"I don't like bullies, I don't like threats, and I don't like you!"

[thisbluespirit]

On with the awesome (I could use some of that). I'll be neither obscure, nor the least bit surprising with my next choice. It's Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager, (who, oddly, seems to sit quite nicely next to Bea. I feel they'd get along).


Day Five: Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew)

"Fear exists for one purpose: to be conquered"

So, picture this: I've decided that Star Trek is not for me, a frivolous DW fan. It's all a bit earnest and po-faced (and, you know what, they keep going back to base all the time! Call that the Final Frontier?) and then I walk in and find my housemate watching Voyager...

Janeway is awesome: Voyager is her first command and she's become stranded in the farthest part of the galaxy with no allies and half a crew who belong to the Maquis, not Star Fleet. There's no going back to base for Voyager. There may be no going home at all. And she still finds time not just to shoot up a lot of pesky aliens (she does follow Star Fleet protocol first, of course, but woe betide them if they annoy her or mess with her ship), but to have fun, flirt, and pursue her caffeine addiction. No wonder Q wants to marry her (but she's got no time for being romanced by an immortal, thanks. There may be coffee in the next nebula...).

I love the way she interacts with the rest of the crew, too: she has quite distinct but important relationships with each of them.

Action!Janeway fanvid:

And now, I've been sucked in and I keep ending up watching ST things. Drat...

Day One: Soolin (B7)
Day Two: Dayna Mellanby (B7)
Day Three: Michelle of the Resistance (Allo Allo)
Day Four: Beatrice Eliott (House of Eliott)

Comments

"Just... Coffee."

[derekmetaltron.livejournal.com]

YAY FOR JANEWAY! Yes, Voyager was 'my' Star Trek too, well that and DS9 - back in the Nineties there was a nerd war over Trek between my dad who preferred Deep Space Nine and me who gunned for Voyager. Good times.

Janeway is probably my second fav Trek captain (Picard beats her by a hairbreath and Kirk and Sisko share third place. Archer I haven't seen enough of to form an opinion - never got into Enterprise actually) and I loved how well written and fun she was, coupled with her 'I don't take nonsense from anyone mister!' Plus hey, I'm half-Irish and she has the Irish heritage so she scores points from me!

Agree with her having the great relationships with her crewmates - Chaokay and Tuvok are her McCoy and Spock apparently (heart vs head I mean). With Seven and the Doctor she was this mentor/teacher figure helping them learn their humanity. She got Mr Paris back on his feet, showed Mr Kim he was alright, tolerated Nelix and showed the Borg, Hirogen, Kazon and the rest of the damn Delta Quadrant whose boss(ess). All that and finding time to drink coffee, snog a Lord Byron would-be, nearly marry Q and have Da Vinci as a buddy? That is one cool lady.

Janeway. So awesome I nearly used her as my template for my Mass Effect 2 character (I ended up sticking with Susan Foreman. Its a quirk.) Pity I only drink tea, otherise we'd get on beautifully...

Re: "Just... Coffee."

[thisbluespirit]

Quite! ;-)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

A character I know, yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree, Janeway is awesome. "Listen to me very carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. Coffee, black."

I still remember how much talk there was before the show aired about having a female Captain in a Star Trek spinoff. People doubted that Janeway would be a believable leader. But Kate Mulgrew owned the role right away, and from day one she was a Starship Captain. A strong, capable, female Starship Captain.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

So I ended up watching Janeway vids on Youtube (all your fault), and now I just have to share this one:

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Ack, embed code didn't work! Well, here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3KWsOh298E

[thisbluespirit]

A character I know, yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no - I've stopped being old, obscure and British! I must revert to type quickly... :lol:

Yes, have you seen thse clips with the original Captain they cast? They so needed Kate Mulgrew! (And hard to believe there could be such debate over a female captain in the mid 1990s. Crazy...)

And, :lol:, yes, there seem to be some amazing Voyager vids out there. That's a great one I don't think I'd seen, so thanks.

(Here, have Tom and B'Elanna in return!)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure you'll revert to type soon. I bet you've got a Spooks character coming up, and I haven't seen that show either. But old, obscure and British choices aren't all going to flummox me, as I know who Lynda Day is now. :P

Ooh, I love the Tom/B'Elanna romance, and that's a great vid! Thanks!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, what you think Lynda Day might come up in the course of this meme? :-D

(Note to self: stop being so predictable...)

I watched Voyager totally out of order, (for quite a long while I assumed janeway and Chakotay were going out, and also that they flew into giant blank bits of space every other episode and had to fight boredom... blame my friend for the eps she had!) and it was a long time before I saw the bits where Tom and B'Elanna actually get together. I liked them anyway, of course (who wouldn't?) but that was just great. And another reason why I had to stay watching. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah Janeway! My second favourite Trek Captain (tied with Sisko) after Picard...

She's definitely an awesome woman!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, she is! :-)