Do you think Janeway tried selling "fiction" again?

[Guy Gardener]

In Prime Factors, the Crew of the Starship Voyager exchanged thousands of years of fiction from hundreds of worlds for a dinky piece of technology that didn't work and technically counted as theft, espionage and treason, which is beside the point.

According to Tuvok during the course of Flesh and Blood, Captain Janeway had authorized the almost unfettered sale of Federation replicatior technology at every bizarre and Mecca in the Delta Quadrant, who then if these businessmen were not fools, would have mass produced and resold the product, actually you'd have to wonder how viral the resale of Voyager's replicator technology was that it didn't get to the AQ before Janeway or at least keep ahead of Voyager with such ease that she couldn't give the stuff away because the fresh new markets over each new horizon had already been glutted...

Where was I?

How often could Janeway have saved the day, solved her Alien of the week problems by palming off on these would be protagonists high-def blueray rips of the definitive Cassablanca with Robert Patterson and Selena Gomez or Harry Potter XII?

 

[Misco]

...the definitive Cassablanca with Robert Patterson and Selena Gomez or Harry Potter XII?

It's frightening to think what other cinematic horrors could be lurking in Voyager's databanks. No wonder no one in the Federation seems to make/watch films anymore;the remake/tentpole regurgitation finally got too much, even for the fanboys/undiscerning.

 

[Guy Gardener]

World War III would have blanked all digital and analogue media that wasn't in a bunker under 80 feet of concrete...

After the war flooded the planet with EMP, destroying all cinema, and there might not have been enough lawyers left alive to enforce (I totally forgot about Encounter at farpoint till I was checking the spelling.) intellectual property rights, of course it would be a race to rebuild, after Colonel Green weeded out the mutants and ugos so that Hollywood could crank up it's engine and make turn attractive people with obvious personality defects into meat puppets.

 

[The_Baroness]

Given how giddy people here on Earth in our era get over certain books, who's to say the same, or different books wouldn't drastically alter their culture thus violating the Prime Directive far more than giving the Kazon replicators ever would have...

doesn't even have to be the Bible or the Qu'ran (and before anyone says 'they're not fiction' the truthfulness of one, renders the other false really....), but imagine if an entire race began worshipping, and basing their culture around a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar....

 

[Marten]

Given how giddy people here on Earth in our era get over certain books, who's to say the same, or different books wouldn't drastically alter their culture thus violating the Prime Directive far more than giving the Kazon replicators ever would have...

doesn't even have to be the Bible or the Qu'ran (and before anyone says 'they're not fiction' the truthfulness of one, renders the other false really....), but imagine if an entire race began worshipping, and basing their culture around a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar....

Which was a story concept in both TNG and TOS.

 

[MacLeod]

^ such as Classic Trek's "A Peice of the Action". 'Chicago Mobs of the Twenties' in that case I believe.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I read a novel set in the TNG era, where that lot went on to join the Federation, the Star fleet Officer from that Planet still talked like it was the 1930s. A very cute aside, but I can't recall the name of the novel.

The TNG episode was Contagion, sorta?

Even the Story of Voyager getting home, was spun into something bracing by Darla.

Spreading Foreign ideology and manifestos are more or less damaging than proliferating technology to the underdeveloped areas of the galaxy?

But you know, Janeway would have died if she had nothing to trade with these people. If she kept selling slipstream drive, wouldn't she technically be a conwoman and a monster since she knows it doesn't work and people will die trying to get it to work?

I remember Archer having to strip the Platinum from his antimatter relays at one point to pay for a slave he had his eye on, because Enterprise forgot that the rest of the universe still uses money, in ENT Xindi.

 

[E-DUB]

I once worte a story in which Janeway traded copies of Voyagers music library for artificial wormhole technology (it didn't work) "The Alpha Quadrant's greatest hits, everything from Klingon opera to Andorian blues."

 

[Killandra]

I once worte a story in which Janeway traded copies of Voyagers music library for artificial wormhole technology (it didn't work) "The Alpha Quadrant's greatest hits, everything from Klingon opera to Andorian blues."

Hey, some people may want anything new out of boredom....but could you imagine if she tried this trade with the Hirogen instead of the holodeck tech? Oh yeah, that tech didn't work out so great either....oh well, you win some and lose some.

 

[The_Baroness]

Amazing. Now I visions of the Hierarchy getting down to Baby got Back.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well, that could actually happen. They copied (stole) Voyagers database.

I'm just imagining two Vidiians screaming at each other,...

"Han shot first!"

"NO, Greedeo shot first!"

"NO! HAN! SHOT! FIRST!"

 

[The_Baroness]

D'ya reckon starship captains have arguments about who would win in a fight, the Millenium Falcon, or their ship...

 

[Guy Gardener]

I think Worf said it best in Suddenly Human... "They're targeting lasers."

Lasers won't even make a dent in Voyagers navigation shields, which is the mild static charge they use to stop pebbles and sand impelling at relativistic speed at them from perforating their hull like it was tin foil.

Of course if Han, customized the Falcon with a few concussion missiles, they'd be able to frack Voyager good as long as Voyager was standing still and didn't see them coming.