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>The ship started out with 38 torpedoes and no way to replace them (stated explicitly in dialogue!) and by the end of the show they had used something like 85 o

by jeffcox 11y ago

>The ship started out with 38 torpedoes and no way to replace them (stated explicitly in dialogue!) and by the end of the show they had used something like 85 of them. I get where you're coming from, and they definitely would have been better served to a) not say that, or b) resolve it at some later time. That said, part of what made Voyager interesting (to me) was that they had basically taken house cats and thrown them into the wild. In Federation space there was never a need or desire to make new photon torpedoes on the fly, but in the Delta quadrant for seven years they probably figure something out.

mikeash 11y ago
That is kind of my point. What made Voyager interesting was the dire situation they put everybody into, but then they chickened out and often just punted on the whole question. How you cope with conflict when your supply of weapons is inherently limited can make for interesting stories. How to find a new supply of weapons could make for interesting stories. But they couldn't be bothered to go either way, and just went straight for "the characters figured it out somehow, offscreen, and implied." To stretch your house cat analogy way too far, it's like if the show constantly had the cats eating kibble, but without ever addressing the question of where it came from, even though that's a pretty important part of surviving in the wild and has lots of potential for good stories.
serge2k 11y ago
Except they never explored the problems they faced. The maquis had about 3 episodes worth of issues integrating perfectly into the crew. They had to ration things apparently, no one ever seemed to mind. Damage wasn't a problem, lots of spares I guess. Oth r than he Doctor it was 7 years of the same people (which is true for most series, except ds9). So much wasted potential.

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>The ship started out with 38 torpedoes and no way to replace them (stated explicitly in dialogue!) and by the end of the show they had used something like 85 o

by jeffcox 11y ago

mikeash 11y ago
That is kind of my point. What made Voyager interesting was the dire situation they put everybody into, but then they chickened out and often just punted on the whole question. How you cope with conflict when your supply of weapons is inherently limited can make for interesting stories. How to find a new supply of weapons could make for interesting stories. But they couldn't be bothered to go either way, and just went straight for "the characters figured it out somehow, offscreen, and implied." To stretch your house cat analogy way too far, it's like if the show constantly had the cats eating kibble, but without ever addressing the question of where it came from, even though that's a pretty important part of surviving in the wild and has lots of potential for good stories.
serge2k 11y ago
Except they never explored the problems they faced. The maquis had about 3 episodes worth of issues integrating perfectly into the crew. They had to ration things apparently, no one ever seemed to mind. Damage wasn't a problem, lots of spares I guess. Oth r than he Doctor it was 7 years of the same people (which is true for most series, except ds9). So much wasted potential.