Complete Voyager and First Contact/Insurrection Rewrite Fanfiction

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GENERAL APPROACH

1) use the basic premise with what the original episode did, but work around it to add continuity, drama, and refine it into something better.
2) if it's subpar and below average, take a basic concept, something minor, or several concepts, and work a usable plot around it.
3) if it's not possible, shrink it until it gets reduced to cameos or references, very minor ones, and possibly nothing.

CONTINUITY NAME REMINDERS

Aaron Cavit.
Rowena Stadi.
Scott Rollins.
Robert Chakotay.

CHARACTER TRAITS/INTERACTIONS

ROBERT CHAKOTAY

Chakotay is still into boxing and anthropology.

NICK LOCARNO

tone down on the hypercompetence Tom had in canon.

HARRY KIM

Harry desperately wants to get back home.

PROPOSED EPISODES/CONCEPTS

there should be a flashpoint "episode" where Janeway decides to stop following the Prime Directive, realizing how it's impractical out here.

there should be an "episode" where they run out of shuttlecraft, commenting upon their hubris, lampshading the series itself.

one ship must be quarantined with a disease.

Crell is the backup hologram in "Living Witness." and Crell was created by the Cardassians to assist the Doctor.

make the Kobali (reproduce via necromancy) worse than in canon, and perhaps Janeway has to compromise her principles to get them home.

in Season 6, following the Year of Hell, they begin building the Delta Flyer so that there is a Delta Flyer Squadron. there is Prime Squadron and Omega Squadron and Alpha Squadron and Gamma Squadron and another squadron. that prompts to them decide if they have to detour to planets for resources to build them.

"Fury" is an alternate Kes coming back in time to hurt them.

STUFF TO KEEP FROM EPISODES

Nick's Captain Proton and French pool hall holoprograms as well as Janeway's Victorian Gothic Horror romance holodeck program but rarely show them or reduce them down to mentions often.

put the "Cathexis" stuff into the "Night" segment as they fly through the Void.

Kes and Nick in the holodeck running drills against Jem'Hadar.

cut or rework "Displaced."

the Klingons would invite Torres to their "Day of Honor."

the Doctor stuff from "Revulsion."

show them downloading the files from The Raven and also cut the juggernaut stuff. don't make it about action, but character stuff.

if "Random Thoughts" stays, rework it to make their planet more like the Psi Corps and also tie it to one of the other larger running plots.

if "Concerning Flight" stays here, instead of raiders, maybe make it another group as part of the larger narrative. Leonardo comes to life, but make it during a crisis, and there is a power drain they have to deal with. he can't keep running constantly. maybe make Janeway "kill" Leonardo. This simply breaks her heart, but it had to be done.

rework the concept of "Prey" into something else.

keep the concept of Seven having fake memories, but rework.

keep the WWII holosimulation in the changed timeline, but include other historical battle sites from over the Alpha Quadrant as well.

from "Vis à Vis" Nick Locarno is still switched. other than that, retool.

if "Unforgettable," is kept, maybe the fading away-lady could tie into something else as a part of the larger threats and overarching plot.

"Demon" explores the Silver Blood.

"One" can stay a Seven "episode" but alter it to something past flying through a nebula. tie the idea into the many other threats out there.

if "Hope and Fear" is kept, change, rework, keep somewhat the same.

rather than the super Borg drone from "Drone," it's the Borg Founder. rework the concepts to here, with knowledge Kes and Seven gained from the Year of Hell. the name will be "New Link."

keep the Malon concept, but rework it to realize potential.

mostly keep "Timeless" as is but rework elsewhere somehow.

rework and keep "Infinite Regress" elsewhere somehow.

rework "Thirty Days" elsewhere.

rework "Counterpoint" elsewhere, maybe Year of Hell.

rework "Latent Image" to someplace else.

shave down "Gravity."

keep the alien ship concept from "The Disease."

keep "Course: Oblivion," but retool.

rework the "Think Tank" concept elsewhere.

maybe move the aliens trying to communicate with Chakotay in "The Fight" back to the "Night" portion with them flying through the void.

rework the concept of "Survival Instinct" to much earlier.

keep "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy," but retool elsewhere.

possibly keep elements of "Riddles" and rework them elsewhere.

keep the concept of the network of subspace corridors known as the underspace from "Dragon's Teeth," but other than this, rework this into something superior.

possibly keep "The Voyager Conspiracy," but rework it elsewhere. Seven's theory is it was the Janeway to recruit the Maquis into Starfleet.

keep "Blink of an Eye," but rework the concept to elsewhere. possibly shift it back to "Year of Hell" and graft another "episode" onto it.

keep the Doctor character stuff, reworked from "Virtuoso."

possibly keep "Memorial," but rework elsewhere, and shave down the concept, to at least make everybody's reactions to it quite realistic.

rework "Tsunkatse" elsewhere, and rework the concepts.

keep the concept of helping assimilated Borg children in "Collective," but otherwise, rework it elsewhere. make it so it is like Kes and Seven have adopted them, to reveal their growing intimacy as a legitimate family unit.

cut "Spirit Folk," but if not, rework this into a life-threatening situation, to have it make sense where they would be distracted. perhaps "Year of Hell."

possibly keep "Child's Play," but rework the concepts elsewhere.

possibly keep "Live Fast and Prosper," but rework elsewhere.

possibly keep "Muse," but rework elsewhere.

possibly keep "Imperfection," but if so, strip it down to bare bones, and shift it to earlier.

if "Drive" is kept, rework the concept of an interstellar race into one of the larger ongoing threats, possibly shift it to earlier so that they need to do this to win some desperately needed supplies.

rework and shift "Repression" to earlier. or make this some type of mutiny from one of the other ships throughout the Voyager Fleet.

if "Critical Care" is kept, rework to earlier, and strip to bare bones.

seriously rework "Inside Man," and shift it to earlier, but otherwise keep the Earth portions.

but rework the concept of "Body and Soul" and possibly shift earlier.

rework a few concepts from "Flesh and Blood," but otherwise cut.

adapt elements from "Shattered" in making Voyager a generational ship, that is undone via time travel. they made it all the way home. adapt elements from "Endgame" to show Janeway as an admiral.

keep a few concepts of "Lineage," cut the rest.

keep a few concepts of "Repentance," cut the rest, move elsewhere.

rework the concept of the Klingon generational ship in "Prophecy" to much earlier, and rework it. it could end with the destruction of the ship, and many come over to the IKS Pru'chaQ.

rework a few concepts of the "Workforce" two-parter, like "Janeway is tired of death and command," maybe move it earlier, but otherwise, cut.

shift "Human Error" to earlier, rework the concepts, so that Seven has feelings for Kes, and is afraid of all that, so heads into the holodeck.

perhaps keep "Q2," but if so, radically retool this.

rework a few concepts, but otherwise, keep "Author, Author!"

possibly keep "Friendship One," but if so, rework and shift to earlier and elsewhere.

cut "Homestead," but maybe rework a few concepts, like the Talaxian colony, to much earlier.

SEASON 1

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

Janeway insists on wanting to make allies and gather or barter for resources, while Chakotay wants to steal or build bigger bombs. he understands how truly dangerous it is out here; while she is still a green commander.

sometimes, Janeway feels it would be so tempting to just let Chakotay take command, given how he is an experienced officer, and she only cares about scientific duties.

they grow more towards treating the Doctor as a sentient being.

there are discussions on ways to try and hopefully bring Captain Jellico out of his coma, as Chakotay can correctly see she just wants to pass the responsibility off onto him.

move "One Small Step" to Season 1.

EPISODE 1/EPISODE 2: ("Caretaker")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1/ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: "Caretaker"

EPISODE 3:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: ("Parallax")
PLOT POINTS
Chakotay wants B'Elanna as chief engineer on their ship. Janeway initially thinks it's espionage or sabotage, but Chakotay goes on to add it would be an exchange program, his man for her man, to promote better unity between the crews.
they discuss why a geodesic fold can't be used as they pass by stars. while Chakotay is ignorant to this it shows Janeway in her element.
there are also discussions on stuff like from "Elogium" on the potential need to make this into a generational ship, and what to do for species who operate upon a periodical clock with certain behaviors such as the Vulcan pon farr. or warring behaviors to choose leaders.
Janeway, as a science officer and not into any medical fields, doesn't know about the pon farr and is frankly embarrassed listening to it.
they run into trouble with a Kazon ship, and demand to know why they are still targeting them, and they cryptically state "for resolution." to avoid them, Neelix knows of a black hole in the area.
a Trabe ship gets involved in a battle with the Kazon, and thus the black hole serves as the focal point for the drama, not the end in and of itself, with this time dilation effect now as a complication to a battle in a gang war that Voyager doesn't know about, and wants to escape from.
Chakotay might suggest allying with the Trabe, since the Kazon want them dead and that is good enough, but Janeway shoots him down, still knee-deep in Federation dogma.
Voyager indirectly helps the Trabe to escape as well as themselves.
at the end of "episode," Janeway allows their exchange program.
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
Mabus was aboard the Trabe ship, but they don't entirely learn who he is, though, setting up future conflicts. and naturally it makes sense the Kazon would want to seize a Trabe governor.
crew members switched about in this exchange program will include Nick Locarno for Ro Laren as well as Carey for B'Elanna Torres.

EPISODE 4:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("Time And Again")
PLOT POINTS
Neelix has recommended this planet they go to, in order to barter for resources.
this "episode" can generate great discussions on the Prime Directive, whether or not they warn these people, but it is eventually pointed out that many on this world know and they need to let them resolve it on their own. Chakotay is not in favor of Prime Directive and neither are much of the Maquis, and Janway wants to rigidly adhere to it.
with his former experience serving in Starfleet, Chakotay might tell Janeway that she's never going to get very far in life with such a rigid attitude, and Janeway would correctly guess that's why he left, since it was too constraining. he could even cite his line from "Prime Factors" where various Starfleet personnel have decided on strong, ethical grounds to ignore the Prime Directive.
on orders from Chakotay, either Ro Laren or Seska violates the Prime Directive and Janeway's orders to get the desperately needed supplies to augment their weapons, which are woefully inadequate for that area of space, and Janeway doesn't learn about this, just assumes that her methods worked.
Seska or Ro Laren might ask why he doesn't just take over, but he says that would cause too much division against all the enemies they have out there, they need unity. better to let Janeway live in a safe lie than see harsh reality, like most Federation commanders are wont to do. they insist she can't live a lie forever, and this sort of thing is inevitable.

EPISODE 5: ("Phage")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("Phage")
PLOT POINTS
Neelix was right about dilithium being here.
First encounter with the Vidiians. Chakotay wants to kill one to send a message and save Neelix, but Janeway sticks to canon decision, which ends up with Neelix restored, and Janeway takes it as the proof of her righteousness. she defends it saying they are the only representatives out here. Chakotay insists that with the weapons they have, that won't matter when they are dead. especially when they run into Borg space.
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
the secret Section 31 agent (don't reveal who it is, but drop hints of who it is later revealed as given who is nearby and can be referenced later) does something to wanna adapt the Phage to biowarfare once they return home.
END: Chakotay states "And there's something you're not considering. (off Janeway's question) What happens when we finally cross the great unknown and enter Borg space?" he leaves, end "episode" to consider this.

EPISODE 6:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("The Cloud")
PLOT POINTS
simulations are being run on what to do when they enter Borg space. the holodeck can be run, but sparingly, with no frivolities that require greater use of energy, such as drinks or food.
for the Borg preparation review, Janeway still thinks like a Starfleet officer in terms of large fleet engagements and putting yourself in the open, fighting clean while Chakotay sees they will need to run and hide and pick at the ankles of Borg in order to make it through their space.
the energy crisis must be consistent while they fly through the cloud and end up hurting the lifeform in it. that leads to an ethical dilemma on whether they kill a sentient lifeform to help themselves get home.
a subplot running in the background are elements from "Worst Case Scenario" in how Tuvok's Maquis anti-insurgency program is found, offending the Maquis.
Voyager uses the tractor beam to tow the Val Jean away from the cloud being to keep them from harvesting the energy they need to from it, maybe without even allowing them the chance to prove they wouldn't. Chakotay takes it as proof Starfleet just does not understand the Maquis at all, since he wasn't going to do it, even if Seska might have, and the secret Section 31 agent.

EPISODE 7:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Eye of the Needle")
PLOT POINTS
this could still work, but needs retooling. perhaps they use some technology from another group later such as the Voth, rather than a micro-wormhole. the energy crisis from before is still affecting the systems.
Ro Laren and Seska both want to return to the past, both to influence it for different reasons as well as many Maquis too. for Seska, to help advance the Obsidian Order's agenda. for the Maquis, to get Starfleet to help them in the Border Wars that for them, never ended. for Ro Laren, to save her father. and maybe make Picard proud.
Janeway for once finds some common ground with Chakotay in that Chakotay is adamant changing a timeline is too risky, that it opens up too many issues that could negatively hurt the cause down the line. many Maquis think Chakotay is just happy to be serving Starfleet again.
Chakotay and Janeway are also both being practical. the people they love won't be there, so it's really not home they are returning to, but a new world to which they will be the masters, and it's not their role to play God.
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
the secret Section 31 agent who could be revealed later is nearby and also wants to return to change the past to advance the Federation's goals, like Seska does for the Cardassian Union.

EPISODE 8:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("Ex Post Facto")
PLOT POINTS
shift "State of Flux" to here from three episodes down.
Seska was sending technology to the Kazon that will let them subjugate other worlds in their technology raids. when this is finally revealed, Seska is up front and open, confessing that she is a spy for the Obsidian Order, and apologizes for deceiving Chakotay like this.
Janeway, furious that she is letting other species pay for the price to help them, wants to confine her to the brig, but Chakotay refuses and has the reasoning, if Seska is trading information to the Kazon which keeps their targeting sights off them that's acceptable, and defends her, while Ro Laren sides with Janeway, not trusting Cardassians.
as a compromise, Seska is forbidden from ever setting foot on Voyager, and she and Chakotay grow closer.
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
Ro Laren could be a romantic rival to Seska.
it's possible that Seska is a sister of Elim and thus Seska Garak. if so, don't reveal it now, but later to make it a genuine shock to readers.
given that Seska is revealed as a Cardassian, Chakotay places areas of the Val Jean under guard but wants to keep her protected and still be allowed to contribute, given how honest she was with him. this just increases her romantic feelings for him.
UNKNOWNS
perhaps here is where Janeway finds out the lie from Episode 4.

EPISODE 9: ("Resolution")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9: ("Emanations")
PLOT POINTS
shift "Initiations" from Season 2 to here.
Kar attacks Chakotay to steal his superior technology for resolution, but rather than stealing the Val Jean, abducts Chakotay from it while the Maquis raider is away from Voyager and is not expected back for some time.
Chakotay befriends the young kid Kar and tries to reason with him. Chakotay would know about child warriors from past tribes and would hate to see the potential of a young boy fall prey to such a mindset.
Seska and Ro Laren both want to find Chakotay but differently. Seska wants to hunt the Kazon, while Ro Laren wants to summon Voyager.
back on the Voyager, there are discussions about turning this into a generational ship given the fraternizing they see among the crew to adapt the "best" of "Elogium," but have it make sense. it is revealed when the Nacene came to the planet, they screwed up the Ocampa's biological mating habits. Kes is not about to go through the Elogium yet.
Seska rallies the Maquis to go hunting for Chakotay, but it fails, and they have to run back to Voyager and ask them to help with their tail between their legs, which Voyager does, because they are all in this together, humbling the Maquis because Janeway sounds a lot like Chakotay when he says, "We don't abandon one of our own."
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
the ongoing tension is added because Chakotay sees that it really is useless to trade technology to the Kazon, hence the reason they kept attacking them, for resolution. so Seska was wrong all along but for the right reasons.

EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: ("Prime Factors")
PLOT POINTS
move "Heroes and Demons" here rather than two episodes down.
rework the photonic lifeforms toward a useful premise. like maybe it's interrupting battle simulations between the crew, to try and help them coordinate better and ease tensions, even to adapt guerrilla tactics like the Maquis are familiar with. also it's discovered the photonic lifeforms can also serve as a fuel source. given recent experiences, Janeway and Chakotay both agree not to mass murder lifeforms to get home a little faster and the events of "The Cloud" are referenced.
the Doctor finally takes his name, and it sticks.
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
Seska begins worrying Janeway is a romantic rival.
Seska wants to murder the photonic beings in order to get home faster, yet is overruled by Chakotay. the secret Section 31 guy offers to do it at every star they pass so they both form a secret partnership. but he wants a contact inside the Maquis ship, which Seska agrees to be. Seska is surprised and amused that the Federation can have an organization like the Obsidian Order among their ranks.

EPISODE 11: ("Faces")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("State of Flux")
PLOT POINTS
shift "Faces" to here from three episodes down.

EPISODE 12:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Heroes and Demons")

EPISODE 13:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Cathexis")

EPISODE 14: ("Jetrel")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Faces")
PLOT POINTS
shift "Jetrel" here from next episode with reworking. the Section 31 agent steals Jetrel's secrets, accumulating a database of information and prepared to relay it to Section 31 once they return home. make Jetrel like Degra from Enterprise. some Maquis have strong emotions against him, given all that the Cardassians did, and thus they turn into discussions; we can then get Seska and Ro Laren or even Chakotay's point of view.

EPISODE 15: ("The Void")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15: ("Jetrel")
PLOT POINTS
shift "The Void" to here from Season 7. the ships would change. there would be Talaxian, Kazon, and Vidiian ships. maybe they befriend one of them, and they leave the Void with them. the others leave, but one stays behind and agrees to "escort" them to the edge of their personal known space. if it is Kazon, Janeway feels validated, because they are willing to work with them.

EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 16: ("Learning Curve")
PLOT POINTS
move "Meld" to here from Season 2. the huge issue is that a Maquis killed a Starfleet officer, adding tension to the mix. and Tuvok just wants to know why.
Suder is put in stasis in between periods Tuvok lets him out to mind-meld. at the end he vouches for him to be put under house arrest.

EPISODE 17:
PLOT POINTS
"Prime Factors" is adapted here rather than earlier in the season.
they come to this planet to trade. make a discussion on how they are tempted to stay, but they don't in the end. the end remains the same, with Tuvok making the exchange, and Carey and Torres try whipping up the inverter thing, but that fails, and Tuvok takes responsibility. he feels a mutiny was likely and Janeway starts to feel truly overwhelmed as, finally, asks him to serve as her voice out here. she also begins to realize she needs to be more flexible. also add in a good subplot.
Janeway is the one to suggest Torres look at it, showing a little hint of rebellion there that Chakotay approves of, feeling there may be hope for her yet.

EPISODE 18: ("Deadlock")
PLOT POINTS
move "Deadlock" to here from Season 2 and keep it, but just tinker with the concept a little. the ruined Voyager after the end means they absolutely desperately need supplies. Neelix provides a planet nearby, but one that is under the control of a dictatorship. they feel they have no choice.

EPISODE 19: ("Resistance")
PLOT POINTS
move "Resistance" from Season 2 to here.
going to that dictatorship planet, Janeway tries to barter to gain their desperately needed supplies, and when that fails, Chakotay launches a major assault to steal them. however, this ends badly when it has the Kazon see this world, which they had known about, and reevaluate it as worthy for technology raids to achieve a resolution. they gain the supplies, but at the cost of bringing war to a helpless world. Janeway can't argue with Chakotay when he says that he is captain of his own ship, and that they are not in Starfleet, and it got them what Voyager needed to survive. might even insist, "What are you going to do, lock us all up?" and Janeway knows she can't.
Ro Laren is on the Voyager bridge as Chakotay launches the assault while Nick is on the Val Jean, and this leads to a crippling and serious breach in coordination which lets Chakotay swoop in and beam aboard the supplies after shooting up one of their facilities. but he only takes what is needed, nothing past that, a fact he is proud of.

EPISODE 20:
PLOT POINTS
move a blend of "Learning" Curve" from earlier in the season and "Good Shepherd" from Season 6 to this spot as the season clincher. Janeway wants the Maquis to learn discipline, after what happened last episode. while Tuvok is handling the training of the Maquis Janeway is getting to know Harren, Tefler, and Celes upon her shuttle mission and feels horrible on how Harren had a promising career derailed because of all of this, on which he blames her.

SEASON 2

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

there is a running theme through Season 2 or perhaps halfway through about Alpha Quadrant ships out there, that the Kazon are pursuing, and so Voyager wants to find them, hopefully as allies.

they try to cure the Vidiian Phage to make a natural ally.

EPISODE 1:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1: ("The 37's")
PLOT POINTS
merge this with "Night." Janeway is cut off from the crew, lamenting her decision in "Caretaker," that there must have been some way to save the array, perhaps if she had listened to Chakotay, even though there was no other way. Chakotay can't talk to her. and then Janeway finds inspiration from Amelia Earhart in human cities, thus she learns about what it means to be a leader. more Chakotay/Janeway bonding stuff. perhaps even Harren, Tefler, or Celes stay here.
Nick's Captain Proton holodeck program is cut off, not because it's interrupting the Doctor's time like it is in canon, but that power is at a premium, so they need to conserve it, much to his annoyance, as he gripes they hardly ever have time for recreational holodeck use.

EPISODE 2:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: ("Initiations")
PLOT POINTS
shift "Initiations" from here to Season 1 and replace it with the next episode "Projections." it just needs a bit of minor retooling. show more of what is happening in the real world, not being at Jupiter Outpost, to further muddy what is and is not real as this all filters into the Doctor's program, since both the ships are traveling the void from "Night." this began shortly before this delusion.

EPISODE 3:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: ("Projections")

EPISODE 4:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("Elogium")

EPISODE 5:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("Non Sequitur")
PLOT POINTS
butcher down almost completely, except perhaps to keep the all-powerful alien stuff within the "Night" void. since it is separate from the material universe, the alien can offer to take Harry back in time to see Libby, changing time. Harry had been reflecting on Libby to Nick, missing her. Nick even observes Harry uses his limited recreational holodeck time to just see her. if this stays, then go with SF Debris's approach. he lives a long and happy life until he learns Nick died in that penal colony, and needs to go back to save him.

EPISODE 6: ("Twisted")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("Twisted")
PLOT POINTS
the concept is good. just retool. perhaps the lifeform is part of the "Night" void. it would explain why they can't fly up over it.

EPISODE 7:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Parturition")
PLOT POINTS
MAYBE keep the planet they go to, Planet Hell. maybe. either way, by this point, they have left the "Night" void and are back in realspace.

EPISODE 8: ("Death Wish")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("Persistence of Vision")
PLOT POINTS
cut "Persistence of Vision". no need for the alien Q-like thing. make it the Q and put in "Death Wish." make it so Maury Ginsberg had worked to make sure the speakers were hooked up at the Lincoln Memorial so King could give his "I have a dream" speech. without Quinn or him, it wouldn't have happened.
Janeway and Chakotay discuss compromising her principles to get them back, as does Janeway and Tuvok. and plaster this on from the unnecessary fat. this adds more Starfleet/Maquis tension since they know she could have gotten them home, but did not.

EPISODE 9:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9: ("Tattoo")

EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: ("Cold Fire")
PLOT POINTS
keep. but rework. the crew will definitely be open to reinterpreting their actions out here, given the reputation they are building, truthful or not. in a debate, Janeway is realizing, perhaps, they must do what needs to be, while Chakotay is softening up, perhaps thinking there is something to be said for sticking to your values, reminded of what he initially saw in the uniform, especially given the raid they led which brought war to one planet. perhaps Seska then begins selling data to the Kazon behind his back, worried she is losing him to Janeway, with the rationale of protecting him, and given the precedent he set up of shielding her against Janeway leading her to think she can do it.

EPISODE 11:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("Maneuvers")
PLOT POINTS
seriously rework this to something else to possibly nothing. maybe Seska at this point crosses a line that Chakotay won't stand for, like violating his orders and thus he reluctantly agrees with Janeway to confine her to quarters on Voyager. if not here, then later.

EPISODE 12:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Resistance")

EPISODE 13: ("Prototype")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Prototype")
PLOT POINTS
Janeway does not callously condemn whole species to death.
the automated personnel units, perhaps renamed or nicknamed the Duplicators by the Voyager Fleet, are like the Replicators from SG-1. that ends with them having had their replicating ability switched on again, rather than take out like in canon.

EPISODE 14:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Alliances")
PLOT POINTS
this should be the flashpoint moment between the Trabe and the Kazon. perhaps Voyager tries to get them to negotiate a peace treaty, rather than forming an alliance. perhaps this convinces them to try to seek out allies instead of them, trading technology as needed to do so, within reason. to that end, they begin researching the Vidiian Phage to try and find a cure. also, the Kazon should get a mole on board. but it has to be different than in canon. possibly the secret Section 31 agent.

EPISODE 15:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15: ("Threshold")

EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 16: ("Meld")

EPISODE 17: ("Dreadnought")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 17: ("Dreadnought")
PLOT POINTS
keep, but they keep the Dreadnought at the end. Torres brings over other Maquis to work on it. Hogan is made the Maquis exchange officer on loan to Engineering Department on Voyager. Torres is also given a battlefield promotion to commander of the Dreadnought.

EPISODE 18:
ORIGINAL 18: ("Death Wish")
PLOT POINTS
since "Death Wish" was moved earlier back, no need to put it here. instead, change it to "Lifesigns." it's Vidiian stuff that would be great to explore, but it has to be edited regardless. though, keep Denara.

EPISODE 19:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 19: ("Lifesigns")
PLOT POINTS
rather than the Michael Jonas subplot, Michael Jonas is actually the secret Section 31 agent, and was always a Starfleet officer. at the end, approaches Chakotay with all the photonic fuel which he has refined in the past year that could help them cross 50,000 light-years off of their journey. it ends with Chakotay promising to bring it to the Captain. his condition is for Seska to be let out from under house arrest.

EPISODE 20:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 20: ("Investigations")
PLOT POINTS
rather than Neelix busting open the case, this could lead to a serious ethical dilemma, whether they do something immoral to advance their means pilfered from somebody else's evil. in the end, I think Janeway would, while Chakotay is the one to have doubts. then, a Kazon attack leads them having to perhaps blow it up, to stop them. Michael Jonas goes with the Kazon. or dies. same with Seska.

EPISODE 21:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 21: ("Deadlock")

EPISODE 22:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 22: ("Innocence")

EPISODE 23: ("The Thaw")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 23: ("The Thaw")
PLOT POINTS
tie this into a previous event that had left Voyager damaged. Neelix directed them to a place for supplies to trade. receiving the message telling them of the planetary disaster, they bring up the stasis pods. there were 20 out of 100 to try and survive their disaster. only three remain. so, this is mostly the same, except the premise.

EPISODE 24:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 24: ("Tuvix")
PLOT POINTS
keep, but in the end, Janeway can't bring herself to "kill" Tuvix.
STUFF TO ADD FOR LATER
in Neelix's absence, Kes begins growing closer to Nick.

EPISODE 25:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 25: ("Resolutions")
PLOT POINTS
cut. not needed. though perhaps they finally cure the Vidiian Phage. if so, they would get something in return to help them on the journey.

EPISODE 26:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 26: ("Basics, Part I")
PLOT POINTS
the conclusion of the Kazon arc needs to end stronger. keep, but no marooning on the planet. instead, a subplot running is the discovery of a wrecked Klingon ship, and how this ties into it. this means a Kazon vs. Klingon fight.

SEASON 3

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

build to the discovery of a Cardassian ship, where it is destroyed, and they are put in the Dreadnought.

season ends with them getting a message to Earth, and letters.

season also ends with the Dominion battlecruiser tailing them.

EPISODE 1:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1: ("Basics, Part II")
PLOT POINTS
conclusion of this story, with the Kazon finding resolution that leads them to calling off their war raids on Voyager. perhaps they even trade technology to help repair the Klingon ship, which joins Voyager on the way home to the Alpha Quadrant. this adds cloaking technology that is desperately needed. thus, they don the name Voyager Fleet.

EPISODE 2: ("Tomorrow's Excelsior")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: ("Flashback")
PLOT POINTS
keep but edit it. Hikaru Sulu on the Excelsior is brought to the future via time anomaly, like "Yesterday's Enterprise." the Klingon ship is left protected from timeline changes because of technobabble. however, Voyager and the Val Jean are not.

EPISODE 3: ("The Chute")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: ("The Chute")
PLOT POINTS
keep, but edit out so that it looks like the Voyager Fleet is gone. to deprive Kim and Nick of hope, and trim down on the fat to focus more on the prison stuff and what happens after. also give better reasons for why they have the clamp, to prevent them organizing.
add in a good subplot too.

EPISODE 4: ("Distant Origin")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("The Swarm")
PLOT POINTS
switch from "The Swarm." keep it mostly the same, but it ends with the Voth in a new antagonistic role. the Voth even have the technology via their great city-ship that could take them back home to the Alpha Quadrant (since it only takes them a month to cross the whole quadrant). thus leading to lots of ethical dilemmas later.

EPISODE 5: ("The Swarm")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("False Profits")
PLOT POINTS
establish the swarm as a real, season-long threat, and keep the Doctor stuff too.

EPISODE 6: ("False Profits")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("Remember")
PLOT POINTS
move up "False Profits" from an episode ago and cut "Remember."
perhaps these Ferengi are reluctantly dragged into the Voyager Fleet, and so, spend time working to try and prove themselves, to be let out of house arrest. they decide to keep them until they could be formally charged. make it a ticking clock too, so the wormhole will fade unless they do something, whether that's letting something unconscionable happen, or head home. explore the Pru'chaQ's reaction to all this.

EPISODE 7:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Sacred Ground")
PLOT POINTS
apply a reworked concept of "Remember" here. Torres is carrying implanted memories she does not remember getting. make that the focal point of the drama, maybe blending it into "Sacred Ground?"

EPISODE 8:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("Future's End, Part I")
PLOT POINTS
regardless of if it stays, still expand on the stuff with Captain Braxton and the Relativity in the 29th century looking after time. Braxton and his crew are doing such to prevent a messy large-scale Temporal War from breaking out.
perhaps cut or rework "Sacred Ground" here to serve as the focal point for something else, one of the ongoing conflicts or the larger running plots.

EPISODE 9:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9: ("Future's End, Part II")
PLOT POINTS
rework this into stuff involving Braxton and his role in the Federation, policing time in the distant 29th century, and how there was a timeline shift that leads him to get involved here. perhaps a geodesic fold like event that would have destroyed both Earth's solar system, and another one out here. the Doctor also gets his mobile emitter. perhaps Voyager even gains some good distance home for thanks for their help assisting the Relativity, although not enough to pollute the timeline. or not. maybe Braxton hints on what is coming. rather than moving them through space, he helps with the Temporal Prime Directive by granting them information that will help, in a limited form, perhaps couched in riddles. this might also need to only be one episode.

EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: ("Warlord")
PLOT POINTS
possibly keep, but if so, rework it into something else.

EPISODE 11:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("The Q and the Grey")
PLOT POINTS
rather than a literal physical Q civil war, make it a war of ideas based off what Quinn did which on their level, are still nonetheless damaging to the universe around them, destroying whole suns and even galaxies as a byproduct, so that Voyager has to get involved, to stop this. their ideas threaten to destroy the fabric of reality.

EPISODE 12:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Macrocosm")

EPISODE 13: ("Fair Trade")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Fair Trade")
PLOT POINTS
mostly keep. expand on the Neelix stuff. Neelix now wants to begin training to begin a Starfleet officer, since he is inspired by them.

EPISODE 14:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Alter Ego")
PLOT POINTS
cut or possibly rework. the nebula and Marayna's role in it could serve as a good place for a larger conflict. also, the Doctor should wonder if she's starting to develop self-awareness. make him invested in having another of his kind.

EPISODE 15:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15: ("Coda")
PLOT POINTS
rework, and rather than the Vidiians, this deals with either the Duplicators or the Voth.

EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 16: ("Blood Fever")
PLOT POINTS
only thing to keep is the discovery of a Borg corpse. but do show the crew having to engage in resource-gathering and mining. of course, keep the Nick/Torres stuff too.

EPISODE 17:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 17: ("Unity")
PLOT POINTS
keep, but rework through various ways.

EPISODE 18:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 18: ("Darkling")
PLOT POINTS
keep the thing from "10,000 years ago." rework around it.

EPISODE 19:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 19: ("Rise")
PLOT POINTS
tie one of the larger, ongoing threats to the space elevator, and show off Neelix's growth, in how he is training to be a Starfleet officer and what it takes. also remove a few of his more irritating qualities.

EPISODE 20:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 20: ("Favorite Son")
PLOT POINTS
cut or rework.

EPISODE 21:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 21: ("Before and After")
PLOT POINTS
keep mostly the same, but rework it. consistency is needed. offer a good reason why her presence with these new memories affects the Borg into invading the domain of Species 8472. perhaps even as Kes goes back to before she was born a "piece" of her remains separate from the material universe, further enhancing her psychic powers. also, Kes's memories are mostly wiped clean as she relearns life.

EPISODE 22:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 22: ("Real Life")
PLOT POINTS
keep the Doctor's family and his kid dying, and even the space tornado subplot, but perhaps make it about resources they could harvest. and Doctor will refer to these events down the line.

EPISODE 23:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 23: ("Distant Origin")
PLOT POINTS
rather than this, they've discovered a wormhole, and it leads to the Gamma Quadrant. they arrive neck-deep within Dominion space and six months away from the Bajoran Wormhole, but figure they can do so if they try hard enough. nevertheless, they learn that the Bajoran Wormhole was sealed off from the other side, and the sort of general state of affairs in the Alpha Quadrant, so knowing a lost battle, push and turn back. one of these vessels, perhaps the Val Jean, is lost. this wormhole is unstable and quickly fading, but they get through even as one Dominion battlecruiser follows them as the Voyager Fleet escapes, with the Dominion pursuing not terribly far behind.

EPISODE 24: ("Message in a Bottle")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 24: ("Displaced")
PLOT POINTS
they get a message to Starfleet, but maybe the Jem'Hadar use it too, in order to inform the Dominion of their position, as they are given the order to pursue the enemy ship until these orders can be revised by a Founder. that part needs to be specific.

EPISODE 25: ("Hunters")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 25: ("Worst Case Scenario")
PLOT POINTS
the Hirogen make their debut, and perhaps the Dominion accidentally saves the Voyager Fleet, and the Hirogen ships escape too, promising revenge.

EPISODE 26: ("Scorpion, Part I")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 26: ("Scorpion, Part I")
PLOT POINTS
Janeway is opposed to an alliance with the Borg, so Chakotay and his crew mutiny and take half the fleet with them. the Klingons side with Janeway. the Dreadnought, under Torres, sides with the Val Jean. the Klingons side with Janeway, since they do not want to be assimilated. this story ends with Species 8472 regrouping, still out there and still a threat. the Klingons want Chakotay executed, but given the Federation ideals, and how despite a Klingon ship in their ranks, it's not a Klingon fleet, they don't. Chakotay is merely confined to house arrest. unlike in canon, Harry dies here, greatly hurting Nick, so that he and Kes grow closer, perhaps even kiss. and Seven stays.

SEASON 4: Year of Hell

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

once Seven is onboard Kes begins working to revive her humanity. Janeway is the one who really wants to let her go, at first, but given the success she had with the Doctor, she is inclined to trust Kes on this.

Jellico could wake up during the Year of Hell and retake his command.

they encounter the Equinox. that plot thread is running all season.

"The Haunting of Deck Twelve" gets moved here as a season-long running plot where they are shown taking the alien lifeform back to a nebula, maybe something Kes requested to hold on to their morals even in such darkness.

the Hirogen are hunting Species 8472 right alongside the Krenim stuff. and of course the war between Species 8472 and the Borg still rages.

they still discover Species 8472 building a spy village. in this timeline, it leads them to invading the Federation back home, blowing up many planets.

Kes lets the console explode in the faces of Janeway and Torres in a moment of weakness, not wanting to lose Nick, as it horrifies her.

Torres unleashes her self-harm behavior here as Janeway is killed in the blast, that Kes lets happen, moving away from Nick to Seven.

Neelix is given a commission as a Starfleet officer.

Neelix is shown like in "Once Upon a Time" furiously petitioning for more holodeck time to help little Naomi cope with their situation, shielding her from harsh reality.

Neelix dies in the Year of Hell, so move "Mortal Coil" to here, while desperately searching for protomatter, which extreme circumstances are forcing them to use, because of how unstable it is. then Seven brings him back and he's deeply shaken by learning that nothing whatsoever exists out there after death.

the ethical dilemma from "Nothing Human" is brought here, perhaps with Chakotay making the call rather than Janeway, assuming this takes place after her death.

the concept of sentient warheads from "Warhead" is reworked here.

in the midst of the conflict, the Borg appear to assimilate Seven, wanting to study and dissect this perplexing nature of "individuality" like a scientist examining a lab specimen. given how it helped them to overcome Species 8472 for a brief moment in time and against, this threat, the Collective's all-knowledge is completely useless. Seven allows herself to go for the sake of her new Collective, especially because she thinks they will just assimilate her, and welcome this, wanting the comforting unity and the cohesive groupthink of the Collective back to help her deal with her trauma.

the Jem'Hadar don't have the refined processing equipment to keep producing ketracel-white out of their raw materials for very long, and the Vorta are not researchers, so they abduct the Doctor, to help them with threat of harming the other hostage they seized. this is Kes. but eventually, the Founder orders her to be released, showing off the potential for good Kes will see in the changed timeline. that reason is how the way the Jem'Hadar treat her is scarily all too reminiscent with how the Borg had experimented on the Organic Test Sample 119085.

halfway through Season 4 have the Voyager crew recover a Borg data node off a drone which shows them experimenting against a Founder. Janeway recognizes it because she was fascinated by Odo, always had wanted to meet him at DS9. however, the Founder in this alternate timeline joins the Dominion battle cruiser; maybe they beat them there first.

this season has Korvas challenge Murda's authority for the sake of the Voyager Fleet, showing off Korvas's change.

near the end, Chakotay, one of the last survivors, ruggedly and furiously has enough, and vows to take the war to the enemy.

the Year of Hell ends with Voyager flying into the Krenim temporal weapon, and it blows up, resetting the timeline except for one person in deflector control, where the temporal shields didn't totally drop. that one is Kes, who's both terrified and relived to have everything back to normal again, and breaks down in tears.

EPISODE 1: ("Scorpion, Part II")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1: ("Scorpion, Part II")
PLOT POINTS
Janeway is opposed to an alliance with the Borg, so Chakotay and his crew mutiny and take half the fleet with them. the Klingons side with Janeway. the Dreadnought, under Torres, sides with the Val Jean. the Klingons side with Janeway, since they do not want to be assimilated. this story ends with Species 8472 regrouping, still out there and still a threat. the Klingons want Chakotay executed, but given the Federation ideals, and how despite a Klingon ship in their ranks, it's not a Klingon fleet, they don't. Chakotay is merely confined to house arrest. unlike in canon, Harry dies here, greatly hurting Nick, so that he and Kes grow closer, perhaps even kiss. and Seven stays.

EPISODE 2:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: ("The Gift")
PLOT POINTS
this begins the Year of Hell proper.

EPISODE 3:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: ("Day of Honor")

EPISODE 4:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("Nemesis")

EPISODE 5:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("Revulsion")

EPISODE 6:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("The Raven")
PLOT POINTS
this would mark the point when Seven has done research and wants to go explore it, but does not do so, given the continuing crisis they face, so that, in the changed timeline, as a part of their growing relationship Kes can ask personally for Seven to be allowed this, since she felt sad she never got a chance to find out what it was.

EPISODE 7: ("Scientific Method")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Scientific Method")
PLOT POINTS
the Duplicators are the ones experimenting on the crew amid the Year of Hell.

EPISODE 8:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("Year of Hell, Part I")

EPISODE 9:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9: ("Year of Hell, Part II")

EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: ("Random Thoughts")

EPISODE 11:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("Concerning Flight")

EPISODE 12: ("Mortal Coil")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Mortal Coil")
Neelix is killed while helping them gather much-needed resources, which is protomatter. keep Seven's powers to restore the dead under the right conditions. and of course, tie this into the Year of Hell, where Neellix then wants out of the Starfleet uniform, which he'd worked so hard to put on, with pride.

EPISODE 13: ("Waking Moments")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Waking Moments")
tinker with this. the fleet crew are all in a dream simulation by the Voth for reasons they do not comprehend amid the Year of Hell.

EPISODE 14:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Message in a Bottle")

EPISODE 15:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15: ("Hunters")

EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 16: ("Prey")

EPISODE 17:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 17: ("Retrospect")

EPISODE 18:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 18: ("The Killing Game, Part I")

EPISODE 19:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 19: ("The Killing Game, Part II")

EPISODE 20:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 20: ("Vis à Vis")

EPISODE 21:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 21: ("The Omega Directive")
PLOT POINTS
in this altered timeline, they steal the Omega molecules from the Borg to try and use them for bigger weapons to use against their enemies.

EPISODE 22:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 22: ("Unforgettable")

EPISODE 23: ("Living Witness")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 23: ("Living Witness")

EPISODE 24:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 24: ("Demon")

EPISODE 25: ("One")
ORIGINAL EPISODE 25: ("One")

EPISODE 26:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 26: ("Hope and Fear")

SEASON 5

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

Kes wants to leave the ship at one point because of what she did with Torres and Janeway, about Nick, and doesn't trust herself anymore.

Kes and Seven grow closer and experiment, with a whole season of unresolved sexual tension building, and then they become lovers.

"Pathfinder" should be set very early in the season here.

make an offhand comment about what they've changed, like with the Warhead, which they convinced the orders were invalid. maybe the Warhead joins the Voyager Fleet.

the conflict with Species 8472 should end with "In the Flesh."

"Life Line" should be mid-season or late in Season 5.

EPISODE 1:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1: ("Night")

EPISODE 2:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: ("Drone")

EPISODE 3:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: ("Extreme Risk")

EPISODE 4:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("In the Flesh")

EPISODE 5:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("Once Upon a Time")

EPISODE 6:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("Timeless")

EPISODE 7:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Infinite Regress")

EPISODE 8:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("Nothing Human")

EPISODE 9:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9: ("Thirty Days")

EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: ("Counterpart")

EPISODE 11:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("Latent Image")

EPISODE 12:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Bride of Chaotica!")

EPISODE 13:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Gravity")

EPISODE 14:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Bliss")
PLOT POINTS
Neelix finally becomes a Starfleet officer in the changed timeline and while she is not his girlfriend Kes nonetheless says she is still proud of him. Neelix then later has to sacrifice himself to the bioplasmic lifeform by taking his salvage scow in the maw to buy them all time to escape, and so Qatai joins the Voyager Fleet as the new gruff loner with knowledge of this area of space to serve as a guide.

EPISODE 15/EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15/EPISODE 16: ("Dark Frontier")
PLOT POINTS
rework elsewhere. this has Borg kidnap Seven, but as a lab specimen, trying to understand the alien nature of "individuality" by examining a former drone through close study. in order to learn to better assimilate them, given that twice now the Alpha Quadrant has fended off a Borg invasion. actually, this "lab examination" idea makes sense. remember in this universe, they not only failed to conquer the Alpha Quadrant twice, with three Borg Cubes, but... they also sustained heavy losses to Species 8472. I think the Borg are intelligent enough, in the original conceit, to wanna analyze and to adapt before proceeding. they're like scientists. so trying to understand individuality with a former drone is logical. and it once again means the singular chorus speak. no damn queen. this could open up great philosophical discussions. I could see the Borg going to assimilate a planet and posing inquiries to her.

EPISODE 17:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 17: ("The Disease")

EPISODE 18:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 18: ("Course: Oblivion")

EPISODE 19:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 19: ("The Fight")

EPISODE 20:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 20: ("Think Tank")

EPISODE 21:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 21: ("Juggernaut")

EPISODE 22:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 22: ("Someone to Watch Over Me")
PLOT POINTS
Seven is innocent and trying to comprehend human romantic relationships, and asks Kes to be her guide through this. possibly move her views from "Revulsion" here and repackage it for Kes.

EPISODE 23:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 23: ("11:59")
PLOT POINTS
the concept will be that Janeway offers a cultural day for all to share their life history and family backstories as a breathing down period following "Year of Hell." maybe make it a two-parter.

EPISODE 24:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 24: ("Relativity")
PLOT POINTS
perhaps tie the time travel from in "Future's End" to here.

EPISODE 25:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 25: ("Warhead")

EPISODE 26:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 26: ("Equinox, Part I")

SEASON 6

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

EPISODE 1:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1: ("Equinox, Part II")

EPISODE 2:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: ("Survival Instinct")

EPISODE 3:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: (Barge of the Dead")
PLOT POINTS
rework this to the Klingon ship alongside with Torres.

EPISODE 4:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy")

EPISODE 5:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("Alice")

EPISODE 6:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("Riddles")

EPISODE 7:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Dragon's Teeth")

EPISODE 8:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("One Small Step")

EPISODE 9:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9: ("The Voyager Conspiracy")

EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: ("Pathfinder")

EPISODE 11:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("Fair Haven")

EPISODE 12:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Blink of an Eye")

EPISODE 13:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Virtuoso")

EPISODE 14:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Memorial")

EPISODE 15:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15: ("Tsunkatse")

EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 16: ("Collective")

EPISODE 17:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 17: ("Spirit Folk")

EPISODE 18:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 18: ("Ashes to Ashes")

EPISODE 19:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 19: ("Child's Play")

EPISODE 20:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 20: ("Good Shepherd")

EPISODE 21:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 21: ("Live Fast and Prosper")

EPISODE 22:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 22: ("Muse")

EPISODE 23:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 23: ("Fury")

EPISODE 24:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 24: ("Life Line")

EPISODE 25:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 25: ("The Haunting of Deck Twelve")

EPISODE 26:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 26: ("Unimatrix Zero, Part I")
PLOT POINTS
rework this into the flashpoint moment of the Duplicators.

SEASON 7

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

EPISODE 1:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 1: ("Unimatrix Zero, Part II")
PLOT POINTS
rework this into the flashpoint moment of the Duplicators.

EPISODE 2:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 2: ("Imperfection")

EPISODE 3:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 3: ("Drive")

EPISODE 4:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 4: ("Repression")

EPISODE 5:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 5: ("Critical Care")

EPISODE 6:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 6: ("Inside Man")

EPISODE 7:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 7: ("Body and Soul")

EPISODE 8:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 8: ("Nightingale")

EPISODE 9/EPISODE 10:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 9/ORIGINAL EPISODE 10: "Flesh and Blood"

EPISODE 11:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 11: ("Shattered")

EPISODE 12:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 12: ("Lineage")

EPISODE 13:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 13: ("Repentance")

EPISODE 14:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 14: ("Prophecy")

EPISODE 15:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 15: ("The Void")

EPISODE 16:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 16: ("Workforce, Part I")

EPISODE 17:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 17: ("Workforce, Part II")

EPISODE 18:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 18: ("Human Error")

EPISODE 19:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 19: ("Q2")

EPISODE 20:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 20: ("Author, Author")

EPISODE 21:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 21: ("Friendship One")

EPISODE 22:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 22: ("Natural Law")

EPISODE 23:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 23: ("Homestead")

EPISODE 24:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 24: ("Renaissance Man")

EPISODE 25/EPISODE 26:
ORIGINAL EPISODE 25/ORIGINAL EPISODE 26: ("Endgame")

[Yukaphile]

Sorry, some of this is inconsistent. It's the process of drafting.

[Yukaphile]

Here's the edited Year of Hell.

SEASON 4: Year of Hell

LONGER ARC PLOT NOTES

once Seven is onboard Kes begins working to revive her humanity. Janeway is the one who really wants to let her go, at first, but given the success she had with the Doctor, she is inclined to trust Kes on this.

Jellico could wake up during the Year of Hell and retake his command.

they encounter the Equinox. that plot thread is running all season.

"The Haunting of Deck Twelve" gets moved here as a season-long running plot where they are shown taking the alien lifeform back to a nebula, maybe something Kes requested to hold on to their morals even in such darkness.

the Hirogen are hunting Species 8472 right alongside the Krenim stuff. and of course the war between Species 8472 and the Borg still rages.

they still discover Species 8472 building a spy village. in this timeline, it leads them to invading the Federation back home, blowing up many planets.

Kes lets the console explode in the faces of Janeway and Torres in a moment of weakness, not wanting to lose Nick, as it horrifies her.

Torres unleashes her self-harm behavior here as Janeway is killed in the blast, that Kes lets happen, moving away from Nick to Seven.

Neelix is given a commission as a Starfleet officer.

Neelix is shown like in "Once Upon a Time" furiously petitioning for more holodeck time to help little Naomi cope with their situation, shielding her from harsh reality.

Neelix dies in the Year of Hell, so move "Mortal Coil" to here, while desperately searching for protomatter, which extreme circumstances are forcing them to use, because of how unstable it is. then Seven brings him back and he's deeply shaken by learning that nothing whatsoever exists out there after death.

the ethical dilemma from "Nothing Human" is brought here, perhaps with Chakotay making the call rather than Janeway, assuming this takes place after her death.

the concept of sentient warheads from "Warhead" is reworked here.

in the midst of the conflict, the Borg appear to assimilate Seven, wanting to study and dissect this perplexing nature of "individuality" like a scientist examining a lab specimen. given how it helped them to overcome Species 8472 for a brief moment in time and against that threat, the Collective's all-knowledge is completely useless. Seven allows herself to go for the sake of her new Collective, especially because she thinks they will just assimilate her and welcomes this, wanting the comforting unity and the cohesive groupthink of the Collective back to help her deal with her trauma.

the Jem'Hadar don't have the refined processing equipment to keep producing ketracel-white out of their raw materials for very long, and the Vorta are not researchers, so they abduct the Doctor, to help them with threat of harming the other hostage they seized. this is Kes. but eventually, the Founder orders her to be released, showing off the potential for good Kes will see in the changed timeline. that reason is how the way the Jem'Hadar treat her is scarily all too reminiscent with how the Borg had experimented on the Organic Test Sample 119085.

halfway through Season 4 have the Voyager crew recover a Borg data node off a drone which shows them experimenting against a Founder. Janeway recognizes it because she was fascinated by Odo, always had wanted to meet him at DS9. however, the Founder in this alternate timeline joins the Dominion battle cruiser; maybe they beat them there first.

this season has Korvas challenge Murda's authority for the sake of the Voyager Fleet, showing off Korvas's change.

near the end, Chakotay, one of the last survivors, ruggedly and furiously has enough, and vows to take the war to the enemy.

the Year of Hell ends with Voyager flying into the Krenim temporal weapon, and it blows up, resetting the timeline except for one person in deflector control, where the temporal shields didn't totally drop. that one is Seven, who's both terrified and relived to have everything back to normal again, and breaks down in tears for the first time.

[Simplicius]

I'm confused about when "Scorpion" is happening, relative to "Year of Hell".

[Yukaphile]

"Scorpion" leads into "Year of Hell," once it ends. Because then Seven can stay.

[Simplicius]

That makes sense. How are you resolving the Tuvix problem? You said that Janeway won't "kill" him, but what will happen?

[Yukaphile]

I want an ethical dilemma where some enemy can revive the two and keep Tuvix alive. Like maybe the Voth have the technology, and they need it. They can also cross the whole quadrant in a month. You can see where the potential lies.

[Yukaphile]

A three-way transporter split.

[Yukaphile]

Here's a thought. Perhaps the Voth were the ones to take humans to the Delta Quadrant, The 37's.

[Yukaphile]

So, I need help. I think I will have the Duplicators be the ones to make Tuvix into Tuvok and Neelix again without killing Tuvix, but cloning him off. But how does that work? Help?