So you felt nothing when they were briefly on DS9 and stopped by Quark’s before getting lost in the Delta Quadrant? You bring dishonor to your house! (In fact, Tom gets in a barfight with Quark (not shown on screen, unfortunately) in that one timeline where Harry was never assigned to Voyager.)

Just kidding about the “dishonor to your house part”. Honestly, I like some of the fun 90s Trek had with crossovers, especially how VOY sort of rehabilitated Barclay. Honorable mention to that thing where Bashir helped Data have dreams. I guess O’Brien and the eventual Worf being mains on DS9 count as well; I think despite his flaws getting really annoying, Worf gave us an excuse for the fun Klingon political plot lines.

As an actual question, though, do any of the following apply to you?:

1. Didn’t also watch DS9 as a kid.
2. Were watching Voyager out of order, only catching random episodes, etc.
3. All of the above

I was sticking with characters that had already been introduced at the time, which was hard because I wanted so bad to add Vic Fontaine saying, “Hey, what’s the big idea here, pally?”

“Such an amateur lack of focus and balance.”

Moriarty or the exo-comp makes sense, but I feel like Lore’s tried to blow up the Federation or whatever enough times she could at least spare an asterisk.

Aw. I wanted to exterminate him first.

In all seriousness though, may he rest in peace and interesting fun facts I learned today.

I think this answer is mostly right in the case of Seven and VOY.

However, on a more general societal note, this can be problematic, as two people may have different definitions of insane (for instance, challenging certain societal beliefs that aren’t necessarily actually related to sanity may falsely be construed as insanity), and as a result, a rational person is stripped of their agency. I think several conditions need to be established for what defines someone as insane. I think if at least one of these is true, it can be called insanity:

• An inclination for self-harm
• An inclination to harm others

At the same time, that’s half the point of Voyager - you’re in the Delta quadrant and so the line between wrong and right calls is blurred.

Although wrong in most cases, I feel like “context is for kings” very much applies here.

On that last bit, I guess it has precedent. For instance, the look of the Titan on LD is largely the same as the design shown on the cover of some novels, but Riker’s bridge officers are different.

So heaven?

Exactly. I felt this one bordered on crappost and isn’t worthy of Daystrom.

True. Another time, perhaps.

Alright. Here’s my Daystrom Institute post on it.

Basically. I have to say, he was mostly a good uncle figure for the rest of the series. If I went beyond a casual analysis and started giving each character a number every episode, I might find counterexamples.

Also, I don’t count Resolutions as a spike since to me, that mostly felt natural, though it’s been a hot minute since I last watched it.

The first Paris spike is Year of Hell, or that time he dated Kes… oh crap, I need to go fix Harry real quick for dating Tom’s daughter.

Anyhow, the second Paris spike is that time he got romantically involved with a starship.

The Chakotay spike is mostly my bitterness about the pairing with Seven.

I in general just kind of found the entire Seven-Chakotay romance really weird.

In my opinion, Seven wasn’t necessarily emotionally mature enough for a romantic relationship. I don’t mean to call Seven a child, but because she’d been part of the Borg since she was a kid, it meant Seven never learned some important social abilities. It’s not necessarily my place to judge, but I feel like Seven was nudged towards romantic relationships at a point in her life when she wasn’t necessarily ready.

Of course, this is really complicated, bordering on a c/DaystromInstitute question. You know, rather than boring you with the details, I’ll actually just go create that post real quick, assuming a suitable one doesn’t exist.

Also, I’m a just a bit bitter the whole Chakotay-Janeway thing never worked out. I get there was professionalism stuff, but dating your astrometrics officer is probably weirder. I usually don’t particularly root for couples in shows, but there was legitimate chemistry between Janeway and Chakotay, especially in VOY:Resolutions.

Yeh, but I only bumped him to score 10/100, so I didn’t consider it that huge a bump since it’s biologically necessary.

Gargoyles (where Frakes and Sirtis are the main villains) even cracks a joke, “You and what Starfleet!”

I heard Takei and Frakes were on Adventure Time. After a Google, in addition, it seems so was Sirtis, Burton, and a bunch of Lower Decks actors.

Kate Mulgrew is great in Infinity Train.

I think one of my favorites, though, is the completely unrelated freebee for your cellphone randomly dropped for Kevin by Takei at the end of an episode of Community.

On one hand, (insert AGIMUS laughing noises).

On the other hand, Harry already had a rank where the doctor didn’t.

Synonyms…

Though DS9 breaks the vegetarianism part… and the always right part.