WarpGirl wrote:Very true. But again Chakotay acted like a father. She would get out of line and he would repremand her as 2IC and as a paternal figure. And yes he did make the final push to help her break through her depression. But those were usually extreme cases. For the most part when it was just "the klingon" moods getting the better of her he never really pushed any. He'd glare, she'd go quiet and steam.
Tom challenged her. He gave as good as he got. He never gave her a "shut up and behave" glare. He let her vent.
There's a great song called Be That Way, by Martina McBride. It's perfect, for them.
Well, I don't want to argue with you here, but as a fan of C/T, I don't see it as "fatherly" a relationship as you obviously do. Granted, Chakotay is somewhat older than B'Elanna (I thought maybe by 10 or 15 years, not the 20+ years you must think it is), I thought they were the closest of friends on Voyager, not a father-daughter type of thing. But I think maybe the reason I thought that (outside of the fact that I think they made a cute couple together) was partly because I read in Jeri Taylor's book "Pathways" (which dealt with the lives of several characters before they came on board Voyager) how B'Elanna used to secretly lust after Chakotay back when they were on board The Liberty and that she used to fantasize about how he'd come into her quarters late at night to make love to her instead of her best friend at the time, Seska; that's back when Chakotay was involved with Seska (way before it was discovered that Seska was actually a Cardassian spy). Anyway, in the "Persistance Of Vision" episode of Voyager, B'Elanna was a little shaken up by the fact that she still had lust in her heart towards Chakotay even after she got involved with Tom, as witnessed by them going at it in bed almost as "lustily" as Trip & T'Pol did in that shower scene from Damage. Anyway, between the "unrequited lust" B'Elanna had towards Chakotay in Jeri Taylor's book and all that passionate kissing and "damn near ready to start doing it" between Chakotay and B'Elanna in the "Persistance Of Vision" episode of Voyager - ahh, I think their relationship was more best friends (after Seska betrayed them both) instead of a "fatherly" type thing; as that sounds like a pretty sicko way to feel towards someone a person would veiw as a "father figure", hence - I don't think Chakotay was as old as you do, nor that her feelings towards him were as platonic as you seem to think they were either.
