Do you recall what episode that was?
Stories you would have liked to have seen, the Voyager edition.
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They're revoked in Prey, and then in the next episode Retrospect there's a mention...
CHAKOTAY: The Captain wants you to help Kovin integrate the new weapon system.
SEVEN: I'd rather not. I find him inefficient.
CHAKOTAY: Maybe so, but you seem to work well with him. You've been asking for more responsibilities, I thought you'd be pleased.
SEVEN: The captain gives me greater liberty only when she needs my expertise.
CHAKOTAY: You violated her trust, and if you want it back, you're going to have to earn it. One step at a time.
A reasonable explanations other than they would stop for repairs, gather food from planets they passed, and trade with aliens for food and parts, like they mentioned they did on the show?
Proved me wrong again Sophie. I'll still accept the challenge. Writing this post made me completely change my opinion...
Caretaker: Mentioned in my last post.
Year of Hell (and all the other episodes involving time travel)... time travel so in-universe it makes sense. Let's not count those.
Deadlock: Voyager is almost falling apart at the end of the episode which is completely repaired by Innocence; the subsequent episode.
Mortal Coil: When Neelix dies, Janeway does whatever she can to save him and eventually does so with Seven's nano probes. Janeway's doesn't try anything to save Joe Carey. (More of an inconsistency than a "reset button")
Alliances: Voyager is severely damaged by the Kazon in the intro which is fixed by the next scene.
Scientific Method: With the damaged done to Voyager by the end of the episode, it's hard to think they could fix it all by the next one. There's still lots of possible explanations for how they did so.
Equinox, The Killing Game, Scorpion, Basics and the other episodes when Voyager suffers a lot of damage which is usually completely fixed by the next episode / scene. I agree with Sophie that I'd like to see something other than repair teams constantly fixing stuff.
I suppose you could consider the cast ignoring what happened in other episodes as a use of the "reset button" depending on how you see it in which case you'll have a lot more but I just think that's nitpicky and a way of saying bad things about Voyager without much reason.
But when you say fixed by the next episode, how much time is that. As so many have mentioned it is not the case that the next episode is the next day. It's been as much as several weeks. And also people often mention Deadlock in this regard even though they end the episodes with discussing how long repairs have been taking
Let's see...
Scientific Method and Year of Hell: 8 days. If they were cruising in the Delta Quadrant for this time, it makes sense that everything was fixed.
Equinox and Survival Instinct: Unknown but there a 57 day difference between episodes 5x24 (Relativity) and 6x2 (Survival Instinct) so it was probably enough time to make repairs.
The Killing Game: 18 days.
Basics: 44 days.
Guess I'm wrong again, Sophie.
An episode on dementia.
A member of the crew afflicted with dementia-like disease that slowly robs the ability to reason and do their job. The anguish and the pain of the other crew watching this friend slip away, and of the afflicted person in the initial stages - knowing something is wrong, frustrated by the effects and powerless to stop the progression.
While somewhat derivative of "The Deadly Years," but that episode was mainly a race to find a cure before Commodore Stocker could get the Enterprise destroyed. A Voyager episode could make for a commentary touching on many areas - the emotions in involved in losing your faculties, how we treat someone suffering from dementia, the state or lack thereof of mental health care today.
(Was this already covered in Voyager, and I'm just forgetting? There's probably some irony there.)
A member of the crew afflicted with dementia-like disease that slowly robs the ability to reason and do their job. The anguish and the pain of the other crew watching this friend slip away, and of the afflicted person in the initial stages - knowing something is wrong, frustrated by the effects and powerless to stop the progression.
While somewhat derivative of "The Deadly Years," but that episode was mainly a race to find a cure before Commodore Stocker could get the Enterprise destroyed. A Voyager episode could make for a commentary touching on many areas - the emotions in involved in losing your faculties, how we treat someone suffering from dementia, the state or lack thereof of mental health care today.
(Was this already covered in Voyager, and I'm just forgetting? There's probably some irony there.)
The episode was called Riddles.
This could have been an interesting story line had Kes stayed on Voyager into her old age.
The way she was in the first few minutes of Before and After seemed like dementia. Even if the actual reason in that particular episode was she didn't remember because she was living her life in reverse.
Yes, dealing with people in real life with dementia her behavior in the beginnig of Before and After, as well as in Fury are very similar to dementia.
Harry Mudd and Janeway might be interesting antagonists in a VOY episode. (just not sure how to get Mudd in the 24th century DQ).
Roger C Carmel has passed on and Mudd wouldn't be right played by anyone else.
Riddles and Homestead are my two favorite Tuvok/Neelix episodes.
Also remember Voyager's crew would put in heavy overtime labor when necessary. Such as when they constructed the delta flyer or prepared to enter Borg space, or during the Year of Hell.
I imagine working three or four shifts with only meal breaks and sleep breaks in between.
So if Voyager needed to make heavy repairs quickly her crew was more than capable and her captain more than willing to have them work like bees getting the job done.
Ah, didn't realise he died in 1986, so he never could have appeared in Voyager. And I agree that no one else would have done. Then again, the entire thread is hypothetical in the first place.
I did learn though that they wanted him for an episode in TNG. Never knew that, cool.
Exactly. They've done this. Working round the clock shifts to get things done. Imagine at the end of one of their adventures when things are quiet and they're flying in a straight line...what else is there to do but for everyone to pitch in and repair something.
Well... a visit to resolve the mystery and history of the planet of V'ger doesn't could be bad.
Or the Whales-probe planet of The Voyage Home.
And I would love to see an 4 or 5 episodes arc with the return of Voyager to AQ, without time travel, without transwarp Borg conducts ... just an technology exchange of hiperpropulsion sort of thing ...in return of a development of a cure for some plague for some advanced (well, no so advanced) race with extraordinaries technical capabilities.
...aaaaand more of the after-return life of the crew that we all for years follow.
What happened with the Maquis? Chakotay received his official rank? Finally Seven find her relatives? Did the Section 31 knew about the Voyager trip and let them go anyway? .... there was a highly number of stories that they (the storytellers) left opened and I will love to see closed.
Or the Whales-probe planet of The Voyage Home.
And I would love to see an 4 or 5 episodes arc with the return of Voyager to AQ, without time travel, without transwarp Borg conducts ... just an technology exchange of hiperpropulsion sort of thing ...in return of a development of a cure for some plague for some advanced (well, no so advanced) race with extraordinaries technical capabilities.
...aaaaand more of the after-return life of the crew that we all for years follow.
What happened with the Maquis? Chakotay received his official rank? Finally Seven find her relatives? Did the Section 31 knew about the Voyager trip and let them go anyway? .... there was a highly number of stories that they (the storytellers) left opened and I will love to see closed.
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