris)

Collective: Paris Kim Chakotay and Neelix play a card game (Paris, Kim, Chakotay, Neelix)

Live Fast and Prosper: Tuvok confronts Paris and Kim about altering his Holodeck program (Tuvok, Paris, Kim)

Body and Soul: Seven, Kim, and the Doctor are on an away mission (Seven, Kim, EMH)

Prophecy: one of the Klingons is interested in Kim (Kim, Neelix)

Workforce: Kim feels sick after Neelix encouraged him to try an alien drink (Kim, Neelix), Kim and the Doctor argue about who’s in command (Kim, EMH)

Author Author: Kim tries to talk to his parents (Kim, Seven)

Endgame: Icheb wins a game of Kal-Toh against Tuvok (Tuvok, Kim)

Tom Paris

Caretaker: Kim decides to become Paris’s friend despite others warning him against it (Paris, Kim)

Time and Again: Paris tries to convince Kim to go on a double date with him and the Delaney sisters (Paris, Kim)

The Cloud: Paris introduces Sandrine’s to Kim and others (Paris, Kim)

Prime Factors: Torres Seska Kim and Paris discuss rumors and misconceptions about Kim and Paris’s double date with the Delaney sisters (Torres, Kim, Paris)

Jetrel: Paris watches Neelix and Tuvok play pool and Tuvok misses a difficult shot he claimed he could get (Tuvok, Neelix, Paris)

Twisted: The crew throw Kes a surprise party (Kes, Neelix, Janeway, Paris)

Parturition: Paris listens to Kim practice the clarinet (Kim, Paris)

Meld: Paris runs a replicator ration gambling operation (Paris, Kim)

Dreadnought: Paris is supposedly having difficulty fitting into the Starfleet hierarchy on Voyager (Paris)

Lifesigns: Paris and Chakotay argue about Paris’s recent unprofessional behavior (Paris, Chakotay)

The Thaw: Paris watches Kim practice the clarinet when Kim’s neighbor bangs on the wall to get him to stop (Kim, Paris)

The Swarm: Torres and Paris discuss a crewmember who has a crush on Torres (Torres, Paris)

Future’s End: Paris has a little romance plotline with Rain Robinson (Paris)

Walord: Neelix shows everyone his Talaxian resort program (Neelix, Paris, Kim, Torres)

Alter Ego: Torres and Paris discuss clothing for the holodeck program they’re planning to visit (Torres, Paris)

Real Life: Neelix and Paris discuss the fact that Neelix has made the same dish four days in a row (Neelix, Paris), Paris finds Torres reading a Klingon romance novel and flirts with her about it (Paris, Torres)

Distant Origin: Paris wins a bet and gets Torres to agree to do a Klingon martial arts holodeck program with him (Paris, Torres)

Displaced: Torres and Paris argue after attempting to do a Klingon martial arts program together (Paris, Torres)

Revulsion: A party is held to celebrate Tuvok being promoted to Lieutenant Commander (Tuvok, Janeway, Kim, Paris), Torres and Paris confirm that they both love each other and begin a relationship (Torres, Paris), Paris replaces Kes as the new assistant in sickbay (Paris)

Scientific Method: Torres and Paris meet together secretly to make out (Paris, Torres)

Random Thoughts: Neelix and Paris discuss a relationship Neelix is having with a woman from the planet they’re staying at (Neelix, Paris)

Waking Moments: Torres and Paris discuss holodeck date locations (Paris, Torres)

Message in a Bottle: Paris and Neelix discuss a dish Neelix made that gave several crewmembers heartburn (Paris, Neelix), Paris tries to get Kim to create a replacement EMH (Kim, Paris)

Vis a Vis: The Doctor tries to convince Paris to exit his grease monkey holodeck program and come to Sickbay for more training (Paris, EMH)

Demon: Paris and Kim discuss Kim being more assertive in senior staff meetings (Paris, Kim)

Night: Kim and Paris are interrupted in the middle of playing the Captain Proton holodeck program by the Doctor (Paris, Kim, EMH), Torres and Paris play a game called Derada and argue (Paris, Torres), Paris tries to get Seven to play his Captain Proton program (Paris, Seven)

Drone: Torres Paris and Seven discuss how small the shuttlecraft are and introduce the idea of building a larger one (Torres, Paris, Seven)

Nothing Human: Paris Torres and Neelix discuss the Doctor’s holophotographs (Paris, Torres, Neelix)

Thirty Days: Paris and Kim play the Captain Proton holodeck program with the Delaney sisters (Paris, Kim)

Bliss: Seven and Paris take Naomi on an away mission with them (Seven, Paris)

Course Oblivion: Alternate Paris and Torres get married, Neelix and Paris discuss holodeck programs for the honeymoon (Paris, Neelix)

Someone to Watch Over Me: Torres catches Seven studying her and Paris’s “mating behavior” (Torres, Paris, Seven, Neelix)

Relativity: Paris convinces Seven to play table tennis (Seven, Paris)

Warhead: Paris asks Neelix for replicator rations to make Torres an anniversary gift (Paris, Neelix)

Survival Instinct: Janeway reprimands Kim and Paris for getting into a fight (Janeway, Kim, Paris)

Alice: Paris and Kim try to get Tuvok to tell them how old he is (Tuvok, Paris, Kim)

Fair Haven: Tuvok is feeling sick and Paris and Kim make it worse (Tuvok, Paris, Kim, Seven)

Memorial: Kim Paris Chakotay and Neelix come back from an away mission (Kim, Paris, Neelix, Chakotay), Torres makes a television set for Paris (Torres, Paris)

Tsunkatse: Paris finds Seven packing for her trip (Paris, Seven), Chakotay Torres Kim and Paris banter about sports (Torres, Chakotay, Kim, Paris)

Collective: Paris Kim Chakotay and Neelix play a card game (Paris, Kim, Chakotay, Neelix)

Live Fast and Prosper: Tuvok confronts Paris and Kim about altering his Holodeck program (Tuvok, Paris, Kim), Neelix and Paris try to con the Doctor (Paris, Neelix, EMH)

Unimatrix Zero: Paris gets promoted back to Lieutenant (Paris, Janeway)

Repression: Paris creates a movie theater holodeck program (Paris, Torres)

Body and Soul: Paris tries to help Tuvok with his Pon-Farr (Tuvok, Paris)

The Void: Seven prepares a meal for several crew members (Seven, Neelix, Janeway, Paris), Neelix serves Paris and Torres a meal (Neelix, Paris, Torres)

Author Author: Torres talks to her father (Torres, Paris)

Natural Law: Paris has to take piloting safety lessons when he accidentally breaks a law (Paris)

Renaissance Man: Paris tries to set up an impromptu date with Torres (Paris, Torres)

Endgame: Torres has her baby (Torres, Paris, EMH)

The Doctor/EMH

Parallax: The Doctor is slowly shrinking (EMH)

Phage: Kes helps the Doctor begin to psychologically work through his unexpected new role on the ship and the Doctor asks her to train to become his assistant (EMH, Kes)

Eye of the Needle: Kes convinces Janeway and the Doctor himself to begin thinking of the Doctor as a member of the crew (EMH, Kes, Janeway)

Ex Post Facto: The Doctor and Kes discuss the Doctor choosing a name for himself (EMH, Kes)

Twisted: Sandrine won’t leave the Doctor alone (EMH)

Persistence of Vision: Janeway observes Torres and Kim’s attempt to transfer the Doctor to Engineering but he appears tiny (Kim, Torres, Janeway, EMH)

Tattoo: The Doctor tries out being sick when Kes suggests he should develop more understanding toward people in pain (EMH, Kes)

Dreadnought: The Doctor Kes and Samantha Wildman discuss possible names for both the Doctor and Wildman’s baby (Kes, EMH)

Investigations: The Doctor tries to get his boring segments onto Neelix’s daily show (EMH, Neelix)

Concerning Flight: the Doctor tries to get Seven to tell him about a disagreement she had with Torres (EMH, Seven)

Hunters: The Doctor tells Seven she needs to regenerate more often (EMH, Seven)

Prey: The Doctor attempts to tutor Seven in how to behave in social situations (EMH, Seven)

Vis a Vis: The Doctor tries to convince Paris to exit his grease monkey holodeck program and come to Sickbay for more training (Paris, EMH)

Demon: Neelix and the Doctor have a battle of wills when Neelix and several other crew members attempt to sleep in sickbay (Neelix, EMH)

One: Seven attempts to engage with a holodeck program the Doctor created to improve her social skills (Seven, EMH)

Night: Kim and Paris are interrupted in the middle of playing the Captain Proton holodeck program by the Doctor (Paris, Kim, EMH)

Once Upon a Time: the Doctor teaches Naomi about biology (EMH)

Timeless: Seven accidentally gets drunk (Seven, EMH)

Nothing Human: Chakotay and Kim don’t rescue the rest of the crew from having to sit though the Doctor’s boring presentation despite promising to (EMH, Chakotay, Kim)

Tsunkatse: the Doctor asks Seven to visit museums with him (EMH, Seven)

Live Fast and Prosper: Neelix and Paris try to con the Doctor (Paris, Neelix, EMH)

Body and Soul: Seven, Kim, and the Doctor are on an away mission (Seven, Kim, EMH)

Flesh and Blood: The Doctor tries to convince Chakotay to let him go to a conference (Chakotay, EMH)

Workforce: Kim and the Doctor argue about who’s in command (Kim, EMH)

Renaissance Man: The Doctor wakes Janeway up with his singing on an away mission (EMH, Janeway)

Endgame: Torres has her baby (Torres, Paris, EMH)

Neelix

Phage: Neelix converts Janeway’s private dining room into a galley (Neelix, Janeway)

State of Flux: Neelix introduces Chakotay to Leola Root (Neelix, Chakotay)

Faces: Neelix makes Plomeek soup for Tuvok that’s too spicy for him (Neelix, Tuvok)

Jetrel: Paris watches Neelix and Tuvok play pool and Tuvok misses a difficult shot he claimed he could get (Tuvok, Neelix, Paris)

Initiations: Neelix tells Janeway he feels underutilized as part of Voyager’s crew (Neelix, Janeway)

Twisted: The crew throw Kes a surprise party (Kes, Neelix, Janeway, Paris), Neelix is jealous over Kes’s relationship with Paris (Neelix, Kes)

Meld: Neelix irritates Tuvok by trying to find a fun Vulcan holiday (Neelix, Tuvok)

Investigations: The Doctor tries to get his boring segments onto Neelix’s daily show (EMH, Neelix)

Deadlock: Neelix asks for Samantha Wildman’s help fixing equipment in his kitchen (Neelix)

Tuvix: Neelix and Tuvok bicker on an away mission (Neelix, Tuvok)

Flashback: Neelix tries to make Tuvok a breakfast he will like (Neelix, Tuvok)

Future’s End: Neelix and Kes watch soap operas (Neelix, Kes)

Walord: Neelix shows everyone his Talaxian resort program (Neelix, Paris, Kim, Torres)

Macrocosm: Janeway and Neelix discuss a difficult negotiation they completed with an alien species (Janeway, Neelix)

Fair Trade: Neelix asks Tuvok to let him accompany him on security rounds (Neelix, Tuvok)

Coda: Neelix Janeway and Chakotay discuss a talent show that Neelix held (Janeway, Neelix, Chakotay)

Real Life: Neelix and Paris discuss the fact that Neelix has made the same dish four days in a row (Neelix, Paris)

The Raven: Neelix helps Seven eat for the first time (Seven, Neelix)

Random Thoughts: Neelix and Paris discuss a relationship Neelix is having with a woman from the planet they’re staying at (Neelix, Paris)

Mortal Coil: Neelix encourages Seven to eat foods with stronger flavors (Neelix, Seven), Neelix helps Naomi go to sleep (Neelix)

Message in a Bottle: Paris and Neelix discuss a dish Neelix made that gave several crewmembers heartburn (Paris, Neelix)

Demon: Tuvok prevents Neelix from taking a large number of items with him to emergency sleeping accommodations (Tuvok, Neelix), Neelix and the Doctor have a battle of wills when Neelix and several other crew members attempt to sleep in sickbay (Neelix, EMH)

Once Upon a Time: Naomi plays her Flotter holodeck program (Neelix), Kim helps Neelix replicate a Flotter doll (Neelix, Kim)

Nothing Human: Paris Torres and Neelix discuss the Doctor’s holophotographs (Paris, Torres, Neelix)

Bride of Chaotica: Neelix and Janeway discuss the lack of functioning replicators and lavatories (Neelix, Janeway)

Course Oblivion: Neelix and Paris discuss holodeck programs for the honeymoon (Paris, Neelix),

Someone to Watch Over Me: Torres catches Seven studying her and Paris’s “mating behavior” (Torres, Paris, Seven, Neelix)

Warhead: Paris asks Neelix for replicator rations to make Torres an anniversary gift (Paris, Neelix)

Riddles: Neelix tries to convince Tuvok to play a game with him (Tuvok, Neelix)

Memorial: Kim Paris Chakotay and Neelix come back from an away mission (Kim, Paris, Neelix, Chakotay)

Tsunkatse: Neelix gets sunburned (Neelix)

Collective: Paris Kim Chakotay and Neelix play a card game (Paris, Kim, Chakotay, Neelix)

Live Fast and Prosper: Neelix and Paris try to con the Doctor (Paris, Neelix, EMH)

Prophecy: Neelix and Tuvok are temporary bunkmates (Neelix, Tuvok), one of the Klingons is interested in Kim (Kim, Neelix)

The Void: Seven prepares a meal for several crew members (Seven, Neelix, Janeway, Paris), Neelix serves Paris and Torres a meal (Neelix, Paris, Torres)

Workforce: Kim feels sick after Neelix encouraged him to try an alien drink (Kim, Neelix)

Homestead: Neelix tries to convince Tuvok to dance (Neelix, Tuvok)

Endgame: Seven and Neelix play Kadis-kot (Seven, Neelix)

Kes

Phage: Kes helps the Doctor begin to psychologically work through his unexpected new role on the ship and the Doctor asks her to train to become his assistant (EMH, Kes)

Eye of the Needle: Kes convinces Janeway and the Doctor himself to begin thinking of the Doctor as a member of the crew (EMH, Kes, Janeway)

Ex Post Facto: The Doctor and Kes discuss the Doctor choosing a name for himself (EMH, Kes)

Twisted: The crew throw Kes a surprise party (Kes, Neelix, Janeway, Paris), Neelix is jealous over Kes’s relationship with Paris (Neelix, Kes)

Tattoo: The Doctor tries out being sick when Kes suggests he should develop more understanding toward people in pain (EMH, Kes)

Dreadnought: The Doctor Kes and Samantha Wildman discuss possible names for both the Doctor and Wildman’s baby (Kes, EMH)

Future’s End: Neelix and Kes watch soap operas (Neelix, Kes)

Seven

Day of Honor: Seven has difficulty adjusting to life on Voyager (Seven, Janeway)

Revulsion: Kim and Seven work together and awkwardly navigate Kim having a crush on Seven (Kim, Seven, Chakotay)

The Raven: Janeway tries to get Seven to participate in making a sculpture in the Da Vinci holodeck program (Janeway, Seven), Neelix helps Seven eat for the first time (Seven, Neelix)

Scientific Method: Torres confronts Seven about rerouting power to Astrometrics without permission (Torres, Seven)

Year of Hell: Kim and Torres play a trivia game to pass the time while trapped in a turbolift before Seven finds them (Torres, Kim, Seven), Tuvok and Seven discuss annoyances in working with other people (Tuvok, Seven)

Random Thoughts: Seven argues with Janeway about Voyager’s philosophy of exploration putting the crew at unnecessary risk (Janeway, Seven)

Concerning Flight: Kim advises Seven that she might want to be more diplomatic in talking to other crew members and she ignores him (Kim, Seven), the Doctor tries to get Seven to tell him about a disagreement she had with Torres (EMH, Seven)

Mortal Coil: Neelix encourages Seven to eat foods with stronger flavors (Neelix, Seven), Janeway encourages Seven to socialize at a party (Janeway, Seven)

Message in a Bottle: Torres tells Seven that she should try being less rude (Torres, Seven)

Hunters: The Doctor tells Seven she needs to regenerate more often (EMH, Seven), Seven asks Tuvok if Janeway trusts her (Seven, Tuvok)

Prey: The Doctor attempts to tutor Seven in how to behave in social situations (EMH, Seven)

The Omega Directive: Seven finds Kim and Tuvok playing Kal-toh (Seven, Kim, Tuvok)

Unforgettable: Seven asks Kim to explain “courtship rituals” (Seven, Kim)

One: Seven attempts to engage with a holodeck program the Doctor created to improve her social skills (Seven, EMH)

Hope and Fear: Seven and Janeway play velocity (Janeway, Seven) Seven and Torres discuss what it would mean for both of them to return to the Alpha Quadrant (Seven, Torres)

Night: Seven finds Tuvok meditating in Astrometrics (Seven, Tuvok), Paris tries to get Seven to play his Captain Proton program (Paris, Seven)

Drone: Torres Paris and Seven discuss how small the shuttlecraft are and introduce the idea of building a larger one (Torres, Paris, Seven)

Timeless: Seven accidentally gets drunk (Seven, EMH)

Infinite Regress: Seven catches Naomi following her around (Seven)

Bliss: Seven and Paris take Naomi on an away mission with them (Seven, Paris)

Course Oblivion: Torres prepares Seven for being in charge of Engineering during the honeymoon (Torres, Seven)

Think Tank: Seven finds Janeway attempted to solve a puzzle game (Janeway, Seven)

Someone to Watch Over Me: Torres catches Seven studying her and Paris’s “mating behavior” (Torres, Paris, Seven, Neelix)

Relativity: Paris convinces Seven to play table tennis (Seven, Paris)

Survival Instinct: Seven and Naomi have lunch together (Seven)

One Small Step: Chakotay confronts Seven about making changes to Voyager’s computer core without permission (Chakotay, Seven)

Fair Haven: Tuvok is feeling sick and Paris and Kim make it worse (Tuvok, Paris, Kim, Seven)

Tsunkatse: Paris finds Seven packing for her trip (Paris, Seven), the Doctor asks Seven to visit museums with him (EMH, Seven)

Ashes to Ashes: Seven has difficulty with the Borg children (Seven)

Child’s Play: Janeway Seven and Torres observe the Voyager children’s science fair (Janeway, Seven, Torres)

Good Sheppherd: Seven presents an efficiency analysis of Voyager’s departments to the senior staff (Seven, Janeway, Chakotay)

Imperfection: Seven and Icheb say goodbye to the Borg children (Seven)

Body and Soul: Seven, Kim, and the Doctor are on an away mission (Seven, Kim, EMH)

The Void: Seven prepares a meal for several crew members (Seven, Neelix, Janeway, Paris)

Author Author: Kim tries to talk to his parents (Kim, Seven)

Endgame: Seven and Chakotay are secretly dating (Seven, Chakotay), Seven and Neelix play Kadis-kot (Seven, Neelix)

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Star Trek Voyager B Plots Part 1

[Link to Part 2 of this project]

Many episodes of Voyager include “B Plots” – subplots that are distinct from the A Plot (the main plot) of the episode and that take up less of the episode’s runtime. Meanwhile, the term “C Plot” is often used to describe subplots that take up even less of a story’s runtime than the B Plot – sometimes consisting of a single scene.

In this project, I wanted to look extensively at Voyager’s B and C Plots, but in order to do so effectively, I had to narrow the definition to avoid ambiguity. Note that I make no distinction between B and C Plots for this project and from this point forward use only the term “B Plot” for simplicity’s sake.

Following are the criteria I used to define a “B Plot” for this project. Some of these points differ from typical definitions but were useful in making my selection process less ambiguous:

B Plots are fairly unconnected narratively from the A Plot of the episode. For example, if a group of characters is stranded on a planet and another group of characters is searching for them, neither storyline would count as a B Plot because both storylines are strongly narratively connected.

B Plots take up substantially less of an episode’s runtime than the A Plot. Any subplots that took up close to the runtime of the main plot were not counted due to ambiguity over which subplot would count as the B Plot and which would count as the A Plot.

B Plots are lower-stakes than the A Plot. They generally focus on things like relationships between characters rather than life-or-death problems.

B Plots can consist of anything from several scenes distributed throughout an episode’s runtime to a single substantial scene. Very short scenes with only a few lines of dialogue were not counted.

A single episode can feature multiple B Plots. Some episodes even feature four or five.

I went through each episode of Voyager and created a list of every B Plot I found. Overall, 68.13% of Voyager episodes contained at least one B Plot according to my definition. The following graph shows how this percentage differed by season:

Note that double episodes were counted as singular episodes since B Plots often stretched between parts 1 and 2. Double episodes that spanned two seasons were counted as being part of the first season (for example, Scorpion was counted as being part of season 3 rather than season 4).

A complete list of my results organized by season is below the cut. Keep in mind that my perceptions of what counts as a B Plot are subjective. A different person might have come up with a very different list. Constructive thoughts or feedback on any aspect of this project are welcome.

Season 1

Caretaker: Kim decides to become Paris’s friend despite others warning him against it, Janeway discusses her dog with her fiancé Mark

Parallax: The Doctor is slowly shrinking

Time and Again: Paris tries to convince Kim to go on a double date with him and the Delaney sisters

Phage: Neelix converts Janeway’s private dining room into a galley, Kes helps the Doctor begin to psychologically work through his unexpected new role on the ship and the Doctor asks her to train to become his assistant

The Cloud: Neelix tries to convince Janeway to try his coffee substitute, Chakotay and Janeway discuss “animal guides” and Chakotay helps Janeway find her own, Paris introduces Sandrine’s, Neelix is unhappy about the risks Voyager takes in the name of exploration or Starfleet morals and considers leaving

Eye of the Needle: Kes convinces Janeway and the Doctor himself to begin thinking of the Doctor as a member of the crew, Torres and Kim discuss their families back in the Alpha Quadrant

Ex Post Facto: The Doctor and Kes discuss the Doctor choosing a name for himself

Prime Factors: Torres Seska Kim and Paris discuss rumors and misconceptions about Kim and Paris’s double date with the Delaney sisters

State of Flux: Neelix introduces Chakotay to Leola Root

Cathexis: Janeway starts her Victorian gothic holonovel

Faces: Neelix makes Plomeek soup for Tuvok that’s too spicy for him

Jetrel: Paris watches Neelix and Tuvok play pool and Tuvok misses a difficult shot he claimed he could get

Learning Curve: Janeway plays her Victorian gothic holonovel

Season 2

Initiations: Neelix tells Janeway he feels underutilized as part of Voyager’s crew

Elogium: Janeway and Chakotay discuss how they should deal with crew members having romantic relationships and children

Twisted: The crew throw Kes a surprise party, Neelix is jealous over Kes’s relationship with Paris, Sandrine won’t leave the Doctor alone

Parturition: Paris listens to Kim practice the clarinet

Persistence of Vision: Janeway observes Torres and Kim’s attempt to transfer the Doctor to Engineering but he appears tiny

Tattoo: The Doctor tries out being sick when Kes suggests he should develop more understanding toward people in pain

Manuevers: Chakotay and Torres discuss playing hoverball

Alliances: Former Maquis member Jonas establishes secret communication with the Kazon

Threshold: Jonas speaks to the Kazon again

Meld: Paris runs a replicator ration gambling operation, Neelix irritates Tuvok by trying to find a fun Vulcan holiday

Dreadnought: The Doctor Kes and Samantha Wildman discuss possible names for both the Doctor and Wildman’s baby, Paris is supposedly having difficulty fitting into the Starfleet hierarchy on Voyager, Jonas talks to the Kazon again and tries to convince them to let him talk to Seska

Lifesigns: Paris and Chakotay argue about Paris’s recent unprofessional behavior, the Kazon try to get Jonas to sabotage Voyager but he refuses until he talks to Seska directly

Investigations: The Doctor tries to get his boring segments onto Neelix’s daily show

Deadlock: Neelix asks for Samantha Wildman’s help fixing equipment in his kitchen

The Thaw: Paris watches Kim practice the clarinet when Kim’s neighbor bangs on the wall to get him to stop

Tuvix: Neelix and Tuvok bicker on an away mission

Basics: Suder wants to contribute more to the Voyager crew from his imprisonment

Season 3

Flashback: Neelix tries to make Tuvok a breakfast he will like

The Swarm: Torres and Paris discuss a crewmember who has a crush on Torres

Future’s End: Tuvok walks in on Janeway practicing tennis, Paris has a little romance plotline with Rain Robinson, Neelix and Kes watch soap operas

Walord: Neelix shows everyone his Talaxian resort program

The Q and the Grey: The crew witness a supernova

Fair Trade: Neelix asks Tuvok to let him accompany him on security rounds

Macrocosm: Janeway and Neelix discuss a difficult negotiation they completed with an alien species

Alter Ego: Torres and Paris discuss clothing for the holodeck program they’re planning to visit

Coda: Neelix Janeway and Chakotay discuss a talent show that Neelix held

Real Life: Neelix and Paris discuss the fact that Neelix has made the same dish four days in a row, Paris finds Torres reading a Klingon romance novel and flirts with her about it

Distant Origin: Paris wins a bet and gets Torres to agree to do a Klingon martial arts holodeck program with him

Displaced: Torres and Paris argue after attempting to do a Klingon martial arts program together

Scorpion: Janeway runs her Da Vinci holodeck program

Season 4

Day of Honor: Seven has difficulty adjusting to life on Voyager

Revulsion: A party is held to celebrate Tuvok being promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Torres and Paris confirm that they both love each other and begin a relationship, Paris replaces Kes as the new assistant in sickbay, Kim and Seven work together and awkwardly navigate Kim having a crush on Seven

The Raven: Janeway tries to get Seven to participate in making a sculpture in the Da Vinci holodeck program, Neelix helps Seven eat for the first time

Scientific Method: Torres confronts Seven about rerouting power to Astrometrics without permission, Torres and Paris meet together secretly to make out

Year of Hell: A ceremony marks the opening of Astrometrics, Kim and Torres play a trivia game to pass the time while trapped in a turbolift before Seven finds them, Chakotay tries to give Janeway a watch for her birthday but she refuses, Tuvok and Seven discuss annoyances in working with other people, the senior staff all have a new drink that Neelix made

Random Thoughts: Neelix and Paris discuss a relationship Neelix is having with a woman from the planet they’re staying at, Seven argues with Janeway about Voyager’s philosophy of exploration putting the crew at unnecessary risk

Concerning Flight: Kim advises Seven that she might want to be more diplomatic in talking to other crew members and she ignores him, the Doctor tries to get Seven to tell him about a disagreement she had with Torres

Mortal Coil: Neelix encourages Seven to eat foods with stronger flavors, Neelix helps Naomi go to sleep, Janeway encourages Seven to socialize at a party

Waking Moments: Torres and Paris discuss holodeck date locations

Message in a Bottle: Torres and Chakotay discuss Torres’ difficulties in working with Seven, Paris and Neelix discuss a dish Neelix made that gave several crewmembers heartburn, Torres tells Seven that she should try being less rude, Paris tries to get Kim to create a replacement EMH

Hunters: The Doctor tells Seven she needs to regenerate more often, Torres teases Kim about his crush on Seven, Seven asks Tuvok if Janeway trusts her

Prey: The Doctor attempts to tutor Seven in how to behave in social situations

Vis a Vis: The Doctor tries to convince Paris to exit his grease monkey holodeck program and come to Sickbay for more training

The Omega Directive: Seven finds Kim and Tuvok playing Kal-toh

Unforgettable: Seven asks Kim to explain “courtship rituals”

Demon: Tuvok prevents Neelix from taking a large number of items with him to emergency sleeping accommodations, Paris and Kim discuss Kim being more assertive in senior staff meetings, Neelix and the Doctor have a battle of wills when Neelix and several other crew members attempt to sleep in sickbay

One: Seven attempts to engage with a holodeck program the Doctor created to improve her social skills

Hope and Fear: Seven and Janeway play velocity, Seven and Torres discuss what it would mean for both of them to return to the Alpha Quadrant

Season 5

Night: Kim and Paris are interrupted in the middle of playing the Captain Proton holodeck program by the Doctor, Torres and Paris play a game called Derada and argue, Seven finds Tuvok meditating in Astrometrics, Kim plays a clarinet piece he wrote to Tuvok, Paris tries to get Seven to play his Captain Proton program

Drone: Torres Paris and Seven discuss how small the shuttlecraft are and introduce the idea of building a larger one, Chakotay and Kim discuss Kim being in charge of the bridge during night shifts

Once Upon a Time: Naomi plays her Flotter holodeck program, the Doctor teaches Naomi about biology, Kim helps Neelix replicate a Flotter doll

Timeless: Seven accidentally gets drunk

Infinite Regress: Seven catches Naomi following her around

Nothing Human: Chakotay and Kim don’t rescue the rest of the crew from having to sit though the Doctor’s boring presentation despite promising to, Paris Torres and Neelix discuss the Doctor’s holophotographs

Thirty Days: Paris and Kim play the Captain Proton holodeck program with the Delaney sisters

Latent Image: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok debate the results of a martial arts competition

Bride of Chaotica: Neelix and Janeway discuss the lack of functioning replicators and lavatories

Bliss: Seven and Paris take Naomi on an away mission with them

Course Oblivion: Alternate Paris and Torres get married, Neelix and Paris discuss holodeck programs for the honeymoon, Torres prepares Seven for being in charge of Engineering during the honeymoon

Think Tank: Seven finds Janeway attempted to solve a puzzle game

Juggernaut: Torres attempts to do Vulcan meditation exercises with Tuvok

Someone to Watch Over Me: Torres catches Seven studying her and Paris’s “mating behavior”

Relativity: Paris convinces Seven to play table tennis

Warhead: Paris asks Neelix for replicator rations to make Torres an anniversary gift

Equinox: Torres catches up with her ex-boyfriend

Season 6

Survival Instinct: Janeway Chakotay and Tuvok discuss issues surrounding the visitors to Voyager, Seven and Naomi have lunch together, Janeway reprimands Kim and Paris for getting into a fight

Alice: Paris and Kim try to get Tuvok to tell them how old he is

Riddles: Neelix tries to convince Tuvok to play a game with him

One Small Step: Chakotay confronts Seven about making changes to Voyager’s computer core without permission

The Voyager Conspiracy: Janeway and Chakotay have dinner together and discuss rumors on the ship

Fair Haven: Tuvok is feeling sick and Paris and Kim make it worse

Memorial: Kim Paris Chakotay and Neelix come back from an away mission, Torres makes a television set for Paris

Tsunkatse: Torres encourages Chakotay to give his work to someone else so he can watch a Tsunkatse match, Neelix gets sunburned, Paris finds Seven packing for her trip, the Doctor asks Seven to visit museums with him, Chakotay Torres Kim and Paris banter about sports

Collective: Paris Kim Chakotay and Neelix play a card game

Ashes to Ashes: Seven has difficulty with the Borg children

Child’s Play: Janeway Seven and Torres observe the Voyager children’s science fair

Good Sheppherd: Seven presents an efficiency analysis of Voyager’s departments to the senior staff

Live Fast and Prosper: Tuvok confronts Paris and Kim about altering his Holodeck program, Neelix and Paris try to con the Doctor

Fury: Janeway discovers Tuvok’s birthday

Life Line: Janeway and Chakotay discuss communication from Starfleet

Unimatrix Zero: Paris gets promoted back to Lieutenant

Season 7

Imperfection: Seven and Icheb say goodbye to the Borg children

Repression: Paris creates a movie theater holodeck program

Body and Soul: Seven, Kim, and the Doctor are on an away mission, Paris tries to help Tuvok with his Pon-Farr

Nightingale: Icheb thinks that Torres is romantically interested in him

Flesh and Blood: The Doctor tries to convince Chakotay to let him go to a conference

Shattered: Chakotay retrieves a secret bottle of alcohol to share with Janeway

Prophecy: Neelix and Tuvok are temporary bunkmates, one of the Klingons is interested in Kim

The Void: Seven prepares a meal for several crew members, Neelix serves Paris and Torres a meal

Workforce: Kim feels sick after Neelix encouraged him to try an alien drink, Kim and the Doctor argue about who’s in command

Q2: Janeway conducts Icheb’s Starfleet history exam

Author Author: Kim tries to talk to his parents, Torres talks to her father

Natural Law: Paris has to take piloting safety lessons when he accidentally breaks a law

Homestead: Neelix throws a First Contact Day party, Neelix tries to convince Tuvok to dance

Renaissance Man: The Doctor wakes Janeway up with his singing on an away mission, Paris tries to set up an impromptu date with Torres

Endgame: Janeway and Chakotay discuss who will replace Neelix in the Mess Hall, Torres has her baby, Seven and Chakotay are secretly dating, Icheb wins a game of Kal-Toh against Tuvok, Seven and Neelix play Kadis-kot

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Star Trek: Voyager, J/7: The Measure of Logic

Sneak peek of one of my favorite sections from later in this fic.

A hardness overcame Seven then, the alloys in her spine chaining her fractured emotions back together in some grotesque distortion of what Janeway had always insisted they could be. Is this what it meant to be human? This labyrinth of consternation and insecurity and doubt? To feel, from one moment to the next, while drowning under the gravity of her inability to draw any meaningful connections between them? What was the purpose? Janeway found her then, and Seven realized she had dropped into a crouch closer to the habitat floor. The tentative ghost of a palm encapsulated her knee as the Captain crouched before her and Seven carefully deflected its benevolence by righting herself. She feared the touch would melt the metal of the implant concealed beneath the biosuit and burn them both. “Must...you always…touch me?”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62063797/chapters/158729248

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the reprogramming of an expendable asset [7/7]

Crossposted: AO3, ff.net

Fandom: Star Trek Voyager

Event: Voyager Week, Day 7, Prompt: Caretaker

Summary: Seska makes a choice.

It is the conclusion of this evaluator that the asset’s skills and background make her expendable.

The provincial hamlet of Monestat was in a state of decline. It had been since her youth — its rich soil poisoned by the industry upriver. The cities, twin beacons of excitement and influence, looming over the southern horizon had had an even more devastating effect. Together, they’d drained the surrounding villages of their most talented youth.

So few that remained here would ever step foot off this planet, resigned as they were to a life of stagnant lower-class toil. The ones who did leave did so mostly as enlisted troopers. It was a position that promised high risks and high reward. Upward mobility was as likely as dying from a phaser wound suffered on some other plot of useless dirt on some other planet.

Yet, the people here never went hungry. They never needed for medical care or education. They suffered no epidemics of violent crime or illness. The state provided well for those who completed the tasks of farming, energy production, and waste reclamation.

It made those tasks no less thankless.

Preka had spent the last month here, for lack of anywhere else to go, as she waited to be called to duty. She’d thought that, once she’d finished her probationary missions, the Obsidian Order would make her disappear. That all traces of her would be removed from the outdated structure her aging parents still called a home.

Perhaps all undercover agents were afforded this final goodbye. A day, a week, a month of familiarity before erasing them for good?

Her parents would be well taken care of, as long as she did her duty, and that was the only closure she needed. The rest was just an unnecessary delay.

“Good morning,” the low, familiar voice and the man that it belonged to came up behind her as she retraced her childhood steps.

All evidence that her brother once lived were gone from this path. They’d walked it daily for years, from her living block to the school and back again, but nothing remained of those many thousands of steps.

Preka could recall any of those mornings if she closed her eyes, but it wasn’t the same.

“Sir,” she greeted, setting aside the past and adjusting her pace to match his longer stride.

“Obarit will do nicely, now that you’ve been approved for active duty.”

She tried to suppress how pleased she was, but some of it came through anyway. Obarit reacted to her smile like an accommodating father might, with a small one of his own.

“I have booked passage for you on a transport. You will leave for the capital tonight. Apartments have been acquired and furnished for your use. You will go and await further instructions.”

By the time he finished and handed her a copy of her instructions, Preka regained control over herself.

“If you don’t mind my asking, why have you come here in person?”

Cardassia had many secure communication channels across the planet, all impossible to infiltrate. Except, of course, by the Order.

Obarit didn’t look like he minded at all. His face wore the same serene expression it always had when he was pleased, nearly ever-present since the day he’d plucked her from this hamlet for her training five years ago.

They came to a crossroads on the walkway, a four way stop that lead into different housing blocks. These were the oldest. Though none stood in disrepair (nothing on Cardassia ever did), the families here were looked down upon for the crime of being unable to produce children with the skills needed to dig them out of their stagnation.

Obarit paused here for some time, considering her question.

Preka waited patiently, not because she had to but because she respected him.

Finally, he gestured to a square set of housing units, nestled between other square housing units. They were unremarkable, a dull orange, and bare, “To remind myself where I come from—”

She opened her mouth but closed it again when he turned to look at her more intensely than he ever had before.

“—I assume you’ve read the final evaluation of your value to the Order.”

Even though it wasn’t a question, she nodded. Preka knew what she was to the Obsidian Order: an asset with a short shelf-life. This had pained her to learn — it had pained her to realize that Obarit might also consider her expendable — but she had come to accept it.

Such was the life of a tool.

“It is common for those who find our own way out of obscurity to be seen by those who haven’t as replaceable. We have no natural means of gaining leadership experience as children, and we lack connections with those who are powerful enough to protect us.”

It was in this moment, on this slightly uneven path, staring at what must be Obarit’s childhood home, that Preka learned the two most important lessons of her heretofore short career.

The first was something she concluded on her own. Obarit had come here to speak to her face-to-face so that no one else would hear what he was about to say. It wasn’t treason, it wasn’t even against Order protocol, but it was something he considered personal. Something he deemed necessary but dangerous if shared with anyone other than her.

Some secrets, assuming she still had any, must be kept from the Obsidian Order.

The second lesson was said outright, in a tone of voice more animated than she’d ever heard him use before. He needed her to understand this, to believe it, with no more evidence than his own conviction:

“Do not resign yourself to the low expectations of others. If you want to be more than what you are — if you want to be more than what you were born into — you have to prove them wrong.”

Caretaker

When the debris from the Caretaker’s array burned away in the Ocampan atmosphere, Seska had to confront two inescapable truths. First, she was no longer an asset to her people but a liability. Second, the three acceptable paths laid out before her would all lead to her death:

She could neutralize herself by her own hand, attempt to take the ship, or remain under disguise as long as possible until forced into one or the other.

None appealed to her. To be indispensable to others, she must first be so to herself. The Empire couldn’t reckon with the choice of pardoning her or killing her if she was already dead, no more than Seska could live by choosing to die.

The first was too hasty.

Any information Starfleet might glean from her about the Empire would be woefully out-of-date by the time Voyager made it back to port. Janeway spoke about finding a shortcut, but immediate travel vectors were unlikely. Stable wormholes like the one near Terok Nor would be as zealously contested, hot beds of conflict — if any even existed at all. Species with faster than light capabilities like the Caretaker were likely to be either isolationist or aloof, since they had yet to appear in the alpha quadrant seeking friendship or war.

The ship needed luck to get home in less than 70 years, but luck wasn’t a plan. In seven decades, she would succumb to old age, the vacuum of space, or violence. Should they get home sooner, the Empire could execute her if they’d like.

Borrowed time was still borrowed after all.

The second option bore no real consideration. She could not take Voyager. Even as Seska the Bajoran, she lacked the political capitol to convince the Maquis to mutiny. Chakotay had made it clear that the Captain was their captain now, and while some might turn against him, most would not. As Seska the Cardassian, she had no chance in any hell. Perhaps she could use the Kazon to good effect, if they weren’t so clearly uncoordinated and unsophisticated.

Brute force could only get her so far before that brute force turned itself on her.

This left the final, trying to go unnoticed. A worthy approach, if she wasn’t trapped across the galaxy from her home. How long until the manipulations to her genome began to degrade on their own? How long until one of the many changes threatened her life and her health and gave her away.

If she survived this journey, Seska would forge the stardates on encrypted personal logs to give the illusion she’d weighed these option before setting each aside in judiciously in turn.

In reality, her choice was the result of an intuition that had been ruthlessly trained out of her from birth. The one she’d ignored when she told Pagat about Limet’s strange new friends; the one she’d listened to when she accepted Obarit’s proffered sponsorship despite other, flashier options. The one telling her now that, while it had been foolish to strand them here for the sake of an inconsequential race, Captain Janeway herself was no fool.

Naive, perhaps, but Starfleet captains outsmarted Cardassian Guls and Legates all the time, no matter how rosy their view screens might appear to outsiders.

“You weren’t injured in the aftermath of the array, I don’t know why you’ve insisted on an exam.”

The EMH moved around her with his medical tricorder, clearly perturbed that a member of the Maquis forced their way onto his schedule.

Seska toyed with the gauzy blue material of her medical gown. It settled around her knees where they bent over the side of one of the biobeds, showing off skin too pink and too warm for her liking.

She waited…

The doors to sickbay opened, and Janeway strode in.

“Captain, has something happened? I don’t have you scheduled for a physical for another week,” how the EMH managed to sound so accommodating and so annoyed at the same time was a skill Seska realized she must learn.

For no other purpose than to utilize it to great effect against Torres and Chakotay in the future.

“I asked her to come,” to her own ears, Seska sounded like someone who had floated beyond her physical body and was watching this violation of her mission parameters at a safe distance.

Janeway for her part, affected a look of genial bemusement, “Whatever this is, wouldn’t you rather Commander Chakotay be here instead?”

Commander Chakotay.

She’d rather immolate herself.

“Your EMH is about to detect Cardassian DNA in my genome. Bajoran children who contract Orkett’s disease require bone marrow transplants from Cardassians, a procedure that leaves trace amounts of the donor’s genetic code behind.”

The Doctor frowned and moved to his medical terminal, where he eventually gave the human a nod.

Janeway, for her part, continued to look on with a mild smile of confusion, “I see no reason—”

“It’s a plausible cover story for Cardassian agents pretending to be Bajorans.”

Ah, there it was. Janeway slid easily into the alert posture of a person born to lead.

Just in case she mistook her, Seska added an abrupt addendum to her statement, “I’m saying that I’m Cardassian.”

“Yes, I was able to infer that,” all friendliness was gone, replaced with a steel-laced voice.

Janeway paced then, all the energy in her small body going to thinking this through. Eventually, a hand moved up to cover her mouth as if the consequences of this one conversation altered all the decision calculus she’d previously thought settled.

Seska had violated no laws that Tuvok had not also violated, despite their different loyalties. Seska was not here to spy on the Federation, just by the same horrible stroke of luck that had brought all the others.

When she thought she might have to point this out, Janeway deactivated the EMH abruptly and spoke, “Are you asking for asylum?”

Asylum would require Seska align herself with Federation laws with the aim of becoming a citizen. Following Starfleet protocols while on a Starfleet vessel was one thing, but Seska had to draw the line somewhere.

She scoffed, “That implies I want Federation protection from my own people. I fully expect to return to Cardassia when this is over.”

That would make Janeway’s calculations easier, but only by a little. If she was cunning, she’d put Seska off this ship immediately or execute her.

Both would win the Maquis over immediately.

But Janeway was as Starfleet as they came, as evidenced by her stranding them here to save the infantile Ocampa. She wouldn’t do what was easy instead of what was right.

While Seska found that trait both naive and performative, it was what she was relying on now.

“You’re asking for my protection from the Maquis.”

Tuvok might one day win the acceptance of Chakotay and the others —Starfleet and the Maquis were mutual antagonists, not enemies— but Seska’s betrayal went so much deeper. In every way.

“In exchange for offering my unique set of skills, when you need them,” Seska confirmed.

“You will need them,” she insisted more strongly, when Janeway looked like she wanted to argue that Seska’s Obsidian Order training would never be applicable.

This set off another round of pacing. It was possible that Janeway was thinking through the benefits of Seska retaining her Bajoran appearance. It might work, but it still came with all the risks of her being found out later.

It was better to work harder for the trust of Chakotay’s now than to lose it later due to shortsightedness.

The Captain was coming to a decision. It was in the way her movements slowed, in the way her posture straightened, in the way her eyes focused like chips of ice on Seska’s.

“You will follow my orders and behave in line with Starfleet protocols as long as you remain on this ship.”

It wasn’t a question.

Even though there were many exploitable loopholes in that demand, Seska would have to refrain from taking advantage of them too often.

She plucked at the hem of her gown, “Anything else?”

“You won’t antagonize the Maquis.”

“My existence alone will antagonize them.”

At the glare she received in response to that, Seska added without any real conviction, “In all the ways that I can control, I will not antagonize the Maquis.”

“You’ll report directly to me or to Tuvok when I am unavailable.”

This was more of a concession than a demand, as it allowed her to circumvent having to work with Chakotay.

It also required no verbal response, so she said nothing.

“In return,” Janeway’s posture deflated as she said the words that would make her journey so much more difficult than the mere Herculean effort it had been just ten minutes prior, “Starfleet will—I will— protect you as I would any other member of my crew, to the best of my ability. Do you accept these terms?”

The temptation to argue over the wording was nearly too strong to resist; instead, Seska took a single deep breath and made the deliberate decision to defy every expectation ever placed upon her.

Most of all, her own.

“Yes, Captain.”

Notes: Here we are, at the end and where it started. I feel alls sort of emotional about this, mostly due to my interpretation of Obarit's (an OC I never thought I’d think up let alone one I wouldn’t want to say goodbye to) and Seska's relationship and how his influence on her life may have lead her to make this choice. What do you all think? Did he actually care about her? Mind tricks all the way down? No wrong interpretations.

Also, I think a longer treatment of this story would have to grapple with all the ways Janeway's decisions in this chapter affect her commend. What wedges would this drive between her and the Maquis? Between her and Chakotay? What would having a Cardassian whispering in her ear do to her psyche. Who knows!? Not I!

Thank you for taking a chance on a Seska AU.

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For the Voyager Week prompt Favorite Character, I made this mini fanmix with cover art for B'Elanna Torres.

Track list:

1. Elastic Heart - Sia

2. Who You Are - Jessie J

3. Cheers to the Fall - Andra Day

4. Bitch - Meredith Brooks

listen here on Spotify

(Disclaimer in case any young'uns don't know the last song: I'm not saying she's a bitch by including it- it's a feminist anthem about defying labels, reclaiming slurs, and loving yourself. It's feisty and passionate and defiant- in short, it's totally B'Elanna.)

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Voyager Week Day 7: Free Space

Admiral Janeway/Ranger Seven

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VOYAGER WEEK – DAY 7: "Caretaker" 30th Anniversary

We're alone in an uncharted part of the galaxy. We have already made some friends here, and some enemies. [...] And as the only Starfleet vessel assigned to the Delta Quadrant, we'll continue to follow our directive to seek out new worlds and explore space. But our primary goal is clear. Even at maximum speeds, it would take 75 years to reach the Federation, but I'm not willing to settle for that. There's another entity like the Caretaker out there somewhere, who has the ability to get us there a lot faster. We'll be looking for her, and we'll be looking for wormholes, spatial rifts, or new technologies to help us. Somewhere along this journey, we'll find a way back.

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Day 7 of Voyager Week

CONGRATS TO 30 YEARS OF VOYAGER!!!!

i typically don't make a lot of more minimalist/design oriented pieces but i'm pretty pleased with how this turned out.

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@voyagerweek day 7: CARETAKER 30th Anniversary STAR TREK: VOYAGER | 1.01