#nacene

It's not the lack of serialisation.

It's not that it should have been like The Year of Hell the whole time.

Voyager's actual missed potential is...

Not enough friendship moments between Janeway and Tuvok.

Not enough of Tuvok mentoring B'elanna.

Only getting to see a 'Briefing with Neelix' epsiode once.

Only getting to see Lon Suder twice.

Kes not interacting with Seven before she leaves.

Seven being forced into straight romances when she's obviously gay.

a few months ago i brainwormed with @mytardisisparked over a whole arc involving Amelia getting lost out in the Delta Quadrant aaaaaand these are kinda inspied from stuff toward the end of the arc where they've found Amelia and the remainder of her missing Starfleet crew and she has her baby that philippa midwifes for. :) CURRENTLY have that his name is Sekh but idk if ill go with that haha,,,,,, wanted it to be more kazon-leaning than anything else.

had the thought that he'd start out pretty bare-skinned and then he gets a white plumage like his father. starts out very fluffy like a baby bird when he's young, eventually molts.

Ed's anthropological studies stretch into the caretaking/child rearing realm so he's the most well-prepared for a baby out of the three of them lol.

as it currently stands the nacene are kinda the keepers and maintainers of likeee quantum realities or likeee idk matter,,,, what keeps the universe and dimensions running,,,,,,,,, they refer to the things they manage as “the strings”, they dont typically have names either :)

their lives get portrayed in different ways to lesser beings to help them understand, similarly to the Q. janeway sees the nacene envisioned as like a person with many hands endlessly working on an elaborate quilt that goes on forever,,,,, and the nacene handling the strings as academy cadets taking exams. the doctor sees the strings as an bodiless orchestra playing rather flatly but consistently for eternity

the nacene we see in the series aka the Caretaker and Suspiria are a faction of the nacene that chose to break away from order and the strings to explore the universe,,,,

should also say that their “realm” is called Exosia,,, suspiria mentions it in Cold Fire but she claims to go there in her off hours and that idea got retconned a little bit in favor of the idea that theres a gatekept single access point to Exosia that is currently locked (until janeway opens it as the chosen “key holder”) suspiria is subsequently labeled as a liar lmao. (good for her)

theres a civil war going on between the maintainers of the strings called “the others” and those that chose to leave Exosia called “the exiled” the others have prevented the exiled from reentering exosia and thereby prevents them from sustaining their immortality (thus why we see the caretaker “die”)

ummmm other nacene include the Light hes supposedly the leader of the exiled, he might be dead he keeps getting mentioned. WELL SEE.

then theres phoebe whos an exiled impersonating janeways sister, got thwarted in the last book, shes a girl with an agenda.

suspiria is EFFECTIVELY dead. winks mysteriously. i like to think shes just living out what little life she has left before dying like her mate hohoho. i doubt itll be addressed conclusively in this book

oh LAWDY this long haha.

Me n Tardi been in 'da hole fleshing out some THOUGHTIES regarding the whole Find Amelia Together Out in the Delta Quadrant arc lmao.

Ed and Philippa end up finding Amelia around the time that she's like 5 months pregnant. Despite circumstances, Amelia's still reluctant to return home to the Alpha Quadrant but sticks around with her siblings to at least help them recover the rest of the lost Starfleet ship Goodall's crew she served with before they were defeated by the Kazon. Philippa examines her sister once they're all safe and aboard Ed's shuttle, finds out she's having a boy AAAAND that the baby's got some Kazon DNA.