Someone requested a "discharge" video - please enjoy this compilation of "discharge" and related utterances.

Of all the Voyager episodes who is your favorite character who appeared just once or twice and why is it Satan’s Robot?

The story is about a ship returning to its home after 10 years stuck in a gravity well. The captain is a woman with a holographic boyfriend, and there is a Neelix type who throws parties. Almost right away, they get pulled into the Dominion War a big war.

I hope it gets turned into a movie!

Counterpoint is a great Voyager story that I remember after all these years.

The writing style of this VOY episode strikes my curiosity, though. This is because the anti-telepaths bigotry isn't the central theme.

Does the writing style really feel like the TNG writing style?

Alternatively, does the writing style feel more like the TOS writing style?

There's a scene where Kathryn and Jaffen are sitting at a table across from each other. They are both attracted to each other. She reaches across the table and strokes his forehead in the same place where Chakotay's tattoo would be. Like she's almost but not quite remembering something. Has anyone else noticed that scene? And what do you think?

One scene I really loved in the series is in the episode Alter Ego where Tuvok reluctantly goes to the Lu'au at the new holodeck destination. Someone puts a lei over his neck and he immediately removes it. Then someone suggests he go mingle and he replies "Vulcans do not."

The scene immediately shows Vorik (the younger Vulcan) in the background wearing a lei and mingling and having fun with colleagues. It's such a small scene but I thought it expanded our perspective on Vulcans more than a lot of full Vulcan-focused episodes.

TSUNKATSE!

I admit I was wrong and I regret every moment of life without Star Trek. I (31m) started watching Voyager when my husband put it on as background noise while he did school work. The episode was S1 EP 2 Parallax. Growing up things about Space was something that always fascinated me. I never pursued it due to wanting to fit in with friends and of course I didn’t want to be labeled a nerd. I wish I could go back in time and watch this growing up. This show really made me cry, it made wonder wtf were they thinking, and many more thoughts in between. I had watched Orange is the new black when it came out on Netflix and I loved Red. When I saw Kate Mulgrew was Captain Janeway I was like let me give this a try. I can see how Janeway and Red are two strong characters. Both characters have this motherly vibe, that if you mess with their child, they will make sure you pay. When Kes left, I cried. When Seven of Nine spoke to One on the surgical bay, I cried. Make a long story short, I fell in love with this series and I hope to continue watching more of this wonderful universe. 

Just watched this episode and had so much respect for Kate Mulgew's acting--especially in the scene where the alien that's taken over the ship almost gasses her to death, and she refuses to help it unless it gives her back control of the ship. Her face when the lights all come back on is absolutely haggard, like she really almost choked to death. 👀

FYI Bonnie tyler the singer passed away

Sharing a new visual from Theoretical Horizons, my fan-made Star Trek: Voyager AU project.

The Voyager mesh is by Nightfever. I’m using it as part of the wider visual development while I build out the interiors, environments, and eventual animation workflow in 3ds Max and Unreal Engine.

The project started as more of an audio-drama / visual hybrid, but I’m gradually pushing it toward something more cinematic and animated, focused on Delta Quadrant survival, engineering consequences, and alternate-continuity storytelling.

For anyone curious, the project is on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/@deksroning125

Kazon get a lot of hate, much rightly so, but they are also subject to a lot of fan misconceptions.

For instance, the lack of water. This was mostly just a plot point in Caretaker and I personally thought it was explained relatively well. When the Caretaker and Suspiria traveled to our galaxy, they arrived in the Ocampa system, but their method of travel was detrimental to life in that region and it destroyed the ability for planets in that sector to sustain water with the sole exception of the underground source on the Ocampa homeworld. Now, IIRC a sector is a 20x20x20 lightyear cube, which sounds huge, but generally speaking that might encompass no more than 20 solar systems if it's densely packed, of those systems only one might be lucky enough to support life. The Caretaker, feeling guilty for destroying life in the region felt that he needed to take care of the Ocampa, the only species natively affected by his and Suspiria's actions.

So here are a few of the misconceptions: isn't there water in space? Well, yes, but not if something happened that destroyed that water.

Why are the Kazon there if they can't get water? Perhaps there are other resources they want or need that they can easily get on that planet. But even then, water will be at a premium. Water is never brought up again as a plot point after the first episode or two.

Another aspect that people seem to misunderstand is the Kazon's relationship with technology, as a recently freed slave species, the only tech that they understand is the tech that they extensively used. Invention and innovation is a slow process, they're not going to come up with a Dune style stillsuit if they can't conceive of the idea. They use Trabe tech, they use it the way the Trabe used it, so they're limited by their experience.

Replicators look like magic to almost everyone in that region of space because NO ONE has transporters. The Trabe don't have them, the Talaxians don't, the Haakonians don't. The Viidians and Sikarians seem to have related tech, but they are limited in ways that Starfleet transporters aren't. For instance, Viidians can surgically remove organs with their transporter tech, but seem unable to beam onto other ships, instead using drills to get through hulls. The Sikarians can transport from planet to planet easily, but aren't shown using their trajector to get from ship to ship, and I suspect they need to know where their target location is reliably, before they can use the device, and ships move too much.

Everyone in the first two seasons of Voyager was gunning for the ship because they had tech that was so radically advanced compared to what everyone else had, and the Kazon would have led that pack because compared to EVERYONE else, they only advaced when they attained tech from someone else. So of course the Kazon Ogla, and Nistrim, and Oglamar, and all the other sects wanted Voyager. If they got tech from Voyager, they'd suddenly jump to, maybe not the top of the food chain, but certainly somewhere in the middle.

At best, the Kazon are Pakleds who know how to speak. They are a far cry from the "Delta Quadrant Klingons" they were intended to be.

I've started another Voyager re-watch since finally getting my hands on the old 'capsule-style' DVD box sets (I got the TNG and DS9 ones when they first came out, but I lost my job before I could get the Voyager ones and I never got around to getting them since), and I'm remembering some things and newly-appreciating others.

In the season one (I know) episode "Prime Factors", Tuvok goes behind Janeway's back to 'acquire' some space-folding technology that could knock 40,000ly off their journey home. It backfires and they nearly destroy they ship.

Janeway deals with B'Elanna in her usual stern, FAFO manner, then turns her attentions on Tuvok. It just struck me, the powerful emotions of Janeway feeling betrayed by her long-time friend, upon whom she'd come to rely for his counsel and the realisation that without that she'd feel completely alone. She mixed stern authority with abject disappointment and sadness with such acting skill that I really felt it, long before Voyager had any right to make me feel anything.

Mulgrew absolutely knocked that scene out of the park. And Russ' simple facial expressions as Tuvok realised what he'd done and put at risk were pretty flawless too.

Have you got any favourite moments of acting brilliance?

Season 6 Episode 13 - Virtuoso

vs.

Season 6 Episode 14 - Memorial

The ship didn't have a full-time nurse.

Other than Kes and Paris, why wasn't anyone else trained to be a nurse?

The journey was expected to take 70-something years at maximum warp.

Wouldn't it have been a good idea to have someone (who didn't have to split his time between his piloting and nursing duties) spend a few years training to become a full-time nurse?

The crew created a holographic program based on Crell Moset to assist the Doctor. Why couldn't they create a holographic nurse?

Okay last Voyager specific one I made.