I'd be glad to. Voyager's not the biggest ship in Starfleet, but she makes up for it with design advancements. We were actually finishing taking on officers when we launched on our first mission, to locate an outlaw ship...
[She'll be summarizing IC, too, between a desire to keep some elements from spreading to people brought to the fleet from pre-warp cultures, and the simple fact that a detailed account of Voyager's history would turn into an insane lecture. So some things get brushed over or just not brought up. Voyager defends itself with directed energy beams, it has a complement of torpedoes, it's a fast ship but not exactly how fast, etc.
But the basic plight is clear: the ship was taken 70,000 light years across the galaxy by a dying being trying to figure out how to get a successor to take care of a sheltered species. Vital crew was lost, but the outlaw Maquis crew was found and folded into her own crew. Ever since, they've been trying to make their way home, though at top sustainable speed it's unlikely the current crew will still be around to see them reach their destination. So they sidetrack frequently, because they're explorers, they want to help where they can, and maybe they'll chance across a more viable way home. They're now in the seventh year of their journey, two years longer than the standard Starfleet five-year deep space mission.]
Ha, definitely
[She'll be summarizing IC, too, between a desire to keep some elements from spreading to people brought to the fleet from pre-warp cultures, and the simple fact that a detailed account of Voyager's history would turn into an insane lecture. So some things get brushed over or just not brought up. Voyager defends itself with directed energy beams, it has a complement of torpedoes, it's a fast ship but not exactly how fast, etc.
But the basic plight is clear: the ship was taken 70,000 light years across the galaxy by a dying being trying to figure out how to get a successor to take care of a sheltered species. Vital crew was lost, but the outlaw Maquis crew was found and folded into her own crew. Ever since, they've been trying to make their way home, though at top sustainable speed it's unlikely the current crew will still be around to see them reach their destination. So they sidetrack frequently, because they're explorers, they want to help where they can, and maybe they'll chance across a more viable way home. They're now in the seventh year of their journey, two years longer than the standard Starfleet five-year deep space mission.]