Mark II Nova Flyers, redesigned by Lt. Paris himself.

ViperMk1SC Meets Rainbow Dash At Starfleet Academy

you go in for your physical or whatever and it’s your teammate’s mom. and maybe she tries to keep a professional distance and act like she doesn’t know you and the exact space between you, but when you don’t talk about something like that all you really do is talk about it. or maybe she crosses that distance to ask if you’ve heard from wesley lately, because she probably hasn’t, and even if she has it’s so clearly not really the truth. and you’re not gonna be able to explain to his mother who loves him the way only you understand each other, and the way you hate him and you don’t, and the way you sort of talked and sort of didn’t and probably aren’t talking now. she will be one of the last people you see and by then you probably haven’t figured out how to say anything about it even if you’d wanted to.

Starting a new series titled #Trekology doing deep dives into topics from Star Trek lore. First topic: #TomParis and how the #Voyager series was his redemption story. Enjoy!

It’s really no secret, Robert Duncan McNeill’s character on Voyager is directly tied to his appearance as Cadet Nicholas Locarno on The Next Generation’s “The First Duty” Season 5, Episode 19. The premise of the episode is that Starfleet Cadet, Wesley Crusher is involved in an accident that claimed one of his fellow cadet’s lives when their squadron decided to go against Starfleet rules and…

I like it. I definitely wish we saw something of Wesley in between “The First Duty” and “Journey’s End” because the transformation is significant. Which does make sense, Wes goes through a lot in TFD, of course he’d be depressed about it. But because it plays (to me) as depression, I really dislike how he leaves. And especially how everyone just goes along with it. Because it’s his destiny to live on a higher plane of being or some nonsense. 

I’d never considered that Starfleet, and specifically Picard/the Enterprise, getting Jaxa killed could have an impact on Wesley but even if they are just friends/former teammates it absolutely should! So thank you for making his disillusionment more painful and therefore better! Because not only does Starfleet send Sito to her doom, they give up on her. Missing, presumed dead. Plus I bet it feels like Nova Squadron is cursed (now I want to write a story from the pov of Jean Hajar, the last member standing – in the universe where Nick Locarno gets lost in the DQ). 

So Nova Squadron spend all their time together. Especially before and after the accident. The Kolvoord Starburst operation took a lot of planning and training and I’m sure there were a lot of late late nights, some stressed out and exhausted, some celebratory and giddy, and that would lead to hook ups. I could ship Wes with all of them. Wes/Nick I’m like 90% certain happened. Wes/Jean makes my above pov story even sadder. Wes/Josh is a TRAGEDY that really needs to be written down. Wes/Jaxa is maybe actually the most happy option? Because what if, as I certainly prefer to believe, she’s not dead, and Traveling!Wes can go get her. 

So Happy AU: Wes leaves Starfleet to hang out with the Traveler and through deep meditation on his broken heart realizes he can’t move on because her presence remains. He can sense her in the space time continuum. Traveler tells him to let it go Yoda style, but Wesley completely ignores him Skywalker style. He delves deeper and discovers where she is. Traveler is like, fine, tell Starfleet. Wes rolls his eyes because Starfleet is why she’s in this mess but contacts Picard. Picard believes Wesley, but he has to bring the intel to Command and Command says Hmmm, too dangerous for one lost ensign we’ve already decided is dead. Wesley says he’s never going to listen to Picard preach about Starfleet ever again and plots his own rescue because he is actually all powerful. Picard is concerned and secretly proud. 

Wesley jets over to Cardassian space and plucks his girlfriend out of prison and then they both go to the Delta Quadrant to pick up Nick. But they don’t rescue Voyager because the Traveler shows up and is like, Wesley, you are destroying the timeline, please stop. And Wes is like, I kinda want to destroy everything but you said please so, fine. [insert Janeway #unimpressed face]

Traveler returns to his higher plane of existence and makes plans to steal Wesley’s kid as a baby so he can mold her from birth (Yoda style) because this ‘waiting for him to make his own decision about it’ was a disaster. Wes, Jaxa, and Nick return to the AQ, find Jean, and become space pirates.