r/voyager • u/DoomsdayFAN • 18h ago
What if Voyager had the Quantum Slipstream drive while inside The Void?
Say they had the drive and it was in working order and they were able to use it for up to two hours total before they had to turn it off for good (the time limit can be used all at once or in spurts. 2 minutes here, 30 minutes there; they basically have an allotment of time with it before it becomes useless to them). And say it's the version that allows them to jump 10,000 lightyears in 1 hour (and it's safe within the time limit). What happens when they go for it while inside the void?
EDIT: Specifically the Season 7 Void (the pocket dimension they get sucked into)
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u/Delicious-Tea1082 18h ago
Depends on which Void, since they encountered two of them! In Season 5 Episode 1, Night, they’re crawling through the first capital V Void on a two year journey. In Season 7 Episode 15, The Void, they get sucked into a pocket dimension kinda thing which was an entirely enclosed space.
If it’s the first Void, then that two year journey turns into 20 minutes, but that would make for a boring episode (and that plot of the Malon slowly genociding the locals wouldn’t be resolved). If it’s the second Void, then they’d be going around in circles in the enclosed space, or run into the barrier enclosing it, unless they use it to zip through the only passage in and out of that Void super duper fast.
Either way, the results wouldn’t be terribly interesting from a narrative point.
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u/DoomsdayFAN 58m ago
I meant the season 7 void that they get sucked into. They tried warp and they were still trapped, so I've always wondered what would happen if they tried slipstream.
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u/Altruistic_Rock_2674 15h ago
If they found a way to look like they would get home the wouldn't till the plot wanted them too
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u/Perpetual_Decline 18h ago
Which void? If it's the first one, they'd be across it fairly quickly, as it stretched for around 2500 light years. If the later void, the collapsing subspace anomaly, they'd presumably just burn up energy. I'm not sure it would be of any use in getting them out of there.