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Why Star Trek: Voyager's Ending Felt Abrupt To Fans (& Why It Could Never Get A Reboot)

Reboots, revisions, and new adaptations are all the rage these days when it comes to entertainment, though one "Star Trek" property might be resistant to such efforts.  "Star Trek: Voyager" focuses on the titular ship as it is cast far away from anything any of the crew might recognize, and even traveling at speeds far greater than even light itself, it would have normally taken the crew decades to get home. Sent far away to the Delta Quadrant, the crewmembers of Voyager are essentially on their own as they try to survive. 

However, due to the nature of "Star Trek: Voyager," which eventually sees the crew make it home to the Alpha Quadrant, it would be almost impossible to create a continuation of the story because the major focus of the show has already been completed. In addition, many fans felt like the show came to a jarring conclusion, and even though "Voyager" occupies a special place in "Star Trek" lore, it is unlikely the ending to "Star Trek: Voyager" will ever change or be envisioned through the lens of a reboot.

Over on Reddit, a conversation was started by u/TEmpTom when they asked why the ending for "Star Trek: Voyager" felt so abrupt. They specifically mentioned that "Star Trek: Voyager" wasn't canceled, and that the writers of the show knew when they had to wrap everything up. This question caused many Trekkies to respond in turn, like one Reddit user who wrote, "Because of Voyager's episodic nature. They wanted to stick to the TNG-style arcless storytelling rather than the sweeping DS9 plot." They added, "As such, no matter how Voyager was resolved, it was going to be abrupt."

Some fans were more concerned with the journey of Star Trek: Voyager and not the destination

Others also had their own thoughts as to the rapid conclusion of "Star Trek: Voyager," which sees the Voyager starship quickly return home after a double cross and some time-travel shenanigans. u/marcuzt  believed that "Star Trek: Voyager" should have ended with the USS Voyager still stuck far out in space. They added that the true ending for "Star Trek: Voyager" could then be told with a movie instead of the hasty conclusion fans received instead. u/Coolsbreeze  really enjoyed "Star Trek: Voyager" before the final episode, and they wrote, "I always thought Voyager was well written but the last episode was way too rushed."

u/NoisyPiper27  envisioned a completely different ending that would have required a serious rework of the entire show. They elaborated, "I think it would have been neat, if instead of Scorpion (or in addition to it), we got a time jump partway through the show, with aged original crewmembers and the children/new additions over the years picking up where they left off." The user further suggested that the show should do a time skip of 20 to 30 years to avoid having to use the time travel trope and to underscore that it was a tough journey home. With these comments in mind, it definitely seems like many fans wanted "Star Trek: Voyager" to truly take its time returning back to Earth, with some fans even okay with an ending that would have still seen the Voyager long from home. At least then a continuation may have been possible! 

The writers of Star Trek: Voyager struggled with coming up with the show's conclusion

In the 2020 book "Star Trek: Voyager — A Celebration" (via the Hollywood Reporter ), Ken Biller, who wrote for the show, explained that he and his fellow writer Brannon Braga had some issues with crafting the ending. Biller explained, "We were really struggling with it. Is the end of the show just that they get home? That's a bit of an anticlimax. Did we want some people to die?" Considering that the entire fulcrum of "Star Trek: Voyager" hinged on the crew doing their very best to make it home, one might have assumed that doing so would be the nice way to end up the series, but doing so rapidly certainly seemed to be a little jarring to fans.

In other words, a continuation of "Star Trek: Voyager" would be a hard sell since the final episode sees the spaceship utilize a Borg Transwarp Hub to quickly arrive back home, while also at the same time dealing a fatal blow to the Borg Collective. Even a reboot wouldn't really do "Star Trek: Voyager" any justice since stranding another Federation ship deep into the Delta Quadrant would just be retreading beloved story beats. Still, for the final episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" to contain both time-travel and a technological MacGuffin that reduced the decades-long trip into a simple subspace jump might have been a little too abrupt for some fans, and it is unlikely that "Star Trek: Voyager" will ever continue or be rebooted. 

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Kate Mulgrew Has Been Talking To Her ‘Voyager’ Co-Stars About Returning To Star Trek

| July 13, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 63 comments so far

Kate Mulgrew starred as Captain Kathryn Janeway for seven years on Star Trek: Voyager, and more recently she has returned to voice multiple Janeways for the animated kids’ series Star Trek: Prodigy . And the actress is hinting there could be even more Star Trek (and more Janeways) in her future.

Mulgrew and Voyager stars ready for more Trek

In June we reported on a couple of different interviews where Kate Mulgrew teased the idea of returning to live-action Star Trek. When she was in the UK promoting the launch of Paramount+, Den of Geek followed up on her comments and she revealed that she isn’t alone in thinking about a return to live-action; in fact, she has talked about it with some of her Voyager co-stars:

We’re always talking. I mean my great friends are Robert Picardo and John de Lancie. We’re always touching down and crossing paths. And when we do talk about Star Trek, all of us are just so amazed that it constantly is reinventing itself. I think that fact only speaks to its sort of undying virtues. I know Jeri [Ryan] loves doing Picard . And I know that all of us—all of us—would love to continue and when the opportunity presents itself, we’ll always do more Star Trek.

After wrapping up seven years on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway in 2001, Mulgrew returned as Admiral Janeway for the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis . Since that time, she expressed skepticism about playing Janeway in live action again, telling TrekMovie in 2019 she was “ surprised ” Patrick Stewart had decided to return for Star Trek: Picard , adding “I don’t know what to say about Janeway. Seven years is a long time to play a character. I’m not sure that she would enjoy resuscitation.” It does appear that the launch of Picard has changed her tune and she now seems to be thinking about what comes next. Last month she teased that she was “looking at it with new eyes,” speculating about how after Picard wraps up, “Who knows what will happen to [Janeway] in the future?”

Kate Mulgrew as Vice Admiral Janeway speaking to Picard in Star Trek Nemesis

3 Janeways in Prodigy ?

Of course, Kate Mulgrew has already returned as Janeway for the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy . She was introduced at the beginning of the season as Hologram Janeway, the Emergency Training Hologram of the USS Protostar, and in episode ten she voiced Admiral Janeway again, who will play a key role in the second half of the first season which debuts later this year. Den of Geek also asked her about this, resulting in the following interesting exchange:

You’re back as Admiral Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy . It’s been 20 years since you’ve played Admiral Janeway in Star Trek Nemesis … Yeah, that was a strange cameo. I was just alone in the studio on the sound stage. It was done very fast. I think it was immediately after Voyager , if not in the final week of Voyager . And now you’re back as two Janeways: Admiral Janeway and Hologram Janeway. Actually, it’s three: Captain Janeway, Admiral Janeway, and Hologram Janeway. You may stand down, ensign. [Laughs.]

Assuming this wasn’t a miscommunication, and Mulgrew was still talking about Prodigy , this indicates that Captain Janeway could appear in the animated series as well. This could be done with flashbacks or maybe even some time travel where she would be voicing Captain Janeway from her time on the USS Voyager, possibly still in the Delta Quadrant before returning to Earth and being promoted to Admiral.

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Haha interesting she specifically mentioned John de Lancie. Yeah we all know Q supposedly ended his existance in S2 of Picard, but…… the continuum was probably impressed with his selfless act and there were going to be questions, etc. I would not have a problem if Q made a comeback to torment Kathy haha!

I’d like to see Suzie Plakson and Q2.

Keegan de Lance is no longer an actor.

Nothing that a fat check probably can’t fix.

What’s Tilly got to do with this?

Eh, he’s a ranking diplomat in the State Department now, so probably not.

If the role is a positive role and not political (i.e. doesn’t violate the Hatch Act), his participation would likely be approved the State Department. He’d need to use vacation time, obviously to do the scene.

Suzie Plakston was the BEST – my God! What an incredible actress!!!!! K’Ehleyr is the Klingon female model that both formed and broke the mold, baby!

Thanks for the spoiler

Rios stays in the past. But Elnor gets brought back to life, so that’s cool.

When Captain Janeway and Admiral janeway count as different characters, what about Evil Hologram Janeway?

Spoiler Evil Hologram Janeway was never not Hologram Janeway!

The issue with all of this is, and I am saying this as someone who thought Voyager was the one failure of Trek (prior to 2005!) the writers of “Nu-Trek” are not worthy of playing about with these historical characters. I am going to give Voyager another chance, but it may be better not to bring these characters back unless it can be done with quality writing & material?

I guess everyone has their opinion. Mine is that everything about Voyager was top quality, the writing, acting, and directing. Janeway was the perfect combination of strength, intelligence, and humanity. The characters were unique and 3 dimensional who evolved throughout the series. I would love to see them back together as long as the writing remained as good.

Yep I always loved Voyager and love it more today. But definitely understand why others had issues with it.

I would definitely like it to be better. It’s pretty clear Kate Mulgrew isn’t interested in doing the same stuff over and over again, either. They would need to explore her character with more depth, have better/fresh stories, etc.. And I really enjoyed Voyager as a kid, but these days…so many episodes I wanted to skip and eventually I just gave up rewatching it because of the mirid issues. But the good news is that the current creative teams *are* doing a really good job. (Some seasons of Discovery are not as up to par, but they’re still watchable for many, many fans.) All the shows may not to be to everyone’s tastes, but they are not, overall, this “unworthy” disaster that older, pressed fans perceive.

The characters were unique and 3 dimensional who evolved throughout the series

Yeah, particularly Neelix, Kes, Harry Kim…

A joke, right? Only the Dr and 7 got real development on the show

Neelix arguably evolves more than any other Trek character.

not really but his last ep was more moving than the actual series finale.

I think his absence from the finale hurt it pretty badly. I like it, but without Neelix it lacks some of the heart it ought to have had.

the show was not true to its premise and repeated use of ‘the re set button’ meant no proper character arcs for the crew in a show that demanded that instead of standalone stories

That was a different time. If Voyager was made today it would be like Discovery…although I don’t think it would be for the better judging by how Discovery is doing it.

Hate to break it to you, but this “unworthy” production team is getting bucket loads of cash thrown their way to play about with legacy characters. Gatekeeping doesn’t seem to be your strong suit….

I’m well acquainted with a PA team that looked after a few trek vets. Apparently Picardo was only offered a measley 5 grand to return to trek in Picard. Dorn was also due to return to discovery but with derisory pay. Unless the story is centred around these characters they will be over used and under paid

What would Picardo’s role on Picard be? And Dorn on Discovery? Dorn will be on Picard’s next season.

Dorn was meant to be another ancestor of Worf, not a fan of Dorn personally but I’m glad he rejected it. Being in Picard as supporting cast was probably the better option.

I’m so over this mindless trope of actors portraying ancestors of their original characters. It’s a pointless crossover for the point of pointless crossovers.

Very interesting because Picardo had said he was in talks to appear in Season 2 of Picard way back when season 1 was still airing. Obviously it fell through, but we never heard about it again. $5K is an insult, the show must be seriously cash strapped.

Mostly due to Patrick Stewart taking up the sizeable chunk of budget as lead and exec producer. The role was small and Bob Picardo isn’t exactly loaded with money, I’m glad he stuck to his principles though and rejected it.

Picardo was on at least two episodes of The Orville (one of them with John Billingsley).

She’s also in the cast of The Man Who Fell to Earth, which recently finished its first season on Showtime. It’s an excellent show and she has a significant recurring role that’s different from Janeway (any version).

I love Kate Mulgrew, her warmth and incredible screen presence always made Janeway my favorite captain and, indeed, Voyager my favourite series.

I’ll pass on a potential Voyager reunion.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or she could be hoping the fans will rise up and demand more Janeway, in the same way that we rose up and demanded more Pike. :-)

It would be interesting to have the full Voyager cast back in Prodigy and we could get a glimpse of events just after Voyager arrived home and events as to how Chakotay went missing and what the crew are up to now. It would be a perfect opportunity to get them back together.

I would love for the Voyager cast to be brought back for a new show. Out of all the Berman era shows, Voyager is the one I still watch repeatedly, and it never gets old.

I would be very worried what the current people in charge of Star Trek would do to ruin the legacy of the show and characters. Especially after what they did to Icheb.

Star Trek: Janeway!

Been seeing this idea pop up here and other places lately. We know there will be another 25th century show after Picard is done, this would definitely be a great replacement. Put Seven and a few other legacy characters on it too. It will get tons of fanfare if this was announced. But the biggest difference unlike Picard, this show will be good. ;)

But Prodigy itself sounds like we are getting tons of Janeways when it comes back and I’m here for it all! So if Captain Janeway is coming back we could be getting a crazier time travel story and we might meet her back on Voyager in the Delta Quadrant! Maybe Admiral Janeway will have to go back in time and (once again) talk to her past self from doing something that will have major implications in the future. I don’t think we’ve seen anything like that done recently in Star Trek.

“ But the biggest difference unlike Picard, this show will be good. ;)” Ah, but Picard IS a good show. And Mulgrew clearly agrees, so I would bet, actually, that you and your ilk would be just as frothing with whatever live action show she would come back and do.

I’m not sure why the snark at the end of your comment. Is your whole comment disingenuous, or just the end? I’m not kidding when I say it’s hard to tell.

No, I really wouldn’t mind a Star Trek: Janeway show! Not disingenuous about that. But yes it has to be muuuch better than Picard or please don’t bother!

Picard is my least liked show in the franchise and thought season 2 was horrible and the worst season of Trek to date. Like many I’m just beyond disappointed with this show when it had so much more potential. I wanted to love it and thought I would at beginning of both seasons 1 and 2. But yes, this is just my opinion only; it’s not a consensus.

But of course happy you and Kate Mulgrew enjoy it. And I’m still hoping Janeway is in season 3 which I am looking forward to! But yes very concerned now after severely disliking the first two seasons.

And I really love SNW; one of the best shows in decades along with LDS and PRO. So I only froth at the mouth occasionally! :)

I would like to see a Voyager Phase 2 series where as many as possible of the old crew reunite in their old Voyager ship and then accidentally get stranded in the Andromeda galaxy! :D

God that sounds awful.

I think he was being sarcastic.

Eureka! It would be just like the Gilligan Island films, down to Ginger being missing!

OMG I honestly never thought of Voyager as being a remake/rip-off of Gilligan’s Island

Oh, sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…

I can’t wait for more Prodigy and as for live action, if the story etc. were solid enough for the cast to WANT to come back, I would def want to try it. It seems pretty clear they’re not gasping to revisit this world for no reason, so I would be interested to see what got them back.

Not really needed in my opinion. She’s doing great in Prodigy, and we got Seven in Picard. I think that’s about right.

The one exception I would be down with is having Tuvoc show up at some point in a future series, especially given his lifespan.

Well nothing is ‘needed’. Do we need Kirk in SNW? No but here we are anyway.

And I want to see Janeway interact with others like Riker, Seven, etc in the 25th century as they build out that era post Picard. And especially for fans not big on the animated shows.

That’s kind of apples and oranges. If you want to make that comparison, then the question is do we need Kirk as a regular character in two the current TV series instead of the one series he is already in now? Not only that, Kirk is not an every week character.

By the way, I have no issue with a couple of cameo appearances given what you have suggested here. I just don’t see the need for another series where she is an every week main character given they’ve already checked that box with Prodigy.

Besides, I’d much rather they bring in a DS9 cast member given Mulgrew already got her Kurtzman-era series with Prodigy.

It doesn’t have to be her own show of course most fans just want to have her back in live action in some form. Just being able to show up if and when a story calls for it like the other legacy characters on now. But I would be OK if she got another show too. But I actually agree I don’t think she would be in two shows full time concurrently. Maybe after Prodigy went off the air though.

And they are making probably a half dozen TV shows in the next 10 years, so you can probably add everyone from all the classic shows. I want to see more DS9 characters as well. Matalas is suggesting we might get more VOY and DS9 characters in season 3 of Picard, so maybe Janeway and others will show up there. Fingers crossed!

3 words: Deep Space Nine

Don’t worry, on new trek, everyone will get a chance to reprise their role. The writers of new trek just won’t move on from the silver age of trek.

You’re not wrong lol. At last count, they will have introduced over 40 legacy characters when you add the TNG cast coming back to Picard next season. But yes TOS and TNG characters are the most prominent between all the new shows and Voyager being the third. And who knows how many will be showing up in the next year? It’s still surprising no one from DS9 has really showed up yet but I think that’s coming soon too.

I just spent an hour counting off the top of my head the number of legacy characters in new trek. I stopped at 40. Lol. It will be 50+ soon, especially after LD S3 and PIC S3.

It’s crazy isn’t it? I was shocked too when I realized how many of them there were now. I don’t want to come off a hypocrite, a lot of them I do enjoy seeing again and wanted to see again, but I didn’t think it would be so many this soon. I been saying this awhile as well and expect basically everyone to come back at some point with so many shows on. Doesn’t mean everyone will but the door seems like it’s wide open to bring any character you want now when one-off side characters like GOF, Hugh, Maddox, Sam Kirk and freaking Sybok are all back!

Sybok is here so you can share your pain Tiger2…and gain strength from the sharing.

Granted, some of your pain probably stems from contemporary screenwriting….

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How Star Trek: Discovery Set Up a Rebooted Voyager Plotline For Gray in Season 4

Remember when holograms had demanded that “Photons Be Free?”

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains major spoilers for the Season 3 finale.

Starfleet doesn’t always seek out new life and new civilizations; sometimes, it accidentally creates it. Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation can easily quote from various Picard monologues in the classic episode “The Measure of a Man,” but what about the Voyager episode “Author, Author?” Just like Data had to prove his sentience in TNG , the holographic Doctor fought for his rights to express himself when he released his holographic pseudo-memoir, Photons Be Free! And, now, with a last-minute twist on Star Trek: Discovery , it appears that the liberation of sentient holograms could become a big deal again. Here’s why one twist in the Discovery finale, “That Hope is You, Part 2,” has big implications for Season 4, and the rest of Trek canon, too.

When Adira heroically beams-in the radiation-soaked dilithium planet to bring Culber and Saru some much-needed medication, their appearance is modified by the intelligent holographic matrix to make them look Xahean. (That’s the alien race Po belonged to in the Short Treks episode “Runaway,” and Discovery Season 2.) But, the big twist that comes next is that suddenly, we see Gray, who is now made to look not like a Trill, but a Vulcan! The holo-program has extrapolated Gray’s conciseness and revealed him in a holographic form! Within the context of the finale, this makes Gray “seen” by Saru and Culber, not just Adira. But, when Su’Kal deactivates the holographic program, that means everyone reverts to their “normal” appearances, and Gray ceases to be visible.

So, what’s going on? Well, it seems that Gray’s conciseness inside the Tal symbiont is acting independently of the previous hosts. There is precedent for this in the Deep Space Nine episode “Facets.” In that episode, the personality of Curzon Dax decided to stay in the body of Odo and planned to do so indefinitely. The particulars are different, but the point is, the idea that one part of a Trill symbiont’s memories could live in another form outside of the symbiont is not unheard of. 

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On top of that, if the long-term fix for bringing Gray back is still rooted in holographic technology, then suddenly we’re back in Voyager territory. In the era of Voyager , the civil rights of holographs were still being debated. By the time of Picard — roughly 20 years later — not much seems to have changed. In 3189, the Federation is using a variety of holograms — including a lie director named Eli —but we don’t really see them enough to get a real sense of their levels of sentience. Basically, we don’t know if the post-Burn holograms are treated like holograms of old (slaves) or if they have programming that gives them independence. 

Either way, the tech clearly exists for Gray to be brought back again, in a “holographic” body. In Voyager , the Doctor was eventually given a “mobile emitter” which was harvested from 29th Century Starfleet tech. At the time, that was a gizmo from the future , but in Discovery Season 3 , that tech is in Starfleet’s past . It makes sense that some of Starfleet’s technology would have been set back a little bit after the Burn, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know how to make holograms live mobile, and fulfilling lives!

Culber promises Gray that he will be seen at some point in the future. But, both Discovery and Voyager have established that technology basically already exists anyway. This means the bigger questions will be less about how Gray is seen, and more about what it actually means in the context of Trek . In Voyager, the Doctor led a revolution for holographic rights. We’re not really sure how that played out. But, now that Gray is poised to (maybe) live again in a holographic body, then perhaps a long-overdue reckoning for holograms can finally take place. Photons Be Free! Viva Gray!

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is streaming now on CBS All Access. 

Ryan Britt is a longtime contributor to Den of Geek! He is also the author of three non-fiction books: the Star Trek pop history book PHASERS…

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Reunion 2025 — Is It Happening?

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Can you believe it's been 29 years since Star Trek: Voyager first aired?! (29 years, 3 months, 13 days to be exact.)

Why in the world did Star Trek: Voyager end?

When Star Trek: Voyager came to an end after 7 years in May 2001, million viewers tuned in to say goodbye to Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ). And since then, they have been itching for a reunion.

Would a Star Trek: Voyager reunion disappoint people?

Star Trek: Voyager aired from 1995-2001 and is considered one of the most influential TV shows ever on pop culture . Although no original episodes have been shot since, it has remained a regular feature on many station's schedules. But Mulgrew said she's not sure if Star Trek: Voyager would work today. “I don't want to see old Kathryn Janeway,” she told a journalist ( Mulgrew turned 69 in April ). “Everyone’s going to have different vision of what the character is like, so to have that materialize is going to disappoint most people,” she added.

Still hoping for a Star Trek: Voyager movie?

In a recent interview, Kate Mulgrew said she can't imagine a Star Trek: Voyager reunion hitting the big screen. “I'd rather people go, ‘Oh, please! Please!’ than ‘I can't believe you did that. It was horrible.’”

Co-star Jeri Ryan (who played Seven of Nine between 1997 and 2001) has also previously explained, “It would be terrible to do something and have it not be good,” . “It was so terrific ... If we did a Star Trek: Voyager movie and it sucked, then it would, you know, blemish it.”

What about a Star Trek: Voyager reboot?

Recasting Star Trek: Voyager for a modern reboot. Hollywood is known for remaking remakes of films or tv series and the studios might think it would be great to bring the story back with a new set of characters.

Be it in the form of a Star Trek: Voyager reunion, a Star Trek: Voyager movie, or a Star Trek: Voyager reboot, if you had to start filming today, who would you cast in what role?

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Casting Star Trek: Voyager Reboot

What might Star Trek: Voyager look like today?

Following on from our Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fantasy castings, we here have decided that the next Star Trek series we'd like to have a bit of fun with is Star Trek: Voyager! Voyager was a pioneering iteration of Star Trek, with Kate Mulgrew in the lead as the fearless Captain Janeway. There was a great variety in the rest of the crew, leading to one of the most diverse casts in Star Trek history.

That is a spirit that we very much want to retain. Now, this is obviously simply a fun 'what if?' type of scenario. Although we won't be casting anyone who has shuffled off this mortal coil, we will also not be hindering ourselves with such silly considerations as, you know, budgets!

We have scoured the casting pages for those who we think would actually bring something fresh and exciting to these roles, while also keeping the spirit of the original in place. With that, here is our list of the perfect actors for a modern day Star Trek: Voyager reboot.

12. Seska - Noomi Rapace

Seska is of course the turncoat Cardassian infiltrator, assigned to spy on Chakotay's Maquis cell. Once she finds herself flung across the galaxy, she quickly reveals herself and escapes to work with Voyager's enemies.

Knowing that she is a spy does nothing to affect the rewatch, and Martha Hackett did a fantastic job of bringing the shady character to life. To capture this fully, the new actor needs to be able to switch from deeply trustworthy to out and out villain on a whim.

Noomi Rapace of course burst onto screens in the Swedish versions of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series. Since then, she has appeared in many other roles, with Prometheus being one of her biggest to date.

She is able to play both vulnerable and terrifying, displaying a power that suggests one should absolutely not mess with her.

She would be a fantastic addition to this fantasy reboot!

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Paramount May Be Planning A Strange Star Trek: Voyager Spinoff

I’ve always had a soft spot for  Star Trek: Voyager . Sure, it wasn’t as iconic as  The Next Generation  or as smart as  Deep Space Nine , but it made up for that by being  extremely  weird.  Voyager  episodes included an Irish village in the holodeck becoming sentient and attempting to burn the crew at the stake for being witches, their holographic doctor’s daydreams attracting the attention of an alien race, an entire civilization evolving in real-time before the crew’s eyes and… well,  whatever was going on in “Threshold.”

Now it seems that Paramount may be considering a Voyager spin-off show and I can guarantee it’s not what you think it is. In various episodes Lt. Tom Paris used the holodeck to live out 1930s B-movie style sci-fi adventures as the swashbuckling Captain Proton. Actor Robert Duncan McNeill obviously enjoyed making these episodes and, during an interview on the Primitive Culture podcast, revealed that he’s pitched reviving Captain Proton as a radio drama podcast.

These adventures (presumably taking place on the holodeck during the Voyager’s trip home) would feature various members of the old cast in different roles. It’s a fun idea, especially as doing it as an audio play means it’s easy to imagine the characters in their prime, expand the scope of the story and keep budgets down.

McNeill confirmed he’s been in contact with Alex Kurtzman’s company about the idea and Kate Mulgrew – Captain Janeway herself – has said she’d definitely appear. She described her role as ‘Queen Arachnia’ on Captain Proton as the “greatest fun” she’d had in her seven-year tenure on Voyager , saying “I never say never, and never say die”.

Let’s hope we hear some confirmation of this soon. ViacomCBS have been working with iHeartRadio to expand their podcast offerings and this would be a great fit.

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Good news from Voyager 1, which is now out past the edge of the solar system

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In mid-November, Voyager 1 suffered a glitch, and it's messages stopped making sense. But the NASA probe is once again sending messages to Earth that make sense.

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We recently shared news of some troubles being experienced by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The historic NASA probe launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Then it just kept going. It's now out beyond the edge of the solar system in the previously unexplored space between stars. And it still regularly talks to Earth. But in mid-November, it suffered a glitch, and its messages, well, they stopped making sense. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce now has this update from the Voyager team with some good news.

NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: A small dedicated team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has spent the last five months trying to figure out how to help Voyager 1, which wasn't easy because everything the poor spacecraft sent back was just incoherent.

LINDA SPILKER: That's what took the time and effort, figuring out exactly what was the problem.

GREENFIELDBOYCE: Linda Spilker is the Voyager mission's project scientist. She says they finally traced the glitch to a failed memory chip in one of the spacecraft's primitive computers.

SPILKER: And so that meant we had to move all of those pieces of code to a different place in the memory, and that's what we did.

GREENFIELDBOYCE: But it was tricky. After all, the spacecraft is over 15 billion miles away. And its computers are so ancient that the team had no way to test that their fix would really work. Still, mission managers sent out the carefully crafted computer commands. Then they waited to receive Voyager 1's response. Spilker says everyone gathered together in a conference room early Saturday morning, nervously munching on peanuts.

SPILKER: In those couple of minutes, just before that signal was coming back - 6:41 A.M. - you could have heard a pin drop in that room.

GREENFIELDBOYCE: When the signal arrived, everything looked good, normal.

SPILKER: Everyone just broke out in cheers and smiles, and it was just a huge celebration. We were in such relief, as well. Voyager 1 was back.

GREENFIELDBOYCE: Voyager 1's first messages contained information on the health and safety of its engineering systems, plus its precious antenna.

SPILKER: It looks like the spacecraft is in good shape, much like we left it back in mid-November.

GREENFIELDBOYCE: Spilker says the plan now is to find some more free memory on a working chip and put in the software that will let Voyager 1 resume transmission of its science data, so that researchers will be able to follow along as the spacecraft travels through an interstellar stew of gas, dust and cosmic rays. And the team ultimately hopes to sustain Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 for at least a few more years so that the Voyager mission will still be doing science on the 50th anniversary of its launch.

Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News.

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Historic Timeline: Star Trek’s LGBTQ History

Published by Erica Leff on April 17, 2024 April 17, 2024

Star Trek’s LGBTQ History

I chose to make a timeline regarding one of my favorite things,  Star Trek . It has a messy but increasingly positive history with LGBTQ issues. I would break  Star Trek ‘s LGBTQ history into 3 “eras”:

• The Original Series Era (1966-1987), where there’s no real depictions onscreen of LGBTQ issues, although fans in the late ’60s started writing Kirk/Spock fan fiction because of the characters’ relationship subtext. This is the start of the “slashfic” subgenre of fan fiction, depicting male/male relationships.
• The Reboot Era (1987-2016), where the shows  The Next Generation ,  Deep Space Nine ,  Voyager , and  Enterprise  are released, as well as the TOS reboot movies Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). During this time,  Star Trek occasionally touched on issues of gender and sexuality and were usually slightly ahead of the times on these issues. There is a lot of gay subtext in this era, as well as the controversial first female/female kiss in 1995.
• The Second Reboot Era (2016-present), starting with Star Trek Beyond , the third reboot movie, where this version of Hikaru Sulu is revealed to be gay. After this, we get the shows  Discovery ,  Picard ,  Lower Decks ,  Prodigy , and  Strange New Worlds . Here we get explicitly LGBTQ characters and stories.

It should be noted that for decades, actors playing  Star Trek  captains and other characters voiced their desire for more representation. Scott Bakula, who played Captain Jonathan Archer on  Enterprise , said “I haven’t heard anything coming down the pipeline, but I would be in favor of it. … It would be wonderful … if it was not such a huge issue, but was just there” (Starr, 2002). Fifteen years later, LGBTQ characters became a regular part of the  Star Trek  universe. While  Star Trek  is known for always having been a progressive franchise, the lack of true LGBTQ representation until after  the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States is troubling.

Initially, when making this timeline, I simply found photos of the most important scenes. I realized that images on Imgur don’t upload very well into TimelineJS, so I decided to find videos on YouTube, which also made more sense, since a video can tell more of a story than a still image. I included the Original Series Era to make it visually clear where the eras begin and end, despite not including any points in time from that era. The timeline’s large gaps speak volumes about how afraid  Star Trek  and its owner, Paramount, were about including LGBTQ representation. I had a little trouble getting my timeline to work because I misunderstood the “publish to web” step. I thought I had to click out of window and copy the URL from the published version, not the spreadsheet itself. Once I figured out what I was doing wrong, it worked perfectly.

Starr, M. (2002, January 17). Starr report.  New York Post .

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Star trek: voyager had a 'get out of delta quadrant' plan (& why it wasn't used).

Star Trek: Voyager originally had a plan that would get the crew out of the Delta Quadrant a lot quicker, but ended up scrapping the plan in season 2.

• Star Trek: Voyager originally had a plan to leave the Delta Quadrant, but it was scrapped in season 2.
• The show took a risk by making the "lost in space" concept its premise, but it paid off by expanding the Star Trek mythos.
• Season 2 of Voyager was the worst season, but getting rid of the plan to return home opened the door to more interesting storylines.

Star Trek: Voyager originally had a "Get out of the Delta Quadrant" plan, but scrapped it at the beginning of season 2. While Voyager 's sister show, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , expanded the franchise as far as the Gamma Quadrant, Voyager took things a step further when the ship was thrown 70,000 lightyears across space to the uncharted Delta Quadrant. After a plan to have the entity that brought them there send them home failed, Voyager 's cast of characters was stuck on the other side of the galaxy with a long journey and no way to contact Starfleet.

Voyager was the first series in the Star Trek franchise to make the "lost in space" concept their entire premise. Cutting the show off from everything familiar in the franchise was a risk, but one that ultimately paid off as Voyager 's crew explored the Delta Quadrant and expanded the Star Trek timeline mythos. However, there was no guarantee that the series' premise would be a success with audiences , which was why Voyager worked to include a guaranteed way for the ship to return home if it needed to as early as the pilot episode, "Caretaker."

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Star trek: voyager had a plan to leave the delta quadrant but didn't use it.

Voyager baked a plan to leave the Delta Quadrant into its premise when the show established that there was another entity like the Caretaker (Basil Langton) . From the start, it was understood that part of Voyager's mission in the Delta Quadrant was to look for any way to return home, including trying to find the Caretaker's mate, Suspiria (Lindsay Ridgeway). Having another entity like the one that had brought them to the Delta Quadrant should have been a guaranteed ticket home, and it would have made sense for Voyager to turn the crew's search for Suspiria into a season-long journey.

However, Voyager's crew ended up encountering Suspiria early, in season 2, episode 10, "Cold Fire." Not only that, but Suspiria proved hostile and unwilling to help them , taking her off the table entirely as a means to return home. It's unclear why Voyager chose to remove Suspiria as an option instead of just forgetting about or not using her. This could have been because the show was no longer worried about the popularity of its premise with audiences, but that idea is contradicted by the fact that "Cold Fire" was another unpopular episode in a string of season 2's worst.

Season 2 Is Star Trek: Voyager's Worst Season

Season 2 is empirically Star Trek: Voyager 's worst season , with more misses than hits in terms of episodes. Although there were some decent additions to the season, it also contained some of the worst-reviewed episodes of the show, including "Threshold" which has become possibly the most divisive episode of Star Trek ever made. Star Trek shows tend to have a hard time finding their feet until season 3 or 4 , especially the 1990s-era cadre of series, and Voyager was no exception to this rule.

It's interesting then that Voyager chose to scrap their "get out of jail free" card in season 2 when there was no guarantee that the show would continue uphill. As it turned out, the crew didn't need Suspiria, but there was no way to know that in season 2. However, getting rid of her opened the door for Star Trek: Voyager to embrace more well-established parts of the franchise, namely the Borg, as a means to get home. Ultimately, this paid off and introduced more interesting storylines to later seasons than a prolonged search for Suspiria ever could have.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health.

NASA's interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. While the Voyager 1 spacecraft still isn't sending valid science data back to Earth, it is now returning usable information about the health and operating status of its onboard engineering systems. 

Thirty-five years after its launch in 1977, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space . It was followed out of our cosmic quarters by its space-faring sibling, Voyager 2 , six years later in 2018. Voyager 2, thankfully, is still operational and communicating well with Earth. 

The two spacecraft remain the only human-made objects exploring space beyond the influence of the sun. However, on Nov. 14, 2023, after 11 years of exploring interstellar space and while sitting a staggering 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 1's binary code — computer language composed of 0s and 1s that it uses to communicate with its flight team at NASA — stopped making sense.

Related: We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix

In March, NASA's Voyager 1 operating team sent a digital "poke" to the spacecraft, prompting its flight data subsystem (FDS) to send a full memory readout back home.

This memory dump revealed to scientists and engineers that the "glitch" is the result of a corrupted code contained on a single chip representing around 3% of the FDS memory. The loss of this code rendered Voyager 1's science and engineering data unusable.

The NASA team can't physically repair or replace this chip, of course, but what they can do is remotely place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. Though no single section of the memory is large enough to hold this code entirely, the team can slice it into sections and store these chunks separately. To do this, they will also have to adjust the relevant storage sections to ensure the addition of this corrupted code won't cause those areas to stop operating individually, or working together as a whole. In addition to this, NASA staff will also have to ensure any references to the corrupted code's location are updated.

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On April 18, 2024, the team began sending the code to its new location in the FDS memory. This was a painstaking process, as a radio signal takes 22.5 hours to traverse the distance between Earth and Voyager 1, and it then takes another 22.5 hours to get a signal back from the craft. 

By Saturday (April 20), however, the team confirmed their modification had worked. For the first time in five months, the scientists were able to communicate with Voyager 1 and check its health. Over the next few weeks, the team will work on adjusting the rest of the FDS software and aim to recover the regions of the system that are responsible for packaging and returning vital science data from beyond the limits of the solar system.

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• Robb62 'V'ger must contact the creator. Reply
• Holy HannaH! Couldn't help but think that "repair" sounded extremely similar to the mechanics of DNA and the evolution of life. Reply
• Torbjorn Larsson *Applause* indeed, thanks to the Voyager teams for the hard work! Reply
• SpaceSpinner I notice that the article says that it has been in space for 35 years. Either I have gone back in time 10 years, or their AI is off by 10 years. V-*ger has been captured! Reply

Admin said: On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact : Read more

evw said: I'm incredibly grateful for the persistence and dedication of the Voyagers' teams and for the amazing accomplishments that have kept these two spacecrafts operational so many years beyond their expected lifetimes. V-1 was launched when I was 25 years young; I was nearly delirious with joy. Exploring the physical universe captivated my attention while I was in elementary school and has kept me mesmerized since. I'm very emotional writing this note, thinking about what amounts to a miracle of technology and longevity in my eyes. BRAVO!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE PAST & PRESENT!!!

• EBairead I presume it's Fortran. Well done all. Reply

SpaceSpinner said: I notice that the article says that it has been in space for 35 years. Either I have gone back in time 10 years, or their AI is off by 10 years. V-*ger has been captured!

EBairead said: I presume it's Fortran. Well done all.

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