#also t'lyn my beloved

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Klingons mocking vulcans on lwd

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Recently started rewatching Voyager. Some thoughts

the gods that be at youtube started recommending me Star Trek clips again recently, so I'm rewatching Voyager for the first time in maybe 6 years, and noticing so many things i didn't when I was a kid. here are some of them:

the Maquis officers have different rank pips than everyone else! I saw this on Lower Decks with Provisional Ensign T'lyn, so I guess that means the Chakotay, B'elanna, etc are all provisional officers, since they're technically wanted terrorists? cool! love attention to detail!

the first season at least has much more of an overarching story than I thought back then. I think i skipped through too many episodes to see what they were doing. I've seen people complain about the starfleet/maquis tensions not being addressed enough but so far they've appeared pretty often, and you can see the two crews growing together overtime. I like it, tbh. Not so much pressure to watch every episode but you can still see things are changing.

also overtime as the energy crisis is resolved the crew are seen using the replicators more and more!

Neelix is actually less annoying than i remember. maybe he gets Flanderized in later seasons, but so far so good. Still not my favorite alien crewmember in Trek, tho (Dr. Phlox my beloved <3)

I think when I was a kid i had a crush on Janeway, but now I just want to be her :(

Voyager remains the sexiest starship ever, tiny nacelles and all. Sleeker and meaner than any ship on screen before or since, imo. I know some people are attached to the Defiant, but honestly the ship design there is weird. It looks like a flying credit card scanner. What carried Defiant was the crew, and the story, certainly not the looks.

Speaking of skipping things, I forgot how bad all the """""Native American""""" stuff they put into this one is. Man, how could the showrunners not tell this stuff was fake as shit when it was being given to them??!

WHEN DO WE GET SEVEN I WANT SEVEN NOWWWWWWWWWW

I cried the first time I heard the opening theme. Absolutely undeniably the best theme of any of the 90s shows. No thoughts, head BWAH BWAH BWAH BWEH BWAAAAW BWAAAW BWEH BWAH BWAH BWAH

Ok I'm out of things to say now I think. God, I love this show.