Season
Two
Episode
Trivia
Thrown Key (Part Two)
Title Meaning: Morgan decides that to get J/C to talk out their issues, she has to lock them up. As no one lets them out, she may as well have thrown away the "key"
Alternate Titles - Throw Away The Key (original title), Resistance Isn't Futile (Reboot Only)
Inspiration - Unimatrix Zero for one, as for the key part I'm not sure.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - Unimatrix Zero
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Sometime between finishing Part One and finishing Season One (yeah there were episodes still not finished when I released the cliffhanger. Great huh?), I decided that I wanted to make the B4FV series. To do that I thought I needed some more characters, all of which I decided to introduce in this episode first.
Danny and Ian were mostly first as Jessie and James' friends that they hadn't been seen with for the three/four years of Season One. I don't think I had the full back story to explain that though at the time, but I'm sure I had decided that they had a falling out at least sometime before Aggressions. Either way they don't really make up during the episode and I'll probably not show much or any of it in the reboot either. I did badly explain this in the B4FV3 page, but I didn't write Danny and Ian as the bad guys in the fall out. I just wrote it to make Jessie think so, James was in full agreement with them. Basically what you miss is Jessie and Danny apologising to each other awkwardly, and now they're friends again. I'm not sure if it's noticeable but the episode should show that they're still (yes I'm repeating myself) awkward around each other as the apology wasn't long ago. Ian just sort of goes with what Danny does, he didn't fall out with Jessie anyway. As for James' side, maybe that should be shown as Danny just goes straight back to shipper mode despite why they fell out (again, the backstory wasn't fully planned out then. Yes I admit, it's a retcon).
Next were Faye, Claire and Lee. I already had a few characters based on friends, so I figured I'd put a me in there (did I forget the Marill persona? Obviously). That was Faye. Claire and Lee were a duo, friends since comprehensive school. Claire may as well have been just called Katie, after her "actress". It's hard to explain really, but simply a friend of mine was a big fan of hers and I guess I wanted to make fourth wall appeals to him haha. Kinda like what I did with Kes sometimes. Lee was brought in with the basic traits of being over excitable and loves to eat. Oh and he had a thing for weapons for some reason, that's probably the only thing I removed. To be honest, he's my second favourite out of these six newbies. Danny is my first.
Last but definitely least was Lisa. I already had Tani trying to be a flirt, I had Craig slowly fading out of his, Tom was married etc... so yeah I had my fill regardless, yet I still brought her in to do just that.
In the end the prequels would have worked fine with just Danny and Ian being added. Lee could have easily just been in Yesteryear and In The Eye as the "redshirt" and I wouldn't need to change a thing.
Thrown Key had a very memorable bad-fanfictiony moment removed. For some reason I thought it was necessary to describe what the awayteam into Unimatrix Zero was wearing. It took up a good paragraph. I dunno why I did it, I always hated reading it in fanfiction but there it was. I think I either edited it down or removed it completely. It's been a while since I read this episode.
As mentioned in previous trivia/history pages, by this point in time I was trying to figure out a way to gradually change James into what I wanted him to be. There were a few S1 episodes left to do this in, but I definitely failed (to even bother it seems). I had until Interactions to do something or what he does there would be more shocking than I intended. Unfortunately though the moments in TK-2 didn't seem to work and I barely made a change at all. As you'll see from The Love Spell, I never managed to accomplish this properly. I'll mention this in the appropriate episode, but from what I remember of TK there were subtle hints of me trying and failing.
The Love Spell
Title Meaning: It's not really a spell, more like a virus. See Inspiration.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - I'm not proud of it, but The Love Spell was my best friend's idea, I'm sure of it. I needed to kick start the Duncan storyline somehow and Voyager's Drinking Game had been and gone already. It's okay though, we do share ideas and she has to be okay with it, it's not like I hid it from her. I have asked recently, it was her original idea. Season Two contains most of my least-proudest moments, ahem, and one is very soon after this.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Coming Soon
Interactions
Title Meaning: The original episode was just going to focus on the time travelling side. James and Jessie didn't exist when this was planned and titled, so yeah. Interactions is just for the awayteam interacting with the people of the future. Nothing special.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Pass, but I have a feeling it is a similar story to Resistance.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)1) Spoilers for Season Three and the prequels: I believe what I'm about to talk about is one of the biggest retcons the series has, which hasn't been fixed or made excuses for. I will detail in later entries that a lot of things were planned quite far in advance, but this problem wasn't foreseen. I wouldn't be the first writer to have this happen to them. I'll set the scene for you. Jessie is pregnant, James obviously (still) has feelings for her. A man who's lost his mind and they met before, waltses over during a prison fight/argument and just randomly stabs her in the lower back. She dies almost instantly, naturally the baby would die with her. Voyager thankfully are able to find their crew and Jessie is beamed to Sickbay. What happens between the stab and that isn't shown, but is talked about later. James doesn't really try to hide it. He killed him. I don't actually remember if he says how but that's not really important. It happened and that's that.
Fast forward to Season Three. Jessie is pregnant again. James has just gotten their son to safety and everything seems to be all right for the moment. Out of nowhere a woman appears to stab her in the chest. She has a ritual to complete, she wants to live. James and the son see everything. Again Jessie dies instantly and the ritual makes it impossible to revive her like last time. The woman disappears. Overcome with anger and grief, James' eyes change colour. For the next five episodes his temper is very, very low. He kills his father, almost kills Janeway, attacks his teammates, is easily manipulated by an entity who wants him to kill randomly. Well you get the idea. Do you see what's wrong yet?
Interactions there's no mention of his eye colour change. He doesn't go on a random killing spree, which by the way makes Disconnected make more sense. You see I do get things right eventually ^_^ He kills the guy, he's punished and it's very rarely mentioned again. The circumstances are the same, so why doesn't he do the same? I can't make excuses. His main back story then was the mysterious murder of his "mother" and his anguish of it caused him to kill two people, even if it was by accident. James should have done the same thing here.
You want to know why nothing happened in this episode? When I wrote Interactions there was no such thing as an "Evil Slayer". When it did exist, I forgot to do anything about this. Disconnected has more on the subject, so to be continued...
2) Temporal Game Cubes? Lol. This episode is a "hot" mess. That is all.
3) Speaking of messes. The abortion topic is so god awful, I ran out of what's while reading it. I was a naive, very ignorant little brat back then. Abortion is wrong? Says me... groan. I dunno why I put my immature beliefs that did not apply to me then, and never will, into this episode. The pregnancy story could have a few lines changed and the situation would remain the same. In fact, enough said, it's done. The issue isn't that abortion is an unspeakable evil, groan. It never was. The spoilerfree issue is Jessie found out she was pregnant, decided on an abortion, but then blabbed it to James in an "oh btw it's yours" way, and it was awkward as heck. There was no need for the overdramatics.
Anyway James takes it badly, there's the awkward Sickbay scene that follows that actually does need more than a few edited lines cos yikes it's creepy and out of character*. Later they apologise to each other. Her for telling him badly, and him for overreacting. The rest of the story plays after that, not without some funny and I doubt it was intentional foreshadowing from a salesman; "here, take this shield to stop you dying and stuff". Sigh.
*Yeah I'm going back to the scene when I'm done complaining here.
I was reminded that It's Your Duty had some questionable lines in it. I have no excuse for that. That was years later. Sigh. It wasn't quarter as bad as this though. Wow, and I didn't think Season Two got that bad until in the later half.
Spoilernotfree details: This is why the prequels was planned in. Even back when Interactions was being written, James and Jessie had their baby tragedy from B4FV3 already in their back story. From James' POV the baby dying was brutal for them both, so he can't see why she'd want to abort him. There's a reason why Jessie's lies look awkward, and more so. I suppose at this point who can tell the difference? This episode was written badly anyway.
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Disconnected
Title Meaning: Vague title on purpose. It starts out in a way to make you think it's just about a disconnected ex drone.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Originally I'm not sure, but it ended up taking/stealing the plot of Frighteners.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)I've tried not to plan the reboot for Season Two too much, but this episode comes up a lot in my mind. The original premise of it was incredible for me at the time. It was subtle in places, it was creepy and it had its sad moments. When I reboot it, it will keep everything that I loved about it but that does mean it will get a full rewrite like Aggressions. I'll explain. I don't know why it happened, and I don't know why I liked it for so long but Disconnected was ruined by my attempts to steal stuff from the film The Frighteners. Somewhere from the ghost being seen, it completely takes over and it is no longer the episode I wanted. Nothing about the second half is original, even the Debbie flashback is tainted by the fact that it only happens because Frighteners had a death flashback then too.
The original plot was vaguely similar and I likely got stuck half way through, as it wasn't what I was used to writing. That's all I can think of. The original plot was simply (if you are interested in reading the reboot of Disconnected when it appears, I'd avoid this) James dies briefly during the transplant to save the Tolg drone. During his recovery people start dying, people who have been near James quite recently before they were murdered. After Interactions it makes sense to be suspicious of him, he's a suspect very quickly. It sounds the same so far, doesn't it? A ghost reveals herself to him, she tries to convince him it really is him doing it as he's a proven killer already, she also knows about his murdered sister and hammers the guilt trip for that too. It works eventually and he gives himself up to avoid hurting anyone else.
The murders stop for the time being until Jessie's intervention (and likely Morgan's too), so she becomes a target. She's attacked while in the Brig with James, it's not like anyone will believe him at this point. They escape to try to figure out what's really happening. They discover that the drone lured the Tolg to that planet to hide what he and another did, which was obviously go on a murder spree. Even his own death couldn't stop him, what did was that he couldn't leave the planet. He either inhabited another body, a one assimilated already or temporarily habited his own so he could get onto Voyager and haunt that too. He still had no means to ground him there though, and that's where James came in. Thanks to the botched operation, he has a tie to Voyager. I don't remember how I resolved this, but it sure as hell wasn't Foster's wacky twin chasing everyone with a gun and a ghost being trapped in a box. Writing all of this now makes me want to skip Season One's reboot and fix this episode, it really does. My only issues is I don't remember the original ending and I'd have to chuck the other Foster in somehow, thanks to a certain plot in Season Three.
This episode could have been great, sigh.
Like Interactions there are spoilers for Season Three and the prequels: Despite my big muck up in Interactions that I've already mentioned, Disconnected does well to keep later stuff canon without even trying. As I said, there was no Evil Slayers back when this was new. All I had though was a very lightly planned back story of how James got into the Marquis, and it wasn't just his ability to hack. Yeah Test of Time is wrong but who tells their life story accurately? No one. Needless to say, Evil Slayer storyline or not, James had a violent history that was unknown to the readers at the time. Interactions failed as I obviously didn't know my future plans, but Disconnected worked with what was there already and what came later. You're lead to believe it's just Interactions that makes people assume the worst of James, but if you consider his past Evil antics now, the crew must have wondered why he wasn't flipping out after his last "evil" killing, until the first murder victim appears. Once again I'm feeling the need to reboot Disconnected to make it what it should have been. I wonder if I could do it now(ish), it's not like I'd need to reboot anything else before it. Hmmm.
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Resistance
Title Meaning: Jessie resists Simon's advances. James makes sure you get the meaning of the title before it even happens.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - A long time ago when FV didn't exist, probably, I had a dream about catching a new episode of Voyager in an electronics store. The episode was very J/C, but it was about a triangle. It turned out a little creepier than the episode, where this new friend of the Captain would follow her around. The Resistance side of the plot came about after the dream when I was planning it into an episode.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)I imagine many are disappointed or because they didn't like Resistance thrilled that I changed the focus from J/C to James and Jessie. I felt that Resistance's very basic plot didn't work with J/C as their characters would be completely wrong. Chakotay was supposed to be gentler because of Janeway, he says that himself, so the overprotective side of the story would be awful. The "huh I still/do like the other guy" part of the plot would have made Resistance into a bad J/C fanfiction, I think Janeway is well aware of her feelings for Chakotay (whatever they are). Simon would have been different, he had to be changed so he'd be more appealing for Jessie to be friends with. I doubt Janeway would have hung around with the current Simon. Well I think you get the idea.
I imagine Resistance would only have worked as a J/C episode if I kept the stalker angle from the dream. I still think though Janeway and even Jessie wouldn't have stood for that, so maybe not.
If you hadn't noticed the huge character shift for James by now, this episode will have hit you over the head with it a few times. You'd probably be in a coma. This is why I wanted to show the gradual shift for his character long before I got to Season Two's premiere. With Interactions, Disconnected and now this, there was no time to only do it in Season Two and this is the proof. James did have his bad temper moments in Season One, he was shown to be overprotective in at least Holo Q, but for the most part he was still a hyper goofball that had no backbone. Then suddenly in Interactions he kills the man who tried to kill the woman carrying his child. Disconnected he's sacrificing himself to save her from a ghost. Resistance he's punching people out, breaking their noses, throwing them into glass tables... and no one thinks "wtf?", they actually say "not again" like this happens every day. It's time to explain myself, spoilers are vaguely ahead.
To be perfectly honest by the time I was done with Disconnected I knew I had screwed up but I couldn't go back, I didn't want to. I hated the James of Season One, I liked what I had planned for him. He was going to suddenly change and people would notice. I wanted it to be gradual so people wouldn't, not right away. Then I'd explain what happened a season at least later, and I'd hope readers would be surprised they'd forgotten cos it happened the way I described. Obviously the reboot will handle this differently but that's another story.
I didn't know how it was going to happen, but I figured the best way to change James into what I wanted and still have him be that way in the prequels (so in other words, don't make his character develop into this, but to make him fade out of that goofy S1 persona), was to make his S1 persona the result of something supernatural.
I have vague memories of adding stuff like the "not again" line in Resistance, I believe the Doctor's comment about the punch not being a one time thing, all to make some people think what the hell is going on. Instead of hiding the sudden change away I wanted to draw attention to it. I wanted people to think it was weird. I wanted people to wonder why nobody is really noticing this. Why is this James normal, have they forgotten already? They haven't, not really. It's referenced a lot in later seasons eventually, but it's seen as a glitch, now that S1 is over the fog has lifted and they remember what James was always like.
Again in the Reboot I'll get to play around with this a bit. It's not just the character, it's the memories of the crew and Jessie as well. I was never going to write the two of them like that again, but because of my meddling I still have to do something. I'm glad of that cos despite it being a big muck up in the beginning, it's turned into one of my favourite plots of the series next to Season Five's storyarc and obviously the Lena/Kiara plot twist. Happy accident ^_^ Right now apart from the Deck Thirteen and Kes scenes in More Or Less, some vague hints in Four Out Of Five and recently Collective Instinct, you haven't seen much of it yet.
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Games Resistance
Title Meaning: The crew of Voyager resist the Game Cube.
Alternate Titles - I wish there was one. It's right after Resistance.
Inspiration - The episode itself I'm not sure, however the Game Cube idea is obviously a rip off. I have a lot of my own ideas related to it, which I will get into in the appropriate episodes (this is one), so it is a shame really.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Somewhere between this and F9 Control Failure there was an episode called Memories. It was cancelled for the simple reason of me being stuck on it. That eventually appeared in B4FV2. I'm mentioning this here as I still can't believe I have two similar titles right next to each other, I want to believe that Memories was in between them. Probably not.
I want to get this out there, it is important. Yeah the Game Cubes were not my idea, everyone (should) know this. However this episode introduces something important, but can be easily glossed over since the episode is poor. The Games Matrix. The Cubes were a means to use this whole idea. I had the species planned from around Holo Q, I had the Matrix planned no later than this episode, I had the Slayers basic mythology planned out (although I had no real name for them so when Spirits came along I badly improvised, sigh - though I don't remember getting into a certain other show that had "Slayers" in them until I was writing Season Three o_0), James and Morgan were already picked to be them. I just needed something to make these aliens a much bigger threat as everything so far had been so subtle I had even forgotten I had planned it so early. The Cubes seemed like something I could bring into a sci-fi series and make it work, it also gave me a bloody excuse to use Pokémon. Yeah, it's not all good. Don't get me wrong, I still love the Pokémon games but I hate its inclusion in FV now. Oh well.
Back on point, Games Resistance does mention/explain a few things surprisingly early. I was reading through it while preparing to write the episode Five and I was surprised to find such hints. I can't go into detail with some of them cos even Season Five hasn't gotten there yet 0_0 The one I can detail will contain Season Three+ spoilers: I wanted to believe that I came up with the James is Morgan/Lena's half brother much earlier than Man Out Of You, but a part of me didn't want to believe I was that well prepared. FYI Man Out Of You was for a while the episode I did think I came up with the idea for so many years, just because of that Ready Room scene where she says he's "like" a son to her. However GR is another episode that actually pokes you in the ribs, saying nudge nudge, proving me wrong. The watcher mentions a connection, says they're the only "natural" Slayers of the group, Janeway proves to be very worried about the connection part as she thinks he's hinting at romance. Later on she basically tells Morgan/Lena to date, so saying she's overprotective of her daughter and that's why she's concerned is moot. I see the "subtle" hints going back as far as Fugitives. Though I still haven't read through all of Season One recently, so you never know. That time will come.
Also the watcher aka Ronnie or Daniel, was shifty and a big liar from the very beginning. It definitely looked like it was done on purpose. I'm not that bad.
The one thing I do like about Games Resistance is that it fooled me. It had been years since I read it and all I remembered before then was the Pokémon battle and the falling asleep on the shoulder joke at the beginning. Once that was over I was greeted with hints that I planned quite far ahead, the first decent/threatening Game Cube game (in its first episode as well, so bonus), people actually reacting to the James change (see Disconnected), and speaking of that James' reaction to the B'Elanna attack, nice. I mean nice as in I remembered pre-Kiss of Death both James and Jessie acting like the Duncan pregnancy was the worst thing ever. It thankfully proves that James' reaction to Jessie's stabbing in Interactions wasn't just because of her, which I did want people to know.
Dimension Jump
Title Meaning: The "Ligers" and the villains are from another dimension. I do think this title was from a KT chapter though.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - It's best not to ask such questions sometimes, see trivia
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)There's not much I can say about this episode now. It's a personal choice to be honest. I doubt anyone that visited in 2001 still visit, let alone remember what happened. Needless to say this episode turned out completely different to what I originally planned. I regret writing the whole thing now and the reboot will fix it one way or another. If I haven't already the episode should start with a warning to avoid it, it started a dark time in FV's history and it's a one I don't ever fancy talking about.
It is a shame that Duncan was born into such a hateful episode. That's probably the best word to describe it to be honest. I think that's all I will keep when it is rewritten, not only cos it obviously has to happen but the Tom and James fights, their side of the story etc... isn't that bad. I just think Tom's overreaction at the beginning wasn't explained well and didn't work. Nothing in the episode did to be fair.
On that note, Tom's overreaction was terrible and probably because I was just angry the whole time I was writing the episode - again no comment on why - Starting from scratch from this one is the only correct thing to do. All I have for this episode's reboot is Duncan's birth and the Lillyia introductions.
Saturday Night
Title Meaning: It's been many years since I read it, I assume it was because Seven attacks on that day.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - I have no idea, it would have been something guaranteed.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)This episode replaced Memories as I was stuck writing that one, probably because it was so soon after the events revolving around the previous episode. In the end the episode appeared in the prequel seasons. Saturday Night was likely picked as it was violent, satisfying my angry mood at the time. At least it started the Seven/Annika character development that's still going on today.
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F9: Control Failure
Title Meaning: The control of the alien ship F9 was lost. The title was originally in Kidz Trek but I wouldn't ask me what it meant then 0_0
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Nothing, I think
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)It's mentioned elsewhere but I'll try to sum it up here. Kidz Trek was my old idea for a sci-fi novel series, it will never happen. The running gag in that series was that they kept losing their main ship, the Lillyia, so another was built. By the time the F series was reached, I started numbering them too. As a joke, seriously? Beats me, I was what... at least 11 when I named the F9. If you're a regular you'll have noticed my unhealthy obsession with the Enterprise E. It was either after First Contact or around Insurrection when I modelled the latest Lillyia ship after it. Naturally, despite the obvious differences, the ship became a firm favourite of mine. It stalled the destruction curse for the time being, until I started thinking up other ships. The F9 stuck around as a flagship while F10's, F12's, G's etc... would come and go.
Yikes that was a long sum up, haha. I'm not surprised. KT was based in our time, the Ligers were 3/400 years more advanced than we were. Since Voyager is based in the 24th century, I decided I couldn't do the same thing here. The last idea for the KT series was a future based one, where the fleet was up to the Z's. Enter the Lillyia Z5 into FV, or rather the Dellia Z5. I named them that as I was still delusional about writing and publishing it, and didn't want my very well known fanfiction series spoilin.... bwahahahaha. Oh at least I can make myself laugh. I'm not sure if I ever changed the earlier episodes so they were the Lillyia's, or just kept them there to make fourth wall jokes. Either of those are possible with me. I'll check someday.
Anyway the F9 seemed like the natural choice to be the ancient prototype ship for a big badass weapon. If I never described it in the episode, I can still remember it today. It helps it was an Enterprise E knock off, but hey ^_^ Imagine that, then paint it red, make its lower half tubbier (yep!), shorten the warp drives, remove the slight dip down from the saucer. Actually just imagine the top of the ship mostly flat. Those smaller warp drives would have been in the same position if I kept the slope, but they're in the same spot, level with the saucer. I didn't want it to be exactly like the E but yeah, that's the F9. It was bulky, sturdy, and come on it was red. It didn't have the same grace as the E, but what can you expect from me? I'm not exactly an artist, *snigger* not even close.
I would have mentioned this in Dimension Jump but that deserves to be skipped until a nice reboot. Lilly's crew is smaller, well from what I show you, but they're the same. First officer Scot was the possible love interest and I probably was inspired by Voyager for that one. He was supposed to be more level headed than her but still manage to pull off cocky and know it all. The love thing was also one sided at first, and not love at first sight (they're kids in the first book, duh). Carly would laugh at everything, it was her only trait - that I could remember. The brother was renamed since his original name was another sci-fi character's, I couldn't use it. Why I decided to give him the same name as one of my FV crew, I wish I could tell you. He was mostly the same. The older brother, heir to the throne but *snigger* Lilly was the leader, not him. IMO I did ruin Lilly in FV, though to be fair she wasn't that good of a captain in the first place. The brother was just lazy, but he actually had more talent than she did. I remember that much. The other characters weren't needed. I had two who would betray the crew, one of which got his evil removed and put into FV as a regular guest star. That's Sid, originally known as Sid the Psycho, or Sid Collie whatever ^_^ The other, Kim, was just a female Damien to be honest. A female Damien who like Sid, enjoyed pain and hated good things. Yeah, the KT crew never saw that betrayal coming!
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Precise Timings
Title Meaning: Morgan appears or rather talks to her past-self mother at a specific time, and it changes everything. The S on the end is just hinting there's more than one example, heh.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Ah ha. It's inspired by the main storyarc for FV itself. If you don't know it, I wouldn't ask.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - Resolutions
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)If you're not up to date with FV, this will spoil you big time. I'd avoid if you've recently reached this episode and fancied reading the trivia. I'm still changing the colour so it doesn't stand out. Now's your chance to skip to the next bit of white text. The episode was created so I could try to flesh out my ideas for the previous timelines that created the one the crew were in now. I naturally had the last one where Lena comes from figured out, but the one before it was still on the drawing board. I wanted to see if it worked. I didn't want to spoil it though by showing everything and what caused it exactly. Lena/Morgan was obviously going to do something different to cause the timelines to diverge, so that was fine. The future Kes showed her though was slightly altered, Kes wouldn't have wanted to spoil stuff like her secret half brother or anything, would she? The basics of the future are the same. Voyager is badly damaged, a lot of the crew are dead and it's all thanks to not stopping at New Earth/Resolutions planet. This episode was Five in its infancy, it did its job. It worked enough for me to continue developing it and here we are.
Kiara was aged for plot reasons, I can assure you. However Bryan was just done on a whim, and I'm not happy with it. He was already "older" when he was a baby. That damn kid was talking two or three episodes after his birth, I mean come on! Like I've done with Kiara, I'll fix that eventually. Bryan was aged so he could be added to the main cast. There was no need, Duncan after all was a member before he was even born (slight exaggeration. He was planned to be that's all). Unfortunately I can't change that.
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The Resurrection
Title Meaning: Two people are resurrected. I don't think Season Two had any clever titles to be honest.
Alternate Titles - The Corpse (yeah, it still could have been worse)
Inspiration - Hmm I have the nagging feeling that it was inspired by the 1999 remake of The Mummy. I've been wrong before (sarcasm metre explodes)
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)It was inspired by a movie, so why not make it a FV movie? Yeah what could go wrong? The Resurrection was launched on its own subsite, it then was moved to the movie section of the site, and finally put where it belongs, in the bloody episode archive. Even then it was stuck on the bottom with the other "movies". Sigh. I'll consider this just a special now, it feels a little less ridiculous.
The Resurrection also got this special treatment as it was previously a "book" from my previous Voyager series attempt. Yes book, I wanted to publish it. I should be a comedian... nah. I started it after writing the "book" before it. I didn't get far, it wasn't that bad. It was inspired but it didn't rip off scenes. When it became a part of FV, I had asked to replace one of my English coursework pieces for a story and this was my choice. It took too long to "novelise" it, so it ended up being some random Kidz Trek The Future chapter instead. How I passed is a mystery. It isn't a mystery why it was barely a pass though. Anyhow, it was altered to fit FV once again and I haven't a clue if I still have the original unfinished draft. I'm probably remembering it better than it was.
I didn't do a bad job of this version actually. Compare it to its movie sequel, Oasis of Abatua, when I should have known a little better, and Resurrection is suddenly a masterpiece. Yeah there were still Mummy scenes here and there, but I tried to make things different. Oasis is just the Mummy Returns with different people, Spoilers oh and the heroine stays dead. Yey. The Resurrection was checked/edited etc recently, it shouldn't need rebooting. Oasis however is one of the few Season Three episodes I've already decided to rewrite. In some ways Season Two trumps Season Three, these two are examples why. Season Two knew exactly what it was and rolled with it. Season Three wanted to be more and fell on its ass trying to do it. Season Four points and laughs at it when I'm not looking. Yes, I'm insane... you must know this already.
I like the ending scene, I do but it does need one more final edit. The line sticks out like a sore little toe... It could have easily ended without the last sentence. Seriously look at it. I know I wanted to set Kiss of Death up, Morgan had to know about it blah blah... but in retrospect, I really didn't. What Morgan does is also a little rude too, and it ruins the scene. I think so anyway.
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Kiss of Death
Title Meaning: The ritual is called this, it's not an imaginative ritual title either.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Since it directly follows on from Resurrection, I'll still say the Mummy.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Tuvok's plot has got to go. What the hell was I thinking? It's not that it's not erm... funny for all the wrong reasons. It's that it is done for no reason. I know this is FV and it has its random moments, but I remember this too well and still cringe. At least Season One had an excuse. Surely by this time I'd have learned. No? Nah, lets make Tuvok act like Naomi just because Janeway is bored. Lets have the Doctor be totally onboard with this, why not? Sigh. Let's be honest, the plot was only there because Tom had bet that he'd avoid gossiping and/or making fun of people (can't remember which) for a day and this would tempt him. That's it. I hope these days I can come up with something better, cos I'm keeping Tom's part in it at least.
Yikes that Tani and James scene. I'm not even reading it, I just shudder at the memory of it. She hadn't done anything wrong, there was no reason to suspect her of anything. Even so... shudder. I was badly trying to show James' complete character switcheroo and went way too far. Poor Tani... no wait she actually liked it, forget it. Yeah it'll likely go, unfortunately for now it's canon. Poor(er) writing, the shame.
The Slayers
Title Meaning: I dunno, the title is probably some random gibberish that I thought sounded awesome. It makes no sense... damn I already broke my sarcasm metre, I almost didn't notice.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Pokémon 3, Spell of Unown. Sigh
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Ah the Game Spheres. First I introduced/stole the cubes to give the Softmicron a physical threat, but I didn't want something that wasn't mine to be the only one. Enter the Spheres. I thought the plot of the film went well with my current ideas for the sphere, cos I obviously couldn't come up with a plot myself. Sigh. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a little annoyed with my 16 year old self writing these. Disconnected had the chance to be amazing, but I thought it would be more fun to steal scenes from a favourite film of mine. Dimension Jump is ruined so much I can't remember what the original plot for it was, and all the other stuff revolving around that episode. The Love Spell wasn't even my idea. I can't blame 16 year old me for Interactions' problem, but I can blame 17 year old me at least. Just checked the latest dates I could have come up with the thing that caused that problem, and yes I can blame 16 year old me. Damn. So here's another episode ruined by my need to steal. Or at least my inability to develop my own plot.
The Game Spheres, both versions of them, would have made a better story and it would be easy too. Why I had to rely on Pokémon, no... it makes me sad to think about. I'm not sure if the original idea for the Spheres was that they'd pick one person to choose the setting and well everything. The best parts about it were definitely not influenced by the film. Ah well. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't decided to include Pokémon battles. Though to be fair, the Softmicron had to show up here. The reboot would have to tone it down a touch, but the reveal still needs to be there.
The final battle. Why? Oh god. Spoilers: The Slayers mentioned only Chosens can win the spheres. I wanted to leave hints to the James/Morgan revelation, (oh hey there's another hint to myself that I came up with it long before Man Out Of You, yay) but at the same time I didn't want to give it fully away either. So what do I do? All James and Morgan do is get injured, that's how the game ends. The kid decides it's not what she wants and bam, it's over. I definitely blame the Pokémon influence there, but I blame myself a lot more. It made no sense. The Softmicron shouldn't have let her end it. What? I remembered this episode being a high point in Season Two, and then I read it not long ago. My memory of it must have been from 2001, that's the only explanation. It's awful and very wrong.
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True Q
Title Meaning: If you haven't read the episode yet you're only going to be spoilt here. Scroll away or press Back. I'll wait. Kiara is actually a Q. The title is the spoiler.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Nope
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Like Resurrection this had been read recently, as in while I was rebooting Season Four and preparing for the comeback recently, and I edited accordingly. It shouldn't need a reboot. I removed something from it and I honestly can't remember what it was. It wasn't much but it's bothering me. It does have something to do with Jessie's side of the story. That's all I remember.
Ah this episode does help give any non prequel readers a hint to why Jessie and James acted the way they did when she was pregnant. As well as how they act after Duncan was born. It's not well written, no worries. I'll do better with it, promise. The scene where Jessie finds out why her first pregnancy ended badly, makes it seem like all she cared about was that she and James broke up. It does to me anyway. It doesn't paint her in the best light, that's for sure. It wasn't meant to seem like that.
For being the big plot twist episode, there isn't much trivia here yet. I will get around to it. There's a lot to talk about, I didn't know where to start. I will say that the Kiara and Lena (yey I can write her real name from here on out, she's been Lena to me for 13 years) relationship means a lot to me, it's my pride and joy. It helps that it started all the way back in my Kidz Trek days, both of them have been technically apart of my life since, what 1996/97. It's complicated, it's brutal, sometimes can be horrifying (later S2 episodes, yeah beware), damned upsetting (Parental Advisory, you cruel bitch), bittersweet... well you get the idea. I didn't take the easy way out, and I'm proud of that. I'm not proud of much, let me have this and Season Five at least ^_^
While writing Halloween's entry, I noticed that True Q had a later release date than I remembered. I did remember Halloween being released before it, but the following five were also released first. According to the episode most of it was written before Halloween, just the ending was written around the release date. I can't remember what happened here. Halloween for example has Lena with her current name, if it was released before True Q that would be a problem. Halloween wasn't exactly a big deal, but Curse of Voyager, YWF, Why oh Why all needed the plot twist out in the open to work. Did the episode really sit unfinished for that long while I released episodes spoiling it in the mean time? I may have to see if my old archived sites left any clues. This is terrible.
There is this line in YWF that I recently found: Kiara thought, "ok, I'm just going to forget about that stupid thing Lena told me. To hell with the readers, if the writers won't upload True Q it's there fault not mine. I'm going to use my Q powers whether anyone likes it or not." That backs up the True Q not being released until after Why oh Why. Oh my. This isn't funny 16 year old me, I know 2001/2002 was a crappy time but this is inexcusable *facepalms and then notices spelling mistake in there, double facepalms*
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Halloween
Title Meaning: Um, at the very least the episode was released on Halloween and it was a Halloweenish type episode. Also I liked naming episodes after songs and Halloween's still one of my favourites.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Actually I'm not sure, as I say in trivia, I don't remember enough of it to know
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)As it was the Halloween episode, it was released on that date before True Q. It's one of few episodes that I honestly cannot remember. I haven't read it in years, I had no interest to. With The Slayers and Return of Third Voyager having recent reads, that worries me. It must be bad.
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The Curse of Voyager
Title Meaning: Haha, the title first came from the old Voyager series I wanted to novelise days. No I'm wrong, it was the old Kidz Trek Voyage chapter The Curse of (Whatever the hell the ship was called here) first. I guess basically the plot is the same. The curse spreads to the ship.
Alternate Titles - None unless you count Kidz Trek. I wouldn't.
Inspiration - Since it was a sequel to The Mummy episodes/chapters/novels whatever, I'll leave it as that.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)This episode is definitely ancient. It started out as a late chapter in the Kidz Trek Voyage series. I remember it was going to kill off the helmsman character at the end. I think poor Tom did in fact get killed by the same exact thing, but I couldn't kill Tom off sheesh. I don't remember if the KT version had the bad guys are reincarnations of (a) crewmember(s) like FV did, the rest of the plot remained the same for sure.
It then became the third novel to the Voyager series I wanted to do before FV was created. The previous one the Kiara/Lena (she was called Kiara but was actually Lena's character, yeah, that series didn't try anything shocking with them unlike KT and FV) was a kid, then by the third novel she was a teenager. Silly really. It was all for that guy that was never going to survive the episode side of the plot. As Lena had her own thing going on, Kiara got to hang out with him instead. Oh and I doubt I killed Tom off here too. Yeah the novel version had absolutely nothing going for it.
I haven't read it in a while, but it's still been read recently enough to know that my love for isn't being twisted by an ancient memory of it or because of its history. The only thing wrong with it in my eyes is that I made fun of the Voyager reset button by using the hell out of it. I'm sure Brannon Braga and Rick Berman would be very proud... yuck.
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Cause & Effect
Title Meaning: Um, to be honest this was a time loop episode and it was probably named this because the TNG one was. If it isn't the reason your guess is as good as mine, it is one of the few S2 episodes I haven't checked in years.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - My best friend was/is a big fan of Charmed. I for one really can't stand it. I wanted to make fun of the sisters but I knew nothing about them. I also wanted to continue my Seven bashing, so in the end I just made the "Charmed sisters" related to Annika. Changing a character's back story to suit a bad idea, I was born to write Voyager.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - Nope
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YWF
Title Meaning: Um... Y Wrestling Federation. Y probably stands for the species name or something like that.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Tsunkatse of course and er my sister getting me into WWF for a short time.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - Tsunkatse is nowhere in sight
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Remember when I said I was proud of Kiara and Lena's relationship and it meant a lot to me. I mean it, and that's why there's one part of YWF I hate with a passion. True I wanted Lena and Kiara to blame/hate each other at this point in time, it was meant to be brutal. However somebody didn't have to attack Kiara in a death match to get Lena to give a damn. It's a little too brutal. It also doesn't help that I hate the fact that James loses his temper here too. That entire match needs to be re-done. I did it all wrong and I knew it then too, I was just too lazy to do anything about it.
Oh yeah and Season Three again: here's another James and Lena are siblings hint. I know for a fact I decided by this time. Why else does Chakotay leave to be sick when he finds out that Lena's "do I like a guy if" conversation was about James. Janeway's reactions to the fights is also telling, and I remember doing so on purpose. When Tom decided to cheer on Lena in that match, Janeway still hits him. Hints galore.
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Why Oh Why
Title Meaning: Why oh why did I write a half biographical episode, and why oh why was the Duncan story the weaker half? Ok that's not the title meaning, but I couldn't resist. It was inspired by the song My Oh My, why was Duncan's first word. Done and done.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Hahaha oh dear. Duncan's side was original, Tani's... sigh. Shall we move on to the misc?
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)I have so many problems with Duncan's side of the story. There wasn't much build up before it. To be fair I've had years after the episode was released to come up with better stuff, which I didn't have before it was (duh). The problems include that there's no reason for readers to really take James and Jessie's side. No I'm not done, that isn't it. I didn't like that, so I made Tom do what he did so he wouldn't be completely innocent. I know why I really did it. Tani's side of the story had the message that there's always two sides to a story, life's not black and white, usually both people are in the wrong etc... It didn't work though. Tom shouldn't have been made to seem like he was wrong for getting revenge on James and Jessie. Think about what they and B'Elanna did, really think about it. Tom is the real punching bag of FV, not Seven.
As for Tani's side of the story, I don't know how I'm going to handle this as it's delicate, and I have bad memories revolving around it. Here goes though. Tani was me in the story, the guy was a friend. I thought the air was cleared, it would be fine to tell it as long as I was fair with the story. I wanted it to be. Basically I had screwed up, I knew it even back then. I didn't want Tani to be the innocent victim, I didn't want the guy to be the evil bad guy. I didn't want to be biased basically. Every time I read this episode I skip over this plot, it just makes me upset. Basically it was too soon and I didn't need to tell the story. It was too close to home as well, I could have been vague and it would have worked better, and be a lot less damaging.
To be honest, I'm not even sure I should talk about it here. I'll leave it as that above, but I wouldn't count on it staying. I wanted that part of my life erased from this site. Another good reason for the reboot, too bad it'll take ages before I can get to this (not a spoiler) and a certain other episode.
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An Apple A Day
Title Meaning: An apple a day won't keep the Doctor away. I know the saying is wrong, this version is a lyric. It is used for two reasons. One is that the crew get sick regardless, proving the saying is silly. The second is the name the Doctor picks. I know most people's first thought with his name isn't the song title, Doctor Jones, it's probably a certain film series but hey... it's the reason so there.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Not sure
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
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Bittersweet
Title Meaning: "Bittersweet memories, that's all I'll take with me. No matter what I know that I'll get by." The episode is named after one of my favourite songs, which is the final song that Lena invites Tani to sing with them. They had fallen out earlier in the season and I think patches things up here.
Alternate Titles - Hmm, I don't know to be honest.
Inspiration - The erm, singing Doctor episode.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Bittersweet is one of my favourite episodes from the season, it's been a while since I read it. I do remember the problems with it, which I'll go through, but that doesn't make me love it any less. The reboot for it will change those and slightly alter the reason for all of the music, and that's all I can say about that for now. Like Disconnected, it's an episode I constantly get tempted to rewrite despite not finishing Season One.
First I need to mention something. I was/am terrible at interpreting the simplest lyrics, most of the time I can't even hear them. You'll see why I mentioned that soon enough.
I don't like the band stuff of Season One to Three. It's not that I don't like the idea of my characters singing or dancing, it's that it was around too damn much. It was also because I used them to show off my terrible rewrites of songs I liked. 99% of them were anti-Seven ones and were violent, it's not good. AND most of my music at this point was Aqua and Steps. No variety there.
Despite this I love the idea for Bittersweet, I remember the song performances not being that bad... barring one I'll mention very soon. Season Two's reboot will have a lot less band stuff, and definitely less "die Seven die" lyrics. Bittersweet will be more like a one off episode, and not an episode devoted to something that kept happening anyway. That's my only big problem with it.
Now onto songs. There's that one near the end when Jessie's dying/badly injured whatever, the band just have to sing something right. James isn't mad, he's okay enough to go along with this with the worst song choice ever. I could have been right and be wrong now, or wrong on both counts. The song I picked I now think means "sorry I cheated on you, I was weak". I should look it up to be honest. I thought at the time it was just a simple "I was too weak to help you" song, sheesh. Wrong song choice or not, the performance is cringe worthingly cheesy. Only a certain scene in Deception and Betrayal tops this cheesefest.
Bittersweet, the song that is, was picked for Tani to help sing along with for a whole other reason. I love the song so much as I identified with it at the time. The lyrics gave me a little hope that things would get better. Go back to Why oh Why's trivia, that'll explain why Tani was picked to join in.
Don't get me started on the single releases, just don't. I thought Rihanna released her crap too damn often, wow. I did say the reboot will change the erm, music format. No worries.
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I Know What You've Done This Season
Title Meaning: Hmm, it's a mystery.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - The title alone gives a hint to the inspiration
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
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Suicidal
Title Meaning: The title focuses on Lilly's side of the story, but there are other characters involved who do different things.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Beats me
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)All I can think of for the time being was the Jessie part of the plot. She flashes back to The Chute/Bad Coffee Week, she basically re-enacts it. There was an error though due to it being released years before the original was written. The place where she's stabbed is/was different. I did fix it though, somehow. I think 0_0
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Heiress
Title Meaning: Lilly's the Liger heiress, it's revealed here, easy.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Nope, all I can say is KT as Lilly etc are from it.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
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The Atamit
Title Meaning: It's the name of the er, virus thing that infects the girls
Alternate Titles - Piece of Sh... oh sorry wrong episode
Inspiration - Stigmata
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)I hate this episode so very, very much. I dunno why I thought parodying Stigmata was a good idea. I obviously didn't at the time as its plot disappears/forgotten for the Jessie, James and the shippers side plot. I hate that too.
True Q and Precise Timings proved that James and Jessie had a relationship before their current one, and that it was hinted to be well... physical. YWF had a hint that it was just as serious this time already. The Atamit was already boring, so lets put some fake drama for James to angst about for no reason. Lets make him act like a recent not a virgin, hmm? Lets have him act like he and Jessie have never been together yet. It's not like she's been pregnant twice before. Lets talk about it with a 16/17 year old girl who's only real experience with this was wiped from her head, and even then didn't even happen to her, Q's just clicked a lot of fingers. Did I mention I hate this bloody episode?
Hey lets have Jessie get food cravings a few hours after said deed. That makes so much sense. This is so true to life, this happens. My new sarcasm machine didn't last long. I won't make any excuses. I had forgotten YWF's bedroom scenes, I didn't have an unseen conception in an earlier episode and made the er scene in Atamit a red herring. I wasn't being clever. Jessie did actually get food cravings the next morning. Hate it, just so you know.
The main plot barely lasts, and it's awful, goes nowhere. It brings nothing new to Stigmata, so you may as well watch the film. It has kids that look like adults in it on an awaymission, and since I've tried to erase it from my mind, it's possible one of them is hurt horribly. Breaking news, I hate this episode. Shocking isn't it?
The only redeeming part is the shippers, and that's still not funny. It's only redeeming because it has nothing to do with the so called main plot, and forget it being connected to Jessie's plot, it would have fit in any other episode, lets not kid ourselves.
This is my favourite episode ever... after pointless Hunters, forgotten why it's called Aggressions, hateful Dimension Jump and the episode that was too good for this site, Director's Cut. Classics, every single bloody one.
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Lea Halalela
Title Meaning: It's the (current) name of the ritual used in the episode.
Alternate Titles - N/A for now
Inspiration - Hmm, see trivia for a very loose inspiration.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Lea Halalela is the name of a song on a certain film soundtrack. It means basically "this land". I didn't know that. I liked the sound of it, and I especially loved the instrumental. That instrumental gave me the image of a ritual being performed, the seed was planted.
When I come up with a new but similar name for it, it will be changed... when the episode is rebooted, yeah. As the damn episode is named after it, I won't feel right changing anything. It's annoying but it's for the best.
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Return Of Third Voyager
Title Meaning: Return of erm... original Voyager. At the time I still had to use the "FV is based in a fifth dimension full of multiple fanfiction multiverses" reason for FV, as the real developed reason hadn't been revealed yet. Unfortunately that meant Original Voyager wasn't First, it was Third as in Third Dimension. Even then it doesn't fit with the current at the time explanation. It was described that anything fictional played out in the fifth dimension, INCLUDING original Voyager. So even in its day Third Voyager was wrong, it was still a "Fifth" Voyager, groan. It doesn't matter, this won't be in the reboot, count on that. I may actually rename this someday, it bothers me greatly.
Alternate Titles - I wish it was Return Of First Voyager or Original Voyager.
Inspiration - I was very angry with Endgame, very angry. It doesn't matter what the title is, it was somewhere to vent. Who cares if the title isn't accurate, oh wait I do.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
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Territory
Title Meaning: Haha oh no, see trivia. This title means nothing now, trust me.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Scientific Method and the Las Vegas episodes of Friends. Though calling them the inspiration is a big lie. I just stole them.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - Scientific Method
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Why is it called Territory? That's an excellent question. I have a similar one. Why is Hunters still called Hunters? I'll give you very similar answers. The plot disappeared into this magical place called the Fifth Voyager Pit. Usually a bad idea gets annoyed that it's not good enough and shoves the better one into it so it can steal its place. Film/TV show rip off/parodies like to do this a lot. My more sane answers are that I was lazy and obviously didn't care at that point in time.
To be fair to Territory, Danny and Ian still have their wedding, James still proposes properly, the aliens do show up eventually. Hunters didn't even bother to keep the messages in the plot. You could argue that Triah still manages to appear, and I guess you'd be right, but it's little consolation considering that I wanted the JC stuff from Hunters, the actual Hunters to appear, Hunters had Seven in trouble and worst of all, I didn't want bobble fights.
I guess Aggressions is the better comparison. Why is it called Aggressions? Yeah Kiara is born, yeah there are Season Three events showing the build up, Craig gets introduced but the point of the title is completely lost. It may as well have a new name.
What was Territory actually going to be about? Remember the aliens? Yeah? Was that because I mentioned them above? I thought so. Voyager enters their territory, the aliens respond in kind. They were a very superior race, who figured these rodents have wandered in, why not test things on them. It's their own fault. It wasn't particularly well developed, which lead to the rip offs sneaking their way in to make up for it. Even having a paper draft copy that was a few months old didn't rescue it from its fate. Territory is no longer about a territory being breached. If I made any reference to that fact, I'm not changing anything here cos if I forgot it, it still means the episode didn't focus on it.
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Deep Under
Title Meaning: Deep under water
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Thirty Days
Original Voyager Episodes Used - Despite being the inspiration, Thirty Days is mostly a no show.
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Man Out Of You
Title Meaning: James' father has a very narrow idea of what a man should act like, and he wants him to act as such.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Nada
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
Miscellaneous (Other Trivia)Ah Man Out Of You, I have such a love/hate relationship with it. I love it for being a good for its time episode. I hate it for not being a later season episode where I could write it better (and its ending, I hate its ending).
The James and Peter backstory is definitely a favourite of mine. Yeah I'm morbid, sue me. Before I changed James into a bad tempered, overprotective man who had killed people, he had an abusive father to explain it away. Unfortunately somebody growing up with a father like this is going to be a damaged adult, and that's James in a nutshell. I remember somebody on an unrelated forum telling me long ago that I wrote about the subject really well. Almost like I knew what I was talking about. My paranoia always tells me they were being sarcastic, but I really never talked to this person before and they had no reason to be rude right? 0_0 Meh, I'll never know. That site is long dead.
The reboot will likely triple the size of this episode, and leak into earlier/later ones. I have so much to go into this now. It's probably fine for some, but there are flaws in the episode thanks to it committing the crime of being in Season Two. Episodes are short, I had little experience writing things like this, the ending is proof I wanted it finished quickly. The flaws? James or Jessie (can't remember which) admit that Duncan is theirs right away. Why is that a big deal? James would not want Peter to know he has a son, just in case he does the same thing to him. James did lie in the first place when he asked, he said he was only engaged. Even admitting that is saying too much IMO.
Other flaws; Jessie and Janeway convince him to even see Peter too easily. Speaking of Janeway, her involvement in it is fishy, too fishy to seem genuine and no this isn't spoiler worthy. She's too nice to this guy. I think in original Voyager if Janeway met somebody that had done what he did, she'd be wary about re-introducing her crewmember to him and DEFINITELY wouldn't laugh about it while talking about her own daughter. Don't worry, again this was on purpose but it may look like it was just really bad writing (meh regardless, it still is). Another flaw, the reincarnation thing is quickly glossed over. Once it's out that he is Peter and not an alien with just his memories, he doesn't hide it from anyone else, and doesn't suffer any repercussions for lying.
I'm being too detailed to be honest, even if the reboot is likely years away. I'll leave it as that.
With the exception of the ending, that's a whole different matter. Unlike the above, this was intentionally rushed. I had a guest over at the time, and as the original Starships Cannot Run (and the majority of Season One for that matter) proves, I tend to go a bit over the top when someone is watching. Luckily Starships was a joke episode anyway, although it made little sense when I checked through it before its rewrite. I can't blame it on the person watching, I was the one that asked for an opinion on lines and actions. I didn't feel comfortable writing a decent finale the way I wanted with the company watching, and again that's my fault not theirs. Man Out Of You would be 10x better if I redid the ending for the time being. It would keep until its eventual reboot two/three/ten(lol) years down the line.
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Fair Chance (Part One)
Title Meaning: It's an ironic title I believe. Voyager is up against a brainwashed Starfleet in the end, there's nothing fair about it.
Alternate Titles - N/A
Inspiration - Loosely inspired by my other idea for a novel series based on Mercury.
Original Voyager Episodes Used - N/A
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