After the series has gone, or before it started?

One of the most annoying things about most TV programs is that we don't know what happens to the characters after the series finishes...

Well not entirely:

• We know that after Star trek Voyager, Janeway leapfrogged Picard to become admiral.
• We know that after The Original Series, Captain Montgomery Scott was being kept alive by a transporter in 'diagnostic mode' on The USS Jenolan.
• We also know that James T Kirk died 70 years after he was presumed to have died on The Enterprise-B, on the planet Veridian III.
• And we know that Spock ends up 130 years in his own past in the 2009 Film Star Trek.
• There are further hints from Nemesis that Data would be re-incarnated within B-4... Who knows

And apart from a few other characters, that is it!

There is an obvious reluctance by Sci Fi production companies to make a "Star Trek Christmas Special" although that is perhaps what the films are just that?



Then we have the dilemma of the "prequel" character of Tom Paris, who was apparently based on the character Nick Lacarno in The Next Generation episode, The First Duty, with Robert McNeill playing both parts. I've read that the reason that there was never an onscreen link between the two was because the producers didn't want to pay a royalty to someone after each and every Voyager episode!

I know I am not alone in my lack of 'fulfilment' sensed after the finale of Voyager, when having arrived in the alpha quadrant, we see nothing more than a two second shot of the homecoming, with Voyager leading a 'flotilla' of 18 plus star ships towards Earth. And although the finale of DS9 was more wholesome, with characters seen talking about their future assignments...

Well perhaps in Star Trek 12 we can have a glimpse of the futures of our Voyager favourites?