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    The colored LCARS labels on the bulkheads of the Voyager sets all have text printed on them that can’t be read on TV. Garret Wang pointed out on a behind-the-scenes special for Star Trek Voyager that one of them literally says, “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.”

    Another one says, “Wherever you go, there you are.” - Also relevant to the show’s premise. :)

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    At its core, the Gilligan’s Island model relies on the lagoon as its main source of conflict – something floats in, the castaways have to deal with it. The lagoon remains constant, the things in it change. Most ship-based Star Treks are anti-Gilligans Island shows in so far as they are what’s floating into someone else’s lagoon. They remain constant, the lagoon changes.

    If anything, I would say DS9 is the better Gilligan’s Island analogue, with the wormhole acting as the lagoon.

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        Fuckin and?? Voyager moves, to get home they must not leave voyager but voyager leave the lagoon. The fact they both want to get home does not make it the same model

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      In Voyager, the ship is the lagoon. It’s probably got the same square footage as the island. Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.

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        Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.

        Instead of looking at it as it actually is? The lagoon is the delta qdt and to get home voyager as a whole must leave it, not to get home they must leave voyager.

        The person you are replying to got it right, you’re trying to force voy into the gilligan’s model

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          Wipe away your tears, chill out, we’re just having fun playing around, this isn’t a serious discussion. Go rain on someone else’s parade.

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      Wouldn’t Chakotay be Gilligan since it was basically his fault they got trapped in the Delta Quadrant?

      Also, he worshiped a stupid imaginary indigenous American deity that wasn’t actually part of anyone’s real belief system. That’s not relevant, but I like to bring up Jackie Marks when I have the opportunity.

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    Whatever. The Skipper never murdered a crewmember or tried to destroy an entire astronomical phenomenon for coffee.

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    Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale

    a tale of a fateful trip,

    that started from this deep space port,

    aboard this tiny ship.

    The mate was a quiet native’ man,

    the Skipper brave and sure,

    150 star fleet personnel set sail that day,

    for a three hour tour,

    a three hour tour.

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      The displacements started getting rough,
      The tiny ship was tossed,
      If not for the courage of the fearless crew
      USS Voyager would be lost, USS Voyager would be lost.

      The ship set still on the shore of the uncharted delta quadrant
      With Chakotay
      Captain Janeway too,
      Tom Paris and his wife,
      A Borg Woman
      The Doctor and some Ensign
      Here on USS Voyager!!!

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        and some Ensign

        Just the equivalent of the early season’s “…and the rest” before it became “the professor and Mary Ann”