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🎵It's been a long road...🎵

Star Trek: Voyager 1x06 "Eye of the Needle" vs. 5x14 "Bliss"

#yeah im just gonna keep reblogging this #something something how her earnest eagerness transforms the longer they're in the delta quadrant

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W o r m h o l e ?

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It feels like such an unpopular opinion these days but I'd much rather a story take a big swing and miss than just be a tepid, lightly-tread path. I'd much rather writers take big risks, play with expectations, subvert tropes and ultimately maybe fail a little bit than have this constant stream of content that can be summed up in trite soundbites or carved up into 30 second clips.

#this is my whole thing

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Welcome to Star Trek tumblr! Idk how you got here, but I'm 100% sure this will not make it any clearer for you

what's the threshold theory

There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.

If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.

#every day is threshold day #I think this means my threshold posting is escaping containment red alert

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The thing about "Worst Case Scenario" is that Seska rewriting a program to torture and ultimately murder Tuvok for his "betrayal" of the Maquis suggests that she was loyal to the Maquis, and not only because of her feelings for Chakotay. She would've had to booby trap the program before "State of Flux," because she's under intense scrutiny then and there's not really enough time anyway. Which suggests to me that she was fueled by real rage: if Tuvok had reopened the program, and been killed by it, how could she have possibly gotten away with it? She wasn't planning to leave at that point, and (!) she specifically depicts herself as Bajoran, not, in some big gotcha moment, as Cardassian:

When Seska returns in this episode [...] the holographic Seska also slightly differs, in appearance, from how the actual Seska ever looked. "We […] see Seska in an incarnation we had never really seen her in before," Martha Hackett commented. "They changed everything – her hair and costume – because it's her creation in the hologram." (Star Trek Monthly issue 34, p. 40)

(Emphasis mine)

This, coupled with her big speech in "State of Flux," makes me wonder whether she would've ever revealed herself as Cardassian, if she hadn't been caught. She seems still to believe in the superiority of Cardassia ("If this had been a Cardassian ship, we would be home now!"), yet follows up with,

"I did it for you. I did it for this crew. We are alone here, at the mercy of any number of hostile aliens, because of the incomprehensible decision of a Federation captain. A Federation captain who destroyed our only chance to get home. Federation rules. Federation nobility. Federation compassion? Do you understand? [...] We must begin to forge alliances. To survive, we must have powerful friends."

We are alone. We must have powerful friends. I don't know how this has never occurred to me, but textually speaking, with the notable exception of Incomprehensible Federation Captain Janeway, Seska seems deeply invested in the community she is ultimately forced to leave. It's, actually, a kind of reverse Ro Laren situation. What a twist.

#mmm fascinating #I also need to spend more time with seska meta cause I have Thoughts

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It’s okay, I wasn’t ready either. RIP me.

#happy birthday Kate Mulgrew #I love her your honor

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congratulations janeway for achieving your life's dream and finally destroying this ship (and dying for the 40th time in the process lmao)

it looks like a whale trying to swim into the Kremin ship in the second picture lol

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Me all week: intense? Am I that intense? Can't be that bad

Me: *Voyager's just on... all the time*

Also me: *makes extensive mind plans about a Threshold cosplay*

Also also me: *will not stop posting and writing about it*

Me again: ok, maybe intense was a fair assessment

#stg the rumination #yeah I'm sorry I'm just like this now #idk there are real life things going on that I don't want to deal with hence fantasy land #about to crack into my ~actual~ savings account rip me #I am very Leslie knope 'I am super chill all the time!' aren't I

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He thinks.

#actually loling at this one it's so perfect #oh chakotay we're really in it now #his little eye bags what a detail #the little tufts of hair #I love him #voy cuties

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Love this guy. The Pog.

Anyways everybody PLEAAASE go watch Star Trek Prodigy it's so underrated and very very good ok

#pro cuties #jankom pog #I love your style!! look at how precious he is #they were big brained for putting Jason mantzoukas in Star Trek #star trek prodigy

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Sometimes when I'm facing an issue in life I think WWJD (what would Janeway do).

Does it provide me with useful insight? More often than not, no. But imagining her smashing Voyager into whatever I'm having a problem with does make me feel better.

#words to live by #Destroyager

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kira from star trek

#solid points all around

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Janeway gazes upon Murf and feels a semblance of regret at abandoning her beautiful salamander children.

#star trek prodigy #every day is threshold day

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What's actually insane is you posted this in November, and it permanently changed how I watched this scene. She is so hilariously jazzed at this prospect. You wanna look inside Janeway's mind? Better buckle up cause it's gonna be a ride

she looked so goddamn excited to sit in that chair for some reason 🤣

#could've sworn it had been going around more than it did

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| Abandon ship? The answer's no... |

#I am generally unwell about year of hell #brilliant beautiful gif set #obsessed with her #I know we point to scientific method janeway as the one without any fucks left to give #but dirty scarred year of hell janeway has lost it all #this is the version of her who will truly do whatever it takes #her family is gone and their home is destroyed #I have more thoughts but #holy fuck

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last week: death via intentional starship explosion

this week: antiquing with B'Elanna

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she looked so goddamn excited to sit in that chair for some reason 🤣

#STG I was looking for this post yesterday #your screen caps have become canon... to me