How would you have ended "Voyager"?

[startrekwatcher]

I have two ideas in mind. Both would have unfolded over the last six or so episodes.

The first idea would have been for the crew to never have found any further shortcuts home. Their journey took the 35 years or so projected. Each episode in the arc would take place a certain amount of time later than the last with the passage of time increasing from a few months to years to ultimately 35 years when the crew returns home. Each episode would show how the crew and life on VOY had changed. Then the last three episodes would be all about the aftermath and their lives now.

My second idea would have centered around Unimatrix Zero with the BOrg civil war leading to a galactic scale battle with one front in the Alpha Quadrant and Admiral Paris/Barclay and the second in the Delta Quadrant where the crew works with the rebel Borg as well as races like 8472 who have a stake in toppling the Borg. It would lead to Janeway's actual assimilation and sacrifice to destroy the Queen. In the end, Axum provides the crew a series of coils to get home. And the finale would also examine the aftermath to their return home.

 

[Zameaze]

With the ship blowing up, all hands lost.

How lovely.

But better to blow the crew up than to have them return home. The Voyager crew was so invested in returning home, and had been away so long, returning home would have been a disaster.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Heh, I was thinking that the Kazon took some bloody fantastic short cut and so had already conquered the teran homeworld by the time Kathy got back to EarthSpace.

 

[flemm]

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).

This was my understanding as well. Since the absentee father is both a stereotype and actual problem in the black community, Brooks didn't want the character to go out on that note. I think the writers hadn't really considered it from that angle, and so rewrote the ending with Sisko providing his assurances that he would indeed return.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Ah, one season to correct six of mistakes. Yeah, that'd be fun.

Well, if I'm placed in charge at the beginning of season seven, that means there'd be the wrap up to Unimatrix Zero. Given that I would never have ended the first part with that particular cliffhanger, I'd just have that one produced as originally aired, but instead have Janeway, Torres, and Tuvok requiring some additional therapy after being drones - especially Tuvok, given that he'd succumbed to the Collective.

I'd spend another handful of episodes there in the first half that refocused the series on the crew as a whole and as a family, have an appearance from the Equinox crew, how they're still trying to gain the confidence of the crew. Somewhere, there'd be a subplot about Naomi attempting to help the Borg brat pack recover some element of their childhood. Actually, I'd probably include Seven in that - she had no childhood, so she's attempting to recover it. There'd also be an episode where Harry earns his second pip, because MY GOD, six years as an ensign is unforgiveable. I would have the marriage of Tom and B'Elanna occur, as well as the pregnancy. This would be a good time to explore the idea of the crew pairing off in greater detail, as well as the idea of having children.

Then, for the mid-season finale, we'd return to the Unimatrix Zero rebellion, where a group of their ships have come together and are planning a raid on the unicomplex - intent on crippling the Borg entirely. They lure Voyager into helping them because they can also get them access to a path home. The crew goes along, and the raid goes south. However, the Zeros use a tractor beam to send the crew through the subspace portal or whatever and send them home instead of letting them die - they feel that while they'd rather die than return to the collective, Voyager should get some reward for helping them. So we finish the first half of the season off with Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant. Granted, bringing them back undermines the idea of the crew pairing off and having kids, but it's something that should have been explored far earlier, so I'd like to at least acknowledge the fact that up until this point, they'd been expecting to be in transit for another twenty to thirty years.

The next quarter would be spent exploring the homecoming, letting us see their return home, including follow-up with the Maquis and some of Janeway's more questionable actions - I expect the fact that she even contemplated allying with the Borg would raise more than a few eyebrows among the brass, and that's just the first off the top of my head. Eventually, we'd have things pulled into a resolution, but then I'd have the Borg reenter the scene, making a greater push for assimilating the Federation - before it'd always been single cubes. Now it's a fleet, targetting different areas of the Federation.

And... really, that's all I've got for the moment. I've got an idea for the final episodes that involves the remaining Unimatrix Zero drones, a virus that will wipe out the Borg, and a self-sacrifice by Seven to pull it off, but it hasn't quite gelled in my mind.

 

[Anwar]

People were PO'ed enough that VOY dared to create a species capable of fighting the Borg off, I doubt they'd take it that well with VOY wiping all the Borg everywhere (all Janeway did in Endgame was kill a Queen temporarily and destroy the Unicomplex).

 

[startrekwatcher]

People were PO'ed enough that VOY dared to create a species capable of fighting the Borg off, I doubt they'd take it that well with VOY wiping all the Borg everywhere (all Janeway did in Endgame was kill a Queen temporarily and destroy the Unicomplex).

It wouldn't have changed anything had Biller had the Collective be undone for good except make for better drama. ENT could have still done "Regeneration" and with the new movies anything goes.

 

[Anwar]

I have to wonder, if VOY had done an arc wherein VOY had access to multiple vessels (like a Delta Federation made on the fly) and had still had their Borg episodes would people complain that the Borg had been "ruined" by VOY? Or would they be okay with the Borg no longer being invincible as long as there was more than one ship involved?

If not, then they truly are unpleasable.

 

[kimc]

I would have brought back the Vaadwaur and after much drama, etc. have Voyager get home using one of their tunnels. Hint of J/C at the end.

 

[RandyS]

With the ship blowing up, all hands lost.

How lovely.

That's how New Galactica should have ended.

 

[kimc]

With the ship blowing up, all hands lost.

How lovely.

That's how New Galactica should have ended.

In a way thought that would be a cheat for either show...

"Well we couldn't come up with a way to end it so we just blew them all up."

 

[Anwar]

Seeing the reaction to "Alien 3" for pretty much doing the same thing, I don't think that would work out so well.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

People were PO'ed enough that VOY dared to create a species capable of fighting the Borg off, I doubt they'd take it that well with VOY wiping all the Borg everywhere (all Janeway did in Endgame was kill a Queen temporarily and destroy the Unicomplex).

Personally, I've always thought that the implication of the writers in 'Endgame' was that the crew had dealt a devastating blow to the Borg. That's why they blew up the unicomplex, which had been implied to be the headquarters of the Borg. They were basically going down the path of 'okay, so we've done this to the Borg - if anyone has an idea that can work for them again, we can use it, but otherwise, we're gonna act like that was the end of them.'

But let me just point out that I was writing down my idea as I thought about it. That's why I say I have a 'vague idea about...' since it hadn't completely gelled for me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

JANEWAY: Belay that. I asked you a question. What is it?
ADMIRAL: The road home.
SEVEN: It's more than that. It's a transwarp hub.
JANEWAY: You once told me there were only six of them in the galaxy.
SEVEN: That's correct.
JANEWAY: You knew this was here, but you didn't tell me about it. Why?
ADMIRAL: I'll answer all your questions once we're back in the Alpha quadrant.

6 more.

I imagine that the Borg lost many transwarp conduits which were being kept active/open/maintained by the hub, but if killing the queen would destroy the Borg, you'd think that they'd want the Hub for themselves?

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

I was referring to the Unicomplex, not the transwarp hub. The hub was first seen in Endgame. The Unicomplex had appeared in Dark Frontier and Unimatrix Zero prior to its destruction. THAT'S what I meant when I said the Borg HQ was implied to be destroyed.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Seven seasons earlier.

 

[Tachyon]

 

[Guy Gardener]

I was referring to the Unicomplex, not the transwarp hub. The hub was first seen in Endgame. The Unicomplex had appeared in Dark Frontier and Unimatrix Zero prior to its destruction. THAT'S what I meant when I said the Borg HQ was implied to be destroyed.

Sweet zombie jesus.

I've spent years thinking that the Queen was just coincidentally holidaying on the hub.

But Admiral Kathy in a feint to get her crew home, Jaunted, saunted, 30 thousandish lightyears away away to pull the queens jockeys up over her ears?

30,000 ly in her shuttle = 10 minutes. She can fit, like maybe 12 people in there? but that's still only a little more than 10 round trips of 20 minutes, that wouldn't see any of them having to fight borg.

I knew she was a *&^%.

 

[Tom Riley]

Haha, some of these sound kinda similar to the way things went down in and leading up to Star Trek Destiny...

 

[Dream]

I would have just used the episode Timeless as the series finale. Maybe make it into a two parter having it be about all the main characters instead of just Kim to do to make it more epic. It would have been a much better series finale than Endgame.