Share any minor random observations you made about the show here.
Observations about Voyager
- Thread starter Laura Cynthia Chambers
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This is kind of vague. What exactly are you looking for? What's the focus? I mean there are hundreds of posts in this forum pointing out random observations. 
I can point out that the windows aren't lit under the shuttle bay on the physical model and they are on the CGI one. They exceeded their torpedo inventory in S5E1. The Delta Flyer shouldn't fit in the shuttle bay... More?
I can point out that the windows aren't lit under the shuttle bay on the physical model and they are on the CGI one. They exceeded their torpedo inventory in S5E1. The Delta Flyer shouldn't fit in the shuttle bay... More?
This supposed to be a 'general Voyager discussion topic for things too small to start their own thread for?'
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There was a very cute extra who often popped up in Voyager early seasons. But imagine my surprise when he turned up in Insurrection. Twin brother maybe?
Edit: how strange, after not thinking about him for ages within minutes of finding this post another thread here led me down an internet rabbit hole where I came across not only the extra but his name. I never knew his name back in the day. Shepard Ross. Turns out he was First Contact too, amongst others.
Edit: how strange, after not thinking about him for ages within minutes of finding this post another thread here led me down an internet rabbit hole where I came across not only the extra but his name. I never knew his name back in the day. Shepard Ross. Turns out he was First Contact too, amongst others.
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@at Quark's Yeah, that's the idea.
While we saw various timelines where Harry Kim got promoted after returning to Earth, his only promotion on Voyager was in "Before and After," after Janeway died. Only over Janeway's literal dead body did Harry ever get promoted on Voyager.
There's a line in Prodigy where the Doctor
In Voyager, he played a priest in the Fair Haven holoprogram.
says he's not an exorcist.
All of Seven of Nine's romances come out of left-field, at least for the audience.
For her first date in "Someone to Watch Over Me," she chose a crewman we'd never seen or heard of before.
Unimatrix Zero and her romance with Axum was left-field even from Seven's POV, since she couldn't remember it.
Then there's her infamous last-minute hookup with Chakotay.
Her romance with Raffi in "Picard" was as random as all the others, but from there was the first of Seven's romances to be well written.
For her first date in "Someone to Watch Over Me," she chose a crewman we'd never seen or heard of before.
Unimatrix Zero and her romance with Axum was left-field even from Seven's POV, since she couldn't remember it.
Then there's her infamous last-minute hookup with Chakotay.
Her romance with Raffi in "Picard" was as random as all the others, but from there was the first of Seven's romances to be well written.
^ At least, I could buy 7 to realistically be mature enough by that time to have a romance, a thing I thought was far too early in her human development during Voyager (though I understand the writers wanted to script it in). Unless of course you'd go by the '2 natures' theory of Unimatrix Zero in which she would have had a mature persona during those visits there.
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Hence, the fan theory that she had a secret vendetta against him.
Speaking of Harry, this pretty much shows that Harry's romantic experience on Voyager was as much a trainwreck as his career advancement and general suffering.
And the list doesn't even include Maggie, the lovely holographic Irish lass who got turned into a cow, or the Klingon who tried to jump his bones.
^I never paid close enough attention to that ep to notice. I always assumed he was just integrated in a local projection system.
But it would be similar to those future mobile transporters that are also capable of transporting themselves, I suppose. (I'm not saying that's impossible, though. And well, the mobile emitter is also from the future.)
But it would be similar to those future mobile transporters that are also capable of transporting themselves, I suppose. (I'm not saying that's impossible, though. And well, the mobile emitter is also from the future.)
They told us there were 38 torpedoes (and "no way to replace them"), then cooked off almost 100 over the series, and just assumed we were too dumb to count. You think they expect us to notice a stray piece of tech the size of a gingersnap?In "Critical Care", the Doctor's holoemitter gets transferred around like it's also a hologram.
Perhaps we are too dumb to understand 24th century mathematics (and/or the 24th century way of counting).
The Voyager 6 probe got lost and then they build a USS Voyager just in time for its registry to end in a 6 and then it got lost.
Things Voyager should have had:
- Movie nights
- Karaoke nights
- Shakespeare plays
- Badminton leagues
- An episode in which, to commemorate the 375th anniversary of The Phantom Menace's release, Tom Paris gives a lecture on how much the movie sucked, with Kim playing clarinet softly throughout. The episode unfolds in real time. That's it. That's the whole episode. Tom Paris explaining why The Phantom Menace is terrible, even centuries later, with the whole crew listening with rapt attention. The episode's final shot is a lone tear running down Tuvok's face.
- Movie nights
- Karaoke nights
- Shakespeare plays
- Badminton leagues
- An episode in which, to commemorate the 375th anniversary of The Phantom Menace's release, Tom Paris gives a lecture on how much the movie sucked, with Kim playing clarinet softly throughout. The episode unfolds in real time. That's it. That's the whole episode. Tom Paris explaining why The Phantom Menace is terrible, even centuries later, with the whole crew listening with rapt attention. The episode's final shot is a lone tear running down Tuvok's face.
I would have taken every single one of those if they in turn had no holodeck.
They had limited power resources, necessitating replicator rations. So they should only have been using the holodeck for things they couldn't do anywhere else.
The fantasy escapism programs like "Captain Proton" and "Fair Haven" make sense. Weird games like Velocity might also require a holodeck. But the bar program made no sense at all. They could drink and play pool in the Mess Hall, or set up a makeshift bar in a cargo bay. Wasting holodeck power (and their own holodeck time slots!) on simple things they could do anywhere was goofy.
How about Tom creates a program based on the 1997 movie masterpiece (
) "Batman and Robin".
But at some point, he loses a bet with Harry, so he has to play as Robin.
And wear the 1960's version of his costume.
Yes, that one.
The one with no pants.
But it's not all bad, because B'Elanna, playing Batgirl, thinks he looks really cute in it.
) "Batman and Robin".But at some point, he loses a bet with Harry, so he has to play as Robin.
And wear the 1960's version of his costume.
Yes, that one.
The one with no pants.
But it's not all bad, because B'Elanna, playing Batgirl, thinks he looks really cute in it.
