Thing that is not talked about enough when this scene is discussed: the fact that Janeway doesn’t use a smokescreen to deflect Q’s advances. He’s the most powerful being in the universe, and he’s just declared sexual interest in her. Yet she doesn’t do what women everywhere have had to do for millennia when deflecting unwanted male attention. She doesn’t soften her rejection to save his male ego, even though he could squash her like a bug. She doesn’t take the out and say she’s already got a man, (even though Chakotay likely wouldn’t have minded) so thanks but no thanks and oh, isn’t timing a bitch? She just flat out tells him she’s not interested in the most ‘fuck off’ voice she’s got. It was the mid-90s, too. Kudos, KJ.
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