Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Quirky. Feminist. Neurospicy. Fanfic addict. I didn't choose Janeway/Chakotay - the ship crashed into me. Flails wildly when provoked!

[demilypyro]

The thing about really long series is that they start to develop their own tropes. And if they go on long enough, they get the opportunity to subvert their own tropes.

There's a sort of running gag with the Star Trek engineers. Something will need to get done, the captain asks how long it will take, and the engineer gives an estimate. The captain will then say they need it done twice as fast, or more. They then usually pull it off somehow. This is the done thing. TVtropes calls it "Scotty Time", after the engineer from the first series.

We get this same interaction over and over across multiple series, from multiple different pairs of captains and engineers. By the later seasons of Next Generation they're already riffing on it. One scene establishes that the initial estimate is usually actually already longer than they'll actually need, because captains love to pressure their crews and the engineers know this, so getting it done in less time than initially proposed makes them look good. This ritual has by this point been established as Starfleet standard, seen in the original series, Next Generation, and prominently in Deep Space Nine.

So then we get to Star Trek Voyager, and we have our captain Janeway and our chief engineer B'elanna Torres, and we know how this is gonna go. In a season one episode, sure enough, Janeway asks that whatever needs to be done gets done in half the estimated time, and... Torres stops her. No, she says, it takes as long as it takes, it can't be done faster. And her face is dead serious. Janeway is momentarily surprised but doesn't protest. And it's some great characterization for both of them. It establishes Torres as an honest and hard working officer, a straight shooter who doesn't take shortcuts. She'll look her commanding officer in the face and just say the truth. And it establishes Janeway as someone experienced but not incapable of adapting to her crew. She knows how this interaction is supposed to work, but takes Torres at her word, and doesn't repeat this trope for the rest of the series. I like it a lot. Idk end of post

[cigaradd]

If they make Star Trek Prodigy comics, this is how the cover looks like in my imagination

Palette I'm using :

[cigaradd]

My ccontribution to @startrekswimsuitspecial featuring our lovely captain Janeway ❤️

[peanutgallerymemes]

do y’all actually feel a sense of accomplishment??? 😭😭

[marlinspirkhall]

I made Kate Mulgrew my lock screen so she can judge me at 4am

[cigaradd]

I have changed my mind. I'm going to post my Trek art here but not as often or whenever I want to. Here's one of my J/C zine illustrations. You can get the digital zine on:

KOFI

VGEN

GUMROAD

Love, Rad ❤️

[jet-plane]

Let's try some nonverbal communication.

Star Trek: Voyager 07x09 - "Flesh and Blood"

[the-coffee-nebula]

*Chakotay is casually searching around the bridge* Tom: Chakotay, what’re you looking for? Chakotay: My will to live. *Janeway walks onto the bridge* Chakotay: Oh, there it is.

[vonnebenan]

it's purring <3

[andromedaexile]

They both reached for the gun phaser!

Inspired by @peachviz

[sparrows-trekblog]

Inspired by this post and fueled by a combination of sleep deprivation and autism, I have conjured up this:

Original tag poem is here

[sparrows-trekblog]

Thinking about Voyager (the ship) again...

Because she's so much more than simply a ship, a big hunk of metal made for transportation

Voyager is a home, a cage, a community, a torment nexus, a beast, a spear, a needle, almost a character in her own right

[sparrows-trekblog]

Was just thinking about how it could have been if they had made all that Voyager went through actually visible on the ship and crew.

Panels and tubes and all sorts of obvious replacement parts (probably traded for or scavenged from space debris) that make the ship look like you ran out of the right pieces on a lego build.

Casualties being actually addressed beyond the usual "oh fuck somebody died". Mourning being shown.

Things breaking beyond repair: "sorry, I can't fix your replicator. You can come over and use mine tho." "Yeah that light has been flickering for weeks now., just ignore it" "Oh you have to press this screen really hard for it to actually work. B'elanna said she'd take a look at it but I guess she's been busy."

People walking around with scars (forget about dermal regenerators for a bit ok?) and eyebags. Hairs greying decades before their time. Uniforms obviously mended by someone who has never held a needle before in their life.

[kremblor]

I honestly wish we got to see this ship becoming the generational ship is was meant to become only for it to get home and not become that. It would make those moments where Ransom is all "you wouldn't understand your ships all shiny look at mine" hit so much harder as well.

Like, his line have to be different. Could be about her ship making a home of itself while his is falling apart and yet that home is covered in scars. Reminders of what all has happened to them over the year. (Random thing but there is a moment in Discovery where they get told a similar line. A "if youve been through it like we have" type thing and its honestly interesting to look at these moments in Trek).

Anyways, they could have done such simple things without having to drastically change the set or take from the shows "everything is pretty see shiny ship" that clearly dictated the magically fix Voyager after every EP. Like, just have them open up a panel and the bioneural gel pack isn't blue but a purple or something and B'Elanna having to explain it's from such and such planet they traded, helped supliment their gel pack supplies and has greatly helped her figure out repairing them better.

The officers mess (where Janeway's captains mess was at) that we see now constantly as the crew mess after Neelix got his kitchen isn't the only community area on Voyager. Like, there is enlisted mess and just lounges in general. Imagine them using that same set but to show another spot converted for movie nights or game nights.

The plants Kes started turned into a whole arboretum so that there is somewhere on the ship the crew could go an relax. Many also go and just help with the fruits and vegetables there.

Naomi not being the only kid on the ship (could be the main one we see but even just hinting at a baby in someone's arms in the background, or a toddler running around with Naomi and so on would tell us there is more) and not just when the Borg kids are present. And then this also leading to like pictures everywhere. Tuvok and Chakotay in Janeway's ready room as she has a stack on them on her desk or in a basket behind her that collects them constantly. A stuffed Flotter beside them telling us her ready room has become a place the ships children know as well as the crew.

A permanently cracked wall panel in engineering that B'Elanna knows how to use but she's yet been able to repair because every time she did in the past it got destroyed right after. Since she stopped repairing, the crew has a weird belier that it keeps them safer so she won't let anyone touch it. Its become a comfort for all those who see it.

I could go on and on but honestly for crew scars I can see how easily they could be kept at bay but it's because all the emergency kits and medical stuff is constantly a priority and if ever low certain people have become known to refuse medical (even when not low). And it's them you see marked up more. Janeway with lines on her hands from plasma burns, a scar in her, perhaps one on her neck - other marks beneath uniform that get revealed, signs of all she's gone through in the DQ. Tuvok with a line through one of his lips, plasma burns etched into his flesh, just signs of the various tortured he's undergone throughout the DQ not to mention injuries on ship. Chakotay tends to use himself as an example and go get healed up but he has a visible scar through his tattoo. Just ... Senior staff having at least one visible mark. (Tuvok and Janeway the most as they will avoid sickbay even on a good day)

[quirkette100]

All of this! I want the scars, the trinkets, the hints of a lived in, loved in, lost in, home away from home. Maybe a memorial wall to honour those that they lost from both crews - started in the first couple of weeks out there by person unknown- Maquis and Starfleet mixed together- the first sign this crew would become something other than antagonistic towards each other.

[kremblor]

YES!

And that wall is started by Janeway in the dead of the night early in the journey when she couldn't sleep. She left a PADD beside it by accident, to exhausted to remember to grab it, and it's remained their since as people add not just to the wall but the PADD. And I have an entire HC on this now that I'll have to go record.

I want this ship lived in. I want it returned home and the Admirals coming aboard to a clean transporter room just to step into a hallwall covered in the markings of children. The scars of aliens who climbed through Voyagers corridors and threaten her crew. The holodeck explosion from "Killing Game" and the hunting through the corridors evidently there within her walls. The Admirals frozen for just a moment as Janeway simply lifts a hand as if this is normal and beckons them forward "This way Admiral, the conference room is just a few decks above us. The crew is already working repairs and we will be fully operational again before we reach dry dock".

Just ... Give me the lived in Voyager that those who first beam aboard to welcome her home have to stop in take in the horror. To contrast it with Ransom who beams aboard and sees a ship better off than his (thoroughly destroyed and barely holding on as his was his view of Voyager still makes sense "she's put together, we are held together by string" concept). Give me the Voyager that the Borg Queen looks at and would chuckle at Janeway mocking her for assimilating others just as she condemns the Borg for doing.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Dyscalculia

The Mini ADHD Coach

[sparrows-trekblog]

Was just thinking about how it could have been if they had made all that Voyager went through actually visible on the ship and crew.

Panels and tubes and all sorts of obvious replacement parts (probably traded for or scavenged from space debris) that make the ship look like you ran out of the right pieces on a lego build.

Casualties being actually addressed beyond the usual "oh fuck somebody died". Mourning being shown.

Things breaking beyond repair: "sorry, I can't fix your replicator. You can come over and use mine tho." "Yeah that light has been flickering for weeks now., just ignore it" "Oh you have to press this screen really hard for it to actually work. B'elanna said she'd take a look at it but I guess she's been busy."

People walking around with scars (forget about dermal regenerators for a bit ok?) and eyebags. Hairs greying decades before their time. Uniforms obviously mended by someone who has never held a needle before in their life.

[kremblor]

I honestly wish we got to see this ship becoming the generational ship is was meant to become only for it to get home and not become that. It would make those moments where Ransom is all "you wouldn't understand your ships all shiny look at mine" hit so much harder as well.

Like, his line have to be different. Could be about her ship making a home of itself while his is falling apart and yet that home is covered in scars. Reminders of what all has happened to them over the year. (Random thing but there is a moment in Discovery where they get told a similar line. A "if youve been through it like we have" type thing and its honestly interesting to look at these moments in Trek).

Anyways, they could have done such simple things without having to drastically change the set or take from the shows "everything is pretty see shiny ship" that clearly dictated the magically fix Voyager after every EP. Like, just have them open up a panel and the bioneural gel pack isn't blue but a purple or something and B'Elanna having to explain it's from such and such planet they traded, helped supliment their gel pack supplies and has greatly helped her figure out repairing them better.

The officers mess (where Janeway's captains mess was at) that we see now constantly as the crew mess after Neelix got his kitchen isn't the only community area on Voyager. Like, there is enlisted mess and just lounges in general. Imagine them using that same set but to show another spot converted for movie nights or game nights.

The plants Kes started turned into a whole arboretum so that there is somewhere on the ship the crew could go an relax. Many also go and just help with the fruits and vegetables there.

Naomi not being the only kid on the ship (could be the main one we see but even just hinting at a baby in someone's arms in the background, or a toddler running around with Naomi and so on would tell us there is more) and not just when the Borg kids are present. And then this also leading to like pictures everywhere. Tuvok and Chakotay in Janeway's ready room as she has a stack on them on her desk or in a basket behind her that collects them constantly. A stuffed Flotter beside them telling us her ready room has become a place the ships children know as well as the crew.

A permanently cracked wall panel in engineering that B'Elanna knows how to use but she's yet been able to repair because every time she did in the past it got destroyed right after. Since she stopped repairing, the crew has a weird belier that it keeps them safer so she won't let anyone touch it. Its become a comfort for all those who see it.

I could go on and on but honestly for crew scars I can see how easily they could be kept at bay but it's because all the emergency kits and medical stuff is constantly a priority and if ever low certain people have become known to refuse medical (even when not low). And it's them you see marked up more. Janeway with lines on her hands from plasma burns, a scar in her, perhaps one on her neck - other marks beneath uniform that get revealed, signs of all she's gone through in the DQ. Tuvok with a line through one of his lips, plasma burns etched into his flesh, just signs of the various tortured he's undergone throughout the DQ not to mention injuries on ship. Chakotay tends to use himself as an example and go get healed up but he has a visible scar through his tattoo. Just ... Senior staff having at least one visible mark. (Tuvok and Janeway the most as they will avoid sickbay even on a good day)

[quirkette100]

All of this! I want the scars, the trinkets, the hints of a lived in, loved in, lost in, home away from home. Maybe a memorial wall to honour those that they lost from both crews - started in the first couple of weeks out there by person unknown- Maquis and Starfleet mixed together- the first sign this crew would become something other than antagonistic towards each other.

[sparrows-trekblog]

Was just thinking about how it could have been if they had made all that Voyager went through actually visible on the ship and crew.

Panels and tubes and all sorts of obvious replacement parts (probably traded for or scavenged from space debris) that make the ship look like you ran out of the right pieces on a lego build.

Casualties being actually addressed beyond the usual "oh fuck somebody died". Mourning being shown.

Things breaking beyond repair: "sorry, I can't fix your replicator. You can come over and use mine tho." "Yeah that light has been flickering for weeks now., just ignore it" "Oh you have to press this screen really hard for it to actually work. B'elanna said she'd take a look at it but I guess she's been busy."

People walking around with scars (forget about dermal regenerators for a bit ok?) and eyebags. Hairs greying decades before their time. Uniforms obviously mended by someone who has never held a needle before in their life.

[viralfrog]