Holoprogram Janeway Lambda One

What was the deal with Janeway's Victorian holonovels? Particularly the "dead mother"? They never explained it, did they? I feel like it was one of those story lines they just kind of forgot about. But what do you think would have happened? I got the feeling the mother was chained up on the forbidden fourth floor.

 

It's a bastardised version of Jane Eyre which was presumably used as a means to explore Janeway's personality and interests. It also establishes that she likes grumpy, alpha males (they possibly want us to know this in order to confirm that nothing is ever gonna happen with the insipid beta male known as Chakotay)

 

Like most starship captains Janeway is enamored with the past. Her love of bustle dresses and drawing rooms is quite believable for her personality. It was good to see where she likes to "play", oddly fitting.

 

I liked that the crew knew of her preferences, since B'Elanna brought the holoprogram up in (?) the final scene of "Persistence of Vision."

As for why Janeway stopped that program, she explained to B'Elanna in that final scene that she had enough of fantasy and wanted some reality.

 

Janeway was well read, a sophisticated woman with an elegant mind. It stands to reason that she would choose the classics. Her scientific mind would find Leonardo da Vinci fascinating. Charlotte Bronte's Jayne Eyre is a favorite of girls, just as anything by Jane Austin or Louisa May Alcott. It's understandable that she would choose to get away from the daily turmoil of the Delta Quadrant to a time when life was simpler.

 

We can all be very grateful that she never chose Robin Hood.

 

But what if her holo-Robin Hood looked just like Picard in tights?

 

What if we saw Chakotay in tights?

What if we got a real decker of a look at Chakotay?

 

It be kind of funny of someone had run a simulation of Johannes Brahms or Alexander the Great and they were also played by John Rhys-Davies.

 

With an over 60 William Shatner reprising his title role from an unsold 1960s era television pilot.

 

I always thought the Austen-y holoprogram was utter bullshit (return of the repressed *yawn*, yadda yadda).

The DaVinci one was marginally better (at least Rhys-Davies breathed life into character, and there was marginal attempt to merge program/Janeway's intellectual curiosity into narrative)

Abhorred the Oirish ones and refuse to rewatch.

VOY the series in a nutshell . Frakked up.

 

With Neelix as Friar F**k ehm Tuck

 

That might also require Adam West.

 

Maybe Samantha Wildman had that holodeck adventure?

OK, now back to the original debate.

As for janeway's program, I was actually surprised that a strong-willed captain did choose to be some sort of servant or whatever in her holodec program. At least Picard was a detective and Sisko played baseball.

But maybe Janeway's program were a horror story where the supposed dead mother were locked into a room at the top floor, chained or maybe nailed to the floor, like in that X-files episode and Lord Burleigh was a serial killer who had murdered three previous wives who were buried in the walls of the mansion.

 

Chakotay in tights? I would even pay for the tights just for the opportunity to see Chakotay wearing them. Yummy.....

 

OK, that could work in a pinch, but I think that Chakotay was more built.

 

@teacake That is Seven of Nine's holographic program!

 

I dunno, I think she would have used tighter lycra.

"Computer, tighten lower lycra by.. 48%"

 

I was so looking forward to the big conflagration where the kids' mom came screaming out of the shuttered wing, white robes flying, and dived to her death among the flames. Oh, yeah, making sure first the little girl got a good look at her, so no more of that whiny obstinacy over tea with the governess.