That one was one of the many Voyager Writers' Room cries for help It was veteran Star Trek writer Joe Menosky's final swan song and artistic statement before quitting Star Trek writing entirely
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Which is why the episode is surprisingly good, even if the concept is obviously corny and the meta message was obvious from the very beginning
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That they'd lost their way in science-fiction gimmicks and Technobabble of the Week and tropey fandom shipping shit and forgotten the Elements of Drama
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That the core concept of Voyager still "works" if you take all the science fiction elements away A proud ship of explorers blown by a storm into strange and distant seas, clinging to their memory of the Great City of "Earth" in a savage hinterland racked by poverty and war
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The "Borg" just being another dime-a-dozen predatory civilization of rapacious raiders and looters and slavers The worst cruelty they enact on their victims being that they steal your children to raise as their own, who grow up thinking that their ways are good and right
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The playwright desperate to carry out the very serious mission of keeping the archon of the polis from declaring another brutal war by showing Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine resolve their differences peacefully
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That young Seven, a poor orphan girl stolen from the Great City of Earth to be raised in the ways of deceit and betrayal and taught there was no law in this harsh world but strength, could be brought home by Janeway, with enough patience and kindness and trust
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That the Great City of Earth only came to exist because her own ancestors had left the way of hatred behind long ago, and learned a better way (This is, notably, what Voyager was supposed to be about and almost never actually was about)
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(The "We need to learn to trust Seven so she can learn that trust is a value to be reciprocated" thing never really panned out Neither did "We must hold onto our values to be better than the Kazon and Hirogen etc. we're trapped among")
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The final lines of that episode always get me verklempt because they're such a bold mission statement for what Menosky *wanted* Voyager to be, this defiant reclamation of corny old-school Trek values that no one has ever actually done
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With this very old-school insistence it didn't matter whether the main plot arc was ever resolved "And so B'elanna Torres, half-Klingon, half-human, Chief Engineer, returned to Voyager Proud Voyager, Voyager of the white sails, Voyager who braves new seas without fear"
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"For as long as we have breath to tell them -- " *nods to archon* "-- and our patrons remain wise and compassionate -- These stories shall endure, and Voyager shall journey on Never ceasing, never resting"
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"Until she finds once more the Shining City of Earth Where peace reigns, and hatred has no home"
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