How would you do a VOY movie today?

[ThreeEdgedSword]

Yeah, I know what Seven is wearing on PIC, I watch it.

My point was there are other clothes to have her wear in the distant post-Voyager past even, other than catsuits.
I don't see her in Starfleet either.

No, I don't think Chakotay is vital for these scenes, either... ;-)

 

[Voth commando1]

Serious question but could you just do a modern story with the Voyager crew and they're somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant but not in the local area?
And let's say they somehow were able to do Voyager audio books with new stories and the actors as they are today, would you rather new stories set while they were on the road in the Delta Quadrant in the 2370s and we just ignore any voice changes, or new story set in whatever the current year of Star Trek it would be? Not that I expect any of this to happen but just curious what other people think.

As I said, voyager doesn’t work as a movie. At all.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It would work ok as a CBS All Access one shot movie.

You’d need a specific reason that all Voyager members are needed, and a plausible reason Neelix would be back.

I’m thinking Species 8472. An incredibly dangerous alien whose only positive experience of humanoids is the Voyager crew. There is some extradimensional threat attacking 8472, they are desperate enough to think humanoids can help based on the nanites they created to attack them. But they don’t trust humanoids except Janeway.

They think of an approach but Starfleet disapproves so Janeway has to go with only people she trusts. Her former crew.

How to involve Neelix is hard, you could make his asteroid somehow near the base of the threat.

 

[fireproof78]

How to involve Neelix is hard, you could make his asteroid somehow near the base of the threat.

8472 is mopping up the Borg. Neelix flees through an old transwarp corridor. Danger follows.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Henry Starling is alive and well in 2021. He is the pioneer behind the transhumanist movement, with artificial intelligence and sophisticated neural interfaces transforming the world into a more perfect place...one human at a time. Man and machine are becoming One, as the promise of infinite entertainment and infinite knowledge instantly accessible drive more and more consumers of all ages to buy into the collective nirvana of hive mind... Earth is becoming a united, peaceful world achieving vast technological leaps. Things are looking good for Henry Starling. His company is about to own the planet. Problem is, he's perpetually haunted by a ghost from the future named Kathryn who knows him intimately. And who he continues to forget when she leaves.

 

[Oddish]

Cast:
Kate Mulgrew as VADM Janeway. Not involved in actual mission, but leads a fleet to save Voyager at the end.
Robert Duncan McNeil as Capt. Tom Paris, bureau of ship design. He explains the upgrades on Voyager's systems at the start, and helps Janeway assemble the fleet to rescue Voyager at the end.
Tim Russ as RADM Tuvok, Starfleet Security. Opposes Janeway's plans to rescue Voyager because of orders/duty/logic, but looks the other way at the last moment.
Robert Beltran as Captain Chakotay, CO. Received a pardon from Starfleet, offered command of Voyager with Janeway's promotion.
Garrett Wang as Cmdr. Kim, XO. He still has his present day hairstyle: he was Operations officer for Captain Worf, who obviously didn't enforce hair regulations.
Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine. Fenris Ranger aboard Voyager on classified assignment, who kind of gets them into this mess. You gotta have her.
Robert Picardo in multiple roles: he is Joe, autonomous ex-EMH, but also the EMH Mark VI on Voyager. The latter version of him has a full head of blond hair and a more advanced bedside manner.
Also present: Cadet Miral Paris, on a training cruise but forced to grow up quick when some bridge crew get killed.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Tom Paris should be Captain of the Enterprise. No one better qualified when you consider his resourcefulness and personal growth in the Delta Quadrant.

But that's a thread for another day. It would just be so damn cool to see him turn up in the Captain's chair and swoop in to render aid to his former shipmates.

 

[TommyR01D]

Kes could only live 9 years or so, right? Is she deceased? Does she have a child who might play a part?

She would be at nearly three times a natural Ocampa lifespan by now, so it's safe to say she's long dead. Even Suspiria could only get them to live twenty years. Perhaps her transformation also allowed her to live longer, but what we saw in Fury suggests that she was still ageing at the normal pace for her species.

I doubt she'd be able to have children (or even the one child to which she is biologically limited, if you take the absurd Elogium seriously) in old age, especially given that her own people had apparently rejected her.

As for Kes, in the episode "Coming Home", the best Voyager episode that never was, she was given a human lifespan by Q so she's still around.

I've never heard of that before. Please elaborate.

I actually always wanted to see her in a science uniform.

We saw that in Relativity and Human Error.

IOW, give her what she's now wearing on Picard (I can't see her wanting to join Starfleet -- not after Chakotay tried to throw her out an airlock):

Does anyone else thinks she looks a bit like late-stage Rose Tyler?

 

[Qonundrum]

Where are the characters?

*snicker*

Would the tone be like the series, slightly different like the TOS/TNG movies, or vastly different like PIC?

Definitely different, maybe akin to TOS TV/TOS movies - more expansive and a lot more character driven, yet not forgetting what made them work in the first place (for the most part).

The TNG movies did not do well in taking the TNG crew and plopping them into generic big movie action action action! At best they felt like cast reunion shindigs put on film. Except "Generations", which had more potential - a lot more if 1701-B with Kirk wasn't shoehorned in, which only made more questions needlessly than anything else. Just imagine if Kirk's final movie had a villain that was an overly contrived and botched clone of Kirk himself... (Marta shapeshifting into him doesn't count because she's just working for someone else and uses his visage to not excessively humorous effect, while confusing McCoy with regarding who the real McCoy was, so to speak... Nicholas Meyer taking the time to sit through all of TOS and decide how to retain what made it work while building on it in positive ways, despite not being a fan of the show to begin with, did absolute marvels.)

So with the history lesson done and reeling back in to VOY, VOY was the Trek that was the most similar to TOS TV; anthology or standalone episodes, just with veneers of running arcs at times and characters that could easily be adapted to the big screen. (VOY being standalone was in part possibly because DS9, at the time, dove into serialized storytelling and being ahead of its time, with VOY returning back to the classic mindset.)

So that said... they arguably could take the cast where they left off and do a big movie. The big issue is selling it to an audience, as VOY was more niche than every Trek preceding it. (Jayson1 made a good point and I'm glad I scrolled up before clicking 'post' as I don't always do that but SQUIRREL! aside...) The second big issue is whether or not to keep continuity with PIC. That's a separate discussion entirely...

 

[Lynx]

I've never heard of that before. Please elaborate.

"Coming Home" is a story I wrote in 1999 and slightly re-wrote in 2001 and even made a script of (with professional help) in order to try to sell it to Paramount. There were some people at Paramount who did like it, unfortunately not the right people.

It can be found on the Kes Website.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Now that we have Seven on PIC, the other two characters I'm most starving to see or hear about are Miral Paris and Naomi Wildman.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I foresee at least two possibilities:

Year Of Hell: The Movie

OR

Mirror Voyager

 

[Oddish]

Or maybe... NEELIX: The Motion Picture.

ARRGHHH!! I'm sorry! I was kidding! Stop throwing things at me!

 

[Drone]

Even though it's the comfort food favorite on Netflix, a movie will never happen, for the same reason it never was seriously considered all those years ago. There's simply an insufficient size audience that would make such an expensive undertaking, a money maker. Even, if fancifully, incredibly effective de-aging technology that cost pennies, relatively speaking, were available, that could return the compliment back to the way they looked during the series, with cast members doing the voice overs (save for Ryan, as she doesn't really need it!!!). It simply would attract too much of a niche sized audience to be a going concern, IMHO.

 

[Lynx]

IOW, give her what she's now wearing on Picard (I can't see her wanting to join Starfleet -- not after Chakotay tried to throw her out an airlock):

She actually look like long-haired Kes on the lower picture!

Fate strikes back at me with a vengeance!
But I guess that I deserve it.

 

[Discofan]

I foresee at least two possibilities:

Year Of Hell: The Movie

OR

Mirror Voyager

For one thing, it would have to be completely recast.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

For one thing, it would have to be completely recast.

Not if it's animated...

 

[Discofan]

Not if it's animated...

With impersonators voicing the characters?

 

[F. King Daniel]

With impersonators voicing the characters?

Everyone's alive so I don't see why whey can't voice their characters.

Impersonaters would be a lot cheaper though.

 

[Discofan]

...
Impersonators would be a lot cheaper though.

That's what I was thinking about.