THINGS WE ALMOST GOT!! BUT COULD NOT AFFORD/SCHEDULE!!

WE ALMOST GOT CAPTAIN HARRY KIM!

Star Trek: Voyager 5x18 “Course: Oblivion”

Seven: That's just a minor fluctuation in a subsidiary injector port. I will take care of it.
B'Elanna: I'm going with you.

(inspired by this post)

I recently rewatched The Voyager Conspiracy with @kiranerys and that episode added so many potential interesting storytelling features and discarded them all away (a recurring refrain for the show I know). Someone stole a reactor from the Caretaker Array as it was being destroyed (and may have travelled what? 30K light years at this point in the show)? The Warp Catapult?! Tricobalt Devices aren't part of Voyager's normal armaments but we had them here? A Cardassian warship was taken and sent back?!?*

None of these are followed up on again.

*imagine if that Cardassian ship had stuck around. I know Voyager the show has a lot of detritus from the Alpha Quadrant but a few episodes against some Cardassians? Who maybe established a lil fledgling empire? Would have been delicious.

It's been a while since it was updated, but there was a fanfic on StarDestroyer.net that used that premise of the Cardassian ship. Basically, half of the bridge crew died while being sent to the Delta Quadrant (Lieutenant Stadi ended up being promoted by default), with the other ship (including a Romulan officer) allying with the Voyager largely out of desperation. It only got to Season 1, though.

I haven’t read that, but I also enjoyed Christopher Bennett’s take on Scorpion, where it goes badly quickly and Janeway has to come to terms that they’re really stuck in the Delta Quadrant now bc Borg space is a no-go.

Yknow I really wish voyager didn't treat the doctor's frustration with his limited mobility & being treated like a non-person like he was being ridiculous because. He was right. And nobody ever took him seriously what the hell was that about

It's ableism and discrimination.

The doctor was the techno 24th century equivalent of being home bound for 3 years. And then they gave him a wheelchair, letting him out and about. But a wheelchair... it's fantastic! And at the same time when you can't get into a building because it has stairs, and no one's bothered to make most places accessible... it just reinforces what you felt before; second class. Trapped. Denied. Frustrated. Because people care so little about you having even the ability to go to a place that even when you point out "hey I can't go there because you didn't make it accessible" you're then "being ungrateful" and "asking for special treatment" and... yeah. If you're disabled in our modern world, you see the doctor differently.

The doctor is probably the best disabled representation in Star Trek, and it's all on accident. No one set out to do such an accurate allegory of disabled life with a hologram. They just treated him so badly, with such flippant disregard for his autonomy and humanity, that it ended up as such.

How Voyager's crew treats the doctor is very similar to how anyone with any disability, physical or emotional or psychological is treated in our world. We're after thoughts. And only the fact that the doctor is VITAL to the health and welfare of the flesh and blood crew gets him any consideration. If he wasn't "useful" and "contributing" to the Voyager society? He'd be left for dead. In "The Swarm" he literally is left for dead. Only Kes perseveres to keep him alive while the rest of the crew are focused elsewhere.

If I had the energy I'd write an essay outlining it all. Alas...

Seven Of Nine

Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Picard

the voyager writers kicking themselves rn for not coming up with the borg semen idea

@girlonthelasttrain it definitely would’ve happened in the cursed timeline where the harry/seven romance arc didn’t peter out

HELP now i want the timeline where seven accidentally gets harry pregnant

Seska gets Borged and she will impregnate Chakotay this time. She will have Chakotay’s child, and will burn entire systems to do so.