The last line.

[Melakon]

By the way... Katherine Ross

There's probably a video floating around somewhere in the universe of an outtake from The Carol Burnett Show. She's doing the Cleaning Woman in a scene with Tim Conway, who's peeping through a window. She sees him, turns away from the audience to face him, opens her coat and flashes Conway. There's a long moment as Conway breaks character, cracking up. Carol turns and shows the audience she appears to be topless. It was the "enhanced torso" makeup appliance for Katherine Ross in the big scene.

 

[WarpCore]

"Set a course... For home."

They were a couple hundred thousand kilometres away from Earth, and she tells the helmoboy to plot a course for the fricking planet right in front of them?

There's manual control which is basically point in the direction you want to go while applying thrust, and then there's plotting a course, which is getting the computer to do math, vectors, geometry and shit, and then feed all that math into the helm.

Did she really get someone to "plot a course" for the last 15 seconds of their journey home?

I know bad shit kept happening to them and kathy wanted to outjinx and idiot proof the last step through the threshold but wow... That's just ridiculous.

Makes complete sense. For starters, there's a difference between setting a course and plotting a course, but remember that Chakotay was at the helm because Paris had just left for sickbay to see his newborn daughter. That should scare the crap out of everyone.

KIRA: Wanna bet? Take us to warp.
DAX: Inside a solar system?

He's worse than Kira. Potentially destroying solar systems don't bother Chakotay. Hell, being inside a planet's atmosphere doesn't even bother him

SEVEN: They're creating some kind of feedback. We've lost impulse engines.
CHAKOTAY: Go to warp.
SEVEN: The warp core is offline.

The natives should be thankful for small systems failures.

The ship probably has to have all sorts of information fed into it before any sort of engines or thrusters will even engage unless safeties are disabled. All that realignment to the new position after going through a transwarp conduit would have to be done at some point, so might as well do it first thing. Don't forget the Star Fleet armada he has to navigate through and with. How great of an ending to Voyager would crashing into another SF ship have been? "The traffic in the alpha quadrant is murder, bring us about."

Anyway, "set a course" should be considered little more than an intelligent way of saying "point the ship at" Earth.

 

[Guy Gardener]

She didn't have to say that, it would have been redundant, because they were already pointed at Earth.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Maybe it was just the viewscreen that was pointed at earth. The ship might have had its butt to earth.

 

[WarpCore]

Star Fleet regulations? Janeway knew what happened to Kirk, and she wanted her desk job.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I really don't think she wanted a desk job. Though after 7 years I think they would all need to do some homework.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Of course she wanted to sit tight on Earth... There was no coffee in that nebula.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I bet she never left home without kilos and kilos of the stuff stashed somewhere no one could ever requisition if to be replicated into something more useful.