Did Janeway Hate Carey?

[hux]

She gave some grumpy Klingon bruiser the engineers job.

He vanished from engineering for years (so we can assume she shipped him of to deck 15 to scrub some conduit or another).

When Carey was beamed aboard after being killed by Verin, she didn't bother to say... "Hey Seven, remember when Neelix was dead for eighteen hours but your magic nano-bots brought him back, well how about we do the same thing for Carey?"

Then finally, the greatest slight of all. She travelled back in time to save the people she loved... but chose to arrive in the past just after Carey's death

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Janeway probably gave B'Elanna the post of chief engineer in order to ease tensions among the Maquis.

 

[borgboy]

B'Elanna was the better engineer. That was the reason she got the job.
But yeah, not using the nano bots to bring Carey back is bad. It's just the common situation of new discoveries just being used when the writer wants to use them and not being followed up on.

 

[RoJoHen]

I always thought it was weird that they brought Carey back after he had been MIA for years just to kill him off.

 

[stardream]

I always thought it was weird that they brought Carey back after he had been MIA for years just to kill him off.

I guess they thought the fans sort of cared about him. I just remember 'hey...it's THAT guy.

 

[RoJoHen]

I cared about him enough that I thought it was nice that they brought him back as the show was wrapping up. But bringing him back just to kill him was unnecessary, especially after so much time.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Chief Engineer is 90 percent not a job for an engineer

It's for a facilitator and administrator, because more than a third of the crew is assigned to Engineering or engineering adjacent/related positions.

Think of the mountains of paper work.

Now think of B'Elanna.



It's obvious that Carey was doing all her clerical work, while she pranced around on the deck telling people to tighten bolts and ####, and that's where the hell he was for 6 years.

I'm not saying she's dumb, just incredibly impatient and frustratable.

 

[Melakon]

The writers mistakenly thought they had killed off Carey to the cave worm in "Basics", so they never brought actor Josh Clark back on. When they needed an established crewmember as a victim in "Friendship One", someone realized Carey was still alive, so they asked Clark if he wanted to come in.

 

[Terok Nor]

The writers mistakenly thought they had killed off Carey to the cave worm in "Basics", so they never brought actor Josh Clark back on. When they needed an established crewmember as a victim in "Friendship One", someone realized Carey was still alive, so they asked Clark if he wanted to come in.

Is that true?

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. This is Voyager after all. But it seems like someone would have remembered it was Hogan who died in Basics. His skeleton was part of a later episode too.

 

[stardream]

It's obvious that Carey was doing all her clerical work, while she pranced around on the deck telling people to tighten bolts and ####,

Not to mention making out with Paris on the consoles.

The writers mistakenly thought they had killed off Carey to the cave worm in "Basics", so they never brought actor Josh Clark back on. When they needed an established crewmember as a victim in "Friendship One", someone realized Carey was still alive, so they asked Clark if he wanted to come in.

Is that true?

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. This is Voyager after all. But it seems like someone would have remembered it was Hogan who died in Basics. His skeleton was part of a later episode too.

I honestly thought that was a fan joke that got out of hand. So it really happened?

 

[RoJoHen]

I mean, I know I misremembered Carey being the one who died in "Basics." It had been so many years since I had seen it, and I remember somebody being eaten by a worm, and we hadn't seen Carey in a long time, so my memory put together that Carey was the one who died.

 

[Lance]

A similar gremlin seemingly led to them thinking they'd killed off Samantha Wildman, when in fact she had made a full off-screen recovery in the episode where she wasn't well. Nevertheless, she never re-appeared in the show, and to all extents and purposes Neelix became Naomi's legal guardian. It seems that the show makers really did think they'd let her die.

The Voyager staff needed to employ a ''continuity keeper''.

 

[somebuddyX]

Poor Hogan. Eaten by a snake and mistaken for some other jerk. I remember liking his character a whole lot though and being disappointed when he bought it.

 

[Triskelion]

I always had a problem with a member of Starfleet taking the advice of a scrapper to gather HUMANOID BONES AT THE MOUTH OF A CAVE.

Darwin Award.

They should have killed decent guy Durst here and let Hogan have the grotesque Vidiian death to remember him by.

 

[T'Girl]

B'Elanna was the better engineer.

Yeah, look at the great job she did getting the replicators back up to full working condition.

Oh wait.

.

 

[Melakon]

Is that true?

I honestly don't remember where I heard that. I don't see it on the Memory Alpha articles for "Friendship One", Carey, or Josh Clark. I might have heard it on one of the dvd features, but at my age, I simply might be going senile. I seem to remember an interview with Clark being surprised they had called him back in after so many years.

 

[Catarina]

No. She mourned him more than her fiance.

 

[Melakon]

That's because Mark was still alive, at least until Voyager got back to Earth. Then Janeway ordered Paris to fly over his house and she dropped a quantum torpedo on it.

But she beamed up her dog first.

 

[Lynx]

She gave some grumpy Klingon bruiser the engineers job.

He vanished from engineering for years (so we can assume she shipped him of to deck 15 to scrub some conduit or another).

When Carey was beamed aboard after being killed by Verin, she didn't bother to say... "Hey Seven, remember when Neelix was dead for eighteen hours but your magic nano-bots brought him back, well how about we do the same thing for Carey?"

Then finally, the greatest slight of all. She travelled back in time to save the people she loved... but chose to arrive in the past just after Carey's death

You do have some interesting points here.

And don't forget the humiliating hearing in "State Of Flux" when Carey was suspected to have had contacts with the Kazon-Nistrim.

On the other hand, Janeway did seem more convinced that Seska was the traitor, which turned out to be the truth.

And don't forget that Carey wasn't ordered to scrub conduits at Deck 15. Instead janeway made him in charge of The Shuttle And Torpedo Building Team!

 

[Jeffe525]

Captains don't back in time to save 3rd-shifters.

However, I do remember thinking, "Wow! That really sucks to go 7 years, get almost home, then die."

Can you imagine how pissed his family is going to be when they here Voyager got home, but sorry, Carey just got killed like, last week.