I think it is a pity that you feel the need to derail this happy and light-hearted thread on all the things we love about VOY with your disrespectful dismissal of other people's opinions. You have already proven in the other thread about Janeway and Chakotay, and you prove it here yet again, that the one with an issue is you, not me nor anybody else.
It is also a pity that you don't seem to be able to recognize ironic humor, which in this case was actually inspired by your fanatic disapproval of a possible relationship between Chakotay and Janeway.
WOW, my dear Miss Lemon, this is the first time, since I joined on this forum, that I'm accused to be disrespectful of other people's opinions. So, just for this reason, I intend to keep your message!
In fact, in reading you, I remembered the famous Evelyn Beatrice Hall's quotation
" I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it " from The Friends of Voltaire, (1906). Oh but it is true that free speech is a concept of variable geometry, according topics and/or people. Here, I'm ironic!
So, if I understand the situation, when Kate Mulgrew, the actress behind the character of Janeway, explains again and again, in conventions she attends and/or in interviews she gave - and still give - about Voyager, that J/C was never supposed to be romanticcally involved and the reasons why she fought so hard so, this does not happen (didn't/doesn't understand why people still see J/C as a romantic pairing after s3, in the absence of signs letting believe it), people say nothing but when I expose the same point of view, in using almost exactly the same arguments and others,, I'm accused of being disrespectful dismissal of other people's opinions..
-> I'm not in Mulgrew's head but I understand her views and her logic about this topic. That's all.
In any case, let me tell you, Miss Lemon, that as much and as long J/C shippers will repeat - at every turn -, how these two would have made a wonderful couple, as much and as long I will kindly* and deliberately repeat, how I find this couple unsorted. It's just fair, isn't it?
Accept it or not (and besides, I don't force you to read my comments), I don't care. But, in no case, it is a " fanatic disapproval of a possible relationship between J/C", as you wrote but IF you really think so, you have to accept too, the idea that each time J/C is quoted (so very very often!), it is a "fanatic approval of a possible relationship between J/C"!
-> for my part, I like J/P as a possible pairing.. Like J/C, it never happened - even if the idea was in the air - and it was ok for me. If I quoted my favorite but non-existent pairing as often as J/C was, it would be just fair that those who disagreed with me once, take all opportunities offered to be remembered!
For sure, I won't take offense (like you did). It's my concept of free speech and free counter/denial, no matter how many times and the duration.
* As you perhaps know, I'm French and even if my English is understandable for all - so I hope, at least , I don't necessarily use the right terms. When I write "it's a pity" (c'est dommage, in french), it is NOT in a negative way but rather like, "it's a shame it rains" (c'est dommage qu'il pleuve, in french). I didn't want to use the term of "shame" because in my language, this word is associated to repugnance, infamy, disgust, etc... So, a very negative feeling, what wasn't the case in my comment. So please, think twice before blaming me, the next time! Thanks.
Plus, I must admit to be quite surprised that it was you who sent mean incendiary post and not the author of the comment which I responded. Given her/his lack of comment, it seems that what I have written, it didn't troubled more than that!
Sorry to have written such lengh but I found Miss Lemon's comment quite offensive and I wanted to respond. I hope that moderators will forgive me this parenthesis.
