Abandoned ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Finale Ideas Could Have Given the Sendoff It Deserved

[Swedish Borg]

There should have been more compelling reasons for Janeway to travel back in time and cancelling everyone's good life!!! I mean aside from Tuvok and Seven and apparently Chakotay, everyone seemed to be well. That's a flimsy excuse to reshuffle the cards...

At least with Harry, the whole crew was dead, plus the ending is kind of a redux of that idea... not even original then...

 

[Oddish]

And done better by Harry in "Timeless", and better by Janeway in "Year of Hell". Not to mention Jake Sisko in "The Visitor".

 

[JesterFace]

DS9 did it right: Half of the final two-parter ended the Dominion war, and the other half was about the characters moving on.

Let me throw in my opinion. I think TNG did it better with 'All Good Things...', basically nothing changed. Their mission continues as in earlier episodes. Just because series ends everything doesn't have to change.

 

[Oddish]

Let me throw in my opinion. I think TNG did it better with 'All Good Things...', basically nothing changed. Their mission continues as in earlier episodes. Just because series ends everything doesn't have to change.

So do you think Voyager should never have gotten home?

 

[JesterFace]

So do you think Voyager should never have gotten home?

They might be happier to get back. That doesn't mean there aren't any adventures for them in the Alpha Quadrant.

 

[Oddish]

They might be happier to get back. That doesn't mean there aren't any adventures for them in the Alpha Quadrant.

So, same ship, same crew, but back in Federation space? An interesting possibility, to be sure. But I still like my version.

 

[Swedish Borg]

So do you think Voyager should never have gotten home?

It would have been a better ending than what we got.

 

[Coops]

So do you think Voyager should never have gotten home?

Sounds a bit like Quantum Leap, to me.

Whatever happened to that guy...

 

[Swedish Borg]

Sounds a bit like Quantum Leap, to me.

Whatever happened to that guy...

He was hired as captain of a starship.

 

[Oddish]

He was hired as captain of a starship.

Then later on, he joined up with NCIS, down south.

 

[JesterFace]

So, same ship, same crew, but back in Federation space? An interesting possibility, to be sure. But I still like my version.

What if Voyager made it back in the end of season 5 and explored Alpha Quadrant for few years far away from the Federation? There is much space out there. Or maybe they got somehow transported 2 years away from Federation space in season 5 and the last two seasons were a journey to Federation space?

 

[Guy Gardener]

And done better by Harry in "Timeless", and better by Janeway in "Year of Hell". Not to mention Jake Sisko in "The Visitor".

Do you believe that TPTB accidentally made a 90 minute advert for Star Trek (The Las Vegas) Experience?

There must have been orders from above to use Vaughn, and use Vaughn like this, when casting him as the time travelling Romulan from Season one, or Admiral Forrest to whet our appetite for Enterprise, made so much more sense.

Any story they made had to include Korath pivotally.

 

[STEPhon IT]

What if Voyager made it back in the end of season 5 and explored Alpha Quadrant for few years far away from the Federation? There is much space out there. Or maybe they got somehow transported 2 years away from Federation space in season 5 and the last two seasons were a journey to Federation space?

This would be an extension of falling down the rabbit hole of betraying it's own premise. The impression was if the ship was in the Alpha Quadrant probes and satellites would detect it, also there were enough allies in the farthest region of the Galaxy who could meet them and assist them on the way. Meaning Voyager would be found and in that vein they're no longer considered lost in space.

 

[valkyrie013]

Maybe have them get back, but have some reason for them to go back to the delta quadrant.
Maybe something like the books where they go back for an expedition.
Or they discover that them getting back early messed with the timeline in a bad way, and had to go back to fix the timeline.
The books do a good version of these

 

[Oddish]

Another reason why I liked my ending. It had Voyager actually develop and use the technology that got it home, and open up new avenues for exploration. With the quantum slipstream a proven technology, ships can go to and from the Delta Quadrant at will, no de-salamanderization required.

 

[Swedish Borg]

The backup Doctor from Seven centuries in the future meets his ancient counterpart who's had 47 wives who each, in turn, died of old age...

 

[Oddish]

The backup Doctor from Seven centuries in the future meets his ancient counterpart who's had 47 wives who each, in turn, died of old age...

Could happen on "Discovery".

 

[dupersuper]

Another reason why I liked my ending. It had Voyager actually develop and use the technology that got it home, and open up new avenues for exploration. With the quantum slipstream a proven technology, ships can go to and from the Delta Quadrant at will, no de-salamanderization required.

Like the post 2378 novels.

 

[Qonundrum]

The way they did "Endgame" was a vicious slap across our face... they gave us fairly happy endings for most of the surviving characters: the Doc is accepted as a sentient being, Tom is a successful holonovelist, B'Elanna is an ambassador, and Harry's got his own command. Then, they have Janeway destroy that reality and replace it... with NOTHING!

I don't know about everyone else, but I want to know what DID happen to these characters, not what DIDN'T!

ENT had a far worse finale. Like or dislike or anywhere in between, giving it a bookend with... TNG... albeit a sort of dream sequence holodeck trope ended up being a disservice to the actors, fans, and everyone else on both sides of the camera... which may not have been intentional but seemed to have been perceived as such across the board?

 

[TrekMD]

I remember being disappointed with the ending of VOY because I was expecting them to show the ship land and give us a bit more of a story of where things were going. I like what @Oddish wrote as it does give a more appropriate closure to the series.

 

[Farscape One]

My wife made a good point about series finales. (We are currently at the tail end of season 6. She has no idea what's going to happen in VOYAGER's finale, exceot that Chakotay and Seven are together.) But her point stands well for any show.

The final episode leaves a VERY lasting impression of a series. Look at GAME OF THRONES. The final season was bad except the first 2 episodes... but the finale was terrible. No matter how good the previous seasons were... and a majority was REALLY good... if the finale is bad, that will always be what people remember.

The VOYAGER finale was a rehash of TNG's in a lot of ways.

Time travel? Check.
Battle with Klingon Negh'var class ships? Check.
Series regular suffering from brain disorder in the future? Check. (Picard and Tuvok.)
Female series lead dead in future tineline? Check. (Troi and Seven.)
Series regular is made an Admiral? Check. (Riker and Janeway.)
Galaxy class ship in final shot? Check. (Enterprise-D and another with fleet toward Earth.)

The finale is a great case people can make for calling VOYAGER "TNG-lite".

Do I think the finale could have been better? Absolutely.