Losing Voyager

[JesterFace]

What if Voyager found its way back sooner, around halfway through the series?
After that the crew could have continued their mission in the part of the galaxy we already know.
If there were some loose ends from STNG those could have been revisited.
Maybe they would have even taken a small part in the Dominion war?

 

[Oddish]

What if Voyager found its way back sooner, around halfway through the series?

It would have made a lot more sense, considering the direction the series went in around that point.

 

[DonIago]

What if Voyager found its way back sooner, around halfway through the series?
After that the crew could have continued their mission in the part of the galaxy we already know.
If there were some loose ends from STNG those could have been revisited.
Maybe they would have even taken a small part in the Dominion war?

I don't know about halfway, but it might have been interesting to see the ship find a way home at the end of season six and spend season seven dealing with the repercussions of their return.

 

[Snowdrop82]

Voyager should have been lost half way through the show and have the crew bargain, and struggle to get an Alien shape to take command / control of, and take a few extra more years to get home, with no dumb Borg battles or 8472 arcs in the series either.

Maybe they actually end up having to choose a side to get home, one of the Kazon houses or someone else.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

It would be really interesting to learn the backstory of Commander Cabbage or whatever his name was. Perhaps some flashbacks establishing how he grew up on a nonconformist colony where the phrase "Brace for impact!" meant "Do a lap around the Bridge."

 

[Guy Gardener]

If we had gotten a sense of what Voyager's specific status quo was, interpersonally among specific characters and procedurally, the disruption would be more apparent.

You are only given two "tricobalt devices", if your job is to blow up a moon.

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Maybe it was an option, or a recourse of last resort, but other than capturing Chakotay, and bringing him back for a fair and honest trial where he would earn the sympathy of the Federation at large, strengthening the secret Maquis draft, or bringing the actual Federation, for real, into a fully pledged war against the Cardassians, just hours before the Borg would lay siege on Earth, not that the pragmatic Federation knew that, but if the moon Chakotay was standing on was to just disappear, it would dis-complicate a lot projected casualties from statisticians and worry warts.

That's a given.

The only real question is whether Kathy would have risked the mission to "save" Tuvok?

 

[Anwar]

Frankly, "Voyager" shouldn't have been a Federation ship at all. It should've been some advanced alien Starship that they get from the Caretaker before he dies, and only a few members of the overall crew should have been Fleeters at all with the rest being other people the Caretaker had on his Array and/or Delta Quadrant Aliens.

 

[Oddish]

Frankly, "Voyager" shouldn't have been a Federation ship at all. It should've been some advanced alien Starship that they get from the Caretaker before he dies, and only a few members of the overall crew should have been Fleeters at all with the rest being other people the Caretaker had on his Array and/or Delta Quadrant Aliens.

Alas, the makeup budget was too low. Hence, Voyager's crew being over 90% human.

 

[Anwar]

Alas, the makeup budget was too low. Hence, Voyager's crew being over 90% human.

Well that sucks...unless they wuss out and make the DQ have "Human Aliens"...

 

[Oddish]

They could have had a few more Betazoids and Bajorans anyway. Makeup on them should be easy enough.

 

[valkyrie013]

Voyager as a concept was awesome. the follow through although was kinda meh.

Maybe push the getting lost a bit further out in the first episode, have a 2 hour premiere and have them chase the Maquis with the original crew for abit of time, then at the near end they get swept off, and crew killed have a bit more time to be worthwhile. No caretaker, just end up 70,000 LY away with no explanation, then they meet Kes and Nelix in the 2nd episode. Etc Etc.
If it was made even 5 years latter, we could have gotten a better show as CGI would be more robust, and show damage to the ship like Enterprise did in S3.
Show the ship starting off a Feddy one, but over the years of using alien tech to improve and maintain the ship, it starts looking alien, maybe even destroy it and use a fully alien ship half way. So many things could have been better is there wasn't the Big reset button.