This my fellow J/C'ers....this is called boredom...AND....and I just wanted to really dig up some quotes from interviews and convention transcripts that really REALLY PROVED that we were RIGHT all along!
Simply put....that there WAS something there!
So sit back, and enjoy some thoughts straight from their mouths (Kate Mulgrew and Robert Beltran....) about the 'relationship of our J/C command team!
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1997
Kate Mulgrew: You know everybody wants to know about Chakotay and Janeway having a romance. Why? Why is it always about sex? Why not, right?
I think this season something interesting will happen between Janeway and Chakotay. Because enough is enough. Right? I think Janeway's been just a little bit too businesslike in the old ready room. It's time to have those late night dinners, don't you think? Champagne in the holodeck with her first officer. Why not? She's not dead yet.
And you know, I think that's an interesting point that you raise, because I think that something that's missing - I've discussed this with the writers -I think that there should be more agitation between the Maquis and Star Fleet. You know they let go that very quickly, very quickly. And they shouldn't have done it. Right? I mean Chakotay is a fierce and courageous warrior but by the end of the pilot he was completely on Janeway's side. Now that's great. But I think we need to see some of that fierce warrior, don't you? I mean where is it written that he can't countermand my orders and see what happens? I think he should try that. Be fascinating, wouldn't it?
1998
Q26: On your left. My question relates to what you said earlier about relationships on Voyager. Do you really want to go ahead and have a relationship with Chakotay? Because I think Bruce Willis had a series called 'Moonlighting'. When those two characters got together the series was canceled after another season. And don't you think it's much more interesting to keep the tension?
KM: I do absolutely. I said we will develop this relationship further in terms of its intensity. In terms of its confidentiality. In terms of its colours.
Where is it written that Janeway can't have an intimate relationship with him without sleeping with him? I don't think she will sleep with him. Somebody has to run the ship, you know.
I think sex... I'll be really frank about this... I have not resolved this completely yet. All right. Will you give me that? I haven't. It's an ongoing process. But I think sex for a female captain is not the same as it is for a male captain. What's good for the goose ain't necessarily good for the gander. Things change. At least they do in my opinion. Wouldn't most of you women agree with me?
1999
Do you think Janeway really fancied Chakotay? (cheers and applause)
Kate Mulgrew: This is the all time record of waiting to ask the question, the only question you really want the answer to.
Yes, she fancied him, but she fancied something else much more and what was that?
I do fancy Chakotay, but I had to get the crew home. I was married to my job. How dull, but how important. Can you imagine if I'd been sleeping with Chakotay? Red Alert!
2003
Kate Mulgrew: I'm going to start at the top. My uh… what shall I say… how shall I put this? Why am I looking to you? Commander Chakotay! Yes, yes. Yes, yes. I know. You are all so sorry we didn't have a mad love affair. ~~~ And although a lot of women out there pleaded, begged, commissioned, fought and tried to buy this love affair with Commander Chakotay, I'm the one who went to Rick Berman and said "I don't think so." What's good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander. I really cannot be shouting "Red alert, Commander, in my ready room," and run the ship, now can I? I had dinner with Bill Shatner two weeks ago in London and he said, "I don't know why not, I did it!"
(LMAO!!!)
Robert Beltran? Yes. Sexy. Yes. Unbelievably good looking? Yes. Terribly difficult to sit in that proximity for seven years? Oh yes, yes, yes! But best of all, so good. Wonderful guy, and a fabulous actor.
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Online Chat with Robert 1999? or 98
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Mike Plane asks:
Hi Robert, will there be any further romance between Chakotay and Janeway?
Robert Beltran:
It's surprising to me that Captain Janeway touches me more now that we obviously do not have a romantic relationship, but I don't believe anything romantic will ever happen. This year.~grins~
Queen Arachnia asks:
How do you feel about the fans' clamor to see Janeway and Chakotay romantically involved?
Robert Beltran:
I think the fans made that obvious to the writers and to the producers and they ran with it for awhile, but then they decided that it probably would not be a good idea for us to have a romantic relationship.
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1996
The actor is quick to praise Kate Mulgrew for nurturing the cast's friendship.
"If we had a captain who was not as warm and as giving and as open as Kate, it would be totally different," he states. "The captain sets the tone and Kate is the one who has allowed the cast to become a family because she's very down to earth; she loves to laugh and have fun."
1997
One second season episode that Beltran is particularly pleased to have worked on is, Resolutions, in which Chakotay and Captain Janeway are left to live out their lives on an uninhabited planet after contracting an alien contagion. The story not only explores different facets of Chakotay's personality, but also plants the seed for a developing romance between the captain and her First Officer.
"When I first read the script it didn't really seem like a Star Trek episode at all, but more like a fragment from a film," Beltran explains. "I enjoy the way it explores the relationship between Chakotay and Janeway. What I really tried to convey in that episode was that Chakotay was resigned to his fate of being alone on the planet with this woman, rather than being overwhelmed by the fact that they were likely going to be alone for the rest of their lives.
I think that he has a great love for Janeway, not all in the romantic sense,
although I feel that is definitely there, but that he has a tremendous passion for her spirit, mind and character.
"I think the producers trod very carefully so far as coming out and actually making the relationship between the two characters a romantic one. At the same time they also kept a bit of the suspense. So even though Chakotay may show his true colours and feelings towards Janeway, the fact that she doesn't jump at this was very wise. They had Janeway being very reticent and cautious and I think this helped, not hurt, the whole thing. We were able to get out of that episode without having to be stuck with continuing a romantic relationship, while still keeping it open to lots of possibilities."
As far as any major developments are concerned, it would have to be in his relationship with Janeway. I think that we have to find out about that and explore it more, so
I'm intrigued by that possibility. 1998
"I really have no idea what's going to happen," he continues on the subject of the evolving relationship between Chakotay and Janeway. "
It seems to me as if it's just one long tease ~grins~, but I don't know. If I were to call [the writers] and ask them what they were going to do, they might give me some indication, but I don't think they have decided where they are going to go with it yet.
1998???
With a characteristic smirk, Beltran suggests that there's enough among this little lot to make a prequel story all by itself. But pondering on the romance angle, the actor thinks that perhaps a Chakotay-Janeway tryst might cause more problems than it solves.
"Kate Mulgrew and I always had interesting scenes together and I guess the viewers read a lot into that, but I don't know if it's wise to keep titillating them with it. Perhaps they should just drop it for a while and bring it back later," before adding with a mischievous laugh - "Just get me laid! I don't care!"
1999
One Chakotay-related storyline that was explored either too much or too little, depending on your point of view, was the abortive Chakotay-Janeway relationship. For a while, it looked as if they would hook up, then nothing came of it. Beltran believes that's for the best.
Sort of."I think they handled Janeway and Chakotay pretty well. At first, I wasn't sure because fans were saying 'Why aren't they getting together?' Kate and I had no idea that people were looking at us as a potential couple. People were counting how many times we touched and that sort of thing. So, when the writers took the lead and started to play around with the relationship, I realized they were going to go with it."
"I didn't know if it was necessarily a good idea to have some kind of romantic thing happening with the captain and the first officer, just in general," he says, without missing a beat. "There was one episode ['Resolutions'] where we were stranded together and I revealed to her that I was interested in something more than our military relationship, and she didn't respond to it. Then, there were a couple of other episodes later on where I pursued it and she didn't respond again. So after that, I thought it was right for the writers to let the romantic thing just die and instead go with a friendly relationship.
Star Trek Mag 2000
The embryonic love affair between Janeway and Chakotay eventually came to nothing, but it was widely speculated that their relationship may have moved to a more serious level during ‘Resolutions’ when both were stranded on a planet. But Robert thinks not. "It was never consummated," he says. "It was obvious that he was the more interested party and if she had succumbed to that I think they would have made it more obvious."
The relationship was frustrating for many fans (executive producer Brannon Braga calls them ‘the JC-ers’) who wanted to see the captain and first officer get together, but Robert felt it reached a point where the writers had to take things further or call a halt.
"I think Chakotay was in love with Janeway," he says.
2000
Although Beltran remains noncommittal when it comes to Chakotay's future, he does offer some thoughts on the character's past, way back in the early days of the show when a deeper relationship between the captain and Chakotay was hinted at, and yet tackled head on.
"While it was happening, I was happy with it. But I wasn't sure where it was going, so it was sort of like walking a tightrope because Kate [Mulgrew] and I didn't know whether they were ever going to have us consummate it or whatever," he recalls. "I thought it could have been interesting had [the producers] chosen to pursue that, but when they decided not to pursue it, I realized I kind of like the open endedness of Chakotay. He could go any where, do anything, practically."
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Whoot! There we go!
And even thought it did NOT, and yes I am well aware that in the show...it did NOT happen as we would have liked, NO ONE can deny that the feelings were NOT there! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cause guess what?
Kate said they were!!!! She admitted it!
So did Beltran!!!
Whoot!!!!
J/C FOREVER!!!
LOL
Now...I'm going to bed!
