ST: Voyager has come up surprisingly often in my reading today.

[conuly]

And it's only 4am, too.

Which reminds me of my perennial question I keep meaning to ask: Can anybody recommend a really good general Voyager fixit fic?

It *must* fix the following:

1. The Maquis/Starfleet relationship should definitely be more fraught.
2. Seska's character can't be screwed over like that. Geez, I get angrier the more I think about it. Such a perfect plotline handed to them on a freaking platter, and they tossed it away in favor of Seska backstabbing her way to the Kazon. WHY.
3. Neelix and Kes, if present, need to be... I dunno, better. However that looks.
4. If it goes on long enough, yes, Seven. I don't care about almost all Borg-y plots, but Seven is amazing and that show did not deserve Jeri Ryan's amazing acting.

(If I keep on listing things I'll never end, but those are the crucial parts.)

Comments

[sixbeforelunch]

Can I interest you in Talking Stick/Circle by Macedon and Peg? It doesn't meet all of your criteria. Seven is absent because the series was written during the early seasons before Jeri Ryan joined the show, and tbh I can't remember how it handled Seska, but as far as the other two points go, I think it fits the bill, especially point one. The Maquis are given a voice and a personality, and don't just happily put on a Starfleet uniform and fade into the background except when they story deigns to remember they exist.

[conuly]

I'm okay with Seven not being there if they wrote it before she showed up. I just don't want her being excised if they didn't.

[frandroid]

I'm not really a consumer of fanfic so I didn't know about fix-it fic, but thank you for introducing me to that idea/tag because now I know I'll try to filter with that when browsing some series' fanfic for something to read...

[frandroid]

Holy cow, just realized that there might be some T'Pol fix-its... Interesting.

[captainsblog]

I'd also get rid of the entire Q continuum sub-arc. As much fun as DeLancie is, I was always annoyed that they brought him/them into this series when he could've Thanos-snapped them back home at any second.

[conuly]

Yeah.

If he wasn't such a good actor, I'd hate the entire character.

[cellio]

Yeah. All things Q need to be excised from the Trek universe, no matter how good the actor is. That just creates too many holes. The whole thing is malicious -- to the characters and to the viewers.

[captainsblog]

And how's this for weird?

The day after I posted this, it turns out that today is John deLancie's 100th birthday.

His father's.