#voy: time and again

[grissomesque]

– Don't waste time with me, Captain. – I'll be back for you.

Star Trek: Voyager 1x03: "Time and Again"

[bumblingbabooshka]

Voyager should have done a whole episode that was just a series of horror vignettes of the entire crew in increasingly malicious/difficult/terrifying situations that start off seeming like normal Voyager antics (Every main character gets their turn to 'star' in one scenario somehow tailored to them sans Harry who's conspicuously absent and the Doctor) and end with like, Janeway once again heroically sacrificing herself for the crew after finally figuring out what's wrong only for the episode to end exactly how it began. Only the first scenario plays out until the very end, every subsequent scenario ends faster and more brutally than the last and as the episode progresses we see the crew retaining scars or pains from previous deaths we witnessed though to them these wounds are mysterious or they give a narratively coherent reason for having them. Though there are some clues as to what's happening this largely remains unexplained and unresolved until the NEXT episode which is 'The Killing Game'. Everyone would have loved this! They would have cheered and clapped!

[trillscienceofficer]

Star Trek: Voyager 6x02 “Survival Instinct”

It's nice to be on a Federation starship again. I'd like to stay aboard Voyager.

[thenextgalaxy]

Kathryn Janeway in her time and again outfit.

[rosalie-starfall]

[lostyesterday]

My Seven of Nine disability post getting notes again reminded me of how much I relate to her as a disabled character in Voyager, more so than other disabled characters in Star Trek who the writers actually intended to write as disabled. On top of what I talked about in that post, another reason I think I relate to her so much is that her feelings about her disability are so complicated and she’s honestly just so messed up in a lot of ways.

Characters like Geordi in TNG (who I really like to be clear) and several disabled minor characters (like Riva in TNG Loud as a Whisper or Melora in DS9) have such uncomplicated and easily palatable emotions about their disability. They are shown to be proud of their disability, not “letting it stop them” from being highly competent. This is meant to be a positive depiction of disability – even aspirational. And it’s not as if I think there’s no value in representations like this. But it’s so neat and tidy and I simply have trouble relating to that. And when these characters do have negative feelings about their disability, they generally take the form of an uncomplicated desire to not be disabled, which sometimes seems to be the only feeling toward one’s disability that able-bodied people can imagine having. Not to say that no disabled person ever feels this way, but it is at its core uncomplicated and easily palatable to an able-bodied audience, and fundamentally unrelatable to me.

In contrast, Seven’s feelings about her disability, usually abstracted in Voyager to be ostensibly about something else like her feelings about her past as part of the collective, are anything but uncomplicated. Seven does not have a neat and easily palatable response to being disabled or to the way she is treated because of it. She is at various times angry and frightened and ashamed. She is arrogant and pushes people away the more she feels she is dependent on them. She is constantly in denial about all these things – about her own fallibility. She is in pain, both mentally and sometimes physically, and pain doesn’t make people good and perfect and strong. Sometimes pain makes people angry and hardened and terribly lonely. Because the writers of Voyager didn’t seem to realize they were writing a disabled character – because they saw themselves presumably as writing solely about an ex-Borg coming to terms with what that meant, there was much less sense of restriction in terms of what Seven was “allowed” to feel. So Seven can be messy and complicated and her feelings can be contradictory and she can still be a sympathetic character.

Seven is not an inspirational or aspirational disabled character whose uncomplicated feelings are designed to reassure able-bodied audiences and make them feel comfortable. She is fucked up and complex and real. And there are so many problems with the way she was written in Voyager (so much unacknowledged sexism for one thing). But despite this, I still see a part of myself in her – a messy, complicated part that hurts so much to look at.

[chenziee]

My 10 day vacation is starting tonight, if you don't hear from me, i have crawled into the den (the living room), surviving only on the most base needs (one piece playing on an actual tv instead of 1/3 of my laptop screen), doing important survival things (doing jigsaw puzzles)

[nebulouscoffee]

for the ask game star trek voyager!!

Thank you sm friend! I already answered a couple of these, but the great thing about being very indecisive is I can give different answers each time <3

Favourite character: B'Elanna Torres, although Kathryn Janeway is a close second (I do have a Janeway-themed url, after all😌)

Second favourite character: okay, I'll talk about Janeway here! Gosh what a deeply flawed individual. She's awesome, and yes, incredibly charismatic and badass, but she's also haunted, complex, and scarily capable of hurting those closest to her (which she does. Like, a lot.) She ends up in charge of a seemingly endless mission, and she cannot afford to crack- not in front of her crew, and not even really in secret- so she begins this seven-year process of what basically amounts to dehumanising herself. Her arc is almost like a long-form merging with Voyager the ship- she is Voyager, and Voyager is her! She will protect her crew and bring them home. She will ensure they get to survive. (What happens to her? Well, she knows she can and will never be the same, but she can't and doesn't think about that right now). She made a mistake and her crew paid the price and the guilt of this eats at her every day, but she cannot afford to acknowledge it or she'll go insane. She tries so hard to stick to her principles but once she's violated a few she starts thinking of her soul as this already-corrupted thing- she knows she can live with it, so why not do something else that's a bit messed up! Better me than any of my crew, right! Like- no wonder she couldn't move on with her life once Voyager reached the Alpha Quadrant in the Endgame timeline. No wonder she had to travel back in time to die in the past. She is so changed by the events of this show that the past the only place she can truly belong. Ugh!!!! I have so many feelings about her!!

Least favourite character: I dislike voyager!Q so much I actually skip all his episodes on rewatch lmao. And I'm someone who actually quite enjoys him on TNG! He's this all-powerful all-knowing omnipotent being who could literally be off anywhere any time doing anything he wanted, and yet he chooses to keep coming back to this one starship just to flirt with the most boring man alive. He literally got kicked out of the Q Continuum for having too much of a hyperfixation on his blorbo. That's funny! And compelling! Unfortunately the Voyager writers did not understand what made this work and decided his only trait was *irritates everybody* (including the audience lol). What he and Picard had was a funny back and forth, a snarky Quodo-style "these horrible old men deserve each other" rivalry. What he and Janeway have is sexual harassment played for laughs 🙃

The character I'm most like: Kes - I went into more detail here :)

Favourite pairing: B7 if we're talking non-canon ships! From canon, uhhhh I guess whatever was going on between Janeway and Chakotay in 'Resolutions' & Tom/B'Elanna before they got together

Least favourite pairing: I don't know if I have one? C7 is the popular answer but I literally straight up forget it exists because it's such a small part of the show, like it doesn't even show up for reals until the finale. I'm not a fan of the way they wrote Tom/B'Elanna for basically all of S5 and S6, and the damage control they did in S7 wasn't bad imo but also felt too little too late. I also dislike Kes/Neelix, though I do think it had potential to be a really interesting breakup arc lol

Favourite moment: That scene from 'Year of Hell' where Janeway has given the order to abandon ship and everyone else is so reluctant to desert the bridge and it looks soooo banged up but she still won't abandon it.... and then Tuvok gives her that hug goodbye..... and she glances at that little gift Chakotay made for her which she didn't have the heart to recycle..... and she talks about what Voyager means to her, and why she has to go down with the ship...... my heart😭

Rating out of 10: Objectively an 8/10, I think the early seasons are GREAT and around midway through they do sort of run out of ideas thanks to their commitment to being as episodic as possible and sidelining more than half the main cast as well as refusing to let the guest cast build up or develop. The show genuinely suffers for it imo! There's a lot of wasted potential, as well as biases of the time that prevented it from reaching true heights- I also wholeheartedly think this show ruined the Borg lol, now 75% more human and 200% less intimidating! However it's also got so many positives- I adore all the main characters so much, and the premise itself gives me so many feels that in my heart it's an 11/10🥰

[troubleclefs]

inspiration for this one was "I discovered how to access other brushes on Krita and they are very fun"

for the entwining red & green event prompt "silver"

[wearily-confused]

fuck FUCK fuCkkKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!

[grissomesque]

[bumblingbabooshka]

Spock Meets Tuvok & Hates Him (Suggestive Under Cut)

Continued for Patrons

[justapalspal]

one time this girl got mad at me for speaking spanish with an american accent (which was the best I could do at the time) and like that definitely, looking back on it, nerfed any confidence I had in speaking spanish. I was but a young pal then. baby’s first not-english language and all that

[muiromem]

Tom Paris Looks™ I wish were in Star Trek: Timelines

(because I like them and want more Tom Paris options to collect on a silly game, so I spend my time doing stuff like this)

Stranded outfit from "Gravity"

Polaric (to go with Polaric Janeway), from "Time and Again"

Akritirian Prisoner (to go with Prisoner Kim), from "The Chute"

Away Mission outfit from "Blood Fever"

Duplicate Tom's Groom outfit from "Course: Oblivion"

Fair Haven (to go with Fair Haven Harry Kim), from "Fair Haven" and/or "Spirit Folk"

Medic/Nurse Science Uniform from "Author, Author"

Grease Monkey jumpsuit from "Vis à Vis"

Brig outfit from "Thirty Days"

[spectralan0maly]

to the holograms in the holodeck programs, everything outside of those programs are eldrich horror

[room215]

my hot star trek take is that for 95% of its runtime threshold is normal. like i remember seeing this one post claiming that it only got insane about halfway through but honestly even then it’s pretty par for the course, like yeah it’s weird but up to that point i’ve seen weirder in the franchise so it’s whatever. and then BOOM the last five minutes hit and they hit like a fucking truck