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it's so weird to me that prodigy is leaving Netflix in like ten days but doesn't get a leaving soon banner on the cover? Like if you watch an episode you'll get a little note in the corner saying it's on its way out, but if you're not and you don't follow media news than you'll just be blindsided

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"What you need is some editorial skill in your self-expression. Between impulse and action there is a realm of good taste begging for your acquaintance."

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i just started Voyager its fun

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Kate Mulgrew as Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager (S4E08, 1997)

Stand down red alert.

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I'm exhausted

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SEVEN OF NINE - STAR TREK: VOYAGER S6E11 Fair Haven

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u ever have a stress dream so crazy u wake up feelin like scrooge being given a second chance at life

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Murf

I redrew a 2024 drawing of Star Trek Prodigy's Murf, the best Security guard ever...but older

2024

Vs

2025

Im genuinely impressed with my improvement

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Ramblings on Kathryn Janeway

I hate it when people criticize Kathryn Janeway by calling her inconsistent thus incompetent. She was not. She was new to the job.

People who are new to something have a lot of growing pains before they come into their own, even if they've done a similar job for years before.

Voyager was her first solo command assignment, and her first mission was supposed to be low hanging fruit. All she had to do was run into the Badlands in this state-of-the-art ship that, in theory, should very easily be able to catch the banged up Ford Pinto of a ship captained by Chuckles.

There was never an intention of sending her on some extended mission in which she was isolated from literally every person in Starfleet Command.

New-to-the-Job people leaders are not left alone to solo command in a vacuum because they still need mentoring and training on the job. Like all people in new positions, they need oversight as they learn and grow. Like all people in command positions, they should have easy access to counseling so they can further develop their emotional intelligence.

She had NONE of that.

What she had was a history in which she was raised by a career Starfleet officer and officer's wife, a solid Starfleet career of her own, and the ethics and morality that comes from those two things combined. In the world from which she came, which was post TNG but pre-Dominion War, she was exactly the right officer to be promoted to captain because she strongly held onto the belief that the Prime Directive was to be followed, exploration to be expected, and people above all else.

However, as she progressed through the Delta Quadrant, she had to learn and come to terms with the fact that all three of those things were no longer absolute in their truth. We see those growing pains in episodes like 'Tuvix' and 'Equinox'.

She wasn't inconsistent. She was floundering because what she thought she knew didn't align with her actual reality, and she had no one to turn to for guidance, mentoring, or support.

The Kathryn Janeway we know at the end of Season 7 is not even close to the Kathryn Janeway of Season 1. The older Janeway is road wary, jaded, a little cynical, and, while she still believes in the Prime Directive, exploration, and her people, she has learned through trial and error that all of those things live in a gray area, that it's all relative. It is not an absolute. She hits that stride around Season 6, and that's when you see her start to make command decisions not just on the ideals and principles of Starfleet but on her own judgement based upon the experience she's finally gained as the CO.

In the seven years we watched her, what we saw was her growing into her rank. You don't get promoted and are immediately a well-seasoned, strong, agile commander. A lot of that comes with time, experience, and mentorship. She had two out of three of those things.

All things considered, she was a damned good captain and extremely competent.

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Every word that starts with an N should have a silent G in front. Gnorway. Gnuclear. Gnervous system. Gnipples.

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it