Plot for Voyager Finale?


    

By now you've probably heard the rumors regarding the Star Trek Voyager finale. Will they or won't they return to Earth? I was told by our sources that the following is the newest pitch for Voyager's 2 hour finale: Voyager comes under attack by a race of violent, xenophobic aliens that accuse Voyager of breaching their space. After a two week conflict Voyager exits their space but is heavily damaged and barely functional. Sick of constant attacks on the ship and becoming increasingly depressed, Janeway contacts Q and pleads for him to send them home. This is all in the first hour. Q begins the process of judging the crew to see if they are worthy of being an exemption by the continuum. The crew is asked to recall most of their deeds and when the item of Voyager helping in the Q war, Q agrees and sends them home. However in doing so, Q does not realize that he is upsetting the time line and when Voyager returns to earth find it in the grip of a temporal storm. Janeway is then left with the decision of keeping her crew in the Alpha Quadrant and watching Earth be ravaged by a temporal storm or to enter the storm and close it so that Earth will survive but stranding Voyager once again in an unknown part of space and time. After much consideration of the consequences, she decides to enter the storm and close it, saving Earth. Arriving on the other side they find themselves in front of the Caretakers array.


Ken Biller Talks Voyager Season Seven  Season Seven


In a recent exclusive chat  with Cinescape magazine contributors Gregory L. Norris and Laura A. Van Vleet, Star Trek: Voyager executive producer Ken Biller unveiled plans for the series' seventh and final season. Among Biller's revelations -- Trekkers can look forward to more episodes focusing on Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) and neurotic Next Generation semi-regular Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz). "Reginald Barclay will turn up early in the seventh season and most likely again as the series nears its end," says Biller. "He's really become an honorary member of the Voyager crew as he continues to try and aid them from the Alpha Quadrant side. We will almost certainly see Counselor Deanna Troi helping him keep it together mentally while he tries to do that." Also in the works is another two-hour Voyager TV movie. Called "Flesh and Blood," it is scheduled to air at the end of November. In it, Voyager discovers a group of self-aware holograms that have revolted against what they consider to be their oppressors and abusers. "The Doctor is suddenly forced in a very powerful way to choose between his loyalties to his Voyager family and his desire to help what he considers to be his own people, the holograms," Biller reveals. No conversation with Biller would be complete without posing the most nagging concern related to Voyager's seventh season send-off: whether or not Captain Janeway and the crew will make their way home. When asked if not returning Voyager to Federation space would be cheat to the fans, Biller offers an evasive response.

"Our biggest challenge in this last season is going to be how we can both surprise and satisfy the audience," he says. "People generally know this is our last year, and of course, Voyager is about a lost ship and a captain trying to get her crew home. Naturally, there is an expectation that they will succeed. And if we don't take the ship home, we have to ask ourselves exactly this question -- have we disappointed people that have invested emotionally for years in seeing this crew succeed with that objective?

Without answering the question exactly, I will say it's a good question, and that it's a question we continue to struggle with, although we think we have ways to resolve it which will satisfy and surprise you."    For six years, Star Trek fans have wondered if the crew of the Starship Voyager would find its way home after being lost in the farthest reaches of outer space. With Star Trek: Voyager about to embark on its seventh and final season, much speculation surrounds the decisions being made by the Powers That Be at Paramount as to whether or not Capt. Janeway and her crew will succeed. Cinescape magazine contributors Gregory L. Norris and Laura A. Van Vleet recently spoke exclusively with Voyager's new executive producer, Ken Biller, who revealed many tantalizing details regarding not only the fate of Voyager's crew when the series ends, but what they will face en route to getting there. "We are definitely working hard to wrap up some series-long arcs for several of our characters," says Biller. "You'll see Captain Janeway's ongoing and single-minded quest to get her crew home. I'm not going to tell you whether or not she is going to accomplish that just yet, but it's something that has been her single purpose from the beginning, and it will get exacerbated this season to the point that she is really feeling the pressure. She'll have to decide just how far she is willing to go to succeed."

Biller also promises a season-long story arc that will resolve the Tom Paris/B'Elanna Torres romance, something he agrees the series has ignored for too long. "We now have a few different storylines that will resolve their relationship in a way that is surprising and in tune with Star Trek without being soap opera-ish. Part of the arc involves Voyager encountering a generational Klingon ship that has been traveling from the Alpha Quadrant toward the Delta Quadrant for many years,"

Biller reveals. "The offspring of the original Klingons who went off on this journey are people who don't understand that their fight with the Federation ended decades ago." Redeemed Borg Seven of Nine's ongoing quest to recover her humanity will also play out in the new season. "She'll take some significant steps toward becoming a more fully rounded human being," Biller promises. "And we're doing an episode where you'll see Harry Kim pushed to his core, where he is forced to realize and acknowledge the fact that if Voyager doesn't get home, he's hit a glass ceiling. He's going to be stuck on this ship as an ensign for conceivably his entire professional career. That means giving up his dream, which is to captain a starship. He's going to be confronted with an opportunity to do that, and it's really going to test him and force him to examine how to balance his own desires with his loyalties to his family on Voyager.

Also, in taking back the show to its early days, you'll see the old Maquis/Starfleet tensions arise once more during the course of the season." Biller describes the conflict as a "psychological thriller" that pits some of the Starfleet people against the former Maquis. "We might see things play out in a more present and immediate way where they'll have to deal with what the repercussions will be for the Maquis, who may be considered criminals back on Earth," Biller continues. "If in fact it becomes clear to the crew that home is within reach..." And speaking of whether Voyager will reach Earth...come back tomorrow for part two of Norris and Van Vleet's report, which will include a first look at the two-hour Voyager TV movie coming this November as well as a few hints about when Capt. Janeway and company will finally get home.