I present to you. The best entrance to the Bridge of any ship by any Starfleet Captain ever.
Star Trek: Voyager-5x14 Bliss
Captain Janeway: A wormhole???
Party Bus
- starfleet: we're glad you're home
- starfleet: we've been reviewing your records
- janeway: k when is my promotion
- starfleet: what makes you think you're getting a promotion
- janeway: my future self told me all about it when she broke the temporal prime directive and brought me stolen future technology
- starfleet: yeah so in that vein there are some things we need to discuss
- janeway: if there's a problem with the paperwork blame chakotay
- janeway: i don't do forms i do holographic irish bartenders and former borg drones
- starfleet:
- doctor: i can assure you that while in the delta quadrant we conducted ourselves with grace and dignity according to the highest principles of starfleet
- b'elanna: yeah step off our balls you weren't there you don't know
- tom: yeah you weren't there that time we stole a keg of omega molecules from some douchebag aliens who were going to blow up the quadrant
- harry: or that time we played space nascar and ended up in the center of a terrorist plot
- tom: or that time we were all super horny and built a fake irish city so that we could get drunk and laid
- harry: or when we tied that guy to a chair and waited for the aliens to eat him because he wouldn't tell us what we wanted to know
- tom: oh shit remember that time i got 30 days for ignoring the wishes of some foreign government and destroying their mining operation
- harry: that was almost as crazy as the time you restored that old shuttle but then it fell in love with you and tried to kill b'elanna
- b'elanna: speaking of which remember when that bomb i made for the maquis came back and tried to kill us
- chakotay: that reminds me of when seska stole my dna and tried to impregnate herself with my child
- tom: nothing will ever compare to the time me and the captain had kids and left them on that planet
- janeway: we were young and innocent then
- tom: how many lizard years to a human year i feel like i should send a birthday card
- janeway: like 6
- tom: you don't even know you're just saying that
- janeway: you should talk you're such an absent father
- tom: oh no you didn't
- janeway: i didn't even want kids
- starfleet:
- starfleet: is there a reason you stenciled PARTY BUS on the side of voyager
- tom:
- harry:
- b'elanna:
- doctor:
- janeway: is there a reason i shouldn't have
As we mourn Abrams’ macho Trek obliteration, it’s a good time to revisit Voyager, at once the most Star Trek-ian of accomplishments and the most despised object of fanboy loathing in the franchise’s nearly 50-year history. From 1995-2001, it offered American audiences something never seen before or since: a series whose lead female characters’ agency and authority were the show. It was a rare heavy-hardware science fiction fantasy not built around a strong man, and more audaciously, it didn’t seem to trouble itself over how fans would receive this. On Voyager, female authority was assumed and unquestioned; women conveyed sexual power without shame and anger without guilt. Even more so than Buffy, which debuted two years later, it was the most feminist show in American TV history.
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