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Had Voyager Never Been Sent to the Delta Quadrant

The good thing is that, since they can hire more ensigns, Harry Kim might finally get a promotion. Poor Garret Wang. The man was only offered a character promotion as a bargaining chip so he wouldn't ask for a raise (he took the raise).
 
The "Janeway/Cavit shippers"? Really?!
How much time did we see them together? Something like what, 1 min on the bridge and still, they were always surrounded by others officers!!
Plus, while we know that Janeway was engaged with (even if I think they wouldn't grow old together!), who knows if Cavit wasn't already married or engaged too?
(little that I saw Lt Com Cavit, he was a handsome man but rather stuck, ... but not as much as Tuvok! ;))

And then, if Voyager had not found hersel stuck in the DQ, their mission would have set 3 weeks later. What could have happened at a time so short? It seems to me that they had better to do than flirting!

I regret that producers/writers didn't write something more consistent about Cavit in Relativity. It was a good occasion to know a little more about him AND let me tell you that after to have seen him in Charmed, in a very emotional episode from S1, I can say that this guy, Scott Jaeck, CAN act. It would have been interesting.
Same thing for Stan Ivar who played Mark Johnson. Why not to have written an episode about how Janeway's life looked like before she takes command of Voyager, like a dream where she would relive the last days before beginning her mission?

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(did you know that Stan Ivar played the role of John Carter in Michael Landon's Little house on the prairie for 1 season (1982-1983)?

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Wasn't he in the wonderful TNG episode The Inner Light?

Same thing for Stan Ivar who played Mark Johnson. Why not to have written an episode about how Janeway's life looked like before she takes command of Voyager, like a dream where she would relive the last days before beginning her mission?
Sounds like it would have been good.

(did you know that Stan Ivar played the role of John Carter in Michael Landon's Little house on the prairie for 1 season (1982-1983)?
Yes, I did know that.
 
Here's a thought, we're discussing what if Voyager hadn't been stranded in the Delta Quadrant, but in this scenario, does the Equinox? If so, it's doubtful they'd have lasted much longer than they did on the show anyway, remember the aliens pretty much had them licked, meeting up with Voyager probably didn't result in much of a respite. Without Voyager around, I doubt the Equinox would have lasted much more than a few weeks or so longer anyway, with all the crew lost and Ransom likely not trying to redeem himself.

Though if the Equinox was also spared the Delta Quadrant, they'd likely continue on their assignments with nothing noteworthy happening for the ship and crew. Hell, with the Dominion War just around the corner the crew would most likely be split up due to transfers anyway.
 
I don't lament any of these lost souls too much, because how many people did Voyager help in the original timeline until future Janeway altered it? There's three years of the life and times of Space Alien Ricky that never happened. He became integral to the crew, no one could think of living without him, he got into all sorts of adventures with the Doctor and Neelix, and thanks to time travel he doesn't exist. You don't miss what you never had, because you don't know to miss it.
 
Some more thoughts. If Voyager wasn't in the Delta Quadrant, how would Starfleet retake the Prometheus from the Romulans? After all, Voyager isn't noticing the ship through the Hirogen array, isn't failing to establish a communication channel with them, and therefore wouldn't sent their own EMH aboard the ship to work the EMH Mark 2 to neutralize the Romulans aboard. The Romulans could very well successfully take the Prometheus back to Romulus and hand it over to the Tal Shiar, which may piss off Starfleet enough they don't want to work with the Romulans during the Dominion War. Which means Sisko and Garak won't have their moment in the Pale Moonlight. The Dominion War could even end up being dragged out longer.

Meanwhile, in the 29th century, Captain Braxton likely never goes crazy since Janeway isn't causing so many temporal incidents for him to clean up. But then this also means he never got stranded on 20th century Earth, his ship never got stolen by a hippy named Henry Starling who never used its technology to start up a corporation named Chronowerx which was responsible for vital computer advances going into the 1990s.
 
I believe before, however species 8472 or the Undine as some call them had already attacked them and probably interpreted Voyager's away crew on the cube as evidence enough.
 
There's clearly a lot of people who don't understand how shippers work. They didn't spend time together? Hey they don't even need to be in the same show!

The Q civil war destroys the galaxy when every star goes supernova.

The end.

So much better than season six and seven.
 
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