#voy cast

[trillscienceofficer]

check out these really cute pictures of Garrett Wang, Jennifer Lien, Ethan Phillips and Roxann Dawson... I don't think I've ever seen them before!

[From “Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman (1995)]

[t-rina]

Now what’s going on here

[poisonedkanar]

Star Trek Voyager 100th Episode celebration!

[lodessa]

I’m interested when kate mulgrew and robert beltran apparently had their falling out. I mean they were probably dating since season 1 (the neck kiss clip) but kate was also dating kolbe?

As I recall, the rumor is that they were at odds in the later seasons (like 6-7 maybe). Honestly, it seems like the VOY set was a pretty miserable place by the end with Kate taking out her frustrations on Jeri to the point where she basically caused her panic attacks and also just generally being burnt out and negotiating her last couple season contract to be less intense, and Robert being bitter, sulky, and checked out because he was mad about being sidelined and not really given any meaningful material, which in turn alienated his cast mates and the directors etc.

It definitely seems like if there was a falling out it would be after Kate got together with Hagan (there is a marked difference in how she talks about Robert Beltran and Janeway/Chakotay at that point). Before that . . . we will probably knew know for sure if they dated, were just fucking, or were simply flirty and handsy in that way actors often are. She was dating Kolbe from very early on, but Kolbe was also married when she got involved with him, so it may not have been exclusive and I also would not put it past Kate (from her own self characterization) to play men off one another and use jealousy to get the man she wanted to do what she wanted.

[lesbiancalkestis]

Obsessed with how the reason they’re all losing it (and Roxann is doubled over) is because Bob Picardo said something hilarious (and potentially dirty?) right before they took the picture. He looks so pleased with himself. It’s so funny.

[nyukis]

sentado en un costado un tanto apartado de la fiesta, espera hasta que alguien se encuentre lo suficientemente cerca de sí para compartir, sin que se lo pida, las ideas que cruzan por su mente. ‘ ¿sabes que le falta a esto para ser un capítulo de euphoria? ’ inquiere, esperando llamar su atención sólo con aquello. ‘ una pelea ’ agrega. ‘ y tú te ves como buen candidate para empezar una ’

[nebulouscoffee]

That scene between Tuvok and B'Elanna from 'Resistance' wrecks me actually... It's such a great moment for both characters (and actors, Tim Russ is SO underrated ugh) which highlights the differences between the two of them so well- yet, ultimately shows that under certain circumstances (in this case, torture) the distinctions between people... don't really matter. In an episode full of political violence, this moment is so significant, and I don't even really think I have the smarts to articulate why but I'll try lol.

TORRES: We told you already. We don't know anything about the Resistance.  AUGRIS: I've heard that many times, from many people. Take him.  (The forcefield is lowered, and Torres grabs the guard that steps through.)  TUVOK: Lieutenant, stop! That will not help either of us.  AUGRIS: He's right.

Everything about the way this scene (and the final shot where she's shoved back into her seat) is framed makes B'Elanna appear small, helpless- and embarrassed at her own helplessness- in that cell. We see her fidgeting, unable to sit down, constantly trying to break out or improvise her way out of the situation (she gets electrocuted earlier while trying to tamper with the circuitry)- it makes me wonder whether Tuvok was chosen to be tortured not because they believed he was more likely to have information, but because B'Elanna was more likely to be demoralised watching helplessly as he's dragged off. Augris's line implies that he's "broken" a great many people in the past; a tactic to instil fear and a helpless sense of inevitability in them both (torture doesn't work as a reliable way of extracting information; this is stated in dialogue in other Trek episodes such as 'Chain of Command' so the assertion here is at least not that- but what it does do is demoralise the public involved in resistances like this one.)

Later, B'Elanna is still trying to escape (do the guards know she's doing this? Are they just not intervening?) and she hears him screaming. Tuvok is someone who considers letting others witness him lose control over his exterior a huge (indecent, violating, humiliating) vulnerability, and the fact that he's the one being tortured is Not Insignificant in this context but like- it could've been the other way round. And B'Elanna knows that. It could've been her, and perhaps a small, scared part of her is relieved that it wasn't her, which is an awful way to feel (and if there's one thing B'Elanna hates, it's feeling like a coward). Also- the sheer violation of this, for B'Elanna to have witnessed him in this state, against her will- to later see him bloodied and weakened and flung in a cell, to have heard him screaming in pain- without his consent, knowing she can never un-witness it, knowing it wasn't her fault but still being put in such a situation where she has now played that role... Does this experience forcibly rewrite their respective conceptualisations of each other? Was Tuvok even thinking of her- somewhere outside, listening, worrying, blaming herself, fearing for herself, feeling ashamed, feeling so aware of him and her and the shared humiliation of this- when he was in there? Did seeing her upon coming back out change things? Could it ever change things? Did her presence, even as an outsider, whose memories of this event will always be (visually, at least) the constructs of her imagination- somehow make what happened in there real? Does her role as witness- and her memory thereby carrying some sort of legitimisation of what happened to him now, however warped and coloured by her own perspective and fears and embarrassment- make things better for Tuvok? Does it make things worse? Would he rather have endured this in secret? Would it have been better if she were a total stranger? Would it have been worse? And does any of this even matter when, for a moment, your life (your personhood, your goals, your presence) was completely reduced to what you "must endure"?

AUGRIS: We don't have to ask your friend any more questions, if you give us the answers.  TORRES: I told you I don't.  (Torres stops herself from hitting Augris, who leaves.)  TORRES: I'm sorry. I guess I always assumed that Vulcans didn't feel pain like the rest of us. That you were able to block it out somehow. Until I heard. Was that you I heard?

And the way B'Elanna's voice breaks when she asks this, as if she was still somehow hoping the answer would be no... There are complexities to this which again I don't feel like I'm smart enough to articulate, but like- yes, B'Elanna would like to hear that it wasn't him because that would mean her friend wasn't tortured "that badly", he wasn't put through "enough pain" to scream that way, and it's easier and more comfortable to think of violence (and violation) as something you can rank on a scale, and the lower on it Tuvok's experience ranks, the better! the more easy it will be for them to "move past" this! - but also, there's this element of "I want the answer to be no because that would mean I would not have been a participant in your humiliation, just some stranger's whose voice I don't have a face to put to, which is much better than having to know what you (my friend, my colleague, my respected senior officer, someone I will have to see every day on the bridge, someone I know prefers to keep vulnerabilities hidden even deeper than anyone else I know) sound like when you scream. But also... it doesn't really matter, does it...? Whatever he says, there always was still a moment- however brief- where B'Elanna heard a man screaming in agony, and thought it could've been Tuvok. And in that moment, that possibility was created. Now, it will always exist. That moment will always have happened. It will always have done something to her. It will always exist between them; an ugly, uncomfortable bond.

And this is getting into even more things I'm not smart enough to articulate, but like- it's pretty significant to me that B'Elanna is one of the few characters who never actually tries to poke Tuvok into Doing An Emotion, even normally. She doesn't consider trying to get him to crack an entertaining pastime, unlike others (and I'm sure her experiences of feeling like an outsider- always- feeling Very Visible As Klingon, play a role in this- "all they ever saw was my forehead" does not lend itself so kindly to "let's see if we can get Mr. Vulcan to smile", "why, Tuvok, it seems you've been corrupted by Human (read: default) rituals after all!"- it's a light-hearted joke for many, sure, but what if Tuvok genuinely considers the idea of smiling in the presence of others reflective of a humiliating loss of control and deeply debasing?) I think it's pretty clear from canon that he's just being himself; he's not trying to be a killjoy or trying to be mean, he's just Vulcan. And this is one of the few moments in Trek I can think of when a Vulcan's perceived "control" over their emotions is not connected with their reluctance to laugh or cry or say something sentimental, but... this. B'Elanna is shocked, she's horrified, she demands an explanation as to how he can possibly go through something like this and not feel the desire to "fight back" in a way she understands- and the way she cannot grant him the pretence of not having witnessed, here, the way she can't just shove this in a box, pretend she never heard, because she's just so fundamentally honest- and Tuvok (who is also so fundamentally honest), in a painful moment of openness, tells her exactly what his reasoning is. He lets her see. He lets her hear; on his own terms. He wants for her to understand (for her to witness?) his (very Vulcan) distinction between resistance and endurance; his understanding of endurance as its own form of resistance. Idk it's such a quietly powerful and like- devastating- moment for me... So many people try, over and over, thoughout the show, to get Tuvok to break his Vulcansona- try to make him smile, make him say tender things, make him get irritated- just to see if they can do it. Just to see if he'll ever crack. I bet B'Elanna wishes she never had.

[sudaca-swag]

pero de que mierda hablas julia como van a ser los rubios el epitome de la playa si pasan dos segundos abajo del sol y ya están poniendose aloe vera en todo el cuerpo que país del orto que tienen por eso no progresan

[seariii]

I HATE EVERYTHING WHY WAS HER TL LIKE THAT I HATE THIS SO MUCH I SWEAR IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO MY SON IM KILLING EVERYONE AND THEN MYSELF THIS ISNT FUNNY ANYMORE IT NEVER WAS

[jone-slugger]

Unpopular opinion, but I don't feel Voyager s.6 is so Doctor/Seven-centric as people say? I'm probably completely wrong but this is entirely based off of ✨️vibes✨️

[trillscienceofficer]

I have once again opened Pandora's box (ie I'm looking at cast pictures) and I'm giggling helplessly at this pic from the Voyager panel at Star Trek Las Vegas 2015. POV you fucked up big time

[t-rina]

What’s going on here o.0

[dormiloncito]

i am once again watching anime, and one of my faves was doing a crossword, and before being called to battle, the last word he filled in was funeral. could they have tried to be a little more subtle...

[arches-and-angels]

Some Casual Bez Sketches since I haven't made enough of 'em yet Bezaliel really, really likes jewelry, and he has a lot of them that he's gotten as gifts from others. Some, are angels on the council, others used to be humans and other beings of that nature before they disappeared. I could imagine getting some of his collection from Greed as well. Fun fact: Bez's wings aren't made of light like Gabriel's and other angels- void's are actually real wings with feathers and stuff. They are actually kind of big compared to his size, making them somewhat cumbersome and hard to lug around. Distaste forms in his mouth if voi stares at them for too long.

And yes, the cuffs are embedded into his arms. Surprisingly, he likes the way they look, even if they limit his abilities quite a substantial amount. He can live with them now even if he hates the council for putting them there in the first place

[kaybonbon]

A dumb video I made of Tim Russ discussing his most famous role in acting.