Hum, interesting idea -- what to redo.
Well, first off, we dump the stupid Caretaker plot and we make it far, far more dramatic.
Instead of being dragged over there, say Volyager was persuing the Marquis into an unstable area of space. Say they wre ambushed by several Marquis vessels and a battle insues where we get to see what Voyager has to offer.
Sheilds fluctuate and terrorists get onboard, kidnapping an officer (how about Harry? He sees like a guy that gets kidnapped often) and beaming out.
The cheif engineer is killed during the bording.
Like TNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise", there's a fierce folloy of photon (and quantum) torpedoes and a violent rift opens, swallowing Voyager and one of the Marquis ships.
The journey is harsh and both ships are spit out the otherside damanged. Voyager's shields fail, the rfit closes, and Paris informs Janeway the enemy vessel's core is going critical. She orders an immediate beam out. They get them and the Marquis ship blows, leaving Voyager without shields and the debris impacts the ship, causing more damage.
There's some struggles and stand offs (I'll leave that open here) and we get Chacotay, Tuvok (still under cover -- I'll keep that plot point) and Torres (only Torres is not Klingon, she's Romulan, adding greatly to the tense situation on the ship with her build-in distrust of Starfeelt and humans).
They are put in the brig, except Tuvok, which enrages Chacotay when he finds out the double cross.
Meanwhile back on the Bridge, Janeway has found out not only are they badly damanged, but they are several lights years from the alpha quandrant (maybe not 70, but 50, making it more achievable but also still keeping it far off).
Immediate repairs are ordered. Just as sheilds have been regained, they are attacked by an unidentified vessel. People are injured, the doctor has to bring the Emergency Medical Hologram online to help, and the enemy ship is badly damaged in the attack, unprepared for quantum torpedoes.
The captain of the vessel refuses to drop his shields to allow them to be saved from the core which is going critical and sends out subspace message to persons unknown, and warning Janeway this will not go unpunished. The vessel blows.
The episode ends with Janeway being informed of casulties, badly damanged systems -- some needing several days to repair, and some things might not be able to be repaired without resources not readily available onboard. And then there's the matter of no cheif engineer.
Voyager limps threw space on a directional heading toward home, unable to go to warp with certain repairs being needed that have to shutdown the warp systems.
And so concludes episode one.
Episode two opens with Voyager still in bad shape. Funeral services are breifly held (no time for longer ones -- got to get the hell out of that space before others comes).
Then there is the moral question of what to do with Chacotay and Torres. They are 50 or more years from home even at high warp -- can't leave them in the brig forever. Extra hands are needed. But Torres deeply distrusts everybody but Chacotay and unlike Voyager as it aired, Chacotay is edgy and not amiable and probably not to be trusted.
Janeway learns Torres served as an assistant cheif engineer on a Romulan warbird and makes the questionable decision to have her serve as cheif engineer until somebody else can be appointed, since a full crew wasn't actually picked up yet (they weren't arriving until tuesday...). She utterly refuses but after telling Torres the situation and that it is either life or death, so agrees, only as far as getting things up and running; but it coems with a price -- she has to be given access to key systems and knowledge no Romulan would ever be given.
Now there is a problem with no second-in-command. There are at least two people more qualified for the position than Chacotay, but with security staff at a low and needed elsewhere, Janeway takes it upon herself to keep an eye on Chacotay and appoints him temporary commander.
Red alert, unknown vessel approaching. Voyager is hailed by a clunky rather disasterous-looking ship.
Communicatiosn are opened but are slow as the universal translator picks up the language. As luck would have it, it is a trading vessel that detected Voyager and found they might be in need and proposes bartering.
They soon learn they are on the edges of a milliterised area of space with a waring race and are thankfull almost out.
Janeway barters for certain things at the advice of Engineering and for any information on the layout of space. Chacotay suggests, having haggled with Pakleds and Ferengi before, he should handle it. When the trader finds out Voyager has a technology they've never seen the like of -- replicators -- a secret subspace message is send out to pary(ies) unknown.
Unlike the original series, the doctor is not killed off. We'll save him, get to know him and love him, then a year or two later kill him off, leaving the EMH in charge, making a hell of an extra wallop on the crew.
We get to start knowing the crew and seeing their interactions and the interactiosn with Torres and Chacotay. We'll probably have to amend her name to make it more Romulan sounding.
Things seem better, many damanges are fixed and the crew more calmed, so Janeway decides to go to warp and hold off some repairs until they have exited the danger zone.
The epsiode ends with the trading vessel captain recieving a subspace communication from a dangerous looking being and tellimg him what Voyager has. This is the opposing race in the battle, that is loosing and needs an edge; replicators and quantum torpedoes will do it. Now Voyager is being hunted by a small contigent of war vessels.
How about that for two episodes?
Betrayls, heartbreak, death, constant setbacks and beating downs, attacks, anda band of crew that come together and are forced to rely on each other, whether they like it or not, for the rest are their lives.
The Borg will be in it later but they will be more like TNG Borg (ignoring First Contact). The Ferengi vessel from that TNG episode that got swallowed and sent to the delta quadrant, will appear -- maybe even leave one of them as an added crew member.
And we'll even pick up Neelix later. He'll be rescued from a slave ship.
That should about do it for some general ideas.
Well, first off, we dump the stupid Caretaker plot and we make it far, far more dramatic.
Instead of being dragged over there, say Volyager was persuing the Marquis into an unstable area of space. Say they wre ambushed by several Marquis vessels and a battle insues where we get to see what Voyager has to offer.
Sheilds fluctuate and terrorists get onboard, kidnapping an officer (how about Harry? He sees like a guy that gets kidnapped often) and beaming out.
The cheif engineer is killed during the bording.
Like TNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise", there's a fierce folloy of photon (and quantum) torpedoes and a violent rift opens, swallowing Voyager and one of the Marquis ships.
The journey is harsh and both ships are spit out the otherside damanged. Voyager's shields fail, the rfit closes, and Paris informs Janeway the enemy vessel's core is going critical. She orders an immediate beam out. They get them and the Marquis ship blows, leaving Voyager without shields and the debris impacts the ship, causing more damage.
There's some struggles and stand offs (I'll leave that open here) and we get Chacotay, Tuvok (still under cover -- I'll keep that plot point) and Torres (only Torres is not Klingon, she's Romulan, adding greatly to the tense situation on the ship with her build-in distrust of Starfeelt and humans).
They are put in the brig, except Tuvok, which enrages Chacotay when he finds out the double cross.
Meanwhile back on the Bridge, Janeway has found out not only are they badly damanged, but they are several lights years from the alpha quandrant (maybe not 70, but 50, making it more achievable but also still keeping it far off).
Immediate repairs are ordered. Just as sheilds have been regained, they are attacked by an unidentified vessel. People are injured, the doctor has to bring the Emergency Medical Hologram online to help, and the enemy ship is badly damaged in the attack, unprepared for quantum torpedoes.
The captain of the vessel refuses to drop his shields to allow them to be saved from the core which is going critical and sends out subspace message to persons unknown, and warning Janeway this will not go unpunished. The vessel blows.
The episode ends with Janeway being informed of casulties, badly damanged systems -- some needing several days to repair, and some things might not be able to be repaired without resources not readily available onboard. And then there's the matter of no cheif engineer.
Voyager limps threw space on a directional heading toward home, unable to go to warp with certain repairs being needed that have to shutdown the warp systems.
And so concludes episode one.
Episode two opens with Voyager still in bad shape. Funeral services are breifly held (no time for longer ones -- got to get the hell out of that space before others comes).
Then there is the moral question of what to do with Chacotay and Torres. They are 50 or more years from home even at high warp -- can't leave them in the brig forever. Extra hands are needed. But Torres deeply distrusts everybody but Chacotay and unlike Voyager as it aired, Chacotay is edgy and not amiable and probably not to be trusted.
Janeway learns Torres served as an assistant cheif engineer on a Romulan warbird and makes the questionable decision to have her serve as cheif engineer until somebody else can be appointed, since a full crew wasn't actually picked up yet (they weren't arriving until tuesday...). She utterly refuses but after telling Torres the situation and that it is either life or death, so agrees, only as far as getting things up and running; but it coems with a price -- she has to be given access to key systems and knowledge no Romulan would ever be given.
Now there is a problem with no second-in-command. There are at least two people more qualified for the position than Chacotay, but with security staff at a low and needed elsewhere, Janeway takes it upon herself to keep an eye on Chacotay and appoints him temporary commander.
Red alert, unknown vessel approaching. Voyager is hailed by a clunky rather disasterous-looking ship.
Communicatiosn are opened but are slow as the universal translator picks up the language. As luck would have it, it is a trading vessel that detected Voyager and found they might be in need and proposes bartering.
They soon learn they are on the edges of a milliterised area of space with a waring race and are thankfull almost out.
Janeway barters for certain things at the advice of Engineering and for any information on the layout of space. Chacotay suggests, having haggled with Pakleds and Ferengi before, he should handle it. When the trader finds out Voyager has a technology they've never seen the like of -- replicators -- a secret subspace message is send out to pary(ies) unknown.
Unlike the original series, the doctor is not killed off. We'll save him, get to know him and love him, then a year or two later kill him off, leaving the EMH in charge, making a hell of an extra wallop on the crew.
We get to start knowing the crew and seeing their interactions and the interactiosn with Torres and Chacotay. We'll probably have to amend her name to make it more Romulan sounding.
Things seem better, many damanges are fixed and the crew more calmed, so Janeway decides to go to warp and hold off some repairs until they have exited the danger zone.
The epsiode ends with the trading vessel captain recieving a subspace communication from a dangerous looking being and tellimg him what Voyager has. This is the opposing race in the battle, that is loosing and needs an edge; replicators and quantum torpedoes will do it. Now Voyager is being hunted by a small contigent of war vessels.
How about that for two episodes?
Betrayls, heartbreak, death, constant setbacks and beating downs, attacks, anda band of crew that come together and are forced to rely on each other, whether they like it or not, for the rest are their lives.
The Borg will be in it later but they will be more like TNG Borg (ignoring First Contact). The Ferengi vessel from that TNG episode that got swallowed and sent to the delta quadrant, will appear -- maybe even leave one of them as an added crew member.
And we'll even pick up Neelix later. He'll be rescued from a slave ship.
That should about do it for some general ideas.
