VOYAGERS! GUIDEBOOK

THE ULTIMATE PICTURE FANSITE!


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 Tell us Bogg, what is a Voyager?




   Seemingly clueless Voyager Phineas Bogg crash lands into the room of lonely orphan Jeffrey Jones, in Manhattan, 1982. Phineas loses his guidebook to Jeffrey's snarling dog Ralph and has to rescue Jeffrey from a fall out the window. Jeffrey becomes the 'history book in pants' and proves to be an invaluable companion to Bogg. As they travel through the ages keeping history on track, Phineas uses a brass device known as the Omni. It tells him locations and dates. Bogg's omni only went up to the year 1970, however a glitch sent him to Jeffrey's time-zone. When the Omni light is red, it means history has hit a snag and it's their job to correct it. A green light means success!
   The Omni usually lands them in the midst of their future or current assignment. Along they way they forge memorable friendships and experience exciting, dangerous and humorous encounters with notable historical figures. They help create the airplane with the Wright Brothers, save Abraham Lincoln from abduction, try to solve the case of Jack the Ripper with Nellie Bly and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jeffrey gives Thomas Edison a push to create the light bulb, and Babe Ruth the confidence to play the game. This is all along with many other escapades, It's all in a days work for this tireless duo.










WHAT IS THE OMNI? 

   The Omni is the tool all Voyagers use to travel through time. It comes in other state of the art models, but Phineas is content with his standard brass one. However, he often curses the Omni for getting "stuck in the automatic mode" with it's red and green lights flashing back and forth. When that happens they are unable to leave the time zone.
   Thomas Edison was so enthralled with the device he took it apart right down to the last dirty gear and cleaned it up. Poor Jeffrey had a fit and thought he ruined history and his chance to see Bogg again forever. Edison fortunately had the genius to put it all back in perfect working order. When Jeffrey admitted to it being a time machine, Edison laughed heartily, "Now that would be an invention!"



      


                                                                                                                                        

The Guidebook





The Guidebook does what it says on the can.  Phineas and Jeffrey fumble through history without it and do pretty well...for now! However, the Guidebook is the tool that all Voyager's must carry on their assignments.  It most likely gives them names, places and dates in order for them to bring history back to that green-light state. We never see the inside of the guidebook on the series, so we'll have to take their word for it.  The pictures here are from Guidebook replicas that are made online.  Here is a link to purchase one! GUIDEBOOKS

Who is Voyager Drake?

 

Drake is Phineas' rival since their days at Voyager Academy. Even then, Drake was a cheater and harbors a lifelong grudge against Phineas for confronting him about it. He is an extremely pompous and jealous man. Drake went on to become a harsh lawyer for the Voyager Tribunal-Code Violation Prosecutor. Drake rigidly adheres to the Voyager code, but applies the philosophy, "The means justify the ends," claiming to be Machiavelli's best pupil. He believes in discipline and order above all else and has had strong influence with Voyagers of every rank.


 Drake's career ended in humiliation after trying to convict Phineas Bogg on false charges. Phineas was cleared with the help of his old crush, Susan, the famous 'blonde from his class' that he bragged about in the Pilot episode.


Drake is ultimately exposed as a fraud. He made a career out of tampering with evidence and the Omni memory banks of innocent Voyagers.




Phineas gets Zapped! Bogg tried to take back his omni in order to clear his name, but that was the consequence!

   
Because conviction means banishment, Drake is now a fugitive at large and Phineas' arch-enemy. It is up to Phineas and Jeffrey to bring him back and prevent him from ruining history!


 
Drake escapes, But returns in London to ruin the history of intrepid American ReporterNellie Bly and 'Sherlock Holmes' Author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  He poses as the infamous 'Jack The Ripper' to lure Nellie from taking her famous trip.  She was trying to beat the record of a character named Phileas Fogg. He is the hero of the novel, 'Around the world in 80 Days.' We also learn that Phineas helped Jules Verne in his youth and thus became the inspiration for the daring hero, Phileas.  After some confusion over who the real ripper is, Drake's plot is foiled by Phineas and Jeffrey and he gets away...AGAIN! No wonder he continues to make so many appearances in the Voyagers! Fan-fiction!

Drake's Omni




VERSION 316-50 OPEN-TIME CALIBRATION AND STATE OF THE ART

Bogg stops Billy the Kid from a showdown with Teddy Roosevelt and strikes a pose with Jeffrey the Wright Brothers.



                             


   




         






WHERE WILL THEY WIND UP NEXT?

I always wanted the Voyagers to go to the French Revolution. Phineas could have assumed the role of  the Scarlet Pimpernel and thus inspire the later famous novel.  There are so many key points in history and prominent figures to meet.  I would have wanted them to meet Susan B. Anthony, nurses Florence Nightingale & Mary Seacole.  A fun episode could revolve around the Circus and the boys meeting Phineas T. Barnum. The Gold Rush was also a fascinating time in history.
It would have been interesting to see the boys go back to medieval times and also the fifties, perhaps meeting Elvis and helping Rock and Roll. VOYAGERS! could have showcased Jon-Erik's great talent for the piano by having them meet Mozart or Beethoven.  I always love at the end of every adventure how Jeffrey would advise all the viewers,

"Take a Voyage down to your public library, it's all in books!"