#Delta Quadrant

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Obscure Star Trek aliens 106

Fennim

I love this guy. He's one of my favourite one-off aliens. Such an elaborate, fun design.

Fennim is part of the Think Tank, a roving council of Delta Quadrant super-geniuses who clashed with Voyager. One of the best things about Think Tank was that it had a genuinely diverse group of alien intelligences, of which only two were humanoid.

Fennim doesn't appear to have a mouth but that doesn't stop him speaking the most complex language Starfleet has encountered, completely impervious to the universal translator.

[usstrekart]

"Counterpoint" (S05E10, Stardate UNKNOWN) presents an intriguing premise with Voyager intruding on another alien race's space and being forced to submit to their authority. It does gloss over the finer points of the Prime Directive violation, but the mystery of whether or not Kashyk is sincere is solid.

For this episode poster I wanted to emulate a propaganda poster that would capture the side of the anti-telepath Devore.

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#725

Voyager is maybe my least favorite Trek show. Not necessarily because I think it's the worst in quality but just because I think it's the most disappointing in terms of making good on its premise, which is SO cool and they ultimately do SO little with. The Delta Quadrant should have been drastically more alien than anything else that had been encountered before but it really wasn't, and bringing the Borg in as the Big Bad again was so boring. You're supposed to be in an entirely new, strange place- give me something else new and strange to go with it! Also, the integration of the Maquis and Starfleet crew was way too easy. It should have been a source of major on-going tension for so much longer and formed basically the entire show's main secondary arc. There should have been political tensions and backstabbing and grabs for power mixed in with having to begrudgingly learn to work together and care about each other and even as the crew became bonded by circumstance the power struggle should have never entirely subsided. Also the sense of the ship being in more dire straits in terms of resources and needing to improvise and patch things together could have been used for so many more interesting things and emphasized further. In general its just such a great mix of really, really amazing set-ups and deliveries that really don't use them to their fullest at all.

[deepspacewhore]

CAPTAIN DIRTBAG

This is the first part of a script I wrote because I needed to see the woman hot-mess dirtbag trope (Eleanor Shellstrop/Fleabag/Tracey from Chewing Gum. you get it) in a Captain's role in Star Trek.

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Part I:

It's the 25th century, exactly 100 years after Voyager got yeeted into the Delta Quadrant. The Starship Sojourner is on red alert - again.

Captain Vatal and her crew are struggling to fight off an alien warship for the fifth time in two months. Shields at 30%. Weapons at 20%. Several of the crew are injured.

Vatal is trying her best not to be shaken but the fact of the matter is they're getting their asses kicked. She is an uptight perfectionist so this string of ass whoopings is rattling her to her core. When she got assigned this mission - find and make contact with 12 planets and 12 species charted out by Starfleet Command - she was pleased. She had a reputation at Starfleet as being a top student and her first mission as Captain had been a success. But this second mission was a bigger deal - bigger ship, bigger crew, deeper space - and she was absolutely beefing it.

BOOM! An explosion.

Ensign Jared (Young, handsome, frazzled): Captain, the hull's about to go!

Captain Vatal: Reroute auxiliary power to the structural integrity field now!

First Officer Cres (severe, capable, irritable): Rerouting -

Another explosion.

Vatal: Lieutenant, evasive maneuvers!

Lieutenant Denalia (hot, mysterious, agile): The warp core is offline! We won't be able to make it out fast enough!

Vatal: Reroute auxiliary power to the warp -

Cres: There's only so much auxiliary power to reroute Captain! You can't just say that everytime!

(Explosion)

Vatal: Just fucking do it! Goddamnit Cres!

Cres: REROUTING -

Another direct hit. The ship begins to speed away faster. But the alien warship is close behind them. It's a shark swimming after a guppy.

Denalia: They're gaining on us Captain.

Vatal: I see that Lieutenant!

Cres: They're charging weapons again.

Vatal: I'm aware Commander!

Cres: So what do we do?

Captain Vatal is panicking. Everyone is looking to her for direction. She is frozen in time and space. It's random, but her mind goes back to her graduation day at the academy. As if in slow motion, she can see her parents, professors and classmates smiling at her, top of her class. They attach a pin to her lapel. She feels like the luckiest ensign in the world.

BOOM.

A huge explosion. A blinding light. It's over, Vatal thinks. But suddenly her vision comes back and her eyes dart around wildly. The bridge is still intact. The crew is still alive. And through the viewscreen - an alien warship that has been completely blown up.

Jared: Wha- was that us??

Cres: You control the weapons, did you fire?

Jared: No...

Cres: So it wasn't us (under her breath) idiot...

Denalia: Who was it?

Vatal: Or what was it?

Cres: Captain we're being hailed.

Vatal: Open a channel.

They hear a woman's voice slurring her words and a rather raucous crowd in the background. It's as if someone's calling from a party.

Keej: Ohhhh my god hello?

Vatal: Hello. This is Captain Vada Vatal of the Starship Sojourner. Who am I -

Keej: (Slurring) Ohhhh my god you guys what WAS THAT?

Vatal looks at Cres. The crew listens in confusion.

Denalia: She sounds concussed.

Keej: That thing...was MUTHAFUCKIN BIG!

Cres: I think she's...

Vatal: Who is this?

Keej: Mmmm who is THIS?

Vatal: I just introduced myself.

Keej: Look I'm not gonna say. But you're welcome. You guys owe us a torpedo, man - pffffft (cackles) (To someone in the background) Did you guys hear that? I said they owe us a torpedo. No forreal cuz like we didn't have to save them - HUH?

Cres: (Mouths to Vatal) What the fuck?

Vatal: Where are you located? Are you on a starship? A shuttle?

Keej: No further questions your honor. End transmis-shing. (To the background) Wow. That lady sounded like a real bummer. Captain Snooze, amirite. Like, GRAY alert-

Vatal: You're still on the comm line.

Keej: Pffffft (laughing) That's my bad. End transmish-een. (To the party) Hey what's a Captain gotta do to get another shot of kanar?

Vatal: Cres activate long-range scanners. Where the fuck are these people?

Cres: (Activates) Nothing Captain. We're not picking anything up.

Vatal: Ensign, modulate the electron fluctuation on the scanners and try again.

Jared: (Modulates) Nothing.

Vatal: Puzzling. (sighs) But I'm not gonna stick around and wait for another warship to show up. Denalia, take us out of h-

BOOM. The ship rumbles on impact.

Jared: Captain something's crashed into us. Damage on decks 3, 7 and 8.

Vatal: (angrily) What the actual hell?

Cres: We're being hailed.

Vatal: Open the damn channel! HEY you ...JERKS!

Cres: (Rolls her eyes) Got em.

Vatal: What the fuck are you guys trying to do?

Keej: (muffled, to her crew) Fucking turn it off. Just shut it off, there's no point now...

Slowly, a small starship goes from invisible to visible - and its port bow is smashed into the Sojourner's docking station.

Keej: (Big drunk sigh) Hey guys...so...party foul...

[janewaysevenalways]

The Captain and her Wife Seven of Nine.

#Janeway x Seven #Space Wives

#The Captain’s Wife #J/7

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Can you do a B7 (Seven/B'Elanna) Reg, where Seven breaks into B'Elannas private Quarters and they end up in Bed together? 

-> I sure can! Let´s give B7 some special Cotton Candy Surprise!    

  Cotton Candy

B'Elanna Torres was still in the engine room long after her shift had ended. She had been told to go and enjoy her evening, but something inside the half-Klingon told her that if she left her workplace without completing the task she was working on, everything would go down the drain.

After she had satisfactorily completed the task and checked once again that the shift that was now responsible for the engine room was doing everything right and would not cause a catastrophe while she was enjoying her evening - the spirited lady left the engine room and made her way to her quarters. 

Her thoughts revolved around Tom Paris for a while. 

The pilot boy had asked her out on a date several times - but Lana had no interest in someone who, like her, was always looking for arguments, breaking the rules and constantly throwing compliments around as if they were money. 

No, if he continued like this, Lana was sure that she would slap him. Otherwise Paris would not learn.

But now she wanted to go to her quarters first, she wanted to take a shower and then maybe drink some wine - of course the replicated wine didn't come close to the Klingon blood wine - twice as strong as whiskey and B'Elanna really likes this drink - but unfortunately it only tastes good on the home world or when it is made by someone who knows what they are doing.

When the half-Klingon entered her quarters, she noticed that something was different than usual - the light in her bedroom was on and that made the fighter suspicious.

 With her hands clenched into fists, she wanted to make her way to her bedroom when Seven of Nine turned the corner.

"What are you doing in my quarters!"-  Lana snapped at the former Borg drone and was angry and outraged at first that the blonde was in here.

In secret, however, during the time that Seven had been on the ship, Torres had started to develop feelings for the emotionless, exhausting woman. 

They were complete opposites and Lana was reminded of a saying from her grandparents - opposites attract - but that had absolutely nothing to do with the seriousness of the situation. 

Lana wanted to know what Seven was doing here and what gave the attractive lady , the right to break into her quarters like that. So the half-Klingon wanted an answer from the blonde.

"I've been waiting for you," was Seven's answer and Lana noticed a strange undertone in the answer.

"That doesn't give you the right to come into my quarters - how did you get in here, Seven!" Lana wanted to know and didn't know whether she should laugh at the situation or react angrily.

"I bypassed the security code to your quarters and thus gained access - this is for you"

Seven held out a bright pink cotton candy hanging on a wooden stick to the astonished chief engineer and Lana thought it was a bad joke.

 Was Seven's explanation of why she had come here and broken into her quarters - a little cotton candy that she should try.

"Don't hold the cotton candy in my eyes", growled Lana, not really understanding the motives of the pretty blonde - who would definitely look extremely beautiful with her hair down. 

Nevertheless, the dark-haired woman took the wooden stick with the cotton candy and waited in vain for an answer from Seven.

Of course, Lana could have simply thrown the former Borg drone out herself - but the following words, which Seven then deigned to say - changed Lana's mind.

"The composition of the cotton candy is a special, modified one - it strengthens certain emotional regions and - it could help you with your problems - a shower would do the trick too - even if you seem attractive",  said Seven and only seemed to have realized the last part of her sentence seconds later - she wanted to correct it, but the broad grin on the half-Klingon's face already spoke volumes.

"I knew you found me attractive - doesn't that go against your logical way of thinking?",  Lana smirked and found it amusing , that Seven wanted to try to correct her statement. 

Maybe her words meant something - maybe they weren't just a sentence that Seven had stored away at some point.

"You'll get an answer - if you try the cotton candy," the blonde said after a few seconds, trying to negotiate a compromise.

"Why should I do that?" Lana replied, looking first at the cotton candy and then at Seven's waiting face - who had blinked - wait, was that supposed to be a seductive wink?

"Have you seen a ghost?" Seven asked and a short

An amused smile appeared on her face. Maybe it really was the cotton candy - or Seven had simply thought of the emotion-enhancing part, because the pink, fluffy-looking thing on the stick smelled like absolutely normal cotton candy to Lana and the pink color didn't seem to have anything abnormal about it.

"There's one in front of me - and it's exhausting," Lana murmured before she deigned to eat some of the cotton candy.

It tasted sweet, was sticky and triggered something in the combative lady. Not only because she always ate it at fairs as a child and it gave her a nice, safe feeling.

And Torres saw again how incredibly much she felt for Seven.

 Despite the Borg implants she still had to wear, she was a very attractive young woman.

"I think I understand what you mean, Seven," said Lana and her brown eyes suddenly sparkled seductively. 

Whether her emotions were heightened or not, she noticed again that her feelings for Seven were getting stronger and Lana could see the same sparkle in the blonde's blue eyes. 

It was like an automatic process that was activated - both of them cautiously walked towards each other.

B'Elanna quickly put the cotton candy on the nearest table and then devoted her full attention to Seven. Forgotten was the fact that she actually wanted to be angry with Seven - because she was in her quarters without permission - because the way Seven looked at her - she seemed to feel the same way and definitely not because of the cotton candy.

"Don't be afraid"-  Lana whispered to the blonde, who wanted to hold out her hand but still hesitated.

"I'm Borg - being afraid is irrelevant - I just don't want to break your arm with one quick movement",  Seven replied and this typical sentence only made Lana grin for a few seconds, but then she grabbed Seven's hand and pulled her a little closer to her. 

Lana was surprised that Seven let her do it without resistance.

 And now the former Borg drone seemed to have no problem with wanting to touch, because she carefully ran her free hand, which was not being held by Lana, over the half-Klingon's cheek and then brushed one of her short brown strands of hair out of her face.

"You awaken emotions in me just with your look, your manner and your body - what is the correct next step?" , Seven wanted to know in a quiet whisper, and desire and devotion now sparkled in her blue eyes.

"That is the correct next step"

Lana put her hands around Seven's neck, leaned forward a little and then kissed the blonde.

Seven was surprised by the quick action, the unusual demanding pressure on her lips and the positive feeling that spread through her. Well, the thing about the cotton candy was a lie - but not that she felt anything emotional for the half-Klingon - and Seven liked what was happening one hundred percent. She returned the kiss and felt the desire grow. 

After a few seconds they separated their lips and Seven looked into the cheeky, sparkling brown eyes that prevented her from thinking logically and relevantly.

"You would look so beautiful with your hair down," Lana breathed to her after a kiss on the neck and with a clever, quick and somehow skillful movement opened the hair clips that held Seven's long blonde hair together in a tight braid. 

This fell with a swing over the shoulders of the former Borg drone and a brief smile appeared on Seven's lips - before she grabbed Lana's butt and let out a quiet growl.

"If my conclusions are correct - and they will be - the next procedure will end with a dislocated arm and bruises - this feeling as if my abdomen wanted to pop out from the inside - what is it?" Seven wanted to know and let out a quiet gasp - she didn't know that it was desire - the desire to do something with Lana right now and right away.

"Let's find out - maybe it will just end up in  bruises - but something tells me you'll be good in Bed Seven - come on, just follow me!" - ana whispered to Seven and pulled the former Borg drone into the bedroom.

                                                    THE END

[isagrimorie]

I've really enjoyed your posts about Janeway as a Tactician. And was wondering... do you have any thoughts about Janeway's handling of the Borg encounters? 👀👀👀

I end up defending her a lot in Scorpion. I think given the risks she faced and the info she had, shes quite creative and clever, and continues to be in their later encounters too.

I'm glad you're enjoying my rambling posts about Janeway as a tactician! It's one of my favorite underrated skills Janeway has!

re: Scorpion -- Janeway made the best out of a bad situation and even when they found out the Borg instigated the war with 8472. But the fact was 8472 were too blinded by fury -- they point blank stated their intentions: All life will be purged and the weak will perish.

I don't see anything around it because it's better the devil they know than the devil they don't.

Plus, any force that can body the Borg cubes and a Borg planet is already terrifying. And, even on In the Flesh, an episode I don't love, 8472!Boothby also mentioned they can't be reasoned with at that time.

re: Dealings with the Borg

IMO, one of Janeway's best strategies in dealing with the Borg is acquiring Local Knowledge in the form of Seven of Nine.

Yes, Janeway's decision to keep Seven was made out of compassion, empathy, and a sense of duty to restore her individuality.

But also, Seven is the best and greatest resource Voyager has in surviving Borg space and most of Delta Quadrant. Especially since Voyager has crossed the part of space where Neelix's expertise in the Delta Quadrant is no longer relevant.

I think a lot of her tactics are good, although she did get a wee bit cocky when planning to steal from the Borg. Twice. First to steal the transwarp coil and second, to get Seven back.

In battles against the BorgJaneway's had a lot of luck on her side, a Seven's knowledge, repurposed Borg tech, playing on the defense, while keeping a good distance.

And when the time arises: Voyager hits hard, hits fast, and runs really far away.

The only Borg encounter I'm not keen on is Unimatrix Zero and that's because I don't think the two-part episode is good. Also, Delta Flyer gets sacrificed just so it can be a decoy to get Janeway, B'Elanna, and Tuvok onboard a Borg cube to be assimilated.

TLDR, Any fight with the Borg the Voyager and its crew walks away from is already great.

[captainhattersvoyagerstuff]

Caretaker Part 1

Okay, so I just finished Caretaker, the 2 part season premiere of Voyager. It's been a while, so there's stuff I forgot was there. Some of it was good. Some of it was, omg. But let's see if I can post my review, which is a series of notes I made while watching. I hope for more discussion later.

That thingy you're running into means you're screwed, Chakotay

Star Wars Crawl

Okay we start out with words on a screen. There’s this group of federation citizens called the Maquis who didn’t agree with Starfleet’s moronic treaty that are fighting the Cardassians and some say they are heroes and the Federation says they are outlaws.  Yay I saw the Maquis on Ds9!  I can’t wait to see more of them. (cough)

Scene 1: Maqui Ship. Chakotay and Maquis crew trying to outrun Cardassians.  Yay!  Chakotay is a really assertive leader here.  I’m excited. We have a coherent tetryan beam.  I hate those incoherent ones.

Wave hits them and light and we have Voyager credits.  Good theme song. Love the orchestra.

Scene 2: Federation penal colony.  In New Zealand?

That's right, bitches, I'm here.

Janeway shows up at the penal colony to find Tom Paris who could maybe find the Maquis cause he served with them before they kicked him out just like Starfleet did.

I'm really tough. I don't have Daddy issues.

She tells Tom he is an observer and he whines about being a good pilot. Except for the pilot error that got three people killed, oh nevermind. Just wait five minutes, Tom.

Scene 3 Tom is annoying on the shuttle to Voyager

Okay I have a question. Tom is wearing a Starfleet uniform. Why do observers still wear a uniform?  Don’t you need to earn that?

Also: Pretty Betazoid Ensign Stadi (don't get used to her) informs Tom that Voyager has bio-nueral gel packs.  They are so much more efficient.  Unless there is cheese on board.

Scene 4 Harry is nearly conned for first time on space station ds9. Harry's theory: get con artists off your back by buying everything. Tom saves him cause he's as big of a con as Quark.

Oh, hey, is that Quark from Ds9 that other show you should watch?

Scene 5 Tom and Harry meet the Doctor

The Doc is super bitchy to them. I met he's gonna make stuff hard for Tom.

Scene 6 Janeway talks to fiancee

His name is Mark Johnson. Really. Unknown Truth: Tuvok's real last name is Smith. Anyway, the show has a few minutes to tell us who Mark is and why Janeway loves him. So they talk about her dog.

Nice knowin' ya, Mark

Janeway's dog is named Molly. She is expecting puppies. She likes her doggy bed. I am officially more invested in her dog now.

Scene 7 Junior High mess hall

Doctor and First Officer Cavitt, two of the most nondescript white guys ever (doctor isn't even named), gossip with Harry about what Tom did cause it's junior high and oh no these guys don't like Tom what will he do?

Scene 8 Wonder why it's called the Badlands

Plasma storms, more coherent beams, stuff is fine. What could go wrong? What's that bright light?

Scene 9 Voyager go boom

This is going to take FOREVER to fix!

Ship is transported 75,000 light years to the Delta Quadrant and they hit the breaks kinda hard. The ship is all messed up. So is Janeway's hair.

Where is my HAIRSPRAY?

A couple of shots later:

Seriously? It's hair magic!

Turns out that all command officers (including that pesky doctor and first officer) except Janeway and the entire medical staff are dead. What kind of bad karma does Janeway have? They get scanned and beamed off the ship.

Gonna stop here for a break so it's not so long. Stay tuned next time for Farmville and the evil corn on the cob lady.

[kafkaspestcontrol]

in which my brother learns about neelix

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"STAR TREK VOYAGER" Retrospective: (5.12) "Bride of Chaotica!"

"STAR TREK VOYAGER" Retrospective: (5.12) "Bride of Chaotica!"

One of the aspects of "STAR TREK VOYAGER" that I have truly enjoyed over the other TREK shows were the holo programs featured or the episodes centered in the two Holodecks. One such holo program was "The Adventures of Captain Proton" stories created by Voyager’s Chief Pilot, Tom Paris. Captain Proton was featured in at least four episodes – three in Season Five and one in Season Seven. But without a doubt, my favorite happened to be the third Proton story titled, (5.12) "Bride of Chaotica!".

In short, "Bride of Chaotica!" began when Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeil) and Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) are enjoying the latest chapter of his Captain Proton program in one of the Holodecks. They are forced to leave it running when spatial distortions trap the ship and disrupt their control over the computer. Voyager’s command staff attempted to discover a way to free the ship from the spatial distortions. Unfortunately, extra-dimensional aliens that exist in a photonic state cross over from their own dimension through a distortion located in the holodeck. They are detected and attacked by Proton’s archenemy, Dr. Chaotica (Martin Rayner), who believes them to be from the Fifth Dimension, and whose holographic (photonic) weaponry - though harmless to humans - is deadly to the aliens. Eventually, the crew discover the war being waged between Chaotica and the Fifth Dimension and must defeat him by playing out their roles as the fictional Captain Proton (played by Tom Paris), his sidekick Buster Kincaid (Harry Kim), and Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People. Paris convinced Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) to take on the latter role.

I might as well be frank. I LOVE "Bride of Chaotica!". I adore it. It is one of my favorite TREK episodes of all time. What am I saying? It is my favoriteTREK episode of all time. Screenwriters Bryan Fuller (creator of "DEAD LIKE ME" and "PUSHING DAISIES") and Michael Taylor created a first-rate episode filled with imagination, action and humor. Having the characters of Tom Paris’ Captain Proton holoprogram get drawn into a galactic war with an actual group of actual aliens that are photonic was a stroke of genius. And Fuller and Taylor, along with director Allan Kroeker, did an excellent job combining an original story with great characterization.

The cast was excellent, as always. Robbie McNeill and Garrett Wang revived their old magic as Tom and Harry – the two crewmembers who got more out of the Captain Proton holoprogram than anyone. Come to think of it, McNeill also managed to generate strong chemistry with Tim Russ (Lieutenant-Commander Tuvok) and Kate Mulgrew. The latter was superb as Queen Arachnia, although I think she may have been a little guilty of too much mugging, while expressing Janeway’s disregard for the Proton holoprogram. However, I loved her scene with Neelix (Ethan Phillips) that showcased Janeway’s caffine addiction. With that scene, she may have truly earned the nickname - Queen of the Delta Quadrant:

JANEWAY: "Coffee, black." NEELIX: "I'm sorry, Captain. We've lost another two replicators –" JANEWAY: "Listen to me very carefully because I'm only going to say this once. Coffee – black." NEELIX: (To replicator)"Coffee, black. While I've got your attention there are –" JANEWAY: (Holds up hand)"Coffee first."(drinks/inhales)"...Now, what's the problem?"

And then there is Dr. Chaotica, portrayed with great relish by Martin Rayner. The promise he had shown as a rich and over-the-top character in the Season Five premiere, (5.01) "Night" was fulfilled in this episode. The late Nicholas Worth ably supported both Mulgrew and Rayner as Chaotica’s ruthless, obsequious henchman, Lonzak.

As much as I love "Bride of Chaotica!", there is one aspect about it that disturbed me – namely the crew’s reaction to the Captain Proton hologram. It is quite apparent that they view it as nothing more than a childish piece of fiction for those of the immature mind. And it is quite apparent that they also view Tom Paris’ participation in it as childish. And they are not the only ones. I have read some reviews of the episodes. While most tend to sneer at it, along with anything else labeled "STAR TREK VOYAGER", at least two of them did not. Julia Houston seemed to view the holo program not only as Tom Paris’ personal fantasy, but also as an example of his imagination. Like me, she seemed annoyed by the inability of others to appreciate Paris' imagination . . . and his right to his own fantasy. Now Jim Wright did seem to enjoy the holo program and appreciate its uniqueness. But it also seemed that he viewed it as a sign of Paris’ immaturity . . . and as something that the Chief Pilot would have to give up in order to develop as an adult and ideal Starfleet officer.

Quite frankly, I agree with Julia Houston. I was very annoyed by the other Voyager crewmen’s snobbish reaction to Captain Proton. Okay, perhaps they did not care for it very much. But was there really any need for them to openly sneer at what he considered recreation and fantasy? What law was there that Tom’s pursuit of recreation had to be culturally high-brow or meaningful? Janeway, of all people, had no business to sneer. This is a woman who had spent two seasons indulging in her Lambada One holo program – a "Jane Eyre"/"Rebecca" Gothic romance. I must also admit that I was a little put-off by Jim Wright's assumption that Tom needed to give up the Proton program in order to become more mature as an adult. To me, this attitude seemed like a clear lack of appreciation for Tom’s vivid imagination. Perhaps it was more important to him and other "VOYAGER” fans that Tom become the stand-up Starfleet officer that Owen Paris and Janeway wanted him to be. Happily, Tom never stuck to his declaration of giving up the Proton program. He and Harry were still using it in the early Season Six episode called (6.05) "Alice". And a late Season Seven episode called (7.23) "Homestead" revealed that Tom had created another B-movie style program called "Invaders from the Ninth Dimension".

Personally, I like the idea that Tom Paris would eventually become that successful holonovelist sometime in his future. But in the VOYAGER relaunch novels, he became a permanent Starfleet officer, achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and Voyager’s new first officer. Ugh. What a waste of a vivid imagination that created the likes of the Proton holoprograms. In real life, I would compare Tom to the likes of George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, J. Michael Stracynski and the two writers who had created this wonderfully imaginative episode – Fuller and Taylor. A girl can imagine - can't she?

[oscartheghost]

delta quadrant has a lot of planets whose culture is basically being at some guy's never-ending house party

[pluralzalpha]

Obscure Star Trek aliens 135

The Sikarians

These guys might be the most boring people in the Delta Quadrant. From the planet Sikaris, over 70,000 light years from Earth, they like to tell stories and... that's pretty much it. They do have a very nifty piece of technology which lets them beam over distances of up to 40,000 light years, but it's part of their planet so not easily pinchable. Which caused problems for some of the Voyager crew when they tried to nick it.

Bafflingly, the Voyager writers intended for the Sikarians to be recurring antagonists like the Kazon and the Vidiians, but no one liked them so they never came back. According to Star Trek: Picard, they were eventually assimilated by the Borg, and I'm not sad about it.

[usstrekart]

I am impressed with the "He-said she-said" story in "Retrospect" (S04E17, Stardate 51658.2) because the real villain of the story is someone who jumped to a supposed victim's defense so quickly. The Doctor made a massive mistake and has to live with it, but sadly we won't get to see that development.

I went through several ideas of how to convey Seven's torment in my poster, but nothing was really coming together. What I came up with is Seven with a muted colors palette. Can she trust her memories in the midst of her survivor's guilt?

[chieftyphoonchaos]

The Orville - Another Univers

 Dinal : We'll just have to see how ready you are....

Ed Mercer : I'm Stewie…or borg, victory is mine

[smartsmears]

I'm surprised we never saw her in Star Trek Prodigy season 2. It makes sense in hindsight because the plot had no space for a detour in the Delta Quadrant but it did feel like we'd go back to them.

[quarkfancam]

slightly fucked up moment in voy s7 'shattered' where they show adult icheb and naomi working on voyager. YOU'RE STILL HERE??? You genuinely spent up to your mid 30s and maybe beyond on this ship presumably still traveling to the alpha quadrant? Are you operating this ship by yourself? Is this a generation ship? Is everyone dead except for you and the people with the extended lifespans?? Will you get home in 40 years with noone left alive from the original crew with only people who've never even seen 'home'???