What if Voyager was a different class of ship?

[Dukhat]

How can this one ship potentially survive combat with the Borg? Alien ship with unknown capabilities.

Survive on its own without needing constant resupply? Alien ship with unknown capabilities.

Need episodes where they're trapped on the ship to save money? Unknown ship they're exploring or they trigger some function they're not sure of that created danger.

There's lots of potential there.

See my above post. The ship had nothing whatsoever to do with the storytelling.

 

[Anwar]

See my above post. The ship had nothing whatsoever to do with the storytelling.

It SHOULD have, though.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Lots of things Voyager SHOULD have but every plot resolution with technobabble can and would have been applied to any other ship. Actually making it an unknown alien ship would have potentially made it easier to come up with miracle tech to solve problems. "Surprise, the ship can do this!"

 

[Dukhat]

Lots of things Voyager SHOULD have but every plot resolution with technobabble can and would have been applied to any other ship. Actually making it an unknown alien ship would have potentially made it easier to come up with miracle tech to solve problems. "Surprise, the ship can do this!"

Episode 25: "Delta Quadrant Miracle"

While exploring their new alien ship, Chakotay and the crew discover a device which allows them to replicate an unlimited number of shuttlecraft and photon torpedoes. Meanwhile, Janeway stumbles upon a room where alien technology allows for holograms which use virtually no power, which she immediately uses to bring characters from her favorite books to life. Then the Kazon show up and attack.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Not quite like that. Maybe the ship would be made of a metal with unusual chemical properties, or the doctor could have been an alien hologram rather than a Starfleet one. Perhaps the engine ran on an experimental alien principle they didn't fully understand.

 

[Dukhat]

Not quite like that. Maybe the ship would be made of a metal with unusual chemical properties, or the doctor could have been an alien hologram rather than a Starfleet one. Perhaps the engine ran on an experimental alien principle they didn't fully understand.

Again, how does any of that affect the story? UPN wanted an episodic show where nothing changes. What kind of ship they had made no difference. Now if you want to head over to the "What would you have done differently in VOY" topic, that's different. But this thread is about if they had a different ship but still had the same things happen as what happened in the show.