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Should they just have ditched uniforms and protocol?

Then I thought; why did they even bother to continue to wear uniforms, especially since quite a chunk of the crew was originally Marquis, so people who had left Starfleet or had never been in Sarfleet to begin with

I think this goes back to the issue of....taking 70 years to get back home

The problem is.....it's made abundantly clear that it won't take anything like 70 years to get home (at best it will take a few years; at worst it might take ten) but the idea of them travelling together through space for 50, 60 years etc, just isn't taken seriously by anyone on board (which is probably because the writers also don't think for a second that it will take that long....most of the writers were probably thinking it would take about 7 or 8 years.....for obvious reasons)

Bit of a shame

Exactly, the characters had no way of knowing how long the journey would take. So as an audiance member you place yourself in the characters position you are facing a potentially seventy+ year journey what sort of think would you do/expect to happen?
 
In any realistic sense, Voyager would be dealing with mutanies all the time. Not from any of the Maquis stuff, but just from human nature of a bunch of people being stranded and having disagreements. It would be like Game of Thrones with different groups on the ship trying to assert power over others. I'm not sure that would make a better show however, because I like my star trek to by idealistic and preachy like TNG.

That's what they tried in SG:U, where a crew "suddenly finds themselves cut off from home (mostly, except for those stones), with a leader with flaws." It didn't do too well, lasting only 2 seasons, though I liked a lot of aspects of it.
 
Stargate Universe was AWESOME, but it was also like Enterprise the last gasp of 15 years of fan fatigue.

The kids were not interested and older fans kept dying or getting married, which is practically the same thing.
 
If you told your mother, while in disguise, that your name was "Phillip J Fry" would she carry carry on unwavering and ignorant, or would she squint, look you up and down suspiciously and declare "Gentleman callers usually buy me flowers before they try to fuck me."
 
But in the case of SG didn't Earth become a major threat to the Gou'ald in a couple of years, and the only reason why the Gou'ald didn't wipe them out was because Earth became a protected planet (as the Gou'ald still feared thr Asgard) at the start of the 3rd season? So with the Gou'ald gone, the Ori gone there would be a power vacumn for groups such as the Lucian Alliance might try and take advantage off?

And given how the IOA operates I suspect it would take far longer than two seconds to sort out the issues on Destiny. Would China and Russia agree to yet another American being in charge or would they prefer someone like Wray or Rush a civillian or someone else from the availble people. Could the US garner enough support from other IOA members. In "Disclosure" China wasn't happy with the situation and threaten to go public, Russia and France also had misgivings in the fact the only country that seemed to be in the US corner was the UK. Still it coould have opened up potential story lines in relation to the Stargate program.
 
If you don't count the Lizards, the Birthrate for their trip home is ZERO.

Naomi was conceived in the AQ and Miral was born in the AQ.

What about Seska's baby (the one she had because her character had been established in the show as a warm, loving, matriarchal figure who desperately wanted a family)

You know....the one the doctor said wasn't Chakotay's because Janeway reprogrammed him to say that
 
Conceived off Voyager, even if it had been Chakotay's it still would have been conceived off Voyager, and it was born off Voyager.

Seska's baby had almost nothing to do with Voyager until the Doctor gave him a Checkup.
 
I know but i'm so desperate for babies on Voyager that i think we should count it. So to recap, that's...

1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral

Loads of em!

Did Seska's baby even have a name? Maybe the Voyager room should embrace it as our official mascot. Maybe i should do a poll to choose a name

Maybe i should go to bed
 
I know but i'm so desperate for babies on Voyager that i think we should count it. So to recap, that's...

1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral

Loads of em!

Did Seska's baby even have a name? Maybe the Voyager room should embrace it as our official mascot. Maybe i should do a poll to choose a name

Maybe i should go to bed

6 - Janeway's and Tom's amphibian offspring from Threshold
 
Conceived, born and "raised" off Voyager.

These darlings should not go towards the ships fertility statistics.
 
I know but i'm so desperate for babies on Voyager that i think we should count it. So to recap, that's...

1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral

Loads of em!

Did Seska's baby even have a name? Maybe the Voyager room should embrace it as our official mascot. Maybe i should do a poll to choose a name

Maybe i should go to bed


And exactly how many of those where potential replacement crew?

Perhaps 2
 
^ Three; Naomi, the Borg baby and Miral.

If we talk about children on Voyage we'd have to include Icheb, who did become a cadet.
 
Icheb thought he was man enough to be beaten to death by Tom for scoring with his missus.

Harry was 21 in Caretaker.

Yar was 13 when they signed up at the academy, and would have been 17 when she was let out.

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Natasha_Yar

(Worf should have been 6 or 7 when he signed up, considering that's when Klingons reach their physical and emotional maturity, but his education seems to have been handled on a human scale for some reason, which really means that he bummed around for 10 years waiting for the human children who were once his peers to get as big and smart as he was again).

An Ensign at 17 who would not appreciate being treated like a child.

Old Icheb and Old Naomi were paired romantically in a future seen in Shattered.

If Miral matures 3 times faster than Naomi they're all going to be reaching that horny teenager state where they want to hump everything at the same time in the Admiral Janeway Timeline where they all live together in the beta Quadrant trying to get "Home".
 
Here's what.

It's hard to make babies without horny teenagers.

Old people have too much cool stuff that is white to dare risk letting a 3 year old into their life.

Fortunately the Captain can transporter accident boring sexless adults into horny teenagers.

But doesn't that mean that no one has to get old and die of natural causes?

Forever 35.

No babies required.
 
I know but i'm so desperate for babies on Voyager that i think we should count it. So to recap, that's...

1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral

Loads of em!

Did Seska's baby even have a name? Maybe the Voyager room should embrace it as our official mascot. Maybe i should do a poll to choose a name

Maybe i should go to bed

6 - Janeway's and Tom's amphibian offspring from Threshold
One (the offspring of Seven and the Doctor).

Yar was 13 when they signed up at the academy, and would have been 17 when she was let out.

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Natasha_Yar
She was 15 when she was rescued from Turkana, and didn't enter the Academy until she was about 18 (according to the article you linked above).
 
One (the offspring of Seven and the Doctor).

There was a thread a while back about forgettable episodes. That episode was one i chose (for good reason it seems)....totally forgot about him

1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral
6 - Three Lizard babies
7 -
8 -
9 - One
10 - Surely we can count Tuvix
 
1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral
6 - Three Lizard babies
7 -
8 -
9 - One
10 - Surely we can count Tuvix

Amphibians/salamanders not lizards.

If we do include Tuvix, then I'd propose we DO include Iched, the three other Borg children and even Seven. Seven was in some ways Janeway's baby and the borg children were Seven's babies.

Also there were Kes' daughter and grandson whom the Doctor got erased from the timeline. (Linnis and Andrew)

So we have

1 - Seska's baby
2 - Naomi
3 - Naomi's dead counterpart
4 - The Borg baby
5 - Miral
6 - Three Amphibian babies
7 -
8 -
9 - One
10 - Tuvix
11 - Seven
12 - Icheb
13 - Azan
14 - Rebi
15 - Mezoti
16 - Linnis
17 - Andrew

of these 2 were erased from existence ( Linnis and Andrew) 3 were killed or died (Tuvix, dead!Naomi and one) 4 abandoned (the amphibians and Seska's baby) and three were returned to their families (the borg kids) another one mysteriously vanishes, possibly having crawled into a Jeffrey's Tube to starve to death (the borg baby) and 4 stayed with Voyager (living!Naomi, Icheb, Seven and Miral)

4 out of 17....not a very good prospect for population growth
 
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