Did the escape pods have warp drive?

[Ethros]

Just randomly wondering, did Voyager's escape pods have warp drive?

I was just thinking about the end of Year of Hell pt.1 where Captain Jane orders the crew to abandon ship

"You will proceed to the escape pods and evacuate this vessel. Set your course for the Alpha Quadrant. Along the way, try to find allies, secure faster ships if you can, anything to get home. The senior staff and I will remain on board as long as possible. We will try somehow to rescue Tom and Chakotay. The escape pods are equipped with subspace beacons. That's how we'll keep track of you. When we find each other again, and we will, we will find each other again, I expect all of you to be in one piece with some interesting stories to tell. Good luck"


You kind of think without warp drive on those pods they're pretty frakked.
It doesn't look like they do anyway.
http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/4x08/yearofhellPT1_398.jpg


With simple impulse power they weren't gonna get very far. Full impulse is 1/4 the speed of light, so it'd be a long way for to find any allies or help.

 

[Akiraprise]

I thought that was pretty dumb myself. Janeway would be lucky if any of her crew survived months in an escape pod in enemy territory. I always assumed the Krenim either killed the rest of the crew or captured them. It would have been better to keep everyone together. No matter how bad Voyager was getting it was still better then floating adrift in the middle of nowhere in a tiny escape pod.

 

[JNG]

They don't have warp drive, no, and they would take an awfully long time to reach anything like .25c. In this respect, Janeway's words had to be taken as somewhat figurative, as in "whatever comes, don't give up trying to get home and our first order of business if we get full motive power back will be to recover you."

I think it would probably have been best for the ASRVs to stay concealed within the nebula in gaggle mode. While it would not be the most comfortable existence, they could support the crew for probably a year or more in such a configuration. This being Trek, perhaps there was an evidently habitable planet within shooting distance (isn't there always? ) and some of the pods were on that course to see what came of it.

Without specific knowledge to the contrary, I will note that there should have been a warp-capable shuttlecraft or two still serviceable, and perhaps these had been dispatched to find a suitable place for the crew to regroup or secure better transportation. Within Krenim territory, this could not have been easy, but I also don't know how "contiguous" the blocks of stars they claimed were. I doubt the crew would have been treated too badly if captured, but the escape pods would call little attention to themselves, so it is by no means certain they would have been.

Ultimately, we can only speculate as to their adventures in that unfortunate timeline. At least we got to see the ASRVs deployed, which the Technical Guide used by writers suggests would be too expensive and would never happen.

 

[Sheliak]

We all know that Intrepid class starships have an unlimited supply of warp capable shuttlecraft.

 

[DrTaylor]

That's hardly the only thing wrong with "Year of Hell". The whole thing makes very little sense.