As a J/Cer I too would have been happy with a romance-neutral ending. Given the number of J/C and D/7 fans it was a stupid move. Even Braga told them "Don't do it!"
Oh well...
Voyager Made It Home Too Early
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As a J/Cer I too would have been happy with a romance-neutral ending. Given the number of J/C and D/7 fans it was a stupid move. Even Braga told them "Don't do it!"
Oh well...
Forgive me. I should have gone to bed hours ago. But I'm here and my mind has turned to mush. Who's the D in D/7? I keep thinking Data. Or Deanna. Or Dax. lol. I'm so lost.
I think the problem here is that it was supposed that they should get home in the last season. If they hadn't, many fans would have been dissapointed and felt cheated about the whole thing.
I have mixed emotions about this. When I watched the series, I was hoping that they should get home and I still see that as the logical end of the series.
But in recent years I've almost wished that they had remained in the Delta Quadrant, maybe helping the people on the "37's" planet to create a new Federation in that part of space. That would have kept the original crew together and would also have given us an endless amount of episodes and books.
If there only was a way to get the "old gang" together and send them back to the Delta Quadrant or to the Andromeda Galaxy for some important long-time mission in upcoming books!
I have mixed emotions about this. When I watched the series, I was hoping that they should get home and I still see that as the logical end of the series.
But in recent years I've almost wished that they had remained in the Delta Quadrant, maybe helping the people on the "37's" planet to create a new Federation in that part of space. That would have kept the original crew together and would also have given us an endless amount of episodes and books.
If there only was a way to get the "old gang" together and send them back to the Delta Quadrant or to the Andromeda Galaxy for some important long-time mission in upcoming books!
without using (m)any spoilers, battlestar galactica TOS, NuBSG, red Dwarf, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Well, "a" Earth.) Farscape and Stargate TAS were all also hybrids of Homers the Odyssey meets Lost in Space obsessed making it back to Earth... And then there was [shudder]Andromeda[/shudder]. In the final episode of Andromeda, spoilers be damned, the producers didn't care as they were making this shit, so why should I care four years later, Conquered by bastards these last few hundred years The planet Earth was just done grazed by as Sorbo blew it up for kicks, and then in the final 4 minutes of the show he accidentally discovered the secret space bridge to Terra Vedra, the walled off hidden seat of the fallen Galactic empire he used to work before he impersonated Buck Rogers, governed by (not very)God like space horsies who were three times smarter then ordinary men and who did look down upon us as cattle and we didn't mind because they were better than us(You think I have problems with Voyager? You have no freaking idea.) because we were well treated cows... So there's that planet floating there on the forward screen which most certinaly wasn't the earth he had just MURDERED and Interstellar HERO Dylan Hunt (that still sounds dirty.) says "I'm Home, I'm home, I finally made it." as a single tear rolls down his cheek and the credits roll, not that anybody'd mentioned the place in three years, but the cancellation wasn't much of a surprise since they spent the final season land locked without a ship to save money from the cgi budget to pad the actors catering bill but the writers thought that they should complete the "heroes quest" because Captain Hunt obviously had earnt his victory by spending a year getting drunk in a bar inside a pocket f----g universe.
Back on point... Some of these shows got home like they wanted, some didn't (Poor Doctor Becket, for him at the end, it was I who had the single tear rolling down his cheek. Sadder than a mashed sack of kittens.) and some planned to do so or maybe someday do get around to it eventually but they got canceled for being utter utter balls first. No wait, Andromeda did get "home".
There was a season finale of Stargate were there's an accident and they're transported to another galaxy 300(?? It was a big number) year travel from earth and... I imagined what if they spent a season or two trying to get home just to show Voyager how it was done (Honestly how could I not think that?). Of course carter got them back for breakfast the following day, which was squarley giving Voyager the Finger since they defeated the Borg to in that episode. Two fingers. Wow.
What if ET didn't make it home?
Back on point... Some of these shows got home like they wanted, some didn't (Poor Doctor Becket, for him at the end, it was I who had the single tear rolling down his cheek. Sadder than a mashed sack of kittens.) and some planned to do so or maybe someday do get around to it eventually but they got canceled for being utter utter balls first. No wait, Andromeda did get "home".
There was a season finale of Stargate were there's an accident and they're transported to another galaxy 300(?? It was a big number) year travel from earth and... I imagined what if they spent a season or two trying to get home just to show Voyager how it was done (Honestly how could I not think that?). Of course carter got them back for breakfast the following day, which was squarley giving Voyager the Finger since they defeated the Borg to in that episode. Two fingers. Wow.
What if ET didn't make it home?
I won't tell if you won't.^ Hey, we agree on something at last.
I've also thought from the beginning that however long they were in the Delta Quadrant it would have been much more interesting to either have more Alpha Quadrant races/ships yanked across the galaxy with them.....or none at all. Either bring elements of the Alpha Quadrant with them and make it constantly part of the story....or never have them make ANY contact with the Alpha Quadrant.
I think the writers missed an opportunity to keep us guessing when they brought the ship home, but I also feel as though the writers really didn't provide any sense Voyager was truely stranded and out of contact with the Alpha Quadrant. As it is, just off the top of my head they made contact with the Romulan in "Eye of the Needle", they were able to contact the UFP using the communications arrays....They run into the USS Equinox (what are the chances of that happening) They traveled to Earth's past, The run into a random Klingon ship.....and I am sure there are have a dozen other instances (the Ferengi from The Price)....of things the writers never should have used.
The writers never really established a sense Voyager was stranded.....
I think the writers missed an opportunity to keep us guessing when they brought the ship home, but I also feel as though the writers really didn't provide any sense Voyager was truely stranded and out of contact with the Alpha Quadrant. As it is, just off the top of my head they made contact with the Romulan in "Eye of the Needle", they were able to contact the UFP using the communications arrays....They run into the USS Equinox (what are the chances of that happening) They traveled to Earth's past, The run into a random Klingon ship.....and I am sure there are have a dozen other instances (the Ferengi from The Price)....of things the writers never should have used.
The writers never really established a sense Voyager was stranded.....
Yes I did feel insulted by the C/7. TPTB wanted to crush two shippers dreams within one episode.
in RT the Original Question, I do think Voyager got home too early. I think the time travel thread of the last episode just makes it all blow up. I wish Voyager could have gone beyond the seven seasons, but with two previous ST shows under their belt that went seven seasons I don't think they were looking to break the mold.
Duh. I'm so brainless lately.
Thanks for filling in the blanks!
