Why didn't they...

[Guy Gardener]

But why did they give in to that dick Braxton?

"Voyager has a Destiny"

Dig your heels in Kathy, and make this ####er vanish in a puff of paradox.

Sling shot around the sun, visit the Guardian, live on Vulcan, or set up on a planet you know is going to be destroyed by a natural disaster before any of you are born, or for gods sake send a time delayed letter to Starfleet Command.

Arrrghhh!

 

[ThankYouGeneR]

They didn't do it because they didn't do it. Not sure what kind of answer you're looking for.

Not looking for an answer. The question is rhetorical. Just think it would have been cool. Thought I'd share. Nothing earth-shattering.

Also, it could turn into a 'Why didn't they...' kind of wish list for fun.

Like, for me:
Why didn't they keep Virginia Madsen as Kellin for a season. I would really have liked that. She and Robert Beltran worked well together. I would have enjoyed episodes with Chakotay being a relationship for awhile early on in the series. It didn't have to last, she could have moved on, but why didn't they keep her for a season?

Like that.

Rhetorical, yes of course. But it could be interesting.

 

[kirkfan]

Kes was an extraordinary two year old who could melt brains by squinting.

Maybe she needs corrective lenses.

 

[hux]

Why didn't they keep Virginia Madsen as Kellin for a season. I would really have liked that. She and Robert Beltran worked well together. I would have enjoyed episodes with Chakotay being a relationship for awhile early on in the series. It didn't have to last, she could have moved on, but why didn't they keep her for a season?

Because he'd wake up everyday, turn and see her and scream......"holy crap....who the hell are you!.....Chakotay to security"

That idea was already brilliantly used in the profound and moving art house film "50 first dates"

I agree with Chakotay having a relationship early in the series though. It would have helped remove any nonsense about him getting with Janeway would have been good for his character. Some characters develop because they're in relationships, some suffer (Kes) and I think Chakotay would have benefitted

 

[kirkfan]

Why didn't they keep Virginia Madsen as Kellin for a season. I would really have liked that. She and Robert Beltran worked well together. I would have enjoyed episodes with Chakotay being a relationship for awhile early on in the series. It didn't have to last, she could have moved on, but why didn't they keep her for a season?

Because he'd wake up everyday, turn and see her and scream......"holy crap....who the hell are you!.....Chakotay to security"

That idea was already brilliantly used in the profound and moving art house film "50 first dates"

I agree with Chakotay having a relationship early in the series though. It would have helped remove any nonsense about him getting with Janeway would have been good for his character. Some characters develop because they're in relationships, some suffer (Kes) and I think Chakotay would have benefitted

By then it was called Archer's syndrome.

 

[dub]

Also, it could turn into a 'Why didn't they...' kind of wish list for fun.

or...it could completely derail. Call me crazy, but my gut tells me the latter will ultimately win out.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Why didn't they keep Virginia Madsen as Kellin for a season. I would really have liked that. She and Robert Beltran worked well together. I would have enjoyed episodes with Chakotay being a relationship for awhile early on in the series. It didn't have to last, she could have moved on, but why didn't they keep her for a season?

Because he'd wake up everyday, turn and see her and scream......"holy crap....who the hell are you!.....Chakotay to security"

That idea was already brilliantly used in the profound and moving art house film "50 first dates"

I agree with Chakotay having a relationship early in the series though. It would have helped remove any nonsense about him getting with Janeway would have been good for his character. Some characters develop because they're in relationships, some suffer (Kes) and I think Chakotay would have benefitted

I actually liked him with that girl who had wiped the crew's memories of her. While watching the first season I thought that he and B'Elanna would get together.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't remember that episode.

 

[Taelon]

Unforgettable?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ Yep! Season 4, I think.

 

[hux]

I don't remember that episode.

Unforgettable?

^ Yep! Season 4, I think.

I can't remember what happened in it

Anyone?

 

[Taelon]

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Unforgettable_(episode)

Not quite on par with "The Silence" from Doctor Who, but then it's Voyager.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I clicked on the link.

It took me to a beach.

What were we talking about?

 

[kirkfan]

I don't remember that episode.

Unforgettable?

^ Yep! Season 4, I think.

I can't remember what happened in it

Anyone?

It seems it was forgettable.

 

[Taelon]

Rubber ear aliens instead of rubber forehead aliens.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'll have to take your word for it.

I thought about using a kinetic drive.

70 thousand years to get home.

But they'd only experience the months involved in accelerating and decelerating to almost light speed between stars.

 

[kirkfan]

I'll have to take your word for it.

I thought about using a kinetic drive.

70 thousand years to get home.

But they'd only experience the months involved in accelerating and decelerating to almost light speed between stars.

Asimov (has him off) has the solution, Hyperspace, you can jump from one end of the Galaxy to the other in a fraction of a second. Only inconvenience, the proximity of a star throws the calculations off, so you have to get away from the star, at sub-light speed interspersed with micro-hyperspace jumps...