From: Gilberto Simpson 
Subject: Re: Why don't they...?
Date: 2000/07/15
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In alt.tv.star-trek.voyager King of Cyberia  wrote:
> Today Gilberto Simpson walked on stage, wiggled said hiney and 
> spoke to the members of alt.tv.star-trek.voyager:


why don't they just find a single
> GS :isolated cube, let the immune kid get "assimilated" and infect the cube,
> GS :and then take its transwarp drive and go home?

> They already tried something like that. In "Dark Frontier" Janeway stole 
> the transwarp drive from a Cube.

I know they already tried something like that when the original cube was
damaged. And it worked in the sense that that gave them a significant leap
in their journey. I'm saying that if it worked so well, they should try it
again now that they have the means.

 Later in "Timeless" they try it out but
> it only crashes them into an ice planet, killing everyone.

That was a different sort of speed technology. And actually they have
several. The slip-stream that they got (and USED with some success) from
that guy who was mad at them for helping the borg. There was Tom's
experimental drive which helped but turned you into a salamander. There
was Kes (on the episode when she came back maybe they could have asked her
for another shove rowards earth, no?) There was the space folding machine
that they traded for a bunch of stories. There was that new kind of
drive that the Demon-Voyager people came up with (although I guess it's 
not fair to mention since the regular voyager didn't know about it.)
And there was the Equinox's method (which was unethical). And I'm probably
missing a few.

I guess I'm just saying that if they really really wanted to and put a
little bit more thought into it, they could have been home.

> GS :While we are at it, why didn't they stay at that fast planet a few more
> GS :weeks (i.e. thousands and thousands of years to the people on the planet)
> GS :and ask them to come up with a fast mode of transportation. If they wanted

> After Voyager being stuck in orbit for millenia, I doubt the beings would
> be so eager to help someone who's been watching them.

But they WERE eager to help. That's how the show ended.

> GS :to be sticklers about the Prime Directive, they could have even waited a
> GS :day or two for them to discover warp drive before openly making contact.

> They already invented warp. That's how they freed Voyager.

I didn't think that was obvious. They used some kind of force beam to free
Voyager but Voyager was in their solar system and you don't need warp to
do that.

Peace

Gilberto