What happened to Voyager?

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1) Regardless of its effects on the timeline, I find it very difficult to believe Section 31 didn't get its hands on any, if not all, the future tech Voyager brought back.

2) Voyager may have been a relatively new or "young" starship at the time Caretaker took place, but it also saw seven years of travel, continuous mileage, battle, repeated landings and launches, and jerry-rigged engineering overhauls, patchwork, and upgrades. To assume she was ready to be put out the gate immediately is unrealistic. I'd think Starfleet would have totally have whored Voyager out for the positive PR it would bring them, strip it of any awesome or new tech it brought back, then refurbish it enough to be active again.

3) I'd like to think Chakotay did get command after all.

4) I always figured it being Trek and all, there would be some convenient excuse for the Maquis officers to not serve time upon their return. I mean, you figure the Federation lost a whole lot of bright, capable people during the Dominion War, so they'd probably want to get everyone they could back in to the fleet if only to start educating the newbies.

 

[kipron]

I kinda like the idea that Voyager ends up hidden away in some super-secret dry dock, to be studied by the likes of Wesley Crusher until such time that the Future Tech is needed again.

 

[Timo]

Picard's Enterprise has always been the Flagship of the Federation

Says who? It's said a couple of times about the E-D, but never AFAIK about the E-E. And in addition to the ship herself changing to two sizes smaller, Picard's status changed between those two postings. Aboard the E-D, he was a celebrated commander and diplomat. Aboard the E-E, he was a pariah doubted by Starfleet, a suspected Borg traitor, a handyman for dirty diplomatic minutiae. The first time we get an indication of "restoration of status" is when the celebrity Admiral Janeway deigns to chat with him in ST:NEM...

Maybe their time on Voyager could be considered "time served" in legal terms, especially with good behaviour throughout their time in the Delta Quadrant.

Maybe. But Federation law doesn't seem to work that way: crime is not met with punishment, but with cure. It's an illness to be treated medically. Would seven years of hard labor count as proper therapy? Probably not, considering that it's no different from how we'd treat criminals today, and we sure know it doesn't work on them!

In all likelihood, the Maquis would still be jailed for the usual six months and forced to undergo the anti-crime therapy. But after that, they might well have regained the trust of the society, and could return to Starfleet - possibly even at the rank and prestige they had earned during their Delta adventure. Assuming, of course, that they complete their Academy studies when applicable, like Mrs Paris sez.

Agreed with what WalkingMan says, too. Except I think it would be a nice touch to display the ship on the ground, when she's one of the rare pieces of major Starfleet hardware that indeed can land in one piece. Starfleet should milk her for her "special value" in every possible way, and allowing people to actually touch her outer hull with their bare hands would be special enough...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[chancellorjake]

Wasn't a general pardon issued to all the Maquis crew members on Voyager during the later seasons? I thought it happened, but I might have imagined it.

 

[Mrs Paris]

Wasn't a general pardon issued to all the Maquis crew members on Voyager during the later seasons? I thought it happened, but I might have imagined it.

not realy. It was in that episode Bliss, wher that "pitcher plant" creature was making everyone see what they wanted to see.