Voyager as larger ship

[JJohnson]

Let's say Voyager, instead of being a 141-crew, 15-deck ship, were a 256-crew, 20 or 24-deck ship. It has 2 distinct and larger shuttlebays, but is still the same silhouette. How would this affect the journey of the ship? The crew?

 

[hux]

More people would die.

Kim would be demoted to cadet.

 

[Tosk]

What difference would two larger shuttlebays make? Voyager never ran out of space or shuttles anyway.

(Or crew or torpedos.)

 

[Catarina]

or escape pods, or gel packs, or conduits etc.

 

[Catarina]

could have been their best (trek)show every if they had shown true perseverance, imo.

 

[Akiraprise]

I always thought it would have been cool if Voyager was an older ship with some character. Like an Ambassador class. On her way out the door so to speak and sent on one final mission to the Badlands. Then they have to keep the old girl running for the next seven years.

 

[STEPhon IT]

It would make sense of all the outlandish battles the ship gets into with larger vessels every week. A larger Voyager could sustain the damages, and fighting off the enemy would be plausible.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

More potentially good additional recurring characters would go underused and abandoned, only to return years later and be killed off.

I think Voyager as a Miranda-Class would've been great to have seen--the class has proven to be the sturdy workhorse of the fleet, plus it deserves some time in the spotlight.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The size of the ship was really irrelevant, primarily because I don't think the writers ever gave it any thought. I'm pretty sure there's even an episode where Janeway refers to deck 40-something

 

[hux]

Seeing as the show felt like it only had about 35 crew anyway, I don't see what difference it would have made.

Sorry to harp on about it but everyone onboard is being pushed to the centre of the ship (Sandrines) in Twisted yet of these 141 people, only the bridge crew actually end up there.

 

[Tracy Trek]

or escape pods, or gel packs, or conduits etc.

Oh yeah, the escape pods. I was thinking about this the other day when I re-watched Basics Part II. Some of the Kazon got away in escape pods, right? I doubt they returned them.

 

[The_Baroness]

I'd actually have preferred and even smaller ship, something like a Defiant class. Smaller crew, less comforts, no holodecks. Sure, it'd be able to hold it's own in a scrap but it would make the journey far less comfortable for the crew.

That is, if the writers dared to actually challenge themselves

 

[Gov Kodos]

You'd still have the same 7 or so people doing pretty much everything just like every other series.

 

[Tosk]

Still would have been nice to drop the Holodeck. That baloney about the incompatible power systems...gah!

 

[Dukhat]

The only difference the size of the ship would have made is if they landed on a planet. And even then they would have come up with some technobabble bullshit to work around that, since this is just make believe science.

 

[Anwar]

A larger ship would've made it more believable that they could just build new torpedoes and shuttles and house other vessels.

 

[Drone]

Seeing as the show felt like it only had about 35 crew anyway, I don't see what difference it would have made.

Sorry to harp on about it but everyone onboard is being pushed to the centre of the ship (Sandrines) in Twisted yet of these 141 people, only the bridge crew actually end up there.

Chakotay ordered Baxter to round up as many crew as he encountered and take them to the mess hall, where some had already congregated. Assuming they stayed there, I take it what happened to them when the implosion distortion reached them is the same as happened at Sandrine's. Nothing. But at least that accounts for some more of the ship's complement if not all of it. I guess we can reasonably assume that Harren stayed put in his warren working through his calculations until he got swallowed up.

 

[TommyR01D]

Memory Alpha has a list of all the extras shown on Voyager. Their crew complement is evidently much bigger than 141.

 

[SPCTRE]

Memory Alpha has a list of all the extras shown on Voyager. Their crew complement is evidently much bigger than 141.

The ship is a lot bigger on the inside.

 

[TheSubCommander]

The size of the ship was really irrelevant, primarily because I don't think the writers ever gave it any thought. I'm pretty sure there's even an episode where Janeway refers to deck 40-something

+100000000 This.

When you think about it, Voyager is supposed to be 344 meters long, or 1130 feet, that is 200 feet shy of a 1/4 mile. Voyager is also 15 decks tall (rounding up, 10 feet per deck when you count ducts and conduits, 150 feet tall, at least), which is about a 15 story building. That is significantly larger than the TOS Enterprise, and as long & tall as a Nimitz class carrier (which is crewed by about 6000 personnel, BTW).

Voyager is fricking HUGE!