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Favourite Voyager Romances?

Which Voyager Romances Did You Enjoy?

  • Kes and Neelix

    Votes: 1 2.9%
  • Chakotay and Seska

    Votes: 2 5.7%
  • Tom and B'Elanna

    Votes: 16 45.7%
  • Chakotay and Seven

    Votes: 3 8.6%
  • The Doctor and Denara Pel (Lifesigns)

    Votes: 10 28.6%
  • Tom and Kes (Before and After)

    Votes: 5 14.3%
  • Kim and Tom's daughter Linnis (Before and After) Yuck

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Doctor and Charlene (Real Life)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lizard Paris and Lizard Janeway (Threshold)

    Votes: 4 11.4%
  • Marayna and Tuvok (Alter Ego)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Space Whale and Voyager (Elogium)

    Votes: 5 14.3%
  • Chakotay and Kellin (unforgettable)

    Votes: 4 11.4%
  • Chakotay and Tessa (Timeless)

    Votes: 1 2.9%
  • Tuvok and Noss (Gravity)

    Votes: 6 17.1%
  • Kim and Tal (The Disease)

    Votes: 2 5.7%
  • Shannon Janeway and Old Man Henry Janeway (11:59)

    Votes: 1 2.9%
  • Janeway and Michael O' Sullivan (Fairhaven)

    Votes: 2 5.7%
  • The Doctor/Seven and Jaryn (Body and Soul)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Janeway and Jaffen (Workforce)

    Votes: 10 28.6%
  • Neelix and Dexa (Homestead)

    Votes: 5 14.3%

  • Total voters
    35
1. Vorik and B'Ellana
2. Neelix and Kes
Voyager needed more pushy/stalker relationships.
Janeway and O'Sullivan should have broken up, and then she would keep ordering crew members to go in and spy on him and to mention how great she's doing. Then it would get really dark when she deletes his new holo-girlfriend.
 
Tom and B'elanna and Janeway and Jaffen felt like the only relationships that developed naturally.
 
I pretty much hated all the couples on Voyager. Tom and B'Elanna were boring, Neelix and Kes were revolting and Chakotay and Seven were WTF.

I voted for Chakotay and Seska because it was believable, The Doctor and Dr. Pel because it was sweet, and Lizards Janeway and Paris because it still makes me laugh thinking about it all these years later.
 
Personally, I liked Tuvok and Noss a lot and thought their attraction was very convincing. Also really liked Virginia Madsen in Unforgettable and thought that episode explored some interesting ideas. I also voted the ship and the space whale... cos why not.

That match in Gravity was great. Someone who was so profoundly lonely reaching out and finding compassion and a bit something more from Tuvok. The whale? C'mon, that wasn't a romance, they were rivals fighting for the favors of all those little ones.

Tom and B'Elanna mostly because they had a slow build up. It wasn't suddenly 'Hey..here's these two attractive characters not doing anything. Let's randomly put them together in a single episode!"

I sort of liked Janeway and Jaffen except it was 'Hey I just met you let's move in together' situation. If we had come into their relationship a few months after they had met it might seemed more realistic but then they would have had to rewrite other parts of the episode but apart from that they were alright together.
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Your point on Tom and B'Elanna is very well taken. Heaven knows the litany of "issues" that she had that prevented closeness with anyone for so long and Tom had some growing up to do to realize what a gem he had in B'Elanna, but more importantly, learning the importance of compassion and patience. As you say, the time constraints imposed on Workforce did have an impact on the need for immediacy in the relationship. OTOH, such outcomes are not unknown to occur in the RL, and giving it a bit more thought, it might have been a proclivity that the TPTB would have encouraged to free up as many living units for the never ending arrival of new labor, hijacked or voluntary.

I voted for The Doctor and Denara. It was a nice romance and the only one I could find something special in.
I could have voted for Kes and Tom in "Parturition" but here it was in an alternate universe and I'm not sure if it really counts. In that case we could have had Kes and The Doctor in "Projections" as well.

Yes the Doctor and Denara was very touching, even in a strange way when he first made his blunt missteps. but the outcome was catalytic for Denara, to find someone that was willing to see past the surface and give her the care and devotion that had probably been missing so long in her life. For the Doctor, it was an extremely important step to seeing beyond the limits of his quotidian daily life, even one that had been made more valued through Kes's efforts.

I may be missing something, but in what possible way did Parturition take place in an alternate universe? The only outlier I can even plausibly reference is Neelix's description of the provenance of the pasta, and he was just funnin there.

Tom Paris and Rain Robinson ("Future's End")

Absolutely. One of the sexiest and most convincing romances of the series. As many have noted, it would really have been quite interesting if Rain had been incorporated into the cast. Certainly, a huge contrast to B'Elanna and that could have been a great interpersonal dynamic, if pursued..:techman:

Tom and Kes for me, there was just something about the little snippet we saw that just seemed like a good fit to me.

Indeed, they had history, which Tom would have definitely pursued if not for his sense of morality and the understanding that he and Neelix came to in Parturition. But I think that Tom and Kes were very well suited, and there was clearly passion between them. Tom was also represented a distinct difference in lightness and freedom than what Kes had come to be apparently experiencing with Neelix towards the end of their time together. As an added fillip, they even resembled each other in B&A, at least before her middle age appearance settled in.

Neelix and Kes, their relationship was pleasant. I didn't like any other relationships on that show.

When they met, they filled just what the other was lacking or had lost. For Neelix, it was basically being brought back to life, any kind of engagement in the wider world. Kes found her first love, who she could identify as a man of the world, being supportive and compassionate, as well as arousing to her developing sexuality.
 
The only thing implied in "Shattered" is that Icheb will turn into a meat-headed simpleton.

If someone from my past, travelled in time and walked in asking for my help to change the past and this change would have the knock-on effect of guaranteeing that my reality would be wiped... I'd tell them to go suck my hairy man-balls.
 
I'm sorry I must disagree. I saw no signs of this in SHATTERED.

But they were standing beside each other in the same room! That means it's true love! (and yes I am being sarcastic. Fans will create relationships out of nothing).

Not that there is anything wrong with wanting Naomi and Icheb to be together of course. I'm sure there's plenty of fan fiction about that.
 
Well, let us be totally honest, Star Trek: Voyager and love stories, it is not that! :whistle: The script writers often failed in this domain (only the coupling Torres/Paris worked with at the end, the birth of their daughter, Miral).
However, sometimes, they managed to make exceptions. It's regrettable that they didn't go to the end (Janeway/Krashyk) or that they decided to break couples (Janeway/Jaffen; Neelix Kes).

Janeway/Jaffen -> it was sudden but very romantic*. :adore: I would have liked seeing them together at the end. (*In opposition to Seven/Chakotay)
Janeway/Krashyk -> for the sexual tension so present throughout their exchanges!
Neelix/Kes -> I like them together, though the age gap.

And to finish, I trully think that Janeway / Tom Paris could have worked but "Threshold" wasted this eventuality but well, I bet that after awhile, Janeway would have eventually rejected him, not because of the age gap or the rank but rather because Tom, on the pretext of wanting to protect his girlfriend at all costs, would have prevented her from assuring her captaincy as she would have wanted.

I understand and I respect Kate Mulgrew's will not to want to associate her character to a crew member or someone coming from the outside of Voyager during the time spent in Delta Quadrant but, it would have been nice to see Janeway finding the happiness with somebody (especially not with Chakotay) at the very end of the series.
 
Neelix and Kes is probably my second favourite couple simply because the affection between the two seemed really genuine. That's really the only real downside I have about Kes leaving as that was a nice relationship that I would've liked to have seen through to the end.

The problems I had with Janeway's romances was the characters she had the romantic moments with I knew they were never going to stay that long which is why I'm not that keen on her romances really, wouldn't have minded her getting together with Chakotay personally in the end but obviously that never happened. Also, I personally disagree about a romance between Tom and Kathryn I don't think that would've worked at all personally speaking.

I do agree that it would've been nice for Janeway to get some happiness at the end with somebody.

Anyhow that's just me Ghislaine :)
 
I thought Tuvok and Marayna was interesting. Another woman falls hard for the ultimate emotionally unavailable man but where Noss did seem to have an impact on Tuvok's feelings, Marayna never really did. I guess that added to her general pathetic, lonely story.

Kim being jealous of him was pretty dumb though.
 
No harm done, Jonny! ;) Plus, we agree on the fact that it would have been nice to see Janeway finding some happiness at the end!

In fact, I think that I would have been able to accept Janeway / Chakotay if the character had been more interesting, charismatic (and played by another actor than Robert Beltran -> I must be one of rare girls not to have cracked on his physical appearance! :shrug:).

The problems I had with Janeway's romances was the characters she had the romantic moments with I knew they were never going to stay that long which is why I'm not that keen on her romances really, wouldn't have minded her getting together with Chakotay personally in the end but obviously that never happened. Also, I personally disagree about a romance between Tom and Kathryn I don't think that would've worked at all personally speaking.

I do agree that it would've been nice for Janeway to get some happiness at the end with somebody.

Anyhow that's just me Ghislaine :)
 
No harm done, Jonny! ;) Plus, we agree on the fact that it would have been nice to see Janeway finding some happiness at the end!

In fact, I think that I would have been able to accept Janeway / Chakotay if the character had been more interesting, charismatic (and played by another actor than Robert Beltran -> I must be one of rare girls not to have cracked on his physical appearance! :shrug:).

Well I like ending my posts with a ''I agree with you on...'' note. Either that or a :):guffaw::techman: (one of the three)

As for if someone else had been Chakotay? Guess we'll never know now unless they reboot the series. Everything seems to get rebooted eventually.

And since I'm a heterosexual guy I haven't exactly cracked on his physical appearance either so we're agreed on that :guffaw:
 
As for if someone else had been Chakotay? Guess we'll never know now unless they reboot the series. Everything seems to get rebooted eventually.

A reboot of Voyager, why not (even if until now, all the rebooted series made were a disaster! :barf:) AND please, without Braga and Berman as producers. Plus, about script writers, that they don't try to impose their visions alternately about characters! That they make an index form on every characters of the series and that they are held to it!

And since I'm a heterosexual guy I haven't exactly cracked on his physical appearance either so we're agreed on that :guffaw:

Well, ok! :techman:
 
Well I like ending my posts with a ''I agree with you on...'' note. Either that or a :):guffaw::techman: (one of the three)

As for if someone else had been Chakotay? Guess we'll never know now unless they reboot the series. Everything seems to get rebooted eventually.

And since I'm a heterosexual guy I haven't exactly cracked on his physical appearance either so we're agreed on that :guffaw:
I'm a gay man and Chakotay's physical appearance never appealed to me. But most of my VOY fan friends swoon when they see him ... :D
However, I like his personality. He is a nice man. That's probably one of the reasons I don't find him sexually too attractive.
In contrast, I find that not only does Tom look super sexy but his character which was occasionally less than nice is also intriguing ... :adore::adore::adore:
 
I'm a gay man and Chakotay's physical appearance never appealed to me. But most of my VOY fan friends swoon when they see him ... :D
However, I like his personality. He is a nice man. That's probably one of the reasons I don't find him sexually too attractive.
In contrast, I find that not only does Tom look super sexy but his character which was occasionally less than nice is also intriguing ... :adore::adore::adore:

Pity none of them swoon over B'Elanna or Seven :drool: (not that I think about those two at all :whistle:)
As for Chakotay, I don't hate him, in fact I think they could've done more with his character. No comment on Tom :lol:
 
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