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  2. Posted

    Just a few minutes..If that..I knew right when I saw the portal page that this site was different and awesome!! I was used to the message boards at ST.com and Trekbbs.com...

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    From Star Trek.com

     

    It took the U.S.S. Voyager and her crew seven years to return home from the Delta Quadrant, seven long years of frustrating plans and attempts to bridge the distance between where the Caretaker whisked the ship and the crew's home in the Alpha Quadrant. There has been great speculation that the journey may have been shortened considerably, had it not been for the repeated blunders of one crewman. Should Captain Janeway have relieved this crewman of his duties and confined him to quarters? Hindsight is always 20/20.

     

    Here are some examples of "forks in the road," where, without the actions of Ensign Gilligan, things may very well have turned out differently…

     

    Message in a Bottle

    Harry Kim finds a tiny wormhole to the Alpha Quadrant and the crew becomes excited at the possibility that everyone could beam safely home. Ensign Gilligan spills coconut juice on a critical console, however, collapsing the wormhole.

     

    The 37's

    Ancient human aviators Amelia Earhart and Wrongway Feldman are discovered in the Delta Quadrant. Feldman knows a shortcut back home, and is willing to share it, but Gilligan keeps him awake all night crunching on celery. Upset, Feldman leaves without sharing the secret.

     

    Gilluvix

    While Gilligan doesn't actually prevent Voyager from getting home in this episode, had Captain Janeway not decided to split up the being created in a transporter accident with Gilligan, Tuvok and Neelix, Gilligan's future blunders might have never happened.

     

    Threshold

    Tom Paris and Captain Janeway cross the transwarp threshold and then transform into giant slug-like creatures. They mate and give birth to Jungle Boy, played by Kurt Russell. Deciding to send Jungle Boy home early, Gilligan fashions a balloon made of raincoats, and forgets to put the SOS note into the pocket, so when the boy is rescued by the Federation, no one knows about Voyager's plight.

     

    False Profits

    The wormhole a pair of Ferengi used to reach the Delta Quadrant destabilizes and collapses when Gilligan (who had upside-down vision due to a holodeck accident) trips and falls into an Engineering control panel, which sends a concentrated tetryon beam into the wormhole. Captain Janeway angrily pulls her hair out and repeatedly hits Gilligan with it.

     

    The Q and the Grey

    Q is willing to take the ship and crew back to the Alpha Quadrant if they'll serve as a test audience for his Civil War re-enactment. Gilligan puts together a singing act with Janeway, Torres and Kes called The Honeybees, who upstage Q's terrible performance art, so he leaves the ship in the Delta Quadrant in a fit of jealous rage.

     

    Retrospect

    Gilligan spills a crate of coconuts all over Cargo Bay 2, causing Seven of Nine to trip and hit her head. For a while, she thinks she's Captain Janeway and starts ordering everyone around until The Doctor cures her with another blow to the head. Janeway suspends Gilligan's coconut privileges for the rest of the journey, however long it takes.

     

    Pathfinder

    When a Federation subspace experiment conducted by Reginald Barclay finally makes contact with Voyager, Gilligan trips over the burning logs spelling out "HELP" so that all Earth sees is "HELLO," and they end transmission thinking Voyager's fine and nothing's wrong.

     

    Muse

    Torres becomes stranded on a primitive planet and becomes the inspiration for producer Herald Hecuba. His stage productions of her stories prove wildly popular until he stages "The Story of Gilligan," which enrages the natives to the point that they find Torres and imprison her for life. Robbed of its Chief Engineer and one of its brightest crew members, Voyager's journey just got that much longer.

     

    Endgame

    Captain Janeway makes the most brilliant decision of her Starfleet career by allowing the Borg Queen to assimilate Gilligan, thus making the Borg clumsier and more likely to get stranded in deep space, never to be heard from again. Upon her return to Earth, she is promoted to Admiral.

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    That's it?

     

    Just a April Fool's joke?

     

    That was their big announcment???

     

    The real joke is that even "Klingon Eye For A Human Guy" would get better ratings than ''Enterprise''.

     

    Very amusing, Paramount.

     

    It might raise a smile if only the Star Trek franchise weren't in such a bad state because of their inept handling of it.

     

    <_<  :huh:  :frusty:

    Well, it is April Fools Day at ST.com..I think we all knew there would be no big announcement..Just an April Fools joke..

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    As much as I like Vulcans I don't feel that I would handle the logical, suppress/hide all emotions part of it..I would like to be an Andorian!..That would be neat..Seems to me that they know how to live..They're emotional, they have cool starships and they drink wonderful Andorian Ale..Also, I like the way they look. They have such cool blue skin and awesome Antenae !!

     

    I almost said Caitian..But that species wasn't explored at all in Star Trek. :wow:

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    Most people may vote for Curzon but I feel that we already know a lot about him from stories that Sisco and Jadzia have talked about..It would be very interesting to learn more about any of the other hosts..I voted for Lela Dax. Seemed like she was quite interesting. A strong Trill woman. One of the first women to serve as a council member on the Trill homeworld..I think she would be fascinating to see and learn about. Plus she was the first Dax host..

  18. Posted

    The worst Voyager episode has to be Thresold! How ridiculus! I also wasn't crazy about some of the Kazon episodes but they were OK I guess..Among my favorite Voyager episodes are :

     

    Faces (Of Course!)

    Tuvix

    Scorpion

    Workforce

    Caretaker

    Equinox

     

    I'm sure there are many more that I like and will re-discover them as I purchase the DVD season sets..But those are the ones I can think of now off of the top of my head..

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    Even though I can't imagine anyone in the center seat but Kirk, I voted for The Cage. It was a much better story in my opinion and I like Captain Pike alot..It's just a good thing that Shatner ended up with the role when the series started..Oh one other thing I liked about The Cage was that Majel Barrett had a more prominent role. I've always been a fan of hers and it's too bad that she couldn't have stayed as Number One..I guess 60s TV wasn't ready for that and I suppose then the Spock character wouldn't have grown like he did..

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    Well, this test said I'm closest to Spock.I think that's cool but I don't necessarily agree totally.. I consider myself closest to McCoy..Not in medical knowledge but in personality..I am quite sensitive, caring and emotional which are traits I always associated with McCoy..According to that test I must have some of Spock in me too..Which is a good thing..I would like to be more like Spock.. :laugh:

  23. Posted

    Under different circumstances I would have said that Archer should have stayed on Enterprise and someone else taken this mission..Tucker or Mayweather..Or both..But this wasn't a normal mission..Captain Archer had to do this himself..Daniels made it quite clear that it was Archer who had to go and talk to the Xindi..