Why do so many people hate Voyager?

[JacktheRabbit]

The one thing that always bugged me is how much raw structural damage you see Voyager take time and time again and yet you have never even once seen anyone out in a space suit making repairs or welding reinforcement plates onto the outer hull.

For that matter how do they keep repairing the hull? Can the replicators create the super dense hull plating?

 

[Tsyr]

The one thing that always bugged me is how much raw structural damage you see Voyager take time and time again and yet you have never even once seen anyone out in a space suit making repairs or welding reinforcement plates onto the outer hull.

For that matter how do they keep repairing the hull? Can the replicators create the super dense hull plating?

Somehow, I doubt it... which means Voyager must give its secrets out to every planet it comes across, in order to make repairs

I seem to recall in one of the Tech Manual books that many parts of a starship couldn't be replicated... But then, I've also heard that there is only ONE thing that cant be replicated... so who knows...

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Also if you do some simple math you must realize that even if Voyager carried over 100 torps she has long since expended them.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Also if you do some simple math you must realize that even if Voyager carried over 100 torps she has long since expended them.

7o9 just had "nanotechnology" build more. haha.

In the first two series, wasn't it the deflector dish that was the mysterious ship part that was able to be tuned to do everything and anything?

Voyager had nano machines. (and time travel... every other episode...)

FD

 

[Tsyr]

7o9 just had "nanotechnology" build more. haha.

In the first two series, wasn't it the deflector dish that was the mysterious ship part that was able to be tuned to do everything and anything?

Voyager had nano machines. (and time travel... every other episode...)

FD

Long live the Deflector Dish... It's a running joke on a lot of Bridge Commander message boards that you should just make a ship with a bridge, warp core, and a deflector dish... everyting else, from weapons, to shields, to propulshion, to food, to waste disposal, to time travel, to sensors, to bringing the dead back to life can be done via the deflector dish.

 

[Ranger REG]

Actually, in The Doomsday Weapon, the only assistance Captain Decker lent was to suicide in such a manner that inspired Kirk.

Actually that was Commodore Matt Decker. Captain Willard Decker (the adult son of the late Commodore) appeared in The Motion Picture.

And yes, the shuttlecraft explosion gave Kirk the idea to use a large starship (i.e., USS Constellation) which would cause greater damage to the weakest spot of the Doomsday Machine, its belly inside.

 

[Ranger REG]

Also if you do some simple math you must realize that even if Voyager carried over 100 torps she has long since expended them.

I believe we have arrived at a point in time in which a starship like Voyager can manufacture their own torpedo once they got the raw resources.

IOW, I would not be surprised if they have an industrial-sized replicator for ship assemblies, torpedo assemblies, and shuttlecraft parts (and you know the running joke about Voyager losing too many shuttlecrafts).

Pho-Torp is useful but getting to be obsolete. Quantum Torpedo (what new starships like Enteprise-E have) is the latest in FTL missile weapon technology.

 

[Eternalknight]

Eternal Knight:
Um, where are those "official fact files"? Because they also conflict with the Startrek.com take on the Voyager (same link as before). They say it has a crew capacity of 200. They quote the show in mentioning that at one point her crew dropped to 152, and Chakotay was a bit concerned, as they probalby couldn't run the ship with fewer than 100. I vaguely remember seeing that in an episode.

The Official Fact Files were released in Australia by Paramount in 1996 as a weekly publication. It is sort of like a giant encyclopedia, and you get little bits of it every week that you put into a folder. The Fact Files are still running, though I have heard they are almost finished. They contain A LOT of information on the Trek universe, more than anyone could ever want to know. If I remember rightly, during the last season they mentined they had a crew of 133 or something.... who knows?

 

[Tsyr]

The problem, as someone else mentioned, is that there is no "right" source for Star Trek data. Every official source conflicts with every other official source, or so it seems. Sometimes within the same product (The TNG Technical Manual is a shocking example of this).

Generaly, the best place to get information is message boards, IMHO. The "public consensus" at a good, true, geeky star trek message board generaly tend to be an average of official sources, sometimes with facts no one ever pulled from official sources... One of the more infamous examples of the latter is that a ship (I forget which one) was said to have a certain number of phaser banks... but visual inspection showed that in fact it only had another number. Or the case where the official DS9 tech manual had the Defient being something near to 200 meters long, when it's really just a fraction of that.

 

[Henry]

I think, Umbran, I'm mostly just sore over what Voyager did to the borg... The borg, dangitall, were supposed to be FRIGHTENING.

Borg? Sounds Swedish.