Nice idea, but if you kill Will Riker and bring in Tom, you need to keep Troi to make it worthwhile.
What if the Enterprise were thrown into the Delta Quadrant?
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Nice idea, but if you kill Will Riker and bring in Tom, you need to keep Troi to make it worthwhile.
I've watched every episode multiple times
As to Picard, he might like to do something, but I seriously doubt he would so as far as to use weaponized nanites. My writer's qualm is how do I get him to keep Seven on the ship, and take her down the path of re-humanization? Will Troi talk him into it, will Data? Will they liken to his re-acclimation and the experience with Hugh? I'm still working on figuring out the specifics so I can make it interesting and worthwhile to read.
I think the Enterprise would have likely had an easier time than Voyager did - she was ostensibly a city in space, designed for long-distance voyages. (Then again, Voyager probably should have had an even harder time than she did...)
I think the above character ideas are interesting, but I can't see the TNG crew changing so drastically without some major, major horrors. Maybe if the show was "Year of Hell" from day one... but I don't think a realization that the Borg are still out there are enough for Picard to go wacko. I agree with Tomalak that this is the same type of mistake the movies made.
I think the above character ideas are interesting, but I can't see the TNG crew changing so drastically without some major, major horrors. Maybe if the show was "Year of Hell" from day one... but I don't think a realization that the Borg are still out there are enough for Picard to go wacko. I agree with Tomalak that this is the same type of mistake the movies made.
Yeah, lame.
The old girl went up against Borg cubes, D'Deridex warbirds, and other kickass ships just fine but was taken down by an obsolete Bird of Prey because her crew had a brain fart and refused to remodulate the shields as has been done how many other times.
wouldnt be like that at all, for one picard had data to come with a plan to get him home and keep the caretaker operational while keeping the kazon away from it ll the same time. for the sake of keeping the show running, picard is a diplomat, and would have just punked the kazon into submission to keep away. And wouldnt want to get entangled alliances with the delta quadrant, but troi would be on board and convince him it would be imperative to make alliances (and picard would be able to make peace with most species) he would not in any circumstances made an alliance with the borg and would have allowed 8472 to destroy the borg (where data and la forge could have discovered how to deal with 8472 without the borg, then after the borg were truly gone then make a lasting peace with 8472 . so 7 of 9 wouldnt have been on the interprise, but again for sake of show say 7 of 9 did find her way on board data would have been able to train her 100000000000x better than janeway could even comprehend, also assuming that the maquis had same turn out worf would have them in check, and riker would convince picard that chakotay would be a great asset as a bridge officer. plus picard would have troi and quinan support for relations. data, la forge, and 7 of 9 would have perfected slipstream and transwarp. Also just the ship, voyager was new had no crew and is short term science vessal. The enterprise i meant for long away missions and had a full compliment of crew so that would just have been another day in the office for la forge and maybe 7 of 9 might have even helped la forge get those eyes he had later and with data could actually make federation nanonites (which i think 7 of 9 did after she returned to earth). Neelix would have been the same but would have gotten to work with quinan. kes i am not sure if anyone could actually help her out. kim would just be a engineer officer answer to la forge and tuvoc would been a bridge officer. And paris would have turned out the same maybe even better with picard or riker being able to allow paris to grow more than he did on voyager. lana would be same may be a lana, data, la forge trio again worf would teach her to control her klingon impulses
The doctor would also been far better off and crusher would insure he was treat like he was in voyager with a lot better reputation.
Geordi and Data would have figured out a way for the Caretaker's Array to self-destruct after it sent the Enterprise back to the Federation. In the event they for some reason didn't, I'm not sure. With Guinan there, Neelix wouldn't serve much of a purpose, Kes even less so given there's likely enough of a medical staff surviving. Given much of the crew has their families with them on board the ship, there'd be less loneliness among the crew. Was the Enterprise searching for Chakotay's Maquis ship when they were pulled into the Delta Quadrant? If not, there'd be no Seska, and the Kazon wouldn't have a turncoat working with them, meaning they likely wouldn't take over the Enterprise or even pose much of a threat to it.
When you say "replacing Voyager seasons 4-7," do you mean that's the time when they arrive (meaning three more years of Delta Quadrant events have elapsed when the Enterprise is pulled there), or that the Enterprise arrived at the same time as Voyager did, but in the time frame of your story, the first three years have already happened?
The other civilians aboard Picard's Enterprise didn't wear uniforms, why would Picard insist Seven wear one?
Subsequent to not "infecting" Hugh, Picard was directly ordered by a senior Starfleet Admiral to destroy the Borg in a similar fashion if the opportunity presented itself again.
Picard formally acknowledged the order.
Of course they demodulated the shields, over and over, it just that every time they did the new frequency was sent to the sister via Geordi's visor.
The Enterprise will get home as soon as they get the Caretaker's help. Kes' people are rescued from the Kazon and taken on the ship as refugees. The ship gets home within a week.
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Wow, thread necro. But good question nonetheless. I think Picard would have found a way to save the Caretaker and get back to the alpha quadrant thus avoiding the whole situation.
I also think the Enterprise D/E would be far better equipped to handle a long term mission than Voyager.
I also think the Enterprise D/E would be far better equipped to handle a long term mission than Voyager.
Yeah, the sole reason Voyager was stranded was precisely because they were Starfleet's C-team. Janeway, in particular, makes a lot more sense as someone who aspires to be a Picard, but is actually a mediocre milk truck captain let off her short leash.
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No way Picard would ever make a deal with the Borg. If anything the benefit of having an empath would make it so they possibly figure out 8472 are not the aggressors, enabling them to make a deal with 8472 against the Borg.
Picard's decision in I, Borg wasn't because it was genocide, it was because it was a betrayal of Hugh, a sapient individual. The Borg aren't a race, they are a virus that infects other races. Picard wouldn't shy away from using trojan nanites especially if it caused the assimilated people to survive. He knows what it's like to be Borg, he knows he'd be doing a favor to those people even by killing them and an even bigger favor by freeing them as he was freed.
Picard's decision in I, Borg wasn't because it was genocide, it was because it was a betrayal of Hugh, a sapient individual. The Borg aren't a race, they are a virus that infects other races. Picard wouldn't shy away from using trojan nanites especially if it caused the assimilated people to survive. He knows what it's like to be Borg, he knows he'd be doing a favor to those people even by killing them and an even bigger favor by freeing them as he was freed.
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But Hugh, Seven of Nine and Picard himself show that is not true. Individuals can be freed from the collective. It's like a mind-controlled cult. Murdering all of them because you decide they are better off that way is still genocide.
Murdering them en masse before they murder you en masse is called war
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