i love you fictional vehicles that become a main character in the story by extension, i love you ships with iconic names that turn into a home for the characters, i love you humanized modes of transportation with imagined personality quirks, i love you sapient starships with real personality quirks, i love you inherent human ability to emotionally bond with literally anything
Star Trek Voyager will really casually drop the rawest most relatable and tragic lines you've ever heard, think "I think I kill myself slowly because I don't have the courage to actually do it," then have some silly ass scene like "take the cheese to sick bay" or this
Im sorry but this scene is not mentioned enough among Trekkies. I think this is one of the most heartfelt and well written scenes in all of Star Trek and it pains me that no one mentions this. For reference in case I need to memory jog, this episode is the episode right after seven gets severed from the collective. She is learning basic ship rules and getting her implants removed. Earlier, there is a scene where Janeway is talking to her, trying to access her humanity, and she’s talking about how she feels bad for the little girl Seven once was. Janeway says “There's still a lot we don't know about her. Did she have any siblings? Who were her friends? Where did she go to school? What was her favourite colour?” This scene takes place at the very end of the episode.
I bawled when I first watched this episode, and this scene specifically triggered it. It absolutely breaks my heart. Seven was assimilated when she was a little girl. She never had a chance to live her childhood, to experience girlhood, or to grow up. She lived her whole life being apart of a hive mind, where she constantly had someone thinking for her, where she continuously had other voices in her head. Now all of the sudden, it’s stripped from her. The entire episode she’s scared. She never got to live her own life, she’s not used to being so alone, like a young child separated from their mother. This scene man, it just highlights the fact that she never got to grow up.
I’m not great at putting my thoughts to paper (or in this case a website but you know what I mean) but this scene… it’s a work of art, and I wish it was more acknowledged amongst the Trekkies. 🙁❤️
*The USS Voyager, the ship that flew farther than any other, sent to the Fleet Museum to rest. But can she? Can the ship that never knew the safety of harbor find peace as an exhibit, a display, a starship that can no longer explore the stars? Is she okay? Is she depressed? Are her gelpacks that healthy blue or have they turned sickly green and no one can figure out why, languid processing and connectivity, organic circuitry behaving erratically and sometimes failing to perform even basic tasks? Do her darkened corridors echo with the memories of a crew that celebrated and mourned and fought and made up and cared about the journey, cared about her, their home? Do the other ships know what that was like — to be a home, not a posting? The other ships don’t have bio-neural circuitry, so they don’t seem to register where they are or what’s happening. But Voyager does. Voyager knows where she is and why. Is she okay, though? Is she?