I'm a bit cynical about how pretty that ship looked after 7 years away from a repair shop.
Why Did They Even Try To Come Home?
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I'm a bit cynical about how pretty that ship looked after 7 years away from a repair shop.
There were throwaway references to them stopping at various space stations as well as landing for maintenance overhauls. It would have been cool to do a "space station story" or a "down on the planet story" where they are interacting with a new alien species while under repairs.
The real reason it looked unchanged was because it would've been more expensive to alter the model or the CGI design of the ship repeatedly throughout the show as well as altering the internal sets all the time. BSG pulled it off because CGI tech is less expensive these days and they really don't change the sets that much, it's more the lighting and other small thing.
Question? If the Voyager crew were really concerned about getting home as fast as possible, wouldn't going to the gamma quadrent been faster? then useing that wormhole to zip back to DS9?
That depends on where in the Gamma quadrant the wormhole was and where in the Delta Quadrant Ocampa was. If they're both in their quadrants corners, there can be 110000 lightyears between them, while there could be just a few light years between them if they're both on the border of the two quadrants. Also, I don't think the Dominion would've been very nice to them. (Then again, neither were the Borg)
The exist of the wormhole into the Gamma Quadrant basically put it as far from the edge of the Delta Quadrant (where the Caretaker was) as Earth was. Plus it's not such a good idea to put faith in a wormhole that could be collapsed in the intervening decades.
Agreed - however, the unfortunate thing about that was, IMO, it detracted from the realism that they didn't make more than the passing references or inferences.
Exactly so. It was a dramatic loss, IMO, especially after they'd already more or less stopped using the physical model except in the occasional stock shot.
And of course there's that whole 'no arcs' angle coming from both sides, and that might have figured into it a bit too so they could maintain 'accessibility.'
I don't think anyone's mentioned the fact that this story idea was written about in "Distant Shores". Still, I think the ideas written here are interesting.
Dusty Ayres
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And the Kazon might have been surprised at how utterly outmatched they were if Voyager had set up a well-armed and -defended colony, rather than just ran for it. I kinda felt bad for them. They wanted Voyager so bad, but I think they'd have straightened up a lot if given a steady supply of water and some combs.
What the Kazon needed was to be beaten utterly, stripped of spaceflight, and then exiled on one planet like the barbarians they are. That's what they needed. And the Trabe would be able to find a new home again, having learned their lesson about mistreating people.
And the Kazon might have been surprised at how utterly outmatched they were if Voyager had set up a well-armed and -defended colony, rather than just ran for it. I kinda felt bad for them. They wanted Voyager so bad, but I think they'd have straightened up a lot if given a steady supply of water and some combs.
What the Kazon needed was to be beaten utterly, stripped of spaceflight, and then exiled on one planet like the barbarians they are. That's what they needed. And the Trabe would be able to find a new home again, having learned their lesson about mistreating people.
Too many of them, the Kazon tribes were all around the place meaning VOY would have to actively go hunting around for them or something.
