Voyager's Last Series Will Amaze

Big plans are afoot for the last series of Star Trek Voyager.

The 22-episode series will culminate in the Voyager reaching home, but at a cost.

Yes, Everyone's favourite half-Klingon officer, B'Elanna Torres, is set to sacrifice her life saving the crew.

A new alien race is to be introduced towards the end of the series and they will hold both the potential to get the Voyager home, as well as a destructive capacity and taste for conquest that will make the nobbly headed Klingon Empire look like a species of pussycats.

Rumours have it that the new race will play a part as main threat in the new Star Trek TV series set to replace Voyager when she retires (which may see select cast members from both DS9 and Voyager serving on a new ship. We are not sure who, but our sources tell us that Seven of Nine is prime among those likely to be lined up).

In the final desperate battle against the new aliens, the Doctor is said to be duplicated into a hologram army of hundreds, and beamed into the alien mother-ship using an enhanced transporter-hologram hybrid technology to wreck havoc while the Voyager flees back to the Alpha Quadrant using the alien's prototype star-gate system.

Whether the alien race is truly alien or one known to Trek fans is up for grabs.

Another source in the Paramount Studios dropped us a line to suggest the aliens might be descendants of a sister ship of the Botany Bay, the prisoner ship carting away genetically enhanced warlords that ruled post-atomic war Earth.

Having Arrived in the Delta Quadrant after a run-in with Q, the warlord's descendants continued with their DNA-upgrading and now barely resemble base gene humanity.

Given current debates over Frankenstein Foods, cloning bans and the like, this kind of deep dialogue of philosophy is just the thing to ignite Trek fan's passions - returning to some of the parallels and soul searching Kirk's Trek presided over; Vietnam, race riots, what it is to be human etc.

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John Glaser. 01/09/2000
Well thank Christ they dropped that stupid idea about StarFleet Academy. If they had gone ahead with that pile of horse manure, Trek would have become every bit as good as Police Academy IV.

Cubby. 03/09/2000
Gene Roddenberry had a taste for the morality issues. Quote Spock "fascinating" that they would seek their roots to continue the series. What goes around ...

Hotmetal. 19/09/2000
This all seems to be well and good but how much is rumour and how much hard fact and what happened to the Birth of the Federation series that was talked about on this site?

Hejira. 17/09/2000
Oh, god. The writers haven't planned a month ahead, let alone this! I don't think B'Elanna's gonna die, and this stuff about the Botany Bay and Doc duplicates sounds like really really bad fanfic. Gimme Starfleet Academy anytime - anything to get away from this stuff.

Patrick Draper. 19/09/2000
Hey, could this typing box be a little smaller??? The idea sounds good, but they are going to have to 1) explain how these new enemies are tougher than the Borg and 2) avoid the temptation of making these new enemies wimpier over time, like the Voyage treatment of the Borg.