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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Janeway did fight, kill, destroy, intimidate, threaten, battle and overcome many enemies and completely use an authoritarian hand for the love of her life ...

Coffee

If earth, the human race and the federation had stood in her way for a carafe of Columbian coffee, she would have destroyed us all.

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

That's a nice twist ending there!!! Well done!

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want a “Someone get this woman some goddammed coffee” tattoo. I don’t care that I’m a cis male. The people who matter will get it.

[–] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

If we are doing the whole strong female characters BS I present you Kira Nerys.

Fought a genocidal occupation all her youth
Became one of the leading figures in a massive space station orbiting her world
Fought the dominion
Placed aside her hatred for the Cardassians
Matured and grew to be a wise woman

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... Coffee is the love of her life.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

When the love of her life left her, she washed her hands and went to the replicator for another cup.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On a different note, what surprised me the most afted rewatching voyager's pilot after a good 15 years is that Janeway had a boyfriend/husband/partner. I mean he was mentioned in at least another episode during 1st season but I'm pretty sure he has been forgotten by then

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, Mark comes up a few times. We eventually learn that he got married sometime after Starfleet gave up on Voyager being found.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a look at Memory Alpha and you are right, he is mentioned. Yet it was so forgettable that I removed it every time I rewatched the show

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s light commentary later before she finds companionship in fair haven, but essentially she sees how stranded she is and it’s posed to her as inappropriate to partner with someone under her command.

For the most part though, we do forget about her boyfriend and she has flings with a few guys along her way.

[–] VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

she sees how stranded she is and it’s posed to her as inappropriate to partner with someone under her command.

Which is a damn shame given all the looks she and Chakotay shared. And that time they thought they were going to be stuck alone together forever.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think they’d have made an appropriate power couple after bonding like that.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Janeway was more upset about losing her dog than her husband. And I feel that.

[–] teft@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

Kathy just programs up a holographic vibrator then deletes his wife. She's into the kinky shit.

[–] PochoHipster@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Janeway plays for keeps

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey remember that time Hermione triggered a rape victim's PTSD because she thought it was funny?

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just heard the 7th book as an audiobook last week. The amount of unforgiveable curses just casually casted by "the good guys" is staggering.

Seems to Rowlin the ends justify the means.

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, and when they're staying at Grimmauld place over christmas, they decide to add some festive cheer by putting the severed slave heads in little santa hats and beards

[–] storcholus@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Umbridge shows up in book 6 or 7, and she's got PTSD from whatever the centaurs did to her. Based on the myths about centaurs, it would appear to have been rape. Hermione says "watch this", and makes clip-clop horsey sounds and Umbridge has a panic attack. Harry and Ron laugh.

[–] storcholus@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

The myths about centaurs in the books or in classic mythology. Because the Harry potter centaurs did not give me a rapey vibe and I would consider them on their own

While I know this is done for humor's sake, I really love this critique.

Similar to the Bechdel Test, this comesvery close to perfectly illustrating the Mako Mori Test:

The requirements of the Mako Mori test are that a film or television show has at least one female character and that this character has an independent plot arc and that the character or her arc does not simply exist to support a male character's plot arc.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Mori_test