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Explaining "Resolutions" for those who have never watched it.

Janeway and Chakotay end up contracting a disease from an insect bite and have to be trapped on a planet so that the disease does not evolve. And the episode exists because someone decided to make a fanfic. The thing is, you don't know why the hell only the two of them got stung.

(Later, they'll find out (in Coda) that going on a mission together might be a terrible idea, and that these romantic escapades always end in tragedy. So after that, they'd rather go to the holodeck for a moonlit boat ride or something, a risk-free romance.)

Janeway is resilient about it, but Chakotay was already super ready to have a family life with her and create a family with 10 children is even more resilient.

look at his eyes, he's already thinking about how beautiful she would look in a wedding dress

Meanwhile, you can see how shaken and deeply saddened the crew is. (Seriously, they are, it's not irony). Some are mutinying, others are lying in the fetal position crying after a tantrum (right, Harry?), and Tuvok is probably dealing with a massive Vulcan headache.

(But Tuvok will later vent all his pent-up Vulcan rage in the most common way people express their anger: by stopping others from having sex. And he does this a few times during Resolutions.)

As soon as they arrive on the planet, Janeway tells Chakotay to call her Kathryn, and the way he reacts makes you wonder, "Did he get 'call me love' instead of 'call me Kathryn'?"

The fact is, from the look on his face, you can tell he started planning their wedding at that moment.

Janeway and Chakotay don't seem too shaken by the fact that they'll spend their entire lives together on that planet. Which would certainly change if Neelix or Tuvok were in their place. Janeway is more optimistic and believes that she'll find a cure and, after that, the two will embark on an Adam and Eve adventure through space, with two children on a ship as they return home. But Chakotay is more of a dreamer and wants to live and build a family there, where it's more comfortable.

And then he builds her a bathtub as a wedding gift. But since not everything is rosy, a rival monkey appears in the game. And Kathryn is very interested in this monkey, no, not romantically! The monkey would be their pet and the key to the cure. At least that's what she thought. Chakotay didn't like the monkey very much, but since it gave him a moment of Kathryn totally relaxed in a towel, he started to thank the monkey for it.

The truth is that Chakotay is a gentleman and very patient, but… after Resolutions, we had a new definition for the phrase "he looked at you like he was dying of thirst and you were the last Coca-Cola in the desert."

Chakotay is also the perfect husband, and he makes that very clear to her. He builds not only bathtubs, but headboards, gives massages, cooks, and builds huts and boats. Kathryn felt a little uncomfortable that Chakotay was already planning their life together so quickly, and he began to worry that she would reject him, since the ring was almost finished. So he had an idea: if he hung the ring around the monkey's neck and made him come to her, she would never say no.

Then, out of nowhere, a plasma storm happens and destroys their house. The ape tries to warn Janeway, but she is too distracted by Chakotay's biceps and skillful hands, so she is late getting home while the ape nearly kills himself to warn her that a storm is coming.

"Hey little monkey, are you following me?" "No, damn it! Look at the fucking storm, are you stupid?"

In the end, she understands and tries to go back, but gets caught in the wind on the way, where she is saved by Chakotay's wonderful and very strong arms.

They go back to the cabin and hide like a honeymoon couple under the table. Boy, is he protective!

After this, Kathryn momentarily gives up her obsession with the cure and Chakotay realizes that it is time for the proposal. But he controls himself and waits a little longer. In the meantime, he tries to train the monkey to carry the ring and makes plans to build a big house and also a boat.

"She touched my hand, oh my God! Very married!"

After living a life as a couple, Kathryn realizes that things were getting too intimate. So she put on the pajamas that covered 90% of her body because she felt like she was setting the parameters. No, she wasn't afraid of Chakotay at all, she did it so she wouldn't risk taking her clothes off and jumping into his lap. The pajamas were difficult to take off and would give her enough time to think about what she was doing before taking them off completely.

But Chakotay doesn't care what she's wearing, because he's not that kind of man and because Kate Mulgrew could be attractive even if she was dressed in a potato sack.

Then her shoulders hurt and guess what? Coincidentally, he's a masseur. So he offers to give her a sensual shoulder massage. And she loves it.

But things get out of hand, and while she seems to be doing some sexy faces and imagining what would come next, Chakotay is drawn like a magnet to smell her hair.

And then, of course, they would have sex. But Kathryn wakes up, as if someone had thrown a bucket of cold water on her, and remembers that she has a fiancé. And at that moment she thinks: "Shit!"

She thanks him and says she's going to sleep, but a few minutes later, Chakotay notices her rolling around in bed, because lust and guilt won't let her sleep. So, she goes to talk to him and says that they need to have parameters and can't feel so much lust for each other.

So Chakotay tells her an ascient legend to tell her he loves her. And she cries, why? Why does she cry? Because, you know… She loves him too. "Oh my God, how cute, she cried because they are such good friends!" No, my friend, she cried because he was the most amazing man in DQ and she really wanted to have sex with him, but she couldn't. I would cry too, wouldn't you?

So they hold hands like this and then have sex.

Meanwhile, the Voyager crew lives in chaos and Tuvok, after dealing with the Vidians, possible mutinies, low crew morale and Harry lying in the middle of the bridge crying, considers retiring.

But Janeway and Chakotay are very happy… He finds her as a happy wife planting tomatoes and falls even more in love, he loves her like this, working the land and growing his food, after all he plans for the family to grow soon.

So he invites her to see and give her opinion on his new projects, first a boat, and then he would talk to her about the project for the bigger house, he wanted to know how many children she wanted to have so he could plan the bedrooms.

But it turns out that while they were living this fascinating love story, Tuvok had already pulled out half of his own hair while dealing with the riots, the Vidians and Harry lying in the middle of the bridge, kicking and screaming because he wanted his mother back.

So Tuvok decided to take revenge again, doing what he liked most, with an evil Vulcan laugh in mind: Stop them from having sex (again).

Then, Tuvok delivers the news and in the scenes above, we can see how happy Kathryn and Chakotay are that they are cured and returning to Voyager.

Look how super happy she is.

So they clench their fists because they can't punch Tuvok.

And when they return, she once again assumes the position of the tough Captain, and with the end of the chapter, it seems that this Adam and Eve or Romeo and Juliet romance ends here. But the truth is that the two will spend the next 5 years eating each other with their eyes and crazy to have sex… And of course, flirting shamelessly in front of anyone.

The funny thing, kids, is that even today, we still see people saying they were just friends. Strange, right?

End of story, now it's time for bed.

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I feel deprived that we never saw these two meet, though they likely crossed paths at some point in their careers.

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Tom Paris is a knob lover

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I think the boldest prediction Star Trek ever made was that we would be using Celsius by 2024 across the nation. That said, they accurately predicted the temperature today so y'all: keep your eyes out for the bell riots :-|

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McCoy: I'm serious Jim, I've never seen Spock that angry before.

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loved the kids teasing chakotay about how nervous he is to see janeway again. like my guy TOTALLY gushed about her on the planet while they were rebuilding the protostar and i bet dal & rok followed him around the ship singing "CHAKOTAY & JANEWAY SITTIN' IN A TREE" when they noticed him grooming himself in the mirror while on their way to their rendezvous with voyager.

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Chakotay spent his time on Voyager destroying shuttles in spectacularly contrived ways. If you count ramming the Valjean into the Kazon ship in the pilot, I think he's got a round half-dozen crashes to his name.

Then on Prodigy, they made Chakotay a captain, gave him a shiny new starship, and installed a vehicle replicator on it.

It's a dumb, subtle joke with a twenty-year payoff that maybe only three people in the audience actually caught. And it's a perfect example of why I love Star Trek Prodigy so much.

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Literally chakotay all of season 2

Like look lol

Love how concerned and thoughtful he was. Just like old times 🥹.I literally love you so much prodigy chakotay. I wanna strangle him

It reminds me of this little doodle I made of a younger version of him lol

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some janeway and chakotay moments that make me believe they're a canonical couple

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STAR TREK: PRODIGY || 02.14 "Cracked Mirror"

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ok now i want a live action mirror verse of voyager but make it adult friendly ;)

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Nothing tops the longest slowburn ever aka Tiva: 2005-2024 🤪

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Sorry to out myself as a smosh enjoyer, this is a very trying time

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this is the first time I'm witnessing smoshblr, smoshtwt, and smosh ig crumble (in the best and or worst possible ways) before my eyes.

I FEEL YOU. I SEE YOU.

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I have never before experienced mind games played upon me like I experienced today. 12 hour parasocial panic mode lockdown because two people who I do not know personally decided to launch a full scale attack on my psyche. What a way to keep me humble. I’m so vulnerable to these funny little people in my screen and they know it. Congratulations to the happy couple et cetera. I can finally breath knowing that we have an answer.

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Star Trek pairings as annoying couples you know;

B’Elanna and Tom: Loud fights in the McDonalds parking lot/making out in the booth near the restroom in the McDonalds

Worf and Jadzia: Walk around with their hands in one another’s back jeans pockets

Riker and Troi: Saw you from the other side of the club and really dig your vibe (POV: you are a silver fox with a starship)

Picard and Crusher: Divorced but go on vacations together. Pretty sure they’re sleeping together

Janeway and Chakotay: Pretend they don’t know each other and roleplay meetcutes. Are both utterly delighted by the worst most overused pickup lines you’ve ever heard

Odo and Kira: Constantly changing pronouns and talking about their plans for Pride (not annoying very valid)

The O’Briens: You and all your friends are sexually no more than two degrees of separation from them. First time you meet you think they’re homophobic but they’re cool. Cooler than you. Cooler than anyone alive

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"I've thought about having children, but I must say I never considered having them with you."