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J+C

Summary:

When Boimler and Mariner find another set of names/initials on the bar of Starbase 25, they ponder what it means.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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Boimler and Mariner were finishing up their second drink at the bar at Starbase 25 when they noticed it.

Janeway + C

Janeway, the decorated Admiral who brought Voyager back from the Delta Quadrant in seven years.

But C?

“Coffee?” Boimler posited, knowing the rumors of the Admiral’s coffee addiction.

“Compression Phaser Rifle?” countered Mariner, remembering reading of all the times Janeway battled aliens on Voyager.

“Cashyk?”

“I think that was spelled with a K.”

Their speculation went on for a few more drinks, neither of them noticing a certain Admiral and Captain sitting in the dark, corner booth, quietly laughing.

Notes:

Yeah, yeah, I went there after a recent kerfuffle on Twitter. As I said on my own twitter "I’m saddened that JC fandom has become such an all or nothing prospect. That if you smile at something that was clearly tongue and cheek, or dare to speculate about J or C with someone else, that you are no longer “enough” of a JCer. Of course I’ll cheer if they are made canon in Prodigy. But I, nor they, don’t deserve anything. It’s hard to reconcile that a community I’ve been a part of since 1996 doesn’t feel welcoming anymore."

The internet is a wonderful thing. But it also brings out the worst in people.