wasn't Endgame extremly similar to another episode, where Kim sent instructions back in time?
You are trying to remember "Timeless", the ep where Chakotay and Kim got home and Voyager was pancaked ito a glacier on a world on the border of the Alpha Quadrant. I don't think the two were "similar" other than future versions of Voyager crew saving past versions, and thereby changing the timeline.
As for your suggest that there is "nowhere to start" a Voy movie, one could always answer a question left hanging from a past Voy ep, (like what happened to 8472, or the BORG remenant) or simply tell us what happened to our intrepid crew after everyone got home.
I think one of the problems I had when I got back into the Star Trek Novels this past year (To confirm the HORROR of
SOMEONE's death in TNG's "
Before Dishonour") was the fact that everything was occuring only a couple years after Voy returned. Excuse me? Voyager ended nearly 9 years ago and TNG ended 16 years ago so why the fudged timeline? Oh, right. We can't age Picard. He has to stay on as
Captain of the Enterprise and virile enough to have a child with a woman who's 1st son
should be 37 by "now".
The thing I LIKED about TOS movies, was the obvious passage of time that was seen. Relationships that were new, like Spock and Saavik, and promotions that were long overdue, like Sulu's Captaincy of the USS Excelsior. Heck, I even liked it when Bones gave the Admiral pair of glasses because Kirk was allergic to the usual 23rd century medical cure for aging eyes. In fact, I fear it was the LACK of change that made me dislike many of the TNG movies. Come on... how long was Riker going to pass up promotions for his own command, and how long was Deanna going to wait for the big lug?
Voyager has great potential for a movie/miniseries "now" to show us what has happened in the 8-9-10 years since they returned. The crew has been apart longer than they were together in the Delta Quadrant. Does Seven have little Borglets running around, and are they having play dates with Tom and B'Elanna's brood? Did the Maquis Captain ever get a Starfleet command? Did the Doc EVER come up with a freaking name???? Did Tom give up Starfleet and become a holoprogram designer, or at least front for the Doc's programs so no-one else would try to rip off a poor defenseless hologram?
Were Harry's parents still alive by the time he got home? Was Janeway's Mother still alive, and did her sister Phoebe ever forgive her for getting herself lost in the Delta Quadrant in the first place?
What happened to B'Elanna's inferiority complex about being half Klingon when she returned home to meet her father, and what did she do to make sure her child/children didn't suffer the same fate? Did she lose contact with Janeway, Chakotay, Harry, the Doc and Seven after they returned home, only to see and be seen at the reunions Starfleet held every 5 or 10 years for the heroic ship? Did they really make it a museum on the Presidio, or put it back into service with a new Captain and crew?
Oh... there's a LOT of things to reveal in a new Voyager Movie, and one would hope the lack of success with "most" TNG movies and the recent success with the reboot of Kirk et al (can't call them TOS) would encourage TPTB at Paramount to review their track record and rethink their strategy. They (Paramount) now have "The Best of Both Worlds"... they can have a rebooted STAR TREK on the big screen, and continue the stories of DS9 and VOY on the small screen via miniseries extravaganzas.
IMHO
Would they only listen.
