I Don't Want to be Right

[Hammerskjold]

Voyagerrrrr.... it burrrnnnnssss....

-Jester

Hey now, we have Voyager to thank, sorta kinda. Without it, Ron Moore would have never left to go make the BSG reboot.

What Voyager could\might have been.

http://trekmovie.com/2008/06/21/exclusiv...k-cliches/

TrekMovie: On Voyager and Battlestar, it is a ship on its way to Earth with no infrastructure, there are some parallels. Would ‘Ron Moore’s Voyager’ be like Battlestar, if you were the showrunner?

Ron Moore: Yah…probably…when I was on my brief tenure on Voyager and I was starting to think in terms of what I wanted to do, I remember sitting with the writing staff and saying ‘I really think…that when Voyager gets damaged it should get damaged, we should stop repairing the ship, the ship should be broken down more and devolving a little bit more.’ One of the ideas I had is that they should start developing their own culture within the starship and letting go of Starfleet protocols and stop thinking of themselves as Starfleet people on some level, even though they still wear the uniform and still try to adhere to the regulations. I thought it would be interesting that by the time this ship got back to Earth, that it didn’t even belong at Earth anymore. That it sort of had become its own culture, it had formed its own civilization which was dissimilar to that which they had left behind…Now that you mention this there was somebody, I don’t think it was me, somebody had pitched the notion of them having to guard some alien ships they had encountered. It was a convoy and through some plot I can’t remember that they had agreed to protect and Sheppard through some hostile star systems on their journey. And they were going to be the warship tending the little convey of civilian ships. And I was really taken with it and really liked the idea and thought it would be cool and it was sort of Galactica. We might have even mentioned Galactica….but to your question, If I had been the showrunner from the beginning I probably would have sent it into a darker direction and sent it into a more harrowing journey yes. And made them more on the run and more less of a pretty journey getting back, and at the same time, I probably would have felt compelled to stay within certain boundaries of what Trek was and how Trek had established itself. So I don’t think I could have taken Voyager to the places I have taken Galactica, even if I did have the reins.

Re: Hurricane gendered names.

I've read the same article.

I think the solution is obvious. We are still way too subtle. Hurricanes should all be named with the softest, cuddliest, most huggiest sounding names possible.

Hurricane Cotton Candy Cloud. Hurricane Snouggy Oukums. Hurricane Winkle Wonder. The people who tuck tail and leaves, they're obviously cowards. The brave ones who stay and weather such wimpy flatulence from feh, 'mother' nature. Those brave souls will be nominated for the Darwins.

I'm not saying it's the -final- solution, but it's one solution.

/Dogwin.

Daschundheit!