There was a 'Reimagining Voyager' thread in the Voyager forum, so I felt like putting together a complete 7-year run of a new Voyager with that basis. I'm going to tweak a few things and make a few changes, and hopefully come up with a more interesting, consistent (technologically and resource-wise), and engaging form of Voyager. If you want to help write episodes for the New Voyager, please let me know. I'll start a website or something to bring it together.
A Few ideas to base this New Voyager:
Ship:
*the ship has 20 decks, crew of 192. there are 2 shuttlebays, one aft upper engineering hull, one aft saucer. Both are larger and accommodate more shuttles.
*shuttlebay 2 (engineering hull) houses the Delta Flyer, since it's the bigger of the 2; shuttlebay 1 houses Neelix's small ship and 2 type 9 shuttles.
*engines slightly bigger, ramscoops not so covered up.
Crew:
*Voyager encounters a Cardassian vessel stranded, and a few other Alpha races who struggle to survive. Perhaps 1-3 other Federation vessels (A Norway, Sabre, perhaps a Steamrunner guest on the show for four to six episodes), which form a ragtag fleet until the Borg appear, and the other ships are destroyed, but some crew are transferred over to Voyager before the ships are destroyed. This will give Voyager a little sense of not being so alone, and make a Borg battle a bit more believable than one little Intrepid class vessel.
*Crew is the mostly the same, but Harry gets promoted to Lt. JG at the end of 2nd season, then full Lieutenant at the end of Season 6
*Chakotay is played by a real Native American.
*Janeway forcibly calls Seven Annika Hansen, and the crew take that instead of 'Seven' as her name. She also wears a real uniform after a short while.
*Seven does not go out with Chakotay. She goes with Harry (who finds out he likes the Delaney girl better), then Tom, until Torres takes a liking to him even more, then she finally gets with a science officer, Mark Reiter, who can be introduced in season 6 for her. He is every bit her match, and balances out the male/female ratio of the crew.
*bridge has 2 front stations, Stadi (a blonde Betazoid, unique) and Paris are in charge of piloting the ship, and have on-and-off banter. Stadi is a star pilot, and resents Tom being at 'her' station. They eventually come to a mutual respect by the end of Season 1.
*I would introduce a character that looks like Trance Gemini - a purple, pointed eared alien with a tail from the Delta Quadrant a few episodes into the show to help Voyager through Kazon space, who decides to join the ship as a trader, botanist, science officer, and 'thief' if Voyager can't get the supplies it needs. I like Trance, just not her being some omni-powerful sun avatar.
*more emphasis on the conflict between the Maquis and Federation crew, and this doesn't get resolved until Season 3. It will lessen over time, but it will still be there over seasons 1 and 2.
*The Delaney Sisters appear several times a season, and Harry actually gets with the Delaney sister that likes him, and they get married eventually.
*Seven wears her hair in a ponytail during the 5th season, and is taught the concept of 'asking' and 'manners' soon after leaving the Collective so she doesn't always rub everyone the wrong way.
*The Equinox crew show up throughout season 6 and 7, and have several cameos, showing their diminished ranks and status, and how they suffered the consequences of their actions.
*Torres is not half-Klingon, but half-Orion. She has no über-pheremones, but she's attractive and very passionate, and struggles to fit in on a crew when her own race is seen as it is. She is an accomplished engineer from Starfleet, but left and joined the Maquis, using her looks to get what she wants. This Torres competes in a way with the new Stadi for Tom's affections, though Stadi won't admit it.
Situation:
*we see more of the crew rationing their supplies, and bartering for food and other things, even going on missions and doing trade deals for supplies from local governments.
*Kazon are phased out by 2/3 of the way through season 1. Their space cannot be that vast, but they go out with a bang.
*The EMH isn't considered sentient, and midway through the second season is recompiled with a new hologram (new actor) due to battle damage making the older image corrupted. It is later recompiled again when in season 5 the Think Tank steals the EMH backup and begins deleting portions of the holo-matrix, forcing Voyager to go without until a race of biotechnical being, similar to Bynars, agree to recompile the Doctor for them. Not knowing, the EMH is recompiled female, in honor of Janeway, as this race assumes humans are female-ruled, having a female captain (kind of like Kirk and his interesting computer problem in Tomorrow is Yesterday); they recompile the EMH into something resembling Sophie Howard, and upgrade the EMH program, giving it the ability to react more than its original gruff manner allowed.
*over the first season the ship is struggling with the loss of its crew and the integration of the Maquis into the crew. Here and there, we see moments of Janeway and even Chakotay enjoying exploring a new Quadrant that no one has seen before. These glimpses are rare, but build the respect between the two, and by the end of the second season, Chakotay, if not half his Maquis have a grudging respect of the Feds; by mid-season-3, they are almost cordial.
*The Equinox Incident still occurs, and shakes the Maquis even harder, as Ransom and his crew actually turn a few Maquis who initially jump at the chance to get home faster and help him. Chakotay gets to make a good speech about fighting for your beliefs and ideals with honor, like the Maquis, or taking the quick fix and the shortcut, throwing your morals out the windows for a quick advantage, like Ransom. This would be Chakotay's moment to shine here, showing his growth as a character, and that of several of his chief Maquis officers who have come to realize the importance of ideals.
I'll recompile this into a series outline. Comments, questions, concerns?
James
A Few ideas to base this New Voyager:
Ship:
*the ship has 20 decks, crew of 192. there are 2 shuttlebays, one aft upper engineering hull, one aft saucer. Both are larger and accommodate more shuttles.
*shuttlebay 2 (engineering hull) houses the Delta Flyer, since it's the bigger of the 2; shuttlebay 1 houses Neelix's small ship and 2 type 9 shuttles.
*engines slightly bigger, ramscoops not so covered up.
Crew:
*Voyager encounters a Cardassian vessel stranded, and a few other Alpha races who struggle to survive. Perhaps 1-3 other Federation vessels (A Norway, Sabre, perhaps a Steamrunner guest on the show for four to six episodes), which form a ragtag fleet until the Borg appear, and the other ships are destroyed, but some crew are transferred over to Voyager before the ships are destroyed. This will give Voyager a little sense of not being so alone, and make a Borg battle a bit more believable than one little Intrepid class vessel.
*Crew is the mostly the same, but Harry gets promoted to Lt. JG at the end of 2nd season, then full Lieutenant at the end of Season 6
*Chakotay is played by a real Native American.
*Janeway forcibly calls Seven Annika Hansen, and the crew take that instead of 'Seven' as her name. She also wears a real uniform after a short while.
*Seven does not go out with Chakotay. She goes with Harry (who finds out he likes the Delaney girl better), then Tom, until Torres takes a liking to him even more, then she finally gets with a science officer, Mark Reiter, who can be introduced in season 6 for her. He is every bit her match, and balances out the male/female ratio of the crew.
*bridge has 2 front stations, Stadi (a blonde Betazoid, unique) and Paris are in charge of piloting the ship, and have on-and-off banter. Stadi is a star pilot, and resents Tom being at 'her' station. They eventually come to a mutual respect by the end of Season 1.
*I would introduce a character that looks like Trance Gemini - a purple, pointed eared alien with a tail from the Delta Quadrant a few episodes into the show to help Voyager through Kazon space, who decides to join the ship as a trader, botanist, science officer, and 'thief' if Voyager can't get the supplies it needs. I like Trance, just not her being some omni-powerful sun avatar.
*more emphasis on the conflict between the Maquis and Federation crew, and this doesn't get resolved until Season 3. It will lessen over time, but it will still be there over seasons 1 and 2.
*The Delaney Sisters appear several times a season, and Harry actually gets with the Delaney sister that likes him, and they get married eventually.
*Seven wears her hair in a ponytail during the 5th season, and is taught the concept of 'asking' and 'manners' soon after leaving the Collective so she doesn't always rub everyone the wrong way.
*The Equinox crew show up throughout season 6 and 7, and have several cameos, showing their diminished ranks and status, and how they suffered the consequences of their actions.
*Torres is not half-Klingon, but half-Orion. She has no über-pheremones, but she's attractive and very passionate, and struggles to fit in on a crew when her own race is seen as it is. She is an accomplished engineer from Starfleet, but left and joined the Maquis, using her looks to get what she wants. This Torres competes in a way with the new Stadi for Tom's affections, though Stadi won't admit it.
Situation:
*we see more of the crew rationing their supplies, and bartering for food and other things, even going on missions and doing trade deals for supplies from local governments.
*Kazon are phased out by 2/3 of the way through season 1. Their space cannot be that vast, but they go out with a bang.
*The EMH isn't considered sentient, and midway through the second season is recompiled with a new hologram (new actor) due to battle damage making the older image corrupted. It is later recompiled again when in season 5 the Think Tank steals the EMH backup and begins deleting portions of the holo-matrix, forcing Voyager to go without until a race of biotechnical being, similar to Bynars, agree to recompile the Doctor for them. Not knowing, the EMH is recompiled female, in honor of Janeway, as this race assumes humans are female-ruled, having a female captain (kind of like Kirk and his interesting computer problem in Tomorrow is Yesterday); they recompile the EMH into something resembling Sophie Howard, and upgrade the EMH program, giving it the ability to react more than its original gruff manner allowed.
*over the first season the ship is struggling with the loss of its crew and the integration of the Maquis into the crew. Here and there, we see moments of Janeway and even Chakotay enjoying exploring a new Quadrant that no one has seen before. These glimpses are rare, but build the respect between the two, and by the end of the second season, Chakotay, if not half his Maquis have a grudging respect of the Feds; by mid-season-3, they are almost cordial.
*The Equinox Incident still occurs, and shakes the Maquis even harder, as Ransom and his crew actually turn a few Maquis who initially jump at the chance to get home faster and help him. Chakotay gets to make a good speech about fighting for your beliefs and ideals with honor, like the Maquis, or taking the quick fix and the shortcut, throwing your morals out the windows for a quick advantage, like Ransom. This would be Chakotay's moment to shine here, showing his growth as a character, and that of several of his chief Maquis officers who have come to realize the importance of ideals.
I'll recompile this into a series outline. Comments, questions, concerns?
James
