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Day 28: Revulsion

Finally. FINALLY!!!

BONUS! Doctorous Interruptous:

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SeP/Tember Day 17: Day of Honor

“I can’t imagine a time I wouldn’t have found you fascinating.”

The Day of Honour: the day when Klingons reflect on their behaviour of the previous year to determine whether or not they’ve behaved honourably. B’Elanna hates it. She doesn’t want to be judged or evaluated (unless she blows everyone away with her brilliance), and she hates all that Klingon crap anyway. Too bad Tom took the idea—and her holodeck programme—and ran with it.

B’Elanna has a very. bad. day. On top of the unwelcome reminder of her Klingon heritage, she has to deal with an emergency in engineering, that Borg being assigned to her department, Neelix’ version of Rokeg blood pie, her spat with Tom over the programme, the failed transwarp test, AND having to dump her warp core.

Plus, she misses dinner with Tom.

And then she almost dies when they beam into space after their shuttle explodes.

At least she gets to tell him that she’s in love with him.

Day of Honor originally aired on 17 September, 1997. Today’s prompts are Day of Honor: Love declaration - Fascinating - Bad day - Confessions

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SeP/Tember Day 29: Worst Case Scenario

“There’s room in every good story for a little bit of passion.”

“You know, maybe you’re onto something. I could add a steamy love scene between the Starfleet conn officer and the Maquis engineer.”

Awwwwww, BEST case scenario for a Tom & B’Elanna holodeck adventure, right?!

B’Elanna stumbles across an old holodeck programme, Insurrection Alpha, where the mutinous Maquis take over the ship, and can’t resist playing it. Tom bursts in on her because she forgot to lock the door (and she was late for their lunch date), and HE can’t resist playing it. It. Is. A. Blast! (not literally until later)

But, alas, the programme doesn’t finish, it simply ends. They decide to find out who wrote it and convince them to write the ending.

After taking a vow of silence B’Elanna blabs to the Doctor, and soon half the crew is running Insurrection Alpha & the other half is talking about it. Tuvok confesses that he’s the author & says he’ll delete it. Janeway thinks it’s a fun diversion, three years in, and tells Tuvok to finish it so she the crew can play it out.

Everyone has ideas! including B’Elanna. She busts in on Tom & Tuvok’s writing session and she & Tom get to discuss the merits of a steamy love scene. What could be more perfect than a little bit of passion? Not much, that’s for sure. Tuvok can barely contain his un-Vulcan-like excitement at the idea.

Unfortunately, we get life & death drama instead when, upon opening the programme in the holodeck to start adding to it, Tom & Tuvok accidentally trigger Seska’s rewrite. There’s nothing worse than a fic writer stealing another writer’s idea and writing an unauthorized sequel! Tom and Tuvok are caught in the programme, Tom gets bash up, B’Elanna worries (we’re only a couple of episodes off from Day of Honor here), and KJ & B’Elanna get to Science! together in order to help save the menfolk. All in all, one of our favourite episodes!

Oh, and we get to see how awful Tom looks in yellow.

And in yet another ugly vest.

Stick to jewel tones, Tom!

Today is National Coffee Day, so drink up! Again, we could have gone with Threshold, but, again, why would we (unless we cut off the last 15 minutes)? Today’s prompts are:

WORST CASE SCENARIO - Holodeck adventure gone wrong - Steamy love scene - Naked Bolian

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Day 14: Alter Ego

Let’s have another!

And a fic, horray!

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Drive

And here’s my fic contribution to today’s prompt:

DRIVE: Missing dialogue/scenes/coda - Sex in a shuttle - Where did Tom hide the ring?

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Day 27: Hunters

I love this episode because it’s a bridge between Voyager & the Dominion War episodes of DS9. And Tom gets to grow up a little & begin to contemplate his relationship with his father with both of them as adults. Plus, gets to comfort B’Elanna in her shock & grief. I hate this episode because it’s kicks off her depression, which is a painful thing to watch.

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Scientific Method

Bonus crappy collage of kisses:

And today’s fic:

Wait! Another bonus crappy collage! Feeding B’Elanna:

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Day 30: 30 Days

It’s over. Whew! Alas, the work in my neglected garden is just beginning.

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Day 25: The Swarm

B’Elanna has the best expressions in this episode. And the opening scene with them in the shuttle is pretty much all I remember about it. 🤷‍♀️

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SeP/Tember 18: Distant Origin

“Note how the female, through the feigned antagonism, encourages the male in his attempt to mate.”

Today’s episode is Distant Origin because today is my brother’s birthday and although he does not look like a bipedal lizard, my fam always thought he was a bit space-alien-like, and the date was open so 🤷‍♀️

Isn’t scientific exploration and observation supposed to be the heart of Starfleet? Tom & B’Elanna have a close encounter of the third kind, minus the tower of mud in Tom’s quarters or a similar mound of mashed potatoes in the mess, with a couple of saurian scientists out to prove that their two species, Voth & Voyager’s crew, are distant cousins.

It’s pretty clear to us that Tom would like to be kissing-cousins with B’Elanna. And he’s romancing his Klingon in the best way possible: through challenge. BYOB! (Gee, I wish I could think up a clever phrase from BYOB that includes B’Elanna’s name, but 🤷‍♀️)

Wait! B’Elanna, Your Only Babe…? 🤔 …Obvious Babe? …Obvious Buddy? B’Elanna, Your O…Beauty? Help me.

Today’s prompts are: Distant Origin - bat’leths/BYOB - Crude Verbal Interplay - Rolling Eyes

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The Cloud

Kicking off the first P/T Month with a crappy collage AND a fic? Yes, please!

SeP/T 1: Strip pool - Lack of pockets - Personal quarters

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SeP/Tember Day 30: 30 Days

“...Captain Proton’s not going to be able to save the day this time, is he?”

“What about Tom Paris?”

Well, what did expect would happen when you started dating a Maquis?!

This episode is all about Tom: his interests, his choices, the consequences he suffers. But unlike the last time he screwed up, he steps up and takes responsibility and takes his punishment on the chin.

How does Tom end up in jail again? Love. Because he followed his heart, and the advice of that Maquis love-of-his-life, 650 thousand kilometres down, straight to the heart of an ocean world—an anomaly that amazed him when Voyager runs across it.

Since he was a little boy Tom’s been fascinated by the sea. When other kids were playing holoprogrammes, he was reading Moby Dick & Captains Courageous. His dream was to join the Federation Naval Patrol, a dream that was quickly squashed by his father.

This episode is told through flashbacks, but it’s mostly linear. It begins with Janeway rather forcefully ripping Tom’s black pip from his collar and sentencing him to 30 days in the brig and ends with him being released and B’Elanna, the only other woman in his life who can order him around, calling him Ensign in a way that promises many wonderful things, and demanding he have dinner with her at 0700. Is she on night shift or does her idea of dinner not include food…?

But the guts of this episode is Tom’s letter to his father explaining how he ended up in the brig in the first place. Really, the heart of the episode is Tom’s letter to his dad, the Admiral. The fact that he‘s reaching out at all, though he realizes that his father will likely never get to hear his letter, shows that he wants to rebuild their relationship, that he wants his dad to understand him, finally. One could argue, after Hunters, that Owen feels the same.

We get a glimpse of Tom’s Captain Proton holodeck programme both when he’s heroically saving his sidekick, Buster, from the evil clutches of Demonica & Malicia: played by the oft-referred to Delaney sisters.

And when he’s feeling powerless and his Maquis love-of-his-life girlfriend tracks him down and plants the seed that he’s got a little hero in him after all:

in the end, Tom’s efforts are for naught. He doesn’t force the Moneans to rethink their actions regarding the water world they stole, he doesn’t even blow up that oxygen refinery forcing them to rebuild, better. He loses his pip, but he gains some self respect.

Today’s prompts are: THIRTY DAYS - That’s an order, ensign - Water - Dear Dad

As the official blogger (because I tend to take over things) for SeP/Tember Paris/Torres Month I want to thank everyone who contributed fanworks & video clips & commentary, and everyone who stuck with us, encouraging us with kudos & comments & ❤️s & reblogs. I hope everyone had fun and their love for P/T was rekindled.

Here’s your reward for hanging in there: a bonus pic of Tom drinking tea with Janeway. Yeah, I don’t like Earl Grey either, Tom.

See you in SeP/Tember 2022… or sooner!

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Day 29: Worst Case Scenario

STEAMY! LOVE! SCENE!

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SeP/Tember Day 28: Revulsion

“Are you sure your heart can take it?”

Tempting as it is to just toss up a dozen screen shots of them kissing, I suppose we should do a little refresher of the episode. When we last saw our favourite couple they were awkwardly dancing around each other while the crew were trying to find a missing Chakotay. But the time before THAT, they were floating in space with their oxygen almost depleted and, seeing Death reflected in his visor, B’Elanna confessed to Tom that she was in love with him.

In true Romantic Hero fashion, Tom chided her on her timing. A few days later they suffer through a celebratory promotion dinner for Tuvok, both eyeing up the other nervously before B’Elanna can make her escape.

Tom chases her, of course, and asks her if she really meant it when she confessed that she loved him. She admits that yes, she does indeed love him, duffous that he is, but it’s A-OK if he doesn’t love her back! Really! Yep! It’s fiiiiiine…

His response to that is pretty succinct. And it’s nice that he asks for permission before he smooches her.

Then the Doc interrupts them, Tom is made the ship’s new nurse, B’Elanna is dragged away on a mission to save a hologram, she’s almost killed by the murderous hologram, and they destroy him & get back to Voyager in time to save her life. And there’s some minor frat boy bullshit between Seven and Harry. 🙄

But we also get a hint, fumbled in the writer’s room though it is, that Tom & B’Elanna are about to spend the night together getting sweaty.

Ahhhh… hormones!

It’s Heart Day, yay! It’s also Ask a Stupid Question Day (snicker), and Rabies Day… 🤔 Today’s prompts are:

REVULSION - Shut up and kiss me - Rambling - Ask a stupid question…

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Day 11: Barge of the Dead

Happy Birthday to Roxann Dawson. My memories of September 11, 2001 are still vivid. I want to put my arms around the US & give you all a big Janeway-esque hug today. But all I’ve got is this:

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SeP/Tember Day 10: Real Life

Can we all agree that when compared to this scene ☝️actual real life is overrated? Who doesn’t love this flirty/tragic episode?!? It’s Swap Ideas Day, so let’s swap our ideas & stories & gifs & pics & love for Tom & B’Elanna! ❤️

“A beautiful woman should never have to eat alone. What are you reading?”

“It’s nothing important.”

“Women Warriors at the River of Blood?”

“It’s just escapist reading.”

“Rork turned his fierce eye upon her, and M’Neya felt her heart begin to quicken, even as her hand went to her dagger. She had intended to plunge it into his throat, but something about him made her hesitate. B’Elanna, is this a Klingon romance novel?”

“Klingons do have what you might call a romantic side. It’s a bit more vigorous than most.”

“I think I’ll read it. Maybe it’ll give me some ideas on how to make your heart quicken.”

“It’s not a technical manual, Tom.”

“Well, that depends on what you mean by technical.”

“To an engineer, that means specializing in particular systems.”

“I think that definition works.”

“I can’t promise I won’t put a dagger through your throat.”

Day 10 prompts are REAL LIFE: Good/Bad hair day - Mess Hall (non food) - Romance novel/Technical manual

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