Spoilers Did Voyager also have a Cetacean Ops?

[fireproof78]

Voyager had no need on it's mission.

 

[Oddish]

Good point. But in this case, why wasn't there a mention of Cetacean Ops in "Disaster", "Starship Mine", "Masks" or "Genesis" for example?

Maybe Cetacean Ops was eliminated in the fourth or fifth year as a cost-cutting measure.

Neelix would never stoop so low!

He'd never use oranges as long as he still had some leola root.

Oh, right, I forgot. Well, leola root glaze, then.

Also...where would they have been during Caretaker? Can't exactly have them lie around in that reproduction of "rural America"

Left onboard, maybe. Maybe the Caretaker thought they were fish and didn't bother with them.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Maybe Cetacean Ops was eliminated in the fourth or fifth year as a cost-cutting measure.

"Disaster" happened months before "Perfect Mate", where the Dolphins were mentioned

 

[Orphalesion]

Again, I'd argue the Enterprise-D is too big to always have all the parts of the ship referenced. For all we know disaster just shook their tank a bit and the Cataceans kept swimming around, maybe in darkness.

 

[fireproof78]

Again, I'd argue the Enterprise-D is too big to always have all the parts of the ship referenced. For all we know disaster just shook their tank a bit and the Cataceans kept swimming around, maybe in darkness.

Agreed. The space available on a Galaxy class is ridiculous and over the top. Referencing every single department would probably take half of a captain's morning reports.

 

[Kor]

Voyager was a small ship, so maybe they had a small Cetacean Ops area with members of a smaller cetacean species from another planet.

I wonder if they realized they could and should communicate with Cetaceans at some point after the Whale Probe incident?

Only those that were warp-capable species. Otherwise their planet could be about to fall apart from extreme seismic activity and Picard and co. would just let it happen.

Kor

 

[Nerys Myk]

Maybe Neelix saw them and said, "the captain won't mind if I serve the crew some nice fresh fish steaks in orange sauce."

And that was it for cetacean ops...

Mammals

 

[Oddish]

I know they're mammals. But did Neelix?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I know they're mammals. But did Neelix?

He's a chef. I would hope so.

 

[Oddish]

To paraphrase Mr. Scott, concerning Voyager... "Admiral... there don't be whales here."