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Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode

At last, I have a definite, one episode answer in this category: Someone To Watch Over Me. It’s a rom com without a rom com ending (Seven and the Doctor don’t end up romantically together in this or another episode, though their relationship remains important throughout the show), it’s two of the show’s strongest performers giving both funny and moving performances (and singing together, literally), it nods to Pygmalion without overdoing the resemblance to where it wouldn’t fit. The dialogue is immensely quotable (B'elanna: How the hell do you know when we're having intimate relations?
Seven: There is no one on Deck 9, Section 12 who doesn't know when you're having intimate relations), and really, it makes me wish for “Voyager: The Musical”. I just love this episode.

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Day 22 ~ Make or link to a graphic of your favourite ship.

Well, my favourite ship is Contessina/Awesomeness, so I'll link one of her great moments. Context: her young daughter-in-law, Lucrezia Tornabuooni, has had a miscarriage and in addition to her natural sadness about this also wonders (and is afraid a bit) what would happen to her if it turned out she won't be able to have any living children. This being the fifteenth century, and Lucrezia having married into the soon to be most powerful family of Florence, it's a realistic question. (What with wives usually blamed for infertility or dead children, and annulments being more than possible if you're the Pope's banker.)

Contessina (married to a husband who didn't want to marry her), who is mentoring Lucrezia, doesn't reply with tender reassurances that Piero (her son) will always love Lucrezia, or of her own affection. (Though there was a hug at the start of this scene, and Contessina likes Lucrezia a lot, but that's not the point.) Instead, she says this: