Base the show onboard an older Miranda-Class ship, rather than the newest and most modern vessel in the fleet.
With the Voyager, when the ship would get into a bad situation, Janeway had the option of muscling her way out. Take that away.
Have Janeway be the science officer and third in command and have to step up when the captain and first officer were killed.
Interesting idea.
have them come home at the end of the sixth season, and the seventh and final season would be all about how they reintegrate back into Federation society
And what would the stories be about? Endlessly watch people reuniting with their families? A few time would be okay, but would get repetitious fairly quickly.
As a aside, from watching the multiple series I've never gotten the impression that there was a
"Federation Society."
People don't like that everything was restored. That means they don't understand the story, and think it was about Voyager.
Problem was it was just another use of the magic reset button, a place the production team had gone too many times before. If this had been the first time (and the last time) the reset button had been used it would have been significant, instead of being old news.
Once again, no consequences.
I don't understand why you would want to watch a crew not integrate for seven seasons. It isn't good, and it isn't Star Trek.
It goes to things just being too easy, the crew intergrates, the holodecks work just fine, limited replicator use that isn't really a problem, endless torpedoes and shuttles.
People have brought up nuBSG, we saw people struggling to survive, running out fuel, actually starving because the food was used up. Voyager will just casually get some more.
Kazon show up again, meh no problem, it isn't like someone is going to die or anything. How about the Kazon knock the replicator out for a season. And it has a serious effect on the crew?
Briefly putting the Maquis to the side, how about Janeway has to deal with some of the starfleet personnel's enlistments running out?
No it isn't about making Voyager into a exact copy of nuBSG. I (and others) aren't suggesting a mutany every episode, but have two groups of people who basically don't like each other who have to co-operate because they really have no choice in the matter. Not suddenly become best friends by the end of the pilot.
The Maquis have solid reasons not to like Starfleet, and to continue not liking them.
When Janeway said she couldn't have a ship with two crews, Chakotay should have
immediately responded with
that's exactly what she had.
I gave up because Seven of Nine bored me to tears and my friends overblew her importance.
Her importance was the character kept the show in production. Seven didn't get pushed to the front solely as a decision of the producers, she resonated with the audience, otherwise she quickly would have become a secondary character.
Otherwise Jeri Ryan wouldn't currently be a part of the show that she is.
