Alternate Voyagers: EVERYONE LIVES!!!

[Gotham Central]

First off, the Alternate Voyagers posts will feature discussion about how the tweaking or change of some element of Voyager might have changed the dramatic direction of the show.

For the fist installment, we take a page from Doctor Who and consider what might have happened had everyone lived. Specifically how might Voyager's story have evolved if none of the original crew had been killed during Voyager's initial trip to the Delta Quadrant?

Had Lt. Commander Cavit survived, what role would Chakotay have filled?

If the unseen Chief Engineer had lived there would have been no Carey/Torres competition and thus no member of the Maquis in the command staff.

Had Dr. Fitzgerald and his staff lived, the EMH would have remained offline and there would have been little for either Tom or Kes to do.

Indeed, what happens to Tom if Stadi keeps her job? (I could definately see a love hate arc swirling around those two).

If Voyager had not lost members of its initial crew to the Caretaker, Voyager would have been stuck with essentially 50 passengers (who would not have had warm feelings about Starfleet to begin with).

The tension could only have been worse had Janeway, in the interest of fostering amity, had replaced members of her own crew with Maquis members. One might even say that without the dead crew, there would have been no incentive for Chakotay to even agree to merge the two crews together. What happens then? How do you think the story would have evolved under those circumstances?

 

[Brit]

In 2002 a fic writer, Maquis Leader actually wrote a novel length fic "Voyagers" with this very plot. Cavit and Fitzgerald lived and Cavit was not a happy camper when he found out that Janeway had replaced him with Chakotay.

Seska figures in the story too.

Brit

 

[Tallis Rhul]

1) here's proof that Cavit was a tool and it's better that he did croak it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1UIWrkswvA

2) it would have been a nightmare! B'Elanna would probably have stabbed at least one person and to be fair I would have helped her do it - the Voyager crew were a RIGHT stuffy bunch of tards before they were replaced by some of the Maquis. I think that's what gave Voyager a lot of its charm - the crew didn't like each other at first, but they'd all been served the same heap of crap and had to deal with it all together.

 

[tenmei]

Cavit pretty much out and out despised the Maquis, from the looks of the way that he treated Paris. I wouldn't see Janeway replacing him with Chakotay if everyone survived and the Maquis still came onboard Voyager though.

I would imagine that Janeway would still bring the Maquis onboard and would want to integrate the two crews, she'd make Chakotay the Second Officer and give him the third seat in the command area, which would disgruntle Cavit to no end.

Doctor Fitzgerald (to use the name he's been given in the books) would presumably share similar views to Cavit, who would have recommended placing the Maquis under House Arrest.

Carey and Torres would find themselves competing for the Assistant Chief Engineers position under Chief Engineer Honigsberg (again, a name from the novels) and when he, naturally, picked Carey this would catalyse open hostility between the Starfleet and Maquis crews.

Tuvok tries to heal the rift - given he's been part of both crews - whilst Paris is just trying to stay out of the hostility and continue his romantic pursuit of Lieutenant Stadi who remains neutral on the Maquis/Starfleet divide, believing the Captain has chosen the best path.

Kim, in turn, keeps his head low - but his loyalties to the Captain too. However, when the situation with Seska erupts, the open hostilities erupt into all-out warfare between the crew when the Starfleet crew see a Maquis crewman trying to damage Voyager.

The Maquis crew, in turn, feel antagonised by an already hostile environment.

When the Maquis crew start rioting and murmurs of a mutiny are heard, Cavit has Doctor Fitzgerald remove Captain Janeway from command as she wants to continue trying to negotiate with the crew. A great many of the Starfleet personnel side with the XO and the CMO - whilst others remain loyal to the Captain (Tuvok, Stadi, Kim, Paris and Honigsberg) and are placed under arrest and restricted to their quarters.

Chakotay tries to marshall his former-crew to act responsibly but they brush him aside under the leadership of his former crewmembers Ayala and Dalby. It takes an unholy alliance between Chakotay and the arrested crewmembers to bring down the hostilities - and place the leaders of both sides in the brig for the duration of the mission.

With Fitzgerald and Cavit, along with Ayala and Dalby, placed in the brig, Chakotay is promoted to XO to ease tensions between Starfleet and the Maquis and the EMH is activated in Sickbay.

 

[Brit]

Or, Cavit was replaced, didn't like it. Joined with Seska to form a little mutiny which gets the Maquis and the Starfleet members loyal to Janeway dumped on Hanon. Seska gets double crossed by Cavit. Cavit takes Voyager heading home and falls victim to the Vidiian's. Janeway escapes Hanon with one of the Kazon big ships, they find Voyager, put it in the bay, repair it and head home also.
Maquis Leader’s story is considered to be one of the best within the J/C part of the fandom.

Brit

 

[tenmei]

I just can't see Janeway suddenly shoving Cavit aside and installing Chakotay - just for the crack of it - she doesn't seem that kind of person. She put him as XO because Cavit was dead - we can't really assume she'd just push him aside. She might shove him into a senior position - perhaps as Second Officer, but even that's a bit of a stretch.

 

[Red Ranger]

Might have led to an alliance between the Maquis and the Kazon, with Chakotay openly giving technology to the Kazon in return for passage through their space. -- RR

 

[Lynx]

Some interesting thoughts here.

If we assume that the events would be almost the same but that Cavit, Stadi, Dr. Fitzgerald, nurse T.Prena and Chief Engineer Bartlett al survived, then there would clearly be some complications.

I guess that Tom's piloting skills would have given him the job sooner or later. Stadi couldn't be at the helm 24 hours so Paris would have been given his chance and taken it.

As for Kes, she would stil have the Hydroponics Bay and I guess that she could have givven Dr.Fitzgerald and T'Prena a helping ahnd too. Maybe she could have become counselor or something similar.

With the Maquis joining, I guess that Janeway would have to give Chakotay his post as second-in-command anyway in order to show that it's really an alliance between Starfleeet and the Maquis. Cavit would probably have been shoved aside there.

B'Elanna is probably the one who would have the longest way up to her position if the Chief Engineeer was still alive. She did have an attitude problem in the beginning whoch wouldn't have been accepted by a Starfleet Chief Engineeer. I guess that she would have had to prove her skills for some time before being promoted to something more than a crewman.

The Doctor? Well, with Dr.Fitzgerald in charge, he wouldn't have been activated at all.

 

[USS Kongo]

I'd miss the doctor in this scenario, since he was one of my favorite characters from Voyager.

Sean

 

[JB2005]

Do we have to call the Chief Engineer "Bartlett"? The names on that list were a tongue in cheek jab at the West Wing...

 

[Lynx]

Do we have to call the Chief Engineer "Bartlett"? The names on that list were a tongue in cheek jab at the West Wing...

Well, the poor guy got to have a name and I haven't found any other on any site.

 

[tenmei]

Except for the name I mentioned, Alexander Honigsberg, as the Chief Engineer was called in several novels.

 

[JB2005]

^ This.

 

[freak]

This is an interesting thread! It would have been entertaining to say the least had Cavit and the original doctor lived. There would have been some fist fights. And I wouldn't see Neelix in this scenerio at all..or Kes for that matter. Chakotay probably would have been merely a tool, had it not been for Cavit's death. And Stadi taking the con instead of Tom Paris?? Hmm..very interesting..I could see some revenge and a little tit-a-tat between those two as well.