bobnik
Memetic Warfare Specialist.
What'd they do there? Meddle with ancient Iconian technology and start a galactic scale war or something?
The Voyage Without
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Honestly no idea?
More like what didn't they do there? Like, im pretty sure they picked a fight with the iconians, the dinosaur people, the tholians, and the space nazis at different points in the campaign?
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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I genuinely like the Kazon as they're depicted in VOY.
They're basically, in my mind, if you gave Klingons during the equivalent of our 1950s space ships. They don't really GET interstellar relations, and they make bad decisions, but because people don't expect naked aggression in space, they keep succeeding until they hit a wall, and then just kind of crumble.
They're basically, in my mind, if you gave Klingons during the equivalent of our 1950s space ships. They don't really GET interstellar relations, and they make bad decisions, but because people don't expect naked aggression in space, they keep succeeding until they hit a wall, and then just kind of crumble.
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Nobody else left onboard but the dead.
There were a lot of dead.
The final count I got was forty seven. Almost a third of the crew. There wasn't enough… storage… in sickbay for that many people.
But I couldn't just leave them either.
Reconfiguring cargobay two's environmental system to put the place well below freezing, I then had Huginn and Muninn go around and collect everybody and relocate them to there as soon as anything critical had been dealt with.
Then I tried to put them out of my mind because I had way more urgent things to deal with.
You'd think my priority would be saving the rest of the crew, but that was actually way down on the list because I wouldn't be able to do shit if the ship didn't work. I don't think it was a weapon, but some sort of teleport. If they could bring the ship across the galaxy, it could bring crew out of the ship. And they left the dead.
At least that was the working theory. Besides, if they just wanted to kill us, there were clearly easier ways if they had that sort of tech.
So I got to work getting systems back online and functional as quickly as I could.
Huginn and Muninn were in my field of view, replacing a plasma relay, working in a window in my hud as I worked through the system, rerouting and reconfiguring past damaged systems.
Exhausted.
I was so tired. I had barely eaten since they were taken and I haven't slept. I didn't have time to and it had been… almost three days?
Before I acted, I would need to rest for a bit, but for now I was way too busy. An Intrepid class ship really was not meant to be maintained by one person.
Especially when damaged.
Even so, I had transferred command to engineering so I didn't need to crawl up to the bridge to keep an eye on sensors and work the controls..
We were sitting in empty interstellar space, the missing Maquis ship was sitting a couple of hundred kilometers away, showing no lifesigns.
Was it a Maquis trap?
I kinda doubted that, whatever weapon or hypothetical matter transportation technology had been used was way too advanced for them. Or anyone else I knew of other than possibly the Borg?
Instead, I suspected they were caught in the same trap we were. The trap of the station floating in space a couple of thousand kilometers from each of us.
That's where I picked up a lot of lifesigns.
Why did they target the rest of the crew and not me? I blamed my bones for them not being able to get a sensor lock on me.
I tapped away on the console, glancing to the side towards the warp core.
Repairs seemed to be holding, the pressure was within specs. The console beeped and I nodded. Shield emitters back online.
Next, I'm moving on to-
WROOOIINNNG
I almost dug my claws through the screen despite the interaction protectors as I startled only to find Hunt laying on the floor next to me, unconscious.
Blinking in surprise, I looked around.
What the fuck, they were back! They put the crew back!?
Were… were they…
I lowered my snout, I sniffed Hunt. She certainly smelled human. Alive?
I carefully rolled her over with my nose onto her back before listening at her chest. Heartbeat. Breathing. Alive.
I tapped my com, "Zephyr to medical, activate emergency medical hol-"
"I am already active, Lieutenant. Nobody disengaged me once they disappeared. Please state the natur-
"The crew have returned but are unconscious. Are any in sickbay?" I interrupted it.
"Five. Examining now," the hologram answered.
I carefully started to rearrange Hunt into a recovery position, just to be safe, couldn't just leave her laying on her back.
"They'll be fine," the emergency medical hologram reported, "Their neural energy was suppressed, but it is returning to normal level. They're going to start to wake up in about thirty minutes."
"Keep monitoring the ones in sickbay," I told it before turning off the channel.
Uhm…
…If our crew has been returned, so may the Maquis have been. They were unlikely to have had somebody on their ship to make repairs, but their smaller ship had also seemed to have taken less damage from being thrown here.
Oh, didn't I mention where we were? A full seventy fucking thousand lightyears from the badlands, all the way across the galaxy from where we started.
Which was… not optimal.
But one problem at a time. If they were waking up soon, their ship may have taken less damage. Normally their ship would be no match for Voyager, but in this state…
I considered locking weapons and blowing them out of space before they could become a threat.
My claw slowly clicked against the deck as I considered it. Hmm…
No.
We were isolated right now. If we were to get back, we would need their resources and I couldn't risk damaging their ship at this point.
Besides, that space station might become displeased if we started firing weapons close to it and that was most definitely a giant threat.
They may be stupid about things however, let's make sure they're not.
Tapping through my controls, I activated the tractor beam on their ship and brought our shields up to full. There, that should keep them from doing anything stupid.
There were a lot of dead.
The final count I got was forty seven. Almost a third of the crew. There wasn't enough… storage… in sickbay for that many people.
But I couldn't just leave them either.
Reconfiguring cargobay two's environmental system to put the place well below freezing, I then had Huginn and Muninn go around and collect everybody and relocate them to there as soon as anything critical had been dealt with.
Then I tried to put them out of my mind because I had way more urgent things to deal with.
You'd think my priority would be saving the rest of the crew, but that was actually way down on the list because I wouldn't be able to do shit if the ship didn't work. I don't think it was a weapon, but some sort of teleport. If they could bring the ship across the galaxy, it could bring crew out of the ship. And they left the dead.
At least that was the working theory. Besides, if they just wanted to kill us, there were clearly easier ways if they had that sort of tech.
So I got to work getting systems back online and functional as quickly as I could.
Huginn and Muninn were in my field of view, replacing a plasma relay, working in a window in my hud as I worked through the system, rerouting and reconfiguring past damaged systems.
Exhausted.
I was so tired. I had barely eaten since they were taken and I haven't slept. I didn't have time to and it had been… almost three days?
Before I acted, I would need to rest for a bit, but for now I was way too busy. An Intrepid class ship really was not meant to be maintained by one person.
Especially when damaged.
Even so, I had transferred command to engineering so I didn't need to crawl up to the bridge to keep an eye on sensors and work the controls..
We were sitting in empty interstellar space, the missing Maquis ship was sitting a couple of hundred kilometers away, showing no lifesigns.
Was it a Maquis trap?
I kinda doubted that, whatever weapon or hypothetical matter transportation technology had been used was way too advanced for them. Or anyone else I knew of other than possibly the Borg?
Instead, I suspected they were caught in the same trap we were. The trap of the station floating in space a couple of thousand kilometers from each of us.
That's where I picked up a lot of lifesigns.
Why did they target the rest of the crew and not me? I blamed my bones for them not being able to get a sensor lock on me.
I tapped away on the console, glancing to the side towards the warp core.
Repairs seemed to be holding, the pressure was within specs. The console beeped and I nodded. Shield emitters back online.
Next, I'm moving on to-
WROOOIINNNG
I almost dug my claws through the screen despite the interaction protectors as I startled only to find Hunt laying on the floor next to me, unconscious.
Blinking in surprise, I looked around.
What the fuck, they were back! They put the crew back!?
Were… were they…
I lowered my snout, I sniffed Hunt. She certainly smelled human. Alive?
I carefully rolled her over with my nose onto her back before listening at her chest. Heartbeat. Breathing. Alive.
I tapped my com, "Zephyr to medical, activate emergency medical hol-"
"I am already active, Lieutenant. Nobody disengaged me once they disappeared. Please state the natur-
"The crew have returned but are unconscious. Are any in sickbay?" I interrupted it.
"Five. Examining now," the hologram answered.
I carefully started to rearrange Hunt into a recovery position, just to be safe, couldn't just leave her laying on her back.
"They'll be fine," the emergency medical hologram reported, "Their neural energy was suppressed, but it is returning to normal level. They're going to start to wake up in about thirty minutes."
"Keep monitoring the ones in sickbay," I told it before turning off the channel.
Uhm…
…If our crew has been returned, so may the Maquis have been. They were unlikely to have had somebody on their ship to make repairs, but their smaller ship had also seemed to have taken less damage from being thrown here.
Oh, didn't I mention where we were? A full seventy fucking thousand lightyears from the badlands, all the way across the galaxy from where we started.
Which was… not optimal.
But one problem at a time. If they were waking up soon, their ship may have taken less damage. Normally their ship would be no match for Voyager, but in this state…
I considered locking weapons and blowing them out of space before they could become a threat.
My claw slowly clicked against the deck as I considered it. Hmm…
No.
We were isolated right now. If we were to get back, we would need their resources and I couldn't risk damaging their ship at this point.
Besides, that space station might become displeased if we started firing weapons close to it and that was most definitely a giant threat.
They may be stupid about things however, let's make sure they're not.
Tapping through my controls, I activated the tractor beam on their ship and brought our shields up to full. There, that should keep them from doing anything stupid.
Hm. I remember another story having other Starfleet ships in the region. I wonder if we will see something similar.
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In the beginning of the series the doctor holo wasn't on the best terms with the rest of the crew. I imagine if asked he would have said something to the effect of "You didn't ask if I was active."
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Yeah the Doctor wasn't properly a person until like... season 3ish? Tutoring Kes was a push towards personhood.
Saphire
Lurking dragon
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I wonder if Zephyr's unscannability will accelerate that… or anything about him, really.
And hm. Well, yay the ship is not going to require a single dragon to maintain it anymore. Issue: I hope they have enough food feedstock to feed their engineer. Actually I wonder how many people out of the engineering chain of command are left? And where Zephyr is on that.
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Given Janeway is neither captain nor XO, Zephyr could actually claim the Captains Chair depending on specific rank and seniority, as that would be decided among department heads. But regardless, he will be senior staff.
At worst, Bellana becomes his second on the engineering deck assuming Janeway still makes Chakotay the XO to bring the crew's together.
At worst, Bellana becomes his second on the engineering deck assuming Janeway still makes Chakotay the XO to bring the crew's together.
Gelasin
(Not A Fox)
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Janeway outranks Zephyr, She's a Lt. Cdr. He's a Lt.
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Fair nuff then.
I will say though, there was a lot more that could have been done for crew morale that was not. Either due to limitations for filming or writing.
Big one that came to mind for me was simply decor, the hallways and rooms in Voyager were near depressing. Some changes in color palette, murals in specific sections, even just going back to the more welcoming decor of the Galaxy class would do wonders on such a lengthy voyage.
I will say though, there was a lot more that could have been done for crew morale that was not. Either due to limitations for filming or writing.
Big one that came to mind for me was simply decor, the hallways and rooms in Voyager were near depressing. Some changes in color palette, murals in specific sections, even just going back to the more welcoming decor of the Galaxy class would do wonders on such a lengthy voyage.
bobnik
Memetic Warfare Specialist.
*shrug*
They were really skint for resources at the start, and the most important one was time. They had to work hard just to stay breathing and fed and ahead of the Kazon. Morale is real important yes, but at the start they had to survive. How many housekeeping bots were rendered down for parts? Who was willing to spend their off-shift time painting? Was the life support in good enough condition to handle the fumes? Where would they get the paint?
Later on, they were probably used to it - this is our ship and our home and this is how it is. Changing the colours may in fact not have been a net gain in morale.
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I mean that last question has the supremely easy answer of 'replicators', and even under rationing of both time and replicator feedstock, just allocating areas of the corridors for painting when off shift would probably get at least a few people painting. And even if the art is shit, it's still better than gunmetal grey.
As for the condition of the ship, I dont remember Voyager getting SUPER fucked up in the first season. Not like it did later on. I mean they had time for all kinds of Neelix shenanigans. I feel confident there would at least be time to make the ship less sterile.
Absolute bare minimum, decorate the mess hall and lift some regulations on decorating the bunks.
As for the condition of the ship, I dont remember Voyager getting SUPER fucked up in the first season. Not like it did later on. I mean they had time for all kinds of Neelix shenanigans. I feel confident there would at least be time to make the ship less sterile.
Absolute bare minimum, decorate the mess hall and lift some regulations on decorating the bunks.
We did see that Chakotay decorated his cabin IIRC, but part of the issue with your suggestion is that the Voyager was a Starfleet ship and half the crew took comfort and pride in being Starfleet, were nervous as fuck if not outright angry about the Maquis being on the ship, and would have taken the ship being remodeled in a civilian/Maquis style as a sign Janeway was 'going native' - already a huge concern.
Keep in mind people spend years training and dedicate their lives to become Starfleet crew members and many of them were not at all sympathetic to the Maquis, with Zephyr as an average example. Janeway needed to stay as Starfleet as possible to keep her side of the equation happy, precisely because she was making massive concessions to the Maquis.
According to the previously provided clip of the same situation in the show, the EMH almost immediately tried to call out from sickbay after the teleportation event. Though if the message routing tried to send those to someone absent and then gave up, it'd be possible for Zephyr to miss them and the Doctor to just give up after.
Even so, though, Zephyr presumably had to search Sickbay in the process of collecting the dead. The EMH could probably hide from him, but why would it?
Zephyr didn't have time for that. He kept one drone with him for assistance. The other had orders to search every room onboard and bring any dead it find to where it should go.
Ah, incurious automation.
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*taps fingers on desk*
I wonder if it's time for Zephyr to break out the plans for wargear I know he suggested and had shot down by starfleet command? I know he doesn't know how dangerous this area of the galaxy is yet, but he's both paranoid and running on 3am logic at present
I wonder if it's time for Zephyr to break out the plans for wargear I know he suggested and had shot down by starfleet command? I know he doesn't know how dangerous this area of the galaxy is yet, but he's both paranoid and running on 3am logic at present
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well they have enough feedstock… it just depends whether they're happy feeding that extra mass to the matter printer stockers or not. o don't think anybody would want to use it unprocessed…
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I just had an interesting thought. In the show, the EMH is trapped inside the sickbay until they get a hold of the portable device that lets him walk around. I'm thinking this time Zephyr could build another android body that would allow the EMH to go around the ship. He wouldn't even have to make the android able to run the program to have the usual computer system run the program but route the commands into the android.
That could eventually apply to other things as well. Why send the crew into a dangerous situation when you can send some androids in first being controlled crewmen with what amounts to a futuristic version of the modern vr headset. I think this could be especially important when they run into the Vidiians.
That could eventually apply to other things as well. Why send the crew into a dangerous situation when you can send some androids in first being controlled crewmen with what amounts to a futuristic version of the modern vr headset. I think this could be especially important when they run into the Vidiians.
Crazael
Rehydrated Demon King
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Or Hiver can do the sensible thing and just say that Starfleet wasnt dumb and put holo projectors throught the ship.