29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 7
Feb. 12th, 2012 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofeleven7 - Your favorite non-canon pairing?
You know, it’s funny, but I can’t ever really get into TOS or TNG romance-themed fanfic. It just seems… wrong in some way. Not sure whether that’s something about the nature of the shows, or just that they were the series I watched growing up, but I really have no interest in anything but gen fic for those two series.
(It might just be that both those series had finished airing when I first watched them, so their characters and relationships feel more set in stone than the series I saw while they were still running.)
Anyway, I’ve got no problem with non-canon relationship Voyager or Ds9 fics, and so this one’s easy: Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine. Not just my favourite Trek pairing, but probably my favourite pairing for anything.
There’s a lot of reasons why I like the pairing. They’re both awesome characters who have a lot of screen time together, so there’s plenty of subtext there to build on. I mean, alright, we’re not quite up to Kirk/Spock levels of ‘will not let death separate them’, but taking Voyager back into Borg space to rescue Seven’s getting close. Even ignoring things like that, Janeway’s obviously determined right from the start with Seven, with trying to make sure Seven will turn her back on the only life she’s ever known to remain on Voyager. It’s very easy to see that interest – dare I say obsession? – as part of a romantic infatuation.
From Seven’s point of view – well, she does turn her back on the Borg, and most of her interaction with humanity is through Janeway. There’s obviously something about Captain Janeway that makes her want to reject the Collective and the Borg Queen, and to remain with Voyager.
Plus, you know, I’ve always had a slight mentor/protégé kink.
As for Chakotay/Seven – when I’m not completely ignoring its existence, I choose to believe they were both (consciously or subconsciously) trying to make Janeway jealous…
You know, it’s funny, but I can’t ever really get into TOS or TNG romance-themed fanfic. It just seems… wrong in some way. Not sure whether that’s something about the nature of the shows, or just that they were the series I watched growing up, but I really have no interest in anything but gen fic for those two series.
(It might just be that both those series had finished airing when I first watched them, so their characters and relationships feel more set in stone than the series I saw while they were still running.)
Anyway, I’ve got no problem with non-canon relationship Voyager or Ds9 fics, and so this one’s easy: Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine. Not just my favourite Trek pairing, but probably my favourite pairing for anything.
There’s a lot of reasons why I like the pairing. They’re both awesome characters who have a lot of screen time together, so there’s plenty of subtext there to build on. I mean, alright, we’re not quite up to Kirk/Spock levels of ‘will not let death separate them’, but taking Voyager back into Borg space to rescue Seven’s getting close. Even ignoring things like that, Janeway’s obviously determined right from the start with Seven, with trying to make sure Seven will turn her back on the only life she’s ever known to remain on Voyager. It’s very easy to see that interest – dare I say obsession? – as part of a romantic infatuation.
From Seven’s point of view – well, she does turn her back on the Borg, and most of her interaction with humanity is through Janeway. There’s obviously something about Captain Janeway that makes her want to reject the Collective and the Borg Queen, and to remain with Voyager.
Plus, you know, I’ve always had a slight mentor/protégé kink.
As for Chakotay/Seven – when I’m not completely ignoring its existence, I choose to believe they were both (consciously or subconsciously) trying to make Janeway jealous…