I know, baby...

Late 20s

[respocked]

(bravely) i think captain janeway and neelix could date and it would work out

[respocked]

before tuvok finds out

[respocked]

@the-last-dillpickle since i'm being enabled. janeway can't date anyone on the crew and neelix catches her arguing this case to chakotay (who is only telling her that she should date someone bc he wants her to he happy. No Other Reason) and reminds her that he's a civilian and would love to take her on a nice romantic dinner. janeway thinks neelix is funny (they have so many scenes together when he gives her advice about things and they joke together... this is canon, neelixhaters) so she agrees maybe partially bc tuvok overhears and starts to tell neelix off that this is ridiculous and the captain would Never so playful janeway turns on and she goes actually neelix i would love that.

but then when she shows up to the holodeck the dinner is honestly really thoughtfully made and he made her a buquet of red roses and some really weird talaxian dating things happen and the dinner explodes. they laugh and then janeway remembers a date with mark and trails off silently and tries to excuse herself but neelix says an unexpectedly profound but stupid anecdote that relates to her current captaining troubles

and then they do a talaxian sex act which is basically cuddling which means starts align and neelix doesn't say anything misogynistic and janeway's self imposed repression doesn't get triggered so basically janeway has a wonderful time and goes back to her quarters before 10 with her roses and a promise to meet next week for holodeck double luge with neelix and holographic nikola tesla or some shit people entertain themselves on voyager year 10.

next morning on the bridge she tells chakotay neelix is a true gentleman and he laughs bc he thinks it's a prank. tuvok knows it isn't so he tells everyone he has a headcache and excuses himself and nobody sees him for two days.

[liz-squids]

26 years ago I started a flame war on a mailing list by writing Janeway/Neelix, and it wasn't even remotely as good as this.

[respocked]

you've paved the way. and that's beautiful

[ncc-42069]

[thrifted-band-aid-box]

If I had a nickel for every time the doctor was kissed by another man, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot. But it’s weird it happened twice in a 90’s tv show

[lostyesterday]

Conceptualization of the evolution of romantic/sexual attraction between B’Elanna, Tom, Harry, and Seven over time:

[onceuponthe100]

B’Elanna and Tom marriage, with B’Elanna/Seven girlfriends and Tom/Harry boyfriends is canon. I don’t make the rules I just read the texts

[ashleysjohnson]

Was she the one you loved? SUMMERLAND (2020) dir. Jessica Swale

[jenarts]

chillin out in cargo bay 2

[onceuponthe100]

if Seven had been in the Alien universe… this lady haunts me

[kremblor]

I love Janeway realizing some of her crew hasnt been on a single away mission and are struggling to do well on Voyager ..... So she decides to personally take them out on an away mission that is simple and easy and should have little to no issues but get them some experience. Only for everything to go wrong. The hypochondriac ends up abducted and an alien worm crawling in his skin. The self-conscious one everyone doubts ends up having to take in the Tuvok and Chakotay roll of refusing to let Janeway go down with the ship. And the would rather be alone and not care about anyone person .... Tries to go down with the ship instead because now he cares.

Meanwhile, Voyager comes to the rescue and Chakotay is just there for Janeway to wake up to give her the "how is it every time you leave the ship me and Tuvok have to play rescue the Captain?" And she is just like "my crew how are they?" And he's like "you nearly died and they are fine can you please explain" and she's like "we ran into a wolf" and he's internally screaming because that tells him nothing and he doesn't even know if he'll be able to get the report from her and now he's gonna have to go to Tuvok to bypass security protocols just to figure out what they all just went through because Janeway is Janewaying

[onceuponthe100]

She should’ve kept the scar… also year of hell should’ve been remembered but AT LEAST they could’ve let her keep the scar…

[ezrisdax-archive]

[freylaverse]

Quick B'Elanna for practice! Timelapse on Reddit.

The Klingon text reads "beylana", which is how you spell her name in tlhIngan Hol.

[kettlequills]

I am aggrieved that I spent the entirety of voyager feeling nothing but the liveliest impatience for chakotay as a character (and his very poorly aged attempts to flirt) only for the VERY LAST EPISODE to wheel out that dynamic of "poisoned love triangle where we're all in love with the same third person but they cant/wont permit it because of Reasons, so instead we're going to develop a weird codependent bond thats honestly stranger and worse than if we'd just all fucked a few times to get it out of our systems", which is like Crack to me, with janeway and seven, who have shitloads of chemistry the whole way through,,,

like what do you Mean janeway /endangered the fulfilment of her core motivation/ (getting the crew home), and fucked the timeline Again because without 7, it didnt matter ?! revealing that 7 married chakotay on ship does Not make that less gay! like we dont see admiral janeway toss a singular fuck towards chakotay (or really any of the other crew except 7! even workhusband tuvok doesn't get much!). visiting his grave to talk about how sad it is without his wife ? ok! woman who never moved on!

like yeah. janeway presiding and officiating over their marriage. 7 going for the person closest to janeway as possible. chakotay going for the person who janeway is most fascinated with. it REEKS of "let me bask in the reflected light of her attention on you". janeway watching, and never participating, and the act of her watching closing the circle. 7 choosing to unblock her emotions and like 2 days later dumping chakotay. because of what janeway said. because of janeway. ok!

[onceuponthe100]

Janeway in the cuck chair watching their marriage while Chakotay and Seven just stare at her the whole time, yup yup yup

[romanimp]

the Borg designed their cortical nodes with a failsafe to override emotions that are too strong. Except for the Borg Queen. That bitch looks at Janeway and is immediately filled with unbelievably horny rage.

[romanimp]

a canon interaction. to me.

[paksthestoic]

Thinking about Sacred Ground as an episode. And aside from “hehe the captain’s naked” and the idea of faith versus religion and Janeway’s fascinating sadness at being told there was a perfectly scientific explanation for saving Kes, I think this episode really does something interesting for Janeway specifically.

Janeway is arguing at the end of the episode that she’s got to take Kes through a field that everybody knows Should kill her and Kes. She says she just knows, which is alarming, and her officers question her mental capacity and decision-making skills. The alien right next to her says, “but they don’t have the answers, Kathryn. YOU do.”

Janeway proceeds through the field and, against all explicable odds at the time, she lives and Kes wakes. The point of the episode was a pretty clear “faith is not always to be mocked by science, and science is not the opposite of faith but rather a kind of it” parable. But, for Janeway it comes back to:

“They don’t have the answers, Kathryn. YOU do.”

And she did. For both Janeway and the crew who witnessed this ‘miracle’ (most particularly Chakotay, whose role as first officer means he SHOULD challenge her decisions when appropriate), this adds to a body of evidence showing that Kathryn Janeway Really Does Know Better.

By the time we reach Equinox, the nature of a high-stakes adventure where the isolated ship is the only mechanic and doesn’t have other people to help means that Kathryn Janeway continues to Know Better. Otherwise, they would have died, and the show would have ended. The structure of the narrative is built around Kathryn Janeway having answers that other captains and crew simply don’t. Again and again, the story tells us that Janeway has a ridiculous streak of luck, recklessness, and instinct that makes her a stellar captain. But to her, does it really count as luck? Does it, to her crew? Even Tuvok accounts for her luck in his calculations.

“They don’t have the answers, Kathryn. YOU do.”

Voyager’s episodic nature means this line probably wasn’t in any of the writers’ minds during Counterpoint, Equinox, Haunting of Deck Twelve or any of the other late season episodes where Janeway operates alone from the rest of her crew and believes herself 100 percent in the right. But I like to think the Sacred Ground episode was the first time Janeway was given the idea that she is simply Built Different. The first time her belief in her own instincts was codified as just as valuable as her scientific beliefs.

And I think it is fascinating that a woman who is Largely Good, effectively the highest form of authority wherever she goes according to her society, and who is often actively depressed by the isolation of a such a living deity-adjacent role, ALSO has enough pride in that existence to go along with it as well. Believing your own hype or the hype of your underlings - especially by a woman - is typically a bad thing.

Fascinated that Janeway’s pride and genuine enjoyment of her authority and skill is baked into, and rewarded by, the narrative. And is truly only challenged by Equinox and Bliss, two episodes designed to show the roles of Chakotay and Seven as the sole challengers of her worldview.

“They don’t have the answers, Kathryn. YOU do,” followed by several seasons of exactly that statement being proven? Of being cursed by her enemies, treated like a god by the time-accelerated planet and the society that wrote fanfiction about Voyager, of being wielded by several crew-members as if “I’m telling my captain on you” is the best threat they can come up with because she genuinely DOES come through for them?

Anyway, I am fascinated by the living deification of Janeway and every time I watch Sacred Ground I am reminded of it.

[the-ominous-owl]

Agatha Harkness:

also agatha harkness:

[rosalie-starfall]

Captain Kathryn Janeway

Star Trek: Voyager 1995-2001

[onceuponthe100]

It’s crazy how the hair really changes how old I think she is. Like in the first one she’s 32 but in the second she’s 42. In the fourth she’s maaaaybe 26 but then when she cuts her hair she’s 45,,, a young 45. Woman is ageless yet sexy and older yet very youthful yet *brain fizzles out and leaks out my ear*

[zannolin]

damn i wish u guys could read this fic i haven't written and this fic i haven't finished writing and this fic i'm putting off outlining and this fic i outlined but haven't started and this fic i'll never write and this other fic i haven't written and this fic that exists only in vague impressions in my head that fall apart every time i try to commit them to the page and th

[stonedtrek]

Happy Pride from Tuvok of Vulcan

[dummythiccwizard]

wow this star trek got me feeling very gay

[onceuponthe100]

Okay skipping to TOS