Janeway: Captain of the ship. She will most likely be court-martialed, although I'm sure her circumstances will be taken into consideration. I think she'll weather the storm, although her reputation won't quite be what it once was.
Chakotay: Once a traitor, always a traitor. Starfleet may drop the charges against him in consideration of his actions aboard Voyager, but I doubt they'll trust him in a Starfleet uniform. Regardless of what happened later with the Cardassians, Chakotay chose his loyalty -- and it wasn't to the Federation.
Tom Paris: While Tom may get a pardon, I'm not so sure if Starfleet will have a place for him or not. I'm giving Tom a 50/50% chance of being allowed to remain in Starfleet or being given the boot. We've seen others get a chance after being incarcerated (Ensign Ro springs to mind), so I wouldn't be surprised if Tom stays in Starfleet this time.
Torres: Of course, it's highly doubtful Tom will stay in Starfleet unless he can get a posting on a Galaxy-Class ship, what with his wife's situation. She didn't graduate from Starfleet Academy. She betrayed the Federation to fight for the Maquis. While her crimes may be pardoned, I highly doubt she'll be allowed to remain within the ranks.
Harry Kim: I don't know about this guy. I see two options -- he stays in Starfleet (hopefully getting a promotion) and continues to boldly go where no one has gone before, or he resigns from the 'fleet, visits his parents, and spends more time enjoying life.
The Doctor: It's not so easy to just flip the guy off anymore. With his whatever-it-is that allows him to walk around, I think the Doc will first get the Fed courts to recognize his sentience, and then spend some time living life before possibly returning to a CMO post on a starship.
Tuvok: I think Tuvok'll have the easiest time of all. I think another leave of absense from Starfleet will be coming as he reunites with his family. As to whether or not he returns to the service is anyone's guess.
Seven of Nine & Icheb: Both ex-Borg, neither are going to get into Starfleet as easily as some fan-boys might think. Icheb'll have the easiest time getting through the Academy, he seems to have adapted to life as a human easier than Seven has.
I don't know how well Seven will adjust to life at Starfleet Academy if she chooses that route. Frankly, I think she'll find Capt. Janeway and spend some time exploring what it's like to be human, and on Earth.
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Since Neelix apparently won't make it back to Earth, I won't comment.
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Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted)
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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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"I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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"Excuse me, Mr. Rampaging Killer? Why don't you put down the gun and take a look at this hand-held monkey? Does it not have clever little forepaws? It eats gum and sap!"
--
L. Fitzgerald Sj�berg
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Read three (three!) chapters of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet" and something pleasent will happen to you. Possibly involving syrup.
*5 people are heard clapping in a darkened room*
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"The sons of the Prophet were valiant and bold,
And quite unacustomed to fear.
But, of all, the most reckless, or so I am told,
Was Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer."
Aban's Illustration www.alanfore.com
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"Omega is right."
-Jeff Karrde, March 18, 2001 08:47 PM
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"Fuck L Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
hip gangster wannabes."
-Tool, Ænima
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Titan Fleet Yards - Harry Doddema's Star Trek Site
The Federation's gotta be doing something right to have 150 member worlds ...
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Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted)
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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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"I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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"Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow."
-Maynard James Keenan
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Kryten: Pub? - Ah yes. A meeting place where people attempt to achieve
advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of
fermented vegetable drinks. - Red Dwarf "Timeslides"
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"Omega is right."
-Jeff Karrde, March 18, 2001 08:47 PM
Besides, the Federation have been in contact with Janeway & Co many times, even tried to consolate them ("we're doing everything we can, "your families miss you"). Not to mention Admiral Paris' feelings towards Voyager.
They would've informed Janeway at the earliest point, and showed their policy about whatever it is you think she's done wrong.
They wouldn't turn 180 degrees at the homecoming, slap handcuffs on half the senior staff, and go "NOW YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID SEVEN YEARS AGO AND THE ALLEGIANCE YOU HAD THEN(although we should've defended your maquis-comrades against the dominion for purely ethical reasons)!!
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Don't kill me, I'm charming!
Better wait until the last moment to spring the trap...
Seriously speaking, Starfleet will definitely perform extensive interrogations regarding the ship and its adventures. Traditionally, such interrogations have been called "court martial" in case the ship was lost, even if no fault was found in the captain concerning the loss. Will the Voyager be lost? If not, will the interrogations go by another name?
I must say I'm not very thrilled about the current spoilers regarding the finale. It seems we will completely miss the moment the ship finally gets home, and will have to settle for confusing "AGT"-style flash-forwards instead. The homecoming parade would definitely have been a moment to put apart Voyager from all the other shows and movies...
Timo Saloniemi
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At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
Anyone ever read "The Wounded Sky" by Diane Duane? It's one of my favorite Trek novels & it was partially used as a foundation for the S1 TNG ep "Where No One Has Gone Before," the one that introduced the Traveller. Anyway, at the end, Enterprise comes some to Sol (no, not YOU Simon..!) and..well...best you read for yourself:
"Enterprise was not alone out there, She had escort. The screen was filled with ships closing in on her, all with screens up. A few of them had already matched velocities and vectors with her and were riding close around, at the fringes of the mandatory five-kilometer traffic boundary. Those closest ships were heavy cruisers of her own class: Indomitable, Potemkin, Surak, Isshasshte, Tao Feng, John F. Kennedy, the new Intrepid. Their screens flared with the average index-colors of their stars-of-registration--Surak and Intrepid with Vulcan's fierce blue, Isshasshte with Deneb's blue-white, Tao Feng and Potemkin and Kennedy with the tamer yellow-white of Sol. Far out in the dark, and closing, more ships yet came riding in with screens tuned to their stars' colors. Jim swallowed the lump in his throat out of the way of speech. 'Answer colors, Mr. Sulu,' he said. 'We went out there for all of them. Continuous spectrum, infrared to ultraviolet.'"
It goes one to describe giant Starfleet cruisers & battleships, smaller cutter patrol craft, civilian ships, & mentions that "one screen Jim noticed particularly, as they rod in toward Mars's orbit together: an actinic white deflector screen bright with the fire of the faraway Klingon homestar. Manhattan wore that screen, holding the place-at-honors till the day the Klingons should join the Federation."
Imagine seeing that same scene with Voyager as she transits the Sol corridor & enters Earth orbit., spatial charges going off as fireworks, ships floating about to see the lone Starfleet vessel that truely braved it all, recalling the early "rough & ready" days of the Federation even a mere hundred years earlier.
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"I'm beginning to think that there'll be NO forced mating at ALL!" --Professor Hubert T. Farnsworth
And I do agree that the series simply fast forwarding to several years after they return home would be a little anti-climactic.
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"The sons of the Prophet were valiant and bold,
And quite unacustomed to fear.
But, of all, the most reckless, or so I am told,
Was Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer."
Aban's Illustration www.alanfore.com
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Don't kill me, I'm charming!
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"Cry havoc and let's slip the dogs of Evil"
My guess is we'll alternate between two time frames. The "flash forward" one where Voyager has been home for some time and whatever is going to happen then, is happening. And the "current" one which will end with Voyager continuing on her way home.
According to that theory, the series would end without her ever reaching Earth, but we'd know that she will eventually. That's only my guess though. I'm not basing it on anything.
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"The sons of the Prophet were valiant and bold,
And quite unacustomed to fear.
But, of all, the most reckless, or so I am told,
Was Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer."
Aban's Illustration www.alanfore.com
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"The sons of the Prophet were valiant and bold,
And quite unacustomed to fear.
But, of all, the most reckless, or so I am told,
Was Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer."
Aban's Illustration www.alanfore.com
:-)
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In this crazy world of lemons, baby...you're lemonade!
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You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston."
-Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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In this crazy world of lemons, baby...you're lemonade!
1) Every member of the crew will get a mass courtmartial for either committing the breech of the prime directive or allowing someone else too.
2) They'll get locked away for several years of entarigation
3) Everything will get stamped 'Top Secret' and no one will ever know anything for another hundred or so years...
and 4) The doctor will most definately get thrown in the junk pile and upgraded to the latest version of EMH.
A court-marshal for everone is a possibility, but you've got a crew of appoximately 150 to deal with. If they do press forward with one, Janeway will most likely get the brunt of accusations. Charges could also get dropped and I believe none would get sent to prison. Knowing the rumours for ST:X, this seems likely as Janeway will appear as an officer...an admiral no less. It seems she gets a promotion. So they don't go forward with the court-marshals. There will be some information marked as Top Secret, but since Voyager had made real-time contact with Starfleet, a lot of information has already been spread through the Federation. As for the Doc, as the final episode suggests, he will not get thrown into the junk pile. He will either remain as Voyager's CMO or get a transfer to Starfleet Medical. The only upgrading he'll get is probably a change in uniform and commbadge.