fun facts: not only was the chute a big chance for the VOY cast to advocate in-show for an LGBTQ+ character/romance, but it helped strengthen the latter P/K slash rings: online archives started in 1998 that collected paris/kim fic!
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Paris/Kim_Slash_Ring https://fanlore.org/wiki/P/K_All_the_Way https://twitter.com/wlwtroi/status/1249117919012950018

there was ALSO recently a move of all this older literature to AO3 called the "P/K Preservation Project" completed in 2018! and if you check the collections tag there now, you'll see fics that were originally published all the way back in 1997! https://archiveofourown.org/collections/pkalltheway/profile

went back to this thread and thinking about the fact how i'm only 5 years older than this image