#* in character ┊ tom paris.

[avoidingdestiny]

What I love about Threshold is it’s a Tom Paris Daddy Issues episode, and at the end he isn’t even upset that his own children got left behind. Gotta love unaware men continuing the cycle.

#Tom Paris is such a loser #He’s my favorite Voyager character for that exact reason #Watched it with my friend last night and said there’s no way that for Paris’s entire life #People we’re saying he was destined to achieve great things #The dude is a goof and there’s no way anyone took him that seriously #See also: the EMH is my favorite person for Paris to share scenes with #Star Trek VOY #VOY #Threshold #Threshold Day #*were saying

[maliwart]

What if we were horrible lizards and in love

I'm sorry, but happy Threshold Day!

[image ID: A digital drawing of the two lizards from the episode "Threshold" of Star Trek Voyager and their offspring. The lizards are holding hands and their tails make a heart shape. The three babies are in a hold in the center of their "heart". The background is a dark blue. End ID]

#star trek voyager #threshold #threshold day #tom paris #kathryn janeway #like do i even tag this as the characters im so sorry

[tea-earl-grey]

Voyager character dnd classes

see the other series here!

Janeway: paladin. literally no question she literally made an oath to get her crew home, she is a prototypical paladin. i started this series of posts because i realized how much of a paladin Janeway is.

Chakotay: paladin. i struggled a bit with Chakotay but he is obviously someone very dedicated to truth and justice and was willing to go off on his own path to fulfill that dream of justice when he joined the Maquis and that's very paladin of him.

Tuvok: monk. i think a lot of Vulcans have big monk energy due to their intense almost monastical studies and devotion to logic and Tuvok is a prime example who is highly trained in both physical and mental discipline and sought to help others (Kes, Suder) exercise that same discipline.

Torres: sorcerer. Torres very much lacks the formal training that a usual Starfleet engineer (or wizard) would have but (in my opinion) has even more natural talent for ambitious engineering and manages to be a miracle worker not through some pact or intelligence but just through sheer force of will.

Kim: wizard. look in the show, Torres and Kim were kind of presented as opposites (the Maquis vs Starfleet) with the personality differences to match despite having a vaguely similar set of skills and capabilities. so it really makes sense that if Torres is a sorcerer, Kim would be a wizard with all the traditional by the book learning that entails.

Paris: fighter. Tom Paris is a fighter and i don't have much of an argument other than ~vibes~ and the fact that only a fighter would think he could tank the damage from going warp 10 and then start turning into a salamander.

EMH: cleric/bard multiclass. look the EMH was literally designed to be a doctor. when he was first activated that was his entire purpose and nothing else so i don't think i can really argue that he isn't a cleric. but as he started to exist for longer, he consistently wanted to be something more (specifically a singer, see Virtuoso). i need to emphasize. he's not a good bard. he doesn't provide inspiration or support to anyone. but the fact is that he needs to prove he can be something more.

Neelix: bard. do i have to explain myself? Neelix is very much a jack of all trades master of none kind of character. he dabbles in pretty much everything and 90% of his scenes exist to give support and encouragement to other characters.

Seven: warlock. even in-universe, the Borg (when they're at they're best) are portrayed as this eerie eldritch entity so i think it would make sense that in dnd mechanics, even though Seven broke away from the Borg, she maintained that pact with them in order to keep performing sorts of magical acts (like her increased strength and like. bringing people back from the dead). but she also very much has that same darkness and melancholy that a warlock has from a pact with an ambiguously evil being.

Kes: druid. no question about this one. she has an affinity for plants and vague but powerful supernatural abilities drawn from the literal energy of the universe.

please feel free to reply with your own headcanons! i'd love to read them.

#voyager #star trek #kathryn janeway #chakotay #tuvok #b'elanna torres #harry kim #tom paris #emh #neelix #seven of nine #kes #star trek dnd fusion #i'm this close to starting to type up everyone's character backstories and pretending like i'm actually going to write something #but for real voyager would make a great ttrpg campaign (whether it's a dnd skin or not) #my posts

[pilots-and-protons]

I wish we could have had some fun with Janeway’s and Tom’s (sadly brief) body-swap in “Vis à Vis”. It would have been really fun if the Doctor took a while to reverse the process and therefore a bunch of silliness got to ensue.

Like Janeway being very annoyed that she keeps getting heartburn and Tom explaining that his body isn’t used to surviving on five cups of black coffee every day thank-you-very-much. Usually he likes to eat actual food.

Tom constantly tripping and incorrectly pressing panels at the helm. Half of his flying is muscle memory, and every sense of balance and physical space is off because Janeway’s body is so much smaller than his. He also abandons her heeled boots for more comfortable shoes within the first hour and it makes him even shorter.

It’s also very bizarre to see himself sitting in the Captain’s chair, or floating around the bridge with his hands on his hips while asking for status reports.

Janeway keeps bumping into consoles, hitting her head, and accidentally knocking over objects on her desk. Tom’s body is so goddamn tall compared to hers and he’s got (in her words), stupidly long arms. She knocks over two padds and a cup of coffee before it’s even lunchtime.

Also both of them just feeling generally kind of weird because their perspectives are so drastically different .

”I admit, I never really noticed quite how shiny the Doctor’s head is until now.” 

“Yeah well, turns out B’Elanna’s death glare is a lot more affective when she doesn’t have to look up at you.”

And bonus for Harry being very confused and slightly uncomfortable because Captain Janeway is sitting in his quarters, lounging on his couch, and asking about the local gossip. He knows it’s Tom, technically, but he just can’t get past the fact that Tom looks and sounds like his Captain - even if the grin on her face is 100% Paris.

#star trek #voy #tom paris #kathryn janeway #voyager #vis a vis #as a side note #thinking of Mulgrew and McNeill's friendship #I bet they would have had a lot of fun #having to act like each others' character #god how fun would that have been?

[clementine-kesh]

kudos to robbie duncan mcneill’s inability to play a convincing bad boy and the voyager writers inability to write one for giving us the most pathetic tryhard incredibly repressed gay man ever

#tom paris is like. if i knew him irl i would kill him but since he’s a fictional character he’s sooo fun to me #he’s like jughead to me

[the-mushroom-faerie]

i love how rodney keeps calling john "kirk" when hes very clearly tom paris

#thats still not an accurate comparison in the way rodney means though #because while tom goes after women john just like. happens to be flirted with. #and he waffles between being confused and actively disliking it #stargate #stargate atlantis #john sheppard #star trek voyager #tom paris #mushroom rambles #but like the comparison is there bc both tom and john were 'disgraced' from the military #and found a home on an expedition out of reach from earth and everything they knew #and would both kill and die for their new family #because its the first time they felt something like thay #and they both have daddy issues stemming from failure to meet expectations and both play dumb to fit in #but are brilliant pilots with a cheeky sense of humour who fell in love with a hotheaded and even more brilliant engineer #holy shit they are Literally The Same Character

[catgirljaneway]

Master Voyager Ship Tierlist

I present to you the fruits of my labor, a Star Trek Voyager ship tierlist including as many ships and rarepairs I could think of. Please do it and reblog with your answers! It would bring me joy

#star trek #god it actually took forever to find photos for all the ships #a couple i couldn't evenn find photos for #also if you have a ship that includes a voy character #lemme know i'll add it #sorry for the shitty quality of some pgotos #i was doing my best #rarepairs enjoyers (me) this one's for u #also this isn't an invitation to be mean to people about their ships btw #voyager #j7 #j/c #janeway x chakotay #janeway x seven #b'elanna x tom #b'elanna x kes #b'elanna x seven #harry kim x tom paris #seven x raffi #tuvok x janeway #janeway x amelia earhart #harry x b'elanna #janeway x t'pel #seska x b'elanna #star trek voyager #captain janeway #trek thoughts #harry kim #st voy

[homewrecking-lore]

wildest thing about threshold is that sandwiched between some of the most random corniest dialogue you will ever hear in an hour of television is just this gut-punch of a character moment

#almost immediately followed by him telling the emh about losing his virginity and also pepperoni #the dichotomy of man #voy #star trek voyager #tom paris #this is such a wild turn from how they tried to set up his character in s1 #listen tom paris can be my personal punching bag and my sad summer child. trust me he's just like that.

[aquamonstra]

Watching Before and After and is there a character that Tom Paris DOESN'T have kids with???

#the ultimate dad #the most father #he has 5 offspring with three different characters #WILD #but also ya that tracks #tom paris #star trek voyager

[curator-on-ao3]

Some more character options:

Seven of Nine

Tom Paris

La'an Noonien-Singh

Thank you so much for asking, anon! ❤️

For Seven of Nine, my question is borne of the question Seven asked Picard: “After they brought you back from your time in the collective, do you honestly feel that you regained your humanity?” (With both of them indicating they’re “working on it” as their answer.) So my question to Seven is, “What does humanity mean to you?”

For her answer, I would hope Seven would begin with some Trek-style platitudes about humanity as curiosity, exploration, and betterment … and, as she answered, I hope Seven would hear herself, truly hear herself, and recognize that “regaining humanity” doesn’t need to be a goal for her. Instead, humanity is intrinsic to the person Seven is — we saw it in the human girl she was and we see it in the xB woman she has become. The Borg repressed who Seven is for a very long time, a horrifically traumatic experience. Yet Seven’s humanity is clear in her thoughtfulness, in her kindness, in her expansive love and loyalty — and it would be my fervent hope that Seven would see that humanity within and for herself.

So that’s Seven.

For Tom Paris, I would ask him what motivates him to do so much for other people. I mean, this is a guy who created multiple holodeck programs for the entire crew to enjoy (Sandrine’s, the resort, Fair Haven; also, iirc, we only see Tom alone on the holodeck when he’s depressed), he also designed and helped build the Delta Flyer and he risked everything to try to save the Moneans. Plus! Tom rooted out the traitor at significant personal cost to Tom’s reputation and even his ability to stay on the ship, then Tom worked with the Talaxians, the Doctor, and Lon Suder to rescue the crew from Hanon IV.

So this guy has done a lot for other people (not to mention risking his life to fly at transwarp, piloting a ship at warp farther than anyone else, and even fucking a starship not to mention his captain).

And I want to know why.

I think Tom’s answer would make me sad. I think he’s an extrinsically motivated person and words of praise are a love language for him. (From Threshold: “When I was a boy, my father used to tell me that I was special, that one day I’d do something significant. My teachers at school, all the kids, everyone used to say, ‘Tom Paris is going to do something important when he grows up.’ Obviously, that didn't happen.”) So I think Tom would say he likes to make people happy, it brings him joy to know others are benefitting from something he’s done or enabled. (Maybe there’s an effort to atone for Caldik Prime in there? I don’t know.) And I think Tom might even get a little irritated that I asked him why he wants to do nice things for nice people because what’s wrong with trying to be nice? And he would be right. But also wrong in that I would like for Tom to have an intrinsic measure of self-worth, too, because he’s … worth it?

So that’s Tom Paris.

For La’an Noonien-Singh, if I put aside questions canon should eventually answer (e.g., how much Augment DNA does La’an have, anyway, and what does that signify in terms of her abilities?), then I would ask La’an what safety would look like in her life. Because even with her Jim Kirk crush, I wonder how much of that was about seeking safety, in part with (at first) someone who wouldn’t be prejudiced against her.

For La’an’s answer, I would hope she would say things about confidence she was good at her job giving her a sense of safety, and that she had friends and loved ones who help her feel safe. I hope La’an would reflect on what happened in the premiere episode — pretending to be prey to trap people — and how that sort of behavior may work for security, but vulnerability in real life is something La’an is working on … because maybe safety to be vulnerable is the ultimate safety and La’an will get there? She will get there. She will.

Send me a Trek character and I’ll reply with a question I would ask them — and, if you want, my hoped-for answer.

If you want people to send you character(s) to play this ask game, here’s the post to reblog.

#i love asks #character ask game #seven of nine #star trek picard #tom paris #star trek voyager #la’an noonien singh #star trek strange new worlds #thank you again for asking #anon

[yueasuka]

Hmm... Many people say Reverse!Gabriel doesn't pay attention to Emodrien but is it true or is it him giving Emodrien a space for griefing? I'm more to the later actually. 🤔

This is because I saw their relationship like Adrien and Gabriel relationship but reversed situation. In canon, it's Gabriel who refused to move on and in the reverse, it's Emodrien who refused. So I think just like how Adrien give Gabriel space to grief while also doing what he can for his father, the same thing happened in the other world but role reversed. That and the fact Griffe Noire's rant about how reverse!Gabriel just continue designing, came off as the same thing with Gabriel's reaction in Felix episode when Adrien give him his blessing to pursue Nathalie just further proof of it for me. The kind of "How dare you move on this fast!! Did she meant little to you?????!" Type of rant.

Since Emodrien finally decided to move on thanks to Adrien's pep talk, I'm sure if these son and father talk things through, things will get better and perhaps this time the Agreste will be the one "adopting" Marinette and save her from the tower of loneliness.

#I'm not a believer of if a character is bad in one universe then every version of that character in other universe is bad too #After all character is shaped by their experience and people around them #So yeah I believe Reverse Gabriel is a decent father who just give his son a space to griefing #Even a decent parents can fail too and that's ok no one is perfect #I mean... Even Tom and Sabine fail to notice Marinette's unhinged behaviour? #Considering Derision said Marinette 'stalking' is considered trauma reaction #So yeah Reverse Gabriel not notice that space isn't what Emodrien need is just a human thing to do #Ml Paris special #This make me want to write more of them

[best-star-trek-character]

Round Two

#best voy character competition #seven of nine #annika hansen #Tom Paris #lieutenant Tom Paris #st #voy #star trek voyager #best star trek character competition

[figureofdismay]

Every time i start getting back into Voyager fannishness i end up remembering that while Tom Paris is one of my favorite of all Trek characters, he is a lot of other people's... really not favorite character. Which, fair enough! But it's awkward 💀. Not the first time I've liked the wrong little guy from a thing, it's just that it gives me the kind of feeling of standing in a busy-ish room talking to myself in the corner lol.

Anyway I love that boy from his brash Cool Guy performance to his lonely nerd kid heart, outrageous flirting and obsessive, detail oriented escapism and all 💜❤️

#tom paris #beloved beloved #character theory: tom #fic: younger than we've ever been #st:voy

[thatonegaytrekfan]

#star trek characters #star trek #stolen from facebook #star trek voyager #captain janeway #tom paris #belanna torres #harry kim #forever and ensign

[spockasmr]

Actually, I started recording a letter to my father. For some reason, I wanted to explain to him how I ended up in here. I didn't want him to think...

#trekedit #star trek #star trek voyager #star trek voy #voyedit #harry kim #tom paris #* #*tv #*gif #*startrek #i made these for myselfs so i will say. if you are mean to harry in the tags i'll be sad. think about it #this is difficult. thinks about it for days. i love it. the just some guys ruining what remains of my brain #character: harry kim #character: tom paris #pairing: kim x paris

[bumblingbabooshka]

Scene where after returning to the Alpha quadrant Tom flirts with Asil mostly to try to get a reaction from Tuvok which fails on every level because she's a lesbian and later there's a follow-up scene where Asil gives Tom her number...to give to B'Elanna. Cue Tom in disbelief as Harry pats him on the back with an 'oh you' smile-headshake.

#I didn't want to draw Tom in a bathing suit .... Asil was suntanning #st voyager #[REDACTED] family shenanigans #very technically #Tom Paris #Asil #st voyager art #beas art tag #Tom doesn't know she's a lesbian v_v it's a reveal bc I'm imagining this like it's the 90's and Asil is a one-off character