Starfleet's "lost-in-space" Protocols post-Voyager?

[ALF]

There were a few episodes I remember where they said things like, "Starfleet doesn't have protocols in place for situations like this", being marooned years away from the rest of the Federation.

I don't know if this would be speculation or if the re-launch novels covered this... but what changes do you think would have been made to Starfleet's protocols under those circumstances?

Both Voyager and the Equinox would make disparate case studies.

 

[scnj]

Well, there's not really much they can do until they get a communication, or find out where the ship is some other way. Then, presumably, they can send out a slipstream equipped ship to pick them up.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Lost in Space protocols? Well, there was that episode of DS9 with Bill Mumy...

 

[Guy Gardener]

I was thinking now that it would be good to signal Starfleet that the ship is fine, but the only really obvious way I can think of doing that is to be blowing up stars. I mean if Starfleet was to allocate a few hundred thousand stars spread out across the galaxy that if they where to suddenly be demolished in an entirely unique and identifiably starfleety way that it would be the same as sending a flare up like ships at sea do now.

 

[ALF]

I'm sorry... I think I was too vague in my first post.

After Voyager returned home, do you think Starfleet protocols were written to deal with that sort of situation if another ship were to be stranded like Voyager was. Rationing, the choice of abandoning ship to live on a planet, safeguards to deter the kind of decent into the ethical cesspool that happened on the USS Equinox, etc.

 

[T'Girl]

An instructional holo-tape titled: "Don't Let This Happen To You."

 

[Guy Gardener]

Narrated by HoloHarry?

"People, simple codes of conduct the Universal-Translator is too slack witted to pick up on: I am your Friend... I will kill you. I like your ship... I will steal your ship. Your crew looks nice... Your crew looks nice to eat. I want to have sex with you... I want to skin you and sell your organs. etcetera etcetera etcetera."

 

[Bones2]

I was thinking now that it would be good to signal Starfleet that the ship is fine, but the only really obvious way I can think of doing that is to be blowing up stars. I mean if Starfleet was to allocate a few hundred thousand stars spread out across the galaxy that if they where to suddenly be demolished in an entirely unique and identifiably starfleety way that it would be the same as sending a flare up like ships at sea do now.

Being thousands of light years away means it would be thousands of years before Starfleet can see those stars being destroyed. If I understand the relevant physics correctly (which is by no means certain). And ships would have to carry trilithium just in case.

A good creative idea though, albeit one that isn't quite watertight (very Brannon Braga).

 

[Guy Gardener]

Voyager is able to travel faster than light, therefore it can see "objects" where they are in real space and real time with out relativistic dilation otherwise it's hull would be pock marked with debris and jetsam only light seconds and light minutes off into the yonder surprisingly and unexpectedly falling underfoot, and planets they're travelling towards would not be where they expect them to be... Everything that's happened in the show has required that they have faster than light communication and navigation devices that register events and objects that are several if not hundreds of light years away without Voyager being confused by...

They smirked at Trelane for forgetting to adjust for the passage of light as he was studying up on his carnivores during the Squireof Gothos.

Monitoring the entire galaxy does seem a touch impossible but it didn't take the Federation 16 years to notice that Praxis had been blown up in Star Trek Six? okay Sulu was on the boarder, but the follow up on earth was coalesced and confirmed there.

 

[Crewman47]

I was actually thinking that it should probably make sense that Starfleet have had some sort of protocol in place as far back as when the first Earth ship left the Solar System or make it part of Space Exploration 101 of Command School. It could go something like:

Space is vast, containing stellar material known and unknown. At any time you could come across anything that may seem interesting but could cause potential risk. There could be anomalies out there that could send your ship to the far reaches of the galaxy putting you out of contact with Starfleet. If you find yourself in this situation then remember your prime directive, the other one not the big one, and that is to explore. Make friends, make allies, but don't make enemies, we got enough of those on our own back yard. If possible make sure you can find a way back home as quick as you can, doesn't need to be Earth, can be Andoria or Vulcan, but get back quick and don't cause trouble.

Could probably go on but this should be one of the first things potential command officers should get.

 

[QuasarVM]

On average, Lost In Space was better...

At least it had the Jupiter 2 and the Robot...both pretty cool and worth watching.

 

[Sephiroth]

I believe they passed a law banning Janeway from commanding a ship ever again

 

[kimc]

I believe they passed a law banning Janeway from commanding a ship ever again

Really?

 

[KimMH]

"Risk is our business" in the words of someone we all know and love. It seems likely Janeway already knew lost in space protocols and adhered to them regardless of whether we heard her remark on it. I would think the way she wrestled with Prime Directive issues would in a way be indicative of that. Why worry about your impact on previously unknown regions of space if you are not very aware you an ambassador of types, and everything you do could impact future relations with other civilizations? Or did I misunderstand the question . . .

 

[JB2005]

I believe they passed a law banning Janeway from commanding a ship ever again

Really?

Explains why they made her an Admiral...

 

[Guy Gardener]

...in charge of pointless messages and thumb twiddling errands.

 

[Bones2]

But then, if I were Janeway, I wouldn't be sorry to never leave Earth again anyway.

 

[kimc]

I believe they passed a law banning Janeway from commanding a ship ever again

Really?

Explains why they made her an Admiral...

Or they could have promoted her because they thought she deserved it for bringing Voyager home...

 

[rahullak]

What does it matter now? She's passed away in the cause and service of the UFP...God bless her soul

 

[kimc]

What does it matter now? She's passed away in the cause and service of the UFP...God bless her soul

Not in canon...