Where Does VOYAGER Get Its SHUTTLES?

Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Alone and without Federation or Starfleet aid and their resources. So how in Q's name did they manage to carry so many shuttlecraft?
They get blown up or crashed so often in the series and the ship keeps producing more. Where are they coming from?
This question has been a fan criticism for years but one that I think isn't that big of an issue as we've seen all the evidence to explain this in canon already.
I think... hear me out...
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[@aikiwolfie]

In the early episodes they replicated two giant water containers to bargain with the Kazon. So they definitely had an industrial sized replication.

[@bradleyj.fortner2203]

Yeah. I mean, it wouldn't be automated like it is in Prodigy. But, they would have been able to build shuttles the same way that they built the Delta Flyers.

[@whitewolf3051]

After watching Half Screen’s what’s inside Voyager, two shuttlecraft doesn’t make sense. Also, by showing only the profile/side view of the vessel, you’re not shown how much space there exactly is within Voyager. They should redo this after taking a look a Half Screen’s video.

[@plucas1]

It could explain why the crew were constantly dealing with 'replicator rations', when in normal circumstances the ship should have had plenty of energy and materials for food production. But if the replicator stores and parts were in constant demand for creating and fabricating shuttles and hull plating, that could be a different story.

[@wingedarr0w]

This could make sense. Maybe the deep space missions were stocked such that the crew got effectively free reign of the replicators for morale purposes (got to keep the crew happy on a multi-year mission where they might not be able to see friends or family). They had to give up that privileged to keep the ship maintained.

[@FirePoo]

This is exactly how I perceived the diolog in the show when I first saw the show & even to this day having re-watched several times. They say they are rationing for their "energy stores" and it's pretty obvious that voyager had an industrial replicator that was using significant amounts of energy to keep the ship like new with regular maintenance. Think back to the Equinox episodes where that little nova class looked like crap. Yes, they were under attack, but even before that captain Ransom made this comment "...we had nothing, my ship was in pieces, our dilithium was gone, we were running on thrusters, we hadn't eaten in 16 days, we had just enough power to enter orbit of an m class planet...". That right there tells you that the ship was in pieces before the aliens started attacking. In my opinion it was because that equinox wasn't fitted with an industrial replicator. In that same two part episode they were discussing if they wanted to put out the energy / parts / labor to fix the Equinox. To me, that again meant that voyager had something that equinox didn't (not just supplies). There are countless episodes where voyager stops and gets supplies, food, energy, dilithium, raw ore, weapons, directions / maps, miscellaneous upgrades, ect.. People are forgetting that voyager could probably replicate 90% of the components in a photon torpedo and they most likely traded for the parts that couldn't be replicated. They could probably cannibalize photon torpedoes / other antimatter warheads from other races for the components / metals they needed to make Star Fleet - grade torpedoes. Every single plot hole can easily be explained away... except for the warp 10 Janeway & Paris salamanders. *rolls eyes

[@corthew]

They can't create biomass. Food is biomass and they have a limited supply...and it can spoil. They also cannot create elements. If they are replicating something that has gold in it for example, there needs to be some in storage.

[@TheReaper569]

shorter answer: writers didnt do a good job

[@darkage5]

Being able to construct the Delta Flyer answers this question by default.

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

Exactly! Not only once but twice.

[@StefanTravis]

Where did the get the materials? From the replicators. So what happened to the replicator rations? And where did they get the power for the replicators? Janeway secretly kept the trilthium from "Threshold", using it to power the industrial repicators. And has Kes pretend to have only limited mind-powers, while really supressing the intellects of the entire crew (also explaining their dumbness in many episodes) so they never ask where the trilithium went or where the shuttles come from. So yeah, "Threshold" is cannon, the crew are all brainwashed, and Janeway is evil. Just like we always suspected.

[@Mamorufumio]

@@AWMJoeyjoejoe oh yeah forgot they crashed the first one.

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

@@Mamorufumio The Borg destroyed it in the two part episode "Unimatrix Zero"

[@jameshead9119]

As I recall when Paris proposed making the delta flyer to janeway because he was tired of replacing the standard shuttles and wanted to build a more rebuff craft instead more suitable for their needs

[@ProfessorDataD]

You forgot to mention that they also carried around Neelix’s ship for the whole time as well and they had an empty bay where that weird mind-controlling ship was for a while.

[@emilflognoid1532]

Agreed, and schematics show that there are lower shuttle storage decks below the main shuttle Bay with an elevator to bring them up. And it had plenty of room for like 25 or 30 shuttles. Someone already did on the math on this and they still had like 12 shuttle left over with all the ones that got destroyed. And this is verified by the fact that they did store neelix shuttle and we never saw those areas we never saw his shuttle in storage but they talked about it several times and when he left the ship he took it with him

[@ThisDoesNotCompute]

Years ago, while Voyager was still on the air, I wondered the same thing about the shuttles. I e-mailed Rick Sternbach and asked him what he thought about it, and he confirmed that the crew had to be constructing them, with the additional note that he figured "they had spare warp coils stacked up like car tires."

[@MatthewCobalt]

I meant, that would make sense in some aspects. The amount of materials for backup warp coils though is a bit of a stretch, as the number needed to maintain the number of shuttles in the show would require an engine bay dedicated to just warp coils.

[@relo999]

@@MatthewCobalt trade solves part of that issue

[@jeeshadow1]

Makes sense tbh. They would need to be able to replicate or somehow manufacture the parts to repair shuttle craft and if you can't just replicate warp coils you would need spares. Cargo bays are pretty big so they could devote one to just having spare shuttlecraft warp coils (which probably aren't to large tbh). So ya.

[@hello-ox5rf]

@@relo999 would have been cool if they just bought small craft from different folks they met and ended up with a small fighter strike force of varied alien ships

[@relo999]

@@hello-ox5rf would be cool, but from a sheer engineering and use standpoint you'd want to have the same system for everything. Much easier to diagnose problems and know the limits of a craft when it's the same craft always. That said, seeing a bunch of specialized locally sourced crafts would be fun. They did it once if I from the shipyard, but that had a malicious AI inside.

[@JTOnline89]

I remember an episode where B'lanna says "if I have to rebuild one more shuttlecraft I'm going to go insane" or something similar to that

[@tqnohe]

Just like Legolas had a gland on his back that produced arrows, the bio gel pack technology had a gland for producing shuttle craft.

[@Eradicator-jv9xr]

Lmao

[@Thatguy101987]

I'd love to know how they restocked photon torpedos. They said in the first episode, they had 38 and no way to replace them. Then proceed to fire 123 throughout the course of the series.

[@mccmi613]

They met and traded with weapon dealers at least once

[@buckrodgers1162]

@@mccmi613 , That could explain some things away. But to say that the 'random black market weapons dealer', in a quadrant where very few even knew what the Federation was, let alone had seen one of their ships, had in-stock photon torpedoes that where the right size, weight, height, length, width, and so on, to fit a Federation Starship launcher. There's no way that every photon torpedo launcher across the galaxy, and across countless species, was somehow 'standardized'. That's just way too coincidental to be plausible.

[@mattparker9726]

@@buckrodgers1162 But with replicators, the starship could easily retrofit it's own weapons systems to use the locally available standard types of torpedoes. In fact they installed Borg weapons and tweaks on the ship.

[@dereckguerra6863]

That was in the beginning when they were in the middle of hostile territory against the kazon, it's logical to think that though out their journey they would find and trade the materials needed to create more

[@mrmillsymillsify]

@@buckrodgers1162 a torpedo is judt a tube with propellant and a warhead. If they can build shuttles they can build torpedoes, then simply trade for the warheads, which is what makes a torpedo valuable.

[@chrisr897]

When you’re think you’ll be stuck in the delta quadrent for 75 years first thing you do I build an industrial replicator in the shuttle bay, duh.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

Exactly... I think they built an industrial replicator for not only hull repair parts but also other problems that popped up... not to mention the one episode where Hirogen's take over the ship and turn the whole ship into a holodeck almost.

[@maddslothii2532]

I don't get how 75 years came to be the default travel time for Voyager in S1E1 she said "even at maximum speeds it would take 75 years to reach the Federation" which would presumably be warp 9.975. that is listed as the 'cruise velocity' but most people seem to think that is not their actual 'cruise' speed but rather their maximum warp. but regardless we often see the ship going at around warp 6 at that speed it would take centuries to get back to the Federation. 10k light years at warp 6 255 years. 10k light years at warp 9.99 13 years

[@XiahouDun1225]

@@maddslothii2532 You have to give your engines a break, you have to resupply. Also maintaining maximum warp for a full trip would next to impossible. It'd be like trying to floor it through the interstate across the entire US.

[@Logarithm906]

Lol, one that's exactly big enough to spit out new shuttles, fully formed and ready to go, as and when you need them.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

@@maddslothii2532 we all know that Star Trek has never had a good handle on distances and travel times. In some episodes they go a couple of light years in an hour, in others they are 5 light years away and cant make it there for several days.

[@obsidiansands]

Short answer: REPLICATORS Long answer: salvage, salvage, salvage AND replicators. In fact; even IF the USS Voyager didn't have an industrial replicator, their standard replicator can spew out parts to actually BUILD one. You said it yourself, as long as they've got the blueprints, they can build just about anything. The only thing they'd have to lose is room to have one built in - which should be the rooms behind the shuttle bay. If I remember correctly, long range vessels like the Galaxy Class (and probably The Intrepid too) is that most Starfleet ships are more or less very modular in their designs. You can allegedly practically eject a room to install something else for a specific mission. The blueprints of the Enterprise D comes with a replaceable bridge - yes - the bridge CAN be swapped out for another one as an upgrade of sorts. In fact, I believe the Enterprise D had a few internal/external refits during the entire run the series had. SO I am confident that the design of the Intrepid is somewhat similar, and certain sections of the ship can be swapped out or re-designed to meet the crew's needs. That's pretty evident when you see that they had one of the cargo bays turned into a Borg regeneration bay for Seven of Nine. That's pretty much a catch-all solution when in comes to the crazy amount of shuttles they build and lose. I'm pretty sure they even salvaged the damaged ones that they were able to salvage for use to rebuild or make new ones. If there's one thing I actually LIKE about the Federation - and Starfleet in particular - is that they're recycle addicts. Almost everything is used and re-used to the point that you don't really NEED a full wardrobe closet and just a replicator to "print" out the clothes you want for the day and then maybe recycle them for something else tomorrow. I'm sure that's exactly what they did for spare uniforms. Barely anything is wasted.

[@MeNoOther]

The fact that in real life, people use 3D printers to remake car parts for cars that have companies that no longer exist. People are even making cars from standard desktop 3D printers and PLA filament. So with the technology from the 24th century, anything is possible. Modification to a transporter bay to make an industrial replicator would be feasible. Planning things out in holodecks. A cad program like Blender’s physics section, but way more advanced. Hell, even the life extension of every member of the crew with transporters. In real life, this technology would exponentially grow humans to Q or Ancient(Star Gate) status in years.

[@obsidiansands]

@@MeNoOther Exactly!

[@TheFinagle]

Yes, this exactly. we see replicators recycle dishes in DS9, so why wouldnt one be able to reprocess shuttle parts/ hull pieces from a crash? once you can manipulate mater on that level recycling becomes so simple.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@TheFinagle that way if most of the material is there but just have a big failure/fault inside; you just rearrange that mass, you don’t need to add more

[@TheReaper569]

shorter answer: writers didnt do a good job

[@josiahbahuaud2294]

In my mind, there's a deck with a Walmart, and when they need a shuttle they go buy one, and unbox it. But Harry still has one in its box because it'll be worth something one day. lol

[@CaptainFoufeu]

That's exactly what they do, because Tom, Harry and B'Elanna have a Walmart and Amazon unboxing video channel here on KZbin. "Delta Quadrant Shops Explored." They have monthly tricorder giveaways. It's pretty cool. You should check it out. LOL

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

Yeah, but you never want to assemble it and always have parts left over wondering.... "Where did this go??"

[@johnlloyddy7016]

Tsk, the Ant Man franchise has the right idea. They have a large collection of miniature shuttles in a box that they unbox and blow up to 100 times its size and voila!

[@firecat2465]

CaptainFoufeu is it true

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

I wonder if their Walmart let's the old people shop early in the morning too???

[@andrewgru7077]

Early in the series they did mention converting a cargo hold into a foundry for ore processing. Also we know that material that is damaged can be recycled in a replicator and then remade later. Its not without reason to assume they woukd make or recycle suttles as needed.

[@RavienGaming]

Exactly. No reason they couldn't build an industrial scale replicator if needed.

[@kevinm9413]

Completely agree with you. These are not "plot holes" things also happen between episodes.

[@meateaw]

@@RavienGaming Yep; just like small 3d printers can make parts for larger 3d printers. Replicate the components of a larger replicator .. in a smaller replicator. EZPZ.

[@OriginalPiMan]

The Federation always overengineered their vessels; anything less than two redundancies was not enough. For this reason, it does not surprise me that they would have shuttle building capability in *every* long distance ship

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

They learned from Enterprise D that shuttles take up so mu h space, Enterprise E had a smaller bay but the ability to rebuild was available

[@HR-wd6cw]

Well, it's any ship that has a replicator really, which is pretty much every ship. I mean they just replicate the parts and build them.

[@platiuscyndar9017]

They literally build a shuttlecraft on-screen.

[@epiccollision]

2 is 1 and 1 is none, it’s the basis of military supplying....

[@smalliesmalls9601]

“Overbuilt” ‘Captain! We bumped into a small space rock! Transporters are down, shield are at 75%, and the environmental systems are failing!” “Mr Paris, take us to warp” “Warp drive isn’t responding!” “Alright, initiate self destruct override code Janeway Pi 1 1 0”

[@readhistory2023]

Where do starships shuttles come from? Well Ingame when two starships love each other...

[@SephirothRyu]

Nah, they are actually just less fuzzy, more metalic space capable tribbles. You just feed the things and suddenly you have too many shuttles.

[@AMPProf]

*Cricket chirp* Single audience member says"Booooo"!

[@schwarzerritter5724]

You are mixing series here. It was the Enterprise D that reproduced.

[@seanc9520]

I believe the starship capable of reproduction was in Farscape? The other living ship found in Lexx did not have any such episodes but maybe it grow its small fly like transport ships too.

[@APIEngineering]

@@schwarzerritter5724 Yeah, the vertiform entity from the episode Emergence. Another of those "Well the Enterprise has a major problem this week, can we survive it?" episodes. The problem was that they never really had the lifeform say anything to them, it just completed it's own construction and left. Well, at least as far as they KNEW, it did not try to communicate. Since it's inception involved the holodeck so much, perhaps it was the vertiform entity which went out and created the Nexus...

[@skullhelmet1944]

Would have loved to see more day to day duties like repairs, and foraging for supplies on new planets I always enjoyed the "Lower deck" shows and more of them would be fine with me.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

We _did_ see them trading for parts, materials, and equipment a few times, that's where Tom found Alice.

[@Gartral]

that still touches "we see it, but only when other more interesting things were going on" bit... we never saw day-to-day life for the sake of day-to-day life... from a writing standpoint it's smart, from an "Accurate to life" standpoint, it makes it seem as though the crew of Voyager never got a break.

[@Corgblam]

We also see Voyager making pit-stops to harvest usable materials from asteroids and things in a couple episodes.. Yeah we only see it as exposition for something more interesting to happen, but we can assume from such an activity that they do it on the regular.

[@ploofedoof1]

@@Corgblam OMG....your right and wrong at the same time..."More Interesting" is to be generous. Single worst ep of the entire series was when Voyager found their wonky Dilithium and were able to break Warp 10....ungh! The first 3/4 of the ep wasn't terrible, but the ending.....super cringy.

[@Corgblam]

@@ploofedoof1 Yeah really. Rapid evolution from going too fast? That's not how evolution works, scifi show.

[@yogibro6442]

@@Corgblam not saying you're wrong, but I thought it was time passing faster at that speed or something like that, but then the problem would be the fish things would be ancestors, not them. Then the morality of abandoning their kids???

[@Shadowkey392]

Allow me to shorten this for you: yes, they CAN build shuttlecraft. How do we know this? They built the Delta Flyer from scratch. TWICE. And there you go! Question answered, plot hole filled!

[@josiahbahuaud2294]

A good writer would have added that to an episode early on, just for show, to make the point. But yeah...

[@histguy101]

@@josiahbahuaud2294 Well, they lose 1.5 shuttles on average per year, so it may not have been seen as an issue.

[@alanbear6505]

The also built the astrometrics bay and the airponics bay. Also, off screen they built a deuterium refinery and a dilithium cracking facility. I don't see a problem there.

[@zuzoscorner]

Don't forget about having more torpiedoes then the show said they had.. There is a funny video that point out how may torpedoes they actaully used.

[@histguy101]

@@zuzoscorner They went to the torpedo store and picked up 2 dozen.

[@redshirt0479]

I've actually used this argument quite a bit myself. I actually like how they did it because they didn't spoon feed us anything and trusted us to come to conclusions ourselves. A lot of viewers also often forget the context of a lot of lines. Like Janeway's comment about having only 33 torpedoes and no way to replace them was made when the ship was low on power and thus couldn't spare the antimatter, early in their journey, deep in Kazon space and before they encountered anyone that they could feasibly trade with, and before they had any idea what was around them in terms of what could easily be mined with onboard equipment. Also, it does make perfect since for Voyager to have the capability of making major repairs in the field. It'd be foolhardy to send a ship into deep space without at minimum the ability to make emergency repairs. It's even something normal on ships today and historically despite them only being days or weeks from a port that has the capabilities to repair them or ships in range that can aid them. And, of course, people underestimate what a determined crew can do. After being heavily damaged at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the crew of the USS _Yorktown_ managed to get the ship back into combat ready condition in only 72 hours when normally she would have had to spend a couple weeks in port for the same repairs.

[@aceman67]

*insert "THANK YOU" gif from The Office*

[@redshirt0479]

Indeed. I love that we get those conversations sprinkled throughout the series. Although as for Nelix's ship they do state that there's a "shuttle bay two" which is probably just an extension of the primary shuttle bay for storage purposes since it'd be expected that some delegates encountered by the ship on her multiyear mission would want to arrive via shuttle and it's just a good idea to be able to have a place where they can park that won't interfere with normal operations.

[@alexbennett7018]

Digital Sigma that was the duplicate voyager wich we only followed for one episode.

[@DanielSmith-mp4le]

I love this comment it makes perfect sense thank you very much!

[@redshirt0479]

We can use it to extrapolate the actual crew's behaviors though. Since during that time they are behaving as though they are the original crew.

[@ralphhowes]

I store all my pies, especially the recepies, in drawers lined with isoliner, for freshness!

[@brianmccann666]

Voyager uses Replicator Technology to create the new parts they need. They just need the raw materials to upload first from time to time. Thats why Voyager went to Astroid Fields from time to time. To gather raw metal ingredients that their replicators can convert into Alloys as needed.

[@GunRunner106]

one of the few ships that had a spare warpcore on board... not a stretch to assume they have industrial-grade replicators on board - its a deep space mission ship, fast or not, having the means to conduct more complicated repairs in deep space are to be expected and would make sense to prepare the ship for...

[@MrYTGuy1]

Year of hell was the closest we got to seeing the ship permanently damaged for long periods of time.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Ah yes, Two Weeks of Hell. One of the few episodes where actions had consequences... for one episode.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

It wasn't for just one episode, the whole timeline was permanently altered (mostly for the better, but still altered).

[@DocB03]

The equinox made a good point to stay damaged.

[@TheNade]

thats because we skip 2-5 months between episodes regularly.... its not like they end an episode and pick back up 2-3 days later, months go by. tbh ur kinda dumb for not noticing that and complaining about something that doesn't exist.

[@kurisu7885]

Don't forget all the Borg tech Voyager for modified with.It had external add ons for a good while and some stuff they kept installed because it just worked better.

[@stueymon]

Why did Voyager always look fresh and clean? Because new footage is expensive

[@roberthunter5059]

I recently rewatched Voyager. They used the same shot of Voyager moving away from the camera with the left impulse engine unlit throughout the entire series.

[@zombie666able]

Because they use Simoniz Special for Space Ships. One clean is enough for 2 seasons.

[@histguy101]

It's a TV show, so reusing establishing shots is to be expected. They did, however, create new shots of Voyager for many, probably most episodes, like any episode with a battle, or some other interaction with another ship.

[@sebnewb]

stueymon because it’s expensive to keep changing the it.

[@jeffsergeant]

Also, continuity! You can’t switch the order of episodes after filming if the ship has a gaping hole blown in it.

[@justinsantana6517]

I had always assumed that they would stop at planets with resources and no life to gather matierls for lengthy repairs. we just were not shown this because its boring. Of course the real reason is Kenneth was an idiot who just wanted the show to be about the plot of the day. While the current generation star trek shows may not be everyone's cup of tea (i like them) the fact that they have an overall story arc the entire season is a breath of fresh air to be honest, so the actions in episode one effect episode 2 and so forth. Kenneth did not want this, so they never showed the issues they might have fixing stuff and the ship was basically reset as they slept.

[@nicksantos43]

In the episode where they build the Delta Flyer doesn't Tom say something to the effect of "why build a standard ship/shuttlecraft when you can build something with style?" I think its pretty much a given that based on their ability to build the Delta Flyer, slipstream drives, new warp coils, an omega particle containment unit, an astrometrics lab and various types of torpedoes and other tech over the years that making a standard shuttlecraft would be no sweat.

[@Theonlydump]

Solution: Tea, earl grey, hot. There's coffee in that nebula.

[@zombie666able]

How much sugar?

[@jordanodwyer6552]

All star fleet captains like it hot and black 🖤

[@joermnyc]

DS9, Dax got everyone hooked on Raktajino (Klingon coffee).

[@stapler942]

If a cup of hot tea can power the creation of the Infinite Improbability Drive, surely a few spare shuttle parts are peanuts to replicate.

[@Krooow118]

I always felt that the model being banged up and showing hodge podge repairs as the show continued was a miss oppertunity

[@MLB9000]

They would have done that if they could I’m sure, but the budgetary concerns of making a weekly show means they have to be able to reuse fx shots of the ship over the entire run off the show. Bear in mind that there would be a few ‘bottle’ shows each season where all the action is confined to the ship, with no new sets being required, just to stay in budget.

[@Nimmo1492]

"Insistent goldshirt"? Sounds like Reg Barclay to me.

[@mckenziecalhoun316]

But, but sir, what IF this starship were thrown, like, 70000 loght years away, hm? Well, t-then they' d n-need to b-b-build sh-shuttles!

[@kurisu7885]

Yup, this seems like something he would think about.

[@scottmcintosh4397]

SPACE SEED........🍆💦 "Insistent Goldshirt? Hell, Yeah, that's Jim Kirk, alright!" "I know him well!" "Back at Axanar*, we called him Horatio Horndog!!" 🍷👯💋🎶 💃🏃☁☁☁☁ 🍆💦💞💔 😃😅😂😅😂😅😄😘 *Starfleet Academy.

[@christopherg2347]

@@mckenziecalhoun316 That one time Enterprise got stuck 2,700,000 Lightyears in Galaxy M33 really sticks with you. It only got worse from there: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Where_No_One_Has_Gone_Before_(episode) And then there was the time they got thrown 7,000 Lightyears before the Borg: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Q_Who_(episode)

[@TrumpCardMAGA]

I wish there was a tv series of Barclay visiting different locations and fixing their problems with a small alien sidekick named Chaese called "The Misadventures of Broccoli & Cheese"

[@joshmanpro7993]

Even if they didn't have an industrial replicator, why would they not be able to build one? The replicators themselves also existed in engineering on most starships in order to replicate replacement parts so it stands to reason that even parts that normally were too big could be replicated in parts then assembled in other locations of the ship. It also stands to reason that even if the only one replicator on the ship existed, they could build other replicators using the existing one or build an industrial one from scratch similar to how the Kaizon built one (a failure only because they skimped on necessary specifications of shielding).

[@dumbassdriversofdenver9113]

They spend several episodes looking for resources and making repairs. Not sure how that's a plot hole. Commander Chakotay and Captain Janeway even have a conversation about trading technology for resources when discussing the incident where the hirogen used their hologram technology to create holographic prey that killed them.

[@admiralsquatbar127]

Where does Janeway get all that hairspray from? Or is it just the caffeine that is holding it in place?

[@chrisschembari2486]

@TheMightyOne she had her sonic shower set to Fabulous. Or maybe it was the moldy component in Neelix's leola root stew?

[@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155]

Could it be a "Something about Mary" situation?

[@chrisschembari2486]

@@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155 😆😆 speaking of uses for the sonic shower... "Gotta keep the protein resequencer stocked up..." - Trip Tucker in the shower, ever thinking about engineering problems

[@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155]

@@chrisschembari2486 wasn't I in a standard shower with hot water when I said that? 1. My name is Trip. 2. I am a Computer & Aerospace Engineer. 3. If I wasn't married to my wife, I would ask T'Pol out on a date. 4. I thought last night while in the shower that I needed to buy a few steaks this weekend. So yes. Plus, on Voyager where was all of the sex? Where?

[@chrisschembari2486]

@@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155 😆 well, I don't remember what kind of shower Tucker used on the nx-01, or if his shower facilities were even mentioned. I do remember Archer having a water shower when the grav plating went offline one day, but (as in Babylon 5) it's entirely possible that certain officers get water showers and lower ranks get sonics. Or maybe sonic shower tech wasn't invented until later in the ST time line?

[@VXGaming]

Voyager always looked so fresh when so far away, This is something I liked about Enterprise. They kept the battle damage and made things seem more realistic.

[@joermnyc]

VXGAMING Well they did patch up the ship a few times, including at that freaky AI controlled station that tried to kidnap Travis to use his brainpower (litteraly), but getting their rears handed to them by the Xindi (when they got caught looking for their planet blower upper gun at a secret base) left them a mess and very far away from any space dock for complete repairs until they returned to Earth.

[@Milamberinx]

The NX-01 was pre replicator tech so that makes perfect sense, even Kirk's Enterprise NCC-1701 was pre replicator so they wouldn't have been able to repair damage. Anything TNG onwards though, with a diligent crew, and space for supplies, should be able to be self sufficient and self repairing. I wouldn't say instantly self repairing though, it might take some time to get all the right systems in place and operational, there was dialogue early in season 1 about installing new systems for anti-matter generation and the like.

[@BYERE]

I'd like to think that once Seven joined the crew, her knowledge of Borg technology... such as how to do things much more efficiently, as well as tech like self-replicating/repairing machinery AND being able to reprogram her nanoprobes to help... would all be absolutely vital as a means of upgrading Voyager's manufacturing processes, allowing them to repair the ship and create new shuttles (and then later put such technologies to use building the Delta Flyer) much more quickly and efficiently than a regular starship or base would be able to.

[@Interitus1]

Don't forget, Neelix's shuttle also sat in Voyager for most of the show. So it clearly has some sort of larger area for ship storage (was the maintenance pit actually a shuttle elevator?)

[@jakepetterson1050]

Nelix's ship was also stored in there someplace

[@timwaardenburg2]

Dont forget neelix's ship was stored almost the entire journey. and also some visitors stored there ships in the bay.

[@Rerpesentz]

I was gonna say this exact thing Neelix ship was docked the whole time and when people came aboard that weren't exposed to transporter technology

[@shawnr6117]

Shuttle Tetris (cue theme song)

[@DavidChilson]

I remember they built a second Delta Flyer in season 7 after the first one got destroyed in the season 6 finale. Like your theory, construction of Delta Flyer II was done between episodes.

[@valenrn8657]

Borg debris could be used for raw materials. Voyager's own assimilation...

[@jamesray2000]

I like how he mentioned Battlestar Galactica, where you see the ship falling apart and the depletion of resources throughout the run of the show. I two noticed that they seemed to be going through a lot of auxiliary craft during the run if Voyager. But one thing that really troubled me was the introduction of new equipment, uniforms, etc. As the series progresses, they start to use new phasers, rifles, uniform items, etc. Granted, you can replicate these items if they're stored in the computer, but they only had computer files from the day they were thrust into the delta quadrant. So, where did these new items come from? It's not like they could sync up to Starfleet and download these new designs? I can buy building extra shuttle craft so long as they have blue prints in the computer, even more photon torpedos. But new phaser rifles? Tricorders? Uniforms? They had none of that in the computer, and no way to download new designs. Poor writing you ask me.

[@martinw4330]

They were a vessel with many new state of the art devices for their time. It is possible to consider these devices were already in the computer and simply not put into service yet when they launched.

[@jamesray2000]

@@martinw4330 valid point

[@philbertchow5425]

Pathfinder project.

[@Logarithm906]

Starfleet's fashion catalogue is decided several years in advance. The files are time locked so you can't access them before you're meant to. Actually it kind of would make sense, in a very limited fashion. If a ship is stranded, having a reserve of "newness" would help keep up morale, even if it is just a new lick of paint on standard equipment, or a slightly different clothing design. It'd make it feel like they're less lost than they are.

[@UGNAvalon]

Trade & a former Borg drone could also help with incorporating new technologies/techniques into existing Starfleet technology.

[@jakepetterson1050]

I get scouting missions to an extent. But flying ahead doesn't make sense because shuttles were so much slower. Same with sending a shuttle to investigate something. Voyager has to just sit and wait while the slow shuttle goes to check out a planet or something.

[@detectivewiggles]

Yeah, based on the existence of the Delta Flyer I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume they had at least one industrial replicator.

[@blue387]

I remember the ship landing in one episode and the crew were repairing the nacelles. If the ship can land, it could easily find a safe planet and land to repair and perform maintenance. You could also scavenge for resources and materials.

[@zeromancer-x]

If Janeway or Torres had announced early on the conversion of a recreation deck into an industrial manufacturing facility, then I may have been more happy with the way the story went.

[@ablaze1989]

All they need is one large replicator and they are good

[@DanielRichards644]

Season 1 Episode 4 "Phage" intro scene, Janeway and Chakotey are talking about this planetoid Neelix knows of as a possible source for raw dilithium and Torres has an idea to convert one of the Impulse Reactors into a "Crude Dilithium Refinery", Also Season 1 Episode 3 "Parralax" during the breifing room scene where Neelix and Kes barge in they discuss converting Cargo Bay 2 into a Hydroponics bay, maybe not exactly what you are looking for but evidence they did convert/repurpose sections of the ship for other uses.

[@xheralt]

@@DanielRichards644 Lord knows they had empty crew quarters that could have been repurposed, if nothing else...

[@ploofedoof1]

@@xheralt they could have also condensed down the crew....I recall at one point there was an episode "Lower Decks" I think....where there were several crew members in a single room.... So they could have mandated that the crew pare down to free up additional space for mission critical spaces within the ship...

[@J_PIK]

Also they kept Neelix’s cargo ship in the shuttle bay. Which is larger than their shuttles...

[@gayahithwen]

One possibility is that they didn't come with an industrial replicator to start with, but because they're Starfleet and have insane amounts of technical specs and ludicrous levels of ingenuity, they reprogrammed their food replicators to make the parts they needed for a bigger version and worked from there. Or maybe they found some kind of large 3d printer they could trade for. The big parts (hull plating etc) probably don't need to be super complex as long as you load the printer up with the right alloys, and the smaller tech components can be replicated (or they just have a huge amount of spare parts in storage).

[@SheaWiddler]

They have to barter and work for supplies all the time throughout the show, they are constantly limping around trying to repair. A few episodes were entirely about trying to repair the ship. I'm confused how you think they never got seriously damaged

[@BreadApologist]

I would actually enjoy episodes where everything goes fine once in a while on any of the Trek series, would have been a neat breakaway

[@megathelos4976]

Q made a deal with Auntie Katarina. In exchange for taking care of Q's brat, Q gave Voyager the ability to produce unlimited shuttles.

[@retluoc]

Hahaha, I was going to say the same thing...Q did it. He also supplied all their dilithium and photon torpedoes.😉

[@firecat2465]

Good god why did you make me think that

[@thomas.parnell7365]

A fair trade

[@megathelos4976]

@@retluoc Forgot about those... It would seem like the Voyager got more out of that trade than I originally imagined.

[@megathelos4976]

@@firecat2465 You thought the Voyager would be able to successfully get home without a little nudge from Q? Q's plot armor is superior. 🖖🏻😄

[@greattoyreviewer]

under the launch bay there is a shuttle storage bay that can hold about a dozen or so shuttles. there is much of the ship not shown in the series you only need to look at the deck by deck blue prints to see!

[@DoctorProph3t]

come on at this point it’s more believable that voyager just sucks.

[@russellbrooks3622]

I've thought of this myself, but just came to the conclusion that when they lose a shuttle, they just build a replacement. We don't need to see that on screen. We saw on screen how easily they built a custom shuttle, the Delta Flyer. All it would have taken to replace their standard shuttles was the collection of materials needed to replicate the new components. Some of those materials could have been salvaged from the damaged shuttles. We didn't need to see that on screen, either.

[@chrishatherley3531]

Can a Warp Core be replicated though?

[@RimaNari]

The "where does Voyager get its shuttles from" is one of the weakest criticisms of VOY. If Starfleet is known for one thing then it is ingenuity and the ability to make whatever device you need out of a combadge. Of course they can create new shuttles, especially given that we see the crew participate in trading for parts several times.

[@Wookie_oo7]

Hell, I am attepting to watch Voyager through and I had the thought of where did the shuttles come from and figured that they could scavenge the important parts from the broken ones and just replicate or fabricate shells. I mean they would have had spare parts as well, honestly the hulls of the shuttle craft would be the hardest part to make. My biggest gripe is that in one episode instead of sending the 2ic like they do in Next Gen on away missions, they send the Captain, Chief Secruity officer and the Chief Engineer, three people who shouldnt be leaving the ship because they are the hardest to replace, rather than all of their 2ics who would know just as much of the important information for a trading mission. Then later after all three are captured and in different situations lose their com badges still somehow manage to speak English with all of the Delta quadrent aliens. And when a rescue is planned it is the rando ensign that I am unsure what exactly he is meant to be doing that plans the assault on the alien fortification and it will be lead by the chief helmsmen, instead of the 2ic of the secruity team. Honestly trying to watch Voyager has made me aware of the fact that Star Trek is really just a Space Soap opera.

[@RimaNari]

@@Wookie_oo7 Did you watch other Trek than Voyager? Even though all of classic Trek shares a common Trek core, each show puts on a different tone.

[@Wookie_oo7]

@@RimaNari All of Enterprise, all the way up to season seven of Next gen, up to season 4 of DS9 and honestly couldnt get past the first season of TOS just because of how janky the airing order was. Also all of the movies. My comment still stands, although it is far worse for Voyager and may also be flavouring the others, but it is the only way you can really excuse the high interpersonal drama of each show and also the daftness of each one. I mean Troi is completely useless in TNG yet she remains as a high ranking member of the crew. Realising that Trek is more of a scifi soap opera explains everything and lets you just enjoy it. I mean hell, just look at all of the camera angles and actor reactions and compare them to a regular soapie. Though Trek is better than any old bland soapie.

[@RimaNari]

@@Wookie_oo7 I have zero idea what a soap opera is, afar from canning the opening paragraph of the wiki article. So I am not sure in which direction your critique is going. What makes Trek great for me is the social commentary, from a utopian perspective, as opposed to many TV series and movies that criticise our society by exaggerating the negatives and showing you a dystopia. In that function Trek often is uplifting for me, as it shows the potential of us humans. As every series also Trek is a child of its time and as such you have Troi in TNG who is, I cite her actress, just a pretty potted plant. Only later is her character properly developed, which I would have liked to see sooner. Trek is not perfect and it's still a TV show. You see that when only the bridge crew goes on away missions, which makes not a lot of sense strategically, or when the story goes in directions that are clearly only set up to enable a certain story to tell.

[@Wookie_oo7]

@@RimaNari You really don't know what a soapie is? Days of our lifes, Bold and the Beautiful and what nots. I mean that is exactly it, nothing about the show can be taken reasonably from a military or political sense. You don't watch Trek for it's sensibility and practicality, but rather drama. Even the social commentary is often heavy handed and silly. But once you realise that you can enjoy the shows for what they are, space soapies that in the case of TNG often has social commentary. Although I disagree with the idea of them all being childs of their times, I mean TNG, DS9, and Voyager came out 87, 93, and 95 respectfully. They all over lap and besides TNG the other two shared the same time.

[@Andreas-gh6is]

You can expect any Federation vessel to do "digital manufacturing" on steroids. Data storage is extremely cheap, so they would have all the plans. They have various AIs and design software. They have basic replicators, which would be able to churn out parts for bigger replicators. Tools for making the tools.

[@christopherg2347]

And they got Engineers famed for "turning Rocks into Repliators".

[@casbot71]

@@christopherg2347 Except apparently on the Equinox, their engineers specialized in using aliens as nitrous fuel. Seriously - with their skill and tech, the Equinox should've just been able to lay low for a bit in a energy rich resource region which their advanced sensors could detect (or just plug into a stations or city's power grid for a fee), and then rebuild their ship. Salvage the parts from a few food replicators to make a working replicator, and then replicate the parts to assemble or fix bigger replicators. Till they get to something big enough to create parts to repair the ships damage. And then maybe even work on upgrading the ship - it would have schematics (and a talented engineer like the one who knew Torres could create them anyway) for better weapons and equipment they needed. Imagine if they could make a cloaking device, even a imperfect one would be useful. And the Equinox was based on a Defiant pathfinder vessel that was a high speed torpedo boat (before Starfleet decided to go with a close range slugger). If the plans are in their database, it's _minor refit_ time.

[@KuK137]

Except that's how replicators work in the minds of fanboys, canon ones were never capable of that. Especially seeing replicators calibrated for light elements (food) would be shit at any industrial use, that's why they had a whole different category of replicators to begin with...

[@Andreas-gh6is]

@@KuK137 Yes they would be shit at building industrial stuff. They would also be shit at building parts for replicators that are less shitty at building parts for replicators and so on. That's how engineering works. Find a way to make the tool you need to make the tool. And I can't imagine a Star Trek engineering section that doesn't have replicators for all sorts of technical parts. They often say so, in the various shows.

[@christopherg2347]

@H M That is one reason self destruct wipes/blows up the main computer.

[@mardethkellerman1182]

Rick, they cannibalized the half finished aero shuttle for parts and turned the empty space into a cargo hydroponics bay.

[@rodx5571]

airponics

[@Holydude]

I would suspect that they had robust manufacturing capabilities for shuttles and parts

[@trumanwoodyard3833]

As for the replacement of Anti-Matter Ditronium, that can be done by any Starship at a cost. You can manufacture Anti-matter with a Matter-antimatter converter at a rate of 6 matter to one Anti-matter ratio, You just have to find a planet with enough sea water or feasible replacement to do it. The problem is that the energy cost is enormous.

[@tisFrancesfault]

I always thought it wasn't an issue, I consider it totally reasonable for voyager to manufacture components, for shuttles or torpedoes.

[@Sillimant_]

Don't forget they made the Delta Flyer from scratch

[@richardchantlerrico]

It does fit with the Intrepid class's mission profile, long range exploration in a small hull could only be done if some of the Galaxy class's space was no longer needed (eg: can get away with smaller shuttle bay as they can assemble them when needed rather than wasting space storing 20+ shuttles).

[@theavocado6061]

I remember a couple instances of Tuvok telling Janeway about being low on photon torpedos. I wondered why they didn’t start just firing shuttlecraft at the Borg instead since they had an unlimited supply.

[@RunnerX13]

Imagine if Voyager (the show) showed a fraction of what it was like for a ship to operating 70,000 light years from home. Could have been an epic show.

[@dallasboullion2079]

If you have a replicator you could replicate anything including parts for an industrial replicator!

[@randybentley2633]

Also, take into account that if Voyager didn't leave the drydock with an industrial replicator nothing says that they couldn't have built one.

[@tails0420ify]

I always thought they converted the Aero Shuttle they never use to a machinery/industrial replicator. That thing would have all the components and material needed to produce a lot of shuttles and replacement parts for the ship. If they had lost the shuttle the ship would have had a rather large hole in the hull.

[@jacksonheathen2092]

True. But I got the impression that an industrial replicator was an enormous peice of machinery. I don't know if a galaxy class ship even carried one.

[@michaelbujaki2462]

Why not? they made an astrometrics lab.

[@AndDiracisHisProphet]

@@jacksonheathen2092 there are probably different sizes of industrial replicators

[@jacksonheathen2092]

@@AndDiracisHisProphet I'm sure you're right.

[@GamerFromJump]

I always figured that when they had replicator capacity to spare, they’d make parts and hold them until they had enough to build one.

[@KonradZielinski]

The show said they built hydroponics and a galley because they couldn't replicate enough food to keep the crew fed.

[@GamerFromJump]

Konrad Zielinski - Yeah, they did that to save on replicator power and feedstock, but I was thinking of times when they had a chance to top up on such things.

[@muaddib667]

Replicators can make almost anything provided they have the raw matter.

[@clintthomas1854]

The Captain's yacht could have also been cannibalized for parts, that would also explain the reason we didn't get to see it on screen.

[@ryno1509]

Clint Thomas they had replicators why would they cannibalise anything

[@clintthomas1854]

@@ryno1509 🙂good Q, same reason they had a kitchen and grew some of the food, they were on resource restrictions. Valuable materials would be in short supply.

[@Thetreetroll]

If it was not installed before they left I assume hull space could be turned into a workshop or storage for hull plates. Was it ever confirmed installed or was is to be delivered on Tuesday?😋

[@ploofedoof1]

Didn't you get the memo? The Aero Shuttle wasn't going to be fully installed (complete) until Tuesday....lol. Generations reference in case anyone was curious...

[@leaaronsanchez]

Voyager didn't have a Captain's yacht. It left without it

[@ArcaneEther]

Even though it wasn't shown, assuming the Voyager needed regular hull and other large part repairs, an Industrial Replicator would be an absolute must for the ship. Despite Industrial Replicators not being standard equipment for Intrepid Class ships, I'm certain the schematics to build one would have been in the computer and a genius engineer like B'elanna could Jimmy-rig the ordinary Replicators to make needed parts for building an Industrial Replicator. That was probably one of the first things Janeway tasked her to do.

[@ohgoditshimrun1346]

You're overlooking the obvious answer. Mulgrew herself described Janeway as being written with some unspecified psychiatric ailment. And the very first episode hinges on Tuvok not realizing that photon torpedoes have had timers built into them since TOS. Matter-antimatter annihilation warheads, built on a technology base the Kazon had never seen before, and the Kazon lacked the technological savvy to grasp how food replicators worked, so the odds of them managing to defuse an armed timer-detonated photon torpedo were several million to one against. For a veteran tactical officer to not realize that, calls the reality of the entire premise into question. And Janeway was written as a psychiatric patient... The name of the ship is Voyager. A name with a certain history for Starfleet. Starships are named by Admirals, who have security clearance to know the nasty parts of that history. I can not believe that a Starfleet Admiral would name a ship after V'ger. But I cam believe that a holodeck programmer, researching the history of human space exploration for a name not in use by Starfleet would choose the name without knowledge of V'ger. A holodeck program designed to let institutionalized psychiatric patients play-act at being responsible members of society. And every time they wreck the ship, or jettison the contents of the shuttle bay, it's very simple to say "Computer, access the Voyager program; delete all damage to the ship, and restore all shipboard supplies to default settings" before bringing the next patient to the holodeck. Kathryn Janeway makes a lot of sense as one such patient, doesn't she?

[@normenthegnome7543]

i was thinking it was the replicator they just turned it back into energy when they wasn't using them .. then they just refuel them with anti matter afterwards

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Like how Elite Force managed to let the player carry around half a dozen big guns: They just got beamed away, but instead of being put together somewhere else, the transfer is saved on disk for later.

[@normenthegnome7543]

@@HappyBeezerStudios exactly matter can become energy to become matter, all thats need is a way to store in information to make or remake the things you need them to be, like the transporter or the replicator's in Star-Trek .. their almost the same technology really .. almost .. if i was to build a ship in star trek i think id put the replicator tech on the out side of the ship to have any weapons or armor needed at the push of a button .. i often wonder why no ones thought of this while making the tv shows and movies ..

[@DanielRichards644]

it takes a lot of energy to convert matter into energy or energy into matter, it wouldn't be very efficient use of their power, which comes primarily from the anti-matter reactor (warp core), to be doing that.

[@KuK137]

@@normenthegnome7543 Because it's stupid and replicators never worked that way? There are multiple hints replicators just store base materials, not turn them into energy, if you could do that you'd never need antimatter to power the ship, you'd just turned a few rocks into energy...

[@Joshua-oo9hy]

Replicators are based on transporter tech. They take raw materials from the cargo bay and beam them into the pattern needed to create what ever, manipulating it at a molecular level.

[@signorUebelst]

The only Thing that i got a Problem with Here is that as far as i know there are materials that cant be replicated. The First two that spring to mind are latinum and dilithium chrystals... Granted the First one is probably Not that vital for a ship but the Second would mean that they would regularly need to harvest some. And seeing how much Dichtung there was over dilithium chrystal mines in other Star Trek series that could be Tricky. Even If dilithium can be replicated there should be other parts of a Space ship that should be unreplicatable otherwise the Föderation could simply build a ginormus replicator and Pump Out ships in demand... Not saying that they couldnt build new ones Just that it might be a bigger ressource drain then implied Here. Also i agreed that some Episoden where they simply trade and such with a social interaction Driven sub Plot would have been nice Heck it wouldnt even need to be Something character Driven If you really think about what the Voyager Crew really got to trade. They basically have three Options: barter goods, trade knowledge (Technologie, science or even Sensor Data) or provide a Service. All of These could lead to interessting consequences. The trade knowledge one the Most i would think, even If its Just Sensor Data. Example: Voyager prepares to trade Sensor Data of a dilithium rich Planet for 10 Tons of dilithium chrystals but then learn that this Brings their trade Partner Into conflict with another Race or that they have been prepping for war and this is Just what they need. After some digging they find Out that the Race they are prepping against has been the Kazon that have been comeing Into their Space... So all good? Because its a Defensive war? But they top have been doing some Horrible stuff while they are at it, so can they be Sure they aren't worse then the Kazon? In the otherhand they really need these resources so do they trade Something Else?

[@JathTech]

I specifically remember an episode where they replicated an entire torpedo. I also remember them explicitly mentioning that they could replicate the parts to rebuild a shuttle in a period of time. This isn't a surprise to anyone whos watched star trek.

[@Daedalus_Dragon]

I am gonna watch this, but to be fair they literally devoted an entire story line to this issue - the Delta Flyer I and II were built to address this very problem, but lets see what this video has to say...

[@domgia9248]

It would have been cool if they acquired new shuttles along the way from other species.

[@andrewbutton2039]

They did do an episode where they performed maintenence on the warp nacelle's coils, voyager chills out and does the stuff and harry goes and makes friends on the deltaflyer. Season 7 ep 8 Nightingale

[@joermnyc]

andrew button I thought they actually replaced all the coils... and those things looked too big to just replicate... unless they had a replicator the size of an apartment building!

[@andrewbutton2039]

@@joermnyc we see them removing them with a shuttle, who knows what they did after that. Could have just given them a quick mopping with some hot soapy water, then a quick polish with some brasso to make them pretty and slot them back in, good to go. The significantly worn ones could have had a bit of work to restore them to maximise functionality, or get put in the middle where they minimise reduction in warp field efficiency. It would take a pretty sizable replicator to make new ones, unless they could melt them down and cast them into new coils, or do something similar with the transporter.

[@willjenkins4195]

We do see Tom getting spare parts out of storage when he was fixing Alice

[@patrickf9217]

The resource shortage on Voyager was not as extreme as it was portrayed on screen. They did not lack the basic materials to replicate anything, as that could just be scoped up from any rocky body. No, their problem was a lack of energy aka dilithium. All matter is made of simple quarks, it is the energy needed to fuel the production of these materials that was lacking. What I want to know is why anyone thinks they needed to manufacture r build anything? A replicator is just a transporter materializing from a blueprint instead of a copy of an item or person. They just beamed the shuttles into existence from the data base. The delta flyer was built because there was no blueprint and so each component was made individually and all they did was assemble the parts at that point.

[@joshuaharris8228]

They did have a aleast a couple episodes where they either traded with other beings or attempted to source dilithium early on

[@xXImikoXx]

Literally a conversation between Chakotay and Janeway: C: "We have a compliment of 38 photon torpedoes at our disposal, Captain." J: "And no way to replace them, once they're gone..."

[@histguy101]

They found a way to replace them. They either found a way to produce them, buy them, or a combination of both. They make that statement in one of the very first episodes of the first season.

[@teetehi]

But wasn't the contex that they where running low on everything and didn't know if or when they could get any of the things needed

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

Whenever you notice something like this, a wizard did it. A space wizard.

[@weatherman667]

Kathleen Kenned killed off all of the space wizards, though.

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

weatherman667 get with the times, gramps! But seriously, I knew Disney Wars had fallen flat on its face when I heard a commercial wherein they listed off a few Disney characters and then right at the end “....and Rey, from Star Wars.” (If its not immediately evident why thats bad, switch it for “Mickey, the mouse” and it might be clearer)

[@weatherman667]

@@nobodyyouknow1065 You can pull Kyle Katarn from my cold, dead hands.

[@Drakespawn85]

@@nobodyyouknow1065 For all the bitching about The Last Jedi, come Rise of the Skywalker and Rey is quite literally back to being one of the worst, fanfic-y ideas in all of Star Wars with her being related to an important character - because *of course* she couldn't just be random girl skilled with the Force, she had to be "someone important (TM) ", because god forbid Jedi or Sith could be just identification figures for anyone, clearly you need to be special and of royal blood to use space magic!

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

Drakespawn85 its like you read my mind.

[@juzoli]

You should include an estimate about how many ships are we talking about exactly. It could be done just by adding up how many of them we saw for each type, and how many was destroyed.

[@Echo4Bravo]

I thought the replicators created more than just food and water or uniforms. Why couldn't they replicate parts for photon torpedoes or anything they needed. And who cleaned up the jizz in the Holodeck. I mean they say end program, that stuffs gonna hit the floor.

[@robertlane6431]

I thought about this myself. My possible answer was that maybe they figured out how to use the transporter in conjunction with the replicators to create and assemble parts quickly. By doing so they could use any space on the ship, or within transporter range as a production area for almost anything they needed.

[@RoteGarde]

Simple answer: There is a cloaked space dock with the Voyager, in which all magical maintenance takes place. IT WAS BEHIND THEM THE HOLE TIME !!!!

[@suitch]

They have full engineering staff and replicators. Silly question.

[@mr.b.7244]

I know that in TNG, they manage to teleport shuttles back into the ship all the time. So it should not be a massive issue to store several fully stocked shuttle patterns in a long term buffer.

[@IAmTheRealBill]

We have a few episodes in the various shows where they talk about “patten rot” or something. One that comes to mind is when they pull Scotty out of one at a Dyson Sphere but his shipmate(s) patterns were too degraded.

[@tomf3150]

Bill Anderson Scotty's pattern was stored in a buffer looping on a permanent diagnostic / integrity check.

[@allangibson8494]

The replication of a functional shuttle should be much easier than a functional human. It shouldn't matter if the odd atom (or a million) is in the wrong place.

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

Teleport?

[@djneo92nl]

In season 3 of voyager they also beam a shuttle back

[@damienjohnson3450]

They literally have a fabricator printing food and are constantly going past mineral rich systems, but they can't fabricate a shuttle?

[@gowronsonofmrel867]

Plot holes?? Why even pilot ships when we have transporters? Why even have a sick bay when we have transporters? 😂

[@darrellr267]

I always wondered this myself. Seems like everytime someone takes a shuttle out it gets destroyed.

[@joermnyc]

darrell c especially if Chakotay was the pilot.

[@ploofedoof1]

As a long time Trek fan, I feel that all of the "supply side" plot holes in Voyager could be easily explained away by 2 on screen events, and a lot of deductive reasoning. within the actual story arc, Voyager was able to resupply on (at least) 2 specific occasions,and possibly refit on at least one occasion. the first being within the first 2 seasons, when they found the planet of abducted human colonists (I think the episode was "the 49ers," could be wrong) while there was no specific reference to this event, it would be completely in line with what we know about Janeway and her crew, an entire planet populated by peaceful human colonists... To say there wasn't trade of Advanced Starfleet technology for mission critical resources is a bit foolish. The second occasion where Voyager could have resupplied, possibly refit, AND probably obtained additional shuttle craft was the brief story arc involving Species 8472, when Voyager detected a Starfleet transmission, leading them to their training facility. Janeway's generally diplomatic nature as well as the peaceable end to that story arc leads me to strongly believe that they had the opportunity to do some serious interstellar trade... There were also a number of encounters with derelict ships, remember the one ship with the homicidal hologram....I know he was an Isomorph....but rhyme scheme...pretty sure they stripped that ship clean... There were also encounters with hostile aliens like the Hirogen that presented unique opportunities for obtaining tech. and lets not forget the liberated Borg (Unimatrix Zero, and Drone). Events like the former lead me to believe Voyager was much better off then most people think in terms of upgrading and maintaining their tech. As for the Shuttle craft and photon torpedoes....it makes sense that if Voyager did not come equipped with an industrial Replication facility on board, that they would definitely have retrofitted the ship with one at some point early on it would have easily been within their capabilities to retrofit a cargo bay or something. and while this is never directly stated in cannon, there is a certain question as to why Voyager would be willing to trade for food when they have replicators, like they needed to utilize the replicators use for more mission critical priorities.... The sheer amount of damage the ship takes leads me to suspect they may have also developed some advanced Replication "Drone based" tech as well, repairs to the outer hull alone could take weeks to repair by hand, but mere hours by using automated drones...That last bit is just pure wishful thinking by the way...like the crazy repair station from Enterprise....just a bit less, Killy.

[@adamtobroxen3709]

Not to mention a lot of their crew (including chief engineer) come from a Maquis Background, making then excellent scavengers and professional jury riggers. even if they did not have something like a industrial replicator, they did have people with the skills and knowledge on how to manually build it and other things from scratch using schematics. And even later on they had access to Borg tech, which we've seen regenerate Borg ships from the inside.

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

"37s"

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And even if they don't have some industrial replicator, they got "normal" replicators that could easily replicate parts for a bigger replicator.

[@scottlampe70]

That's what I thought too. Just replicate the parts. Why can't they replicate fuel, photon torpedoes, dilithium crystals etc.

[@scottlampe70]

@The high ground great answer. Makes perfect sense.

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

@The high ground could use the dish on a reversed circuit as a giany solar panel...

[@tad57]

could they not store them with in the transporter buffers

[@softkitty2553]

They literally did episodes where they built shuttles and explained that they had the ability to manufacture provided they had raw materials...

[@foxgodrecords2752]

"Maybe even an opening shot of the hull being repaired," you say ( 6:20 )? It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere. I'm all alone - more or less. Let me fly far away from here. Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun. I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun. Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

[@clasicradiolover]

You only need Lister outside painting the Voyager name because he f--ked up again.

[@jessekoenig7629]

I just wish Voyager used the areo shuttle as the base for the Delta Flyer, since its literally built into the ships hull but was never used.

[@benderrodriguez6343]

Much like the so called "captains yacht" of the enterprise D

[@Vontux]

Had the show been made now I suspect they would have but back then they'd have to render a whole new model and all the shots they'd use for flyby's would need to be redone for scenes where both Voyager and the Aero shuttle are flying around in the same shot. While the ships were CG I believe they were doing a lot of compositing to let them reuse the already rendered Voyager shots many times.

[@ericalbers4867]

If I recall from canon sources, the captains yacht "aero shuttle" wasn't installed yet. They expected Voyager back from the Badlands mission, which was a last minute decision. As we know, it never returned. Remember Voyager was still in spacedock being built when it launched prior to the original planed final date. The Badlands was just supposed to be routine for an Intrepid class and as such Starfleet used it as a prime shakedown mission. Of course that might not be the canon now. It's just the explanation I remember hearing a long time ago.

[@Vontux]

@@ericalbers4867 that sounds like the a way to cover for the budget reason :)

[@jedigecko06]

Pity there were no references to the Aeroshuttle; not even to plating over the empty docking port.

[@plasmaburndeath]

I just wish Star Trek took the educational approach and built in little science tidbits like "Just like Late 20th Century Earth 3D Rephotographing and printing,*cut away to mid 90's best in its class versions of given topic*, then back to Voyager, "we use new Quantum 3D printing and replicators and convert random space rocks and debris into spacecraft.. this is also why each time we are hit by enemy weapons ROCKS FALL DOWN UPON US Recycling"

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

plasmaburndeath> "Just like Late 20th Century Earth 3D Rephotographing and printing" 3D printing wasn't really a thing in the 20th century (at least not enough for the show to have picked up on or used in this context). The RepRap was the first time it became "a thing" but that wasn't until 2005, and it didn't go mainstream until this decade (phew, just made "this" in under the wire).

[@allangibson8494]

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z Cheap ADDITIVE 3D printing didn't become common until this decade - it existed well before that. Numerically controlled machining (Subtractive 3D printing) was in wide use from before WW2 and generic Numerically Controlled Machines were invented in 1798 (during the French Revolution). The 1980's saw general purpose computers used as controllers for the first time.

[@chrisschembari2486]

@@allangibson8494 you're right that subtractive manufacturing has been around for a long time, but do you have a reference showing that subtractive manufacturing was called "3D printing"? AFAIK, that term only applies to the additive manufacturing process invented fairly recently..

[@allangibson8494]

@@chrisschembari2486 The term "3D Printing" is of recent coinage but covers both additive and subtractive manufacturing technology. Desktop version of both are available. They do the same job from opposite directions (but making hollow parts using a subtractive system is much harder - on the other hand they are much stronger).

[@DanielRichards644]

you should really take a look at what unprocessed Silicon (which is what modern computer chips are made from) looks like, the idea that large masses of super energized (like from a phaser blast) Silicon chips could be fused together and explode and come out looking like rocks might not be as far fetched as yo might think.

[@scarypineapple8608]

80% of their episodes involves a shuttle crew running into trouble and voyager is “elsewhere”. This show had some lazy writing at times.

[@BR0KK85]

There inflatable like photon Torpedos

[@salenstormwing]

Ah yes, Voyager's shuttles. Almost as weirdly numerous as Voyager's torpedo count.

[@dinowarrior2167]

Many modern navy ships have a machine shops for the purpose to fix/make parts.

[@jedigecko06]

In Patterns of Force, Kirk calls for some 1930s era civilian clothes. Unless they're stored on board, they had to me made.

[@allangibson8494]

Aircraft Carriers during WW2 used to carry a third of their complement of aircraft as parts attached to bulkheads - need a wing - grab one, need a new plane to replace the one that went over the side - dig one of the twenty fuselages and attach wings and tails. The pilots were the hard item to replace. The other considerations is REPLICATORS - just print a new one, it takes time and power but they built a new Delta Flyer from scratch in a two weeks. You just need a supply of raw materials.

[@JRGProjects]

@@jedigecko06 Same with Picard in First Contact

[@starshiptrooper2354]

Second. I remember Janeway say park in schuller bay 2. Then take into account they had Neelix 's craft in there. They sure had a hell of lot metal for those repairs. Then again saying rmthe had matter replicators. Why not Photon torpedoes. Now they said only had 32. But I counted quadruple fired

[@LarryH54]

How do you replicate a photon? Some materials are simply too complex to be replicated.

[@Not-Ap]

@@LarryH54 You harvest then from other sources such as Stars, Planets, and Nebula's. Then you task your engineering and science officers to then assemble them from scratch. There are limits of course, due too the size of the ship and what facilities they have on board, but theoretically they should have enough to produce enough of what they need.

[@StalkedByLosers]

There is another shuttle craft plot hole; when people they left behind catch up with the main ship in a shuttle craft. Wtf?

[@tork1988]

Is there any reason why a big enough industrial replicator couldn't replicate a while shuttle? And then just basically fuel it up? Obviously voyager wouldn't have enough space for something that big but on a ship the sizes of a galaxy class why not? Heck you could even 'recycle/decompile' them when not needed like you do your coffee cup... Just an idea.

[@RedRidersTerraTrips]

I don't know why it's so difficult to believe they made them. They're capable of repairing the entire ship every week.

[@starleighpersonal]

except during year of hell for some reason. they could have built all of starfleet several times over