“I think Chakotay was in love with Janeway,” he says “right up to the episode where he gave her a watch [‘Year of Hell, Pt I’] and she rejected it - Robert Beltran on JC - Star Trek: The Magazine, June 2000
Posted over a year ago
"The Janeway/Chakotay dynamic, rife with personal and professional struggle and conflicted obligations, could provide enough emotional involvement to drive this series" - Michelle Erica Green
Posted over a year ago
" The chemistry between them is so potent that they could be reading the phone book and the words would seem rife with innuendo, but also with affection, humor, warmth. I've been asking all season what happened to the Janeway and Chakotay who appeared to be falling in love in last season's "Resolution,"..." - Michelle Erica Green
Posted over a year ago
"I look at Janeway and Chakotay and think, these people respect each other, they like each other, they're friends, they trusted each other instinctively from the start, they agree on the important issues. And the chemistry is hard not to notice. Is there any stronger basis for a relationship?" - Michelle Erica Green
Posted over a year ago
"Sure, protocol's a problem. But from their present perspectives, the crew of Voyager are likely to be beyond Starfleet communications for the rest of their lives. No one is going to expect the commanding officers to remain in command mode 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 70 years, not if they want them to continue to function adequately" - Michelle Erica Green on J/C
Posted over a year ago
"Romance on Trek is more soap opera-ish than anyplace else on nighttime television (...)Real people do fall in love - even in inappropriate situations, on the job - and it generally lasts more than 52 minutes. The dramatic tension on Voyager would be a lot stronger if Janeway and Chakotay had an ongoing relationship." - Michelle Erica Green
Posted over a year ago
"Resolutions" demonstrated that these characters work well together even apart from the roles they play on the ship - Michelle Erica Green
Posted over a year ago
"I don't think it's feminist progress to suggest that women should live alone just to demonstrate their independence and self-possession. Why can't Janeway fight space battles and fly through nebulas, and grow vegetables and play with kids and find lasting love? Why are wonderful careers and domestic happiness always presented to women as an either-or, even in the 24th century?"{Michelle Erica Green on Resolutions}
Posted over a year ago