Why didn't Janeway get more Dogs?

[c0rnedfr0g]

She should have had a daggit named Muffy.

There should be a novel about the lizard children swimming around in the swamp, parentless, destroying the ecosystem before dying off completely a generation later.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I shudder to think how a civilization founded on siblings would die off three generations later, but I'm watching I Claudius right now and the reign of Caligula is hilarious.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

It would have been nice if she'd picked up a little furry creature on some planet - quote]

Well there was Neelix, doesn't he qualify?

 

[Praetor]

I shudder to think how a civilization founded on siblings would die off three generations later, but I'm watching I Claudius right now and the reign of Caligula is hilarious.

 

[Bacl]

Were there even any Earth animals (or any animals, for that matter) on Voyager?

Was not a family cruise ship.

 

[Praetor]

Well, even the TOS Enteprise had a plant that seemed to skirt the animal/plant line in her botanical section, so one wonders if VGR might have had anything like that aboard?

Then again, her initial mission was one of relatively quick tactical retrieval, presumably hence the no families of pets, so it's possible this would mean little in the way of science, and might explain why we saw so few blueshirts aboard and why they had to use a hologram for their doctor.

"A three hour tour..."

 

[Guy Gardener]

" ...A three hour tour." Indeed.

Now back on Enterprise 1701D, which was a cruise ship, though according to one passenger, not exactly the QE2, when Spot got knocked up, I think Data said that there were 12 male cats aboard the Flgship at that point.

One would assume that they wander free aboard the ship, or mass playdates are arranged on the holodeck for an unplanned feline pregnancy to occur.

 

[Praetor]

I believe Data mentioned Spot tended to sneak out a lot when the door was open.

Or am I imagining that?

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

I believe Data mentioned Spot tended to sneak out a lot when the door was open.

Or am I imagining that?

The only time I remember that was in 'In Theory, when the phenomena of the week screwed around with... wasn't it the molecular cohesion of things.

In the book 'Metamorphosis,' there was a cat dubbed Mystery that always seemed to get out and around the ship, despite the door sensors being programed to not open when an animal wanders too close to the door.

 

[Guy Gardener]

We used to have a cat. Piss, vomit and shit everywhere.

Like Picard would allow his ship to be so randomly soiled?

Remember on Doctor who there was that guy in season 2 who tried to vomit but discovered that "enhancements" made during some elective surgery in the future now processed and flash froze his vomit into a small manageable cube? Meanwhile in HitchHikers I think, they just teleported vomit out of you three feet to the left to save you from the entire messy experience half way up your throat, but god help whoever it is who is standing three feet to your left. Could the pets of the future have been genetically (Wasn't there a war about that? Half the world put to the sword? Not that you'd guess from watching Futures End, not that you'd notice what was going on in Iraq from looking outside any window in America currently...) modify to have controllable and tidy waste? What if all there pee and poop is super converted into farts? I'd buy that for a dollar.

Animals chewing on the Enterprises (Neelix and his cheese!) delicates however is another kettle of fish entirely, which is why I think that they're all chipped and tracked and routinely if they stray past some defined cruising area that the site to site transoprters return them to where they live before something goes horribly wrong, logically thinking like just off the top of my head.

Olivia D'Abo who played Q had dogs on Enterprise Briefly.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Yeah you would think that if you puked then you could set up some sort of transporter related cleaning program..

"Computer: Initiate bio waste extraction transport cleaning program Paris 1!"

 

[Guy Gardener]

But human puke is made of a lot of human dna. The computer is going to say, "hey!? Why ware you trying to shove a human body down a garbage shoot?" or at least the first time that someone tries that... Some ethics committee would make a ruling, and then some bright spark would stick a crowbar into the tiny window of opportunity and actually use a transporter or replicator to dispose of a murder victim, and then they'd have to out right ban it and...

 

[KimMH]

^ there goes a meticulously planned attempt on Neelix's life by everyone who had to eat his leola root stew . . .

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well there's only one Talaxian on board which would make any dna specific attempts on his his like super acutely targeted... Hell reclassify his dna as "inorganic waste matter" and the transporter will efficiently sellect a very very unsafe level of care when it's moving his atoms rom A to B.

And yes, telling the computer that Talaxians do deserve to be shoved down garbage shoots wouldn't have any reaching consequences for the rest of the crew... Y'know like that What does chicken taste like diatribe from The Matrix?

 

[kissthestar]

I like the idea of a wildly disheveled and grinning Janeway taking her pet sehlat or one of those Klingon hog looking critters out for a walk.

 

[Praetor]

Hurm, pet sehlat. Must get one. Sounds promising.

 

[LtGodard]

I feel that one thing must be said in Ent the first time ever any human or k9 ever landed on Risa Porthos had a love afair with a female pooch . Janeway coulda woulda schoulda had a dog but I think it added to her despretness to get back home

 

[Guy Gardener]

I was put out by the absense of outrage when she found out that Mark had married... That she didn't say something vemomous like "That whore is not going to raise my dogs!"

Of course by that point, Janeway didn't ask if the litter had been given away or mark kept the set? Y'know metaphorically selling off her grandchildren like they were Orions.