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Voyager did one thing right = the journey home was gradual
20 Aug 2006 08:42:21 -0700
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videonovels...
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Instead of finding a "magic" solution, and suddenly jumping 70,000
lightyears during the final episode (the Gilligan's Island
solution/flaw), the writers made Voyager's journey home gradual. First
they jumped 10,000 in episode 401, then 10,000 in season 5, and another
20,000 a little later.
Troy.Heagy...
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No I kept track:
9,500 from Kes
0,300 from slipstream
10,000 from the slipstream attempt #2
20,000 from the transwarp
Plus a few thousand from "normal" warp (averaging about 600 lightyears
each season). And that left them ~30,000 lightyears from home
according to season 7's Inside Man.
BTW, that slipstream was inconsistent. When they first discovered that
Alien slipstream ship, it was said they could be home in just 3 months.
But on their second slipstream attempt, it was only a few hours. WOW.
What a huge difference! I wish they had been more attentive to their
consistency.
If it took 3 months to reach home with the Alien slipstream ship, it
should have taken approximately the same amount of time with Voyager's
slipstream modification.
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Troy.Heagy...
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Agreed. Like B5 did. Although a lot of people criticize B5 for having
an extra "Delenn & Sheridan on Minbar" episode, because they think it
was a waste of time. I liked it, but many people don't like the
epilogue (like the Rings movies did).
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That made it far more believable when Voyager found a transwarp tunnel
for their final jump home.
EvilBill...
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Yeah, I agree.
Hell, DS9 should've run another season, considering all the fallout they had
to deal with.
Like what's going to happen to Cardassia, will Bajor ever join the
Federation, what will the Pah-Wraith cultists do now the Pah-Wraiths have
had their butts kicked, will Sisko or Odo ever return... oh, and what might
happen if the Dominion ever met the Borg *ducks* ;)
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David Johnston...
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No, it didn't. They could have just as easily found that tunnel in
Troy.Heagy...
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There were no transwarp conduits in episode 1. They were still out-of
David Johnston...
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There would have been if it was time for the deus ex machina.
Troy.Heagy...
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I did not see any gods. What are you talking about?
David Johnston...
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A new Captain Janeway popping out of nowhere with piles of future
technology and who can point the way to something that will instantly
take them home is close enough.
EvilBill...
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Indeed.
I'd much rather the ep have not involved the whole time travel bit and just
been a good old-fashioned Voyager vs the Borg for the first half and then
the reality of being home for part 2.
David Johnston...
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I would have liked the last episode to have been Janeway's court
martial.
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videonovels...
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That's not a god. That's an already-established character who, thanks
to the benefit of hindsight, knows she made a mistake (steered away
from the transwarp conduit). So this already-established character
goes back to fix her mistake.
No different than when Kirk appeared in 1980s Earth and saved the
whales to fix a tragic mistake (extinction).
Not a deus ex machina. Just standard science fiction.
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the Borg's sphere of influence.
David Johnston...
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How does that matter? If the scriptwriters had decided to give them a
short cut home in the first episode then they would have had their
short cut home in the first episode.
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And once they had reached the Borg area, they still did not encounter
any conduits. You can't use something you've not found. No more than
you can jump onto a high-speed interstate while driving through Brazil.
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the first episode. Heck, Janeway could have travelled back in time
and changed the outcome of that episode so they could travel back and
still destroy the gizmo before the Kazon could capture it.
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It also gave us a chance to explore & see a larger area of space
(45,000 lightyears), and all the cultures that lie along that path,
rather than just a narrow 4000-lightyear swath of Kazon space. "Kazon
all the time" would have grown boring.
Forge...
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Especially since the Kazon were Just Another Bunch of Humans With Head
Bumps. Bleh!!!
Clell Harmon...
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No, they were more than that. They were Humans with Head Bumps who
somehow discovered star travel despite never having taken high school
chemistry which allowed them to be on a search for water.
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Ken from Chicago...
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FARSCAPE did it better. You really got the sense that the far side of the
galaxy was radically different.
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