They were oddly compelling.
Stories you would have liked to have seen, the Voyager edition.
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They were oddly compelling.
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I would have liked to have seen an episode featuring Q and the EMH having a discussion about what it means to be a sentient "living" being. A lot of potential for a thought provoking and humorous episode.
There wasn't any meaningful interaction between Q and the Doctor during Voyager's run, was there?
Q often only interacted with certain members of the cast-Picard, Riker, Janeway, Sisko, Tuvok, Neelix, Crusher(a little).
Yeah an EMH Q ep would have been interesting
Yeah an EMH Q ep would have been interesting
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I would like to have kept Seska around for all seven seasons. I would like to see her make a parallel journey through the Delta Quadrant, unencumbered by the Federation sense of morality. Basically causing havoc and raising hell for 70,000 light years as she makes her way home with occasional stops to exact a little revenge on Chakotay.
Perhaps a conversation between Data, Spock, and Seven about the relative merits of logic, efficiency and emotion. They all wrestle with it, but are coming from different angles.
EDIT: wouldn't be a specific 'voyager edition' of a story, I agree. But I'd still like to see it.
EDIT: wouldn't be a specific 'voyager edition' of a story, I agree. But I'd still like to see it.
In that same vein, maybe a conversation between Seven and Picard about being disconnected from the Borg.
I think Picards perspective -being connected as an adult for a few days at most- would differ greatly from Sevens - being practically raised by the Borg. But yes, it would be interesting.
And Picard will have to come to terms with the fact that he is no longer the Federation's leading expert on the Borg
I would have loved to have a seen an emotional, full blown argument or debate between the Maquis and Starfleet crewmen. It doesn't have to be violent, just intense, each side airing their thoughts about the situation.
You have the Maquis accusing the Federation of throwing them off their land and abandoning them. All to placate an "evil" race like the Cardassians.
Starfleet reminds them of the unprovoked terrorists acts they've committed, or remind them that the Federation warned them that before they settled, the area was in hot dispute, so it's essentially their own fault.
It goes on and on.
That would be an episode that got everyone's attention.
You have the Maquis accusing the Federation of throwing them off their land and abandoning them. All to placate an "evil" race like the Cardassians.
Starfleet reminds them of the unprovoked terrorists acts they've committed, or remind them that the Federation warned them that before they settled, the area was in hot dispute, so it's essentially their own fault.
It goes on and on.
That would be an episode that got everyone's attention.
I like to think a possible reason why we never really saw a larger political landscape like the Alpha Quadrant is that the Delta Quadrant never had the benefit of an organization like the Federation... an alliance of many species working together. That definitely seemed like a foreign concept to many races of the Delta Quadrant.
It would have been interesting to see if some of them would be willing to join the Federation and the process in doing that.
It would have been interesting to see if some of them would be willing to join the Federation and the process in doing that.
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^ That is actually a brilliant idea.
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Maybe an alliance of Delta Quadrant races to defeat the Borg?
Exactly. I enjoyed that episode, and had hoped we would have seen more of that with the last part of that season.
They tried something like that in season 2 with "ALLIANCES", but that failed due to Kazon idiocy and Trabe vengeance.
And the alliance of a few species in "YEAR OF HELL, PART II"... erased with the reset switch at the end.
A two parter or story arc centering on a full scale mutiny, with them fighting for control of the ship, deck by deck. This is in general something I regret never happening on any Star Trek series, but it would have been especially appropriate for Voyager given the setting. I think real life mutinies are generally the enlisted men rising up against the officers, so there would have been no need to involve any of he main cast, although featuring recurring characters that the audience already knew amongst the mutineers would have been a good move. It could have been a Maquis lead thing, but some disgruntled Starfleet personnel could participate as well.
More episodes in general early on focusing on Starfleet/Maquis conflict, aside from the couple they did. Specifically a Tom/Chakotay conflict episode early on.
Episodes focusing on Kes's rapid aging (she didn't really age on the show even though we saw a significant chunk of her lifespan). This would be easier to do if you kept her on the show for the whole run.
More Hirogen episodes. The most interesting alien they created for the show.
A comedy episode with Janeway trying to figure out ways to spur romantic relationships amongst the crew. If you think about it, for the ship to be able to function as a "generational" ship for 70 years or whatever, people needed to be having way more babies than they appeared to be having, so it makes sense that that's something she would be worried about. They sort of did one like this if I remember, but Janeway had a very hands off attitude towards it when it would make sense for her to be concerned about what would happen down the line if the first wave of crewmembers didn't have a "replacement level" amount of offspring.
Give Tal Celes her own episode. She was only in an episode + a cameo and was still more interesting than like half the main cast. Ideas include going into a rough backstory on Bajor (maybe explaining her anxiety), giving her an ill-fated romantic relationship, with her hypochondriac friend getting jealous (she seems ripe for heartbreak) or putting her in an awkward situation by herself where she has to save the entire ship. You could combine all three of these.
Leave the Borg out of the finale and have it be a callback to Caretaker.
More episodes in general early on focusing on Starfleet/Maquis conflict, aside from the couple they did. Specifically a Tom/Chakotay conflict episode early on.
Episodes focusing on Kes's rapid aging (she didn't really age on the show even though we saw a significant chunk of her lifespan). This would be easier to do if you kept her on the show for the whole run.
More Hirogen episodes. The most interesting alien they created for the show.
A comedy episode with Janeway trying to figure out ways to spur romantic relationships amongst the crew. If you think about it, for the ship to be able to function as a "generational" ship for 70 years or whatever, people needed to be having way more babies than they appeared to be having, so it makes sense that that's something she would be worried about. They sort of did one like this if I remember, but Janeway had a very hands off attitude towards it when it would make sense for her to be concerned about what would happen down the line if the first wave of crewmembers didn't have a "replacement level" amount of offspring.
Give Tal Celes her own episode. She was only in an episode + a cameo and was still more interesting than like half the main cast. Ideas include going into a rough backstory on Bajor (maybe explaining her anxiety), giving her an ill-fated romantic relationship, with her hypochondriac friend getting jealous (she seems ripe for heartbreak) or putting her in an awkward situation by herself where she has to save the entire ship. You could combine all three of these.
Leave the Borg out of the finale and have it be a callback to Caretaker.
I'd like to see how the other 100 crew members on voyager thought about the crazy stuff the captain made them do. I liked those 3 people from the good Shepard Chell and Lt Carey. seeing them have their own episode would have been nice.
I also would have reoriented their couples, doing Paris/Kes and Seven and the Doctor, which would have generated additional stories.
Perhaps a data's day-like episode, but then from the eyes of Seven or the EMH.... how they perceive the crew on an 'ordinary' day, and their observations about human responses to different situations.
EDIT: on some more thought, I think I'd like the story with the EMH more than with Seven. Seven is an interesting character, but she already liberally sprinkled her comments on humanity throughout the last few seasons of VOY.
EDIT: on some more thought, I think I'd like the story with the EMH more than with Seven. Seven is an interesting character, but she already liberally sprinkled her comments on humanity throughout the last few seasons of VOY.
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Whether they were asked for or not. She could be very blunt.
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