Voyager alternative story idea

[Mark Greatrex]

Hi Guys, i'm a new member as i was watching a youtube video recently that gave me this fun idea of doing a basic rewrite of the story of voyager (for context i started watching trek from a young age and started watching tng when it first aired in the uk. Voyager is my favorite series and i had no real problem with the stories at the time, the one thing i do remember feeling was that sometimes one episode wasnt enough for some stories, and that the status quo would have changed more.)

Anyway, i'd love to get some thoughts on my idea below. This is purely for my own fun, and its a pretty rough idea at the moment, but would love others input and thoughts!

So here is a brief synopsis.

The federation in recovering from the dominion war, and decides to send a new ship the uss voyager to make first contacts in the delta quadrant and to initiate new aliances for potential federation membership.

Having perfected the soliton wave technology, and with the ability to stop the wave from the ship when it reaches the delta quadrant. The Uss Voyager plans to be sent from earth with the designs for the wave technology in order to find a suitable place to construct the technology to return them to earth.

The series has this basic arc of trying to find materials/a suitable planet/moon to build the wave tech, but also has character and unrelated standalone episodes.

The characters would stay more of less the same and but will probably have slightly different motivations/origins. Although i would probably leave 7 of 9 the same as she could be used to escape contact with the borg.

Anyway, thats what ive got so far

 

[Oddish]

You could do that as an alternative to Voyager, or use the plot with your own ship and cast of characters. It's a solid enough concept.

 

[Mark Greatrex]

Thanks. I was thinking of using the voyager story concept, they could travel to different planets, maybe getting some things they need that they cant replicate, and then gradually getting more worlds involved and co operating to build the wave tech with voyager, showing them the value of joining the federation. Then at the end or the middle of the series there could be representatives returning to earth with voyager to see the federation, and we learn a bit more about federation diplomacy and see our characters on earth.

 

[Captrek]

You could do that as an alternative to Voyager, or use the plot with your own ship and cast of characters.

Like the Vortex.

Sigh. Not actually giving us seven season of Photons Be Free was such a lost opportunity.

 

[at Quark's]

One thing I'm wondering about: with the soliton wave technology, it seems it's just a straight line from A to B from here all the way to the Delta Quadrant, and while you can disengage, you probably can't re-establish the soliton wave on-board after that (that is, you'll have to ask the Federation back home to send you a new carrier wave to surf upon.)

in the Voyager series we got, Janeway often found obstacles on her way. Territories she had to take a detour around, because the species within would be hostile to her. Most of the time, she would only learn of this only shortly before or even after she crossed the border. So 'realistically' I would expect such territories and hostile species blocking your way in this version of the universe too. How would you handle that?

 

[Mark Greatrex]

One thing I'm wondering about: with the soliton wave technology, it seems it's just a straight line from A to B from here all the way to the Delta Quadrant, and while you can disengage, you probably can't re-establish the soliton wave on-board after that (that is, you'll have to ask the Federation back home to send you a new carrier wave to surf upon.)

in the Voyager series we got, Janeway often found obstacles on her way. Territories she had to take a detour around, because the species within would be hostile to her. Most of the time, she would only learn of this only shortly before or even after she crossed the border. So 'realistically' I would expect such territories and hostile species blocking your way in this version of the universe too. How would you handle that?

Thats a really good point i hadn't considered. Potentially she could make an initial alliance with a planet and they would provide some ships to go along with voyager as it travels around. Or they could provide some guidance about which sections of space to avoid.

Another option which might be a bit too comic book is to give voyager the armour from endgame from the beginning, but making it so that its not from the future but already just been developed by starfleet, with the caveat that it can only be used for a limited amount of time, allowing voyager to escape an enemy. Im not sure if theres another way?

 

[Oddish]

The quantum slipstream drive, once perfected, could work as a means of transwarp propulsion.

 

[Mark Greatrex]

Ideas for the seasons

Season 1. Voyager makes it to the delta quadrant and searches for a friendly planet where they will be able to build the device that will send them home. They find a place and begin talks.

Season 2. Voyager discovers that the planet they have made an alliance with has an old enemy. Voyager must find a way to help them make peace. Janeway eventually convinces them to set side their differences, and this also gives an opportunity for them to see what starfleet/ the federation is about.

Season 3. Voyager discovers a damaged borg cube and disconnected borg. They find a human 7 of 9 or decides to join the crew with the kids and icheb. (The season could be about them trying to adapt to life on voyager. )

 

[Tracy Trek]

I would wish they could also run into Hugh's group of disconnected Borg.

 

[at Quark's]

Another question about this concept. Why would the Federation send ships all the way to the Delta Quadrant, when all territories in between haven't even been properly explored? Why try to establish new allies 70.000 light years away when you don't even know what useful new potential member races you could find, say, only 20.000 light years away in that direction ?

DS9 had the 'excuse' that they just tripped over this wormhole that led directly into the GQ, and Voyager (as we saw it) also ended up in the DQ by accident (well, the action of a more advanced alien race). What would the reason be in this case?

 

[Mark Greatrex]

Another question about this concept. Why would the Federation send ships all the way to the Delta Quadrant, when all territories in between haven't even been properly explored? Why try to establish new allies 70.000 light years away when you don't even know what useful new potential member races you could find, say, only 20.000 light years away in that direction ?

DS9 had the 'excuse' that they just tripped over this wormhole that led directly into the GQ, and Voyager (as we saw it) also ended up in the DQ by accident (well, the action of a more advanced alien race). What would the reason be in this case?

Thats a really good point. I'm kind of just thinking up things to make it work. My thinking is that the federation wants to establish a presence in the delta quadrant, this mission is just the first step in finding a place to build a starbase for example and to meet alien races and make contact. Maybe i should try writing a brief episode summary for thr first one or two seasons? Would that be of interest?

 

[WarpTenLizard]

This sounds like a better set up for a post-Voyager series. If the Dominion War is recently over, and Voyager has recently returned from the Delta Quadrant and dealt a crippling blow to the Borg, the time is ripe for the Federation to get into the Delta Quadrant and start salvaging the technology from all those dead Borg cubes.

 

[FederationHistorian]

This sounds like a better set up for a post-Voyager series. If the Dominion War is recently over, and Voyager has recently returned from the Delta Quadrant and dealt a crippling blow to the Borg, the time is ripe for the Federation to get into the Delta Quadrant and start salvaging the technology from all those dead Borg cubes.

Of course they go there and find Cullah as taken some Borg tech to strength the Kazon. Penk has taken some Borg tech so that he can have bigger broadcasts throughout the quadrant and has a virtual monopoly. And a number of other powers in the Delta Quadrants are also salvaging Borg tech.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Of course they go there and find Cullah as taken some Borg tech to strength the Kazon. Penk has taken some Borg tech so that he can have bigger broadcasts throughout the quadrant and has a virtual monopoly. And a number of other powers in the Delta Quadrants are also salvaging Borg tech.

Kazon with Borg technology?? That's like a chimpanzee having the button to a nuke! A concept that's terrifying in its own way.