Rhetorical "Eye of the Needle" question.

[JanewayRulz!]

We have just arrived at that part of the line by line retelling of "Eye of the Needle" where Kes tells the EMH the crew is working to use the micro-wormhole and the probe within to transport everyone off the ship and onto the Romulan science vessel.

My question is simple.

If they had succeeded, WWJD with Voyager?

"What Would Janeway (have) Done with Voyager?

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Probably would have set the self-destruct sequence once everyone was off but her. Then she would transport over too before it exploded.

I think she would have wanted everyone to get home and if Voyager had to be left behind, then so be it. But she wouldn't want anyone in the DQ to have Federation technology either, so I think transporting everyone then having it destruct would be the only option?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Surely the tunnel would have been two-way, yes? If not for the Romulan issue, perhaps they could have beamed off the Voyager crew and replaced them with a group of officers prepared for such an endeavour.

Otherwise, a self-destruct is most likely.

 

[Vanyel]

Why are people answering a rhetorical question?

 

[Melakon]

They're rhetorical answers.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Definitely self destruct. Might be a moment of sentiment after everyone is safe but BOOM she goes.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

No way would they have left Voyager alone in the Delta Quadrant. Too many hostile alien races could have gotten ahold of it. Even if the ship could have been set to auto-pilot back home, that'd be too great of a risk.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Would she have stayed on board to make sure the auto-destruct worked?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Yes she would have.

:: sobs ::

 

[Guy Gardener]

It was a collapsing microwormhole which died a final death in last minutes of the episode becoming unusuble for their purposes... Unless they went back in time 400 years via slingshot to when the Romulans wouldn't have been a problem on the other side of a regular sized wormhole.

Although how big was the wormhole at it's largest and how old is it?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

^^It wasn't the fear that Romulans would get their hands on Voyager that would make her stay on board.

It was the fear that Kazons, etc. would get control of Voyager.

Its the same logic Janeway used for Voyager staying in the DQ in the first place, when she blew up the Caretaker's array.

Don't trust a timer when something "this big" is at stake.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Me, I'd trust the timer and if I later found out it failed because of a tachyon nebula attack and the Kazaon had taken the ship and made havoc with it all over the DQ I'd be like.. meh, Starfleet should build better timers.

That's why I'm not the Captain.

 

[CoffeeAddict]

No doubt Janeway would have destroyed the ship. She wouldn't stomach the thought of leaving the poor ship to the fate of the Kazon, who would abuse the ship for its technology.

 

[Guy Gardener]

^^It wasn't the fear that Romulans would get their hands on Voyager that would make her stay on board.

It was the fear that Kazons, etc. would get control of Voyager.

Its the same logic Janeway used for Voyager staying in the DQ in the first place, when she blew up the Caretaker's array.

Don't trust a timer when something "this big" is at stake.

UM.

Yes of course Voyager that was left in the Delta Quadrant, however so briefly, was a Delta Quadrant problem.

The potential trouble with the Romulans was Janeway trying to make her way through their space back to Earth without ending up in a Romulan concentration camp being milked for secrets about future history and advanced technology for the next 50 years.

 

[MacLeod]

Why are people answering a rhetorical question?

Good question, I have no idea myself why they are.

 

[Lord Manitou]

I don't think they self-destructed the ship. They did something alittle smarter. They could have whited out the computer and data storage. What was left would've just have been a hulk.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Even the shape of the hull would be invaluable clues towards more efficient warp geometry.

Meanwhile even melted down, that much duranium could probably win a war for a low enough tech civilization.

Although the Doctor said something like "I hope they remember to turn me off before they leave."

At the time I think I thought that meant that he would just be wandering around sick ay until his power cell ran out in a couple hundred years... If Janeway's plan was to blow up the ship... maybe he thought that it would hurt to be concious inside an explosion that ripped apart his vital juices?