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[aenslem]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER || Life Line

[couldntbedamned]

If you come across anyone who starts off with "Scientists don't want you to know..." you need to understand that they're lying. They're completely full of shit and working a grift.

Because they've never met or spoke with a scientist.

Scientists WANT YOU TO KNOW. Scientists want you to know SO MUCH. Scientists would be THRILLED to teach you EVERYTHING they know in EXPLICIT DETAIL. Scientists LOVE to share information and their findings and their theories. They don't want to hide anything, ever. They are SO HAPPY to share.

[tuulikki]

This goes for historians, too!

[forestgirl19]

She’s so funny! I LOVE HER😆

[paksthestoic]

one thing i love about about kathryn janeway is that at least twice a season, she is put through circumstances that would legitimately qualify as a villain origin story if she decided to go off the deep end, but she remains good to the best of her abilities.

this woman routinely goes through situations that has her crew thinking “damn I’m glad I don’t have to make that decision”, and even when she errs, she errs on the side of justice and integrity.

the show directly addresses her depression and guilt from her point of view and other characters (namely Tuvok) address it out loud. she is suffering for the choices she made and makes.

Kathryn Janeway is, perhaps, one of the best female examples of a hero that embodies “heavy is the head that wears the crown” while actively abhorring/loving that everything is her decision.

she could be a villain if she wanted, and justify it. with the loyalty her crew shows her circa season 6 and 7, they’d probably justify it for her. she chooses at every turn not to be and I admire that so much.

[janewaysevenalways]

I’m not afraid to be afraid bad ass Captain.

#Kathryn Janeway #boss lady

#Captain Janeway #Kate Mulgrew

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[infectiouspiss]

a tiny heist went down to rescue Rise and now he's being taken everywhere by Reid Wiseman because he's extremely important (he was supposed to be left on the craft, he has instead been adopted)

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[kuviraissues]

a little something on my new laptop before getting back to comms!

[prettypinkdork]

Average Voyager episode:

Chakotay: I won’t hear anyone questioning the Captain’s orders. You know what to do. Now if you’ll excuse I need to go see what the fuck my wife has been smoking

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

I just started watching Star Trek Prodigy and am halfway through season one and I’m OBSESSED.

I recently finished Lower Decks and it was really good and definitely improved, but Prodigy is just way better than it has any right to be right from the start. The premise is just incredible. The animation is gorgeous. The theme song might be the best in the whole franchise. And then there’s the characters!!!

Dal was annoying for an episode or two but he’s the street smart survivor character done right. Hope is his superpower. He’s also a mysterious alien that no one knows about who looks AWESOME.

Then there’s Gwyndala, the character that is perhaps the most trope:ey as the smart and capable girl except she was RAISED to be like that and her backstory is SO GOOD. Also, her character design is fantastic.

I loved Rock-Tack from the start because she’s a cute pink boulder who can throw you across the room, but then she gets stuck in temporal shenanigans and becomes an engineering genius in her time alone to save everyone? That’s how you make a 9/10 character 10/10.

And Murf! This gooey alien who doesn’t speak could be so annoying but instead it’s adorable and indestructible? Amazing. I have full faith in the show to flesh Murf out but I love them already.

Jankom-Pog is my least favourite character for now, but I love a contrarian ogre and just like Shrek he keeps it real and protects the ones he loves.

Zero might be my favourite character in anything ever. A non corporeal alien whose real appearance turns you mad? But also they’re just a science loving explorer who doesn’t want to harm anyone? Perfect, no notes.

The show has so many good original characters, but I was scared to watch it because it has Janeway and she is actually my favourite character in anything ever. So you can imagine how happy I am to say that hologram Janeway is a delight. Anytime she’s on screen feels like a warm hug.

As a Star Trek Voyager fan, this show is such a gift. If you like Star Trek, do yourself a favour and watch Star Trek Prodigy.

[forestgirl19]

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

Janeway is still incredible representation

As a young woman, I’m obsessed with Janeway. I imagine her being amazing representation back then, but I think that she’s still incredible representation now. Here are some things that I think still make her unique 30+ years later:

She’s “motherly” and she wants to have children, but she’s never made to feel bad or less than about not having children.

She’s so naturally commanding. There are no conversations about her being a woman in charge, she just is.

She has a mixture of stereotypically masculine and feminine interests and traits. As a starfleet captain, she gets to work a lot with science and engineering but in her spare time she plays gothic holonovels and knits.

She sacrifices her personal happiness with great stoicism. This feels like a trope I see used for male heroes, intended to show their strength of character, but I rarely see it used for female characters

She often argues for the pragmatic stance without being an emotionally closed off person. This is so refreshing since many female characters often argue for the moral and/or emotional stance. Female characters who argue for the pragmatic stance will often be shown as emotionless, cruel etc.

She has very realistic mental health problems and regrets, but she presents herself with incredible confidence. She has the same touch of overconfidence that Kirk has, but seeing a female character possess this trait (without being a villain) is still unusual.

She’s a middle aged woman who gets to be seen as beautiful and desirable without that being the focus of her character. The respect she gets from others is earned by her actions, but her beauty is also acknowledged.

Janeway is good at almost everything, but she isn’t always right and she’s no Mary Sue. She’s so aspirational because she’s so realistic, she is never “chosen”, special or superhuman in any way. She feels like a woman I could know, and it’s inspiring to see an “ordinary” woman lead and do extraordinary things with knowledge and determination.

[paksthestoic]

currently thinking about how any time a member of the Voyager crew is kidnapped/missing, Janeway descends with either diplomacy or guns, but a near 100 percent success rate (RIP Hogan and Carey).

This is both out of the simple fact that Voyager can’t afford to lose too many people or it stops functioning, and also Kathryn Janeway has so much guilt that it’s basically walking with her in lockstep everywhere she goes - her albatross, her skeletons in the closet, her constant shadow? Just pick an analogy for inner darkness that appeals and you’ve got her guilt described. She HAS to get them home.

It may seem out of character, then, that any time a member of Voyager wants to leave Voyager voluntarily (See Kes, the Doctor, Neelix), once she gets past her initial stricken grief, she allows it every time. If Voyager can’t afford to lose too many bodies, she should theoretically refuse any attempt to leave with just as much gusto as she puts into rescue missions. Maybe you could skirt that with Kes and Neelix, but the Doctor was undeniably mission critical, and she WOULD have let him go if he hadn’t changed his mind.

Except that it’s perfectly in character because her guilt supersedes the minutiae of running a starship every time when it comes to her people. Every time. She knows full well that she trapped them there. She offers everyone chances to leave the ship (the 37s) or, at the very least, leave her behind (Night). She can’t fathom anyone wanting to stay trapped on her ship of the damned.

So even though she needs all hands, even though she would argue and reason and - depending on the person - plead, any person who genuinely wants to leave Voyager is going to get the patented “eyes full of unshed tears and a smile she doesn’t mean” look and her well wishes. because she’d rather ground the ship and disappear into the sunset like an old dog putting herself out to pasture than keep even one person trapped in a hell she views herself as making for them.

…this has been a ramble. but I think that the main point is that I really believe she’ll hold anyone and anything at gunpoint for the sake of her crew, even if that occasionally means pointing the barrel at her own wants and the ship’s needs.