In the end yes, but it was a matter of survival. We have seen what people will do when their lives are on the line.
Turn a guest star into a main character
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In the end yes, but it was a matter of survival. We have seen what people will do when their lives are on the line.
There was one other character/ guest star I was disappointed left and that was J.G. Hertzler in Tsunkatse (I get the feeling the writers threw the alphabet in a hat and those were the letters they drew 
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The idea of a Hirogen as a permanent member of the crew always intrigued me and I liked the depth in this character. It would have played nicely into Flesh and Blood as well.
).The idea of a Hirogen as a permanent member of the crew always intrigued me and I liked the depth in this character. It would have played nicely into Flesh and Blood as well.
I loved Seska as a villian. I also think she was best as a 'surprise..I'm back!' villian but she should have continued to torment them much long than she did.
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Lol yeah...just no.
Dreadnought.
Not only would it give the ship an ally to fight alongside with, one that was Voyager's equal, but you wouldn't even need to add a cast member, since Roxann Dawson voiced Dreadnought. More opportunity for her to act, since she essentially would be two different characters on the show. You can even reprogram the voice to be any of the other crew, if you want or need.
Not only would it give the ship an ally to fight alongside with, one that was Voyager's equal, but you wouldn't even need to add a cast member, since Roxann Dawson voiced Dreadnought. More opportunity for her to act, since she essentially would be two different characters on the show. You can even reprogram the voice to be any of the other crew, if you want or need.
The trouble with having recurring villains is you stretch believability that these people are following Voyager alongside for thousands of light years. Eventually unless it's something omnipresent like the Borg you question what their actual realistic motive is to continue traveling at 1000 light years a year and keep harassing Voyager.
With Seska we have a woman who is smart and knowledgable, like Janeway, but willing to form alliances with rival species or even Voyager's enemies along the way.
Seska, like the ctew of Voyager, wants to go home to the alpha quadant but she is the outcast wolf, having to make it on her own but still heading in the same direction. She is willing to make personal sacrifices on the way and revenge is a powerful motivator.
We also know there are many species with warp drive, some even more powerful than Voyager. Look at Arturis in Hope and Fear.
I could never understand why the surviving members of the Equinox were never seen again! They took them on board and never even mentioned them again let alone see any of them! Were they locked up in detention for the ride home?
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Maybe most of season 2 should have taken place in an area nearby "The 37's planet".
Voyager could have helped the inhabitants with strengthening their defence system and maybe inspired the inhabitants to create a new Federation in the Delta Quadrant. While doing so, most of the adventures with the kazon could have taken place there.
It might even bring them home eventually. Even though the people there said there was nothing left of the Briori ship, with Voyager's more advanced technology there's still a chance they would find other remains of Briori technology on that planet or in the neighbourhood that could be reverse engineered. After all, the Briori must have had something significantly superior to Federation warp drive if they abducted people to the other end of the galaxy just for slave labour.
Suppose for a moment Voyager as we have seen it never happened exactly that way, but is in fact a 28th century Starfleet recreation based upon scant actual historical data. Much like the Living Witness recreation, except of course in this case SF is determined to paint our heroes in as positive a light as possible, for promotional purposes. Suppose also they are not afraid of embellishing story elements when unknown, and villify a few characters -such as Seska- just for dramatic purposes.
The series becomes a huge success, to the dissatisfaction of the Cardassian government, who feels the character of Seska as portrayed in their series isn't good for their public image, so they set out to make a counter-series based upon this 'Seska' character (and remember that only very little is known with certainty so there is a huge room for interpretation). I think I would have been very interested to watch that series as well, to see how they would have interpreted the characters we know and love.
Oh, my apologies for going offtopic here a bit, btw.
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Seska if she never turned heel, and was instead just the pithy, edgy, rule breaking Bajoran engineering officer.
Imagine if they offed Chakotay and Random became first officer. Essentially rebooting the aborted Maquis v Starfleet storyline, you'd have the Starfleet crew who stuck by Starfleet rules versus the Equinox ones who didn't, trying to coexist.
Imagine if they offed Chakotay and Random became first officer. Essentially rebooting the aborted Maquis v Starfleet storyline, you'd have the Starfleet crew who stuck by Starfleet rules versus the Equinox ones who didn't, trying to coexist.
Professor Gegen would have been a good add on as a main character. Maybe the Voth hierarchy is not so merciful and so he joins voyager(with or without his assistant).
He could have added a dynamic to the crew-being another DQ alien, but also being reptilian apart from Kes and Neelix(or are both mammalian species), being a scientist and an outsider.
He wouldn't have had any Trekkian quest to become human but he would be always interested in learning about a species that were his distant cousins on the evolutionary tree.
And his being a scientist could have been useful for the crew on certain occasions.
He could have added a dynamic to the crew-being another DQ alien, but also being reptilian apart from Kes and Neelix(or are both mammalian species), being a scientist and an outsider.
He wouldn't have had any Trekkian quest to become human but he would be always interested in learning about a species that were his distant cousins on the evolutionary tree.
And his being a scientist could have been useful for the crew on certain occasions.
He certainly would know about that section of space. I like it. It would also give Chakotay a new direction away from Janeway. Also less of 7's techno babble.
My answer to this question is Sarah Silverman's Rain Robinson; bring her onboard Voyager accidentally at the end of Future's End and give her a job in Sciences and a romance with Tom that adds tension to the eventual "sparkage" between him and B'Elanna.
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