Voyager Season 8 Episode 15: Fall of Shadows Episode 8-15 – Fall of Shadows By: Seema (
[email protected]) She stood in front of the mirror, eyeing her reflection critically. Kathryn Janeway was by no means a vain woman, but this morning, the first morning of the rest of her life, she wanted to make sure that her appearance was perfect in every possible way. She leaned forward. Her skin was still clear, firm, unlined with the exception of the tiny wrinkles next to the corner of her eyes that had started to make their appearance in the last year. He hair was shone, still maintaining its natural chestnut hue tinged with red. The ends of her hair curled just above her shoulders, as per Starfleet regulations; she was damned if she'd go back to the upsweep she'd worn at the beginning of her command career. Her experimentations with her hair had caused some amusement among her senior staff but in the privacy of her quarters, Janeway had known the truth: out in the Delta Quadrant, her hair, trivial as it seemed, was the one thing she could truly control. Everything else was, well, best left in the hands of fate. Janeway's lips curled up. Fate, oh the irony. She had done everything she could, including sacrificing much of herself in terms of personal and emotional commitments, to get Voyager home and now after all of that, she was leaving her fate in the hands of a Starfleet JAG. She ran her hands over the scratchy material of her dress uniform.