"Don Sample"  wrote in message 
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> In article ,
> "Ken from Chicago"  wrote:
>
>> "Don Sample"  wrote in message
>> news:dsample-755764.20150609012009{at}news-central.giganews.com...
>> > In article ,
>> > "Ken from Chicago"
 wrote:
>> >
>> >> VOY had potential but was continually half a step off, if
not flat out
>> >> stupid.
>> >
>> > If I had been a member of the crew of Voyager, I would have mutinied, 
>> > or
>> > deserted.  Janeway was clearly incompetent to command a rowboat.
>> >
>> > Ensign Paris:  "Captain, there's a strange glowing
nebula over there."
>> > Capt Janeway:  "Let's fly through it!"
>>
>> "Captain, wait, so we've spent YEARS flying home because you
couldn't ASK 
>> if
>> Q could snap us back?!!?!!?!"
>
> Or, hey, we got back to Earth, but it's 1995 (or whenever it was), so
> all we have to do now is a warp speed slingshot around the sun, and
> we're home, but the time agent who got us into this mess in the first
> place shows up again, and tells us we gotta go back where we were, and
> we just meekly go along with him.
>
> Or if you don't want to to the slingshot thing, just go park in some out
> of the way bit of empty space, hang out a "do not disturb"
sign, and put
> everyone into stasis for a few centuries.
>
> Or you find a few hundred light years of straight, empty, space, and use
> the impulse engines to accelerate up to near light speed, and let
> Einstein do his thing.
>
> -- 
> Quando omni flunkus moritati
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After all, the Ent-D found a couple of cryopods from the 21st/22nd century 
that survived. You'd think a couple of 24th century techies could suss out 
how to do the same.

-- Ken from Chicago
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