#fire ship

i drew a lot of Totobet and Kay (Janeway) from The Captain's Table story Fire Ship lalalalala theyre like mom friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHES ALMOST A CHARACTER FOIL FOR THRESHOLD!JANEWAY IN THE SENSE THAT TOTOBET'S NEVER HAD CHILDREN BUT WANTS THEM AND KATHRYNS BEEN UNGRATEFUL FOR HERS AND OFTEN FEELS UNDESERVING LOLLLLLLL 🤪

in the book janeway starts off despising Totobet, hating her entire species as a whole for blowing up Voyager and killing all of her crew (allegedly), calling her and her species MENACE, but i swear girl once she finds out Totobet's pregnant like THE SWITCH FLIPS LOL ITS SO FUNNY shes instantly sympathetic and they have this quiet moment together of grieving their lost children 🥹 janeway's been compartmentalizing and not grieving the death of her crew for quite a while and she finally sobs it out with this alien that's somewhat involved in killing them. Kay promises to get Totobet's babies to their father if she didn't survive childbirth (REAL CONVERSATION THEY HAD LOL) and learned all of their names. and Totobet asks Kay if she has children and she hesitates at first but says yes,,,,,,,, and she lists off the names of her entire crew that she lost as her children </////3 BUT IN THE AU LIKE THE ADDED PUNCH OF SHE ACTUALLY HAS KIDS THAT SHES ALSO LOST AAAAAAAAAAA

Fire Ship

I think it’s always a fun read when Diane Carey writes Kathryn Janeway. And this book was no different. It’s a part of the Captain’s Table series. The Captain’s Table is a bar that only Captain’s of ships (of all sorts, sailing, space, etc.) can enter. And, when they enter, they usually find themselves telling a story about a big Captaining that they did. In Janeway’s case, it’s not a story of her being in command of the USS Voyager, but getting picked up by another bunch of people and finding her way on their ship.

The whole series is great, seeing different parts of the Captains that we think we know from the TV series. But, I liked this one just a teeny bit more because there were fewer (actually, none) interruptions of the narrative while Janeway was telling her story. Such a fun read, and definitely my favorite of the Captain’s Table series.

You may like this book If you Liked: Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward, Star Trek Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller, or Acts of Contrition by Kirsten Beyer

A fire ship gear to set it on fire, Flandres, late 16th century

Glimmer: Alright, who's got a plan?

Sea Hawk: We could-

Mermista: No.

Sea Hawk: .... we could just-

Mermista: I said no!

Sea Hawk: .... I just think that if we-

Mermista: For the last time, NO!

Sea Hawk: .... but you see, the thing is, I've already lit the ship on fire. So in a way, yes.