It was contrived, just like how they always made Adama the Fleet Commander again and always made Roslin President again.
They talked big, and couldn't follow through with it.
If Equinox was not destroyed, what would change in Season 6 and 7 episodes?
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They talked big, and couldn't follow through with it.
You do know what the definition of ‘contrived’ is, don’t you? ‘Created or arranged in a way that seems artificial and unrealistic.’
So if they had gotten rid of the Pegasus in a truly contrived way, it would have been blown up by terrorists, or crashed into a moon, or stolen, or some other stupid thing. But that’s not what happened. It was destroyed in battle against the Cylons while defending New Caprica. And what were battlestars built for? War against the Cylons. So please explain how its destruction was contrived, when it was actually performing the function for which it was created, and without moving goalposts by bringing up Adama and Roslin.
Was it really contrived? It got blown up in a battle rescuing the remnants of the human race against four Basestars. Surely something had to be sacrificed to give that arc weight and I think he toyed with the idea of blowing up Galactica herself but then the show is called "Battlestar Galactica." There was also the cost in keeping the sets standing on the soundstage they were using, so limiting the show to one battlestar was always going to be the final outcome.
And if the Voyager crew found another ship to help them and it got destroyed soon after in a battle with the Borg, you can bet the show would've been ripped into for "wasting that plot". Meanwhile NuBSG did just that and somehow it's fine.
Destroying the Pegasus was as much a "Status Quo Reset" as anything VOY was accused of.
See what I mean by "contrived"?
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No. Nothing you say is helping your case here. You seem to just be moving goalposts all around and hoping something will stick to justify your paper-thin opinions. And since, as I said before, you seem to want to die on this hill, go ahead.
As for the Equinox (before the thread was derailed), there was no chance the ship was going to survive beyond that episode. UPN didn’t want people tuning in to a random episode of VOY and asking, “What’s that ship following Voyager around?” And that was a UPN thing, not the writers and producers doing something ‘contrived.’
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Voyager had already established what kids of show it was going to be, once it killed off its most interesting non-main cast characters and made all its battle damage disappear between episodes and allowed Janeway to replicate as much java as she wanted. Whether adding Equinox to its fleet would have turned to corner or not, there weren't going to be any corner turns. These were people who couldn't even handle rationing out 38 torpedoes or promoting an ensign to lieutenant at the indicated time.
