Voyagers path II

[Duskofdead]

And they were about halfway through?

So the rest of the trip should have taken (without extra boosts) around 35 years.

I think Teaos said they were a little over halfway, and that the ship shouldn't have taken 22 more years to reach home from what we know of the course and rather large jumps. I could be mistaken.

[stitch626]

With a little over halfway, 22 yrs isn't a stretch.

[Teaos]

Half of 70 is 35 (wow I did that in my head)

So it should have taken 35 but did take 20 something. So they obviously did make a few jumps but nothing like the 20k one they did by raiding the Borg.

[Captain Seafort]

The figure of 48kly travelled only takes the jumps into account - they were averaging slightly under 1000c, so they would have actually travelled about 55kly, leaving them 15kly to go. The tallies almost perfectly with the 16 year trip the original Voyager took from the transwarp hub to Earth.

[Teaos]

But the amount of time they stopped to look at a Nebula would have really cut into that.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

But the amount of time they stopped to look at a Nebula would have really cut into that.

Maybe after enough people died Janeway realized that she couldn't afford to keep losing people by investigating every Nebula and pissing off every other species. This would however reduce the chances of finding shortcuts along the way as well.

[Teaos]

Which works out perfectly.

They just went in a straight fast line and took ages. They used to look at everything thus found lots of shortcuts.

[Duskofdead]

But the amount of time they stopped to look at a Nebula would have really cut into that.

Maybe after enough people died Janeway realized that she couldn't afford to keep losing people by investigating every Nebula and pissing off every other species. This would however reduce the chances of finding shortcuts along the way as well.

In fairness also, I think the "realistic consideration" that they might not reach the Alpha Quadrant during their lifetimes must have had some weight on their decisions as well. Beyond just the routine or necessary stops for required resupplies, they also sort of passingly "considered" joining life on friendly planets they encountered many times, and also kept an eye out for technology or items which would help improve long term life on Voyager.

A long, straight line with no stops, no discoveries, no trade, etc. would not only eliminate the possibility of shortcuts but also would have meant most of the crew on the ship would have lived out their lives and died just performing routine duties along the straight line home. Not much of a life, honestly.

[Teaos]

There is also the fact thaVoyager couldnt go full speed the whole time. It needed to slow down for maintence and cool down. May as well do that at a Nebula.

[Josiah Thompson]

I did a comment on the Voyager YATI page, and I'll summarize it here.

Why doesn't Janeway use the Bajoran Wormhole? She was just at Deep Space 9 before the ship was swept away!
At the time, the Dominion weren't at war with the UFP yet, so why didn't she take the risk?

[Teaos]

I just looked up the time line and while war hadnt been officially announced yet the Dominion was in hostile contact and known to be unfirendly. Here is the link to the DITLtime line. It shows the series of events.

[Sionnach Glic]

Even if they weren't at war, waltzing through Dominion space wouldn't have been a very good idea. The Feds already knew they were unfriendly.

[Tsukiyumi]

Even if they weren't at war, waltzing through Dominion space wouldn't have been a very good idea. The Feds already knew they were unfriendly.

Not to mention that they knew of the shield-penetrating polaron beams, and the fact that the extent of Dominion space was probably a big ? at the time Voyager got lost. Personally I'd have rather dealt with them than the Borg, but I can understand why they wouldn't try.

[Sionnach Glic]

Well, they didn't realise the Borg resided there at that point.

[Tsukiyumi]

Well, they didn't realise the Borg resided there at that point.

I could've sworn Janeway made a comment about anticipating running across Borg space in "Scorpion".

I'm saying I'd rather have dealt with the Dominion than the Borg. Dominion ships don't have Transwarp, and Voyager is fast. Just my opinion.