At its core, the Gilligan’s Island model relies on the lagoon as its main source of conflict – something floats in, the castaways have to deal with it. The lagoon remains constant, the things in it change. Most ship-based Star Treks are anti-Gilligans Island shows in so far as they are what’s floating into someone else’s lagoon. They remain constant, the lagoon changes.

If anything, I would say DS9 is the better Gilligan’s Island analogue, with the wormhole acting as the lagoon.

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Gilligan’s Island and Voyager share the same overarching goal, though: Getting home.

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Fuckin and?? Voyager moves, to get home they must not leave voyager but voyager leave the lagoon. The fact they both want to get home does not make it the same model

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In no way did I ever state that it was the same model. They share the same goal.

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In Voyager, the ship is the lagoon. It’s probably got the same square footage as the island. Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.

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Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.

Instead of looking at it as it actually is? The lagoon is the delta qdt and to get home voyager as a whole must leave it, not to get home they must leave voyager.

The person you are replying to got it right, you’re trying to force voy into the gilligan’s model

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Wipe away your tears, chill out, we’re just having fun playing around, this isn’t a serious discussion. Go rain on someone else’s parade.

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The colored LCARS labels on the bulkheads of the Voyager sets all have text printed on them that can’t be read on TV. Garret Wang pointed out on a behind-the-scenes special for Star Trek Voyager that one of them literally says, “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.”

Another one says, “Wherever you go, there you are.” - Also relevant to the show’s premise. :)

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That’s amazing!

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Tuvok in a bucket hat. You’ve pictured it, and now you can’t unpicture it.

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He’s out of line, but he’s right

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