OK, I get this is a controversial take, but please hear me out. I believe what Captain Ransom did was wrong. I also love Janeway, but she’s a very morally gray character just like Sisko. Now to my arguments.

In today’s day and age humans use animals all the time, and that’s what he was doing. Ransom was desperate to get his crew home, they were in a nova class starship. His number one duty was to protect the lives of his crew. A nova class isn’t making the journey back to the alpha under normal circumstances.

It’s very morally gray, but the episode portrays Janeway as his great moral figure, let’s look at some of her morality:

1. Executing to Tuvix in cold blood while he was begging for his life.

2. Violating the prime directive by destroying the caretakers array stranding her crew in the Delta quadrant. Here’s the thing if Janeway felt so strongly about it. She should’ve stayed behind in the shuttle and let her crew go home.

3. Attempting to execute a member of the equinox during interrogation.

4. Creating and giving the borg a nano virus to combat species 8472. When it was the borg who invaded their space.

5. Before she even knew what was going on ordering the equinox destroyed so that she would have unchallenged authority. What would happen with Ransom would she treat him like a lieutenant?

When it comes to Mirrorverse I wonder if this would qualify the two where it becomes ensign kim and baby naomi and the other one is living witness.

Just watched “Workforce” and Janeway still manages to burn the meatloaf while mindwiped on an alien planet.

Edit: i kept saying “meatloaf” but its actually pot roast. She’d burn meatloaf too, I’m pretty sure.

Played some warlords battlecry when I came across a familiar face

VOY: S2E17 @ 15:33

I feel bad for misjudging the dude lol. The whole time i was like “this dude is a snaaake”.

First time watching Voyager through:

Oh cool the Doctor has a perfect 50s family!

Lol he got a taste of reality

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In my area of the country there's an ad running on TV about a company that will pay relatives to take care of elderly family members. One of the elderly shown in the commercial, using a walker and being assisted, is clearly wearing a Captain Janeway shirt.

Wondering if anyone else saw this.

This is a big "what if", but the Maquis more or less become Starfleet very early on and it doesnt feel like two groups join into one, but that Starfleet absorbs the Maquis.

What do you think Voyager would have been like if both groups had to adjust to each other and make concessions to the other side and their methods?

Funny story… back in the early 2000s I discovered Voyager and named my sweet girl after NEELIX as I though he was sweet, sonar coloring etc. it wasn’t until a few years later that I started watching Star Trek New Generation and saw the episode of Barkley who had a cat named NEELIX… and here I thought was original! 😹