Why did it end so abruptly? - Star Trek: Voyager (1995) Discussion

[–] PaladinNJ (20532) 2 years ago

Anticlimactic???? They ended it with a showdown against the Borg and won. I'd say it was a great ending.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (34921) 2 years ago

I meant the final 3 minutes or so - it felt like it needed another episode to wrap it up properly.

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[–] PaladinNJ (20532) 2 years ago

Oh that. Sorry

Personally I would like to have seen this at least. Even if just tongue in cheek:
Janeway: Get Admiral Paris back
Tuvok: Yes Captain. On Screen
Janeway: Admiral, would you mind beaming over here immediately
Paris: Is something wrong?
Janeway: No sir. I just thought you might like to meet your granddaughter.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (34921) 2 years ago

Yep! This kind of stuff exactly.

I've just binged 7 seasons, only to get 'Ta-Daa! That's all folks!' right at the death.

I was looking forward to the big celebration.

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[–] JestersDead (485) 2 years ago

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[–] JestersDead (485) 2 years ago

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-voyager-finale-turns-20-1234957326/

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[–] AndyKing1967 (34921) 2 years ago

Thank you very much for supplying the link. This article clears up many of the questions that I had.

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[–] Guitar King (4541) 2 years ago

"The idea was that Janeway would surrender Voyager to the Borg, and the battle-damaged starship would be assimilated by a Borg cube. But this was all a ruse by Janeway; once in the Borg’s clutches, the Doctor (Robert Picardo) would activate a reverse assimilation virus."

^Are you telling me we could have gotten THIS awesome ending instead? Damn it!!! Thanks for that link, in my head canon this is the real ending now.

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[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

I disagree, I thought the finale was the best thing about the entire series! Old Janeway was awesome, it was great to see the person who'd bee uptight and rule-following for all those years finally kick off all the restraints of a captain's life and all the rules and regulations, and be her real badass self!

I don't insist you agree. If you didn't like the finale, you didn't like it.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (34921) 2 years ago

I’m on about the last 3 minutes or so. Everything up to that moment was awesome. I just felt it needed perhaps one more episode to wrap things up properly.

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[–] strntz (11187) 2 years ago

They probably could have used another few minutes, yes. If this was TOS, they would have had another 5 minutes per half hour to film, but when Voyager was filmed, there was less content and more commercials.

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[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

I was totally fine with the last 3 minutes. Everyone was fine, everyone had made a new life for themselves, the audience Old Janeway's sacrifice had not been in vain.

I really didn't need to know the details of everyone's new life, such as who got divorced when they were no longer limited to a dating pool of 150 people, because well. I'm really not that interested in most of the characters. For those who are interested, well, there's always fan fiction.

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[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I thought the same Andy. Even an extra scene with them back on Earth, perhaps with Janeway giving one final rousing speech to Starfleet praising each of the core crew members, would have made it seem less anticlimactic.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (34921) 2 years ago

It seems that most posters don’t get what I’m on about. To me it was almost like they’d spent their budget and gone with ‘that’s all folks’.

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[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Yep, I’m picking up what you’re putting down buddy 🙂👍

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[–] AndyKing1967 (34921) 2 years ago

It definitely needed one more episode to wrap it up.

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[–] ExTechOp (2770) 2 years ago

I get what you're saying, and I agree

I think the show-runners were trying something different this time, though, by starting out with the alternate future

That way, we get some of the emotional payoff of an epilogue without wasting screen time after the climactic final battle with the Borg

If that was their intent, I don't agree that it worked. Problem is, everything after the Borg defeat's a letdown. So I figure, maybe they tried to end on the highest possible note.

All that said, TNG did it much better ending only moments after the climax (moments in screen time) with that poker game and Picard's last line, "sky's the limit"

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[–] TandyMan (10622) 2 years ago

I think they kinda foreshadow the crappy ending when Kim gives his cheesy "it's not the destination but the journey" speech. It's like the writers were warning us right there. Star Trek has always had pretty short shrift with its endings. You don't get a nice epilogue like they did wonderfully this last season of Orville. It blows my mind though cause sheesh, they paid all these other actors to show up for 30 seconds. Ya may as well give them a few lines of dialog!

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