#I FUCKING FORGOT NEELIX

[bumblingbabooshka]

Moms of Voyager (1/2)

T’Meni: Tuvok’s mother. Appraises jewelry and was often absent for business reasons during Tuvok’s childhood. Highly appreciates aesthetic beauty and was the one to pick out all the furniture in Tuvok’s childhood home. A bit spacey, marches to her own beat. Intrigued by humans and was very pleased when Tuvok befriended one. Comes from a very well respected family - not many survived the destruction of Vulcan. Can be unintentionally rude. She thinks her husband Sunak is very handsome and is grateful he didn’t die during the planet’s destruction. They have a good marriage but aren’t in love. (common for Vulcans) Mary Kim: Harry’s mother. 8th grade teacher - specifically teaches art. Has an interest in music and sometimes gives lessons at her home. Was the one who encouraged Harry’s interest in the clarinet and they often played together. Known as ‘the fun teacher’ and is very enthusiastically encouraging. Excitable and passionate. She and her husband are kind of goofballs, very in love, and definitely embarrassed Harry quite a bit over the years with how apparent those two things were. A warm, loving family! Erin Hansen: Seven of Nine’s mother. Woman who got killed by the thing she spent her life devoted to studying. Those who knew her would quietly admit that if she had to go - that’s probably the most fitting way. No one thought she’d die of old age, let’s just say that. She and her husband found an obsession and stuck with it. Very devoted to science and her desire to do anything but research lessened as the years wore on. Known to be very convincing - could talk her way out of anything. Almost anything.  Martis: Kes’ mother. Punk chick. Wanted to make it out of the underground and then passed that desire onto her daughter. Always stressed the importance of asking questions and dreaming big. Hell of a singer and was always making up new songs - writing them but also just performing them on the spot. Died after her husband whose death sent her into a bit of a depression. ???: Chakotay’s mother. Scientist who’s well respected in her field. Very interested in the science behind the spiritual (think DS9 wormhole) though she didn’t want to debunk or lessen the spiritual in any way by doing this (as she’s spiritual herself). Her papers are almost ethereal. She’s blind in one eye because of a childhood accident. She and Chakotay’s father divorced but were very good friends up until his death. Julia Paris: A very meek woman who met Owen Paris because her father was in Starfleet and threw a party. Immediately liked his gruff no-nonsense attitude over the other men’s louder ones. They got married quickly. She’d been a melancholy person her entire life (anxious and prone to depression - did not like moving a lot due to Starfleet or the long journeys on starships without sun). Disagreed with Owen’s wish for Tom to go into Starfleet and privately grew to loathe the institution but couldn’t change his mind so stopped bringing it up. Became ill one day and died when Tom was still very young. Left a journal for her son which Owen found and kept. Gretchen Janeway: Sunburnt queen. Had a double mastectomy when her daughters were teenagers. Was a bit wild as a child...and still is!! Can make friends with anyone as long as they’re not rude and will talk for hours. Going to the store with her is hell - she knows everyone there and has to talk to all of ‘em or it’s rude! Hates reminders that she’s getting old unless it’s herself complaining about just that. Sends all of Tuvok’s kids presents on their birthdays. Sends cards out every Christmas and forces her family to dress up and be in them. Was devastated when her husband died but dealt with this by keeping constantly busy. A bit pushy but ultimately has a good heart. 

#st voyager #st voyager art #ummmmm #ok #Harry Kim #Tom Paris #Kathryn Janeway #Kes #Seven of Nine #Chakotay #Tuvok #do you know how badly I wanted to draw like a motherboard or something for the EMH? #bea art tag #all the information provided is 99.9% made up by me with some tiny bits of canon #Voyager ain't very interested in mothers...............But I Am. AND SO YOU SHALL BE. #I FUCKING FORGOT NEELIX #IM SO SORR Y I'L L DRAW HIS MAMA TOMORROW #OKAY I ALSO FORGOT B'ELANNA'S MOM IM SO SORRY EVERYONE #MORE MOMS TOMORROW #If Gretchen and Mary met it would be over. They'd generate enough sheer positive energy to run the entire world.

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I'm not very familiar with neelix but I *am* a quarkfucker and I'm curious to hear what you think are the differences between the two

well if you're a quarkfucker then you already know what makes him desirable (and for those of you who don't, i've explained it in this ask) but neelix is like......i dunno, he's goofy, he's sweet and generous without expecting anything but a smile in return (tho sometimes he goes a little overboard and annoys ppl because he's not always the best at respecting personal space), he's more of a protective dad type. he has the personality of some kinda jolly gnome lmao the only similarities he really shares with quark is that they're both weird little "ugly" alien guys with fun clothes, they’re both merchants/traders, they're both chefs (tho ppl tend to forget that about quark somehow), and they both like to entertain ppl, but not much else. i'd say neelix has some fuckable qualities (but that's coming from some weirdo who's been on the internet for over 20 years lmao) but he’s not at all fuckable in the same way that quark is

#oh wait actually i forgot about one more similarity. they've both had crazy sex with klingon women #but that was really the only Neelix Fucks moment #whereas quark fucks so much that you can't even keep track of it #also i should add that i kinda just listed neelix's positive traits for the most part. he's definitely got some negative ones tho #his most notable one being that he's a jealous and overprotective romantic partner. but he does kinda get over that eventually

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

Threshold: live vicariously through me

Neelix, be loathed or beloved cook depending who you ask solves an engineering problem that two engineers and cocky flyboy with daddy issues can’t fix

Successful simulation

Great idea! Give the cocky flyboy pilot an ego boost that he very much doesn’t need by calling saying he’ll be a pioneer like Neil Armstrong or Zephram Cochrane! I don’t foresee that being an issue

It is an issue in the next scene

Cocky flyboy pilot argues with captain about going on the live test. L+Daddy issues+ratio. This scene exists for the sole purpose of telling us Tom has daddy issues and a superiority complex as if we couldn’t already tell

Cocky flyboy exceeds warp 10 on the shuttle they’ve named Cochrane as yet another ego boost to a man who does not need one

Warp ten: achieved. Flyboy: off the long range sensors. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Whoopsies he and the shuttle have materialised on the ship

Sick bay time

My man fucking ascended and existed everywhere and nowhere for a lil bit in an extremely Daniel Jackson From Stargate turn of events

Wow this is a normal episode of voyager so far……. A little goofy, maybe but not terrible

Just kidding he’s having an allergic reaction to water and can no longer breathe oxygen

He’s over sharing about losing his virginity and then randomly screams pepperoni and then demands pizza

Also wants kess to kiss him cuz he thinks he’s gonna die but she can’t breathe the nitrogen air and he dies kissless

KESS KISSES HIS FOREHEAD AFTER HE DIES????????!!?!????!?!!!?

Sike! Once again Inspired by beloved archaeologist, Daniel Jackson, he has come back to life and scared the hologram doctor but he’s losing hair and has another heart

A lower decker is a spy! Subplot that I forgot about

30 seconds of total footage about that so far

Back to Tom Paris Lizard Arc

He’s gross now and he’s snarkier than usual and Is Not Taking This Well and is having a Meltdown™️

Damn he tried to attack the captain and then bounced off the force field like a fly off a windshield

HOLY FUCK HE COUGHED UP HIS OWN TONGUE LMAO

His DNA is just constantly changing on a second by second basis

He’s Enlightened and he MUST leave this ship because “the future is in the past”

They’re gonna shove him in the warp core to fix him (kinda)

THE LIZARD MAN HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT BITCH!!!!!

He has kidnapped his own captain and is going on a joyride in the shuttle (hehe they’re headed to warp 10 again!!!)

Chakotay is ON THE JOB

The doctor cracked the code: Tom is evolving at rapid speed, proving that salamander is the APEX HUMAN FORM

They’ve located Paris and the captain. They are full salamanders on a jungle planet

awwww cute little baby salamanders!!

and Chakotay LEFT THEM TO FUCKING DIE

Paris and the captain are human again and are now awkwardly talking about their babies

Emotional scene to talk about daddy issues and inadequacies blah blah blah

The end

Final thoughts: I ❤️ salamanders!!!! Also what the fuck!!!!

#star trek voyager #Star Trek #threshold day #threshold #voyager rewatch

[enby-andi]

I've reblogged a post from a star trek blog and I mentioned this episode of voyager but screw it I wanna talk about this episode because imo it's more fucked up than threshold.

SEASON 5, EPISODE 17: "Course: Oblivion"

The episode starts out really nice!!! There's a wedding going on in the mess hall!!! Tom and B'elanna are getting married!!! Chakotay walks her down the aisle!!! Seven catches the bouquet!!!

After that everything is Same as Always. They are trying something new with the engines. B'elanna is telling Seven what to do while she and Tom are on their honeymoon. She goes to their quarters and IMMEDIATELY gets sick (and not the fanfiction "Congratulations! :)" sick).

Tom finds her and takes her to sickbay. The doctor diagnoses her with cellular degradation due to radiation. The rest of the crew are trying to figure out why. Chakotay and Tuvok are trying to figure out why parts of the ship and replicated food are going bad and immediately disintegrating except for food Neelix has gotten from other stops on the route for the past six months.

And the B'ELANNA FUCKING DIES.

SHE FUCKING DIES WITH TOM CRYING HER NAME AND TELLING THE DOCTOR TO KEEP TRYING AND THE DOCTOR RESIGNEDLY STOPPING REVIVAL ACTIONS.

Tuvok and Chakotay go over all their travel logs and realize something. They go to sickbay where Tom is grieving his FRESHLY DEAD WIFE and tell the Doctor to inject her with a solution.

AND B'ELANNA TURNS INTO A PUDDLE OF MERCURY LOOKING LIQUID.

AS IT TURNS OUT, THIS ENTIRE CREW AND THE VOYAGER SHIP ARE DUPLICATES MADE OF THIS FLUID THAT HAVE ALL THE EXACT SAME MEMORIES AS THE ORIGINALS BUT FORGOT THEY WERE DUPLICATES.

And I'm sure you're asking: Andi, when could this have happened???? It happened in the episode "Demon" ONE WHOLE SEASON AGO IN 4X24. These biomimetic lifeforms (called Silver Blood) from a demon class planet duplicated the entire crew and the ship because they had never encountered human DNA before. Janeway let them because otherwise they couldn't have gotten the dilithium they needed safely.

SO THE ENTIRE CREW AND SHIP ARE DUPLICATES AND ARE SLOWLY DISENTEGRATING AND IT IS HORRIFYING. EVERYONE BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE A CRONENBERG EXTRA. PEOPLE ARE DYING. JC LITERALLY HAVE A MOMENT AND HE FUCKING DIES. JANEWAY GETS THEM OUT OF ONE LAST SPACE CONFRONTATION AND THEN SHE FUCKING DIES IN THE CAPTAIN'S CHAIR. HARRY KIM IS NOW THE CAPTAIN BUT DEAR GOD THE COST AND THE ONLY SENIOR STAFF LEFT ARE SEVEN ANS NEELIX.

After Chakotay dies, Janeway had ordered the crew to try to find the OG Voyager crew so that they can duplicate them again and get a few more months so they can find another demon class planet to survive on. Harry and Seven are pushing the ship to its limits. They can only use impulse, life support, and can barely send out a distress signal. A ship is approaching. Harry braces himself for a confrontation. Something in engineering explodes.

The Ship is the OG Voyager. They got the distress signal. They notice it's gone. They turn on the view screen -

The duplicate Voyager has completely disintegrated into the liquid. The OG Voyager is confused as hell as to what happened here, but make a note of it and move on.

What I found the most fucked up??? After this episode, the viewER HAS NO IDEA IF THE EPISODES BETWEEN "DEMON" AND "C:O" DETAILED THE EVENTS OF THE OG VOYAGER OR THE DUPLICATE ONE. IF IT WAS EVER MADE CLEAR PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I HAVE BEEN HAUNTED BY THIS EPISODE SINCE I WAS IN THE 5TH GRADE AND I NEED CLOSURE!!!!

AND!!!!! IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THEY GOT SO CLOSE!!!! THEY ALMOST MADE IT!!!! BUT THEY WERE TOO LATE AND DIED!!!! ITS SO FUCKING TRAGIC 😭😭😭😭

#star trek voyager #course: oblivion #captain janeway #kathryn janeway #tom paris #b'elanna torres #Chakotay #seven of nine #harry kim #tuvok #the doctor #neelix

[ezrisdax-archive]

I completely forgot about "help desk support b'elanna dealing with ext 709 on the phone every day" so now you've gotta say more about this AU

“Aren’t you going to get that?” Harry asked B’Elanna as the phone rang again.

B’Elanna stared at the extension flashing on the screen.

709.

“No.” She said, half tempted to lift the phone up and drop it back on the receiver.

“B’Elanna.” Harry said in the tone that implied he wasn’t going to humor her usual antics today.

Tough luck to him because B’Elanna could out stubborn any one, any time.

The phone stopped ringing.

“There. It’s fine.” B’Elanna huffed.

And then the phone rang again.

“God dammit.” B’Elanna finally snatched the handset up. “What is it Seven?”

“You have taken considerably more time than usual to answer the phone. I take it to mean there must be a serious problem within the company that a call can be ignored so long.” Seven said without preamble.

B’Elanna rolled her eyes. “The only serious problem this company has is you.”

At the desk across from her Harry winced. She could have sworn she heard a muttered ‘here we go again’ from him but tuned it out.

~~

“My computer has ceased function.” Seven said when B’Elanna answered the phone again.

“Why can’t you just talk like a normal person and say it won’t turn on?” B’Elanna asked, sighing and trying to massage the incoming headache away already. “I’m surprised Seven, I thought you’d be able to fix a little computer issue.”

There was a pause over the line. “Janeway has informed me that it falls under your concern and as such I should allow you to do your job.”

“Allow me?!” B’Elanna sputtered. “Allow?!”

“However should you require the assistance I would provide it.”

“Oh how gracious of you.” B’Elanna rolled her eyes. “What would I ever do without you?”

“I theorize that you would be not be selling our software as well due to my continued cooperation with Borg.”

“Go back there already you drone.”

~~

it's funny I had to go back through our own conversation to find the roles I made for people but:

janeway: ceo chakotay: chief of operations tuvok: chief financial officer tom: salesman for the product they make b'elanna: tech support/product developer harry: tech support neelix: kitchen staff because they're fancy enough to have one idk emh: banker for the product kes: salesman seven: consultant for another product but janeway convinced her to join their team by poaching her

and no B'Elanna never learns Seven's name, just keeps calling her Seven like I have her do in every moden au.

I don't even know how I planned to end this one honestly that's where I mostly go stuck, I was just enjoying writing B'Elanna as tech support the way I was tech support, all the stupid calls I got included. And I had written Seven as doing her own tech support but fucking something up within the software because of it so Janeway makes her go through B'Elanna now. (people pls don't try to install your own software on work computers. it makes IT's life harder and believe me the auditing software will pick it up)

For a while the AU was just gonna have them be on the phone and keep missing each other in meetings due to something else happening so they don't meet face to face for a while and then???? yeah again I have no idea what I planned for this anymore.

#b7 #b'elanna torres #seven of nine #trek femslash #beej talks star trek #trillscienceofficer

[foone]

Which of the lizard babies stayed with neelix? I thought there were only 3. Also this was extremely cute and I love them now. I would let them have kid forms because they're so advanced and can change form but thats me. They can hang out with Naomi who also grows too fast.

HOW DO THEY INTERACT WITH FAIR HAVEN I NEED TO KNOW

I completely forgot I suggested that when I wrote the whole thing. I explain them all as being at Earth (minus Owen, who died).

But I think it was supposed to be Shannon. Maybe the timey-wimey means that in the pre-Endgame timeline, she stays on Voyager, but in the post-Endgame timeline, she stays with Neelix? I'm not really sure.

I was still picturing them as lizards, btw. They mentally grow up fast (like Naomi, who is only 6 episodes younger than them), but they stay looking like the adult forms that Lizard!Paris & Lizard!Janeway have.

They're huge fans of Fair Haven. They don't get to spend much time on planets (they live on a ship on a long journey, after all) other than the occasional stop on a relatively safe planet (which they inevitably get in trouble on, because WHEN ARE PLANETS EVER SAFE IN STAR TREK?), so Fair Haven is their outlet for "normality". The holographic villagers accept them as just some more human kids, who cares that they're big salamanders? There's some more friendships with the lizard kids and fair haven kids (they add more kids characters into the simulation so that the lizard kids have friends their age to play with, outside of Naomi and (later) the Borg Kids).

Their lizardy nature is a running joke in Spirit Folk, the second Fair Haven episode. The villagers are starting to suspect the voyager crew of being supernatural, and keep bringing up all the strange happenings, and it keeps seeming like the villagers are going to go WAIT A MINUTE, SOME OF THESE KIDS ARE ACTUALLY LIZARDS! but no, they bring up some other detail about them, like the time Mark seemly healed Seamus's broken arm, or the time Owen complained it was raining too hard and miraculously it stopped. Seamus even accuses Shannon of having a demon tail! And it's quickly proven she doesn't. (She does have a tail, though, because she's a fucking lizard. it's just not a DEMON tail, which is the specific thing they're accusing of her of having)

#star trek voyager #threshold

[coraclavia]

Star Trek: Choir Edition

just go with me here

Benjamin Sisko: Bass 2

great attitude

first person to welcome new singers

always brings his pencil and a closed-top waterbottle

voted choir president every year

always practices

Jean-Luc Picard: Tenor 2

always early to rehearsal

corrects the conductor’s French pronunciation

irons his choir robe

“I already sang this in my old choir”

brings his own pitchpipe

practices, and judges those who don’t

Kathryn Janeway: Alto 2

will happily sing tenor if needed

ragged choir folder held together with duct tape

wears a t-shirt and gym shorts under her choir robe

drinks coffee during rehearsal because fuck you

does not practice, but is an excellent sightreader

Beverly Crusher: Alto 1

not early to rehearsals, but not late

groans audibly when the conductor tells bad jokes

aces tricky chromatic lines at a cold sightread

has never sung a melody

writes down conductor quotes in her music

practices once or twice a year

Harry Kim and Tom Paris: Tenor 1

constantly pranking each other throughout rehearsals

officially banned from ever touching the pitchpipe

think they know the solfege hand signals

do not actually know the solfege hand signals

don’t practice, but no one calls them on it because there aren’t enough tenors

William Riker: Baritone

is pretty sure he’s actually a tenor

giggles if the conductor says anything about measure 69

can kind of read music

has been waiting all year for a song with an egg shaker

immediately volunteers to play the egg shaker

doesn’t practice, but writes his own music and shows everyone

Chakotay: Tenor 2

joined choir because the girl he likes asked him to

lip-syncs the high notes

cried manly tears the first time he heard Eriks Esenvald’s “Stars”

sways the wrong direction

goes out of his way to tell the altos they sound great

practices

Tuvok: Bass 2

pre-1500 music only, please

corrects the conductor’s Latin

can read neumes, why can’t you

it’s ‘ut,’ not ‘do’

prefers pitches given by tuning fork

has music memorized by the second rehearsal

doesn’t practice. doesn’t need to.

Deanna Troi: Soprano 1

does vocal warmups in the car on the way to rehearsal

“is there a descant?”

“can you play the descant?”

wears heels even when she’s in the third row

actually laughs at the conductor’s jokes

practices and comes to rehearsal with pertinent questions

Ezri Dax: Soprano 2

has never been in a choir before, but is excited to be here

not entirely sure how her part goes

eighteen seconds late to rehearsal

thinks the basses sound awesome

forgot to practice once and felt terrible about it

Kira Nerys: Alto 2

glares at people who walk into rehearsal late

refuses to sit anywhere but the back row

cries in verse 3 of “The Road Home” by Paulus

but will never, ever admit it

might practice 

Odo and Quark: Baritone

hate each other

refuse to address each other directly

but refuse to sit apart from each other

only practice to make the other look bad

Neelix: Tenor 2

a little too enthusiastic

drops choir folder, spills music across the floor

is not sure which piece we’re working on right now

has closed-top waterbottle but still manages to spill

“I love Eric Whitacre!”

practiced the wrong music

Q: Baritone

lost his choir folder after the first rehearsal

metal waterbottle that falls over loudly

“I learn better by ear” = never learned to read music

was hoping this was a show choir

“I was going to practice but I lost my music”

Lwaxana Troi: Soprano 1

will literally murder anyone who asks her to sing soprano 2

sits in the back row

has a pencil but never marks anything in her music

vibrato so wide you could drive a truck through it

has a standing reservation as the soloist for “O Holy Night” in her church choir

has never heard of practicing

Miles O’Brien: Baritone

can’t sing low enough for bass 2

can’t sing high enough for tenor

so I guess he’s a baritone

has to be reminded to flip every single R in every single piece

meant to practice. he really did.

Q

quit when she realized this wasn’t show choir

#star trek #choir #niche post #there are like four people who might like this #so here you go #I spent too much time on this

[replicatortrash]

ent rewatch from my sick bed:

buckle up y'all it's time for acquisition!

first off fuck yes these guest stars! brunt & neelix as new funky ferengi fuck yes!

love that they start the whole episode speaking ferengi. makes these very familiar aliens feel alien again

this is I guess the first ferengi episode chronologically?? cool thought.

oh hell yes I forgot trip gets to run around in his little blue undies for half this episode what a blessing

lil ferengi screm lol

the things they choose to ransack and take from the ship!! medicine, big torpedo, boots even, ok sure I can see those being valuable but then like dumping food & trays from the mess into a big sack?? and this bitch just dumps Travis on the floor and takes a whole ass chair from the bridge 😂 I'm dying lol why

love how fast Archer is at trying to lie his way out of situations. it's one of my fav of his traits. like he reads the room here and just sighs and gets into character and starts haggling even tho he doesn't know these aliens at all. he just has to buy trip some time to do something.

oo little nugget for the nerds: there are only 173 rules of acquisition at this time

haha Archer with the most low level ferengi and he starts playing him like a fiddle. like hm what about your Rights as a Worker???

wildly the ferengi haven't met Vulcans before I guess

t'pol getting in on this by sowing discord in the most Hobbit way possible turning them against each other like the trolls you love to see it

lots of oboe and comedic notes in the underscore lol

porthos! my beagle my pal! "look at the size of its ears!" I haaate that they put porthos in that crate.

sick whip!!!

t'pol seducing Krem is very funny cuz you know she's gonna mess that lil freak up

t'pol dangling the keys in front of Archer like bitch you said what about me? "not that interesting? no sense of humor? always complaining?" this episode is hilarious and I love her sense of humor. get his ass

my only regret is I wish phlox met them. he would have had fun this episode <3

#sorry for awful quality but I'm just having a little fun while i feel like shit #what a joy #what terrible little men #ferengi episode #st ent #sick rewatch #star trek #ferengi #ethan phillips #jeffery combs #neelix

[girlbosslrell]

finally finished voyager season 1!!!!!! i wanted to collect my thoughts before moving on to season 2

general thoughts:

i’m preeeeeety sure that i like voy more than ds9 but i can’t put my finger on why?? although i have a hunch it’s because voy is (so far) darker & has a stronger “sci fi horror” element to it than ds9 does. i’m pretty sure ds9 gets darker as the seasons go on so i’m very much looking forward to that but voy having an episode where a guy cuts off another guy’s face and then staples that face to his own face in the FIRST SEASON is VERY fucked up in all the best ways, i love it

there’s such a huge emphasis on medicine on this show!!!! like SOOO much of the action is down in sickbay!!! i remember the first season of tng (what little i saw of it) was very similar but the medical issues on voyager are cooler. also i just like emh better than crusher

ummmmm i’m Love janeway 💘

oh god, i know i have more thoughts but now i’m SO tired, i’ll probably have to edit this post tomorrow 😴

character thoughts:

JANEWAY IS THE BEST!!!!!! SCREEEEAAMMM!!!!!! she’s honestly giving sisko a run for his money in terms of best captain 😳 the fandom characterizes her as this cold, inflexible bitch and i was so happy to discover that is literally NOT her at all. she’s so full of compassion and she is SO good at compromise??? she promoted b’elanna at chakotay’s request. she turned her personal dining quarters into a cafeteria cause neelix fashioned himself a chef. every time someone comes to her requesting to do something she’s like “eh sure, why not?” all that AND she’s a badass motherfucker. AND she cosplays as an english governess. i seriously am in love with her. long live kathryn janeway!!!!!

chakotay is.... hot 😳 he also is a really cool dude. i’m not indigenous so i can’t really comment but it does feel like he’s an indigenous dude being written by white guys A Lot. so. but overall i really like him!!!

tovok is a king and i love him but unfortunately i’m still vulcanphobic so he’s on thin fucking ice 

tom paris :/ ew. i don’t hate him the way i hate other slutty male star trek characters (*cough* bashir) but i definitely don’t Like him either.

b’elanna torres is okay? i guess? that’s all i really have to say about her. i don’t like grumpy female characters, unless they’re over the age of 45, in which case i love grumpy female characters (don’t ask me why, i don’t know) but i think the only thing that keeps me from hating her the way i hate kira nerys is that she’s klingon. unlike with vulcans, i am extremely klingonphillic and will make excuses for mediocre characters because they’re my favourite star trek species

neelix is annoying, yes, and yes he looks like a rat, but he’s a rat with a heart of gold? i like him okay! he tries, much in the way that data tires. he’s not nearly as charming as data but he’s got as big of a heart

kes is very much a mary sue lol but i guess that’s fine? a lot of my indifference/dislike towards her is rooted in the fact that she’s 5000x more adept at medicine than me. i can admit when i’m being an insecure bitch

emh listen... i was OBSESSED with him at first, he was my main bitch, even more than janeway!!!!!! i can feel my obsession with him slipping a little and that makes me sad 😢 maybe he’s gotten less sassy since the start of the season? idk. i actually think i started liking him less when he kissed that woman in the beowulf holodeck simulation... why can’t they just let this balding hologram man be an ace king, why do they have to have him chasing pussy??? i have also heard that he has something romantic going with seven in later seasons and all i can say is no. but for now i still love him ❤️ bitchass doctor with no bedside manner my beloved ❤️

harry kim oh god i forgot he was even there???? tbh he doesn’t even DO anything, he just sits there looking pretty. i blame the writers for underutilizing one of their moc :/ but i still like him!

#voy lb

[star-temeraire]

being a star trek fan on tumblr is just *spirk* *spirk* *nimoy* *daforge* *mckirk* *spirk* *shirtless kirk* *spones* *chris pine with a dog* *long philosophical debate* *hates neelix* *spirk* *oh fuck i forgot wil weaton is here* *spir

#star trek

[autisticburnham]

Past Tense Parts 1 & 2

Boy, rewatching this in 2020's gonna probably be a fucking trip

Trill has purple seas and Bajor has green ones???

They really named a Ferengi Belongo, huh?

Quark looks so fucking floored that Ben knows the Rules of Acquisition

Christ, forgot the cops wake Benjamin by pushing a gun into his shoulder

The dude thinks Ben and Julian are wearing matching pajamas. He thinks they're a couple

Business Man really almost walks past Jadzia

I know literally everyone who reviews this episode comments on this, but definitely not a coincidence that the men of color immediately get arrested while the white woman gets whisked away into some high class fantasy

2020 does definitely highlight how crowded and underfunded the sanctuary districts are, not to mention the fact that I seriously doubt they get any medical care, just how quickly disease could kill all these people and how little anyone would care

Business Man, you're white as fuck, you having a Maori tattoo isn't impressive, it's gross

Discount? I wish I could say government databases charging government employees for running searches and giving them ads was surprising

This guy sitting next to Ben is so sad he won't let him draw on him

Welcome to beurceacy, Julian

Christ, the cop is so condescending

Uncle, doesn't this Gabriel Bell hu-man look exactly like Captain Sisko?

Oh, Benjamin, I wish riots did start a watershed moment in history

I like to think that more than Benjamin being a history buff, Bell is one of his personal heroes

"Benjamin "power stance" Sisko triple dog darring this dmv worker to call them out for writing their birthdays 300 years in the future" @jvlianbashir 's post lives in my mind rent free

Gross that this lady is like "oh, you're not mentally ill? Well, then, I'm so sorry for not treating you like people"

"It's not that they don't give a damn, they've just given up. The social problems they face seem too enormous to deal with" that may be sharply resonant with the average person, Ben, but it's starkly clear that the people in power do genuinely not give a damn

You know what? I'm actually thrilled that disco is exploring exactly Julian's question as to whether or not humanity has really changed and how the Federation would react to a devastating crisis. Like, I know that that's ds9's whole theme as well, but it's going to be so fucking nice to have a hopeful Star Trek message about the future during this fucking year

Love Julian immediately trying to throw hands with Hat Man for beating someone up

I feel like there's a not so subtle element of racist assholery to Hat Man sarcastically asking "Oh, have we done something to offend you?" abt beating the dude up

Julian, you are too tall to sleep width wise in this alley

Controversial opinion, but Julian's homeless trash is the best outfit he wears

The sanctuary districts existing at all is disgusting, but the fact that there are babies here is horrific

Hell, yeah, dude! Class solidarity!

Christ, the hard cut from the sanctuary district to the business party isn't subtle at all

Those protests in France are undoubtedly a good thing, Business Lady

Granted, I'm white, so I could totally be out of line here, but I actually like that two of the Business People are poc, and that they're just as much privileged assholes as the rest of the Business People. I feel like despite the implications of institutionalized racism with Ben and Julian immediately being arrested, this helps subtly showcase that a very large part of the problem is capitalism bc there's not solidarity between poc if that lack of solidarity can help some of them get rich

Love Julian's tos style double fist punch

Fucking gross that they know that the government killing thousands of sanctuary city districts residents will mean absolutely nothing if the government can "justify" it with the death of like 5 government employees

I love how charmed Miles is by Nerys wanting to yell at Starfleet

"Right now, this ship is all that's left of Starfleet" the disco writers really like this episode, huh?

Class Solidarity Guy's kid just said that this whole thing started bc a guard got in a fight with a dim. Of course it's the fucking cops that escalated the situation in the first place

Of course white ass Hat Man is just trying to personally benefit himself rather than help all of the people here and also has no problem escalating the violence

I don't like Hat Man, but I do like his line "Why do they sound so surprised? You treat people like animals, you're gonna get bit!"

Of course Business Man is friends with cops

I broke my nose...

The solution isn't to get everyone jobs, it's to make it so that having a job isn't a requirement to be treated like a human being

Cop, you're a huge part of the problem for so many fucking reasons, not the least of which is your being a class traitor

"In the interest of friendship," I'll allow 10,000 people to be fed

Ds9 is largely good abt criticizing capitalism, but I do dislike the "I don't want to rely on handouts! Give me the right to work myself to death"

Listen, I know DMV Lady is trapped in the capitalist system as much as anyone else and that if she tried to help more people, she'd probably end up in a sanctuary district herself, but. Her story about helping that one lady gives me Slitheen DoctorWho "I spare one person every now and then so that I can convince myself I'm a not a monster for murdering millions" vibes

I do fucking love her "Everybody tells themself that, and nothing ever changes" in response to Julian telling her it's not her fault tho

✌🌼

Well, their dad shouldn't have been a class traitor then, Bernardo

"Change takes time" "You've run out of time" Tell her, Ben!

Jadzia Dax, coming out of her sewer to shame mankind

Gross that Hat Man is coming on to Jadzia despite how uncomfortable she obviously is and doesn't stop until he realizes she's "with" Julian

Can you imagine if Jadzia had gotten hurt here? Imagine you're a doctor getting ready for surgery and you find a giant slug in a woman

Idk why, but "Invisible" Man gives me Neelix vibes

I do like how Julian and Jadzia work with the frame he understands and just ask him to give the combadge back. "Shockingly," treating him like he's a valid person makes him agreeable

Business Man, you're rich enough that breaking the law won't even mean shit for you

Christ. "The public are starting to view them as people! We have to kill them all now before it gets any worse!"

I like the cop making fun of Julian for liking tennis

Aw, I forgot Class Solidarity Guy died

Forget matching uniforms, Benjamin's actual pajamas are gay culture

"How could they have let things get so bad" 🙃

Groundbreaking, lifechanging, whatever the rest of that Lady Gaga quote is. 100/10

#ds9 #my post #ds9 rewatch

[bumblingbabooshka]

'Parturition' is so brave for being the yaoi ship trope episode of Voyager. "Neelix and Tom Paris had a physical.....fight." Also continuing Tom's beautiful habit of loving both infidelity and child abandonment with all his heart. Also, wonderful out of context quote: "I had no right to push that pasta in your lap."

#Also I forgot about the Tom/Kes stuff in early seasons #You know what? I think Kes can flirt. Disaster as a real couple/ship but I do believe they'd do some going-nowhere flirting #post Neelix breakup. Also once again Kes SHOULD have been able to ADVENTURE more!!! #Tom's true wife is a beautiful woman named infidelity and he loves her more than anything except Harry Kim #Tom: (bothered & horny) Play the clarinet Harry. #Harry has a really cozy couch setup btw #OH ??? I sthis a thing??? #In two different episodes now Harry's said 'there's an old chinese expression...' <- was that something they were trying out?? #Thank God it didn't stick. #Harry: You keep setting yourself up for rejection. You must like playing the part. / Tom: Don't knock it 'till you've tried it. #<- Sound of a nail being hit squarely on the head...Harry's so handsome #YEEEAAAAH THE GIRLS ARE FIIIIIGHTIIIIIINGGGGG!!!! #Neelix being so possessive of Kes is obviously bad but him just out of nowhere insulting and tossing pasta on Tom IS very fun and good #removed from context. Tom: -eating. doing nothing- / Neelix: You fucking lowlife asshole. =_= #SNRKAHAHHAAH 'I'LL KILL YOU!!!!' CARTOON ROLLING AROUND ON THE TABLES~!!?!?? #I like how this is a fight but NOT serious at all....they are looney tunesing it #Even the background crew are like...smiling & laughing. This is so funny <3 #The doctor would love if two men fought over him. He'd be concerned and tell them to stop but he'd secretly love it I know him I know this. #'How delightful!' indeed. Kes' green & black outfit in this episode is really pretty! Also she & the doctor's banter is nice~! #'That's not funny!' / 'It's not meant to be. You LOVE autopsies?' and her laughing at him saying 'then your world must have very dry lit.' #Also love the doc's ultimate advice of 'It's not your problem' bc it's not~!! Yaoi sin planet with cure what ails em #NEELIX SAID TECHNOBABBLE!!!! HE SAID THE LINE!!!! #Tom: I'm picking up caves west of here. / Neelix: Yaaay. <3 <- negative. sarcastic. hateful. #YEEEEAAAAAAHHHH DINO PUPPET BABYYYY!!!!! #Janeway: Tuvok can you do X? / Tuvok: (preening) I have anticipated your request Captain. / Chakotay: =_= #Tom: The baby's shivering...that's normal right?? <- Yeah Tom <3 It's so normal <3 You're gonna be a great dad <3 #Also Neelix just smiling earnestly at being called Godmother...-raises brow- #Neelix & Tom: Kes - Captain - we've worked out our differences! We had a baby <3

[loudfederationscreeching]

weird shit can happen on star trek and we all collectively forget it if it isnt iconic like spocks brain or threshold

for example i completely fucking forgot that kes donated a lung to neelix in literally episode four 

#star trek #voy #voyager #kes #neelix #like ????? ive seen posts about their relationship but nobody ever mentions that SHE GAVE HIM A LUNG. what the fuck

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Picard finale

There is so much in these last three episodes that is just embarrassing. I barely know where to start.

-Okay, so the explanation for the Artifact is that there’s this Lovecraftian vision called the Admonition that one of the assimilated Romulans had been exposed to and it made her so sad that her despair shut down the Borg cube.

So I guess out of all the people who have been assimilated--people who, by the very process of assimilation, have seen their entire families killed or reduced to a state worse than death--none of them were as sad as this one Romulan chick. 

Also, it turns out the Admonition is really, like, an ad campaign for synths and puny organic minds can’t comprehend it. A synth is able to mind-meld with someone who’s had the Admonition (note: not getting into it) and she can properly experience it. But the Borg, who are also synthetic life, get fucked by the Admonition?

The whole point of the Borg is that you cannot resist them. You cannot will them out of your head. If they get you, you’re assimilated, you have to give in. Even Picard can’t overcome them with sheer will and he’s the fucking hero! But this random Romulan chick, her super sadness can take down an entire Cube.

This is my big problem with Picard, it’s less Star Trek than Doctor Who. All this magical realism stuff is very Who. This ‘grief planet’ shit would work on a Cyberman, not the Borg. In fact, so much of Picard is pilfered from other sci-fi. The synth prejudice stuff calls to mind Battlestar Galactica, the La Sirena is so very Mass Effect, the ragtag crew is right out of Firefly... Rios and his random crew of holograms that are all different parts of his mind (!?!?!?!?) is straight up Orphan Black... This goes beyond being influenced by other sci-fi or current events and takes the story right to being purely unimaginative. For Christ’s sake, they went to a fucking casino planet...

-Long story short, the synths activate a sky-beam which creates a portal to unleash a robot demon apocalypse. In 2020. WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT BEFORE?

I mean, Jesus, you got beaten to the punch by Suicide Squad. FUCK.

-I guess they’re playing it like Kim Pine was mind-raped when she killed Bruce Maddox? And that makes it okay? Like, shit, why have the character do this huge thing if it’s not going to affect her personally and she’s just going to go back to being the cutesy-poo dork? Rios is even open to getting all kissy-face with this murderess. Shouldn’t this morally evolved Federation dude be disgusted by her? 

-Going back to my complaint about too many characters, how many cast members spent the finale basically standing there not doing anything after a failed game of soccer? Guest stars like Seven and Riker had more to do than most of the main characters.

-It’s weird how big-budget this series is, with such high production values, yet the Romulan and Federation ships all being one single model copy-pasted a trillion times makes it seem so much more chintzy than the Battle of Wolf 359 or the Dominion War. They couldn’t splurge and throw in a few Intrepids?

-And what happened to Namek (or whatever his name is. Romulan Vagenda Boy)? He was a pretty important character. We’re not going to get any closure or comeuppance for him? And how come the entire crew totally believed him about what the synths were up to? Yeah, he was telling the truth, but talk about untrustworthy.

-Rios being involved in the vast synth conspiracy--geez, what a coincidence. Because remember, he was just some guy Picard hired like an Uber driver. And yet, he happened to have a deep personal connection to all this Tal’Shiar business. It was actually his defining trauma!

-And I guess the Borg stuff didn’t have any point at all except as an exotic locale for Soji to hang out at until the plot needed her. They made this big show of Seven taking over the Cube and becoming a Queen, and then she didn’t actually do anything with it. Sheesh.

-And the bit where the synths essentially give Rios a magic wand that can do anything and Allison Pill uses it to create a billion holograms... that’s the laziest fucking writing I’ve ever seen. That’s something a six-year-old would write. That’s something a chimp would write!

-And man, after all the complaints about Seven and Chakotay getting together in the last episode of Voyager, Seven and Raffi get together with (if anything) even less build-up. Like, at least Seven and Chakotay knew each other. Seven and Raffi had one conversation and I guess now they’re a couple? Seven and Eleanor seemed to have more of a relationship. Not a romantic one, but more of a maternal relationship where Eleanor was like a replacement for Icheb. Why not go somewhere with that? At least it would be halfway organic.

-And man, Eleanor’s whole thing of not being able to lie and telling the truth all the time--did that ever come up? You’d think that would’ve been some huge personality trait for him, but they pretty much forgot about it.

-And it actually makes some sense for Seven to be into girls, because she was still finding herself through the end of VOY, so it’s a lot less awkward than if Neelix came up and went, “hey, I know I never mentioned once in seven years, but I’m really into dicks. All about dong, that’s me.” But don’t just throw Seven at a female character all of a sudden like her vagina is the twist at the end of an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

-And the whole point of that ‘Picard’s terminal illness’ thing was just to do a death fake-out for five minutes? Isn’t the fact that they’ve invented robot immortality kinda a big deal to throw in in the next to last episode? I mean, if you’re going to complain that they conquered death in Star Trek Into Darkness, they did the exact same shit here. I guess we’re supposed to think that was the only ‘golem’ ever, but why would it be? Apparently Soong and Maddox made tons of synths, so why couldn’t they make more android bodies? And why wouldn’t they make one for Data instead of trapping his mind in some one-bedroom apartment?

-I’m still not clear on... how Maddox found Soong’s Synth Planet and why he decided to create Soji and Dong based on Data’s daughter art project and why Soji counts as his kid but not all the other synths? It’s all so random!

#star trek #picard #pic spoilers

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Fictober 2019 - Day 5 and 6

From The Fictober 2019 event

Prompt 5 : “I might just kiss you.”

Prompt 6 : “Yes, I’m aware. Your point?.”

Fandom : Star Trek: Voyager

Words : 1,574

Warnings : mild swearing and alcohol consumption

“I might just kiss you” and “Yes, I’m aware. Your point?” - Vorik x Modern OC

As it turned out, I was having way more fun at the Rec Room Party than I thought I was going to. Back home, big parties had never been my Thing™ because there were usually too many strangers, but when you’re all stuck together in the ass-end of space, even a hundred or so people didn’t feel like a bunch of strangers anymore.

Especially when you still only hang out with the same five people, chilling at a table while the music blares the bass, with your bestie on your left talking about reverse polarity bolt specifications or whatever, and the girl you “kinda sorta came with” mysteriously disappearing partway through.

Eh. C'est la vie.

I took a long drink from my violently colored glass of alcoholic alien something (I already forgot what the heck Neelix gave me) and smiled fondly at Vorik. I wondered if he even realized he scared away my date with his tech talk. I wondered if I really cared. Despite people beginning to split off for the night, I was definitely having more fun sitting here sipping down my cocktail and listening to my favorite person talk about his favorite subject.

Until.

“Hey!” A hand clapped my shoulder and I looked around to find Tom grinning down at me.

Oh no.

“Wanna be our next victim at beer pong?” he asked with an air of innocence.

“Beer pong still exists?” I laughed.

“Hell yeah! It’s teams. B’Elanna and I against whoever you pick, so choose wisely.”

Choose wisely, indeed. The last thing I wanted to do was lose to Tom. Glancing around at all my friends’ wide smiles, I took mental stock of everyone’s level of soberness. All night I’d watched these folks pounding back glass after glass with me—all except one.

“Vorik!” I leaned into his shoulder so I could be closer to his ear. Belatedly, I realized that his hearing was probably fine even with the music. “Wanna be my partner?”

He blinked. “Excuse me?”

Blushing, I realized what I said and amended, “I mean to play beer pong. Tom’s just challenged me and I’d like to wipe the floor with him.”

We glanced over to the side of the room where Tom and B’Elanna were setting up rows of cups at a long rectangular table. Tom paused long enough to stick his tongue out at me.

“A worthy goal,” Vorik said.

“So, you’ll be my number two?”

“Yes,” he replied with a nod. “However, I must point out that as you have already been drinking, our likelihood of success is—”

“Eh,” I said, waving him away. “Don’t worry about that. Tom looks like he’s already drunk and what he doesn’t know is that I get better at beer pong as I drink more. It’s a great inverse relationship!”

* * *

It started out a little rocky when Tom found out who I picked and tried to set up new rules (“Well Vorik won’t get shitfaced on this, bring out the Klingon stuff like B’Elanna has to drink. It’s only fair!”) but once we got to really playing, the game went about how I should have expected:

I was awful, just as Vorik had predicted, and Tom was sloppy because he was sloshed from the get-go, just like I had predicted. Vorik turned out to be a player of precision and finesse, probably calculating the geometry and delicate force necessary to land in a glass every single time it was his turn, meanwhile, B’Elanna was ruthlessly competitive and kept landing glasses by sheer force of will despite how many Vorik made her drink. Unfortunately, that made it all in all pretty even, but that didn’t stop us from amassing a whole crowd of too-invested onlookers in the meantime.

Ping, thwoop!

“YEAH!” Tom whooped the loudest from the other end of the table as B’Elanna’s ball made it into one of our last four glasses.

“Drink up,” B’Elanna slurred gleefully as I reached for the cup to pull out the little white ball and hand it to Vorik.

“You were supposed to protect me,” I pouted at him. “This wasn’t supposed to happen.”

Chants of, “Drink. Drink. Drink. Drink,” went up around the table and, shrugging, I tipped my head back to drain the entire contents all at once to a new chorus of cheers— “See, Paris?” someone jeered, “That’s how you’re supposed to play!”. My whole body teetered back after my head, but Vorik’s warm hand on my back caught me and kept me upright before I fell on my butt.

“It’s hardly my fault that you have missed 66.667 percent of your shots,” he told me. His voice was much thicker than it had been when we started, but at least he wasn’t swaying on his feet like I was.

“What’s wrong, Giana?” Tom called, waving his own half-finished drink from the last turn. “Had too much to drink already? Lookin’ a li’l unsteady over there.”

I patted Vorik’s chest and taunted back, “Laugh it up while you can, Tom! My boy is about to come for your life!”

The crowed “oooh”ed.

And he would. And then Tom would miss. Then I would miss. Then B’Elanna would make it. Then Vorik would make it again, and we’d just stay neck in neck for the rest of eternity.

“Giana,” Vorik said quietly. He grabbed my arm; his lips close to my ear. Heat that had nothing to do with all the alcohol blossomed over my skin. “I believe there is a rule that would allow me to win the game for us now if I make it into the cup in Tom’s hand.” That sounded right, but I honestly couldn’t think straight with the Vulcan so close to me. “I will attempt it for you, but the probability of my making it in his current condition would be approximately 1 in 78. At best. If I do not, because of the timing of our turns, we will lose the game.”

“‘Will lose’? But I could make it on my turn and make up for you missing.”

He gave me a dubious look. “You have consumed two glasses of Terran red wine, an Andorian Pale Rock cocktail, three shots of Terran whiskey and approximately 33.8 ounces of beer. Your blood alcohol content must be somewhere on the order of—”

“Yes, yes. I’m aware I’m drunk. Your point?”

“It is unlikely you would make your shot on your turn so it is likely we will lose the game. Highly likely.”

“Jerk.” I smacked him on the shoulder with a little giggle and felt immediately disgusted with myself. What the fuck had just possessed me to do that? I tried to frown and go on as if I hadn’t just been momentarily possessed by my teenage self. “I think it’s worth the risk. Do it. And I’ll try to distract him or something, so he stops moving so much. That’ll help the odds, right?”

Vorik nodded.

B’Elanna cupped her hands to her mouth and called, “Hey, are you lovebirds done? Get on with it!”

The way the crowd giggled made me flush worse.

“Yeah, take your turn and accept defeat already,” Tom laughed.

I gave Vorik an encouraging smile before turning to our opponents. “If you’re so ready to lose, you could just give up and save us the trouble of destroying you.”

“Not on your life,” B’Elanna growled.

Tom pointed. “What she said.”

Vorik took his time to line up his shot. So that was mu cue to get Tom to keep steady.

“You ready for this?” I asked, sauntering a bit towards the corner of the table. I watched Tom mirror my movements as he grinned. Maybe if he would keep him copying me, I could keep him still. “You’re gonna drink this one too. You ready?” I leaned forward onto the table.

Tom leaned forward too and—yes! —put his glass on the table to stare at me right in the eye. “Doesn’t matter,” he said. “You’re still going to lose.”

Ping—

I held my breath; my heart drummed erratically in my throat.

—ker-plunk.

­The entire crowd burst into raucous applause and deafening screams. Tom and B’Elanna stared, dumbfounded, at the offending cup on the corner of the table with the white ball bobbing on the last bit of Tom’s drink.

“HA! YOU LOSE!” I shouted at them and then grabbed Vorik and squeezed him as tight as I could. “Oh, I might just kiss you! We make such a good team, my dude!”

A pause, too long for a Vulcan. “Indeed.”

I looked up at him, still beaming and found his dark eyes searching my face. A moment later, what I said and what I was still doing crashed into me at once and I released him.

“I-I…” I swallowed hard. I felt like I was about to die of heat stroke. If the Voyager would crash very suddenly into something—anything—I’d be very grateful.

Then our friend Lyssa burst between the two of us, an arm wrapped around each of our necks and roared, “Take that, Paris! Way to win one for us Ensigns, you guys!”

“Vorik d-did all the work,” I mumbled, torn between feeling grateful to her and continuing to be horrified at myself.

“It was a team effort,” Vorik said smoothly, nodding at me.

“I guess. I did have a few good ones, didn’t I?”

“A few.”

#fictober19 #Star Trek: Voyager #Ensign Vorik #Tom Paris #B'Elanna Torres #Voyager #whatever who doesn't like stupid fun on these starships?? #Even Starfleet people are people #I cackled the whole time I wrote this and I guess I'm sorta proud even if I'm late #onto the next one #OTP: Never Tear Us Apart #Vorik x modern OC #they're both idiots I'm sorry #Giana Moreno #Lyssa Campbell #Voy #Star Trek #Fiend writes

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I’m not into Star Trek anymore either. I used to be into TNG when I was young and I stuck with it through DS9 (which I never enjoyed as much) and Voyager (which I liked much better), but Captain Picard will always be MY Captain and the Enterprise D is MY space ship. I never got into any of the later spinoffs.

I have seen all 78 eps of TOS, I saw all the movies up through First Contact (after the hand-off), and my friends and I even got all gussied up like we were going to the formal opera, and we called our opening-night First Contact even "Prom Trek" since none of us had gone to prom (NO regrets: we gave ZERO fucks), and so we made our own prom circa age 26-28 doing something we loved.

I watched TNG S1-S5, and then probably saw half of S6, and really not much afterwards, though I tuned in for the final ep (and was DEEPLY disappointed). My true love there was Beverly. (Ah, Gates McFadden, one of the three main people responsible for the realization of SO MANY of my generation's fans of, "Oh...I'm a *LESBIAN*!!" ...the others are Gillian Anderson and Linda Hamilton.).

I have heard SUCH good things about DS9, but I was at uni at the time, and it was one at, like, 3:30 on Saturday afternoons...and it would break up the day, and I'd forget...it was so inconvenient and non-intuitive that I never remembered to watch it, so I've only seen a smattering of eps (including OF COURSE the Mirror episodes...SO GOOD!). I wanted to like it, but timing worked against me.

I watched and LOOOOVED Voyager. I shipped Captn Katie and Chakotay SO hard..."Resolutions" OMG OMG. I was TRULY hopeful that they would address Captn Katie's escalating instability and risk-taking. And I was even MORE hopeful when they did the ep where she locked herself in her cabin for 3 months. I wanted to see them ADDRESS her severe depression and loss of sense of self when separated from the structure of Starfleet that she was so committed to and dependent on. I wanted to see the Doc relieve her of command in order to address and TREAT her depression...to acknowledge that she needed HELP rather than enabling her and ignoring it. But...they skirted that, as they skirted EVERYTHING they built up.

I hate Brannon Braga with the fiery passion of 10,000 suns. I mean, when he was asked, in S1, how they were going to handle when Tuvok inevitably went into Pon Farr, and THAT ASSHAT was like, "What? Pon what? ...OH! Oh, but that's from the OLD show and this is a different show, so that doesn't apply." WTF YOU ASSHOLE OMG YOU'RE PART OF A WIDER CONTINUITY....AAAARRRFGGHGGHH!!! And...then they DID do ...something with it...and it fell TOTALLY flat for me.

I watched S1-S5 (again), and I WANTED to like "The Year of Hell," but it just didn't LAND for me Because Reset. I LOVED the episode where it turned out that Barclay was able to communicate with them...that slender connection to their home...that was VERY cool. And I LIKED Seven...but I didn't like that stupid catsuit...nor did I like that it became the Seven Of Nine Show.

I loved B'Lanna and Tom. I loved how they DID handle HER response to the obliteration of the Maquis and addressed that she was deliberately engaging in dangerous behaviors. I just wish they'd ALSO done that with Captn Katie; she was ENDANGERING THE WHOLE SHIP. I did appreciate that they revisited the concept, but with another character.

A friend had the headcanon (which is really just logic) that the Delaney twins from Stellar Cartography could almost NEVER rest because, typically, on a small ship working in well-travelled areas, just how much does Stellar Cartography DO? ....And then suddenly they're in a TOTALLY UNMAPPED AREA...and they need to recruit DOZENS to help them do all the mapping of this entirely un-documented area...but there are only 120-140 PEOPLE on board...so they must have never slept.

I think they should NEVER EVER let Chakotay fly the shuttles; they couldn't REPLACE them...and he kept crashing or damaging them or (check out the Coffee Nebula) just, you know, ACCIDENTALLY LEAVING SHUTTLECRAFT BEHIND by flying down to the planet and then BEAMING BACK UP.

I missed it when they stopped emphasizing that there was a SHORTAGE of resources. When Janeway couldn't have her coffee? SO awesome. When Neelix was cooking weird variations of the same thing? SO GOOD. I missed that as they forgot that resources were limited and caution was SUPER necessary.

I watched the series finale and was like...Chakotay and SEVEN??? WTF??? And I wanted not to see it END with them returning...I wanted to see the conflict of "Now we're FINALLY back to Starfleet YAY!" ...and the realization that, after HAVING to function independently for so long, finding it VERY difficult to fit into the demands of a command structure again. I wanted to see the reaction to how things had changed in the Alpha Quadrant...the Maquis adjusting to the annihilation of the Maquis...SO many missed opportunities.

I tried to watch Enterprise. I tried. I mean...Scott Bakula. Hoshi. COOL stuff. And yet, they managed to make SCOTT BAKULA--a man who could make the cut of a dress look GOOD and who could sing, dance, play piano, play football...do ANYTHING (see: Quantum Leap) while seeming personable and likeable...they managed to make him BORING. WTF???? I thought Enterprise was a boringly hot mess...but their Mirror episodes were good. I mean...EMPRESS HOSHI? YES, PLEASE. And the ep where T'Pol told the story of her grandmother who got trapped on earth and "invented" velcro so that she could sell the patent and get money for the family who helped her (I call it the T'Nana episode because it was T'Pol's Nana, yo)...I liked that...but I liked the novel "Strangers from the Sky" better....and it's the same plot.

And since then, and especially with the reboot...I just have walked away; I've DONE my time with Trek. I am no longer enamoured, and yet I still appreciate it.

I REALLY love, even now, some of my favorite Pocket Books novels (from before Pocket made the rules so rigid that the novels were no longer just authorized fanfic). My FAVE ones are "The Entropy Effect," "Ishmael" (Barbara Hambly steathily got them to PUBLISH a Star Trek/Here Come the Brides crossover!!!! With Doctor Who jokes! And there's TIME TRAVEL!), and Jean Lorrah's PUBLISHED Sarek and Amanda novels (which ENTIRELY have the backstory that is from her zines that were my first serious fanfic knowing it was fanfic).

I'm forever grateful that Trek fandom was large enough and FINDABLE enough that it gave me the "in" that I needed, back when there was no internet, to FIND fandom, then to follow the bread crumb trails to the fans of OTHER shows I also loved.

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