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Other Musicals

We're Gonna Get Home
Ruth — 17 Jan 1999

D@MN DS9rs!: We're Gonna Get Home
Sung to Ya' Gotta Have Heart from the musical, Damn Yankees

Premise: Former Starfleet pilot Joe Paris would give anything to help his favorite ship, Voyager, get back to the Alpha Quadrant and prove its show is better than that ratings hog, DS9 -- even sell his soul to the devil. Enter Mr. Q Applegate, who grants Joe's wish, transforming him into the pilot he always knew he could be. Joe has a built in escape clause, however, because when he gets the ship home he wants to settle down with B'Elanna, not end up in a place where getting your pizza piping hot would *not* be a problem.... Can Mr. Applegate's shapely assistant, Seven, cause Joe to stray?

In this scene, Captain Kathryn Janeway gives a pep talk to the crew. Depressed because the trip to the Alpha Quadrant is taking so long, and because none of them has had non-AOTW sex in four and a half years, Chakotay, Tuvok, and Harry are thinking of throwing in the towel and resigning from the crew.

Janeway: We're gonna get home
All we really need is home
Though the odds are saying we'll never win
We'll keep on heading home

We've gotta reach Earth
No time for givin birth
Sex ain't as great as it may appear
So wait til we get to Earth

Sometimes it seems we're going zero
We take the pedal off the floor
But to aliens Voy's a hero!
And sometimes Chak you score!
There's nothing to it but to do it!

We're gonna get home
Miles and miles and miles to home!
Oh, it's fine to stray off of our course
And take this old ship around to roam!
But we're gonna get home!

Chakotay: a human girl friend, that's what I want!

Tuvok: my wife for Pon Farr, that's what I want!

Harry: a Fleet promotion, that's what I want!

Chakotay, Tuvok, and Harry (the chorus): What do we want!
We want home
All we really need is home
Though the odds are saying we'll never win
We'll keep on heading home

Janeway: Now you're getting the idea!

Chorus: We've gotta reach Earth
No time for givin birth
Not a solitary date will we have
Not until we reach Earth!

Janeway: Boys, I'm proud of you!

Kim: We're so happy that goin!
Chorus: yeah, yeah, yeah
Janeway: It's the Voy'ger thing to do!
Chorus: hoo hoo hoo
Tuvok: Cause we know our ship will head home
Chorus: yeah, yeah, yeah
Chakotay: Though we've light years left to do!
Chorus: hoo hoo hoo

Chorus: We're going home
Miles and miles and miles to home!
Oh, it's fine to stray off of our course
And take this old ship around to roam!

Janeway: So what the heck if we go slow!
Tuvok: Why should we curse?
Kim: We have to get faster, cause it can't get worse!

All: And to add to it!
We'll go home!
We'll go home!
We'll go home!