Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
One full-grown mistake spelled death forStar Trek : Voyager , and it happened mightily at the remnant of its pilot episode , " Caretaker " , sound out writer Ronald D. Moore . Voyagerpromised more than the simple story of a Federation vessel making its way home across the Delta Quadrant . Its conflict was imagine to arise from the clash between the Starfleet crew commanded byCaptain Kathryn Janeway(Kate Mulgrew ) and the members of the Maquis led by Commander Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) who were also strand , but that concept faded fromVoyager ’s scripts fairly early on on .
Writer Ronald D. Moore explains the lack of promised tensity between the two one-half of Voyager ’s crew inThe Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 yr , by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross . Moore posits that the patent ideological differences betweenStarfleet and the Maquisshould have provide more fuel forStar Trek : Voyager ’s fire , buta particular costuming choice thin the potential bang to mere embers , and finally just ash . record his citation below :
Ronald D. Moore : When the Maquis put on those Starfleet uniforms at the end of the airplane pilot , the show was dead . That was the biggest mistake , because they went through this whole affair to bring on their enemies . We made up the Maquis on DS9 just so that they could appear on Voyager . Here are Starfleet officers who had become terrorist resistance fighters , guerrilla warrior . The Federation has get them on the run and both of these groups are thrown in a ship on another side of the galaxy and force to subsist together . You ’d call back that ’s the setup for a major show about difference of opinion , but at the end of the original they all put on the Starfleet uniforms and that ’s it . It was a Brobdingnagian fault . It should have been these two sides that were forced to work together that still do n’t like each other and still are gunning for each other , wondering who ’s depart to get out on top . Who ’s going to sell who ? It should have been gilded , but they got frightened . Unfortunately , the fact that DS9 did n’t do as well as Next Gen scared them and they did n’t want another dark show that was n’t as successful . They need a show that was more like Next Generation and promiscuous to accept and where people did n’t have to call up as much . So they take in all the wrong lessons and said , “ Let ’s toy it safe . ”
InStar Trek : Voyagerseason 6 , episode 10 , " Pathfinder " , the holographic counterparts of Voyager Maquis crew phallus are dress in civilian clothing , since the program ’s Maker , Lt . Reginald Barclay ( Dwight Schultz ) , would have no way of jazz they ’d adopted Starfleet uniform .
Seven’s Costuming Set Her Apart From Starfleet Officers
Star Trek : Voyagerdid , in fact , play it relatively secure in its other season , as Ronald D. Moore suggests , butVoyagerrose from the metaphorical dead when ex - BorgSeven of Nine(Jeri Ryan ) join the cast inVoyagerseason 4 , andfulfilled the promise of difference of opinion between Starfleet and an opponent perspective . Instead of Janeway representing Starfleet ’s accommodative flavor and"needs of the many"against Chakotay ’s Maquis independence , Janeway argued in favor of laissez faire versus Seven of Nine ’s adamant pressure on the Collective ’s superiority . This flipped script helped define Janeway ’s values through Seven ’s on-going opposite .
In costume Seven of Nine , Star Trek : Voyageravoided the fault that sentenced Voyager ’s Maquis crew member to an early fate of easy cooperation . Besides the obvious prayer , Seven ’s conspicuous civilian wear set her asunder from Voyager ’s uniformed crew , while also offer a optical marker that Seven was not part of Starfleet , and did not share their value . This dress up pick also served to illustrate how fellow member of theMaquis crew adapted to Starfleet too quickly , seemingly abandoning their Maquis roots the moment they put on their Starfleet uniforms , just as Ronald D. Moore pointed out .
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origin : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and unauthorised unwritten account of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
