Voyager Redone, my version.

[Anwar]

The crew splits up inside Guardian Prime: Some staying to supervise repairs, some going to see what trading can be done/information can be gathered, and some crew going with Neelix to find some Central Core contacts he has. Here we'd run into some Talaxian ex-soldiers working as mercenaries, and we learn that they’re also smuggling League weapons to the Periphery. Neelix has been using Voyager as a symbol (without their consent) of rebellion for the Talaxian Rebels and to try and gain support from others who’ve suffered from the Haakonians and Kazon. Due to the damage Voyager did to the Kazon’s fleet back in S1 some of the Talaxian colonies they were trying to subjugate broke free and for the first time since the Talaxians and Haakonians crippled each other, the Talaxians are working to restore themselves.

It'd be revealed that the reason Cullah was so determined to get his hands on Voyager wasn't just because he wanted its tech, it was because he's been trying to apply to the League for membership and kept getting rejected because they don't offer anything worthwhile to the League's well-being. He saw that VOY's tech was revolutionary and thought of capturing it and presenting it as a gift to the League.

The ship gets repaired by Malon contractors (with Janeway and Chakotay having to find a way of getting it fixed without the Malon selling information about their tech to the League, as well as League spies). After all, Warp Drive is something that can’t be tracked by the Central Core/Periphery species, it can be equipped on smaller vessels and it’s much more tactically useful than Starsail even if it’s slower.

The (female) League Admiral in command of Guardian Prime (and the entire Outer Defense Perimeter) would at first just dismiss VOY as a random vessel of refugees fleeing the Periphery in a vessel they patched up from wrecks. But after some League technicians and Malon dock workers notice the difference in technology and report them she becomes somewhat curious and requests that they be observed (they don’t want to risk a diplomatic incident if these guys are affiliated with any other Central Core powers). A subplot would be how Janeway and Chakotay try to bluff their way off of Guardian Prime by claiming to be on an expeditionary mission from the Federation and thus have diplomatic immunity.

This opening storyline would be an excuse to unload information on the other Central Core powers aside from the League whom they can try to ask for help, realizing that the League might be a little too interested in their technological advantages like Warp Drive. They also can’t find a decent replacement for the utterly destroyed long-range scanners on VOY, which kept them from scanning the stars themselves earlier on, but what maps they can get show that Vulcan-related species have been to the Central Core before. Genetic testing on Tuvok and other Vulcans in the crew also show compatibility in genetic databases of passing species.

 

[Anwar]

The Krenim, an Imperium ruled by various Houses cooperating; at least until recently because right now they’re apparently having some kind of internal struggle with a renegade military scientist and some new tech they’ve been working on. So for now the borders are closed, although technologically they’re supposed to have access to some ancient ruins that catapulted their tech level with all kinds of crazy weapons.

The Devore, who're very anti-telepathic due to the "Old Wars" 2000 years ago which involved telepathics enemies who used their abilities to great offensive effect. Xenophobic, and armed with weapons meant specifically to kill telepathic species if needed, closed-borders but willing to speak through holographic embassies.

The Hierarchy and the Malon, just to add some more names and stuff in to flesh out the region. The Malon run most of the generic space corporations that do various things around the Central Core: Mining, construction, private dockyards, etc.

Think Tank here would be a private corporation that sells itself out to solve problems for other races (incurable diseases, super computer viruses, new ship or weapon designs), for extremely high fees of course. Their HQ is a station built around a Micro-Star they created which is their power source.

The Lokirrim, whose story is that to recover from the “Old Wars” they started using lots of robots after they got their FTL capacities back and started re-establishing themselves. The robotic armies from “Prototype” are Lokirrim droids. Some of their people are angry at the mass-usage of AIs since it makes them too dependent, but they rely on them too much to just stop using them without weakening themselves. Some Lokirrim who are in the army (regular Lokirrim can join, but most don't because they prefer the AIs dying in their place) are somewhat hostile upon meeting VOY due to the Doctor, while others are more accepting because of all the help the AIs have done for them.

Occasionally, some Lokirrim droids go haywire and have formed Maverick Squads that harass inhabitants of the Central Core.

As a subplot, the main group of Lokirrim Renegade robots are under the leadership of the AI from the Think Tank, but it would seem Korris and the others are unaware of what it's doing.

Putting all the facts together the VOY crew come to the realization that these Old Wars are what turned the Periphery/Wasteland INTO a Wasteland in the first place and why there are archeological sites looking for remnants of advanced technology there. This “Ancient Enemy” that led to the creation of the League was apparently telepathic and their ships had the capability of destroying entire star systems.

 

[Anwar]

After repairs are completed (without giving away their technological secrets), the crew find out that Seska was trying to give out some of their technological secrets to Kazon spies on Guardian Prime as well as League Investigators (who want to know more about this “diplomatic mission” from beyond the Periphery). She’s injured during the busted deal and they find out she’s really a Cardassian spy. She figures it’s better to ally themselves with someone like the League now that they’re in a more civilized area (and she appreciates them as a Military State) and is okay giving away some of their only advantages to do so.

The League, having bought Janeway and Chakotay’s story about them being diplomats on a real mission, turn down her offer (since she doesn’t have her tech files anymore) so she has to side with the Kazon Agents. She manages to badly wound B’Ellana in her escape attempt because she kept her from stealing for information from Engineering.

After VOY leaves Guardian Prime they go to other Border worlds to try and seek out these Vulcan relatives, while having run-ins with Central Core species, random stuff like that. They do run into Denara Pel again (having encountered her in S1 as a sympathetic Vidiian), who decides to help them seeing how the Vidiian database on various species would be the biggest in the Central Core and get help for B’Ellana whose condition is worsening. Chakotay goes with Denara and B’Ellana to take charge of this search through the Vidiian’s databases.

Seska starts a re-organizing plan of Cullah's spies to make them into a pseudo-Obsidion Order capable of taking Voyager despite it being in the League’s territory, the also aim to soften the ship up for capture by siccing Hirogen Bounty Hunters on them.

Voyager would get a distress call from a Talaxian Rebel ship, not knowing it’s a fake sent by Seska and the “Talaxians” are Hirogen.

The same set-up as the first part of "Basics" would occur, with a Kazon disguised as a Talaxian getting onboard, the Kazon spies onboard making their presence known while mercenaries attack Voyager and force it to an area of the Periphery/Core boundary where the League don’t patrol. When VOY overpowers the infiltration team they choose explosive suicide, causing internal damage and being the signal for the Kazon fleet to attack. Realizing that this may be it, Janeway pulls a Captain Forrest and orders everyone to abandon ship while she stays behind to try and distract the Kazon long enough for them to escape with the Talaxian escorts.

Alone on the ship as everyone leaves, Janeway keeps fighting at Tactical with the bridge exploding in sparks and flames all around her (Seska wants to blow up the bridge first to kill off the senior officers before the Kazon take the ship), and the screen would fade to black and as the Exec Producers names appear, a huge explosion is heard.

Voyager S2 finale.

 

[JRoss]

I greatly prefer this version to what we got.

 

[Anwar]

The S3 premiere would open up with the huge explosion having come from the Kazon Carrier, as several Vidiian Cruisers show up and open fire on the Kazon force.


Cullah escapes back to the Periphery, cursing himself for trusting Seska and mourning his losses. The ships lost along with their spies, the money wasted on hiring the Hirogen Hunters and the Carrier destroyed a year ago have all put significant stress on the Cullah Sect to maintain what rulership they have over the Periphery. He then has Seska loaded into an escape pod and shot off into space somewhere, saying he won’t kill her but he’s not tolerating her anymore.

The Vidiian ships pick up the VOY escape pods and tractor the ship away from the battlefield to Vidiian space, along with the Talaxian fighters.

The pods are put in the same large cargo area and the crew exit, ready to fight to the death rather than be harvested, when a figure appears and tells them that while they may die it won’t be today.

It's Chakotay.

The Vidiian crewmembers all come to Voyager crew and thank them for ridding them of the Phage. Chakotay explains that B'Ellana found out that she was dying from the superpoison Seska used on her and decided to use what time she had left to help Voyager. She asked to be given back to the Vidiians so they could create a cure for the Phage from her. In return for this they would be expected to ally themselves with Voyager (as the League was turning out to be a dead end). B’Ellana’s character has been killed off the show.

Janeway (who was recovered from the ruined bridge of Voyager) would wake up to Chakotay and Tuvok in a Vidiian med-bay, where Chakotay would explain everything to her. It will take time so the crew can rest and recover. A lot of them need it, especially the ones who are rather taken back at the idea of the Vidiians being their allies now.

Fortunately, Denara Pel a Vidiian Doctor the crew encountered and rescued earlier in the first season, is there to serve as the Vidiian liaison to the crew so they can at least trust her.

 

[Janeway7trulv]

The episode called Natural Law- which is merely an ensemble piece for Seven and Chakotay. Out in some darn field together.. It was somewhat like the episode in season 1 with Chakotay and Janeway.

Anyways i thought it would have been a great idea to have an ensemble featuring just Captain Janeway and Seven. That will have been jaw droopingly fascinating . Captain teaching Seven things about nature and the two come across fierce challenges along the way. Seven gets injuried the Captain goes to grave lengths to try to save her.. Oh im weeping as we speak
.. It will have been a blinding episode tho .

 

[Anwar]

The Conclave

Voyager is taken to a Vidiian base (basically their version of Guardian Prime) for repairs and the crew is collected from the Escape Pods. Because of all the damage he was able to do to the Kazon and uniting several Talaxian Cells into a more unified Resistance against the Haakonians, Neelix has been promoted to a Talaxian General rank and figures if there’s some alliance between Voyager and the Vidiians he better make sure his Talaxians get in on it. He talks with the Talaxians commanders, some of whom wonder what they’ll do now that the Phage is no longer a problem to restore their Civilization and make up for their actions during the plague.
Neelix would then come up to the Vidiian Commander of the base and offer a proposal to them.

Janeway would be going over some repairs/upgrades the ship is getting from the Vidiians, when a Vidiian diplomat would come to her and tell her what a wonderful idea she proposed and how it will be the old age of enlightenment and peace again.

Janeway would wonder what this guy is talking about, and is stunned when she finds out:

Neelix told the Vidiians that if they want their old reputation, or anyone willing to stand up for them, they could give a good message by liberating the Talaxians from the Haakonian Occupation as the Talaxians were a major civilization of the Periphery; more so, the Vidiians returning to the old ways and with allies can recreate the "Conclave", an interstellar alliance of worlds that once existed millennia ago. It was destroyed by the “Old Wars” against invaders. Several Conclave members were either destroyed or blasted back to a primitive age while the Vidiians were infected with the Phage.

It turns out that what is now known as the Periphery was once a rich area teeming with intelligent life, but the Wars left it all virtually destroyed and the life extinct, with the surviving races joining into the League of Spacefaring Civilizations. This is the origin of the ruins and devastated worlds VOY encountered on their way through the Periphery. Those ruins encountered were leftovers of advanced Conclave technology. The League’s archeological missions are for retrieving leftover technology.

Janeway is upset because she realizes Neelix is just using the Vidiians for his own ends and implicated Voyager’s crew in this.

He counters that what he's done is best for everyone involved. The Talaxians will be free and will be more than willing to join this new alliance the Vidiians want to create and in return use their connections in the Periphery to convince other powers to join. VOY will have helped to stabilize what was a chaotic, disjointed region, basically Cullah’s dream only less violent and imperialistic.

And he states he also did it for VOY as well, because "Since you can't go home, you can bring home here". He's been studying their "Federation" and while he finds some of it to be left wanting, he thinks it's a good basic idea. Janeway shoots back that the Federation’s values are what made them choose to bring him aboard, and if he finds it wanting he can just leave.

Janeway reluctantly agrees with Neelix after even Tuvok (it's logical) and Chakotay (it helps people and give VOY all the allies they'll ever need) also side with him. All they did was give them the cure for the Phage, everything else the Vidiians are doing is their own desire, so it’s not a PD violation. And also since it was Neelix who talked them into freeing Talax again it’s not Starfleet doing it.

But as punishment, she makes Neelix the VOY Liaison to the Vidiians, so he has to spend all his time around the guys who took his lungs.

 

[Anwar]

The History of the Conclave’s Fall

Going over data records from the Vidiians, the Voyager crew find out more about the catastrophe that destroyed most Galactic Civilization in the Periphery/Central Core, created the Phage and militarized the survivors. It started when dimensional portals to a place known as “Fluidic Space” opened up and the hostile inhabitants invaded. These creatures were designated “Fluidics” in what were known as the Fluidic Wars.

They fought a war against the Conclave forces 2000 years ago, they possessed technorganic starships that regenerated from damage, vast telepathic powers to disrupt the minds of attacking soldier. Their very DNA could cause infections that kill those exposed to them. They had vast bio-weapon power that could destroy entire solar systems and entire species, with the Conclave and other powers desperately fighting for their lives with every bit of technology they had.

There was another major power around, the Voth, and it was their aid in the war that beat back and held off the Fluidics for the most part. But they took so much loss of life and damage in the war they removed themselves from the Galactic Public in all ways and practically disappeared after the war, no one having seen them since. No one knows whether they’re still around, left for elsewhere, or even still exist. They just packed up all the survivors onto giant starships and vanished.

The Conclave's best minds were able to come up with weapons that halted the Fluidic advance and killed many of them, but not before the Vidiians themselves were infected with Fluidic DNA. They tried using their advanced medical tech to stop it, but instead they caused the Fluidic DNA to mutate into the Phage, which then spread to their entire race and turned the Vidiians into the desperate organ-hunters they were in the beginning of VOY. The Conclave effectively was terminated, the survivors forming the League of Spacefaring Civilizations after 1000 years of reconstruction.

The few surviving Fluidics then retreated and have spent the last 2000 years hibernating and rebuilding, with the League of Spacefaring Civilizations preparing for their return.

Also, due to the Fluidics' destructive usage of telepathy in the Fluidic Wars, this is what caused the Devore Empire to be so anti-telepathic and develop anti-telepathy technologies.


Neo-Conclave

Deciding that they may as well help out in the formation of this new alliance as the Neo-Conclave’s “vanguard”, VOY goes back into the Periphery to seek out surviving members of the Old-Conclave and recruit them. The argument being that this is a formal request for aid, Voyager being an “Escort” for Vidiian delegates, not doing any missions on their own; at least this is Chakotay trying to justify this to Janeway. She rightfully points out it’s a load of dung but goes with it anyways since she understands the pragmatism of Voyager needing a power base and hopes that Starfleet will be willing to see that too.

Denara Pel is now a major recurring character with Neelix and Kes being part of the Conclave delegation as well (Kes by now has aged to an 18 year old, Neelix a Rebel General whose influence over the Talaxian Cells growing), Harry has been promoted to full Lt and in Engineering to take up Torres’ spot.

They’d revisit some better-developed worlds they encountered before on their initial voyage through the Periphery, with some worlds deciding they actually prefer the Cullah Sect’s more secure protection over some idealistic “Alliance of Worlds” they think the League will end up eventually conquering. Others, who are being more tightly strangled for tribute than usual thanks to the Cullah Sect needing more money to make up for all the funds they wasted hunting Voyager would openly embrace the new Conclave.

The non-Cullah Kazon Sects encountered earlier would be asked to join up first as they were some of the only remaining interstellar civilization left even if they are using stolen technology to travel; The Kazon mercenaries VOY employed on their first trip through the Periphery would be now employed full-time with the Vidiians as their clients, to defend the “Neo-Conclave” potential members they are recruiting and to foster the image of multi-species cooperation.

VOY would have to deal with Cullah Sect agents in the Kazon mercenaries trying to stir up mistrust, Haakonian agents who are trying to kill Neelix and any other Talax Resistance Leaders and League spies trying to see just what the Vidiians are up to with their “Reclamation” Project (the public line they gave to the Central Core powers over their activities in the Periphery/Wasteland). They get a nasty shock when it turns out that League vessels now have the ability to detect them better even if they still can’t totally track warp emissions. The source of this? Seska, who made it to the League after being kicked out by Cullah and declaring her presence as a Cardassian Diplomat (figuring that this is win-win: Either she makes good relations with the League and a new ally for Cardassia if contact is ever established, she makes a good new life for herself and never goes home, or she manages to turn them on Voyager and keep the Feds from making new allies); she shares information about the Alpha Quadrant powers with the League that VOY was fearful to do, as well as some technical knowledge to even the playing field a bit.

They observe how the League and others are reacting to their activities by watching CCNN: Central Core News Network.

A major breakthrough is accomplished with the re-discovery of the Vaadwaur, a race that was a major member of the Old Conclave thought to have been totally wiped out. Turns out they just put most of their population into stasis and hid underground their devastated homeworld (which has also been the site of League archaeological digs to search for advanced technologies). With their reawakening, they also bring back the lost sciences they have managed to hold onto during their sleep, like access to their Underspace subspace corridors. These are basically a network of portals that allow quick travel if you map them out and know which one goes where and with them the Neo-Conclave will have quick access all over the Periphery and some parts of the Central Core (and possibly further, since Underspace was never fully charted out before the wars), their own method of FTL travel without need of the Starsail or Warp Drive.

 

[Starborn Dragon]

There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship.

All dictatorships are a tyranny. That's why they're called dictatorship.

 

[Anwar]

Strange bedfellows

A major two-part would occur at this point; VOY has dropped off the Delegation members at a Talaxian Resistance base and are on their own when they get a distress call from a League archaeology team indicating they’re under attack, and it’s near Cullah Sect space. Chakotay argues with Janeway that they should stay out of this and allow the League to handle the Kazon for them, but a second message informs them of a bigger problem: Cullah himself is sending out a distress call to any Sect vessels; He heard the League call first and moved to investigate with his flagship, when they got there they saw an unknown alien vessel attacking the League dig site and engaged them. They managed to destroy the ship but not before it ejected landing pods to the surface and shot down Cullahs’ own vessel so it crashed on the surface. They’re under attack from the alien survivors so he’s ordering immediate reinforcements and evacuation from the area.

Voyager then gets images of just what Cullah was fighting in orbit of the world: A Borg Sphere. Janeway argues that they have to find out what the Borg are doing here, and if there IS some old technology on that planet they can’t let the Borg OR Cullah get their hands on it. Chakotay reluctantly agrees that they have to intervene somehow. They get to the planet first with Chakotay leading the landing party to the Kazon vessel: The Borg survivors have assimilated some of the League team there as well as some of the Kazon scouts Cullah sent out earlier, while Cullah is fighting back using the Land Battleships and armed vehicles in his flagships’ hangers. After getting Cullah to swear they won’t try and take over the ship Chakotay begins beaming up his crew; The League survivors then tells him that the Borg are defending what the League found: An advanced engine design called “Quantum Slipstream” and they have to get it for themselves. Janeway warns them that they picked up a message the Borg survivors sent out earlier and there’s probably another Borg vessel on the way there, Chakotay checks the data terminal of a dead drone and confirms that a Cube, the Probe’s mothership is in the area.

The League forces at Guardian Prime have been observing all this and detect the Borg Cube entering the area. They dispatch an Assault Transport loaded with small attack vessels to intercept the ship keeping the pure Capital ships back since they don’t understand how dangerous a Cube is.

Cullah and Chakotay use the Kazon vehicles to smash their way into the Borg base and get the Slipstream engine out of there before they beam back to Voyager. Harry and the engineering team get to work analyzing the data the League had gathered on it to see how it works and if they can link it to the Warp Drive. The Borg vessel is closing but the League squadron has intercepted it and they’re engaged in battle. As it turns out, the Borg’s adaptation doesn’t work on League weaponry. The type of energy the League uses in their weapons counteract Borg energy systems so adaptation is neutralized, the Borg have to rely purely on their regenerative power since damage is being done as fast as they can repair it. The League is surprised at how powerful the Cube is at blasting their ships apart but continue the assault when they see they’re doing damage.

The Borg get around this by destroying the Transport and accelerating past the stranded vessels. League Capital ships are dispatched but won’t get there for a while.

Voyager’s crew have linked the Slipstream Engine up; Kim and Janeway theorize that it can be used to teleport them instantly, but the energy drain it causes on their systems makes it good only for a few jumps and the first jump only takes them to the edge of the system with the Borg in hot pursuit. The second jump takes them to a neighboring system containing a neutron star, the engine use now affecting their power grid; the Borg Cube still detects their presence (not far enough) and closes in. Janeway realizes that the Teleport effect can be projected onto something aside from Voyager and she sets to work on the final jump. As the Borg ship locks onto them and is ready to fire, they activate the Engine again and use the teleport effect on the Borg. It’s sent into the Neutron Star’s proximity where it’s immediately destroyed by the gravity pull.

With the Borg threat eliminated, they hand the League survivors over to the arriving League ships and take Cullah to the Talaxian base where he is confronted and given an ultimatum by Neelix: His dreams of an empire are falling apart, the Neo-Conclave’s power is growing and Cullahs’ recent losses are taking their toll. What would have happened to them if Voyager hadn’t intervened?

Neelix offers him a choice: Cullah can return to his pirates and ultimately be vanquished when the Neo-Conclave puts an end to their Piracy, or they can join the Neo-Conclave as a founding member and help create the order that Cullah wanted. They won’t rule the Periphery, but they’ll be an influential and respected member because of their numbers, skills at negotiating, firepower and any other connections/advantages they have to offer. Cullah decides that he’d rather serve in Heaven than rule in Hell and agrees with his Sect joining the Talaxian resistance and Vidiian “Reclamation Task Force” as the bulk of the Neo-Conclave fleet, absorbing the other Kazon Mercenaries into his own forces.

The now-drained Slipstream engine is taken away for analysis by Vidiian scientists to see if they can recharge it someday.

 

[Anwar]

This is a bit short, forgive me.



The S3 finale would deal with the attempted-and-failed negotiations with the Haakonians to withdraw from Talax. After this final failure, Neelix takes matters into his own hands and gets the resistance members on Talax to begin sabotage operations while the Talaxian Armada (all the off-world Talaxian rebel ships restored and upgraded by the Conclave) moves in with Cullah’s reinforcements to try and force a bloodless surrender. Since the Kazon support has the Talaxian force bolstered the Haakonians decide to withdraw rather than force a confrontation with a now superior force, with Neelix and his fellow resistance fighters liberating the planet.

As VOY hears that a new government has been set up, they sit back to watch a broadcast celebrating Talaxian freedom. Instead they get a broadcast of a different type, an inauguration, the inauguration of Emperor Neelix of the new Talaxian Empire who pledges to unite the lost Talaxian colonies under his banner, his army, thanks his new Kazon allies and the crew of Voyager for making this possible and pledges that the Talaxians will be productive members of the Conclave.

Janeway and co are stunned, they’ve helped install a potential Tyrant and also made him a key member of the new Conclave. This realization brings S3 to a sombre conclusion.

 

[Anwar]

Time Wars

Although still left wondering about the validity of their actions in the aftermath of Neelix using their support to install himself as the Dictator of Talax, their actions have earned them newfound respect and political influence. Neelix, against all expectations, is doing good PR work for them which attracts attention from the Central Core. The Krenim Royal Family sets up a secret contact with them to negotiate for aid in their Civil War, feeling they are losing and need external aid. However, the League is too untrustworthy so the Conclave is their best bet.

The Imperial Family tells them about who is leading the military revolt and what kind of power he wields:

The Krenim people are a society who considers existence to be one big equation that they seek to manipulate and add new variables to in order to create their ideal future. They have this machine they found on an abandoned dead world that basically is a very accurate simulation predictor: It takes into account all available data on everything and shows you the most probable outcome. They used it to make the Krenim a powerful empire by identifying whatever variables they can control that could threaten them like alien races that may become future rivals (then conquered/defeated), Krenim who can become dangerous revolutionaries (eliminated/imprisoned before they pose a threat), etc.

One of their best minds, a military scientist named Annorax, eventually develop powerful temporal-based weaponry with his greatest achievement being the Timeship: a device potentially capable of tampering with the fabric of time. Due to the inherent dangers and the long-reaching effects of such a weapon it was never meant to be used as anything other than a last ditch Doomsday Machine.

The Imperial Family tell the Conclave that Annorax eventually just became full of himself and started the military coup to take over the Imperium, and he armed the forces loyal to him with his temporal weapons like the Chroniton torpedo which can bypass all known shielding and point defense. Although outnumbered, the rebels’ technical superiority has slowly been winning out against the Imperium’s numbers.

VOY and the Conclave get involved due to the extreme danger the Timeship poses and what kind of damage it could do to the time-space continuum. The Imperium agrees to ally itself with the Conclave in exchange for scientific aid and helping Voyager in its mission to return to the Alpha Quadrant. Voyager manages to find a way of creating Temporal shields that neutralize the Chroniton Torpedoes’ bypassing ability, which cancels out most of Annoraxs’ advantage in battle.

The shielding has a secondary effect, when it protects Voyager and other Conclave vessels from a previously undetected energy wave passing by. The full horror of the Timeship weapon become apparent when Janeway realizes that one of the Krenims’ Vassal species has vanished completely even though crewmembers of that species still exist on vessels that had the Temporal Shielding. Annorax has been winning by using the Timeship to annihilate anything that threatens him from the timeline itself, with no one even realizing what he’s been doing.

But with the Time Shields, his changes are no longer going unnoticed.

 

[MetalDog]

Very interesting. Please keep writing.

 

[Anwar]

Tomorrow's Voyager



During one battle the temporal shields react with a Chroniton warhead, opening a temporal rift that sucks VOY 30 years into the future.



Once there, they find that in this future the Fluidic aliens did indeed return and ended up attracting the attention of the Borg who arrived and tried to assimilate them. However, the Fluidics’ own telepathic powers allowed them to merge with the Borg Hive Mind instead of being dominated by it, creating a hybrid race one that has inherited the Fluidics' xenocidal desires and the power/infrastructure of the Borg Collective. The Borg/Fluidic Hybrid species have been using all their power to destroy everything they encounter instead of just assimilating what they think is worthwhile. The Neo-Conclave and League have been all but destroyed and the remnants of the Alpha Quadrant powers are desperately fighting off endless Borg/Fluidic attacks (they're busying attacking the whole galaxy so they can't focus entirely on the small area of the Alpha/Beta Quadrants Trek takes place in).

So when they get back through the time warp VOY’s crew have proof of the real threat out there, more reason to bypass the Prime Directive and help the Conclave and League.



The next temporal incursion (on the Vidiian homeworld) is cancelled out by a new Planetary Temporal shield and actually causes a reflect/backfire effect on the Timeship. This disables the Timeship and causes a Time-Change Effect on Annorax’s forces: Now they themselves have been negatively altered and vastly weakened to a small flotilla of poorly armed vessels. Annorax then chooses to reveal the whole truth: Annorax originally built the Timeship as a last resort anti-Fluidic weapon, but under heavy pressure from the Imperial Family and the military he was forced into using it on the Rilnar, whom the Krenim were in a losing war with. He succeeded in erasing them and turning the Krenim Empire into an even stronger power but it also erased his family and their colony world. Millions of Krenim also ended up dying from plagues they were immune to in the original timeline because of antibodies they got from the Rilnar. When he returned to the Krenim Imperials and told them of what happened (they didn't remember, as they were also affected by the time change) he begged them to let him keep using the Timeship to try and restore his family and those lost, but the Imperials were horrified at the true power of the Timeship and decided it had to be destroyed and that Annorax himself had to be disposed of.

So the Imperial family’s abuse of the Anti-Fluidic tech and the twisting of Annorax's good intentions is what really caused this mess to begin with. He hasn’t been trying to take over the Imperium, he’s been trying to keep them Imperium from killing him.

The damage inflicted destroys the Timeship, but Janeway transports over to the Imperial Flagship (which still has its shields up) along with data-tracks of the entire Krenim encounter. So while she remembers everything and has proof that it happened, all the losses and damage done to VOY’s crew is undone, and the deleted species are all restored. This turns the Krenim back into a normal Central Core power and not the Mega-Empire it was, but this is considered an acceptable punishment for their temporal abuses. Annorax himself is reunited with his family with no memories of what has happened and shows up as a recurring scientist character.

The Krenim join the Conclave out of gratitude, but agree not to develop anything like the Timeship again, burying such dangerous knowledge.

And the ancient artifact the Krenim civilization has been guided by is revealed in the end as the same "species" as the Guardian of Forever.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

IF I had to make a Voyager Redone, 1) I would have insisted on the conflicts between the members of the Maquis and StarFleet, especially between Janeway and Chakotay and the consequences for respective crews, in 1st season -> in the show, they have too easily connected their fates in the first 2 episodes. It was ridiculous!
2) the fights against the Kazons and the Borgs held a too big place in the show. On the other hand, I would have kept Seska who was as a good character. And Harry Kim would be killed as initially planned.
3) I would have integrated a new character (from the Trill communuty, perhaps) who would have hold the role of counselor of Voyager, with a strong personality, rather strong to stand up to Katherine Janeway, Seven and The Doctor because, let us be honest, they often crossed the red line without fear of having to undergo the consequences ; I certainly wouldn't have made The Doctor, a sentient hologram. Maybe it was funny for the entertainment but in the end, the hologram became too independent (and claiming always more), too uncontrollable and even sometimes dangerous for itself and the crew.

 

[Anwar]

The tunnel home



After having spent months analyzing it, the Neo-Conclave’s combined scientists (by this point Vidiians, Talaxians, Vaadwar and Krenim) have managed to make their own version of the Quantum Slipstream Drive (QSS) recovered by VOY in last season’s Borg attack. This version of it isn’t a spacefolding drive, but it can create something like an artificial wormhole. Put in the proper co-ordinates before opening the slipstream tunnel, and once inside it your velocity will be augmented several times over. Janeway theorizes that they can use it to return to the Alpha Quadrant in days. It will bypass the barrier around the area completely.



However, the downsides are that the power source for the QSS is available only in the Core Beta Quadrant (I call it Pillerite) and it takes a big power charge to activate the QSS in the first place, draining the power grid. So you can’t just keep dropping in and out of QSS, you have to go from the entry point to the exit coordinates so not to risk system failure. Only one ship generating the QSS tunnel is necessary though, so if one ship has it and powers up the tunnel enough more ships can follow on their own to the exit point.



Think Babylon 5’s Jump-Gates, but Hyperspace isn’t some other dimension.


With Denara Pel assembling a Conclave delegation they prepare to leave for the Alpha Quadrant to let Starfleet know about all that they've encountered as soon as the QSS is ready. The crew are given well-deserved R&R anywhere they want in the Conclave, ready to be picked up for the trip home.

However before they can go a major complication arises.



The Second Incursion

We cut to a Talaxian merchant ship/mining ship just minding its own business; the Captain has a pet that's a counterpart to a dog, the crew playing games, etc. Then a large power surge is detected and several large objects emerge out of a massive rift in space. This causes the Talaxian ship to go out of control due to the proximity.


Harry, returning to VOY on a transport ship with others, picks up the distress call and goes to check it out. He and the others beam onboard the drifting vessel.


Harry finds evidence of a fight with energy weapons but no signs of disintegrated bodies on the Vidiian scanners (they use those now instead of Tricorders) and then locates one member of the crew at the communications, except he's dead. He looks like he was mauled by some vicious animal. Going deeper they finds other crew members who have all been killed in the same way, and several of them look like they were fighting something when they died. Harry doesn't realize that the “something” is in the chamber with him and it seems to have mechanical parts attache.

A sole surviving Talaxian is found in a locker, but he's in severe shock. Harry then hears a growl and turns around just in time to barely dodge a tackle by the Captain's pet which has been turned into a vicious killer. It has robotic enhancements and shoots tubules out of its mouth. It finally gets him pinned down, but before it can rip him up the Talaxian picks up Kim's phaser and kills the thing.

The survivor then tells the rescue team that a cluster of humongous vessels appeared out of nowhere and knocked their ship out of control. The Invaders transported several of the mining crew away and then sent two of their own onboard, but the remaining crew fought back and killed one of them with their weapons. However the second one was unaffected by their firepower. The captain’s pet attacked and killed the other one with its' teeth and claws but before it died the alien injected the pet with something that mutated it into a bio-mechanical monster; it then slaughtered the rest of the crew except him since he hid himself.

He'd show them the corpse of the alien the pet killed before it mutated: It's a Borg.

 

[LJones41]

I would never remake VOYAGER. I don't see the point. In fact, I wouldn't even remake THE ORIGINAL SERIES or ENTERPRISE, which I am not a big fan of.