Star Trek: Voyager 101-104
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katikatGosh, why can't there be more awesome female characters like Janeway in today's TV? This is a woman in charge who isn't an arrogant bitch who needs to put down everybody around and especially men to prove she deserves her post. This is a woman who knows that she's in charge because she deserves to be in charge, because she's smart enough and strong enough and brave enough - and she does not need to prove it to anybody. I miss women like that in today's TV. I think only Hetty from NCIS:LA comes anywhere close to Janeway's awesomeness!
I also still love Chakotay very, very much. There's just something about him, about his demeanor... it's incredibly soothing. His smile, his quiet voice. He feels very... safe to me. I don't know if it's the character or Robert Beltran's charisma, it's just is so.
And the funniest part? The Doctor. LOL, I love his sharp tongue!
Also this is how I hoped SGA would go, at the beginning. Yes, Voyager does manage to contact home in the end, but they are on their own, they remain on their own. They fight their own battles... In SGA, they just established a wormhole home and it was the same old, same old storytelling that we've seen in SG-1 before. And even in SGU, the writers weren't able to cut the proverbial umbilical cord with Earth. When you then read SGA stories like "Retrograde" by Martha Wilson, your heart breaks for what might have been if writers with real imagination had taken over. Instead, we got episodes like Trio or Brainstorm *sigh*
But back to ST:V. I need to check if I have got any tie-in novels. So far, I've read only ST:TOS or ST:TNG books. Might be time to expand my horizons.
I also still love Chakotay very, very much. There's just something about him, about his demeanor... it's incredibly soothing. His smile, his quiet voice. He feels very... safe to me. I don't know if it's the character or Robert Beltran's charisma, it's just is so.
And the funniest part? The Doctor. LOL, I love his sharp tongue!
Also this is how I hoped SGA would go, at the beginning. Yes, Voyager does manage to contact home in the end, but they are on their own, they remain on their own. They fight their own battles... In SGA, they just established a wormhole home and it was the same old, same old storytelling that we've seen in SG-1 before. And even in SGU, the writers weren't able to cut the proverbial umbilical cord with Earth. When you then read SGA stories like "Retrograde" by Martha Wilson, your heart breaks for what might have been if writers with real imagination had taken over. Instead, we got episodes like Trio or Brainstorm *sigh*
But back to ST:V. I need to check if I have got any tie-in novels. So far, I've read only ST:TOS or ST:TNG books. Might be time to expand my horizons.
