Star Trek: 11-ish Times Voyager Lost A Shuttle

1. All Of Them And Voyager Too

Star Trek Voyager Timeless
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We may never know how many shuttlecraft Voyager began with, and it's debatable how many they lost (and rebuilt) on their way home. Oddly, what is countable with more precision is the number of times Voyager itself was completely destroyed, secondary craft most often along with it. Not for long though, of course. They still had a show to make! Moreover, in theory, Voyager temporarily doubled its shuttlecraft complement for a while in Deadlock, and there might have been a set out there made of 'silver blood' until, you know… Oblivion.

To paraphrase the alternate future Harry Kim in Timeless, when Voyager hit the ice at full speed, Decks 9 through 14 were compacted to 'become' Deck 10. The main shuttlebay of the Intrepid-class is on Deck 10, so… lots of squished shuttles? Later that same season, in Relativity, the space-time distortions emitted by ex-Captain Braxton's force-3 temporal disruptor tore Voyager apart. Whilst Captain Janeway gave the order to abandon ship, it appears no one made it to escape pod or shuttle. Year of Hell was probably hell for shuttles too, and Endgame's alternate future Admiral Janeway probably saw the end of plenty more shuttlecraft on her lengthier journey home.

Let's go back to (the) Future's End for a minute. After failing to murder everyone on Voyager for the first time, Braxton states that debris from Voyager's secondary hull was found in the explosion that wiped out Earth's solar system in the 29thcentury. In that timeline, therefore, it's pretty certain that Voyager was destroyed. If the solar system didn't make it, we doubt any shuttlecraft did either.

And down will come baby, shuttle and all.

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Jack has been a content creator for TrekCulture since 2022, and a Star Trek fan for as long as he can remember. He has authored over 170 articles, including one of TrekCulture's longest, and has appeared several times on the TrekCulture podcast. He holds a first-class honours degree in French from the University of Sussex, a master's with distinction in Language, Culture and History: French and Francophone Studies and a PhD in French from University College London (UCL). He has previously worked in the field of translation. His interests extend to science-fiction television and film more widely. His favourite series is Star Trek: Voyager, followed closely by Stargate SG-1.