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I love the sound of Voyager’s nacelles moving into place.

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S5E16 Dark Frontier, Part 2 There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER 6.02 “Survival Instinct”

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i mean, setting aside the fact that tuvok definitely asked for his consent and he definitely gave it and tuvok didn't just descend on his private mental space like truth coming out the well to shame mankind no questions asked, i think this is still interesting. bc it's clear that who was harmed the most from the mind-meld was tuvok himself--to the point that janeway basically sets up a regulatory barrier at the end of the episode between tuvok's mind and everyone else's. as if this is the natural conclusion for tuvok's empathy-in-praxis, by sharing his mind with a murderer he is becoming the murderer, not just observing him. and the violence of the mind-meld is not just the act of "penetration" (like, okay) but the "joining," in which a non-violent person must share in the first-person violence of another. so the question of whether tuvok's duty requires him to understand why suder did what he did, including exposing his innermost self in a super vulnerable way, is an implied premise of the episode's question of what to do when you've got an unapologetic murderer on your ship in the middle-of-nowhere.

the idea that there is violence inherent in sharing mental space with someone is definitely a thought. the other more famous example of a meld in star trek is spock reading the mind of the horta and the way that scene plays out is that spock is, in a sense, directly experiencing the horta's pain and distress. and then there's the episode where kes looks so deeply into the matter of her plants that she excites the molecules and burns all the plants from the inside out. the idea that consciousness has to be protected from and protected against because it's to do with one's perception and way of being in the world and is therefore powerful and fragile from every direction--it's an interesting understanding of autonomy. and the mind.

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this should've been the thesis statement of this episode

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i'm really invested in the idea that tuvok and kes, as two telepathic aliens on a ship full of mostly non-telepathic aliens, serve as each other's voices/protectors when the other's mind is compromised or hurt---and when kes starts to lose control, tuvok can act as that control---and when tuvok is prevented from wielding his mental principles, kes can recognize that and set up the boundaries he would normally choose for himself.

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER - S5E15 Dark Frontier, Part 1

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Galactic Gazetteer: J'Gal

Class: uncertain

Type: moon

Location: orbit of ChaKana, D'Ryb J system, Federation-Klingon border

Quadrant: Beta

Appearance: SNW "Under the Cloak of War" (2023)

Fighting fact: formerly the site of Athos Colony, a Federation outpost, and a Starfleet military attachment.

Another fighting fact: site of the Battles of ChaKana and J'Gal, among the bloodiest battles of the First Federation-Klingon War.

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S5E15 Dark Frontier, Part 1 You underestimate the rest of us. And you underestimate the Borg.

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just a worried space husband, bringing his space wife a flower ↳ Star Trek Voyager: 3x15 - ‘Coda’

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Captain Kathryn Janeway

Digital drawing done in Procreate. HB pencil.

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this picture is just pure chaos

we got smol wesley trying to hide himself from bald man in the turbolift(and failing)

bald man doing that sassy pose with his hands on his hips and u don’t even have to look at his face to know he’s disappointed

Data in the corner LAUGHING

And is that a floating head in the left??

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does anyone else hate wesley crusher so much, they wish he spontaneously combusts and just never shows up again? just me?

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Star Trek TNG + Texts

This one is specifically Wesley Crusher because my kid obsession with him came back the other day