See my above post. The ship had nothing whatsoever to do with the storytelling.
What if Voyager was a different class of ship?
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See my above post. The ship had nothing whatsoever to do with the storytelling.
It SHOULD have, though.
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.
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.
Well, it means the fans wouldn't be complaining so much about certain things because the plot of it being an unknown alien ship would've at least given SOME explanation as to why they were able to do stuff like have their hologram become sentient or have the analog to the holodeck running.
This fan complained that the entire scenario was unbelievable because they never worried about running out of fuel, food, water and other creature comforts, never ran out of shuttles, torpedoes, and any other weapons, had unlimited resources to be able to do things like run holodecks constantly, and have the ship get attacked and blown to bits every episode only to have it pristine by the start of the next.
So you’re saying that having the ship be Moya would have made me feel better about all that? Yeah, no.
How can this one ship potentially survive combat with the Borg?
Simple: DON'T use the Borg. Yes, they come from the Delta Quadrant, but instead of them being around so much of it, have them be in only a small region. "UNITY" was a good one-off Borg story. Could have been the only one. (And they could still can get Seven, who was an excellent character. Maybe they could have found her like how the Enterprise found Hugh: lone survivor of a crashed Borg ship.)
Survive on its own without needing constant resupply?
Have less UPN suit interference. If VOY was left more alone, like DS9, it would have been a better show because we would be seeing consequences on a more regular basis.
Need episodes where they're trapped on the ship to save money?
Have some day in the life episodes, or the crew paired off in a disaster-like scenario (like "Disaster" or "STARSHIP DOWN"), or have a couple trapped in a shuttlecraft ("SHUTTLEPOD ONE").
There's lots of potential there.
