Cesario wrote:Batman wrote:
Most likely scenario, they go exploring, find this part of space is unbelievably boring, and then put all the combined knowhow of their science departments into getting a wormhole that'll get them back to earth constructed.
Because that's exactly what VOY did. Oh wait.
Voyager was a hell of a lot closer to home than the ship posited in the OP was. 70 year trek is something they could do.
It's something their
kids could do. Maybe. Kinda.
Getting home from another galaxy without doing something drastic is pretty much impossible.
And a 70 year trip home is moderately pointless because by the time you get home, assuming you make it to begin with, and are still alive, everyone you cared about will have moved on with their lives, have had children, and grandchildren, and so on, so it pretty much amounts to the same thing. Wait until your life is effectively over or risk the wormhole thingy approach. Curious-VOY didn't. I wonder why.
Voyager did note that they considered trying to use a gas giant to open an artificial wormhole, but decided against it because it was too great a risk. With taking the long way not at all an option, I can see the Galaxy's crew deciding to stick it out with the research to solve the engineering problems to make the artificial wormhole (which we saw them successfully make) traversable for living matter.
Taking the long way was an option wasn't an option for VOY either. 70 years, remember? Yet they decided to do it the hard way rather than risk the wormhole, apparently. What makes you think the Fed ship stranded will risk potential immediate and possibly painful death rather than face a life away from home when VOY
didn't under the same circumstances?