How would you have wanted VOYAGER to end?

[Warp Coil]

It would have been nice for there to be some sort of build-up to the final episode, with the Voyager crew acquiring/developing new technology, experimenting with things, so that in the final episode they are able to get back to the alpha quadrant through means of their own. No alternate future (TNG "All Good Things.." rip-off). No time-traveling Admiral Janeway.

I wanted to see the VOY crew actually set food on Earth for the first time in the series, to be welcomed by Admiral Paris and Barclay. I wanted the VOY crew to have a real homecoming, and then deal with the questions that their return would raise - what to do about the Maquis (I'm sure their records would be wiped clean, but I'd like to have it actually addressed on-screen), what to do about the Doctor, and if the crew would stay together or get broken apart.

 

[freak]

I would have liked to see Voyager get home by landing in San Francisco bay with fireworks(even though they had those in Endgame). No C/7, or time travel either. I would have much preferred J/C to hug each other and then finding out good news about the Maquis crew.

 

[HRHTheKING]

Three possible endings I wanted:

1- The series ends with them still en route. So we never see them get home.

2- The series ends decades into the future where a 25th century vessel detects an old Starfleet prefix code or something and eventually finds the derelict hull of Voyager which has finally made it home but with a crew long dead. Their logs are intact though.

3- The series ends decades into the future when a heavily modified Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant....but with the descendants of the original crew manning the vessel.

 

[Candlelight]

I wanted to see the VOY crew actually set food on Earth...

By laying a table?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

...for the first time in the series...

You clearly forget the best part of Caretaker when Janeway and Paris are in New Zealand.

 

[Sephiroth]

the doctor, for the first time, farts, the fart corrupts his code, and the corruption ripples through the ship, blowing it to pieces

 

[Akiraprise]

the doctor, for the first time, farts, the fart corrupts his code, and the corruption ripples through the ship, blowing it to pieces

We already had that in YoH. But he only blew up half a deck.

 

[nickyboy]

about 2 episodes after caretaker

 

[Candlelight]

the doctor, for the first time, farts, the fart corrupts his code, and the corruption ripples through the ship, blowing it to pieces

We already had that in YoH. But he only blew up half a deck.

I did not!

 

[kobeyashi maru]

I would have structured the last season, or maybe even couple of seasons, differently. The story would involve Voyager uniting the warring factions of the Delta Quadrant together to defeat the Borg. In the end, they manage to accomplish that, not by killing the Borg, but by somehow giving them back their individuality.

And to top it off, Voyager has united the Delta Quadrant...into a new Federation of Planets! Voyager is the honorary flagship of this new Federation, and as such, she's been refitted with all the finest tech in the quadrant. Chakotay decides to stay to help the new president, Neelix, get the DUFP up and running. But Janeway made a promise...a promise that she'd get her crew home.

The series ends with Chakotay, Neelix, and whoever else stays behind watching as Voyager warps into the distance....

That's how I'd have ended it.

 

[hellsgate]

I would have structured the last season, or maybe even couple of seasons, differently. The story would involve Voyager uniting the warring factions of the Delta Quadrant together to defeat the Borg. In the end, they manage to accomplish that, not by killing the Borg, but by somehow giving them back their individuality.

And to top it off, Voyager has united the Delta Quadrant...into a new Federation of Planets! Voyager is the honorary flagship of this new Federation, and as such, she's been refitted with all the finest tech in the quadrant. Chakotay decides to stay to help the new president, Neelix, get the DUFP up and running. But Janeway made a promise...a promise that she'd get her crew home.

The series ends with Chakotay, Neelix, and whoever else stays behind watching as Voyager warps into the distance....

That's how I'd have ended it.

Yes, but I would've left Neelix on his own with Kes, but brought Chakotay home to deal with the consequences of his prior Maquis agenda. I don't know how plausible/feasible it would've been to unite the races of the Quadrant, but I would've loved to have seen more of an ongoing threat from The Borg on the rest of the Delta Quadrant to compel such a possibility in the not-so-distant future.

I don't know about giving Voyager "god-ship" technology as I don't see a lot of the races being enthusiastic / receptive about giving up the bounty of whatever means of self-defense has kept them safe up until then (especially if the Voyager is intercepted & assimilated by The Borg in the interim.) But at least had the Voyager stay-put for a time & initiate the seedling of the Federation's ideals on the Briori Homeworld or elsewhere, like the planet in "Workforce, Parts 1 + 2".

In the meantime, set-up a warp-catapult or other accomodating technology in orbit of the Briori Homeworld (or the "Workforce" planet,) such as a M.I.D.A.S. incoming/outgoing long range communications station in order to facilitate whatever could likely follow. A new "Utopia Planetia", perhaps. A new "Federation" ever-so-gradually develops over the next 20-100 years in coordination with Admiral Janeway & possibly Seven of Nine acting as a "Queen" to the Nekrit Expanse "New Collective", using the insatiable, relentless nature of the Borg to evolve and one day, undo their own assimilation or at least learn to contain the base nature of the collective's desire to envelop everything in reach & expand or die.

 

[STIntergalactic]

I would've ended it much like Caretaker. Janeway would make a tough choice and save some race or planet or something rather than get her crew home quicker. Then a Quantum Leap style final shot of the words "Voyager never returned home"

 

[THE_FETT]

I thought Endgame was fine but I would've added this at the end:

(The Voyager bursts through the corridor and into Alpha-space. The bridge crew looks at the viewscreen with mixed expressions of disbelief and gladness.)

PARIS: We made it.
CHAKOTAY: We're home.

(A moment of silence. Then SEVEN, standing next to JANEWAY, turns and grabs JANEWAY, planting a firm kiss right on the lips. JANEWAY is shocked. Her shock turns to acceptance and she embraces SEVEN and the kiss becomes sensual. Stray electrical short-circuits pop randomly about the bridge equipment like mini-fireworks.)

KIM (eagerly onlooking): Sweet.
PARIS grins as he nods in satisfaction.

ROLL CREDITS

 

[kobeyashi maru]

Yes, but I would've left Neelix on his own with Kes, but brought Chakotay home to deal with the consequences of his prior Maquis agenda. I don't know how plausible/feasible it would've been to unite the races of the Quadrant, but I would've loved to have seen more of an ongoing threat from The Borg on the rest of the Delta Quadrant to compel such a possibility in the not-so-distant future.

I don't know about giving Voyager "god-ship" technology as I don't see a lot of the races being enthusiastic / receptive about giving up the bounty of whatever means of self-defense has kept them safe up until then (especially if the Voyager is intercepted & assimilated by The Borg in the interim.) But at least had the Voyager stay-put for a time & initiate the seedling of the Federation's ideals on the Briori Homeworld or elsewhere, like the planet in "Workforce, Parts 1 + 2".

In the meantime, set-up a warp-catapult or other accomodating technology in orbit of the Briori Homeworld (or the "Workforce" planet,) such as a M.I.D.A.S. incoming/outgoing long range communications station in order to facilitate whatever could likely follow. A new "Utopia Planetia", perhaps. A new "Federation" ever-so-gradually develops over the next 20-100 years in coordination with Admiral Janeway & possibly Seven of Nine acting as a "Queen" to the Nekrit Expanse "New Collective", using the insatiable, relentless nature of the Borg to evolve and one day, undo their own assimilation or at least learn to contain the base nature of the collective's desire to envelop everything in reach & expand or die.

Well it certainly would have been possible to have Voyager "sowing the seeds" of a new Federation over the course of the entire series. And there's no reason we couldn't have jumped ahead a few years to some big ceremony for the founding of a new "coalition" or something that's obviously meant to be a new Delta Federation.

And I'm not talking about making Voyager into a "god ship." Just that they could refit it with faster engines that will get it home twenty years faster, or whatever. And of course we wouldn't even see the rest of their journey anyway.

It just seems to me that the show's entire philosophy wasn't what it should have been. A Starfleet ship ends up in totally new, uncharted territory, and all they ever think about is "getting home," even though that's going to take them at least half a century or something.

It just would have been so much truer to the Trek ethos, IMO, if they'd been focused more on bringing Federation ideals to the Delta Quadrant, if only through accident or necessity or something. (That would make it more interesting, anyway.)

I don't know, it's late and I'm rambling, so I'd better go to sleep.

 

[Anwar]

Again, that sounds like something Piller would think up for a series arc if he were left in charge, but the Producers had about as much real control over Voyager as David fincher had over the theatrical release of Alien 3. UPN was really in charge and just wanted generic space stories that were mostly standalone to make them a ton of $$$ when it could be syndicated.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

UPN was really in charge and just wanted generic space stories that were mostly standalone to make them a ton of $$$ when it could be syndicated.

Which is just tragic, since the basic premise of Voyager is full of possibilities which were left untapped.

 

[Deckerd]

I liked the ending, except that it was too abrupt. Anticlimactic, if you will. A bit of partying wouldn't have gone amiss.

 

[Turbo]

UPN was really in charge and just wanted generic space stories that were mostly standalone to make them a ton of $$$ when it could be syndicated.

Which is just tragic, since the basic premise of Voyager is full of possibilities which were left untapped.

Too true.

I think that the one thing that everyone will agree on about Voyager and Enterprise is that UPN had far too much control over both series, and ruined a lot of the potential that both held.

 

[22 Stars]

It was that Berman was a bean-counter, not a very creative Exec. Prod. and unlike DS9, the creative team he handed Voyager over to, just couldn't do a good job. Instead they introduced a 'hot-chick Borg' instead of compelling stories.

 

[Anwar]

The "Hot-Chick" Borg was also a UPN idea, well not the Borg thing but a Hot chick.

The VOY team had lots of good ideas, but they were shot down by UPN. Like Braga's full season of "Year of Hell".

 

[Kio]

I really liked Year of Hell, though I don't know how that could have been stretched into a full season. It might have been interesting, though.


I thought End Game was pretty satisfying. I like time travel episodes, I like Janeway, and I really wanted the crew to get home. All in all, I was happy with it. I could have done without the wtf-ness of C/7, and B'lanna's baby was just cheesy.

They might have left more open, like a possible borg civil war involving the Unimatrix Zero drones. And it would have been nice to see the Maquie (sp?) crew actually be cleared of charges, and Seven/Icheb be accepted.