Voyager: The Ending You Would Have Preferred

[Guy Gardener]

Wesley Crusher.

The guy can fold space.

He's a mommas boy, there's no way he didn't call in on Bev now and then? So eventually by the time some one mentioned that voayger was in trouble, he could have done something about it seconds later without breaking a sweat.

Hell, if Q hadn't wiped Rikers mind at Quinns trial....

Janeways Biological clock could have gotten them home if she decide she did to want to have Q's baby after all if the going rate hadn't gotten much lower since she was giving away quicksilver duplicates for free and abandoning lizard bards without a second consideration.

 

[Gorf]

Sorry, seasons 4-7 just didn't work for me. Show was very stale and lacked direction. Won't praise something that doesn't deserve it.

Didn't say you have to. Just saying that 'the doctor mindlessly walking the corridors...' for 100 episodes seems a bit blah. Surely you can do better than that.

I'm simply going to ignore you, Guy Gardener. Seems the best approach.

 

[Tachyon]

I agree Gorf. It might be the best approach if you want to have a real discussion with the ones who actually like Voyager like yourself.

 

[JoeZhang]

They use technobabble to get back to the AQ. They are setting course for earth when they detect a sub-space anomaly. Over the objections of the crew, Janeway tells them they will investigate. They get sucked into a wormhole and end back in the DQ but further away then when they started. The crew start to advance on Janeway, fade to black...

 

[BillJ]

They use technobabble to get back to the AQ. They are setting course for earth when they detect a sub-space anomaly. Over the objections of the crew, Janeway tells them they will investigate. They get sucked into a wormhole and end back in the DQ but further away then when they started. The crew start to advance on Janeway, fade to black...

You forgot one important thing...

The theme to 'Return to Gilligans Island' begins to play.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If it really was a generational ship, can you imagine Captain Naomi Wildeman and her XO lt Commander Icheb, as kinda seen earlier that season in Shattered in command of Voyager holding toe over the children and the grandchildren of the crew we knew so well for the first 7 years bring the ship home?

Oh Gorf? You wound me.

 

[BillJ]

Oh Gorf? You wound me.

 

[Tachyon]

It would have been really daring if they had got home the end of Season Six, with Season Seven being the aftermath, but I guess that was never going to happen.

I kind of like the idea, because the court martial, for instance, would have been interesting to see as well as how the crew settled down on Earth and what each of them (i.e. senior staff + Seven, Naomi & Ichy) would have done next. But the whole season? I'm not so sure about about. Perhaps the second half of season 7 would have worked better.

 

[Tachyon]

The second ending, which I've been considering more and more in recent years would have them remaining in the Delta Quadrant where they would help the people on "The 37's" planet to defend themselves and also help htem to create a new Fedreation in the Delta Quadrant. That solution would still give us many of the episodes and events we did see in the series, events which Voyager would face during their expeditions in the area. It would also give us continuing adventures for our favorites in books for many years to come.

They more or less did this in the Mirror Universe Book, but after season 3. It was called "Delta Coalition", if I remember correctly.

 

[Gorf]

It would have been really daring if they had got home the end of Season Six, with Season Seven being the aftermath, but I guess that was never going to happen.

I kind of like the idea, because the court martial, for instance, would have been interesting to see as well as how the crew settled down on Earth and what each of them (i.e. senior staff + Seven, Naomi & Ichy) would have done next. But the whole season? I'm not so sure about about. Perhaps the second half of season 7 would have worked better.

Interesting idea, but I agree that I would have preferred this to take place mid season 7.

The second ending, which I've been considering more and more in recent years would have them remaining in the Delta Quadrant where they would help the people on "The 37's" planet to defend themselves and also help htem to create a new Fedreation in the Delta Quadrant. That solution would still give us many of the episodes and events we did see in the series, events which Voyager would face during their expeditions in the area.

But that sort of leaves them in season 1. Not sure I'd want that, but since it didn't happen I find it hard to really judge.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It would have been really daring if they had got home the end of Season Six, with Season Seven being the aftermath, but I guess that was never going to happen.

I kind of like the idea, because the court martial, for instance, would have been interesting to see as well as how the crew settled down on Earth and what each of them (i.e. senior staff + Seven, Naomi & Ichy) would have done next. But the whole season? I'm not so sure about about. Perhaps the second half of season 7 would have worked better.

An entire season of doctor who in the 80s was set in a court room, as the Doctors most recent adventures were used to prosecute him for crimes against morality and the web of time. The opposing council turned out to be an evil future version of the Doctor who wanted to abscond with his younger selfs unused life cycle.

I was thinking that maybe Living Witness part II might be interesting watching the doctor track Voyagers route home, then again, rerunning Living Witness part II would have been a serious improvement.

 

[Tachyon]

I'd also have been interested in an ending like somebody mentioned in another thread. An ending where we got to see what happened during those additional 16 years that made Admiral Janeway go back in time. That might have been a bit more than 2 episodes, but it sounds good.

It could have been interesting. Perhaps one day someone will write a Trek novel about this. I'm not holding my breath, though.

 

[Judge King]

They make it to the Alpha Quadrant and Janeway and her senior staff are court martialed for flagrant stupidity.

 

[Gorf]

I'm not holding my breath, though.

No, I'm afraid we'd suffocate long before then if we did that.

 

[Guy Gardener]

All stories will be written.

But I'm not going to believe in any of them where Harry gets promoted any past Ensign.

Although, I would have liked to have seen a Braxton vs. Daniels battle running through the background of Voyagers last episode, so that we cold really get ready for Future Guy to ruin our lives.

O, and Mark is waiting for Kathy, because his new wife "died" when some old lady in an admirals uniform squashed her in a ground transport run amok through a cross walk.

 

[Tachyon]

They make it to the Alpha Quadrant and Janeway and her senior staff are court martialed for flagrant stupidity.

Unlikely, since there was no stupidity in the first place.

 

[joyofvgr]

I would have liked to see them get back to the Alpha Quadrant, just like in Endgame, but without the time travel element. Basically, they find the Transwarp hub, figure out a way through, how to battle the borg, etc. Once on Earth everything appears normal, except some of the top Admirals of Starfleet are actually Species 8472. I would leave it right there.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

"Homecoming arc":

Episodes 169 & 170: The crew discovers a way home which doesn't inlclude time travel or the Borg. Voyager makes it to the Alpha Quadrant, but is badly damaged in the process and explodes. However, the crew manages to abandon ship before this happens. (Maybe there's a wormhole that leads to the Alpha Quadrant, but which is located within the territory of a hostile species. Janeway and her crew decide to take the chance and fight their way to that wormhole. However, the battle damage and the subsequent travel through the wormhole is the death knell for Voyager. Perhaps one of the main characters is also killed in these episodes in a heroic fashion. Maybe even Harry Kim... it would be ironic that the character who always wanted to go home most badly decides to sacrifice himself to ensure Voyager's return.)

Episodes 171 & 172: Deals with all the loose ends after the crew returns home. The Maquis crew members are pardoned by Starfleet. Janeway has to appear before a board of inquiry, but is eventually acquitted. The Doctor decides to become a hologram rights' advocate. Some characters leave Starfleet, others accept new assignments. They mourn their losses.

 

[JustKate]

I'd like to come up with something original, but the plain fact is that Redshirt here has said pretty much everything I'd say, and it's probably said more succinctly, too.

 

[voygal72]

I like Redshirt's idea of a story arc of several episodes. Although it might be copying the ending of ST:IV, have Janeway 'demoted' by being permanently ranked as 'captain', and the repentant Maquis being resolved of all crimes because they have done so much to bring Voyager back.

A 2-3 episode trial would have been great for digging into the secrets so long hidden during those 7 years. That way, we could have felt a bit more 'closure' with the series.

Or... how about a movie or two, gang?