I messed up and deleted the wrong comment. Sorry about that.
Original content: I think it likely that it is some kind of near deity like the christian god, or the Klingon gods that make an appearance. Not to mention the Koala.
Right. I think the real question is: How did Sulu know about it? I would love to believe that it was formless and Sulu just had a wacky belief, and upon hearing it said out loud it thought “LOL, OK then.”
I can't head canon the TNG images as there's a lot of "hidden" filler stuff that's been found that doesn't make sense and are inside jokes. But I could rationalize Sulu's statement based on some of the background created in novels with his family history, cranes and such, and maybe he's extrapolating it. The early episodes were not the best to use for canon stuff anyway, as they hadn't figured lots of things out yet. Have we ever seen sentient plants since this?
Unfortunately, they don’t give any more information than I have already given, aside from the Peter David novels, which aren’t considered part of Star Trek canon.
What the Voyager finale needed was an epilogue - a short bookend scene after the plot has been resolved so the audience can feel closure. TNG handled this wonderfully with the card game in Riker’s quarters in its series finale, which is a satisfying, memorable bookend to a long-running show. Voyager didn’t get that epilogue treatment, which boggles the mind because it’s a basic story mechanism and only needed a minute of screen time. That show deserved better.
Maybe all the salamanders want to go to a planet ASAP, and then no one would be piloting the ship to home, no captain doctor yet. They tried it a few times and it ended the same
OR: they realized the bio-neural gel packs on the flyer were also turning into salamanders/ something else? They were only used for the uh, door controls on the flyer, no major systems? They noticed right before they were going to go to warp 10, and saved the crew.
Truly, if Neelix didn’t cook those fancy mushrooms from that random off-screen world, they might have gotten home faster.
I don’t think there should have been post-home episodes. I do, however, think they should have shown Voyager landing (remember, it can do that) on Earth and watching people walk out into the Terran sunshine, followed by an empty bridge except for Janeway who says goodbye to the old girl after seven long years.
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