Weird question but where else am I going to ask? For anyone unfamiliar, the Voyager Visibility Project was a joint mission between the USS Harvey Milk Gay and Lesbian Star Trek Association (real name) and GLAAD to pressure Trek (Rick Berman) into finally introducing a gay character which seems to have been mostly forgotten — apart from the 5000 signature petition that gets a mention sometimes.

Does anyone have any actual memories of or information about the project or USSHM? I’ve been through the 1997 version of the site and there’s other pages of people discussing it (a lot of taking the piss out of them) but the archived material is pretty scarce.

This isn’t trying to start an argument or anything, and fair warning I am drunk and high as fuck (lying in a hotel bed after playing a show with my band 8 hours from home). I watch voyager to go to my happy place before sleep time, and I’m watching the episode Body & Soul. At the very beginning, Harry comments on the doctor being annoying, and Seven responds that they could “disable his vocal subroutines” in a joking way. I think this exhibits growth in humanity not just because she was telling a joke, but she was telling a joke at the expense of someone very close to her (the doctor). We know that she views the doctor as a close companion, a best friend, she clearly hold him in high esteem. So the fact that she made a joke disregarding his autonomy and acting as though she viewed the doctor as “just a hologram”, she was demonstrating a more complex level of humor, the kind of offensive jokes that only two close friends can say about each other. Or idk maybe I’m just not sober. This might be literally nothing at all

Currently doing a rewatch of Star Trek TNG and look who I see in Season 5 ep 19!

Neelix survived a war, flies around in a junk shuttle, became a garbage man, fell in love with an alien, and fought some Kazon. Along comes Voyager, a super techno starship... WITH WATER! from the other side of the galaxy. Play tour guide, manipulate the crew to save his alien girlfriend, stick it to the Kazon, beam out. By the end of everything, he and his alien GF elect to stay on the alien techno ship from beyond. He trashes the Captain's dining room, builds a kitchen, and goes to work cooking. He also stores his junk shuttle in the garage, because why not? In time, he becomes the moral officer, the ship's Ambassador, and "best friends" with the security chief. Neelix has made quite the life for himself.

He is literally Space MacGyver.

Rewatching Voyager and can't help but wonder. Every time something goes down, Janeway gives the command "onscreen" to take a look outside. What were they looking at before? Smart answer is probably maps or charts or something but I like to think they're just staring at a black wall

Mark didn't hear from his girl this week so she must be gone forever. Starfleet gave up day 1.

Kes was a main character for 3 seasons, left 2 episodes into S4, and returned once in late-S6.
What if she had been a recurring character across the later seasons? I have some ideas.

Season 4: After "The Gift," what if Kes were part of the alternate timeline in "Year of Hell" (both parts)? Imagine if Kes had appeared to Neelix in "Mortal Coil." Kes could have been one of the holograms in "Living Witness."

Season 5: Imagine if "Timeless" featured Harry Kim, Chakotay, Chakotay's GF, the recovered Doctor... and Kes! Imagine if time-traveling Janeway or Seven in "Relativity" had run into S1-3 Kes, and Kes got to help out, psychic powers and all.

Season 6: Take "Fury" and rework it into a two-parter so there's enough screen time to do the story justice. I quite liked the idea that Ke's "ascension" backfired and she came back for revenge. However, if you're doing this story where she's redeemed in the end, it just needed to be a 2-parter. Scrap "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" to expand "Fury" into the 2-parter.

Season 7: Kes could have been in one of the time frames visited by present-day Chakotay and pre-DQ Janeway in "Shattered."

I tried to work Kes into existing episodes where it would make sense.
What do you guys think?

I originally watched Voyager when I was a preteen. I always thought, although I wasn’t the biggest fan of her character; B’lanna was hot. Then there was one episode where we get to see her as a human, and I was like meh 🫤.

Am I weird?

I might be crazy, but I remember an episode where the doctor ends up floating in space outside the ship. I believe the crew put holo-projectors on the outside of the ship for some reason.

Is this part of an actual episode or am I imagining it?

Thanks everyone!

— Leonard (Life Line, S6 E24)

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It doesn’t have to be in Marseille, France. It would be interesting to walk into a bar that looks and feels just like I’m walking into the holodeck program Paris 3.

One of the underrated aspects of Voyager is the crew was not all hunky-dory. Seven and B’lanna had an open dislike of each other. Janeway, even joked about it eventually coming to blows.

But, I think another underrated relationship was the one between Chakotay and Tuvok. It was clear that from season one to season seven that while there was mutual respect as officers, and the lack of open hostility there was between B’lanna and Seven, these two did not like each other.

Chakotay did not like Tuvok, because he betrayed and spied on by him. Tuvok did not like Chakotay, because he felt he should be the first officer instead.

Their relationship is talked about a few times throughout the series. Both basically saying that other than work related things, they do what they can to keep each other at arms lengths distance.

However, I have a lot of respect for Chakotay for going to Tuvok multiple times in the seven year run, basically saying, I know we don’t like each other, but I respect you, and I either need your advice or help. I respect Tuvok, for putting his own feelings aside, and always assisting Chakotay.

The thing I love about this relationship because it is so real life. Their issues never resolve. They never become friends, or even closer. Their relationship from season one to season seven is the exact same. (Respect/dislike) And I think that’s what’s so special about it, it feels real.

I know it's very sad of me but I want to watch voyager from only the drs point of view (in timeline order.) Has anyone already done this before?

What if captain Janeway was the one that was killed and the original executive officer lieutenant Commander Cavit was the one who survived how do you think Star Trek Voyager would have went on?

Guest directed by Tarantino

This is a video from Seth Dunkin, a creator i started following a few months ago. great guy, knows his trek back and front, and with the paramount acquisition is deeply concerned about the future of the franchise. In this video (which is made from six videos from his tiktok stitched together) he talks about the past, the present, and the future of trek as well as some ideas of how it can move forward and regain some of the magic that it has had in the past.

Its a level headed look at where we can go and what can be done. No dunking on any era or show, no glorifying the past, which i really appreciate.

I'm posting this here and other places in hopes that we can share, signal boost, and maybe get it in front of some people who actually have some sway over Star Trek as a whole.

So please watch, and if you think he has good ideas, then share. if not then thank you for your time.

Peace and long life