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“911. Cheesecake.”

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Janeway forever

“This past weekend’s New York Comic Con brought some big news for Star Trek fans, as Kate Mulgrew is returning to voice Kathryn Janeway in upcoming Nickelodeon animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. This is huge, as it’s the first time the Voyager star has returned to the franchise since that show ended in 2001. But it might not be the last time, as CBS appears to be considering bringing her back in live-action, too. Insider Daniel Richtman has posted over on his Patreon account that there are talks to get Mulgrew back on board in the flesh to star in her own live-action series featuring an older Janeway. That’s all that he was able to reveal, but it’s worth paying attention to as it corroborates We Got This Covered’s own scoop from back in April. At the time, we reported that the network was eager to give the character her own spinoff. From what we were told, Janeway will cameo on a future season of Picard before being launched off into her own show. We don’t know if that’s still the plan, especially now that Mulgrew’s already back and voicing her iconic role in Prodigy, but regardless, it seems CBS has more in the works for her.”

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN !!

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thank you so much!!:D

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Oh my, yess

I would sell my soul to the devil to have a Voyager spin-off !

…and her bracelet is designed with the patterns of Chakotay’s stone.

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#captainjaneway

Having fun?  - No.

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Kate solves a mystery. 

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I’m not going to stand here while you rationalize yet another brush with death. 

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗂𝗅𝖾𝗋 (𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘄) 𝗂𝗌 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾! 𝖳𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗄 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝖿𝗂𝗅𝗆𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝖺𝖼𝗄 𝗂𝗇 2017. 🍿

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Listen, if you aren’t watching Kathryn Janeway’s background facial expressions to stuff The Doctor says during conversations with people then you are seriously missing out because she’s comedy GOLD

Like every time The Doctor pats himself on the back she’s just rolling her eyes and exchanging knowing looks with Chakotay and I love it. She’s the perfect captain to be dealing with this arrogant, salty, lovable asshole of a CMO. 

Honestly though, Kate Mulgrew is so insanely good at background acting. Even when her character isn’t in focus, she is still acting and doing it so well. I think this is one of the reasons Janeway feels like such a real character; she’s consistently characterized and acted even when you aren’t supposed to be paying attention to her. if you pay attention to what she’s doing in the background, she’s always doing something; sometimes she’s turning to look at the characters having conversation in the foreground as she leaves a room, or she’s throwing a look at Chakotay while aliens are talking to another character and she smells bullshit, or she’s patting someone on the arm while she’s in the background of a scene in the dining hall. I just think Voyager did such a good job of using characters in scenes where it makes sense to have them in the background, even if they aren’t the focus of the scene, and Kate’s acting choices in the background make it even better.

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One of the things that’s started troubling me more and more about discourse online, and particularly queer discourse (since that’s what I’m most embedded in) is how restrictive we get about acceptable/unacceptable terms. 

This is something that can and does hurt people within the community. I think it can be a little invisible to those within the online community that our terms, our way of talking about these terms, and the terms we define as outdated or inaccurate, can change very, very quickly. Online discussions, and especially decentralized online discussions like tumblr or twitter that rely on spreading a post through a network of connected individuals rather than a centralized discussion space – these don’t reach everyone at the same time. 

Why is this bothering me?  I recently wound up in a discussion about older trans folks who use the term ‘transsexual’ to describe themselves. 

Now, ‘transsexual’ is a depreciated term. It’s not current.  Someone who uses it is probably going to get a side-eye from any queer folks within earshot.  But it’s also an identity term for people who have fought long and hard for their identities. And those people are still here, still with us. Who are we, younger and more online, surrounded by our communities, to tell older trans folks, the ones who didn’t have the internet to answer their questions and connect them with others, who had to risk it all to visit each other in person or forge their way in painful solitude for years or decades, what they can and cannot call themselves? 

I think it’s good that there is online discussion.  I think it’s great that we can continue to refine our language and the way we think about our identity and our community. Adding to the language we have to define ourselves is no bad thing.  

My plea, instead, is that we not subtract from that language. If someone feels that ‘transsexual’ is the term that best describes them, let them have it! If a trans woman feels that “MTF” is the term that most accurately describes her life journey, who am I to crawl up her ass with a lecture about how that language invalidates people who feel they never were their AGAB and don’t have a ‘to’ of any kind?  It’s not about them! She’s talking about herself, and telling her that her own self-chosen term is outdated or even transphobic (!!!!) is bullshit of the highest order. 

The weakness of progressivism is the tendency to turn on each other, and to spend so much time fighting amongst each other over minor details that we lose sight of our goals that, ultimately, align. Fighting over the precise connotations of different terms blinds us to the fight for genuine freedom to be ourselves. 

Terms for the broad community are likewise never going to sit exactly right with the entire community. Some terms are going to be better than others, of course, and get wider acceptance – but there’s no universally accepted, universally identified-with language. We do the best with what we have, and it’s important to remember that not everyone has access to the exact same information – the same tumblr posts, the same twitter feeds, the same subreddits, the same Facebook groups – that you might have seen. And that does not make people who haven’t seen those exact same posts/discussions/etc ignorant, misinformed, or malicious.

We do the best with what we have. Language is an imperfect tool, and all the more imperfect for its uneven transmission. If a person says “transman” when you feel they should be saying “trans man” – does correcting them further the movement? Does attacking them strengthen our resistance against the legions of people who want to see us crushed down and forced to conform to the M or F slapped on our birth certificates? 

Accept that there is a broad, diverse range of ways to talk about our experiences, our identities, and our struggles. There is no one right way to be trans, no universal lesbian experience, no single bi or pan definition that covers everyone precisely. There is no official measure of gay. 

The language we use matters. But our solidarity matters more. Choose the battles that will advance our freedom, rather than tearing down your siblings in arms.

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My captain forever