Oops, all Janeway

she/her, my main is @sparrowsarecool mostly voyager and ds9

[stra-tek]

Poorly aged things.

[aryasrandomthoughts]

IF BUYING ISN'T OWNING

PIRATING ISN'T STEALING

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h-I3udUxdjoo43NWBVyLDr-iSj_KPzC-?usp=drive_link

[cleocatart]

Commission for @soulofacircus! Thank you for trusting me with these beautiful space gays! 

[sparrows-trekblog]

Thinking about how we see "Kathryn Janeway, The Person" slowly eroding away until "Captain Janeway" is all that's left...

someone sedate me

[sparrows-trekblog]

*taps mic* i like it when women are tormented and miserable

[sparrows-trekblog]

i need to dissect her

[kidpickarus]

[sparrows-trekblog]

Ouughh traumatized Janeway readjusting to society...

[sparrows-trekblog]

Janeway waking up to a weird noise at night and instinctively scrambling for her combadge. Phoebe coming to her room and she's reading Voyager's casualty list - again, for the third time this week. Seeing a bright green light and thinking of the Borg. Reoccuring nightmares. Waking up in the morning and being shocked to find herself in A Place That Is Not Voyager - her childhood home. Hearing about an organ transplant and thinking of the Vidiians. Needing to relearn how to act around civilians.

[marxistgnome]

Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases

[vaspider]

This is legitimately one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet, and it made me intensely happy.

[analoguepizzaroll]

I'm really in love how they let Janeway become harsh. It in the first few season she is soft, playing romance holonovels, touched by the tragedy of the vidian phage, etc. She has so much empathy for the people around her, bursting with love for her crew. That loves still there, but she's also adapted to the harsh enviroment of the delta quadrant. Cunning and ruthlessness are her new modus operandi. Her heart can only hold her back so much...

I love her moral greyness. I love that she is bent on bringing Ransom to justice, by any means necessary. I love how the crew opposes her almost lethal need for revenge. Desperate to have all the protocols and regulations to mean something. They have kept her strong so long.

I love you Kathryn Janeway, for all you're complexity

[cookiegamer]

Shout out to my six year old nephew who saw me drawing Garak and said very loudly multiple times "who is that BUTTHEAD I can say it if it's true he looks like a BUTTHEAD" then he asked what he did and I said he was a tailor which got the same response. Poor Garak out here catching strays.

[thebeeshaveknees]

Quark can't say Fuck because Fuck is a valid ferengi name and he doesn't know what cousin Fuck did to the hu-mons that they say his name with such vitriol but Quark is proud of him for it

[your-worst-escape]

One important detail in Star Trek that's often left out and somehow also super integral to fanfic is explaining how things get cleaned.

Sure, for throwing things away there's a matter recombinator and for clothes washing DS9 mentions there's a cleaning processor, but I mean like...the floors, the walls, what happens if someone spills something? What happens if there's an epic alien battle and blood gets everywhere? What if my character gets sick and throws up on the floor?

We never see any janitors or cleaning staff which is to be expected, but we also never see any roomba-type cleaning robots. Are the floors equipped with some sort of sonic shower-like device that automatically destroys dirt? Some other device that scans for it and transports it away? If so, how does it work? How quickly does it work? Why is it never mentioned? What happens if it breaks?

As someone whose part-time job is cleaning this never ceases to frustrate me. Something that takes up so many hours of everyone's day in the 'real world' and yet it's barely ever mentioned.

[dgcatanisiri]

Correction: Discovery DOES show the DOT bots doing some casual cleaning around the ship on occasion.

Considering Discovery began in the 23rd century, a decade or so before TOS, it can presumably be inferred that the DOTs are now retroactively a "perpetually off-screen" element of Trek beyond that point, acting as cleaners and repair drones and the like when we weren't watching.

Because the DOTs have been among my go-tos about the things that are influenced by the changes in our world reflected in modern Trek that weren't a part of previous ones - we have roombas now, why wouldn't Trek now reflect how things changed and advanced in ways they didn't expect and couldn't know back then?

[computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett]

We do indeed see DOTs in Discovery and Starfleet Academy performing some janitorial work alongside their usual repair/maintenance duties; however, Lower Decks establishes in no uncertain terms that the vast majority of menial labor aboard starships, especially janitorial work, is assigned to the junior officers (Why else would they keep hundreds of them on every starship?). Cadets in SFA are also assigned cleaning duty as punishment, despite the abundance of DOTs aboard the Athena.

Also, given that they only appear sporadically across the 23rd, early 25th, and 32nd centuries, I prefer to think of the DOTs as another one of the Trek timeline's "techno-fads" (e.g., holo-comms instead of viewscreens, or touch-screen PADDs vs. those with physical buttons) rather than an entire computerized custodial staff retconned to have always been just out of frame.

In fact, the lack of such a robotic army of menial laborers has not only been firmly established, but is the very subject of one of TNG's most popular episodes, 2x09 "The Measure of a Man"! As the crucial scene goes: Guinan: "Consider that in the history of many worlds there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do, because it's too difficult or too hazardous. And an army of Datas, all disposable? You don't have to think about their welfare; you don't think about how they feel. Whole generations of disposable people." Picard: "You're talking about slavery." (See also: TNG 6x09 "The Quality of Life", in which Data discovers that a group of robotic laborers called Exocomps are sentient, and argues passionately for their rights as life forms. And because SFA's DOT-23s have voices, personalities, and even jobs as instructors, the case for their potential sentience might be even easier to argue than that of the Exocomps. [There are also Exocomp officers in both LD and SFA, for what it's worth.])

Ultimately, I think the permanent presence of DOTs across the franchise would be antithetical to Star Trek's core values of humanism and societal progress. But if you wanna see the canon explanations of how things get cleaned normally — with a sonic powerwasher, for example — I highly recommend watching through Lower Decks!

[dilfsisko]

Hate when people are always trying to start shit like ‘yeah well I saw you in the Romulan Neutral zone!’

bitch…..what were you doing in the Romulan Neutral Zone?

[paksthestoic]

I wanted to start my post off with “now I’m not saying Kathryn Janeway would be a bad mother,” but that’s a coward’s equivocation because that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Captain Janeway would be a bad mother. I’m sure any kid she had would adore her, as she did her father, but she’s a high-ranking military official with a known tendency to overwork herself. She is known to sacrifice relationships with important people in her life and has a stubborn habit of believing she’s always in the right (because, admittedly, history has often shown that she is).

I’m sorry, but that woman is not designed to get married, have a baby, and life an idyllic life aboard a starship that allows families. She is designed to show up an hour late to the function bearing ridiculously expensive bottles of wine, ruffle the hair of all the youngsters, and leave at precisely the time considered polite because she has a project she “really should be working on.”

Maybe, when she gets home to her classy Irish residence on the cliff-side, she will spare a moment to gaze wistfully at the Janeway family photo, trace her fingers over the faces of Phoebe’s daughters and think, “Ah, but what if…?”

But that’s IT. That woman ain’t raising any baby she can’t hand over to its legal guardian after a few hours.

[dalekofchaos]

[simptasia]

universal translator issues, or UTIs for short,

[aroace-polyshow]

truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life

[aroace-polyshow]

you see an old post of yours thats dated like a month after you got introduced to Media and it says like “huh im kinda liking Blorbo Bingus? but he’s not really my favorite. he seems sillyyy though he’s neat i’m sure he’s nice :)” and you just