AKA LizzyChrome, and Warp10Lizard.
I'm the black tribble of my family, the only one not to go into Starfleet. I graduated from the Academy, but transfered to a transport ship (there's a lot less pressure there). I have an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature. I'd defecate sacred trees if anything happened to her.
Jessica Collins, who played Kes and Tom's daughter Linnis in the "Voyager" episode "Before and After," also stared in "Leprechaun in Space" (1996). In that movie, her character, Dr. Tina Reeves, is a biologist and space-medic, just like Linnis, and works for an egotistical A.I. scientist, also like Linnis.
This is some very amateur video editing. I hope to polish this up, along with the movie review it was originally meant to cap off. But I wanted to at least get a WIP up in time for St. Patty's Day.
Incredible detail in the episode "Lifesigns" that I never noticed
When Danara Pel exclaims, "What kind of friend would ask me to go on living like this?" her body swallows painfully.
As Danara's mind is holographically projected outside of her body, her body subtly reacts to what her mind experiences as a hologram, like a sleeping person having a dream.
That swallow is a reminder that the decaying body on the bed is the one talking to the Doctor right now.
Sadly, I can't find a good clip on YouTube where you can clearly see this detail. The only clip of this scene I could find was too blurry. But if you watch this episode in high-def on Paramount Plus, you can see it. (It's near the end of the episode, when Danara tells the Doctor that she doesn't want to go back to her body.)
An up to date headcanon design for mama. Its taken me a while to be able to see her face in my head. I've tried to force myself into drawing her before without a sure idea of what she looked like. But im rather satisfied with this. I hope this design feels more like a real person 🙂
Also, I want to keep my headcanon of her being from Guatemala, thus making chakotay Guatemalan/Nicaraguan, just because its so much easier to find information on both the contemporary and historical culture. Plus its kinda apart of my hc that he's 2 different ethnicities. With that being said, mama, or as Christie named her, Tananka, was born in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. I'm still deciding which municipality, probably either Chisec, Lanquin, or Cahabón either way, she is Q'eqchi Maya :].
I hope yall like her! Sorry I havent been around here on tumblr much :/
(I posted this to my other account, but immediately after posting i noticed a bunch of small proportional errors with his face and it's been killing me ever since and I just HAD to fix it and repost so I can finally have a peaceful night's rest 😔).
Today on "'Voyager's' (lack of) Continuity," we discuss Ensign Lang. A woman in Season 3 and early Season 4; then a POC man from mid-Season 4 onward, with the first name of Timothy.
The female Ensign Lang (Deborah Levin) plays a significant role in "Displaced," Season 3. She appeared before that in "Blood Fever," and afterwards in "Year of Hell" (Season 4.) She was seen operating Tuvok's security station in his absence more than once, indicating that she was a Security Officer.
The man pictured above (played by Sylvester Foster) first appeared as a security guard in "Scientific Method." He appeared as a Security Officer many more times, finally being identified as "Crewman Lang" in "Warhead," at the end of Season 5.
Then, in "Imperfection" (early Season 7), Tech. Timothy Lang appears in a list of Voyager's casualties.
Memory Alpha presumes that "Tech Timothy Lang" is the same man as "Crewman Lang." But this isn't confirmed, as far as I know.
How many Langs we got on this ship anyhow?
Lang is a common surname. But Voyager's relatively-small crew is comprised of people from all over Earth, plus a few other planets. That lowers the probability of the same surname appearing twice by coincidence. Still not implausible though.
Since it's the 24th Century, one might think that there's one Lang who underwent some physical transformation. Lang could be transgender (and transracial?). Lang could be an alien who "regenerates" like in "Dr. Who." But if so, then Lang transformed more than once, because in "Relativity" (Season 5), we're shown that this man was already a crewmember in Voyager's second year in the Delta Quadrant.
...however, he is never called "Lang" in that episode. His name is never clarified in that episode at all.
This opens up another possibility: this man's last name was originally something else. Then, prior to "Warhead," he married Ensign Lang, and took his wife's surname. It's the 24th Century after all.
I never cared for the idea that the ten main characters were the only ones having life-changing experiences, while the rest of the crew just pressed buttons for seven years. I like to think that the Langs had a full story playing out over the course of Voyager's journey. They fell in love on Voyager, and got married some time before "Warhead." Timothy wanted to leave his old surname behind, for whatever reason. (Maybe he had issues with his family; or maybe he was an orphan assigned a surname that never meant anything to him; who knows.) Then, some time prior to "Imperfection," Timothy died. Maybe he was a casualty in "Equinox," or maybe he died in the battle against the Borg in "Unimatrix Zero."
Or maybe two boring humans with the same common surname boarded Voyager in "Caretaker." And pushed buttons for seven years.
That time the future King of Jordan was on "Voyager"
"I'm sorry for the mix-up Your Highness, we'll get you beamed back to your own time period as soon as we get in touch with Captain Braxton."
The episode was "Investigations," Season 2. Abdullah bin al-Hussein was the Crown Prince of Jordan at the time of his cameo.
That's right. When the crown prince of a foreign nation was to be given a cameo on "Star Trek," because he was a diehard fan, they gave him a Neelix episode. Luckily, the prince was ecstatic to be on "Star Trek" in any capacity, even a Neelix episode.
Abdullah bin al-Hussein is now King of Jordan. His love for "Star Trek" makes sense, as largely he seems to uphold the progressive values of the Federation. He has controversies like every leader, but as far as world leaders go, his track record isn't that bad. He supports women's rights, in a part of the world where that is not the norm. After the September 11th attacks in the U.S., he called on Muslims worldwide to condemn extremism within their global community. For Ramadan of 2004, he gave the Amman Message, a statement defining what Islam is and is not, and which actions do and don't represent Islam. He has been a strong advocate of a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict. Religious fundamentalists hate this guy. This post will certainly get hate from religious extremists on all ends. (And it will be a helpful block list.)
But in-universe, what is the story for this science officer? I like to think he's a descendant of the king, who looks remarkably like his ancestor. But since this is the 24th Century, it's also possible that he's literal clone of the king. Either way, that creates an interesting situation for this officer in the Season 3 episode "Future's End." Voyager has traveled back to a time when the ancestor he resembles (or his genetic template) is alive, and preparing for his future reign. I'm tempted to write a short "Prince and the Pauper" type of ficlett, where the officer sneaks out to visit 1990s Earth and gets mixed up with his ancestor; but I'm concerned that might be seen as disrespectful to the king.
Finally comes the question of this officer's name. The listed Voyager crew members on Memory Alpha don't seem to include any Arabic names, which is downright bonkers for a Starfleet ship; if Starfleet is comprised of people from all around the world, then there should be at least a few Arabic names (it's only one of the most widely-spread languages in the world!). The real-life reason, of course, is that most of the names on Voyager's duty rosters are the names of staff members who worked on the show, which was produced in the U.S. Call this corny, but I'd be inclined to give this character the last name of Musafir, the Arabic world for "Voyager."
I wish Starfleet Academy hadn't implied that Sisko never came back to Kassidy and his unborn child. Here's a note from Memory Alpha about Sisko's fate at the end of DS9:
Originally, the episode was to end without any ambiguity as to whether or not Sisko was going to return to his corporeal life – the answer was a definite 'no'. The idea was that Sisko had become a Prophet, and that was how it would remain for all time, thus confirming the Sarah Prophet's warning in "Penumbra" and "'Til Death Do Us Part" that if he married Kasidy Yates, he "would know nothing but sorrow." The sorrow was that he was going to have to leave his unborn child behind, and would never get to be with her after her birth. Indeed, the final scene between Sisko and Kasidy was shot this way, with Sisko telling Kasidy he would never be back. However, a day or two after the shoot, Avery Brooks called Ira Behr and told him he wasn't happy with the scene. He felt that having a black man leave his pregnant black wife to raise their child alone carried certain negative connotations that he wasn't comfortable with. As Terry J. Erdmann puts it in the Companion; "In the 24th century, the situation conveyed only sorrow. However, in the 21st century, there was a secondary social issue that had particular resonance." As such, the scene was rewritten and reshot so as to clarify that Sisko will return some day.
It basically undoes the change that Avery Brooks felt important to make in the DS9 finale which the producers were willing to accommodate.
If "The Adventures of Flotter" is such a long-lived and widely-known franchise in the "Star Trek" universe...then there are certainly terrible Flotterk knock-offs throughout the Alpha Quadrant as well.
Most of them are produced by Ferengi, naturally...
There's one Ferengi company in particular that's infamous for it's horribly-produced mockbuster holonovels. They are the 24th Century equivalent of Dingo Pictures. They're known for terrible graphics, horribly-delivered dialogue that doesn't match up with the scene or characters' lip movements, and hilariously inappropriate things that most planets consider unsuitable for children's programs.
Of course, there are also adult parodies, with titles like "Flotter Gets Wood" and "The Adventures of Flopper," produced mostly by Ferengi and Orions.
The Cardassian union also produced its own surreal ripoff of Flotter, as the star of a propaganda program used to indoctrinate little Cardassians. (24th Century Farfour the Mouse.) Admittedly though, that Cardassian forehead-spoon would look fitting on Flotter.
And yes, there is Flotter fan-fiction. Or fan-holonovels. Most of it is Flotter/Trevis pairing, but there are also a number of "Flotter" OC, which tend to just be recolors of Flotter or Trevis. These "original characters" are often also subjected to "inflation" plot-lines. Even the most skilled Betazoid counselors can't ascertain the cause of this bizarre trend.
With how little recreation there is in the Delta Quadrant, someone onboard Voyager has surely started up their own channel like Neelix's "Goodmorning Voyager" program, but for snarky reviews of terrible holoprograms. Maybe several crewmembers.
Holodeck-poop must also be a passtime for bored Voyager crewmembers. Splicing audio from other programs into "Flotter," like YouTube recut parodies in but in 3D.
And by the end of Voyager's journey, Naomi and Icheb would have found out about all of this. Remember, "I'm not a little girl anymore."
For those not keeping up with "Strange New Worlds" or "Starfleet Academy," the Lanthanites are a race of long-lived humanoids who lived undetected on Earth for thousands of years. They look identical to humans, but have insanely long lifespans. Basically, "Star Trek" wanted an excuse to have immortal characters who would specifically remember stuff from Earth's history.
This unnamed science officer is a background character on "Star Trek: Voyager." But before serving on Voyager, he served on the Enterprise-D, also as a science officer.
...and before that, he served on another Enterprise, as a command officer! His name was Elliott.
Nothing phases this guy.
These background characters are all played by John Copage. At the time he played these roles, the concept of the Lanthanites hadn't been introduced to the franchise yet. Previously, I might've speculated that this dude was an El-Aurian who somehow found the Federation before the rest of his species, or that the science officer was simply the grandson of Elliott. But with the introduction of Lanthanites, we have a clean and easy explanation.
Here he is in "Year of Hell," looking almost bored as Janeway orders the crew to abandon ship. As a centuries-old Lanthanite who served on the two most famous Enterprises, this guy has clearly seen some sh*t.
But he probably isn't be that old...
This guy was not part of the away team to 1990s LA in "Future's End," so he either isn't old enough to be helpful in that situation, or he was living on a part of Earth radically different from Los Angeles. Otherwise, we'd need a reason for why he didn't join the away team to guide them around 20th Century Earth.
I'm thinking he was born during that dark age of the Eugenics Wars, or WWIII. Which would go even further to explaining his chill reaction to everything Voyager goes through.
You'll recall Crewmen Mariah Henley as one of the unruly Maquis who Tuvok had to train in "Learning Curve" (Sesaon 1). Henley is never shown or mentioned again for the rest of the series. That is, officially.
Here's a screencap of Tuvok's promotion ceremony in "Revulsion" (Season 4).
...aaand who's that control officer behind him, with the short wavy hair and the distinct style of folded arms?
It's....not the same actress, I'm sure. But guest characters frequently change actors, so that means nothing. I say, Henley has come a long way since that first bad lesson with Tuvok. The man in the gold uniform next to her might be Ken Dalby. They all made amends with Tuvok by the end of "the episode "Learning Curve," and that was at the end of the first season.
Megan and Jenny Delaney seem to be fairly beloved minor characters on "Voyager." And like most of "Voyager's" supporting cast, their characters were severely undeserved. We saw them onscreen only once, in "Thirty Days" (Season 5), and only in their "Captain Proton" costumes; that image of them in their green science uniforms comes from a deleted scene, that doesn't seem to be available to the public.
In seven years, we learn very little about them. We never find out how or why two sisters are serving aboard the same ship. (Seems a bit unusual.) When Borg twins Azan and Rebi come aboard, no one ever mentions the Delaney sisters. (One might think two pairs of twins would have some common ground.) No one ever remarks on the fact that their family lost two daughters. Whenever the twins are mentioned, their purpose in the story boils down to "hot twins" gags. And even that goes underused; sexy twins searching for dates in the Delta Quadrant could've led to some amusing anecdotes, with them hooking up with aliens or something.
What a missed opportunity.
For those who read fanfiction, "My Sister's Caretaker," by Yours Truly, describes how the two sisters ended up on the same ship, and why they were among the first onboard to forgive Tom Paris for his past. Laura Schiller's story, "We to I," has Megan Delaney counseling Rebi about disagreements with one's twin.
At any rate, I've gone through the screencaps on TrekCore hunting for background ladies who could plausibly be Megan or Jenny.
Actors Are No Object
Canadian actresses Heidi and Alissa Kramer played Megan and Jenny respectively, in the episode "Thirty Days" (Season 5). Though the Kramers never appeared again on "Voyager," that doesn't mean Megan and Jenny didn't. "Star Trek" frequently recasts its recurring characters, often with no subtlety at all. (Captain Braxton and Naomi Wildman, for instance.) The actors just need to look close-enough.
Add that people change their hair, and Voyager's crew-members frequently seem to change departments (and thus uniform colors), and....it's still surprisingly hard to find women who could plausibly be the sisters. But I tried.
Another thing to note is that while Tom Paris does say that the twins "do everything together," he only says that very early into Voyager's journey ("Time and Again"). Obviously the sisters would need each other's emotional support after being suddenly stranded in the Delta Quadrant. But once they settled into the situation, there's no reason to think that the sisters were never apart from each other for seven years.
"Learning Curve" (Season 1)
It might be one of the Delaneys who lets Chell drink her water during his jog around the ship. We don't see many other people in the Mess Hall at this time, and no other woman who looks like the other twin. But they don't literally have to do everything together.
We only see this woman from the back. But from the back she looks a hell of a lot like a Delaney, with short hair. The guy she's with could just be a friend; but this has the feel of a date, which would be in line with the Delaney twins' flirtatious reputations.
"Lifesigns" (Season 2)
I'm gonna say that's a Delaney at the science station.
...and behind the Doc in Sandrine's.
...and watching Tom Paris shove Chakotay to the ground, on the Bridge. (Sorry, this is the best screencap I could get.)
"Year of Hell" (Season 4)
It's hard to see much with this dark lighting. But the blonde woman next to Tuvok has a similar facial structure to the Delaneys. We can assume that 24th Century methods for hair coloring don't fade like modern hair dye, so if Megan or Jenny tinted her hair blonde before things got bad, it would stay blond until she deliberately changed it back again. We can also presume that Neelix isn't the only one who switched departments and got a new uniform, in this timeline. The only other woman who looks like a plausible match is this injured crewmember.
It may also be that one or both twins are simply not visible to the audience. It's a dark Mess Hall, and there are surely more survivors that just what we see here onscreen. Given that it's the Year of Hell, it's also possible that one of the twins has died by this point.
"Relativity" (Season 5)
A woman resembling one of the Delaneys observes the ping-pong game, notably standing near Harry Kim.
"Repression" (Season 7)
The Delaney sisters love the holodeck and cosplaying. Naturally they'd attend Tom's showing of "Bride of the Corpse." It's true that when we first saw this program at the start of the episode, the audience members dressed like the 1950s were all holograms who were just part of the program. But given how popular costume-LARPing is in the 24th Century, there's no reason not to think that at least some of these 50s-dressed people are Voyager crewmembers dressing for the occasion.
I see two women who could easily be the Delaney twins. One sitting with Harry Kim, the other right behind them with an brown-haired man. Since Megan is said to be the more "artistic" twin, she might be more likely to dress up in period clothing for a '50s movie showing. Maybe she decided to give Harry a chance after all! Or maybe Harry finally decided to give Jenny a chance, and it's bold athletic Jenny who decided to dress up while shy Megan stayed in uniform.
I never noticed, but it looks like Seven and the Doctor are there too (right behind who I take to be Jenny Delaney and her date).
But what about that Maquis meeting earlier in the episode? Most official sources assume that Megan and Jenny were both from Janeway's original Starfleet crew, but that's never confirmed. I've always liked to think that one twin was Maquis, and the other transferred to Voyager while trying to find her runaway sister. But if that's so, we don't see anyone during the Maquis meeting who looks particularly like the Delaneys. But if the Maquis twin changed her uniform and/or hair color, she could be one of the women seen only from the back. There's also a green shoulder in the back with no clearly identifiable owner, that could also be a Delaney.
"Author, Author" (Season 7)
The one on the far left in green, at least, can be one of the twins. None of the other women looks similar enough to plausibly be her identical twin, unless we say that one twin is recovering from severe facial injuries of some sort. Again, the twins don't have to be together everywhere.
"Shattered" (Season 7)
This Maquis woman could arguably be one of the twins. Begging your pardon for the self-promotion again, "My Sister's Caretaker" has Megan Delaney as the Maquis twin. I'm leaning towards presuming that this is her. It seems like the kind of loose clothing a bohemian artist would wear. (One might think athletic, aggressive Jenny would be the Maquis. But I felt that was too obvious. Megan, as the "quiet, artistic, sensitive" twin, moved far out with artsy friends to a colony, and joined a passionate Resistance, while competitive athletic Jenny pursued a rigid Starfleet career. But that's purely my personal interpretation of these underutilized characters; to each their own.)
"Homestead" (Season 7)
That certainly looks like a Delaney, behind Harry Kim. I don't see anyone in this shot who looks close enough to her to be the other twin, but it's a big Mess Hall.
During his final walk out of Voyager, Neelix passes one brunette science officer....
...and then another who looks just like her!
If this wasn't deliberate than...wow. Those probably aren't identical twins in real life, but they certainly look like they're intended to be the Delaneys! One might expect the sisters to stand closer together. But given their playful personalities, maybe they wanted to "confuse" Neelix one last time, as their own way of saying goodbye.
