Would you prefer watching this version of Voyager?

[Joe Washington]

The series opens with the starship Voyager in the middle of a battle with the Dominion during the final days of the Dominion War. Things get really bad to the point in which the crew almost believes they wouldn’t able to make it until they come across a wormhole. They go through the wormhole to escape the Dominion and they end up in some unknown region of space. When they try to get it back to where they were before, they find no sign of the wormhole they traveled through. It isn’t until the end of the first season that the crew discovers they haven’t traveled to an unknown region of space but that they were sent 300 years into the future at a time where the Federation has long since fallen and the galaxy has fallen into utter disarray.

 

[RookieBatman]

Would this be before or after Andromeda was on TV? If before, I'd say yes, if after, then I don't really see the point.

 

[RegFan]

It isn’t until the end of the first season that the crew discovers they haven’t traveled to an unknown region of space but that they were sent 300 years into the future at a time where the Federation has long since fallen and the galaxy has fallen into utter disarray.

How exactly do you think that would have happened?

This version of Voyager sounds better than the actual premise, partly because it sounds like a serialized series (I love story arcs). Time travel is an overused plot device in Trek, but if it wasn't, this version of Voyager would be great. What about sending Voyager into an alternate universe instead of 300 years into the future?

 

[Joe Washington]

Yeah, an alternate universe in which the Dominion won the war aganist the Federation long ago and conquered the Alpha Quadrant.

And to answer your question of what would have caused the fall of the Federation, that would a bit of a mystery for the crew to solve. But I'm thinking it should be a civil war that tore it apart.

Either way, whether Voyager is sent into the future or an alternate universe, they're trapped and they would never be able to return home. Or, if they do find a way to, they would inevitably leave home to come back there to finish what they started like what the Oceanic Six did after leaving the island in Lost.

And this version of Voyager would have aired before Andromeda.

 

[kimc]

Time travel is an overused plot device in Trek,

That about sums it up for me.

 

[Avon]

how about voyager is sent 300 years into the past to battle the xindi?

 

[Udat]

Should have been a poll!

 

[Joe Washington]

By sending Voyager to the future or an alternate universe, the show is given more creative freedom to do what it wants. But by sending it into the past, the show would be limited by the history of the timeline.

 

[Dark Dreamer]

Hell, I would take nearly any version of Voyager besides the one we got.

 

[Kai Winn]

i don't know, alternate universe, different centuries. they would have settled down on the first friendly planet, end of story. the will to get home kept them running, and resulted in some of the finest episodes, and heartwarming moments, when they established contact with home.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

i don't know, alternate universe, different centuries. they would have settled down on the first friendly planet, end of story.

Yep. Janeway would look like an idiot if she was still hell bent on being Starfleet in exile. Any mission or order she would have been operating on would be null and void and they would just have to make a new life for themselves.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Would this be before or after Andromeda was on TV? If before, I'd say yes, if after, then I don't really see the point.

I agree.

Andromeda did what you suggest, and if we believe in the future postulated in Future's end and relativity, much less the Enterprise series, 300 years into the future still has an active Starfleet in existance.

 

[SRFX]

i don't know, alternate universe, different centuries. they would have settled down on the first friendly planet, end of story.

Yep. Janeway would look like an idiot if she was still hell bent on being Starfleet in exile. Any mission or order she would have been operating on would be null and void and they would just have to make a new life for themselves.

Actually this all sounds like it would play out similarly to the new Battlestar Galactica.

 

[otherjr]

How about they go into the Badlands pursuing the Marquis, but they get dragged 80 years away from the Alpha Quandrant? The Marquis ship is destroyed and Voyager loses a lot of personel, so the two crews have to combine in order to get home.

That sounds pretty good to me! It sounds excellent in fact, but in practice they totally screwed it up. Its easy to come up with some kind of crazy premise, but what makes a good show is when all the elements (character, story arc, context) all work together and form a cohesive dramatic structure on which to make future episodes of your show. The problem with Voyager was not that the premiss was bad, but that the characters and story arcs never actually fit into what was happening, so it was a total mess. I cant see why you're version would be any better than the one we have, because it doesnt actually address any of the problems.

 

[Joe Washington]

The ship does get damaged during the trip through the wormhole and some of the crew were killed during the battle with the Dominion. And finding themselves in an unknown world forces them to rely on their instincts and seek out new means of survival and allies.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

Time travel is an overused plot device in Trek,

That about sums it up for me.

Time travel gives me a headache.

 

[Itachi]

I have never watched Andromida or Battle Star Galactica so not sure how to respond besides, yea i would be interesting but i still like the Voyager we ended up with.

 

[Itachi]

Time travel is an overused plot device in Trek,

That about sums it up for me.

Time travel gives me a headache.

Time travel is pretty cool, but yes they do overuse it quite alot in Trek.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

That about sums it up for me.

Time travel gives me a headache.

Time travel is pretty cool, but yes they do overuse it quite alot in Trek.

I mean, I agree with how cool it is, but trying to keep things straight, and trying to remember what "really" happened, and what "didn't" happen. And it does get overused.

An entire freaking Year of Hell...

 

[Itachi]

Time travel gives me a headache.

Time travel is pretty cool, but yes they do overuse it quite alot in Trek.

I mean, I agree with how cool it is, but trying to keep things straight, and trying to remember what "really" happened, and what "didn't" happen. And it does get overused.

An entire freaking Year of Hell...

i like your pun.