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I think you misunderstand me. Janeway could promote the entire crew to Grand Admirals or High Commanders In Chief or Executive Cheeses. But that wouldn't change anything in terms of the ship's command structure. Crewman third class Joe is still going to be stuck swabbing out the lenses of the subspace telescope whether he's called Crewman or Fleet Admiral. There isn't anyone else to take the job. There's no up to move into. No extra priviledges to be handed out. Voyager's rank structure is a closed system.
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Well, Kim still deserves a promotion. There have been many situations where he has been giving orders to people with two pips or maquis-slashes on the collar. Perhaps the position of chief of ops doesn't necessarily require Kim to outrank those people, but for some reason Kim still ends up bossing them around. It would be nice for his rank to reflect this.
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Torress has pulled rank on Kim before. That stupid episode with the stupid robots who looked stupid, for example (you know. Prototype).
I'm not getting the comparison between Voyager sailing off into a sea of stars, 30 years from home, and "What you Leave Behind". Apart from the sea of stars bit. But you're surely not just saying they're the same thing based on a simple visual, are you?
Actually, we might find out what happens to Voyager, but likely not in great detail. It depends how the episode is structured. If it's "They get home fairly early, but have to save something, somehow", and presuming the ship doesn't get destroyed, it wouldn't be too hard to do a debriefing with:
"So, what's happing to Voyager now. I'm going to miss the old ship?"
And we'd possibly get:
"She's spending a year in spacedock while Starfleet engineers, scientists, and pretty much everyone else go over it with a fine toothed comb."
or
"Decommisioned. Said it won't be efficient enough to repair" (cue jokes involving Seven or Tuvok).
or
"Well, I've got a little surprise for you". (Pull back, they're on a shuttle. They fly towards the Excelsior, swoop over, and there sits Voyager, all spangled up. Possibly with an extra phaser strip, or go faster strips. Stirring music. Everyone boards, the ship flies out of space dock and goes to warp. Followed by a fairly pointless and stupid movie).
Or not.
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I think, scarily enough, it's entirely possible that we never see Voyager reach home. After all, they need some sort of plot for the movie.
Also, it's BARYON sweep. Which, if it actually occurred would blow apart the vessel at the atomic or molecular level since a baryon is defined as some sort of highly common particle, like a cation or anion. It exists in everything. Bye-bye Voyager.
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Makes perfect sense to me. TNG was a great commercial success but the movies have been disappointing at the box office. Maybe a movie based on a series that has had no commercial success whatsoever (and would've gotten the axe partway trough the first season if it was on any other network) will make the big bucks!
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The TNG films have done badly? From what I remember, Generations did better than STVI and FC was the second biggest grossing Trek film behind STIV. Only Insurrection has done badly.
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