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* In "Endgame" (the series finale), a future version of Janeway travels back in time to get Voyager home earlier. (It seems that the death of Seven of Nine in transit is, in hindsight, completely unacceptable to her, far more so than ''the deaths of everyone else who has died throughout the series!'') In prior episodes, it was established that, in the future, the Federation monitors time travel and prevents interference in the timeline (the Temporal Prime Directive). Getting the ship home 16 or so years earlier, affecting the lives of possibly trillions of people, including at least two on purpose, should have got their attention.
* In "Endgame" (the series finale), a future version of Janeway travels back in time to get Voyager home earlier. (It seems that the death of Seven of Nine in transit is, in hindsight, completely unacceptable to her, far more so than ''the deaths of everyone else who has died throughout the series!'') In prior episodes, it was established that, in the future, the Federation monitors time travel and prevents interference in the timeline (the Temporal Prime Directive). Getting the ship home 16 or so years earlier, affecting the lives of possibly trillions of people, including at least two on purpose, should have got their attention.
** There is an earlier (by definition) episode in which a future Tom Paris and Harry Kim go back in time to save those left behind. They get berated for it by Janeway. But at the end of season 7 and the series, with no natural end in sight, a time travelling Janeway comes back, destroys a critical portion of the Borg Collective, and sacrifices her life to provide a shortcut home. Under the circumstances, this must be a [[Deus Ex Machina]]; a natural ending for season 7 would've been [[No Ending]], or else something like TNG's "All Good Things".
** There is an earlier (by definition) episode in which a future Tom Paris and Harry Kim go back in time to save those left behind. They get berated for it by Janeway. But at the end of season 7 and the series, with no natural end in sight, a time travelling Janeway comes back, destroys a critical portion of the Borg Collective, and sacrifices her life to provide a shortcut home. Under the circumstances, this must be a [[Deus Ex Machina]]; a natural ending for season 7 would've been [[No Ending]], or else something like TNG's "All Good Things".
** She also ignored how it would affect people born to crewmembers after the time she jumped in. These people may [[Ret Gone|never exist]] or may have wildly different lives if they do, but that doesn't seem to matter to her.
** She also ignored how it would affect people born to crewmembers after the time she jumped in. These people may [[Ret-Gone|never exist]] or may have wildly different lives if they do, but that doesn't seem to matter to her.
** At the end of the episode, Voyager (and the Borg sphere chasing it) flies out of a heretofore-unmentioned Borg transit wormhole - ''which exits directly in front of Earth''. Not only is this patently absurd given the events of ''[[Star Trek First Contact]]'' (in which a single Borg cube destroys part of the Federation fleet before being taken down), but it retroactively makes episodes like TNG's "Best of Both Worlds" pointless - if you've got a direct wormhole to Earth, why waste time travelling through the galaxy when you could jump directly to the source in minutes?
** At the end of the episode, Voyager (and the Borg sphere chasing it) flies out of a heretofore-unmentioned Borg transit wormhole - ''which exits directly in front of Earth''. Not only is this patently absurd given the events of ''[[Star Trek First Contact]]'' (in which a single Borg cube destroys part of the Federation fleet before being taken down), but it retroactively makes episodes like TNG's "Best of Both Worlds" pointless - if you've got a direct wormhole to Earth, why waste time travelling through the galaxy when you could jump directly to the source in minutes?
* The climax of "[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Alliances_%28episode%29 Alliances]" is ''painful''. Janeway manages to get all the leaders of the Kazon groups to talk peace. Turns out it was all an [[Evil Plan]] by the Trabe, another race with a major hate-on for the Kazons to kill off their leadership. When the Trabe start strafing the building the Kazon chiefs have gathered in, Janeway is all "[[Screw This I'm Outta Here]]" and beams away, ''leaving the Kazon leadership to be slaughtered''. Now, keep in mind that, right then, the Kazons have been a relentless pain in ''Voyager'''s ass. Saving the Kazon leaders would have earned Janeway a season's worth of "you saved our lives, we'll back off" gratitude. It would also have been the ethical thing to do.
* The climax of "[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Alliances_%28episode%29 Alliances]" is ''painful''. Janeway manages to get all the leaders of the Kazon groups to talk peace. Turns out it was all an [[Evil Plan]] by the Trabe, another race with a major hate-on for the Kazons to kill off their leadership. When the Trabe start strafing the building the Kazon chiefs have gathered in, Janeway is all "[[Screw This I'm Outta Here]]" and beams away, ''leaving the Kazon leadership to be slaughtered''. Now, keep in mind that, right then, the Kazons have been a relentless pain in ''Voyager'''s ass. Saving the Kazon leaders would have earned Janeway a season's worth of "you saved our lives, we'll back off" gratitude. It would also have been the ethical thing to do.
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