Star Trek: Picard 2.02 Penance
The Borg Queen has a kind of transtemporal awareness. It bridges into adjacent times, realities. They hear echoes of themselves, of each other. …So I hear.
Worst possible universe and bad representation etc but can you imagine. B'Elanna divorced and with only partial custody of her daughter, meeting Seven after years of no contact, and after Icheb died because Seven talked too much to a horrible woman that we interpret to be her ex. Having both failed utterly as caretakers, just like their parents had failed them. Would the self-loathing and despair be recognizable to each other then, or would they still misunderstand one another like they did back on Voyager?
(For the record I maintain neither situations were or would be entirely their fault—Seven was manipulated and deceived, and B'Elanna has every right to escape an unhappy marriage if it turns out to be one. But the guilt would be inevitable regardless, for very obvious reasons.)
Star Trek: Voyager Child’s Play
Those people have been through enough. Do we really need to interrogate them? Just because they weren’t completely candid with you doesn’t mean they’re unfit parents.
Star Trek: Picard Broken Pieces
Star Trek: Voyager “Natural Law” Star Trek: Picard “Fly Me to the Moon”
Star Trek: Picard Stardust City Rag
Michael Burnham be like: this is my sexy boyfriend who can talk to animals, this the mushroom guy, these are my bridge lesbians, this is my first officer who went through second puberty and no longer fears death, and this is the genocidal dictator I dragged here from an alternate universe whose history of war crimes and cannibalism I overlook because of unresolved guilt at letting my version of her die and she's fine with it cuz she can use me as a second chance with her adopted daughter whom she murdered for treason,
Star Trek: Picard Nepenthe
I'm an engineer. I fix things.
Star Trek: Voyager Prototype
You Create Intricate Rituals That Allow You To Touch The Wounds Of Other Women (And Find Out That Their Blood Is Just As Red As Yours) <- B7 if I wasn't a coward about it
I still think this would be great! But also really difficult to write with nuance. Both Seven and B'Elanna have these ideas about what is monstrous and hideous about themselves that are incredibly fucked up & are just what they have internalized due to the constant othering they've been subjected to, even from the people that supposedly loved and cared about them. Their actual wounds are not the ones they think they have; the monstrous lies in the ways they've both been made to appear and behave more 'acceptably' according to the people around them, in their constant effort of fitting a mold that's only there for the peace of mind of others
#voyager#b'elanna torres#seven of nine#seven x b’elanna#:(#made more complicated by the fact seven gets a free pass for many behaviors b’elanna could never even think about engaging in#related to b’elanna being the one most concerned with seven not being more… polite also#not even getting into seven's very public preoccupation with b'elannas sex life#which does make sense to me but is also. you know.#i think they are so so interesting but not in ways that make it easy to see them having a good relationship with each other#without doing a lot of work
People who try to tell me things are ‘not that deep’ fundamentally misunderstand me, I am not a fish desperately in search of the ocean, I am a magpie that roves the canons, searching for shiny things to put in my nest. Whether or not it actually is given deep narrative weight by canon itself is of secondary importance to the fact that it has the potential to be interesting, and thus, I covet it.
“It’s not that deep”
Maybe not originally, but the ground is soft and I’m ready to dig.
shut up…
doesn't tell her to stop giving him her daily little reviews of people because he likes the gossip...
i love this character so much. id love to see them at the lowest point of their life