I hear that the reason Voyager had no lasting damage shown was that the sets would've been too expensive to redo. But why none of that makes sense. I'm not asking for the ship to look like it did in Year of Hell by the second season but some patch work, light flickering could have helped. By Season 7 that ship should have been torn to shreds.
Voyager damage
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Welcome to a grumble that began as soon as the show debuted.
To try and justify what we got, setting out on a 70 year trip home would have been insane unless the ship was capable of making that trip, including occasional major repairs, without support from a star base.
To try and justify what we got, setting out on a 70 year trip home would have been insane unless the ship was capable of making that trip, including occasional major repairs, without support from a star base.
They were too heavy handed with the reset button at the end of every episode. Ship damage and the need for supplies should've been underlying threads throughout, as it was they seem to have had a fairly easy trip home.
I really would have loved some jery-rigged repairs on the sets being permanent as the show went on. Like having a bunch of cables snaking across the floor of engineering, bypassing something and a chunk of the catwalk on the upper level blown out. Some burn marks on the bridge set, one or two of the never-used, no-purpose-ever-given consoles being smashed....
Oh well.
Oh well.
The ship doesn't really get damaged in the first place. When it did happen(like twice), they fixed it.
They were very cognizant of showing damage and repairs on Enterprise, which takes place 200 years earlier, and they were able to fix any damage, with half the crew.
The number of times Voyager took heavy damage is so minuscule, that there are equal incidents in the other series, where the same complaints could be raised.
They were very cognizant of showing damage and repairs on Enterprise, which takes place 200 years earlier, and they were able to fix any damage, with half the crew.
The number of times Voyager took heavy damage is so minuscule, that there are equal incidents in the other series, where the same complaints could be raised.
It's the supposed lack of resources that makes the difference.
They never explained how this is done though. Do they occasionally come across a friendly or neutral bases where they can set down and resupply? Do their repair crews go mag-walk out on the hull to repaint? We don't know, so we have to give the writers the benefit of the doubt that something is going on and use our imaginations. They didn't even give us throwaway lines to explain it.
And why didn't they just repair the functional parts of the ship, why did they put all that extra effort in to make it look exactly the way it did before?
So yes, I'll buy that they had the resources to run repairs on their ship and made supply and repair stops with friendly aliens now and then. But given that the way they accomplish this is so central to the believability of the premise, it's just lazy that they didn't think to tell us this in even a throwaway line.
Plus Season Two's "Deadlock", which featured Voyager getting badly trashed, but was fully repaired (according to the prevailing logic on stardates) as little as eleven days later.
I'm saying...Voyager was never really damaged to a great extent in the first place. There are a rare few episodes, such as Deadlock(as mentioned by Shamrock). And they indeed give "throwaway lines"
In Deadlock, Tuvok says "Repair efforts are underway. Lieutenant Torres estimates we'll be able to return to the Bridge within three days."
In The Gift, Voyager is shown to still having all the modifications on the hull, and we're given much more than throwaway lines. It's referenced throughout the episode.
Chakotay says to Janeway
Later, B'elanna says to Seven
As I mentioned above it isn't ignored, but included in the script. The fact of the matter is, the instances of Voyager taking heavy damage are so few and far between(2? 3?) that this can't possibly constitute a complaint of the series. Nay, it's a mere nitpick, and not of the show, but of one or two, or maybe three individual episodes.
Where'd they get the resources for this repair job?
A week later...
And nary a mention of repairs, or any of things Voyager did add to the script, quoted above.[/QUOTE]
If it takes three days to return to the bridge, how is all external damage not even slightly visible within a week?
Where'd they get the resources for this repair job?
A week later...
And nary a mention of repairs, or any of things Voyager did add to the script, quoted above.
Did you seriously just 'Whatabout' Voyager continuity?
The same place they get everything else, I suppose. Unlike VOY, they didn't set up the situation as one where they were 70,000 light years from home with limited resources. (Plus, you can see them finishing up the repairs in the opening credits of the next episode.Where'd they get the resources for this repair job?
) As Jirin mentioned, What-About-ing it doesn't change anything.Love it!Where'd they get the resources for this repair job?
A week later...
And nary a mention of repairs, or any of things Voyager did add to the script, quoted above.
More please.
Could you supply before and after pictures please of the external shots for study.
It's my trump card...I mean wild cardIf it takes three days to return to the bridge, how is all external damage not even slightly visible within a week?
Did you seriously just 'Whatabout' Voyager continuity?
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