The Delaney sisters and dating on a starship.

[Thomas.B]

I remember them as a sort of running gag and I apparently missed the episodes where they actually appeared. I'm rewatching the series but I think I have a way to go before I see them. I know Paris ended up with B'elanna. So why didn't Harry end up with one of the Delaney sisters?
It's not that important to me but I actually think what's fun about Voyager is their attitude about relationships. People actually hook up, which would make sense if they were really lost on the other side of the galaxy. I always found it hard to believe that a ship like TNG's Enterprise, with over a thousand people on board, would be so platonic. I mean, there had to be officers on the lower decks who didn't really give a rip about what Picard thought was "proper" behavior.

 

[od0_ital]

Harry didn't get a Delaney sister because he liked the one that didn't like him.

 

[Thomas.B]

Harry didn't get a Delaney sister because he liked the one that didn't like him.

Ha! It figures. Thanks.

 

[propita]

I think Ayala got them both!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Sequentially or simultaneously?

 

[Infern0]

I think dating on a starship, especially a smaller one like an Intrepid class could be a pandoras box to be honest, anyone who has ever dated a workmate or flatmate will know what i'm talking about, being confronted with your partner virtually 24/7 can be a real strain.

It's an interesting debate though, I mean imagine if you had a partner on earth when voyager got stranded, how long would you reasonably hold out hope of getting back before they moved on?

i love questions like this

 

[BlobVanDam]

Who needs dating when you have the Holodeck? Who cares if the real Delaney sisters say no to that threesome?

 

[Guy Gardener]

As we found out from Barclay in Holo-Pursuits or later with Geordie and Leah Brahms, or when Kira was scanned for a sex program by Quark it's not illegal just sleazy.

If you're caught doing that.

Branded.

No real sex ever again.

Although it's a double standard.

Seven got caught with her Chuckles program and the Indian thought of it not only as a compliment but as an in into her britches. Objectification, launching pad? Potato, potaddo.

Although Geordie married Leah, so maybe some girls like clues written in blazzing forty foot capitals too that they are ignorant of a fertile opportunity?

Though it would explain the pathetic birthrate aboard ship.

I wonder if the holograms in fairhaven were programed to simulate pregnancy that now and then some 19th century lassy was going to tell a 24th century security officer that he had put a bun in her over, not that the Hirogen thought that wan't hilarious too with B'Elanna carrying all that extra weight around... Would the women on Voyager pretend to be pregnant (with a falsie belly) to an Irish hologram to roleplay the complete "wife" exprience to be attended in the way a (good) man does to a woman he loves carrying his child?

 

[Guy Gardener]

When an evil genius is hatching a nefarious plot, they can't help but leave malevolent clues in plain sight they assume you can't figure out to prove that they are smart and you are dumb.

It's a tradition started by God.

Delaney \d(e)-la-ney\ as a girl's name (also used as boy's name Delaney), is pronounced da-LAY-nee. It is of Old French origin, and the meaning of Delaney is "from the alder grove". From "del aunaie". Also possibly (Irish, Gaelic) "offspring of the challenger" or "angel from heaven".
Delaney has 11 variant forms: DeLaina, Delaine, Delainey, Delainy, Delane, Delanie, Delany, DeLayna, Delayne, Delena and Delene.
For more information, see also the related name Trelane.

Offspring of the dark Challenger related to Trelane?


#*&^ me.


General Trelane (RTRD) the Squire of Gothos.


Related to him?


Trelane was obviously a Q, and Peter David's novel Q squared suggested that he was Q's bastard child.


So I was thinking that they were Romulan clones of Picard, but it turns out that they were Q, which explains how Voyager always managed to amazingly squeak through with such narrow margins every week because they had a couple goddesses on board who were not finished playing human yet.


And one of them wanted Harry?


Talk about slumming.


But them Zeus had his end away with most animals you'd find in a barnyard.

 

[SPCTRE]

I think dating on a starship, especially a smaller one like an Intrepid class could be a pandoras box to be honest, anyone who has ever dated a workmate or flatmate will know what i'm talking about, being confronted with your partner virtually 24/7 can be a real strain.

It's an interesting debate though, I mean imagine if you had a partner on earth when voyager got stranded, how long would you reasonably hold out hope of getting back before they moved on?

i love questions like this

Agreed, I would be hesitant to commit to a relationship in a confined space like that. Who knows when you'll get back to the AQ and'll be able to request a transfer!

It's even worse than in the office, there's literally nowhere to run if you break up

On the other hand, if you fall in love, you just fall in love, nothing you can do about it really. I've been there

 

[Tiberius]

I always found it hard to believe that a ship like TNG's Enterprise, with over a thousand people on board, would be so platonic. I mean, there had to be officers on the lower decks who didn't really give a rip about what Picard thought was "proper" behavior.

What about Miles and Keiko?

 

[SPCTRE]

I always found it hard to believe that a ship like TNG's Enterprise, with over a thousand people on board, would be so platonic. I mean, there had to be officers on the lower decks who didn't really give a rip about what Picard thought was "proper" behavior.

What about Miles and Keiko?

And Alyssa Ogawa and Lt Powell? And Ensign Calloway and Lt Kwan?

 

[Green Shirt]

being confronted with your partner virtually 24/7 can be a real strain.

I work at night, my wife works days with a long commute. We see each other about 1 hour per day, and that's still too much.

 

[od0_ital]

I always found it hard to believe that a ship like TNG's Enterprise, with over a thousand people on board, would be so platonic. I mean, there had to be officers on the lower decks who didn't really give a rip about what Picard thought was "proper" behavior.

What about Miles and Keiko?

Keiko was a civilian.

 

[JarodRussell]

being confronted with your partner virtually 24/7 can be a real strain.

I work at night, my wife works days with a long commute. We see each other about 1 hour per day, and that's still too much.

YER DOIN IT WR0NG

 

[SPCTRE]

I always found it hard to believe that a ship like TNG's Enterprise, with over a thousand people on board, would be so platonic. I mean, there had to be officers on the lower decks who didn't really give a rip about what Picard thought was "proper" behavior.

What about Miles and Keiko?

Keiko was a civilian.

Yet I have listed fully-fledged examples of hardcore, uncensored Starfleet-on-Starfleet action further upthread!

 

[Thomas.B]

It's an interesting debate though, I mean imagine if you had a partner on earth when voyager got stranded, how long would you reasonably hold out

I think a lot of people would certainly bend that 'no dating coworkers' rule if they thought they would be lost with their shipmates for seventy years.

What about Miles and Keiko?

Keiko was a civilian.

And Alyssa Ogawa and Lt Powell? And Ensign Calloway and Lt Kwan?

As I was rewatching "The Naked Now" (season 1, TNG) I was struck by Picard's lecture at the end that basically said: Thank goodness we didn't give in to our hormonal urges or it would make our mission so awkward.
Meanwhile Troi and Riker almost exchange a glance but restrain themselves from even that.
It did seem like Picard had different standards for the bridge crew but those restrictions seemed to loosen up by the last season (as Worf and Troi were dating).

As we found out from Barclay in Holo-Pursuits or later with Geordie and Leah Brahms, or when Kira was scanned for a sex program by Quark it's not illegal just sleazy.

I'm only on season 2 of rewatching Voyager, but it seems to me that they are more accepting of people having a little holodeck "fun," as long as they don't become a Barclay who spends too much time there.
Since the Voyager crew seemed more comfortable with 'inter-office' dating, I think they could get physical with real people and didn't need to go too far with their holodeck characters.
Seven of Nine had not been socialized into human customs...plus she was really hot. She probably could have walked around the ship naked and Janeway would have said, "Oh, you rascal, seven of Nine. Keep learning about human nature you crazy cyborg, you."
...maybe I'm wrong on that. I haven't gotten there in my viewing yet. Just going on memories from years ago.

 

[propita]

I think Ayala got them both!

Sequentially or simultaneously?

Both, at different times. He was pretty adept.

anyone who has ever dated a workmate or flatmate will know what i'm talking about, being confronted with your partner virtually 24/7 can be a real strain.

For 6 years, Hubby and I lived together, drove to and from work together, and worked in the same department, sometimes the same room. We were usually in different rooms, but within 100 feet of each other. I trained him on some tasks. It bothered him. I usually thought about work.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kim liked Megan

Jenny liked Kim.

Megan couldn't care less, or could she?

there must be rules?

Whether you're a bloke or a dame, you've been standing there and your friend shouts "dibs" or "Bags" or "first" indicating that they have an exclusive option on the naked rights, even the dating rights or the fricking hand holding rights of the hamburger they're objectifying.

Megan might not have liked Kim too much in that way, but if her sister hadn't called for the first right of refusal, then Megan wouldn't have issued a burn notice on Kim's shorts.

This was zero tollerance.

A bad date with Kim to give him the opportunity to surprise Megan was not worth pissing off Jenny.

Although (a character written/played by) Woody Allen married two sisters (sequentially) in Hannah and her Sisters, but then, Harry Kim is no Woody Allen.

If Only Harry Kim was Woody Allen.

Now that would have been some impressive Star Trek.

 

[Tiberius]

Keiko was a civilian.

Miles wasn't.