Alternative Ending

[cwl]

what do you think would have made a better ending to the series?

here's mine:

Voyager comes across a Klingon ship in the Delta quadrant. Klingons accuse Voyager of illegally entering Klingon space and spying on the Empire. Voyager gets into a fight but another 2 ships de cloak and Voyager surrenders.

The crew is captured and taken to a secret location. Turns out the Klingons discovered a wormhole into the delta quadrant and have been secretly expanding their empire.

The Klingons interrogate the Crew thinking that they'd somehow gotten in to the Delta quadrant via the Klingon wormhole and were spying on them.

Eventually the crew persuade them what's really but the Klingons don't want them to return the federation or their secret will be up. But there is a split in the Klingon commanders. Klingon intelligence don't want them returned but the military do.

Janeway makes a deal with the military commander where she gives up the voyager database encryption codes if he engineers an escape for them. (the military commander reasons that voyager's database is far more valuable than starfleet knowing about the klingon wormhole)


Voyager flies through the wormhole and races through Klingon space at max warp. near the UFP border a couple of klingon's fastest ships intercept Voyager.

when all seems lost the Negh'Var turns up and the Klingon ships withdraw. Onboard is Martok and Worf.

The End.

 

[Shazam!]

I genuinely would have killed everyone off and blew up the ship

 

[Sandoval]

If they'd left the whole 'other being like the caretaker is out there somewhere' concept alone and not used it so early on, I think the final episode of Voyager dealing with Suspiria would have book-ended the series nicely.

Although obviously you'd need a better story than in Cold Fire.

 

[Anwar]

Agreed, they set up the ending for the show in "Caretaker" by mentioning the female Caretaker.

Just have them not encounter her until the last season, and have her send them home.

 

[The Dominion]

Why would you bring Klingons in for the end out of nowhere? They didn't have any relevancy to the DQ and already got a big part in DS9.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Have the ship return home at the end of Season 6, then spend Season 7 in the AQ dealing with all the fallout from Voyager's trek across the DQ, so we actually get to find out what happens to the ship and her crew.

 

[erastus25]

I genuinely would have killed everyone off and blew up the ship

Me too.

 

[tighr]

Anything NOT dealing with the Borg AND time travel would have been better. They really overused both concepts in the series.

I liked ST: First Contact. Its my favorite ST movie. It's also the only example of Borg and time travel that I've liked.

 

[Timewalker]

what do you think would have made a better ending to the series?

here's mine:

Voyager comes across a Klingon ship in the Delta quadrant. Klingons accuse Voyager of illegally entering Klingon space and spying on the Empire. Voyager gets into a fight but another 2 ships de cloak and Voyager surrenders.

The crew is captured and taken to a secret location. Turns out the Klingons discovered a wormhole into the delta quadrant and have been secretly expanding their empire.

The Klingons interrogate the Crew thinking that they'd somehow gotten in to the Delta quadrant via the Klingon wormhole and were spying on them.

Eventually the crew persuade them what's really but the Klingons don't want them to return the federation or their secret will be up. But there is a split in the Klingon commanders. Klingon intelligence don't want them returned but the military do.

Janeway makes a deal with the military commander where she gives up the voyager database encryption codes if he engineers an escape for them. (the military commander reasons that voyager's database is far more valuable than starfleet knowing about the klingon wormhole)


Voyager flies through the wormhole and races through Klingon space at max warp. near the UFP border a couple of klingon's fastest ships intercept Voyager.

when all seems lost the Negh'Var turns up and the Klingon ships withdraw. Onboard is Martok and Worf.

The End.

Not ANOTHER goddamn Star Trek series with Worf!

I genuinely would have killed everyone off and blew up the ship

Janeway did that herself at least once each season, didn't she?

 

[cwl]

Why would you bring Klingons in for the end out of nowhere? They didn't have any relevancy to the DQ and already got a big part in DS9.

a) I thought it would be interesting
b) I thought it add an extra dimension to the Klingon Empire
c) it opens up the DQ for future stuff.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Have the ship return home at the end of Season 6, then spend Season 7 in the AQ dealing with all the fallout from Voyager's trek across the DQ, so we actually get to find out what happens to the ship and her crew.

24 episodes of that? NO thanks!

 

[Anwar]

Yeah, all Farscape needed was two episodes or so for its "Crichton goes home" bit.

Would've been better if VOY got home in S5, but went back out there for some reason until the show ended.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Have the ship return home at the end of Season 6, then spend Season 7 in the AQ dealing with all the fallout from Voyager's trek across the DQ, so we actually get to find out what happens to the ship and her crew.

24 episodes of that? NO thanks!

In my ReBoot, that is what I would ultimately do. Voyager returns home, there are a handful of episodes that look at what happens to the ship and crew (during which time they get a wardrobe change and a few tweaks to the sets), then they are part of a task force that head back out to the DQ to retrieve the crew of another missing starship. At the very end however, they face a choice with three possible options:
1. Save the task force and the survivors by staying behind and defending them
2. Sacrifice themselves for the task force and survivors
3. Get back home with the task force and deal with the threat back in the AQ

 

[Morpheus 02]

My last scene would be Harry Kim finally getting promoted tp Lieutenant, junior grade.

 

[Capt Josh]

Why would you bring Klingons in for the end out of nowhere? They didn't have any relevancy to the DQ and already got a big part in DS9.

a) I thought it would be interesting
b) I thought it add an extra dimension to the Klingon Empire
c) it opens up the DQ for future stuff.

Actually the Klingons do have something to do in the Delta Quadrant, we have a Klingon colony in the Delta Quadrant. I can see a story that goes along with the original posters idea then add that the Klingons discovery the colony and uses them as their justification for planting the flag.

 

[Dukhat]

a) I thought it would be interesting
b) I thought it add an extra dimension to the Klingon Empire
c) it opens up the DQ for future stuff.

a) No offense, but that doesn't sound interesting to me at all. Mainly because not only do Klingons have nothing to do with the overall premise of Voyager, they have been so overused that I never want to see them again.

b) What "extra dimension" does this give to the Klingon Empire, exactly?

c) The whole point of the final episode, no matter how well or poorly it was thought out or written, was that the Voyager crew got home. Once that was done, who cares about the DQ anymore?


The best way that show could have ended (besides the Suspiria angle, which was botched early anyway) was that Voyager never returned home (and we don't know why), and people from "Admiral Janeway's" future send a mission to the DQ to find out what the hell happened to them. And no stupid reset button.

 

[Sandoval]

The Suspiria angle was included in Caretaker as a sort of 'get out of jail free' card in case the Delta Quadrant premise for the series turned out to be unsustainable or unpopular. If this turned out to be the case the crew could encounter the other Caretaker and be sent home and business as usual could be resumed in the Alpha Quadrant for the remaining seasons.

Suspiria's inclusion earlier on basically signified the studio's faith in the 'lost on other side of the galaxy' premise after a year.

 

[tighr]

The 'lost on other side of the galaxy' premise was never the problem; the execution was the problem.

Maybe that's what this show needed; a fleet of starships, all traveling together. The show could be about the Flagship.

But, I guess if they had completely ripped-off Battlestar Galactica we'd have a different problem on our hands!

 

[Anwar]

Actually, the "Lost in the Delta Quadrant" thing was kind of a problem: It's only a starter plot, something meant to begin the show but not enough to really sustain it long-term.

It's good for 1 season at most, but then you need something better than that to give the show its own plot and identity. Farscape and LEXX did the same thing, being "lost" was the starting point but the plot became something else as it went on.

Frustrating thing is, they actually had a few plots that could easily have been used to sustain the series beyond that starter premise but never capitalized on any of them.

 

[The Dominion]

Yeah, they seemed pretty intent on killing any interesting arc that came along.