chakotay i love you i wish you were allowed to be a full character

there’s so much narrative potential inherent to an ex-starfleet commander who joins the Maquis because his people were going to be forcibly relocated AGAIN being forced to work with Starfleet people who dont understand what that means to him, but then instead he was just always Vaguely Spiritual and just the backdrop for other people’s character development

MY TA SHOT SOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO FUCKING QUICK LMAOOO

So, during the recent Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival, someone made two lanterns, one depicting Popuko and the other Pipimi, wich got quite the spotlight

Look at them go

Together

Unstoppable

And then, in a dramatic turn of events, one of the lamps combusted