12 Abandoned Star Trek Ideas That Would Have Been Incredible
5. Who's Killing The Great Voyagers Of The Delta Quadrant?
Why yes, that title is directly taken from 'Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?'. The premise of this episode, put forwards by Bryan Fuller, was to follow the adventures of several alternate reality Voyagers. These different Voyagers are being systematically hunted down and destroyed by an unknown force that can somehow jump between these realities.
Ideas included a completely Klingon version of Voyager (where the Klingon Empire had defeated the Federation back in Kirk's day, complete with Kate Mulgrew in full Klingon make-up) and a version that was completely crewed by holograms as well as a few others. Eventually, 'our' Voyager and her captain Janeway would discover what's happening.
They would be confronted by another Voyager, this one commanded by Chakotay, whose Maquis crew had overwhelmed the Starfleet crew. This alternate Chakotay had become convinced that Janeway was responsible for them being stranded in the Delta Quadrant and, while he had found a way to jump timelines, he hadn't yet found a way to cross the vast distance to return home.
While this episode never panned out, it would have given Chakotay a lot more to do and probably would have been pretty fun. We'd already seen Worf jump from timeline to timeline in the TNG episode Parallels, so why not a rampaging alternate Voyager?