Janeway is already struggling with her mental state in Concerning Flight –
JANEWAY: You're giving up. Again. Your beautiful painting of the Adoration, the great bronze horse in Milan, the Battle of Anghiari. Unfinished, all of them. You were going to publish your notebooks. You never did. You have given up, abandoned your most important works. Why?
She probes Da Vinci intently, trying to figure out why he would abandon all that's important to him and the things he's tried to achieve. Why throw away everything that's gotten him up to this point?
The real question is why would she care so much? She is too invested in his answer, and she's really accusing him of the things she fears she'll do. She fears she'll give up because she's already descending into the depressive episode we see culminate in Night. "You've given up. Abandoned your most important works. Why?" She's not asking him that question; she's asking for herself.
Janeway is struggling to hold on and she's looking for strength anywhere she can find it, even if it is in the comfort of a Renaissance holodeck program. What's especially telling is she only does this when she's alone with Da Vinci because the second Voyager needs attention, she's back to being captain. Given some space, though, she's ruminating in isolation and blame
Why am I so invested in a ❤️ story that isn’t even real? Between people that aren’t even real?
I hear a song & almost 😭 , feeling it’s written for their life, their ❤️ … I scream & get 😤 at the unfairness of it all, because they want each other & can’t have each other?
I read fanfic like it’s a drug and feel the high when they do get what they want… a happy ever after.
Yet, after every high, comes the low and I am down & depressed again…
Why? Tell me? Tell me I’m not the only 1️⃣ .jcdeservedbetter
I had intended on posting this on the 29th and forgot. Oops. What kind of Trek fan am I? A forgetful one it seems. Threshold won an emmy for outstanding makeup but is an episode hated by many Trek fans. I loved this cartoon version of a part of the episode living on YouTube channel: Gazelle Automations called "Star Trek: Voyager: The Animated Series" go give it a watch.
She’s a science nerd. She’s a mom to most of her crew. She has endless sexual tension with just about everyone. She’s a deadbeat parent to her lizard children. She’s one bad day away from a severe depressive episode. She’s unable to resist adopting most pathetic lifeforms that cross her path. She’s godmother to an all powerful space being. She’s addicted to coffee. She’s Starfleet Temporal Investigations enemy #1. She looks good in a suit. She went full Ellen Ripley once. She’s an actual war criminal. She likes dogs. She violates the Prime Directive. She’s got self-sacrificial tendencies. Her fiancé Dear Jane lettered her. She keeps falling in love with holograms. Her Vulcan bestie struggles daily to keep her alive.
Do you think Janeway invited everyone to a family dinner at her Indiana home with her mom and sister and they thought it was just the main bridge crew but it was all 175 of them.
I love them so much!!!!! Think what you want, but for me, this couple is a married old married couple who survived the attack on Starfleet in season 3 of Picard. They are happily raising children and dogs, as well as a little kitten
I love him so much. He is my most favoritist sunshine child ever. He is 17 at the start and 19 post skip and is one of the most infamous pirate captains out there. He is not a hero. But he will fight to protect what is His. This includes objects as well as people. And honestly ideas too. None of his crew set out to be his crew but each would lay down their life for him, tho he 100% expects them to Fight for him (as he would and they would too). He is an idiot but he is going places! He doesn’t care about knowing anything extra, just the very basics of the goal and who is with/against him and who is a bystander. Boy is beautiful inside and out. Plus his greatest treasure (hat aside) is his freedom and that he is 100% willing to share with anyone he sees oppressed. Also, his ships are equally important and even thought Merry is no longer sailing, she deserves all the love. Just like how Sunny has yet to make her biggest contribution, but is still worthy of all the seas.
Janeway's the first female captain to be portrayed on a Star Trek series. Groundbreaking, badass. Extremely capable, gets her crew through challenges of isolation and various external threats and as yet uncharted regions of space. Loves coffee.