History Fridge / StarTrekVoyager

* Speaking of the afterlife, "Coda" offers up not only some NightmareFuel, but the dreadful and (we know from seeing certain other ''Star Trek'' series' episodes about the afterlife) entirely credible possibility that Hell and its demons are real and on the prowl for prey in the ''Star Trek'' universe. We're not just talking about SufficientlyAdvancedAliens like the Q Continuum and possibly the Prophets and their Pah-Wraith counterparts in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', but spiritual predators in an actual afterlife. This is actually acknowledged somewhat near the end of the episode when Janeway tells Chakotay she sure ''hopes'' the imposter posing as her deceased father was just another local alien from the Delta Quadrant, but she can't really be sure in view of the near death experiences some have reported back home in the Alpha Quadrant.

** Assuming Chakotay is from Dorvan V, the planet colonized by Native Americans in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E19JourneysEnd Journey's End]]," the very episode that introduced the Cardassian conflict that gave rise to the Maquis (he is never ''explicitly'' said to be from there, but it's a very reasonable assumption), it actually makes perfect sense that he would have been raised in an amalgam of the beliefs of the various colonists and their descendents, probably with a lot of newer philosophies thrown into the mix, and that he would be of mixed ancestry, so he would not identify with any single tribe specifically.

** Assuming Chakotay is from Dorvan V, the planet colonized by Native Americans in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E19JourneysEnd Journey's End]]," the very episode that introduced the Cardassian conflict that gave rise to the Maquis (he is never ''explicitly'' said to be from there, but it's a very reasonable assumption), it actually makes perfect sense that he would have been raised in an amalgam of the beliefs of the various colonists and their descendents, probably with a lot of newer philosophies thrown into the mix, and that he would not identify with any single tribe specifically.

** Assuming Chakotay is from Dorvan V, the planet colonized by Native Americans in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E19JourneysEnd Journey's End]]," the very episode that introduced the Maquis (he is never ''explicitly'' said to be from there, but it's a very reasonable assumption), it actually makes perfect sense that he would have been raised in an amalgam of the beliefs of the various colonists and their descendents, probably with a lot of newer philosophies thrown into the mix, and that he would not identify with any single tribe specifically.

** Assuming Chakotay is from Dorvan V, the planet colonized by Native Americans in ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E19JourneysEnd Journey's End]],'' the very episode that introduced the Maquis (he is never ''explicitly'' said to be from there, but it's a very reasonable assumption), it actually makes perfect sense that he would have been raised in an amalgam of the beliefs of the various colonists and their descendents, probably with a lot of newer philosophies thrown into the mix, and that he would not identify with any single tribe specifically.

** Also, a holographic crew member can go places where flesh-and-blood crew members can't go. Need to defuse a bomb that is radiating deadly energy? Need a decoy to draw off some alien intruders? Etc etc. There are literally hundreds of reasons why having the ability to create holographic crew members and objects would be useful.

** Also, a holographic crew member can go places where flesh-and-blood crew members can't go. Need to defuse a bomb that is radiating deadly energy? Need a decoy to draw off some alien intruders? Etc etc. There are literally hundreds of reasons why having the ability to create holographic crew members would be useful.

** Another possibility that people fail to take into account is that Harry may have a good reason to go after other women while he has a girl back home. Though everyone on board Voyager is hopeful to get home within their lifetime, there is a good chance that they may not. Think about it: they deal with external threats on a regular basis. The crew compliment of Voyager started with 153 (and that's when she launched from DS9, before she was pulled to the other side of the galaxy). There were a lot of situations where a lot of lives were lost due to one situation or another, and the likelihood that each day could literally be your last. And even on good days, the thought of never getting home would constantly be on your mind. Harry may have been in love with Libby, but the fact is that he more than likely knew that there was a chance he wasn't ever going to make it back home alive. And then we have the opposite side of the story, those who are back home. Voyager was reported as lost with all hands aboard. People who were in relationships may have grieved and then moved on. A great example of this was Janeway's boyfriend, Mark Johnson. Originally, he held out hope that Janeway was still alive for a while before he finally came to accept she was dead and moved on, starting another relationship with a woman he knew (Janeway herself stated it was the logical thing because of the fact that even though now the Federation knows they're alive, there's a good chance that they'd still be killed or die of old age long before even reaching the Alpha Quadrant). What are the chances that Libby would be holding out in the same regard and waiting for Harry? Harry himself may have had in his mind that she probably thought he was dead and may have moved on even before they finally got in contact with the Federation (and even after that, there was still no guarantee they'd make it back alive). Basically, the entire crew aren't just trying to get home, but they're trying to enjoy what life they have left while being in the Delta Quadrant.

* A disproportionate number of Maquis seem to work in Engineering. (B'Elanna, Hogan, Jonas, Tabor, Jor...) One might expect them to dominate Security, as soldiers. But before forming the Maquis, most of these people were colonists, literally ''building'' their societies from the ground up. If anything, it's ironic that the Val Jean's two best Engineers, B'Elanna and Seska, weren't from those colonies. (Though starship engineering is a bit different than land-stations.)
** Many if not most of the Maquis were also farmers, making for a good crew to mind Airponics even after Kes leaves. (It's a bit odd that none of them thought of an onboard garden before Kes did.)

** EU and official material after suggests that this did happen -- the final episode more or less says this was the case given that Tom, B'Elanna and others had Starfleet careers after their initial return. Considering how popular Voyager was after it was discovered they were still alive, and the fact Starleet even forwarded on messages to the Maquis, it may have been a bad PR move to jail any of them even with their earlier return. Plus the fact they dealt a very crippling blow to the Borg upon their return, AND the fact this was after the Dominion War -- no doubt there was a lot of "hindsight is 20-20" regarding the Maquis after that. Especially since some of those EU sources say that the surviving Maquis in the Alpha Quadrant joined the war against the Dominion in exchange for a full pardon, and when ''Voyager'' returned home, that same pardon was extended to Chakotay and the other Maquis aboard.

** Thankfully, the Picard series answers this question a few decades later, but its so grim that it might as well have not mattered.

** And to keep it going beyond the named cast members, the whole galaxy would end up being overrun by Species 8472.

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** Caveat-- It might not be the same class ship. After all, Starfleet is notorious for reusing perfectly good ship-names as class-names, and also for having multiple ships of the same name. For example: The Consititution-class USS "Defiant" (NCC-1764) in ENT's "In a Mirror, Darkly" (Season 4 Episode 19). And later the "Defiant-class" USS "Defiant" (NX-74205), and Defiant-class USS Defiant (formerly the USS Sao-Paulo) (NCC-75633). And let's not even get into how many ships of the name "Enterprise" or "Endeavour" there are.. However, the timing lines up. The competition was mentioned in the seventh season of TNG, and Voyager's mission began less than a year later.

* In "Author, Author", there are no analogues to Neelix, Naomi, or Icheb in the ''Photons be Free'' holonovel. Perhaps this is because he feels like they'd be unfit for such a dark story, since Neelix is so cheerful (true, he could just rewrite Neelix's personality but then he'd have to essentially make him a personality from whole cloth) and Naomi and Icheb are minors.