Spoilers Prodigy ship revealed

[Gingerbread Demon]

To really annoy your only son.

(if I remember correctly, I believe that she tells him in the first episode she didn't get a choice and that is also why most folks choose not to)

OK I've never seen the first episode of that show so thanks. That's a very odd take on reincarnation.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

If Travis was a car he'd something silent, like a Tesla.

In a fleet owned by Avis /s

 

[dupersuper]

In a fleet owned by Avis /s

Praise to His name.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If Travis was a car he'd be something silent, like a Tesla.

Who?

 

[DaveyNY]

Who?

Tr' Avis .... the 22nd Century spaceship rental Co.

Every Boomer knows that.

 

[Danja]

In a fleet owned by Avis /s

He always did try harder.

 

[cooleddie74]

Travis would be the Flying Car from the Kevin Smith short film. Nonexistent.

 

[Danja]

Protostar would've had to have gone out after Voyager returned (they couldn't have created the Janeway AI hologram without Janeway's participation).

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Protostar would've had to have gone out after Voyager returned (they couldn't have created the Janeway AI hologram without Janeway's participation).

Early theories were that this was a ship sent out to rescue the crew of Voyager (like ht e Dauntless, but actually sent by Starfleet). But yeah, if a Janway holo is built in, that doesn't make sense any more.

Maybe yet another ship was "Caretakered" to the DQ they didn't know about at the time?

 

[Danja]

Maybe yet another ship was "Caretakered" to the DQ they didn't know about at the time?

Another Caretaker?

How do you explain the Janeway hologram?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Another Caretaker?

How do you explain the Janeway hologram?

No, I meant that the Protostar was "sent out" to rescue a crew other than the Voyager's. We know the Equinox got pushed to the DQ as well as a Cardassian ship and the Dreadnought. Could be a bunch of missing ships out there.

And there was a second Caretaker, who knows what that one was doing early on.

 

[fireproof78]

Original crew is captured but the ship was set to escape. Ends up abandoned.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Original crew is captured but the ship was set to escape. Ends up abandoned.

I like this idea so would they set out to find and save them?

 

[fireproof78]

I like this idea so would they set out to find and save them?

I think that would create the tension. Some will want to but others will just want to escape the villain.

 

[Deks]

Early theories were that this was a ship sent out to rescue the crew of Voyager (like ht e Dauntless, but actually sent by Starfleet). But yeah, if a Janway holo is built in, that doesn't make sense any more.

Maybe yet another ship was "Caretakered" to the DQ they didn't know about at the time?

Doesn't really track if you ask me.
The Protostar's registry suggests the ship was built at least 2 years after VOY disappeared... and its an NX class (experimental).
VOY didn't make contact with SF until the 4th season (2375).
The appearance of the Janeway training hologram and the fact the show is set 5 years after VOY returned home (aka, year 2353) suggests to me this vessel was equipped with a bunch of tech VOY brought back from the DQ after the ship returned home (a product of a couple of years of SF/UFP R&D most likely... and since there are over 150 member alien worlds in UFP, coupled with the fact they can just tell the computer 'analyse technologies VOY brought back from the DQ, contrast with VOY sensor data, latest in UFP scientitific discoveries and come up with a way to make them functional'... the computer operating at superluminal speeds would be able to EASILY come up with new technologies in a few weeks to a year most likely (given that SF HQ probably has its own version of a 'supercomputer')... choose the Protostar (which could be one of several NX class ships chosen to house and test these technologies) and launched it with the Janeway training hologram.

Its possible the Protostar was equipped with these technologies so that UFP would send exploration ships to the DQ and other distant parts of the Milky Way as a next stage in exploration.

Next order of business, while the ship was testing a new method of FTL (possibly Transwarp, Enhanced Warp drive, Coaxial Warp or Quantum slipstream), there was an unpredictable event which caused the ship to veer off course... with the FTL drive speed going into 'overdrive' and causing it to lose contact with SF, eventually crashing in the DQ.

The existence of other AQ species in the DQ could be explained by the Caretaker pulling in ships before VOY (the Equinox was already in the DQ before VOY, as was that Cardassian ship), so it stands to reason a civilian transport ship was probably pulled to the Array... or they were caught in a wormhole or something else.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Doesn't really track if you ask me.
The Protostar's registry suggests the ship was built at least 2 years after VOY disappeared... and its an NX class (experimental).
VOY didn't make contact with SF until the 4th season (2375).
The appearance of the Janeway training hologram and the fact the show is set 5 years after VOY returned home (aka, year 2353) suggests to me this vessel was equipped with a bunch of tech VOY brought back from the DQ after the ship returned home (a product of a couple of years of SF/UFP R&D most likely... and since there are over 150 member alien worlds in UFP, coupled with the fact they can just tell the computer 'analyse technologies VOY brought back from the DQ, contrast with VOY sensor data, latest in UFP scientitific discoveries and come up with a way to make them functional'... the computer operating at superluminal speeds would be able to EASILY come up with new technologies in a few weeks to a year most likely (given that SF HQ probably has its own version of a 'supercomputer')... choose the Protostar (which could be one of several NX class ships chosen to house and test these technologies) and launched it with the Janeway training hologram.

Its possible the Protostar was equipped with these technologies so that UFP would send exploration ships to the DQ and other distant parts of the Milky Way as a next stage in exploration.

Next order of business, while the ship was testing a new method of FTL (possibly Transwarp, Enhanced Warp drive, Coaxial Warp or Quantum slipstream), there was an unpredictable event which caused the ship to veer off course... with the FTL drive speed going into 'overdrive' and causing it to lose contact with SF, eventually crashing in the DQ.

The existence of other AQ species in the DQ could be explained by the Caretaker pulling in ships before VOY (the Equinox was already in the DQ before VOY, as was that Cardassian ship), so it stands to reason a civilian transport ship was probably pulled to the Array... or they were caught in a wormhole or something else.

Absolutely didn't make sense once we knew anything about the ship, esp the registry and that it had a Janeway holo.

I just wonder if they found out about other missing ships being in the DQ years later. Even Capt. Silva LaForge's ship could have gone there (they resolved that one in a novel IIRC, but you get what I'm saying).

 

[DEWLine]

Once they knew that Janeway's Voyager was in the DQ and that Equinox had died there, Starfleet Command's Pathfinder team probably started looking at other ships that went missing in the Badlands again, asking themselves "who else?"

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Once they knew that Janeway's Voyager was in the DQ and that Equinox had died there, Starfleet Command's Pathfinder team probably started looking at other ships that went missing in the Badlands again, asking themselves "who else?"

Did they always have to disappear from the Badlands?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Did the Caretaker snatch the Cardassian AI bomb thing ship? How did that get in the DQ?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Did the Caretaker snatch the Cardassian AI bomb thing ship? How did that get in the DQ?

A simple and quick google search says yes.