Should Janeway have been a mother?

[Drone]

The ship was going to take 70 years to get to the Federation and there was only one person who was pregnant on the ship for the first 7 years. What were their plans for replacement crew, kidnapping, go into stasis. have elderly folks manning the ship way past 100 years old?

They made progress, sometimes significant progress over time. Some of it was their own doing, other parts were serendipitous. The fact was that after seven years, they were a considerable part of the way home. Combine that with the matter that they came across a number of natural and alien created phenomena, that they just missed getting any advantage out of (reasons for which I won't elaborate on here), and finally the still iffy quality of raising kids on the ship. Taken together, I think it was plausible that most crew members would have reasonably chosen to hold off on that, for a while longer anyway.

Now, if you were on the Voyager that encountered the Fen Domar or the future depicted in Shattered, needless to say, different story.

If Miral was filling an application for something (let's say Star Fleet Academy) what would she put down as her place of birth? Would she ever try to go back and revisit it?

Uh, couldn't it be just recorded as the USS Voyager? What difference would it make where the ship was at the time? Besides, as well known as she undoubtedly was, do you really think there would be quibbles abouts such a detail? Of course, you're probably just funnin' us here, so attribute my serious attitude in responding, to my occasional and not unknown cluelessness!!!

 

[Romdoll]

We could see her as a mother. she was strongly maternal. the question is more leaning towards should she and could she given the circumstances. if you have a great writer I think anything can happen as long as it falls into our own programmed ideas. the challenge and fun is probing past those limiting blinders to expand imagination to the possibility and see what unfolds. but in the media, there's money at stake so it wasn't going to be played out. I voted no because of who was in charge of these series, but I would be curious enough to see that reality play out by a dedicated, highly imaginative writer with enough sense of what it would could be to be a woman in a high position, stuck, and navigating motherhood.
I don't know if I made sense or contradicted myself. I'm typing this in a hurry.

In the Century Kathryn is from, women live longer and she was 40, why not if she wanted to have a baby? Starfleet Medicine has come along way. And technically she and Paris when changed into Alien tad pole creatures had a family! I am like this, had Kathryn wanted to have a family, especially after her Fiance left her for another Woman, when Voyager was lost. And there were candidates on board Voyager. Even if they had been a sperm deposit!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Both of Janeway's Parents were dead.

Which traumatized her.

She might have decided not to inflict that on her own kid.

As far as the AQ is concerned, Janeway died in 2370.

Which would have traumatized her hypothetical children as much as it broke her in half hen Kathy's own mum and dad ran out on her.

 

[Finn]

^Her mother was still alive when they started doing the calls...

 

[Guy Gardener]

I had a 50/50 chance of being right about that.

 

[Finn]

Sigh. You disappoint me. I posted that with hopes with one of your awesome crazy posts.

 

[hux]

I wish they'd shown Naomi finally getting to see and speak to her father. Seems to me that she and Sam should have been first in line. Everyone else just wanted to speak to friends and family. Naomi was waiting to actually meet her father for the first time.

 

[Finn]

They were probably afraid to show what a male Ktarian was supposed to look like what with Naomi's little horns and lack of them on that female Ktarian we saw on TNG.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That could only work out if the Doctor had been reprogrammed to intentionally misidentify a species and everyone else with a pulse who knew what a Ktarian looked like, had been murdered on the trip over to the DQ.

Naomi's father was obviously Caretaker.

 

[Drone]

I wish they'd shown Naomi finally getting to see and speak to her father. Seems to me that she and Sam should have been first in line. Everyone else just wanted to speak to friends and family. Naomi was waiting to actually meet her father for the first time.

Touching I suppose, and would probably finally allow her to let go of any vestige of her Neelix idealization. Who knows where Grestrendkregk was, though? He may very well still have been at Deep Space Nine. Hell, I'm not waiting that long to see that!! As it happens, I much rather have caught the reunion and (possible) reconcilement of B'Elanna and her father. That really would have had some resonance and could have been quite moving.

 

[hux]

Did he move on like Mark? Maybe that's why we didnt see it. Too Awkward.

"And this is your new mommy."

 

[ArgyleTrekkie]

I never really thought about this topic in much detail until the latest pocket book by Kirsten Beyer, A Pocket Full of Lies. Some really interesting points about parenthood in the DQ in this thread.