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Star Trek: Voyager Repression
Not exactly ironclad logic. Call it a hunch.
I love how you can just see the urge to insult his logic on her face. And his little challenging turn that's daring her to say it. These two are great.
sorry but Harry not wanting to be in love so he goes right to Tuvok to try to learn how to suppress all emotions is incredibly relatable and also fucking hysterical
It's even more hilarious when Tuvok asks him to name the emotion and Harry looks at him confused because he said love bro but Tuvok is all lol we Vulcans have a variety of names for love and proceeds to go into it.
It's basically this:
Harry: Tuvok, help me, you are my only hope I have developed a feel
Tuvok: ah yes, the problem of feels. And what would you fall this feel?
Harry: bro, I told you, it's a feel
Tuvok: Here is an emotional color wheel
Harry: wtf there is more than 1 type?!
oh tuvok, you probably should have just let her ask, instead of leaving it up to her imagination 🤣
The moment her face even began to shift his turns to her. You can just sense the urge to lift a brow, to point a finger, to snark out a "do not begin to conjure your own reasons". You know years from this moment she casually pulls a "remember that time you " and he just has to try not to actively roll his eyes at her, he is a Vulcan afterall. Just a raised brow, no matter how much space bestie pushes him.
Can y'all imagine how annoyed Picard must've been after reading Janeway's report on Q and finding out that she befriended him? Like Q is a constant thorn in Picard's side and Janeway's just like "Oh Q? Yeah he's an asshole but his heart is in the right place. Maybe don't be such a grumpy pants all the time and you'd be friends with him too."
Picards reports: this omnipotent being put humanity on trial then exposed us to the Borg and then tormented my crew with (continues to rant about all the things they dealt with)
Janeway: When I came across the Q, I put THEM on trial and then solved their war and now I'm somehow a godmother to Q's kid who, by the way, is currently grounded for trying to wreck havoc in my ship. Oh, also, I had to give Q parenting lessons.
Picard after reading that "we are allowed to do that?!"
1x04 Phage | 4x07 Scientific Method
lol I know she actually says "no more mind melds without my permission", but like... Tuvok mind-melded like it was going out of style 🤣🤣
how is his brain not mush by this point?
And these are only the mind melds AFTER she says no more mind melds. He also mind melded with Suder in this episode, and with Tom in season 1
My mind to your mind... and also everyone else's mind on this ship, some multiple times, and also my mind to some aliens' minds too, just for fun
Like Tuvok... you may have a problem here lol
2x16 Meld | 3x02 Flashback | 4x02 The Gift | 4x10 Random Thoughts | 5x07 Infinite Regress | 5x13 Gravity | 6x26 Unimatrix Zero
Nah, Spock did it just as much (and with a whale and a rock creature) and he was fine. Tuvoks got this.
"you never brought me tea" Janeway is in the middle of helping Tuvok unearth traumatic repressed memories and she is STILL making jokes. queen that she is
I love that he didn't even get annoyed. Just raised a brow and was all "didn't know you wanted me too" in response. Just joked back, teased back, and was willing to start catering his space bestie on the bridge despite being at deaths door in sickbay.
Space Besties: we are currently in a traumatic near death event ..... let's have some fun
I love these two. Tuvok left Starfleet because humans were just not something he could handle. Then he returns and stumbles across certain individuals, provides a massive analysis of one Kathryn Janeway leadership, and ends up under her command .... and remains loyal to her from then on. And it's still implied in various texts and comments that they met before that analysis, that the analysis is just the start of their command and tactical duty relationship that blossoms into space besties. If you go through memory beta and Voyager all over again the timing suggests her time at the Academy would be initial first contact for them. That the analysis report is just the catalyst into friendship.
And that analysis is likely the first major breakdown into how her mind works from him. And he never stops, and she accepted him doing it by bringing him into her command. And that.... that's just .... I love these two.
i love how janeway slides in with a phaser rifle and just starts shooting, then tuvok, her chief of security, slides in behind her with a tiny handheld phaser, saying "hands on your heads"
like, good thing he's there, because janeway clearly didn't have the situation under control already 🤣🤣
Tuvok also didn't get any smoke for his ride down the chute lmao
You know they had a whole debate on this. Tuvok insisted as chief of security AND tactical he should be going in first. It is his duty. Only for Janeway to smirk and pull a "as Commanding officer, it's my responsibility to be first in, last out". He knows her. He's served with her. He's accepted her for these very things. He debates her every time. Once the plan was in place he didn't show up with the phaser rifle and she had to keep from laughing because just as he knows her, she knows him. Tuvok takes the small guns when he knows his priority is mainly keeping her safe once things are secure.
My man Tuvok being uncomfortable by unexpected physical contact is such a mood.
“How’s your WIP going?”
"Have you made any progress?”
“How close are you to being done?”
Star Trek’s always coming up with the most outlandish fanfic scenarios
-Your dear friend must marry a strange woman and mate or he will die instead you fight hand to hand and this exhilaration frees him from both his pending marriage and his biological imperative to join himself physically to another
-you are tied to your secret crush with a device that makes you sick if you wander away from them an also lets you read each other’s minds which eventually reveals the secret you’ve hidden for years; that you have been in love with that other person for years
-A strange alien virus has sentenced you to spend the rest of your life on a Eden of a planet. You’re hopeful you can find a cure but are distracted by your doting first officer who reveals, carefully and discreetly that he is in love with you. Your hope for a cure is dashed one night by a summer storm but you’re starting to think you can build a life here with him when you hear rescuers calling for you in the distance. You’re free, you’re going home, you look into the eyes of your friend and companion and you feel this relief as a tragedy
Like what the hell Star Trek, calm down. Technically none of these ships are canon. Why are you like this
The way I knew each ship and episode immediately.
The other day, I was scrolling through Voyager and saw the familiar joke about Janeway, Picard, and the Borg Queen. It amused me, as always, because their interactions are interesting. But at the same time ... it has left this thing sitting with me in regards to the story of the Borg within Star Trek and how it was presented to us.
The Borg are first introduced to us in a Q episode, when Picard and his ship are tossed far into space (the Delta Quadrant actually) and exposed to dangers humanity is not ready for. That danger, at the time, specifically is a Borg cube. An entire section of the ship is just cut off and pulled away within the episode. Picard, ends up, by the end, asking Q to help them and get them back. The next time the Borg appear is "Best of Both Worlds".
Picard, at that point, is the face of humanity that the Borg know. Now, the Borg timeline in Trek is honestly a fun thing to look at. You do have the Enterprise episode and First Contact movie, this whole time loop that creates a sort of chicken and egg situation. But also, keep in mind ... the Raven - Seven's parents ship - has already been assimilated by "Best of Both Worlds". The Borg, at this point, have decided humanity needs a liason, someone to ease them into assimilation. And they pick Picard. We get Locutus. Then, after this, you get all that happens within the TNG episodes.
By the time Voyager happens, if you have watched TNG you have seen these episodes (Enterprise hasn't happened yet). First Contact is in 2373, Scorpion is in 2373/2374 ... these two events are within mere weeks/months/etc from each other. Yet, Janeway knows nothing about what Picard and Earth just went through. But, she was in Starfleet during Wolf 359, that battle was 2367. The USS Bonestell was her command - this ship was destroyed in this battle - memory beta says she was in command up till 2366. We dont know who was in command during the battle, for all we know it was Janeway and she is one of the few survivors of that destruction. Could be she just handed command over and the ship went off to battle.
"Scorpion" and "Best of Both Worlds" along with "Q, Who" are such vastly different means of bringing a character before the Borg. Picard is unaware and yet becomes a foil to them, becomes a focal point of the Queens plans. While Janeway, aware of the Borg - having learned previously through simply being part of Starfleet during those events, no matter how close she got to it -, is not clueless to this danger before her. She researches, reviews, looks over it all ... and then she offers up her own foil and focal point. The Borg Queen wanted a representative that could ease humanity into her clutches, and that failed her. Years later, Janeway looked the collective in the eye and said "give us a representative to ease this deal into success" and then she ensured it worked.
Janeway and Picard had two very different interactions with the Borg ... and honestly I will forever be obsessed with that (Janeway even willingly gets assimilated later on) and yet both of them are foils to the Borg Queen who will likely NEVER cease being annoyed that the two are still walking around Starfleet as reminders that resistance is possible.
Star Trek: The Next Generation //// S03E12 "The High Ground"
Picard's top three fears:
I see the boggart discussion has reared its ugly head again. And I find it vastly interesting how the book itself covers that not everything takes a direct shape of the individuals fear (such as spiders for Ron) and some are a bit more abstract, a representation. Remus tells Harry that it is interesting his is dementors as that suggests what he fears most is fear.
Wouldn't the better shape for that be a boggart? As that embodies fear. Yet the shape it took was a dementor, the thing that evoked fear and discomfort and his worst memories within Harry. Some of the children feared direct and obvious things - clowns, mummies, spiders, etc - but others like Harry, Hermione, and Neville held a fear of how certain things make them feel. Thus, the boggart took the form of what helps to embody that. Hermione would be any authority figure that could tell her she wasn't adequate enough - McGonagall (her Head of House) was the best for that at the time. Neville has a similar fear, of not being enough, he even blatantly states he didn't want his grandmother to appear either. He was directed to focus on it being Snape in order to make the spell work how Remus was directing him to.
Can we please stop boiling the boggart down to being a simple thing? Fear isn't always simple. It's complex. It can even be complex in kids.
One thing I truly appreciate about Voyager is just how long it takes them to contact Starfleet. They aren't even able to inform them they are alive until season 4, and it takes them until well into season 6 to actually be able to talk to them. I truly truly appreciate the commitment.
Like, it would have been easy enough to invent any excuse and have Voyager establish contact with Earth after the first season. But no, the crew is truly stranded in every sense of the word. And that makes it even more special when they finally make contact.
I would have loved an 8th season, not for further DQ time, but the return. Do Endgame time travel plot with the borg (take out C7 and some other stuff personally not for it and can be shifted differently with an extra season).
Start the new season with the crew not even on Earth. Start it with Janeway on a call with the Admiralty - not just Admiral Paris but ALL of the top brass - and being given orders. Being told to sit. To wait. To ease the ship back home, just follow those other ones Captain they got command now.
And by the time she gets off the call you can visibly see her tension, her discomfort, her absolute terror at handing her crew over. Because ... she has been the only one in charge for years.
Show Tom and B'Elanna processing their child safely born. Despite it all. Despite all they've experienced. They are home and safe, their child safe .... both waiting for that other shoe to drop and tell them it's a trick.
Chakotay immediately scrambling because he has to ensure the Maquis and others will not suffer.
Seven uncertain, having just been ready to explore relationships more now exposed to an even larger community.
Tuvok needing medical help and his family hurrying to get to him, his wife constantly messaging Kathryn for updates.
I want that 8th season where they all now adjust and figure it out and fight for each other and still somehow at the end even with them all going separate places and Seven headed for the Fenris Rangers .... Janeway insists no one else will lead these people but her, they are her crew. Her family. And she'll fight for them.
You know why I love this photo? trio shots usually put the lead/main in the central point. This means despite Albus being Headmaster those know Minerva McGonagall IS the central/main figure of them and I love this photo expressing that. Goodbye, off to love the staff trio some more.
