Voyager: The Ending You Would Have Preferred
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They get home to discover Earth in ruins.
I was thinking planet of the apes when I started the above sentence, it was about 12 characters in that I realized I was talking about Battlestar... But really I was thinking that they were accidentally in a mirror Universe where the federation lost the Dominion war and Gul Dukat had a coat made from the hide of Benjamin Sisko.
Seriously, I wanted to see a trial... Just like in the Last episode of Seinfeld. I mean if jerry, Cramer, Elaine and george can get a year in prison for being asshats, what's Janeway going to be meted?
I was thinking planet of the apes when I started the above sentence, it was about 12 characters in that I realized I was talking about Battlestar... But really I was thinking that they were accidentally in a mirror Universe where the federation lost the Dominion war and Gul Dukat had a coat made from the hide of Benjamin Sisko.
Seriously, I wanted to see a trial... Just like in the Last episode of Seinfeld. I mean if jerry, Cramer, Elaine and george can get a year in prison for being asshats, what's Janeway going to be meted?
Or Voyager gets back, and the boarding parties upon entry discover still the Doctor and the other non humans trying to round up the hundred or so Salamanders that got out of their cages mid flight.
I actually have two alternate endings.
The first brings them back to Earth. But in a different way than in "Endgame". It would take place during two-three episodes and include a final showdown withthe female Caretaker who tries to destroy the ship. But Kes returns and saves the ship in the last minute by persuading the female Caretaker not to destroy the ship by telling her the true story of how the Caretaker died and how Voyager actually saved the Ocampa and fulfilled his wishes. The female Caretaker, realizing that she was wrong about Voyager restores Kes and gives her a human lifespan. Then she sends the ship to the Alpha Quadrant where we would see the crew re-unite with families and friends. Maybe the story also would include a happy ending between Janeway and Chakotay.
There would be no Borg, no reset buttons, no time-jumps, no C/7 and Neelix would still be on the ship.
The second ending, which I've been considering more and more in recent years would have them remaining in the Delta Quadrant where they would help the people on "The 37's" planet to defend themselves and also help htem to create a new Fedreation in the Delta Quadrant. That solution would still give us many of the episodes and events we did see in the series, events which Voyager would face during their expeditions in the area. It would also give us continuing adventures for our favorites in books for many years to come.
The first brings them back to Earth. But in a different way than in "Endgame". It would take place during two-three episodes and include a final showdown withthe female Caretaker who tries to destroy the ship. But Kes returns and saves the ship in the last minute by persuading the female Caretaker not to destroy the ship by telling her the true story of how the Caretaker died and how Voyager actually saved the Ocampa and fulfilled his wishes. The female Caretaker, realizing that she was wrong about Voyager restores Kes and gives her a human lifespan. Then she sends the ship to the Alpha Quadrant where we would see the crew re-unite with families and friends. Maybe the story also would include a happy ending between Janeway and Chakotay.
There would be no Borg, no reset buttons, no time-jumps, no C/7 and Neelix would still be on the ship.
The second ending, which I've been considering more and more in recent years would have them remaining in the Delta Quadrant where they would help the people on "The 37's" planet to defend themselves and also help htem to create a new Fedreation in the Delta Quadrant. That solution would still give us many of the episodes and events we did see in the series, events which Voyager would face during their expeditions in the area. It would also give us continuing adventures for our favorites in books for many years to come.
I still don't understand how someone can be that wrapped up in a fictional character. It's been fifteen years since Jim Kirk was shown the door (I am a huge Jim Kirk fan) and I don't try to do mental gymnastics to fit him back in. I enjoy the stories that do have him, I enjoy the stories that don't have him. Guess I'm just different.
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People are different. Get over it.
I just find it immensely interesting.
I used to think that I wanted them back to the AQ. Anything else would have been anticlimactic for me. However, then we got Endgame and we all saw Voyager go down the drain bookwise and so now I'm leaning toward having them stay in the DQ and working their way home. Surely that would have created plenty of interesting stories for the entire crew.
I'd also have been interested in an ending like somebody mentioned in another thread. An ending where we got to see what happened during those additional 16 years that made Admiral Janeway go back in time. That might have been a bit more than 2 episodes, but it sounds good.
I'd also have been interested in an ending like somebody mentioned in another thread. An ending where we got to see what happened during those additional 16 years that made Admiral Janeway go back in time. That might have been a bit more than 2 episodes, but it sounds good.
I used to think that I wanted them back to the AQ. Anything else would have been anticlimactic for me. However, then we got Endgame and we all saw Voyager go down the drain bookwise and so now I'm leaning toward having them stay in the DQ and working their way home. Surely that would have created plenty of interesting stories for the entire crew.
I'd also have been interested in an ending like somebody mentioned in another thread. An ending where we got to see what happened during those additional 16 years that made Admiral Janeway go back in time. That might have been a bit more than 2 episodes, but it sounds good.
I thought they answered that question in Endgame. Something about Chuckles and Seven being dead and Tuvok being sick. Guess Janeway didn't give a damn about poor Joe Carey, poor Durst who lost his face to the Viidians or anyone else.
I'd like to do most of the last season with all the Quicksilver Voyager Duplicates, most of them of course not knowing that they are quicksilver duplicates, bottlenecking on the road to earth to the point where at the federation Boarder there's a big sign saying "it's beyond a joke, the first thousand voaygers that arrived home were kind of cute, but bog off, you're not welcome around here."
Of course maybe that's what did happen, which explains the insane hold on continuity the writers were adhering to?
Of course maybe that's what did happen, which explains the insane hold on continuity the writers were adhering to?
I was thinking more in the lines of seeing those 16 years instead of Endgame.
Misunderstood you... it's all good.
I was thinking more in the lines of seeing those 16 years instead of Endgame.
Misunderstood you... it's all good.
That happens. 
Or the crew is put into stasis with that tech from the Thaw and the ECH is the lone crewman keeping Voyager running for the last 40 years home, but every now and then he visits the crew in their dreams to see what adventures their imaginations are conjuring.
But of course that could also explain season 4 though 7.
But of course that could also explain season 4 though 7.
Just having the Doctor mindlessly wondering the corridors for those one-hundred odd episodes would have probably been a step up from what we actually got.
I repeat...
Why don't you add something a bit more constructive?
Sorry, seasons 4-7 just didn't work for me. Show was very stale and lacked direction. Won't praise something that doesn't deserve it.
