What if Voyager was a different class of ship?

[Dukhat]

How can this one ship potentially survive combat with the Borg? Alien ship with unknown capabilities.

Survive on its own without needing constant resupply? Alien ship with unknown capabilities.

Need episodes where they're trapped on the ship to save money? Unknown ship they're exploring or they trigger some function they're not sure of that created danger.

There's lots of potential there.

See my above post. The ship had nothing whatsoever to do with the storytelling.

 

[Anwar]

See my above post. The ship had nothing whatsoever to do with the storytelling.

It SHOULD have, though.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Lots of things Voyager SHOULD have but every plot resolution with technobabble can and would have been applied to any other ship. Actually making it an unknown alien ship would have potentially made it easier to come up with miracle tech to solve problems. "Surprise, the ship can do this!"