3 other ways Star Trek: Voyager was supposed to end

LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 03: Jonathan Frakes and Jeri Ryan attend Creation Entertainment's 2019 Star Trek Official Convention held at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on August 3, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 03: Jonathan Frakes and Jeri Ryan attend Creation Entertainment's 2019 Star Trek Official Convention held at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on August 3, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) /
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LAS VEGAS, NV – AUGUST 11: Cast of “Star Trek Voyager” participate in the 11th Annual Official Star Trek Convention – day 3 held at the Rio Hotel & Casino on August 11, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) /

Returning to Earth before the finale

One of the ideas for the finale would be making a faster return to Earth and leaving more time in the finale to explore the crew’s return to Earth and how they felt about being back. Roxanna Dawson, who played B’elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager, loved the idea of returning to Earth before the end of the series.

Dawson spoke to Trek Monthly (via The Hollywood Reporter) about that and said;

"My only criticism is that I wish we had started to deal with the ending a little bit earlier, instead of just in that last two-hour episode."

Now, this could mean setting up the ending, or exploring about bout plans to end the show in earlier episodes or it means exploring Earth itself and the lives of the crew on the planet. Any of those would’ve been good, even all of them.

The show never did set up how it was going to close out the show. There was no master plan they were building to, or seasonal arc that would lend one to believe the show wasn’t going to end just like Quantum Leap did.

The final episode before the two-part series finale was Renaissance Man and was a singular stand-alone episode that saw the Doctor playing hero.

With the next episode being the first part of a two-part finale, one would imagine more time going into how the show was going to end.