How much of the surplus crew made it home in Year of Hell?

[Guy Gardener]

So halfway through Year of Hell, Janeway decides that her extraneous crew, towards 130 souls would be better off with out her command style and zeal. Like clipped finger nails or expired milk. Sealing the poor bastards into escape pods, layered like pringles crisps bobbing about hitchhiking the galaxy, or gripping the throttles on shuttles that can barely crack warp 4 never delusionally floundering about concluding the 150 year trip ahead of them in their lifetimes, that Kathy said "Godspeed, enjoy the journey back to Earth if you don't get killed, eaten or enslaved, best of luck, see you on the flip side!" to basically her children.

Was she in denial?

Were they committing suicide so that Janeway and the command staff could live?

Voyager was dead in space, she didn't have life support to maintain a crew that size anymore, so perhaps it wasn't completely the actions of a monster by Kathryn to pat those underlings who admired respected and trusted the little bobtop, on the back, telling all that they were not certainly going to die or run out of fuel and food within a matter of 4 to 6 weeks, that letting them strike off on their own, so underskilled, underprepared and underarmed for the adventure ahead, that Janeway was as good as murdering most of her "family".

But maybe some of these doomed astronauts, even all of them by some fluke found a way back to the Alpha Quadrant because this, after all their interim hardship, it turned out, was a good future they would not want reversed by some headjob playing god, but it would seem that it was Janeway again who wound back reality stranding her Officers and Maquis prisoners alike, temporarily and briefly rejoined with their family, lovers and friends, tight up back to her bitter bosom growing cold in the depths of the Delta Quadrant.

Who do you think might have gotten home and how?

Who was doomed the fasted and the most interestingly?

Gods!

Did Voyager just park there for a month using the last of it's finite resources building an extra 4 dozen shuttles so that the crew could bugger off like rats form a sinking ship?

**Sigh**

 

[BlobVanDam]

I didn't think the plan was ever for the pods to get back to the Alpha Quadrant. Not possible with the supplies and speed of those flying coffins. I think the point was just for them to get away from the attacks of the Krenim timeship and hopefully find some safe planet to live on. Considering the system they were in and the limited range of the pods, maybe that goal was a bit optimistic, but it was clearly an act of desperation. Chances are the next time incursion wiped them all out instantly anyway.

Voyager was the diversion so the pods could get away, but I think the time shielding on Voyager made it a safer place to be than in a pod, regardless of how beaten up the ship was.

 

[Candlelight]

I would find it funny if one such escape pod fell through a wormhole, ended up back in Earth orbit but just when you're about to be reunited with your family, WHAM, the timeline resets and you're back on Voyager.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If you ignore the Prime Directive, the guys and dolls in the escape pods had enough technology and savvy to become instantly influential, powerful and rich, as soon as they run across some donkey species willing to be saddled up, and the lower the technical sophistication of the culture they ran into, the more influence, power and riches these somewhat former Starfleet Officers would generate.

Janeway sold Replicators to everyone.

That's a fact. Flesh and Blood.

So no one had ever taught these guys that selling tech to idiots is wrong.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Having seen what the temporal duplucate (or is that original?) Destiny crew did in the last half season of SGU, literally anything could happen.

There's also the duplicate EMH heading to earth 700 years later.

Were the Silver Blood limited to one copy of each Voyager crewmember?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Per ship after their memory was wiped.

but we don't know if that was witting.

Did they decided to forget who they were or was there an accident? Imagine if Elogium happened to the Quicksilver Voyager? Some space whale tries to mount and roger Voyager who flips the whale and buggers it right back.

There could have been thousands or tens of thousands of other Phauxagers with all sorts of crews they were filled with quicksilver entities who understood who they were and so bent and broke the rules about how they were supposed to coexist.

Imagine a ship of Nothing but 150 Harry Kims, and they were all still an Ensign.

You could argue that the DeLaney sisters weren't sisters but do-over stories by a Quicksilver crew re enacting earlier adventures with this one glitch that these two medically needed to be Ensign Delanney and couldn't sort their shit out.

(Somehow I once bent logic inside out to suggest they were reject clones of Picard like that Shinzon bugger, but I can't quite remember how I did it.)

There were two other sets of twins/siblings, possibly spouses on Voyager which we didn't see, we have to suspect, since there was at least two occasions where the sex of a character once mentioned bent gender after script continuity errors by the time they were mentioned twice.

 

[Gary7]

None made it. Everything was reset. Why run down this fruitless path? I just don't see the point. The pods would never make it back to the Alpha quadrant, much less to the next solar system. She had to ask people to leave because the ship couldn't sustain them... and was becoming a dangerous place to live anyway. She did the right thing. And in the end, thankfully the reset button was pushed (one of the few times it made sense).

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't think that's how the reset button was applied this fortnight.

They were actually altering established future history as well a past history every time those Krenim fired off their weapon, otherwise Annorax wouldn't be able to forecast the future like he was, if he was still destined to destroy the future again so soon.

**sigh**

Such awful, awful fake-science.