Which Star Trek ship would you like to serve on?

[TheFaerieQueene]

I love Star Trek and am looking forward to the new series Star Trek Picard on Amazon next week.

I’ve been thinking about which ship I would like to serve on. Tbh it is easy, Voyager!

I’m sure I’m not the only Trek fan (I’m not a Trekkie) here. Let’s see which is the most popular vessel.

Any bloody Cardassians out there can bugger off now.

Found this on a trek forum about why Janeway and Chakotay never happened.

Kate Mulgrew felt that J/C shouldn't happen because the core audience wouldn't be able to take Kathryn seriously as a commander if she was sleeping with her XO. The producers felt the same way.*

Another one for Picard’s Enterprise, though only if I could be a senior officer.

We too went to the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas. It was brilliant. Lovely creation of Quarks. We also, on that same holiday, went to the studios. At the time they were making enterprise season one, and the first episode had not yet come out. To our excitement we saw most of the cast, in costume, leaving the building and crossing in front of us to go somewhere or other. Our tour guide told us sternly not to take photographs!

I was mystified why they left the lizard babies of Janeway and Tom on the planet. Surely they would have had a huge impact on the ecosystem. Perhaps they Tuvixed them?

Picards enterprise for me
I grew up watching TNG love JL Picard

I can understand why Janeway and Chakotay never happened.

Speaking from a general workplace point of view, it could be problematic ethically if there was a romantic relationship between a superior officer and one of their direct subordinates - and just about everyone on Voyager would count as one of Janeway’s subordinates.
It’s the sort of thing where you can imagine Starfleet having regulations about how captains shouldn’t be hooking up with their crew, and I can imagine Janeway being too much of a stickler for the Starfleet ideals to get into bed with Chakotay. Even if she secretly wanted to.

And yes, why couldn’t they take the lizard babies with them? Bit mean abandoning them.

But not to derail the thread if it could be any space ship at all, then it would have to be Serenity- there lies my heart..

I want the Firefly theme tune played at my funeral

USS Excelsior under Captain Sulu. A gorgeous ship, in a fascinating era.

But surely also unethical for Chakotay to get together with Seven?

One of the best bits of The Orville is how everyone is shagging everyone, since it is obvious from Star Trek that this must be going on (see: the Delaney sisters and everything Riker and Troi).

I forgot the excelsior under sulu, ironic given how much I love the 6th film!

I'm wavering now...

Voyager. It has always been my favourite

Or maybe the USS Hood, which serves throughout the TNG/DS9 era and survives every major conflict (also Excelsior class, the prettiest ships in the fleet).

Much as I loved Voyager.. I think I'd choose Discovery. So many amazing characters and the ship looks pretty cool, not to mention being at the very forefront of technological advances!

Iirc the writers had initially put in Tom Paris as Janeway's love interest.

Wouldn't Paris be much too young for Janeway? I don't know how old she was supposed to be, but it takes time to rise to captain level and Paris seemed to be early 20s.

The best scene in the whole of television

Janeway was about 40 when Voyager set out.

A Captain shagging a much younger officer is a lot worse than her shagging her XO.

Paris and Janeway is just plain weird. Almost as weird as Troi and Worf.

Her and Riker between them must've done half the bloody crew.

The TNG episode where they lose their memories so Riker shacks up with Ro (?) Is bad enough but then the 3 of them sit and have a good old laugh about it in 10 forward at the end!

Wasn't Tom at the academy with Wesley?

I'm pretty sure he crashed a shuttle craft doing a zany stunt and spent a few years in prison, which is where voyager picks up from?

Sex was rampant in Star Trek. Even if the Producers didnt show it.

Paris must have had half the women on Voyager before he finally got B'lanna.

Paris was indeed meant to be Lucarno from TNG but the episode writers would’ve had to be paid as character creators, so Voyager producers simply used the same actor and gave him a new name.

Robert Duncan McNeill was in an episode with Wesley at the Academy to do with a dodgy shuttle crash but the character he played wasn't Tom Paris.

I clearly can't type fast enough!

They like recycling the actors though.

Ah like Tim Russ being in generations then.