Janeway's Stuff

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

So I found this page on Janet's 4500 page VOY site:

http://www.star-trek-voyager.net/ship4/ship_rdyrm3.htm

All the stuff in Janeway's ready room. Looks not unlike Picard's stuff. I sometimes find the worldly goods of Trek characters to be pretty odd, like someone went into the props department and said "I need a bunch of old stuff, like museum pieces that would fit on a book shelf".

Sisko had some African stuff.

They also live very spartanly in their quarters which I always notice as my quarters are full of crap. Of course it makes sense but it also means the stuff they DO have must be quite important or special to them. Which is why all the stuffs that look like they went shopping at the Metropolitan Museum of Art store seem kind of odd.

So any guesses as to what this is a statue of?



This is my favorite, always fond of Chinese dragons:



I'd love to actually HAVE that dragon, I wonder if it showed up anywhere else oh got sold as a prop. I wonder if you can buy replicas of it anywhere.

 

[froot]

I'd like to know wtf that glass bauble in her ready room was.

Whatever it was, she liked it enough to take it with her to New Earth along with that old gramophone and the aforementioned dragon statue. Tuvok replaced the bauble with some pointy triangle thing after she left.

(And LOL, it is like they robbed a museum.)

 

[BlobVanDam]

I can't help but wonder how much all of these ornaments got beaten up from every enemy attack and spacial anomaly that Voyager got hit with

 

[froot]

I like to imagine that they used duranium double-sided tape to keep everything in place.

That glass bauble would be deadly if it got airborne!

 

[Timewalker]

Some of it could be family heirlooms, or stuff given to her as "diplomatic" gifts from various aliens or Federation peoples she met in her earlier career.

If I were Captain on a starship, there are some old family heirlooms I'd drag along with me, such as my great-grandmother's 19th century silver tea service and bible (even though I don't drink tea and I'm atheist).

In an era of replicated stuff, I'd imagine that any objects people take with them must be either extremely useful, extremely difficult or energy-consuming to replicate, or extremely valuable in a historical or sentimental way.

 

[Jetfire]

I liked Captain Jenkins ready room in Author, Author...more importantly "Photons Be Free"

 

[JanewayRulz!]

^^IIRC, the wall was covered in guns.

I prefer the epee (?) in Janeway's bedroom.

Hmmm.

"That" just doesn't sound right... does it?

 

[AuntKate]

I loved the little pot she had on her ready room table that looked like a stainless steel apple.

 

[T.D. Possum]

My family has a running joke about the round abstract art objects commonly seen hanging on the walls of Starfleet living quarters. We call them Franklin Mint Collectible Plates. They aren't too common on DS9, but I've noticed several on Voyager and they are absolutely endemic on the Ent-D. Start watching for them. You'll see them EVERYWHERE.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

haha I will Possum!! Once you've seen all these series multiple times you get fixated on background details. Or at least I do.

 

[B.Jenssen]

Interesting Teacake that you mention this dragon statue...I have been looking for information regarding this statue for about 2 years now. I really would like to know if it was a special cast for this set or if it was something purchased from some supplier of like figures.

If anyone has any details on it, I'd love to know them.

 

[B.Jenssen]

Ok Voyager Fans....look what I found on e-Bay a long time ago.

I actually found this about two years ago on my birthday and bought it. It didn't look like this when I found the image on e-bay, but it was instead almost all green from age and probably being outside.


I cleaned it up and realized it looked very familiar. It is made of brass and has very detailed scales, head and feet markings. It doesn't have any trademark marking or company stamp on it. So I would really like to know if the statue in Voyager was a "custom made" art piece by someone designing the set or if it was purchased from a retailer.

It didn't come with the wood base, so I don't know if it really is the one from the Captain's Ready Room or just a retail piece.

But I would welcome any information on it.
Moral of the story: You never know what you might find on e-bay.

Sorry, no it is not for sale either. It's too special to me since I found it on my birthday.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

I always thought EVERYONE'S quarters in Trek were underdecorated

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I loved the epee in the bedroom (wonder what subtext the writers were hinting at there?)

Oh... and the grandfather clock. Loved how she brought that with her onto New earth.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm sure nothing was custom designed for decoration that could be gotten elsewhere, such as the Chinese dragon. I'll be keeping my eye out for one of those now B.Jenssen. Maybe if it was brass it was originally a garden ornament?

Janet's VOY pages are gone now but I saved all the ready room pics:























And of course..





Quite a motley collection of stuffs to take into the Badlands, LOL.. maybe they are less attached to items in the future because they have holo depictions of people and places? They always seem fascinated by pre space travel days. Archer had drawings of other pre-space Enterprises and a Cochrane statue. Picard had all kinds of old antiques. Kirk has spectacles and a book in one movie. Sisko had the African crafts. It would be nice to see someone with a room full of modern gadgets.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Don't forget the drawing of Leonardo on the wall of her ready room.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Those were all just the Janet Voyager pics, if she had that drawing up I must have missed it.

 

[B.Jenssen]

Thanks Teacake;

I suspect nothing that was on the set as a background item was custom made, but who knows. I suspect there is some significance to some of the things placed in the Ready Room.

Since the dragon is brass I do suspect it was original a garden figurine or at least one designed to be placed in a bonsai type setting.

The plant that is in the Ready Room is called a "Money Tree" or "Money Plant". It is given as a gift wishing good luck on the reciever. From a plant site selling them it says, and I quote, "Used in the practice of feng shui to harmonize the five elements within a space, and improve the flow of “chi.” A thoughtful gift for any home or workplace."

So it probably has a meaning of good luck to get home.

Also the microscope I also found on e-bay this Christmas, but unfortunately only a few hours after the bidding closed.
I did pull the information from the screen and it was this one.

Antique Busch Rathenow Microscope w/box & lens, German Vintage. Serial number is 149420: The serial number dates it to 1921. It's a Model BH, and the so-called jug-handle style, which had been in fashion since the end of the 19th Century.

So no one outbid me if you find one on e-bay. Hehehe...

As for the epee, well I also fenced in college and there are a lot of various meanings for epees.

Here's one that probably is the reason it was there.
From wiki on fencing:

"In épée, because of absence of priority rules (see right-of-way), a parry can be classed as anything that prevents the opponent's attack from landing. "

I actually favored the sabre over the foil and epee...more deadly. And yes I did win the inter-collegate mixed sets match where it was a "choose your weapon" bout. Short little me with a sabre against a guy who was I think about 6 foot tall with a foil (and had such an arm reach he could just tip the blade and touch my head)...I won the matchpoint on a suicide flush sitting at 2-2 in the match...hehehe...

I can only suspect the Character Janeway might be the same when it comes to crossing swords with someone who clearly outmatches her. Parry...parry....advance...flush...

Ahhh but remember Picard fenced too.

 

[antiquityscion]

Favorite books

TomTom

Lunchbox

adult beverage

iPod

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That light saber looks a little stumpy.