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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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I so wanted to like this guy too...

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Half of my potential comments in this community end this way ..... I just stare into the void, wonder if my humor makes any sense and then fifty percent of the time just delete what I just wrote.

I would have been killed off on the second day Voyager got lost in the Delta quadrant.

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey come on! We're all kind and great people here! You can trust us. That's what Starfleet is all about

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sheepishly putting on my red shirt

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Congratulations! You've been assigned to an away mission on an unfamiliar planet with three of the main cast. We await your return!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Alright!!! I can't wait to tell my friends about this adventure when I come back! .... it's gonna be so cool!!

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your diplomacy destroyed my world!

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah yeah yeah but look! The Enterprise!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ohhhhh ... Prime Directive ...... I thought that booklet was a comic about a "Dime Detective"

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Oops shouldn’t have this Starfleet logo here either.

Join me in a belt of Romulan ale?

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago

You gotta lean into it. If Keiko and Kess could make it most of the way through the series, so can you!

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Hey now, don't sell yourself short. I'm sure you would have died on the first day!

[–] experbia@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Janeway is my favorite captain for sure. The others are all remarkable, because of course they are, but whenever I watch Voyager, I am reminded of how much more I like her over the others.

She had (and used) this great guile to serve her and her crew's needs. She didn't readily break her principles, but would intelligently question them when they didn't appear to align with the greater good or her responsibilities.

She was both flexible and reliable. I feel that some viewers saw that as unpredictability, but I don't think so. She actively did more to help her crew in every way than any other captain we've seen.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I find her erratic from episode to episode.

Sometimes she’s a by-the-book “We must be a light in the darkness” type who spreads Starfleet ideals no matter the cost. Sometimes she’s Starship Troopers levels of “You do it right or I’ll shoot you myself.”

From what I understand this is because there were two factions in the writers room regarding who Janeway was as a character.

I call this the Coffee vs No Coffee divide.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I call this the Coffee vs No Coffee divide.

Inside every person there are 2 personalities...

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Inside of you there are two wolves.

One has had her morning coffee.

The other is murdering Tuvix.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The coffee character chasm, if you will.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Captain Janeway Coffee Crew getting ready to write a new episode

The Janeway Coffee Crew getting ready to write a new episode

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

She's not my favorite but I do rank her real high for all the reasons you mentioned. I also think she's the Captain who stands for Starfleet the most. She sacrificed a lot to hold up Starfleet ideals

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is my favorite episode. Janeway is so cool

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trek heresy, but in my personal top five list from all the shows, Voyager takes two slots and TNG gets none.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not even measure of a man gets a slot?

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is my personal list. While I know that academically TNG had a lot of high concept scifi, and was doing it before it was popular in TV, I don’t connect with it as much.

I feel that a lot of TNG episodes are worthy of being called great but I just don’t connect with them.

For what it’s worth, my top all time Trek episode is Voyager’s Living Witness.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Voyager’s Living Witness

Not a bad choice at all

Jus out of curiosity, why is it that you connect with this one but not the TNG ones?

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The characters mostly. A combination of the writing and acting. I don’t dislike them (mostly) but I don’t feel in my feelings as compelled by Data’s journey for humanity as I do by the Doctor’s, for example.

Also the interior of the Enterprise-D is kind of hideous to me. Not that it’s a huge factor, but I like the softer lighting of Voyager or the NX. Even DS9’s intentional ugliness wraps around and I find it comfy. The Enterprise-D just looks like a garish 80s hotel.

[–] Doublepluskirk@startrek.website 19 points 2 years ago

Same. Great episode. I love the interplay between these two

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The day I realized she was the same actor as Red from OITNB was a trip

Also Flemeth in Dragon Age.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Holy shit, I never realized that. Wtf

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I loved this episode!