Voyager took over my life…

…and now a Voyager tournament has taken over my blog! I love Star Trek in general, I’ve seen VOY and TOS multiple times, TNG and LD once and I’m making my way through DS9 (it takes forever to watch something with a friend), Prodigy and ENT.

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

The Ultimate Star Trek Voyager Tournament

The tournament has ended, and we have our winner!

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There are 160 episodes in total, and they will face off in Round 1.

All the double episodes are counted as one episode.

No episode in round one goes against another episode from the same season.

I have tried to make the pairings as random as possibly whilst making sure that episodes from one season will be as equally matched with episodes from the other seasons as possible.

Because the pairings are random, there will be some painful matchups and great episodes will be lost in the early rounds BUT that’s where the wildcards come in.

In Round 2, 80 episodes will face off with each other.

After all the matchups in Round 1 and Round 2 are done, there will be a Wildcard Tournament 1 with the eliminated 120 episodes to select 4 episodes that go on as wildcards in Round 4.

After Round 2, the first round of Wildcard Tournament 1 will be posted, and then the first half of the matches from Round 3 will be posted after that. The second and final round of Wildcard Tournament 1 will be posted, and then the rest of the matches from Round 3 will be posted.

In Round 3, 40 episodes will face off with each other.

In Round 4, 24 episodes will face off with each other. 20 episodes are from Round 3 and 4 episodes are from Wildcard Tournament 1.

After all the matchups in Round 3 and 4 are done, there will be a Wildcard Tournament 2 with the eliminated 32 episodes to select 4 episodes that go on as wildcards in Round 5. This is the last Wildcard tournament, and there will be no more wildcards in Round 5-8 of the tournament.

In Round 5, 12 episodes are from Round 4 and 4 episodes are from Wildcard Tournament 2.

In Round 5-8, 16 episodes will become one.

The tournament brackets will be updated continuously as the results come in.

If any match result ends up being tied, I will choose the winner :)

Poll links

Round 1:

Some stats and thoughts about Round 1 + poll links

Round 2:

Some stats and thoughts about Round 2 + poll links

Wildcard Tournament 1:

Round 1 - Match: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Round 2 - Match: 1 2 3 4

Round 3:

1. Caretaker vs Waking Moments

2. Bride of Chaotica! vs Living Witness

3. Macrocosm vs Blink of an Eye

4. Coda vs Muse

5. Resistance vs Relativity

6. Dreadnought vs Latent Image

7. Message in a Bottle vs Parallax

8. Night vs Day of Honor

9. Resolutions vs Child’s Play

10. Eye of the Needle vs Deadlock

11. Dark Frontier vs Year of Hell

12. Counterpoint vs Course: Oblivion

13. Future’s End vs Concerning Flight

14. Death Wish vs Prime Factors

15. Threshold vs Equinox

16. Workforce vs Timeless

17. The Killing Game vs Barge of the Dead

18. Scorpion vs Emanations

19. Shattered vs The Thaw

20. Meld vs Endgame

Some stats and thoughts about Round 3

Round 4:

1. Waking Moments vs Macrocosm

2. Bride of Chaotica! vs Coda

3. Relativity vs Message in a Bottle

4. Latent Image vs Night

5. Resolutions vs Year of Hell

6. Deadlock vs Counterpoint

7. Future’s End vs Equinox

8. Death Wish vs Timeless

9. The Killing Game vs The Thaw

10. Scorpion vs Meld

11. The Q and the Grey vs Scientific Method

12. One vs Worst Case Scenario

Some stats and thoughts about Round 4

Wildcard Tournament 2:

Match: 1 2 3 4

Round 5:

1. Macrocosm vs Relativity

2. Bride of Chaotica! vs Night

3. Year of Hell vs Future’s End

4. Deadlock vs Timeless

5. The Killing Game vs Worst Case Scenario

6. Scorpion vs Scientific Method

7. Resolutions vs Threshold

8. Counterpoint vs The Q and the Grey

Some thoughts and stats about Round 5

Round 6:

Relativity vs Year of Hell

Night vs Deadlock

The Killing Game vs Counterpoint

Scientific Method vs Resolutions

Round 7:

Year of Hell vs The Killing Game

Night vs Scientific Method

The Semifinal Match:

The Killing Game vs Scientific Method

The Final Match:

Year of Hell vs Night

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

The tournament was finished a week ago, I’m sorry for posting this so late. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by life… Anyway, here’s a placement list for all the episodes after this tournament!

1st place: Year of Hell

2nd place: Night

3rd place: The Killing Game

4th place: Scientific Method

5th-8th place: Deadlock, Resolutions, Counterpoint, Relativity

9th-16th place: Threshold, Macrocosm, The Q and the Grey, Future’s End, Worst Case Scenario, Scorpion, Timeless, Bride of Chaotica!

17th-25th place: Meld, Death Wish, The Thaw, Coda, Waking Moments, Message in a Bottle, One, Latent Image, Equinox

26th-44th place: Caretaker, Parallax, Eye of the Needle, Prime Factors, Emanations, Resistance, Dreadnought, Day of Honor, Concerning Flight, Living Witness, Dark Frontier, Course: Oblivion, Barge of the Dead, Blink of an Eye, Child’s Play, Muse, Shattered, Workforce, Endgame

45th-80th place: The Cloud, The 37’s, Projections, Twisted, Persistence of Vision, Alliances, Prototype, Innocence, Tuvix, Flashback, The Chute, Remember, Alter Ego, Blood Fever, Distant Origins, Real Life, Displaced, The Gift, The Raven, Random Thoughts, Hunters, Demon, Drone, Extreme Risk, Once Upon a Time, Thirty Days, Nothing Human, Tinker Tailor Doctor Spy, Riddles, Memorial, One Small Step, Collective, Life Line, The Void, Lineage, Friendship One

81st-160th place: the rest of the episodes :)

Year of Hell was a predictable but worthy winner! I wish Distant Origins, Living Witness and Blink of an Eye had made it further, but I was happy to be surprised during the tournament. Thanks again to everyone who followed this long tournament, I loved hearing all of your opinions and gaining new appreciation for episodes <3

[defconprime]

[siwym-archive]

8 deaths and 1 life

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

[gesssekai]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S1E4: Time and Again

[retroscifiart]

Concept art for V’ger by Syd Mead. From Star Trek The Motion Picture Inside The Art & Visual Effects. Brilliant new book by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

I just saw Deep Space Nine’s Family matters and…

I LOVE ISHKA SHE’S THE BEST.

Rom’s such a sweetheart, and the episode really develops his character, but his mother is now my ferengi character ever, followed by Nog of course. Andrea Martin does an INCREDIBLE job of making Ishma very funny whilst also giving her integrity and so much warmth. My favourite thing about Deep Space Nine, right noe anyway, is the Ferengi.

[cigaradd]

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[captainjanewaysdqvoyagercore]

This is precious! I think they'd have been like sisters if Kes could have stayed on Voyager and known Seven. 🥹

[letseyx]

Revolutionary Rom

[startrekswimsuitspecial]

It's getting hot in here! I'm happy to announce it's time for the FIFTH annual...

Are you sweaty? Are you craving ice cream? Are you down on Risa with nothing to read but the back of your shampoo bottle? Don't worry, because the Star Trek Swimsuit Special is here for your cooling summer entertainment!

How to participate: Give your Star Trek (any series) fave some splashy summer fun in a swim suit! Text and image based creations are invited. Send in your drawings, paintings, fanfics, collages, or whatever else you come up with. All skill levels welcome, no special qualifications required, just have fun and don't be shy!!

How to submit: Send your submission to this blog via dm.

Deadline: Submissions will be open until July 20th.

Release: The zine will release on July 26th. It will be available for free; any voluntary donations from readers will go to the Palestine Childrens Relief Fund.

So gather your towels and inflatables, put on your bathing suits, goggles and snorkels, and dive into Star Trek summer fun! Looking forward to your submissions 🌊🌊🌊

[cigaradd]

OOOH tthis is interesting

[gesssekai]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S1E7: Eye of the Needle

[solarpunkfool]

Fuck it, let’s imagine the better world.

Let’s imagine labor in exchange for value that increases our life span, our joy, our humanity. Working because the work is GOOD and the work makes GOOD and does GOOD. That every job has dignity and value, and is treated with respect. 

Let’s imagine systems in place judged by how they serve EVERYONE, not on how much profit they generate. 

Imagine Amazon’s infrastructure dedicated to thrifting, warehouses filled with closed-loop clothing and repairable technology, warehouse workers’ labor treated as skilled and respected as stewards of our resources. 

Let’s imagine infinitely accessible public transportation. Municipal fleets of electric vehicles in the rural areas and far suburbs, trams and trolleys and buses closer to urban centers, trains crossing swaths of country to connect people across the land. Every mile of road or track there’s a wildlife crossing, no more deer or raccoons or rabbits dead on the side of the road. 

Let’s imagine no landlords. Let’s imagine housing as a DIGNITY rather than a luxury. 

Let’s imagine people amassing too much wealth by mistake and being EMBARRASSED about it, because it is embarrassing to have so much, like a child who won’t share their toys. They hurry to give it away, they compete to build libraries and better schools and erase medical debts and fund arts initiatives. 

Let’s imagine kindness. Let’s imagine every parent attending their trans or gay child’s wedding. Let’s imagine disabilities honored, space made for different needs and abilities and preferences. Let’s imagine apologies, and reconciliations, and new understanding, and deep breaths and long hugs. 

Let’s imagine accessible playgrounds at every train station. Solar panels on every roof. Community gardens on every block. 

Let’s imagine learning things because we want to learn them, and honoring knowledge because knowledge is good, not because it’ll make us money. It is good to know that our bones are made of carbon, which is the same thing as stardust, or that the mantis shrimp can see colors that I can’t, or that wolves love their grandparents, or that whales mourn, or that trees talk through lightning sent underground through mushrooms, even though none of it will ever make me a dime. 

Let’s imagine teaching gardening, beekeeping, animal husbandry, forestry, sustainable materials, and responsible stewardship of resources as classes in school. You learn math, and language arts, and music, and also how to plant a raspberry vine, find a queen bee, feed a baby goat, identify sick and healthy trees, fix your clothing, and carefully use and reuse things, from kindergarten until you’re 18. 

Let’s imagine countries competing to GROW and EXPAND their rainforests. 

Let’s imagine whole species coming back, raising our children to know and love the sea turtles, the rhinos, the tigers and the condors. 

Let’s imagine every human fed, no child knowing the sound of a gunshot indoors, and every need met. 

Let’s imagine. 

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - S2E25 Tribunal

[weenwem]

Amok Time

[hope-for-the-planet]

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.

Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

I’ve recently seen the DS9 episode Through the Looking Glass and, unlike most episodes in the season so far, I did not enjoy it. I did not really like Crossover either, but I really loved the original Mirror Universe episode in TOS. At first I thought that I might not like the mirror universe episodes outside TOS because the concept is too silly or something, but then I realised that wasn’t true because I love Prodigy’s mirror universe episode.

So, why do the mirror universe episodes in TOS and Prodigy work, and why don’t they work in DS9? I think it’s because the mirror universe is at its best when it’s exploring the bond between characters. Yes, the campiness is fun, but it’s just the icing on the cake. In TOS mirror universe episode the bond between Kirk and Spock is explored, and in Prodigy it’s the bond between Janeway and Chakotay. Their bonds may look different in the mirror universe, but they are still there, and even extend between the mirror and non mirror versions of themselves.

So, what bond do we explore in DS9’s crossover? Kira… and evil Kira? Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun and campy (and hot), but it’s such a waste to see evil Kira with Garak as a henchman because Kira and Garak don’t really have much of a relationship in the prime universe. Also, it would have been the perfect opportunity to explore the bond between Kira and Odo if he was her henchman instead. The best part about Through the Looking Glass is getting to see Sisko reunite with his wife, but they don’t actually explore the relationship that much. It would have been so interesting if they actually made her evil, but still in love with Sisko. We could have had Sisko giving fatherly advice to evil Jake too but no, instead he hooks up with mirror Kira and Jadzia… yay….

I really wanted to love the mirror universe episodes in DS9 because they could have been great if they focused on relationships in the show that we actually care about, but unfortunately I think they’re huge missed opportunities.

[sevnofnines]

STAR TREK: PRODIGY 2.16 “Ascension: Part 2”

[mulbunnie]

I’m not here, I’m where nobody can reach