How Would Others Fare?

[Bry_Sinclair]

I was pondering about this so I thought I would see what others thought.

What if the crews from one series were used in another? For example, what if it had been Captain Benjamin Sisko of the U.S.S. Voyager, lost in the Delta Quadrant,? Would he have gotten on better or worse than Janeway?

Or what is Picard and Co. had been assigned to Deep Space 9, would there ever have been a Dominion War (thanks to Picard's diplomatic prowess)?

 

[malchya]

One thing for darn certain; had Sisko been in command of Voyager, the show would have had one more regular viewer! Mr. Brooks was born to play a captain!

 

[Mr Silver]

I can safely say that had Sisko not been on DS9, the war would have been over when the massive reinforcements came through the wormhole (it was Sisko and his connection with the Prophets that arguably saved the Alpha Quadrant).

Kirk would have got Voyager home immediately...

Kirk: "Spock, reprogram the array to take us home. Uhura, inform the Kazon that were are carrying a large supply of Corbomite and if it detonates it will take out everything within this system. Scotty, rig some photons to time delay detonate."

 

[Anwar]

Using the Array wasn't an option though, it would have taken hours to get it working and before then the Kazon reinforcements would've arrived and killed them all/taken Voyager.

None of the Captains would've been able to use the Array to go home.

Course, if it were Picard or Kirk neither of them would be all that alarmed: They'd both been in similar situations before.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

What a fun idea! Never seen this topic here before.

Here are the worst two switcheroos:

DS9 crew ---> VOY. Trapped together in close quarters, they'd kill each other inside of a week.

TNG crew ---> DS9. Holier-than-thou Picard wouldn't have done all the nasty stuff Sisko got up to, and the Feds would have lost the war. (And that's setting aside the notion that Sisko alone could have swayed the Prophets.)

Best two switcheroos:

TNG crew ---> ENT. With a much-less-powerful Starfleet and more-vulnerable Earth, a mature and cautious captain like Picard would have been a far better choice to command Enterprise than that loose cannon they got instead.

TOS crew ---> VOY. Their natural affinity for each other would keep internal conflicts to a minimum and having a charismatic and optimistic captain like Kirk would have kept up morale.

 

[T'Girl]

Yesterday's Enterprise, with a different title for obvious reasons. Instead of the Enterprise Cee, with Rachael Garrett, it's the Excelsior with Captain Sulu. Th episode would play pretty much the same, the ongoing war with the Klingon would have been somewhat more protracted, the battle that sent the ship into the future would have been after the events of TUC. It would have been interesting to watch Picard and Sulu interacting. Sulu would have survived to re-enter the "time fissure."

It would have told of Sulu's ultimate fate, and that he went out a hero.

 

[sonak]

I can safely say that had Sisko not been on DS9, the war would have been over when the massive reinforcements came through the wormhole (it was Sisko and his connection with the Prophets that arguably saved the Alpha Quadrant).

Kirk would have got Voyager home immediately...

Kirk: "Spock, reprogram the array to take us home. Uhura, inform the Kazon that were are carrying a large supply of Corbomite and if it detonates it will take out everything within this system. Scotty, rig some photons to time delay detonate."

I doubt that without Sisko the UFP would've lost the war. More likely, without anyone having a personal connection to the Prophets, Starfleet would've just focused their efforts on collapsing the wormhole, maybe at an earlier date, and the war wouldn't have deteriorated to this point in the first place. As for the topic, Kirk would've been even more awesome with an advanced ship like the Enterprise-D or Voyager. I can't see him as a space station captain.

 

[Sisko4Life]

More likely, without anyone having a personal connection to the Prophets, Starfleet would've just focused their efforts on collapsing the wormhole, maybe at an earlier date, and the war wouldn't have deteriorated to this point in the first place.

This. They waited too long to attempt this with Sisko though. Still the best Captain though! Feds would have definately collapsed the wormhole once the Alpha Quadrant started destabilizing in season 4.

As far as Voyager. I can't think of any other crew that WOULDN'T reprogram the array and go home. Janeway is just that clueless

 

[Anwar]

Like I said, using the Array was never an option. The dumb thing was that the writers themselves forgot and later acted like it was Janeway's fault.

 

[T'Girl]

Like I said, using the Array was never an option.

Problem with Janeway reprogramming the array to intiate a faster return journey, was her lacking of a superior Science Officer, or at that point a superior Chief Engineer.

Kirk don't have this particular problem. Neither did Picard. Sisko people in this area were only good (IMHO), but still better than Janeway's crew. Janeway was a new Captain to her own ship, and also still sorting thing out with the new combined crew she found herself commanding.

Tuvok, a security and tactical expert, said it would take several hours to activate the system to send Voyager back to the alpha quadrant. But would it have taken Spock as long? Spock was a science officer and a someone who routinely and quickly figured out complex alien technology.

It goes without saying that Spock's science skills exceeded Tuvok's

Starfleet would've just focused their efforts on collapsing the wormhole

As commander of DS9, it would be easy to see Kirk mining the entrance to the wormhole as soon as the threat from the Dominion became apparent, and certainly not have waited years to do so. Waiting until after the Dominion had sent numerous warships into the alpha quadrant was idiotic.

 

[The_Baroness]

Like I said, using the Array was never an option.

Problem with Janeway reprogramming the array to intiate a faster return journey, was her lacking of a superior Science Officer, or at that point a superior Chief Engineer.

Kirk don't have this particular problem. Neither did Picard. Sisko people in this area were only good (IMHO), but still better than Janeway's crew. Janeway was a new Captain to her own ship, and also still sorting thing out with the new combined crew she found herself commanding.

Tuvok, a security and tactical expert, said it would take several hours to activate the system to send Voyager back to the alpha quadrant. But would it have taken Spock as long? Spock was a science officer and a someone who routinely and quickly figured out complex alien technology.

It goes without saying that Spock's science skills exceeded Tuvok's

Starfleet would've just focused their efforts on collapsing the wormhole

As commander of DS9, it would be easy to see Kirk mining the entrance to the wormhole as soon as the threat from the Dominion became apparent, and certainly not have waited years to do so. Waiting until after the Dominion had sent numerous warships into the alpha quadrant was idiotic.

kirk woulda just two-hand punched the great link in the back til it shut the hell up!

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Using the Array wasn't an option though, it would have taken hours to get it working and before then the Kazon reinforcements would've arrived and killed them all/taken Voyager.

None of the Captains would've been able to use the Array to go home.

Course, if it were Picard or Kirk neither of them would be all that alarmed: They'd both been in similar situations before.

Except Kirk has Spock and can likely bluff the Kazon into thinking he has a doomsday weapon on board seeing as the Romulans fell for that one and their probably smarter than the Kazon.

 

[T'Girl]

^ That pile of tribbles that fell on kirk were smarter than the Kazon.

 

[MacLeod]

Wasn't Janeway a Science Officer?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

^ That pile of tribbles that fell on kirk were smarter than the Kazon.

Well said. And many of those tribbles were dead too.

 

[Mr Silver]

Picard probably wouldn't have bothered getting involved with the Kazon in the first place and would take the issues straight to the Caretaker himself. I could imagine Picard being much more persuasive than Janeway and along with Data (who would probably figure out what was going on much sooner than Tuvok and anybody else) they would manage to get their crew back, protect the Ocampa, defeat the Kazon and get home.

Edit: And drop Neelix and Kes off at Betazed where Neelix can find work as Lwaxana's personal chef...

 

[xortex]

I wonder if a cross over series would would work, sort of like an all star Federation dream team Star Ship crew thrown together for various reasons from every different series to bridge the gap in a nu-trek future. There doesn't even have to be an in universe explaination since it is a different universe to begin with as it is. So let's see, my picks are off the top of my head.

Captain Ben Sisko
First officer and science officer Ezri Dax
Dr. Lois ? Picardo's character
Commander Garrovik

etc., etc.

 

[Dream]

Picard wouldn't have murdered Tuvix that's for sure.

 

[plynch]

Picard wouldn't have murdered Tuvix that's for sure.

Good call. That move by janeway sours the whole series for me a bit.

 

[xortex]

Is it my imagination or was that written wrong as in Tuvix should have been the one to want to be seperated and reintegrated back into his seperate selves and entities/components. The idea of Tuvok and Nellix getting stuck together would be unnerving to them both to say the least if they retained any memories of it after it at all. It seems Tuvok's personality would have achieved dominance and forced the crew to find a solution to his problem or he would destroy the ship. Am I wrong?

I also had the same feeling for an episode of DS9 'Shadow Play' where that alien guy had gotten used to holograms being his family and Odo and Kira encouraged him to stay and even restored them for him. I thought this was way wrong, but then I changed my mind and now I'm back to thinking it's still and was always way wrong wrong wrong. Am I wrong?

The last straw for me was 'Similitude' when Archer forced the created Trip to report to sick bay to die. That ruined Archer's character for me as Janeway's character was ruined in Voyager. I heard it got worse from there with Archer killing helpless Xindi on a relay station because he thought he had to. Maybe we will or have to destroy Xindi after all in the future. The sphere builders can't be wrong after all because that's where they come from i think.