We'll be outcasts together

@gifevents love, platonically | day 2: bonding

“You’re not especially difficult to work with, Captain. Unlike Tellarites, you understand ethics and try to live by them.”

Data study 💛

Yuriful Week - Day 3

By their glares combined, they will not have to socialize with anyone but each other.

Voyager had many close calls with the Alpha Quadrant, but most were false opportunities or misunderstandings. (The micro wormhole across time, the telepathic pitcher plant, the planet whose mantle allowed long range transport). One that absolutely was NOT a false opportunity or misunderstanding was the episode “False Profits” in season 3. The wormhole was undeniably to the Alpha Quadrant, and the issue was that the escaped Ferengi collapsed it before Voyager could enter it.

If Admiral Janeway were just looking for the fastest way home, the most elegant solution would have been to return to this episode and lay some extra smackdown on the Ferengi to render them unable to escape to their shuttle, and they would never emit the graviton pulse that destabilized the wormhole. Instead, she elected for maximum smackdown on the Borg transwarp hub. Handwaving away that if she came back to season 3, the rest of the show would not have happened, here’s my list of reasons why she wouldn’t do that:

1. False Profits took place in 2373. The Dominion War ended in 2375. To prevent her Maquis crew from being slaughtered and her Starfleet crew from being sent to the front lines and also likely decimated, they should come back after the end of the war.

2. Seven of Nine had not yet been freed from the Collective. She personally faced off against the Borg for Seven too many times to never save her. (Also, choose your flavor of Captain/mentor/lover/mother, but Admiral Janeway came back after Seven becoming her own person and before Seven marrying Chakotay for a REASON.)

3. Admiral Janeway’s journey was motivated by a great deal of self-loathing and guilt. To avoid Time Police prosecution, or worse, someone ‘correcting’ her timeline, a suicide mission was always going to be ideal for her.

4. Destroying the transwarp hub also destroyed an outlet that was in the heart of the Federation and certainly would have been the next catastrophe after the Dominion War if the Borg had popped out right outside Earth. She crippled the Borg’s expansion into the Alpha Quadrant and could justify that action by saving billions of lives.

5. personal vendetta against the Borg Queen. What a move, to tenderly look into your deepest enemy’s eyes as she assimilates you and then you both blow up. Stunning. No notes.

A quiet moment aboard the Enterprise

@gifevents love, platonically | day 1: meet cute

“Actually, I was thinking about Jadzia. She always used to be here to help me sort things out. I miss her.”

I've always had a similar idea! The "Ancient Bajoran" language is one I've imagined as having a colloquial use and a hermeneutical use--similar to how medieval Latin is somewhat preserved in Catholic practice and developed a sheen of 'the sacred' which is separate from classical Latin, the language that was actually spoken and from which romantic languages are derived. The main difference, as I imagine it, from this comparison is that this language became so widely spread due to semi-religious reasons which are qualified by the fact that this is the language in which the "prophecies" are recorded, material artifacts that are in some ways untranslatable but still very real attempts at communication from the prophets/wormhole aliens. The fact that ancient Bajorans also built star ships and traveled around their star system also suggests a possible unity in planet identity and the presence of a 'lingua franca'. And maybe the retention of this language in everyday practice even as language development branched out might also be compared to learning Hebrew. I can imagine every Bajoran mostly has it as one of two or more dialects and during the occupation it gained traction as people were forced from communities, children were born in these mixed-up communities, and they fell back on a shared tongue. Then afterwards, at the end of the occupation, it was revitalized as a source of cultural pride and survival.