Voyager variant of a classic:

VOY s7e9 “Flesh and Blood”

Admittedly, Ensign Ricky’s fate isn’t shown on screen. However, after Paris beams out with the lone Hirogen survivor, Seven shuts down the simulation which leaves her, Chakotay, Tuvok, and stray bodies… no Ricky.

Didn’t even give him the courtesy of a glorious death.

  • cadekat@pawb.social
    13·
    9 days ago

    Huh, this begs the question: did Voyager acquire enough new crew members to maintain a constant population?

    • ummthatguyOPMEnglish
      20·
      9 days ago

      Janeway learned a trick or two from O’Brien before leaving for the Badlands. Buffered backups.

      • ummthatguyOPMEnglish
        13·
        9 days ago

        Ensign Ricky is just a placeholder for whichever sad sap gets zapped next.

      • taiyang
        11·
        9 days ago

        This list (and this site in general) is certainly a sign of someone with deep psychosis, but I love that someone did the math all the same. Lol

        • limelight79
          4·
          9 days ago

          The wiki with the chairs on Star Trek is way better for that minute detail nerd cred.

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
        5·
        9 days ago

        Now that’s a dedication to Nerdiness that the Web used to reek of! Thank you for linking to that.

        I would challenge their final paragraph about medical staff. Given the length of time Voyager was traveling, I’d expect at least one or two members to learn at least some medical skills to augment sickbay. They might be official medical staff, but any sideways references to a ‘team’ or pluralized sickbay could be easily handled by anyone who crash coursed into it.

        I would also like to see the square meters per Voyager crew member. The ship had tons of space to go around.

      • ummthatguyOPMEnglish
        8·
        9 days ago

        6 from Equinox, Seven, Neelix, and Kes (but only 'til early season 4 plus an extra appearance). The rest from the buffer as needed.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    12·
    9 days ago

    Kinda like in recent Trek series where, when an episode begins with a day in the limelight of a non-main character, it’s basically their eulogy.

    • DIS: Lt. Miriam Airiam. Stupid autocorrect.
    • SNW: Ensign Gamble
    • ummthatguyOPMEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      At least with SNW, he was a new character. DISCO dropped the ball (I know, I know, into the buffer) at any attempts to flesh out characters beyond the core 5 or so. Sudden backstory is always a death sentence.

  • lordnikonEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    Just once I would have loved for them to inverse the dynamic and the rando redshirt is the only one to make it back and we spend the whole episode with them trying to reset it and saving everyone.

  • Autonomous@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    I don’t know how Harry manages to avoid these assignments. He should have died ages ago.