Good Will Riker
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How would you have wanted VOYAGER to end? 
How would you have wanted VOYAGER to end?
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Voyager get home in the first hour of the finale (With the help of Species 8472, to make it a borg episode again) and then have an epilogue in the second hour. Just something to show something to the fans who stuck with the series for 7 years and watched so many hints being dropped on various consequences that would occur after Voyager got home.
I remember reading on a site called Virtual Voyager, or something like that, which had novel style episodes for a season 8, 9 and I think a 10, and in the first episode of season 8 it had the Voyager finaly return to Sol, as seen in End Game only to then be pulled into some sort of wormhole, several hours later, which I think was the Transwarp conduit and dragged into another part of the Galaxy, or another Galaxy itself.
I think it'd be cool if this had happened at the end of Voyager but two episodes towards the end, like have them get home somehow and the have this happe to them where they end up somewhere else entirely and then end the show there, with some potential maybe for a movie to conclude it.
BTW I found the very site here at Virtual Voyager Season Project
I think it'd be cool if this had happened at the end of Voyager but two episodes towards the end, like have them get home somehow and the have this happe to them where they end up somewhere else entirely and then end the show there, with some potential maybe for a movie to conclude it.
BTW I found the very site here at Virtual Voyager Season Project
They should have had Torres and Seven have some bonding time in various episodes starting from season 4 and onward so they can get to know eachother better without all those arguments they always had when it comes to a difficult mission and try to solve those issues during the friendship bonding. That's the way I would have done for them. Maybe a little romance between the two, hehehe
I have only read some femslash fanfics between those two but maybe I should get into reading those again lol
Anyways....as for getting Voyager home, have another episode after Endgame part 2 and calling it Homecoming, at the beginning of that.....have Voyager come down to San Francisco and land (if its night time, show the fireworks and people greeting them home just like in Endgame part 1) and then during the episode...have a reunion to be greeted by their family, friends and Starfleet.
I would have like to see Voyager find a wormhole that took them straight back to . . . the back end of Romulan space. The Romulans detect the wormhole, and figure the Federation has found a way to outflank them. Everything goes on a war footing, and a huge fleet is sent that outnumbers Voyager. Just as the attack is about to begin, the order is rescinded because of a coup back on Romulus led by . . .
Spock.
Spock.
Yeah, I kept waiting throughout the last 3 seasons for what I thought was the inevitable bonding episode with Seven and B'Elanna. Sadly, it never came.
Well, they certainly had more chemistry than Seven/Chakotay
(easy enough). Anyway, speaking of reading, if you're into Trek books, the first of the String Theory trilogy has Seven and B'Elanna forced to work together on their own and definitely bond - in more ways than one. No slash fic, though. 
I would have liked the writers to have used the Unimatrix Zero storyline to pave the way. Everything unfolds like in Part I but then in Part II we see a big war erupt all over the galaxy as liberated UZ drones seized control of many Borg vessels and aliens that were victims of the Borg join the coordinated fight-Secies 8472, Arturis' species etc and of course the Federation with Admiral Paris and Barclay involved.
It never made sense in UZ II that Janeway didn't procure a functioning transwarp coil. So here they wouldn't have to stall they could grab one and return to Federation space. Ultimately the Collective is brought down and a few episodes are dedicated to the aftermath for the crew.
Or I had heard at one point there was a neat idea bandied about by writers on VOY at the time. The idea was the crew didn't find a shortcut home so their journey ended up taking another thirty years from the point of the seventh season. They would do an arc of episodes towards the end of the season where the final six episodes would each chronicle the way things were on the ship and where the various characters were in their lives at certain points along that thirty year timeline.
For instance, episode one would take place a year from the previous episode then episode two would be three years from episode one and then episode three would be ten years from episode two etc until the two hour finale where we see the crew returned home and the aftermath.
It never made sense in UZ II that Janeway didn't procure a functioning transwarp coil. So here they wouldn't have to stall they could grab one and return to Federation space. Ultimately the Collective is brought down and a few episodes are dedicated to the aftermath for the crew.
Or I had heard at one point there was a neat idea bandied about by writers on VOY at the time. The idea was the crew didn't find a shortcut home so their journey ended up taking another thirty years from the point of the seventh season. They would do an arc of episodes towards the end of the season where the final six episodes would each chronicle the way things were on the ship and where the various characters were in their lives at certain points along that thirty year timeline.
For instance, episode one would take place a year from the previous episode then episode two would be three years from episode one and then episode three would be ten years from episode two etc until the two hour finale where we see the crew returned home and the aftermath.
The same episode we got but instead of the transwarp conduit taking them home Janeway had to alter course back to the Delta Quadrant. They end up another few years closer to home.
The show would end with Janeway looking around at her bridge crew, telling them they would get home, it would just take a little longer. She would tell Tom to set a course for home and Voyager would warp away, still on course to the Alpha Quadrant after having dealt the Borg a crippling blow. :thumbsup:
The show would end with Janeway looking around at her bridge crew, telling them they would get home, it would just take a little longer. She would tell Tom to set a course for home and Voyager would warp away, still on course to the Alpha Quadrant after having dealt the Borg a crippling blow. :thumbsup:
Are you assuming that Voyager would have a movie because that is a Saprano's type ending. Where's the closure.
No closure. I always thought Voyager was more about the journey of getting home than actually making it to Earth. I would have liked an open ending.
I'm pretty much with Akiraprise on this.
I liked Endgame with the most part, but getting them ALL the way back to Earth was too much of a cheat.
I'd have it end with Voyager escaping the transwarp conduit, right at the edge of the Delta Quadrant.
It's not earth, but they've shaved a few hours off their trip. This would be followed by a scene in the Mess Hall, with everyone looking out at the stars and the Beta Quadrant which now lies before them. Kinda like the final scene of Buffy, they all ponder what's come before, but remain optimistic towards a new future which they will face together.
And then, right at the end, we get a replay of the shot from the beginning of the episode. It's 26 years in the future. Admiral Janeway still has her battered coffee cup. Except this time, she looks out into a warm sunrise. And smiles.
I liked Endgame with the most part, but getting them ALL the way back to Earth was too much of a cheat.
I'd have it end with Voyager escaping the transwarp conduit, right at the edge of the Delta Quadrant.
It's not earth, but they've shaved a few hours off their trip. This would be followed by a scene in the Mess Hall, with everyone looking out at the stars and the Beta Quadrant which now lies before them. Kinda like the final scene of Buffy, they all ponder what's come before, but remain optimistic towards a new future which they will face together.
And then, right at the end, we get a replay of the shot from the beginning of the episode. It's 26 years in the future. Admiral Janeway still has her battered coffee cup. Except this time, she looks out into a warm sunrise. And smiles.
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I've got a friend who felt the same way.
Personally, I would have felt cheated if they hadn't made it to Earth at all. Janeway gives them their mission at the end of Caretaker: return to Earth. If the mission isn't complete at the end of the final episode, to me that says the mission didn't matter, and if I shouldn't care about whether they actually make it or not, why did I bother watching for seven years?
Put another way, my feeling is that if the story is about the journey but the story ends before the journey is complete, the story is really about nothing. YMMV, of course.
As it was, I was still dissatisfied with how it ended. I thought a few minutes at the end of the episode showing the crew reuniting with old friends and family would have been appropriate.
Personally, I thought Endgame was pretty good (not great, but good) as it was. However, I would have made it the penultimate episode and had an additional epilogue-type episode covering the crew actually arriving on Earth and going their own way.
On the other hand, the open-ended finale would have been a good way to go as well. But if you're going to have them get home we should have seen more than just the ship entering Earth orbit.
On the other hand, the open-ended finale would have been a good way to go as well. But if you're going to have them get home we should have seen more than just the ship entering Earth orbit.
I'm not too fussy about story specifics. The only thing I would have liked would have been for them not to have gotten home in the last two minutes of a seven year show.
There should have been one more series, showing them all picking up their former lives and ties, or making new ones. TNG's "Family" is one example of the crewman going home, and dealing with issues.
Then the series could have ended on the first anniversary of their return, with perhaps the death of one of the crewmen suffering from a disease which could have been cured in the Delta Quadrant, had they known...
Newly promoted Admiral Janeway would be concerned for this crewman, and would be trying to fight Starfleet, to send a newly refitted Voyager using it's Borg influenced Transwarp Drive to travel back to the Delta Quadrant. But Starfleet continuously refuses her request, and as she starts planning to disobey her orders, either three outcomes can occur. Either this crewman dies of his illness, or Neelix who has been in contact with everyone via the Midas Array, or Kes returns with the cure.
Then the series could have ended on the first anniversary of their return, with perhaps the death of one of the crewmen suffering from a disease which could have been cured in the Delta Quadrant, had they known...
Newly promoted Admiral Janeway would be concerned for this crewman, and would be trying to fight Starfleet, to send a newly refitted Voyager using it's Borg influenced Transwarp Drive to travel back to the Delta Quadrant. But Starfleet continuously refuses her request, and as she starts planning to disobey her orders, either three outcomes can occur. Either this crewman dies of his illness, or Neelix who has been in contact with everyone via the Midas Array, or Kes returns with the cure.
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Or Voyager could have made it home a few episodes earlier, and the ending two-parter could have doubled as the pilot for the next series, at least if it weren't for the problems with how the franchise was being run. The Practice in its final season set the stage for Boston Legal.
Voyager crash landing in san Francisco, sliding to a halt in front of starfleet headquarters, her hull blackened and worn (...first time for everything...).
This takes place in the second to last act - there final act shows the crew being reunited with their families.
This takes place in the second to last act - there final act shows the crew being reunited with their families.
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