Voyager Doesn't Return to Earth in the Finale (hear me out)

You probably meant that as a joke, but I seriously do think that Al the Bartender (from QL's final episode) is indeed Braxton.

Not just because Bruce McGill played both roles. I literally think it's the same character. Of course we'll never know for sure, but that's totally going in my headcanon.

 

Well, Braxton was an asshole. Al the Bartender wasn’t.

 

I don't understand why the writers would have done that. Hey, they got back to Earth, oh no wait, it's not our earth, oh that's ok, our earth is just a day away. Fade to credits. Really?

I don't want to dismiss your theory but it's a very anti climatic choice if they had done that. Kinda like Riker ending 'Enterprise' with "computer end program".

 

Braxton could have mellowed in his retirement.

 

$2,000 in 2001 money. Gotta love it.

 

By 2005, the whole thing was worth 40 bucks.