Voyager gets a new captain.....
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Voyager gets a new captain.....
Well, since this isn't a "my sci-fi universe can beat up yours" scenario, I figure that this is technicaly allowed.
Okay, Q decides to spare the crew of the USS Voyager from their insane captain, and replace her with another. Q pops off to the Battlestar Galactica universe (the new one) and whisks Commander Adama away as well.
Now, Q briefs Adama on the situation, on the crew, and on the technology, and puts Adama in as Captain of the Voyager just after the Caretaker's Array was blown up. Q promises Adama that if he can get the Voyager back to Federation space, he'll snap his fingers and make all the Cylons disappear.
How does the situation proceed from here?
Conversely, what happens to the Battlestar Galactica and the fleet when Janeway replaces Adama as Commander of the Galactica?
Okay, Q decides to spare the crew of the USS Voyager from their insane captain, and replace her with another. Q pops off to the Battlestar Galactica universe (the new one) and whisks Commander Adama away as well.
Now, Q briefs Adama on the situation, on the crew, and on the technology, and puts Adama in as Captain of the Voyager just after the Caretaker's Array was blown up. Q promises Adama that if he can get the Voyager back to Federation space, he'll snap his fingers and make all the Cylons disappear.
How does the situation proceed from here?
Conversely, what happens to the Battlestar Galactica and the fleet when Janeway replaces Adama as Commander of the Galactica?
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I imagine they'd be pretty upset. Then they'd probably all die due to gross incompetance.Rochey wrote:...Conversely, what happens to the Battlestar Galactica and the fleet when Janeway replaces Adama as Commander of the Galactica?
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Tigh becomes Commander thanks to promotion by execution.Rochey wrote:
Conversely, what happens to the Battlestar Galactica and the fleet when Janeway replaces Adama as Commander of the Galactica?
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Excellent, once the pansy's get over the fact that he is a military officer and treats his crew as such. They head home by the direct route not stopping to gawk at a rogue planet or whatever cloud is along the way, like a Greyhound milk run. He's smart enough (and has) to run when their outmatched.Rochey wrote:Heh, quite probably.
But how would Adama do on the Voyager?
Hell he would probably order which ever crew member Q chooses to knock boots with to do it so they could get home.
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No exploration does mean they get home much, much, much later of course.Cpl Kendall wrote:Excellent, once the pansy's get over the fact that he is a military officer and treats his crew as such. They head home by the direct route not stopping to gawk at a rogue planet or whatever cloud is along the way, like a Greyhound milk run. He's smart enough (and has) to run when their outmatched.Rochey wrote:Heh, quite probably.
But how would Adama do on the Voyager?
Hell he would probably order which ever crew member Q chooses to knock boots with to do it so they could get home.
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Why later? They know where Earth is, and he'd be much more willing to take risks with some of the technology they pick up. For example, I'm willing to bet he'd throw Voyager to Warp 10 the moment they figure out how to get it working, and just leave a message to tell whichever ship finds them what happened and how to make them human again.
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I think Adama would do just fine as Voyager captain, assuming the crew accepted him (which they wouldn't). He'd certainly have given the Kazon a hell of a spanking.
Janeway on Galactica... I think she'd do okay actually.
Janeway on Galactica... I think she'd do okay actually.
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They wouldn't find the slingshot technology.Cpl Kendall wrote:How about some explanation on that.Duskofdead wrote:
No exploration does mean they get home much, much, much later of course.
They wouldn't meet the alien who could "translate" their message from Starfleet. (Never find the Dauntless, never use slipstream.)
Might (this one is a maybe) never use the Vadwaar subspace corridors to get closer to home.
Wouldn't have mounted (the perhaps admittedly stupid) attack on the Borg sphere to get a transwarp coil.
Most of the things that dramatically cut down their trip home were BECAUSE they dawdled and didn't just follow a straight course for earth.
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Perhaps but it's also going to result in people not getting killed as often and random bullfuckery being pulled on the Quadrants inhabitants.Duskofdead wrote:
They wouldn't find the slingshot technology.
They wouldn't meet the alien who could "translate" their message from Starfleet. (Never find the Dauntless, never use slipstream.)
Might (this one is a maybe) never use the Vadwaar subspace corridors to get closer to home.
Wouldn't have mounted (the perhaps admittedly stupid) attack on the Borg sphere to get a transwarp coil.
Most of the things that dramatically cut down their trip home were BECAUSE they dawdled and didn't just follow a straight course for earth.
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There's also the fact that Adam is quite simply more foccused on his mission than Janeway. He'd be more than willing to do what it takes to get home. Heck, Janeway could have gotten her crew home by sleeping with Q. Instead, she told him to take a hike and spent the next few years getting more people killed as she wandered her way across the quadrant.
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Actually, I think he would have attacked the Borg to get a transwarp coil. And I believe his monomania (on getting home, in this case) would have served to provide the CORRECT mix between ignoring every little distraction which Janeway went off after and going off after the truly helpful things.
Janeway would be sharing a cell with a Cylon in a matter of hours.
Janeway would be sharing a cell with a Cylon in a matter of hours.
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Admiral Ozzel didn't actually do anything wrong other than piss off Vader, he figured that if they surprised the Rebels they would be good to go. It is a time honoured military tactic, if they knew about the shield than he wouldn't have done that.Monroe wrote:Well I have no clue who Adama is BUT I will say that Janeway did a better job than Admiral Ozzle could have.
"We have dropped Voyager out of light speed and are attempting to..."
"We are the Borg... blah blah blah"