History Fanfic / RocketshipVoyager

** A significant number of Janeway's crewmembers hail from nations that no longer exist in OTL 2020, including East Germany, South Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Seska is explicitly an expatriate Soviet Russian. ColdWar politics remain with an Eastbloc "Sino-Soviet Union" whose efficient command-controlled economy dominates in the fields of electronics, computers and the safe production of nuclear power.

** The first astronaut in space is an American woman, and UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace involves a [[CentrifugalGravity Big Wheel]] SpaceStation and a colony on the Moon by the mid-Sixties.

** The first astronaut in space is an American woman, and the UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace involves a manned [[CentrifugalGravity Big Wheel]] SpaceStation and a colony on the Moon by the mid-Sixties.

** The first astronaut in space is an American woman.

** Among the pictures of past space mission displayed in ''Voyager'' mess was spaceship ''Kosmokrator'' orbiting Venus, apparently a "grudging nod to Eastblock efforts". Expedition to Venus on the ship of that name was the plot of ''Literature/TheAstronauts'', first book of Polish writer Creator/StanislawLem

** The decompression-shelter balloons, first seen in Chapter II, reappear in Chapter XII, [[spoiler: when Janeway is rescued.]]

** The ship's computer -- meaning literally, a person who does computations -- is named Creator/MajelBarrett.

* MeaningfulName: The Belter rocketship ''Valjean'', named after a [[Literature/LesMiserables righteous criminal]] on the run from overbearing authorities... someone was making a point.

* NuclearTorchRocket: The Cochraine Drive uses "contraterrene" ([[{{Zeerust}} an old-timey word for]] {{antimatter}}) as fuel to accelerate between planets. The ship moves fast enough that it's built like a skyscraper to take advantage of the [[ArtificialGravity pseudogravity]] effects. It's also theorized that the slightest hiccup would blow the ship into gamma rays, but they have an emergency release lever to make people feel better about that.

* FailedFutureForecast:
** Parodied. A significant number of Janeway's crewmembers hail from nations that no longer exist in OTL 2020, including East Germany, South Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Seska is explicitly an expatriate Soviet Russian. ColdWar politics remain with an Eastbloc "Sino-Soviet Union" whose efficient command-controlled economy dominates in the fields of electronics, computers and the safe production of nuclear power.

* MeaningfulName: The Belter rocketship ''Valjean'', named after a righteus criminal on the run from overbearing authorities... someone was making a point.

* HalfHumanHybrid: B'Elanna Torres has a Brazilian father and a Venerian mother, and was [[RaisedCatholic raised in a convent]] after her [[DisappearedDad father took off back to Earth]], until the day her mother turned up with an AmazonBrigade, slaughtered the convent sisters and dragged her into the [[VenusIsWet jungle]] to be trained as a Amazon warrior.

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Zigzagged. Chakotay follows the spiritual beliefs of his Lakota ancestors, which is regarded as a [[LibertariansInSpace Belter eccentricity]] by Captain Janeway who has little regard for these wacky religious cults because she was raised as a Scientologist like most people on Earth. Agritech Keshari on the other hand wears a turban and believes in reincarnation, implying that she's a Sikh. The Catholic church is also making an aggressive push to gain new converts among extraterran races. HalfHumanHybrid B'Elanna Torres was [[RaisedCatholic raised in a Catholic convent]] on Venus, though she quickly hides her rosary when Chakotay comes to see her.

** Parodied. A significant number of Janeway's crewmembers hail from nations that no longer exist in OTL 2020, including East Germany, South Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Seska is explicitly an expatriate Soviet Russian.
** The first human being in space is an American woman. There's also the "Sino-Soviet Union" whose efficient command-controlled economy dominates in the fields of electronics, computers and the safe production of nuclear power.

* FailedFutureForecast: Parodied. A significant number of Janeway's crewmembers hail from nations that no longer exist in OTL 2020, including East Germany, South Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Seska is explicitly an expatriate Soviet Russian.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Parodied. A significant number of Janeway's crewmembers hail from nations that no longer exist in OTL 2020, including East Germany, South Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Seska is explicitly an expatriate Soviet Russian.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The coveralls worn by Voyager's personnel. [[RedAndBlackKeepBack Space-black with red shoulder-boards]] for command rank, blue for maintenance, [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine white for science and medical]], and [[RedShirt red for those handling munitions or hazardous waste]].

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The coveralls worn by Voyager's personnel. Space-black with red shoulder-boards for command rank, blue for maintenance, [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine white for science and medical]], [[RedShirt red for those handling munitions or hazardous waste]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: The goals of the Psiborg Collective are NotSoDifferent from the Overlords in ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd''.

* NotSoDifferent: Chakotay suggests that Janeway's motives in the ''Valkyrie'' incident were not unlike his own motives for joining the Maquis. She doesn't appreciate the comparison.

** In Chapter IX, Janeway considers buying their passage home using the contraterrene they have stashed in Cargo Bay One. [[spoiler:In the climatic battle, it makes a handy WeaponMassDestruction when they need to destroy the Psiborg cube-ship.]]

* HotTopicPhlebotinum: As befits the 1950's; Tech Lieutenant [=TuV'k=] is the ship's Tactical Psionics Officer, and Tom Paris brags about the transistors used on their [[MasterComputer Computer Deck]].

First serialized in the 1954 September to November editions of ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder]]'', ''Rocketship Voyager'' is the classic space opera that inspired the [[Series/StarTrekVoyager 1990's UPN television series]].

* ChekhovsGun: The decompression-shelter balloons, first seen in Chapter II, reappear in Chapter XII, [[spoiler: when Janeway is rescued.]]

* MeaningfulRename: On learning of the upgrades her ship will be receiving, Janeway mentally renames it from "Rocketship ''Voyager''" to "[[spoiler:Starship]] ''Voyager''."

** Tom Paris thinks that Seska has "the cunning and ruthlessness that [[DirtyCommunists came naturally to a Russian]]."

* WorthlessYellowRocks: On Earth, the artificial production of diamonds is so common that diamonds are no longer regarded as precious gems, and are used solely for industrial purposes. But on Venus, the native Venerians still regarded diamonds as rare and valuable when the first Terran colonizers arrived, so the Terrans cut some ''very'' lopsided deals with the locals.