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We all have seen all of the shuttles that Voyager has lost (and made up for) and we have seen who has crashed or destroyed most of them. Commander Cakotay. Frankly, I am surprised that Chakotay hasn't crashed and destroyed Voyager when he has been given the chance to pilot and/or land Voyager itsself (like in "Demon", about 20 minutes into the episode).
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Well, it's not like there weren't any distractions. I mean, he wasn't practicing hopscotch in the aft compartment as the shuttle flew into a cliff. It be like saying a guy in a car who got forced off the road by a semi is a bad driver.
Aliens boarding. People shooting. Energy fields...dampening. Seven of Nine just standing there. All things that would give even the best of pilots difficulty.
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It's not like Seven was in a shuttle with Chakotay all the time...just that everytime she was with him in one things kinda went south.
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I'm just saying she would definitely be a distraction. And that's one of the time's that I remember a Chuckles shuttle getting totaled. When they hit that energy barrier.
But I was mostly just joking. Getting shot at by an alien or disabled by an energy field or something is hardly evidence of bad piloting.
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good pilots don't get shot. good pilots don't run into energy thingies. they're supposed to be aware of thier surroundings.
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Almost every time we see them, their going through an anomaly, getting shot at, or some other obstacle to uneventful flying. How often does Paris get out of those w/o killing a shuttle unlike Chakotey?
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Let me see, Voyager lost several Type-9's, a few Type-8's and Type-6's, and then the Delta Flyer became target practice. I'd say it's like a curse.
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I dunno, I think Mr. Crusher has a thing against first officers.
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He just may bring up Riker's piloting records along with Kira's next time then.
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I have nothing against first officers, and I think Riker is a damn good, attentive shuttle pilot, when he has flown shuttles, that is. As for Kira, I have not seen that many DS9 episodes, so I have not seen her fly a shuttle. But Chakotay, with all the shuttles that he has flown, he's either crashed them, or he's heavily damaged them so much, that sometimes I believe he has had to have had Voyager do an emergency transport. He is the reason that we Trek fans are really beginning to ask "where the hell is Voyager getting those new Star Fleet shuttles from?" I wonder if the Flier is Chakotay-proof?...
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