How would you have ended "Voyager"?

[Praetor]

I think most VGR fans will agree that season seven is... shall we say, lackluster. And many fans will also agree that "Endgame" was... shall we say, uninspired.

So: you have been assigned as executive producer of Season Seven. You can plan the season, leading up to the series finale. You must abide by what has come before, but otherwise you can do more or less what you want. Kill characters in the series finale, destroy the ship, whatever. Will you have them make it home, or will they still be "out there"?

Or, would you leave it exactly as it was?

How would you do it?

 

[Zameaze]

I would have gone “Forbidden Planet” with it: They would have found an idyllic planet and settled it. Seven would have been our Altaira with everyone still trying to call dibs on her. I would have only given the slightest hints as to who would become romantically involved with whom, and how they would structure their society. It would be wide open for a sequel, and if the sequel never came about, everyone would be happier imagining the outcome for themselves rather than having it spelled out for them.

 

[cybersoldier]

First No Borg, second use species 8472 as the villain if you needed, third they are still stuck in the delta quadrant but cuts a bit more time off their trip home.

 

[Guy Gardener]

For a similar topic about a year ago, I actually rewrote a script for endgame.

http://s9.zetaboards.com/Jacks_Place/topic/161697/1/

Took me less than a day.

And it probably shows.

speaking now?

The last episode of Voyager should have included Archer, the temporal cold war, or some 3 hundred year old member of his crew and the dessicated hulk of Enteprise NX-01 somehow found out there in deep space some thirty thousand light years from earth. of course if they mentioned the Dauntless having the same registry, that would have been aces.

it was an astonishing lack of synergy not to prepare us for the next instalment, and it's no wonder so many could just announce that this was a perfect jumping off point and the next chapter didn't have to exist if we didn't feel like we'd placed any personal commitment to view it.

Strippers eating butterflies you say?

 

[Xerxes1979]

I would go with a Blake's 7 ending. Everybody gets shot or assimilated. The tough part would be deciding who would be the equivalent of Avon.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A friend of mine, who was OH SO extremely homosexual, said that Avon stood over the top of Blake's corpse in the end, so that when the Federation Stormtrooper shot him, he'd fall dead atop Blake in some final tryst.

We had them die in Timeless which was superb.

 

[KayArr]

I liked the way it ended just fine. Loved Voyager coming back into the right quadrant right through the borg ship.

 

[Tachyon]

Perhaps I would have brought the Vaadwaur back with their supspace corridors during season 7. What would have actually happened with them - that requires some more thinking.

In the finale they could have travelled via those subspace corridors towards Alpha Quadrant, but not quite making it there. Perhaps they could have ended up about 5000 - 10 000 light-years away, which would have been close enough for the crew really thinking about getting home and what waits them there, but far enough to still explore Delta Quadrant in the Voyager books. I would have not killed any character.

 

[Lynx]

Kes would have returned to stay wioth the crew and the creature in "Fury" should have been revealed as a being from another reality.

There should have been a final showdown with the female Caretaker and a decent homecoming for our favorites.

Maybe a happy ending between Janeway and Chakotay.

No Borg, no time-jumps and no C/7.

 

[Tachyon]

No Borg, no time-jumps and no C/7.

That about sums it up for me too.

 

[Orac Zen]

Aside from the Seven / chuckles nonsense, I liked "Endgame" just fine. I have no problem with the Janeways using the Borg as ruthlessly as the Borg used / assimilated others. I have no problem with them achieving their goal to get the crew home. I have no problem with the lack of joyful reunions with family and friends we'd never seen (or perhaps even heard of). So with that one exception, I wouldn't change anything.

Ideally, "Q2" wouldn't exist, though.

 

[GotNoRice]

I would have liked to see the final episode or episode arc take place in the Alpha Quadrant.

Not just, "Oh look, we're home now!" and then the credits roll.

They could have made it back quickly and unexpectedly, where it's all over so quickly even the crew are stunned. They could then explore all of the unfinished plot points like how 7 or 9 would have reacted on earth, how the former maquis would be treated, and would the Doctor have retained his independence?

Then after about an episode or so you could have it where one of the Delta quadrant species that they pissed off over the years also comes to earth, and starts attacking or something - to the extent that only Voyager has the knowledge on how to stop them and gets to end the series saving earth.

 

[exodus]

Same ending we got except no C/7 and Tom Paris dies in the Delta Flyer stopping the Sphere and allowing Voyager to get home.

 

[Brit]

Same ending we got except no C/7 and Tom Paris dies in the Delta Flyer stopping the Sphere and allowing Voyager to get home.

And leaves behind a child to be raised by a single mom. Just the senario that Avery Brooks put his foot down and forced a change of the ending of Deep Space Nine. I don't think so.

Brit

 

[flemm]

I would have liked to see the final episode or episode arc take place in the Alpha Quadrant.

Not just, "Oh look, we're home now!" and then the credits roll.

Yeah, this was my first thought as well. I'm not a Voyager fan, but I did watch the occasional episode when they aired. I felt at the time that this moment when the crew finally returns home had the potential to be a truly great moment, the kind of thing a writer would just be dying to explore in depth.

I was disappointed by how little time was spent on the actual homecoming.

 

[exodus]

Same ending we got except no C/7 and Tom Paris dies in the Delta Flyer stopping the Sphere and allowing Voyager to get home.

And leaves behind a child to be raised by a single mom. Just the senario that Avery Brooks put his foot down and forced a change of the ending of Deep Space Nine. I don't think so.

Brit

Happens all the time, even on Star Trek.
Sisko's wife died leaving him to be a single parent, same with the Crusher's. Worf's started out as a war orphan. Everyone is provided for within the Federation.

 

[Freman]

With the ship blowing up, all hands lost.

 

[Tachyon]

With the ship blowing up, all hands lost.

How lovely.

 

[Anwar]

Same ending we got except no C/7 and Tom Paris dies in the Delta Flyer stopping the Sphere and allowing Voyager to get home.

And leaves behind a child to be raised by a single mom. Just the senario that Avery Brooks put his foot down and forced a change of the ending of Deep Space Nine. I don't think so.

Brit

Happens all the time, even on Star Trek.
Sisko's wife died leaving him to be a single parent, same with the Crusher's. Worf's started out as a war orphan. Everyone is provided for within the Federation.

I think it was the "Black woman left alone to raise her child" thing Brooks was more averse to than the idea of a single parent (he didn't object to Sisko being one).

 

[andersonh1]

I actually found season seven to be quite an improvement on five and six, overall. And I liked Endgame. About the only thing I'd like to have seen was an episode dedicated to what happened to the crew after they got back to Earth.