Re: Reboot Voyager: A Hypothetical.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:16 am
Random thought I've had lately while playing ME: Andromeda.
What if that had been the premise of Voyager all along? Imagine, none of the stuff with the Maquis happens (or it all happens on DS9). Now, we know from TOS there is a race coming from the Andromeda galaxy (taking the long way as it were) to invade the Milky Way. So, let's say (all assuming this is still the mid-90s, when Voyager was being dveloped IRL, so naturally Mass Effect doesn't exist yet) our pilot opens with Starfleet explorers getting the find of a lifetime. A massive, working, Iconian gateway. In space. Basically think like the Ori gates from SG-1's later seasons. And tests show that one of the places this gateway can gio? Andromeda. Where the invading Kelvans (yes, that's what they were called in the TOS episode) are coming from. Seeing an opportunity to gather intel on an enemy hundreds of years in advance, the brand-spanking new starship Voyager, with all it's new tech that literally no other ship (except the new Intrepid of course) has gets tapped for the recon mission to end all recon missions.
Only, gasp, when Voyager reaches Andromeda, the Iconian gate on the other side? Broken. And the Voyager crew lacks the technology to fix it. So the mission becomes two-fold. Get the information on the Kelvan, and search for technologies they can use to fix the gateway. And perhaps along the way learn more about the Iconians than any Alpha or Beta Quadrant power ever has before.
Feel free to ignore this, it is after sun down and still over 90 fucking degrees where I live. If this idea seems stupid, chalk it up to heat storke or something.
What if that had been the premise of Voyager all along? Imagine, none of the stuff with the Maquis happens (or it all happens on DS9). Now, we know from TOS there is a race coming from the Andromeda galaxy (taking the long way as it were) to invade the Milky Way. So, let's say (all assuming this is still the mid-90s, when Voyager was being dveloped IRL, so naturally Mass Effect doesn't exist yet) our pilot opens with Starfleet explorers getting the find of a lifetime. A massive, working, Iconian gateway. In space. Basically think like the Ori gates from SG-1's later seasons. And tests show that one of the places this gateway can gio? Andromeda. Where the invading Kelvans (yes, that's what they were called in the TOS episode) are coming from. Seeing an opportunity to gather intel on an enemy hundreds of years in advance, the brand-spanking new starship Voyager, with all it's new tech that literally no other ship (except the new Intrepid of course) has gets tapped for the recon mission to end all recon missions.
Only, gasp, when Voyager reaches Andromeda, the Iconian gate on the other side? Broken. And the Voyager crew lacks the technology to fix it. So the mission becomes two-fold. Get the information on the Kelvan, and search for technologies they can use to fix the gateway. And perhaps along the way learn more about the Iconians than any Alpha or Beta Quadrant power ever has before.
Feel free to ignore this, it is after sun down and still over 90 fucking degrees where I live. If this idea seems stupid, chalk it up to heat storke or something.