1) Kes never leaves Voyager and the horrible episode called FURY is never made. We see how Kes and Seven get along and it’ll give us some fantastic stories.
2) The storyline of trying to find Suspiria is continued and will be a major plot in the show. The whole thing will become connected with the Borg somehow so that in ENDGAME we have the Caretaker thread, the Borg thread and anything else that was of particular importance during the entire run of the show.
3) Janeway and Tommyboy’s children are not abandoned or if they are, we will see them later on. Perhaps they have evolved into some kind of superhumans (or superlizards) and this will give us later the NOTHING HUMAN episode.
4) The story of PROTOTYPE is developed into an arc. Voyager gets embroiled in the robot war and the story is developed into a five-episode arc.
5) There are at least one or two story arcs in every season. By story arc I mean the one that we saw in Season Two with Tom’s fake behaviour and stuff.
6) Hogan is never killed off.
7) The Kazon don’t wear tree foliage on their heads.
8) The Think Tank has never cured the Vidiians of their phage and through time travel (or whatever other plot device) we see them in later episodes (this excludes FURY, which never comes into being).
9) Harry Kim either finds the love of his life – or not. But either way, he stops the whole „let-me-chase-the-wrong-woman” storyline and starts doing something useful.
10) The Hirogen – together with the Borg – become the main recurring enemy of the show. We will meet them a lot more often, we learn a lot about their culture, Voyager gets entangled in a real love-and-hate relationship with them. At the beginning of their relationship they are enemies (for two seasons at least). Later they’ll form an alliance and the Hirogen will prove to be the most valuable ally against the Borg.
11) In contrast to basically almost everyone I think that Voyager gave us too few Borg stories so the number of the Borg stories are trebled at the least. By ENDGAME we will actually believe (Admiral) Janeway when she says „I ran into the Borg a few more times before I made it home. If I hadn't developed technology and tactics that could defeat them, I wouldn't be standing here today.”
12) The holodeck programmes aren’t restricted (more or less) to one season but they are there throughout. The Leonardo da Vinci and the Paxau Resort simulations are used during the whole show and will provide us with pleasant diversion between big fights with the Hirogen, the Borg or whoever.
13) The Mallon are either presented as a more menacing enemy or are abandoned altogether. In the former case the last two, in the latter case the last three seasons give will give us at least one new recurring enemy per season.
14) Voyager never gets as close to the Alpha Quadrant as in the show (by ENDGAME if they had got their mathematics right, they would have realized that they were already in the AQ). No gift from Kes, no meddling with quantum slipstream. This will give us a sense of what this show is supposed to be about: a ship lost in space trying to find its way home.
15) Needless to say that in my head canon, Voyager will never ever make it home. First of all, I find that this is a much better (=more dramatic) way of ending the show. Secondly, it won’t give us all the nonsense we have in the relaunch books about the whole Delta Fleet (or whatever it is called) and the whole storyline about killing off important characters then bringing them back.
16) Now here’s a remark that’ll strike a nerve with a lot of people: since I’ve never understood why people are annoyed with Harry not getting a promotion (several other people never got one so what’s the issue here?), in my head canon he will remain an ensign.
17) We have a lot more (=some) storylines with the Maquis from LEARNING CURVE, the remaining crew of the EQUINOX and the three sheep from GOOD SHEPHERD. These people were introduced then nothing happened. If Kirsten Beyer could give us all those (completely unnecessary) characters in her books that she later decided to kill off by the hundreds, then we deserve some follow-up stories with the above-mentioned characters.
18) In my head canon, there’s a lot more money for making this TV show, which means that some real big names from Hollywood are brought in to show up here and there. It’d be fun to have a show where the appearance of people like Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves or Natalie Portman are natural.
19) Suder is never killed off and instead we have a lot of good stories with him.
20) Most importantly however: VOYAGER lasts for twenty-five seasons instead of seven. This is the biggest change to what we got – and this is also the biggest thing of all the items on the list.
