#my captain

HEY! LET’S HEAR IT FOR CAPTAINAMERICA

there you have him. In all his glory

happy birthday to the good looking guy in the sunglasses. happy birthday samuel thomas wilson

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.

spengie:

incorrectvoyagerquotes:

“I have calculated our odds of survival, and have decided not to share the data.”

— Captain Janeway

Only because it’s the truth.

She said this. Facts are facts.

lyria-mar:

Holy cow!!!!

canirove:

TODAY IT IS ⚒