What if Janeway and her crew decided that they DIDN'T want to come home?

[Neo]

It could have made for an interesting season arc. Janeway and crew decide that the Delta Quadrant is just too interesting for them to come back home - so they decide to stay.

 

[ray gower]

Are you so sure they did?

Okay the demise of Chakotay and 7 of 9 and Tuvok going potty gave Janeway an excuse to change history, but only after adding 20x20 hindsight.

There a group of fan-fiction writers currently writing a Season 8 series. If I can find the URL I'll post it.

 

[Shaun]

Is this the one your looking for Star Trek Voyager Virtual Season 8.
I wouldn't think that they would want to stay in the Delta quad without at least going home to the alpha for a short while to see they're families. Plus getting home is the main premise of the show, it just wouldn't fit.

 

[ray gower]

That's the chap. Thanks!

 

[Dave]

But, what about back in Season 2, (The '37's) when they still thought it would take them 70 years to get back home. Wouldn't you rather just settle on an Earth-like M-class planet with other humans. You could still search for worm-holes from there. Better than a life-time on a starship.

 

[Shaun]

I don't think any of the starfleet would want to settle down, I think that if they wanted to settle down they wouldn't have joined and accepted a position on a starship. And me personally I'd choose the starship, if my friends and family were across the galaxy. Also how many wormholes are you going to find in a small area of space.

 

[Dave]

Not everyone is a career officer, they sign on for a five year mission or whatever. The Maquis don't want to serve on Voyager or in Starfleet. Wildman didn't know she was pregnant, is a Starship the place to raise your children? 70 years is a long time. We knew that they would get home, but they could not know.

 

[Shaun]

Yeah your right there, but no matter how many wanted to stay there would always be a few that wouldn't. That would of made a great episode with the crew divided over whether to stay or keep going.

 

[Dave]

I thought that at the time I watched "the '37's". In their rush to wrap the story all up in the last 5 minutes, they wasted a really good moral dilemma that could have lasted several episodes.

 

[Neo]

Yer your right.... Janeway did give the crew the choice but was such a short dilemma as they only had five mins left of the show... AS dave said could of gone on a bit longer....