Scenes After Voyager's Return - What would you add?

[JirinPanthosa]

First a scene with the Maquis where they find out they‘ve been given amnesty for their service on Voyager and Janeway advocates for them to get Starfleet commissions, most aren’t interested but Chakotay hears about possibility some of his friends survived and deliberates between staying in Starfleet and helping from the inside or going rogue again. He chooses to help them from the inside and convinced Starfleet to put political pressure on Cardassia to release any surviving prisoners besides Tom Riker.

Kim gets assigned to DS9 where he serves under Lt Nog.

Paris and Torres take teaching positions at the academy so their daughter can have a stable home life.

Janeway has a short emotional and difficult reunion with Mark and his new family then accepts an Admiral position, assigned to assess the extent of the damage to the Borg from the virus.

They use the Pathfinder array to let Neelix know they made it home and officialize relations.

Tuvok becomes Captain of Voyager.

Doc announces he’s becoming an artist, and starts legal procedures for holographic rights citing Data v Maddox as precedent.

The final scene is a discussion between Seven and Janeway where Seven is scared of what might happen now that her community is disbanded and she’s released into this larger scary community that will largely be wary of her for being Borg. She decides she needs to spend some time on her own with Icheb to find their own path.

 

[Oddish]

The whole "Nog orders Kim around" scene would be frickin' hilarious. Though I think Nog would be savvy enough to treat Harry and Voyager's other often forgotten ensigns (some of whom might well have been ensigns when Harry was still a year-3 cadet) respectfully. In part out of respect for Voyager's accomplishments, and in part because he knew Starfleet was going to retroactively promote them.

 

[B'elanna_Torres]

Janeway standing before a Court Martial.

 

[Oddish]

I can think of a few... incidents that would justify such a proceeding.

Tuvix, ironically, is not one of them. With no legal precedent in place for the rights of beings like him, Starfleet would not be able to charge Janeway with a crime.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Open with a huge celebration at Starfleet Command, we see all the crew with their loved ones, everyone is at ease and the joy is palatable. We mingle in amongst them, catching snippets of conversations, family from the AQ being introduced to the family the crew formed on the ship. Everything is happy, upbeat and positive.

In orbit, Voyager sits in spacedock with technicians giving her the once over. One unlucky tech is in a jefferies tube when a shadow falls over them before a cybernetic hand grabs their shoulder, a cry of pain echoes through the maintenance tunnels...

Opening titles.

A log entry, where Janeway spells out the meeting she's been called into as well as her plans to then contact/visit the families of all those crew who didn't survive (hinting at the burdens, grief and guilt she's felt all this time, given how her action at the Caretaker's Array caused many of them).

Janeway is called into a meeting with some of the top brass, where the fate of the Maquis and Equinox crew are discussed, before they move on to their real topic of conversation: Seven. The boffins at Starfleet Science and the SCE as well as the more paranoid elements of Intel and Tactical all want to get her debriefed, for all her knowledge of the Borg they might be able to find a way to defend the quadrant from one of their greatest enemies.

We catch up with the crew as they readjust to their lives off the ship and back in the AQ, some are having an easier time than others. Tuvok has met his wife and begun the treatment he needs, stablising him for a while until he can get back to Vulcan, Torres and Paris have to get used to parenthood whilst also having to bring together their families, Kim is there, the EMH is being hounded by Zimmerman and Barclay, Chakotay would rather get ahead of the court martial he suspects is coming and get back home to the DMZ, Seven is very uncomfortable with all the suspicious looks she keeps getting.

Janeway meets up with her crew once more to let them know what will be happening, however during this meeting she and Seven are suddenly beamed away. They materialise on Voyager where they discover a partially reconstructed Borg Queen (who is suffering from the Admiral Janeway contagion and barely survived the destruction of her ship) and a growing number of drones have taken over with plans to eliminate the continued annoyance that Earth has become.

The ship breaks free of its moorings and blasts out of dock, heading for the sun, its anti-Borg arsenal fully armed. The rest of the crew manage to get onto a ship heading to intercept (let's say it's a Prometheus-Class) and have to use their knowledge of their own ship and their Captain in order to save the planet.

On Voyager, Janeway attempt to reason (stall) the Queen, who is clearly having a lot of issues stemming from the plague that she is losing the battle against (likewise her new drones aren't the best and brightest). Seven uses this fact against them and devises some great solution to get back control of the ship. The Queen opens fire on the pursuing Prometheus-Class, but their handy MVAM gives them an advantage she is prepared for. Seven shuts down the armour and the senior staff beam aboard to seize control of their home. Janeway takes out this Queen once and for all and the crew manage to keep the ship from blowing up and destroying the sun, thus saving Earth.

Cut to, several weeks/months later.

The crew, all in new uniforms, with new ranks off on their own adventures and lives:
Janeway, an Admiral at HQ buried under paperwork
Chakotay, once again in civvies returning to his home colony to help them rebuild
Tuvok, now in command red, on Vulcan surrounded by his family as he prepares to return to active duty
Paris, being the doting father
Torres, teaching a class at Starfleet Academy
Kim, on a new ship
Doctor, on Jupiter Station with Zimmerman as they perfect the next EMH
Seven, comfortably dressed sitting at a cosy kitchen table being filled with pastries from her aunt

 

[Oddish]

QUOTE: Paris, being the doting father.

They could have it noted that he works from home with the bureau of ship design. I would think that they would be happy to have the man who designed the Delta Flyer and the Warp 10 Salamander Drive on their crew.

 

[darrenjl]

The truth be told, unless Voyager returned directly to Earth like it did in Endgame, it probably wouldn't go there, with the crew departing at whatever Federation starbase was closest to the Delta Quadrant and the crew disembarking and going their separate ways to meet their families on whatever planet they lived on in the Alpha Quadrant.

 

[Oddish]

So under those circumstances, the oft anticipated encounter between Harry and Nog could have actually happened if Voyager returned to DS9. Though I suppose it could on Earth as well; Nog could have been assigned there.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

I was fine with the abrupt ending. If I could drag it out, I'd have Voyager enter orbit. Everyone meets in the transporter room. Janeway takes the controls and begins beaming her crew down, six at a time while Chakotay stands by her side. They're home.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

A Voth fleet suddenly appears. In the command center sits Odala, eyes cold as ice. "Proceed."

 

[diankra]

When the series was still running, the joke ending was...
Starfleet Command
Technician: Incoming vessel, detecting Borg signatures, sir.
Admiral: Open fire!

 

[Oddish]

THAT ending would make the finale of "Course: Oblivion" look like a "My Little Pony" episode.

 

[VoyagerSeason8]

Scenario is pretty simple... Voyager is back home, with one episode to go. The last 43 minutes of the journey are a one-episode series finale all about the crew reacting to their return. What scenes would you consider essential for this episode?

You may assume that certain redundant scenes in "Endgame" were deleted or modified to compensate for actually having a real ending.

Here are mine, not in order of importance...

That's my thoughts. Yours?

You're going to love my audiobook fanfic then for Voyager!

Captain Janeway's court-martial on multiple counts of prime directive violations, conduct unbecoming an officer, and just plain bad captaining.

After her trial and conviction she's sentenced to the New Zealand penal colony--ironically the same place we first saw her in "Caretaker" when she met Tom Paris--thus bringing her story full circle.

Can I ask who wrote the actual court martial scenes from this? - https://www.trektoday.com/articles/court_marshall_janeway_ariel.shtml

That aside, I really wish there was just one more episode. DS9 had a 10 parter to wrap up the series, its a shame Voyager didn't get even half of that to understand what happened when they came back. Those future scenes didn't count.

By the way, for those wanting Janeway to be court martial, for context, Picard broke the Prime Directive 14 times (not all onscreen) and Kirk was 11 times. Janeway broke it 5 times (from the article shared above). Most people assume Kirk was the tear away, he probably was, but Picard did it more often and could justify it.

 

[Hikaru_Ichijo]

Post-celebrations, Janeway stumbling upon classified schematics for a Federation spore-drive that was invented nearly a century earlier for a Crossfield-class starship. She bitterly thinks of all the lives that could have been spared during their journey home, including Ensign Lon Suder, Lt. Joe Carey, Hogan with no last name, the traitor Michael Jonas, and even a couple of female officers who were on the ship the entire time and got along well with members of the senior staff (and were unceremoniously killed on the episode the audience got to meet them).

 

[Oddish]

Post-celebrations, Janeway stumbling upon classified schematics for a Federation spore-drive that was invented nearly a century earlier for a Crossfield-class starship. She bitterly thinks of all the lives that could have been spared during their journey home, including Ensign Lon Suder, Lt. Joe Carey, Hogan with no last name, the traitor Michael Jonas, and even a couple of female officers who were on the ship the entire time and got along well with members of the senior staff (and were unceremoniously killed on the episode the audience got to meet them).

Ooooo, nasty.