Brain, no. Brain, that’s not. No.
“Operation: Closets”
One ex-Borg, one half-klingon, and one helmsman who is beginning to think he made a mistake team up to get their captain and first officer to stop with the UST, and just do something.
Seven would like them to stop being inefficient because their “hormonally-driven emotional desires are inadaquately fulfilled”.
B’Elanna wants to throw something at both Chakotay and Janeway, because the mutual pining thing is not fun to watch, thank you.
And Paris thinks he should not have interrupted their strangely amicable discussion that evening, but he’s game if it makes the captain happy, what do they need him to do?
Janeway and Chakotay start finding themselves with little malfunctions whenever they’re alone in a space together. Turbolifts stop between decks, doors won’t open, communications glitch, transporters won’t work. They get stuck in her ready room, his office, the briefing room, the mess hall, her quarters and his, cargo bays, the Delta Flyer (or Delta Flyer II, whichever), and at least once in sick bay while the Doctor vanishes.
No one, of course, can find anything wrong in any of the systems.
Nothing is achieving the desired results, and in a fit of frustration, Seven and B’Elanna shut down half the main systems, most of the backups, and manuver Janeway into chasing a glitch down a jefferies tube. Which they then seal off, and convince Chakotay to go “rescue” the captain. One jeffries tube is abruptly without power, communications, sealed at both ends, and the one tricorder Janeway and Chakotay have with them indicates that the atmosphere in the compartments on the other sides of the doors has been contaminated with something toxic.
Seven and B’Elanna leave Janeway and Chakotay there for eighteen hours or so while they get the rest of the ship back online, while carefully diverting any rescue teams. Whether or not anything actually happens in the jeffries tube, this is a last resort, because it was rather blatent in the attempt to get Janeway and Chakotay together.
(How much Janeway and Chakotay suspect, what the actual status of their relationship actually is prior to and after Operation: Closets, and what consequences the conspirators face is entirely up to anyone writing this, because if I add this to my pile, the damned thing is probably going to come clattering down on my head.)
There's a Mirror on the Wall 