I’ve watched “Living Witness” (Star Trek: Voyager, season 4, episode 23). Firstly, I thought that it was some alternative universe, “light” mirror universe or something like that. I liked it very much because I like history (and it showed one side of historian’s work very well) and black uniform with gloves, Chakotay with a half-face tattoo, brains dilution and smirking Tuvok, who can stand against it?!
Really looking forward to the new season of Prodigy great Star Trek and l love Kate’s voice ♥️. #KateMulgrew #HologramJaneway #CaptainKathrynJaneway #StartrekProdigy
The much requested full video providing context for the ‘Organic Commands’ video. (x)
Kate was taking about the difficulty of portraying femininity without compromising authority as a female Captain in the 90’s. This was a recent interview to promote Star Trek Prodigy. (x)
“She never left. Not for a second did she leave me. She resides within.”
I love how Kate’s voice automatically slips back into the Janeway Voice™️ when she’s talking about her.
Got my Covid-19 vaccine in the wee hours of Monday morning! Consider this an order from your Captain - continue to mask up and register to receive your vaccine ASAP. Here in the US, check the website for your individual state of residence (NY for me!) for when you can sign up. We will beat this, but only if we all work together. Stay safe, my friends, and trust in science!
Star Trek Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo chat (video).
Star Trek Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo chat (video).
Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo chat together about their time on Star Trek Voyager for half an hour. I hope I age half as well as these two TV legends. Let’s take that starship home, baby.
People always be saying Janeway was inconsistent. And it’s like,
Nooooooooooooooo. She was *human.*
Different events caused different emotions, which led to different reactions.
The Void? The weight of her guilt crushes her, and she can’t bring herself to face her crew and look them in the eye, knowing what she condemned them to. So she isolates herself. Until—her crew’s survival is threatened. Nobody messes with her crew. Their safety is more important than anything else, so she shoves her guilt down and steps onto the bridge.
Counterpoint? She smuggles refugees through territory of a hostile race, and plays a game of cat and mouse with a military commander. He’s hot, there’s all the sexual tension, and they flirt as they each seek to outsmart the other. Janeway wins, but she loses, because damn if he’d actually really defected—they could’ve…but he didn’t.
Equinox? A peer, a comrade. Friends. Finally, allies in more ways than one. But Captain Ransom has fallen, betrayed everything in Starfleet Janeway believes in, and also—is everything so many species in the Delta Quadrant believed about Voyager. Everything she risked so much to prove otherwise. And, most of all—betrayed what she sacrificed her own crew to uphold; a decision that has weighed heavy on her shoulders ever since. Every bit of anger, sorrow, guilt, and frustration Janeway has in regards to her crew and their predicament is blasted at the Equinox and at Captain Ransom. And if all that wasn’t enough! He attacked her ship, her crew, and left them to die.
And the biggie. Tuvix. Janeway gets so. Much. Shit. For this. But really? Tuvok is her oldest friend. Her advisor, mentor. She knows his wife, his children. Kes is right there, she sees the look in her eyes and feels her pain and struggle, and she knows it will be the same for Tuvok’s family. She knows Neelix and Tuvok. She knows what they would want. Everyone always forgets about the two of them, who they are, who they love, and what they’d want. Janeway didn’t make the easy decision here, but she made the right one. Always, her job as Captain is to make the tough calls, and to take the fall—and she does.
And I love too, on both levels—in story, and meta—the question of her relationship with Chakotay. Those two—man they would have made a great couple. But Janeway didn’t believe that was appropriate for the Captain, and Mulgrew didn’t want the first female Captain to be reduced to part of a romantic couple as the main relationship in the series, as it would have been. It was the right decision, on both levels. But damn. Damn. Resolutions gave us a sneak peak, and damn it would have been good.
Janeway is a complicated, layered character. She has depth. She has principles, and she feels strongly about them. She has emotions, and not only does she feel them, but sometimes they overpower her better judgment—and it’s her relationships with the crew that pull her back. Or not. She’s a female character in a time where there weren’t a whole lot of leads that didn’t make her entire character about her femaleness, but also didn’t erase her womanhood. She wasn’t reduced to it, nor was it purged from her. It wasn’t what made her special in-story, but out of? It sure as fuck was.
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