it is a good day when janeway has a gun. can we talk about tuvok’s undying loyalty that goes beyond treasured vulcan logic. any time he’s anywhere, he’s by janeway’s side. they are best friends your honor
Janeway is so so reassuring everytime she comes on screen im like :) it’s all okay now :) Would love to serve under her I genuinely believe she’d do virtually anything to save me if I was in danger :) Unlike say Kirk who’s too gay for his first officer to think most of the time
“Macrocosm” (S03E12, Stardate 50425.1) is a fun episode, with bits of continuity, character growth (for The Doctor), and action hero Janeway - complete with quips. There are some glaring issues in logic that require brushing past but the end result is enjoyable.
Janeway became Sarah Conner in this episode, so it only makes sense for the episode poster to mimic that same franchise, right?
Voyager should have had an episode where the command trio beat the absolute hell out of each other while blaming each other for being stuck in the delta quadrant as the fever pitch of a rising tension that was building throughout the episode.
Like, they're absolutely being pushed to do it by some outside force. Maybe it's a telepathic being - maybe it's that they're stuck in some arena or an alien court or a time loop only the three of them are aware of - no matter the specifics, the sentiment behind their words has to be true and it has to be something they've been keeping back for months, maybe years. That fear and hatred and blame that doesn't really have an actual target because it's not actually rational but 'who's to blame' doesn't have to be capital T true to feel true. If Chakotay hadn't been in the badlands, If Janeway hadn't made that choice, If Tuvok hadn't supported it...
"You trapped us here. It's your fault. If you hadn't-! If you hadn't-! If you hadn't-!" are just echoes of "I trapped us here. It's my fault. If I hadn't-! If I hadn't-! If I hadn't-!" Because at the end of the day more than being angry or hateful they're despairing in their own ways.
Episode probably has a somber end - they beat whatever it was and it's a victory! They won by working together even after they beat each other half to death! But after the celebration we see them alone in their quarters...silent. Gazing out at the stars, into a candle's flame, at that same family picture before turning away. Because even though they won they're still there in the delta quadrant. Is that really victory?