Voyager Rewatch – Further Thoughts on Non Sequitur
You know, now that I’ve thought about it for a few minutes..
It’s really arrogant to think that your reality is the _right_ reality and/or the _best_ reality. You think you’re better off back on Voyager? You think Voyager is better off with you back on Voyager? You think the universe is better off with you back on Voyager? Even Paris isn’t necessarily better off back on Voyager, until the part where you get him killed.
Because, look, eventually someone in Starfleet is going to listen to you. Especially if you stop running around like a madman. And you can tell them Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant. And maybe that won’t be particularly helpful, but it’s _something_. And you can tell them about the Romulan guy who was sent back with a message. Maybe that won’t come to anything. Maybe it didn’t happen without you and Paris there. But, hey, it’s something, isn’t it? It’s not nothing!
And there’s other things you learned that you could tell people. Like those bio-whatever gelpacks should be kept away from stinky cheese.
And your fiancee would have you around. And you wouldn’t be stuck in the Delta Quadrant. And Paris wouldn’t be stuck in the Delta Quadrant.
And, hey, you know what, knowing that Tuvok was a Starfleet spy would’ve been proof of something, wouldn’t it? And you could’ve dished the dirt on everyone on the Maquis ship (who survived to get on Voyager in any case). Might’ve gone a little way towards convincing them you weren’t a Maquis spy. See the part above about someone eventually listening to you.
So, really, dude, you should’ve stayed where you were. You shouldn’t have dissed this new reality just because it wasn’t what you were used to.
And now, to bed. Maybe I’ll wake up in a shuttlecraft.
K Said,
July 23, 2010 @ 12:18 am
I was thinking that, except — everyone in this new reality seems pretty sure that Voy is destroyed. So first I wonder if syndication edits edited out that vital statement that they actually found wreckage. Second, I wonder if they’ll actually follow up on this and state that they had a memorial service for the actual Voy in the actual timeline and be all shocked when they’re not dead.
Also, plenty of people in Starfleet have accents! Troi. Picard. Um. O’Brien. Bashir.
Jellyn Said,
July 25, 2010 @ 7:44 pm
I wasn’t talking about Starfleet in general. I meant in that episode. The apparent immigrant with an accent who ran the local coffeeshop. He’s the one who happened to be an actual alien. And by alien, I mean really alien, as in ‘powers we can’t understand higher than us, possibly not humanoid’ alien.
But speaking of accents, Troi’s the only really interesting one. She tried to make an alien accent. Everyone else is just a variation on a British Isles accent!
Well, okay, until you get to Chekov.
I guess the Klingons have an accent, though most of it is ‘talking around this teeth appliance we have in our mouths’. When Torres was split in two, her Klingon half also spoke really slowly and deliberately.