OK .. I can swallow that .. but what about the technology she brings back
with her? The new shielding .. the highly advanced torpedos? That one act
advanced Federation technology 30 years ahead of every other race sharing
that timeline, within the first 10 years at least (allowing time for reverse
engineering and spying and such). I can't believe they left something like
that hanging.
What is a Romulan Warbird or Klingon battle cruiser compared to weaponry
that can knock out a Borg cube with 1 shot and that can be 95% effective in
blocking a Borg attack and STILL give the Borg a tough time adapting to. It
practicly renders the Federation invincible to any hostile force, of the
day, and probably advances them a few years ahead of everyone else,
permenantly. If the Federation could adapt that technology to all of their
star ships as fast as Voyager did, then the Federation could conquer the
Alpha quadrant easily .. and even pop over to the Gamma quadrant to spank
the Dominion as well.
It would be so interesting to see how the Federation would use/abuse such an
extremely rapid technological advancement. Sure they talk about how far
humanity has advanced and how idealistic it is, but what if they were just
handed such technology and were sudenly transformed into the most powerfull
organisation in the quadrant? Up until that point, everything for the
Federation has been a struggle that brought out the best in humanity. What
if everything was suddenly so easy .. would 'humanity' remain quite so
idealistic?
I could see a seprate series based on that alone! It would be so cool if we
could have 2 series running at once .. both about the early struggles of
humankind, new to the stars (Enterprise), and a new series based upon human
nature when confronted with the invincibility that Voyager brings back with
it. It would be great to follow and contrast the two.
Ahh .. the road not traveled =-/
Todd
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Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: List Quality and Voyager finale
>
> I can tell you way Janeway doesn't go back to the beginning, before
Voyager
> was lost in the Delta Quadrant. Because Janeway values friends and family.
>
> If she had prevented Voyager from getting lost, Checktoy(sp?) and his crew
> never would have become part of the Voyager crew. The doctor never would
> have become a fully realized being. Seven never would have been rescued
from
> the Borg. Nelix's life never would have been changed for the better.
> Countless other good deeds done by Voyager in the DQ never would have been
> done. Janeway had plenty of motivation to pick the one moment on the
> Journey when her crew, in its key elements, was complete.
>
> Yeah, time travel is a sticky thing and introduces all kinds of problems,
> but on the issue of Janeway's motivation in this case, I don't have a
> problem.
>
> I thought, overall, the show was very well done. But what about this
> time-travel weirdness:
>
> As the Borg Queen noted, if young Janeway is killed, then Voyager never
gets
> home at all and old Janeway doesn't travel back in time to rescue Voyager
> and the Borg Queen doesn't die. But because Janeway and Voyager got home
> early, there is now no need for old Janeway to travel back in time and
> rescue Voyager, so, logically, it would seem, the Borg are not destroyed
> because old Janeway doesn't travel back in time.
>
> On the other hand, as Samual Taylor Colridge once noted, good fiction only
> works through the "willing suspension of disbelief."
>
> H.
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