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… b’elanna and tom having mutual amnesia of each other while b’elanna is visibly pregnant and tom is still falling in love with her on sight and when she turns him down he just offers to be a platonic pal who can help her out because she’s lonely and raising a kid alone is gonna be hard and he has no idea she’s actually his wife and the father of her child but he just wants to be there for her anyway and b’elanna is so scared of letting people in but he’s got these earnest sparkling eyes and he really means it and and and [screams].

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70 years of Tom and Harry, “are we nearly there yet?”

one thing I CANNOT stand about the voyager fandom is the constant meme of "they would get home so much faster if Janeway would stop checking random planets and anomalies" like voyager is projected to take 70 YEARS to get back if they stay on course, most of them will be dead by then, why the fuck not stop at planets on the off chance that there's some fuckass alien bullshit that will get them there faster AS IT REGULARLY DOES

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Listening to Placebo’s debut album and losing myself in H.K. Farewell, and thinking about how AI and the record companies have killed the music industry especially when it comes to bands.

Thinking about how music is medicine for the soul and how I must be in the minority now I am over 40. Does anyone still listen to albums and search for the meanings of lyrics, and learn every nuance of a song and album?

Would AI ever give us something like Placebo? Who came about at the right time to stick two fingers up at Brit Pop. Music is devalued and so commercialised. How many centuries have our cultures relied on our poets and troubadours. How sterile will our world become?

Placebo may be one of the last bands we see still producing music in the next couple of decades. They were pretty young in the 90s and they are still making beautiful music.

I hope I am wrong, and maybe there is a hidden music scene I don’t see because I am older and have no time or money to investigate the live music scene.

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I wish they’d done a prequel episode “Val Jean”. It would’ve been fun to see how these two rubbed along against each other.

Star Trek Voyager "Caretaker"

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“Mummy, why do you like these sad songs?”

And I say, “they help me remember what it was like when I was your age.”

But deep down I want to tell her, “because when I was your age my mother hated me because I didn’t want the life she chose for me. She was a narcissistic, violent and emotionally abusive alcoholic, who managed to accidentally end her life on my birthday, which really messes with your head. Life was so bad that I spent 2 years planning to run away to sea as soon as I was 17. I hated being a girl, I wished I was a boy, because I am a STEM nerd. I had no money, not many friends, no internet and someone gave me their old Placebo and Depeche Mode albums because they didn’t really like them anyway, and I got through it.”

It’s sort of sad that my children don’t have the same connection I have with music, but really I’m just grateful I sorted my life out before they came along so they don’t have to sit and cry in their bedrooms listening to music feeling worthless.

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S2E5: Non Sequitur

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995–2001) ⤷ The Cloud