Day Fourteen: Female Character Meme
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ishtar79Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character: Captain Kathryn Janeway
While DS9 is my favourite Trek by a mile, Janeway will always be my captain (though Sisko comes a close second). Voyager has had its issues over its run: missed character opportunities, cracky one-shots over a coherent arc, and its infamous abuse of the reset button. However, one truth remained constant during its seven year run: You Do Not Fuck With Kathryn Janeway.
There is plenty to love about the character: her dogged determination to get her crew home despite insurmountable odds, her wry sense of humour, her out of the box thinking and willingness to bend Starfleet regulations, the relationships she builds with her crew, her legendary caffeine addiction (“There's coffee in that nebula” remains the best random Trek line ever) and the way she drawls “Battlestations”, which never fails to give me *chills*. Janeway also had some major flaws, which tended to be as big scale as everything she did: she often fell prey to hubris in her grandiose plans, disregarding both danger and Starfleet principles, she could isolate herself from her crew and refuse to accept any criticism, and she was without a doubt the Department of Temporal Investigation's single biggest headache. And on a Doylist level, it's rage-inducing that Star Trek's first female Captain was essentially rendered sexless, and the most action she got over seven years being a relationship while she suffered amnesia, a flirtation with an adversary (the thing with the guy looking for the fugitives that one time, not her UST with the Borg Queen) and a fling with a freakin' hologram.
Writing issues aside however (which should be the unofficial motto to maximize one's enjoyment during Voyager viewings), nothing can ever temper my Janeway squee. The woman went head-to-head with the freakin' Borg without even blinking, and the final showdown between her and the Queen was pure concentrated EPICNESS and a more satisfying payoff than even the other major event of the finale.
Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you'd like!
While DS9 is my favourite Trek by a mile, Janeway will always be my captain (though Sisko comes a close second). Voyager has had its issues over its run: missed character opportunities, cracky one-shots over a coherent arc, and its infamous abuse of the reset button. However, one truth remained constant during its seven year run: You Do Not Fuck With Kathryn Janeway.
There is plenty to love about the character: her dogged determination to get her crew home despite insurmountable odds, her wry sense of humour, her out of the box thinking and willingness to bend Starfleet regulations, the relationships she builds with her crew, her legendary caffeine addiction (“There's coffee in that nebula” remains the best random Trek line ever) and the way she drawls “Battlestations”, which never fails to give me *chills*. Janeway also had some major flaws, which tended to be as big scale as everything she did: she often fell prey to hubris in her grandiose plans, disregarding both danger and Starfleet principles, she could isolate herself from her crew and refuse to accept any criticism, and she was without a doubt the Department of Temporal Investigation's single biggest headache. And on a Doylist level, it's rage-inducing that Star Trek's first female Captain was essentially rendered sexless, and the most action she got over seven years being a relationship while she suffered amnesia, a flirtation with an adversary (the thing with the guy looking for the fugitives that one time, not her UST with the Borg Queen) and a fling with a freakin' hologram.
Writing issues aside however (which should be the unofficial motto to maximize one's enjoyment during Voyager viewings), nothing can ever temper my Janeway squee. The woman went head-to-head with the freakin' Borg without even blinking, and the final showdown between her and the Queen was pure concentrated EPICNESS and a more satisfying payoff than even the other major event of the finale.
Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you'd like!
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Date: 2011-03-20 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-20 04:25 pm (UTC)With regards to 'action' you forget that she hooked up with Paris when they both turned into lizard things that one time... lol
And the hologram was hot!
It isn't like Picard got that much more action than Janeway (and I think that Sisko got less than either).
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Date: 2011-03-21 07:45 am (UTC)And Sisko didn't hook up, but he had a relationship and ended up getting married, not to mention a previous marriage and a son. Out of all the ST captains, he was the most well-adjusted on a personal level.
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Date: 2011-03-21 02:17 pm (UTC)I was just trying to point out (clumsily) that Janeway's relative celibacy was consistent with the time honored tradition of 'good' captains, it was Captain Kirk's tom catting around which was not (which always made him the space bimbo of the Star Trek universe).