The rest of the crew

[WarpTenLizard]

"Voyager" did a lot of things well, but let's face it, recurring characters was not one of them. I for one refuse to believe that it was only the senior staff undergoing life-changing experiences during the journey, while the other 140 crew members just pressed buttons for seven years. Fanfiction has gone worlds to developing some of the minor characters, and what they were up to during that voyage home.

Here are some "fanon" ideas I've personally taken a liking to:

- Sam Wildman and Joe Carrey had an on-and-off affair for years, despite both of them being married.

- Marla Gilmore, the Equinox engineer, adopted the Borg baby

- Tal Celes and William Telfer hooked up, obviously

- (This one's mine) How two sisters wound up on the same ship: Jenny Delaney found out that her twin Megan, a Maquis, was onboard the Maquis ship Voyager was assigned to catch, and requested a transfer to Voyager, hoping to find her sister. The rest is history.

Other ideas? Feel free to contradict any or all of these.

 

[F. King Daniel]

- Sam Wildman and Joe Carrey had an on-and-off affair for years, despite both of them being married.

IRL, there would be a LOT more hooking up on a ship of 150 people lost forever in space. I like to think even Janeway had a few discreet crewmen she visited every now and then.

Or maybe everyone just shags themselves empty on the holodeck and human interaction really is mostly limited to "work friends" in the future.

 

[Kilana2]

IRL, there would be a LOT more hooking up on a ship of 150 people lost forever in space. I like to think even Janeway had a few discreet crewmen she visited every now and then.

Or maybe everyone just shags themselves empty on the holodeck and human interaction really is mostly limited to "work friends" in the future.

Janeway and Chakotay considered methods of replacing the crew after a long period of time in space due to the long journey home. By procreation and having families. Having just Naomi, Icheb and baby Miral on board wouldn't have been enough for running a starship. At least according to Chakotay. So there should have been more couples....

 

[May 20]

The lack of families was one of the more unrealistic parts of the series to me. It would have been nice to see the ship becoming more generational as the crew members paired off and started families. Maybe not as a heavy focus, but like on TNG, seeing children in the corridors and holodecks.

 

[Lynx]

I just have to show up my favorite couple:

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Of all the shows, VOY was one that should have been serialised that built upon the ship being a community. As it was we only got three or four memorable recurring characters who never had much growth, whilst almost all walking in the background were far too human in appearance. Of course the show never did keep track of just how many aliens the ship carried.

- Sam Wildman and Joe Carrey had an on-and-off affair for years, despite both of them being married.

- Marla Gilmore, the Equinox engineer, adopted the Borg baby

- Tal Celes and William Telfer hooked up, obviously

- (This one's mine) How two sisters wound up on the same ship: Jenny Delaney found out that her twin Megan, a Maquis, was onboard the Maquis ship Voyager was assigned to catch, and requested a transfer to Voyager, hoping to find her sister. The rest is history.

Other ideas? Feel free to contradict any or all of these.

I don't see the Carey/Wildman relationship, they both did seem committed to their spouses. Gilmore and the Borg Baby would explain why neither was ever heard from again. Tal was Telfer's beard (for lack of a better term). As for the Delaney's well it's not much of a stretch to assume that they both merited assignment to such a ship as Voyager, though I think it would've been better had they been in different scientific fields.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Of all the shows, VOY was one that should have been serialised that built upon the ship being a community. As it was we only got three or four memorable recurring characters who never had much growth, whilst almost all walking in the background were far too human in appearance. Of course the show never did keep track of just how many aliens the ship carried.


I don't see the Carey/Wildman relationship, they both did seem committed to their spouses. Gilmore and the Borg Baby would explain why neither was ever heard from again. Tal was Telfer's beard (for lack of a better term). As for the Delaney's well it's not much of a stretch to assume that they both merited assignment to such a ship as Voyager, though I think it would've been better had they been in different scientific fields.

Amen to the overly human crew, and the inconsistency with the non-Humans onboard. Particularly the Vulcans and Betazoids onboard.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

I agree about the lack of visibility of the remaining crew members (about 150, minus the one who were killed in mission, by accident, further to an attack, of course) or even, pets onboard, even they were holograms. It was a big nonsense.
The only times where we saw that Voyager was crowded were in scenes like lunches/dinners/celebrations given by Neelix or, to see the casualities further to a big attack or contagions or like when Maj Cullen and Seska have taken control of Voyager after having land the crew on an unknown planet.
Too bad and above all, it is not credible.
->

About the fact that there was no birth on board for 7 years, except baby Miral in the very last minutes of Endgame - part 2, I guess that the Doctor had regularly injected contraceptive seras to crew members, regardless the gender, during the long journey ... ;-)

 

[DonIago]

Leola root is a contraceptive?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

There should have been pairing up but not necessarily kids immediately. The clock doesn’t tick quite as fast in the 24th century. I can see a lot of people holding out hope quite a while. In Children Of Time O’Brien waited ten years.

I tend to think Voyager became a bastion of polyamory.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Or all the kids were enrolled in the same nursery/day care as the Borg Baby...

 

[The Wormhole]

It's something I've always picked up on with the show The Last Ship, a drama set on board a US Navy destroyer. In it, they've gone to great lengths to really establish the ship's crew to the point that it is quite common to spot any random extra on the show and recognize them, know their name and remember something about them even if it's just "oh yeah, he did that thing in that episode." Even just doing something as simple as that for Voyager would have been quite a step forward. I know, there are a few background extras who were featured many times throughout the show, like Lt. Ayala or the gray-haired black guy, but there was definitely room for improvement in this regard.

 

[Leviathan]

Star Trek: Redshirt....the life, loves, trials and triumphs of the guys who lasted 5 seconds on screen.

 

[DonIago]

For just a second there I imagined a show in the style of Lost, where every episode would give us insight into a character only to have them die at the end of that episode...

 

[May 20]

Leola root is a contraceptive?

Probably. There *has* to be some good reason Neelix continued to serve it to the crew.

 

[Kilana2]

It would have been interesting to see Kes having her real Elogium.