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Yeah, I remember thinking how much cooler it would have been if the year of hell two parter was actually an entire season.
That would have been great.
Spend the first third of the season going about things normally, with minor brushes with the Krenim, which puts them on the path to building temporal shields against their weapons. But the writers could've included minor inconsistencies in the show's continuity that would hint at the constantly changing timeline. The crew mentioning something from a previous episode that didn't happen, or happened a way different than what we saw. They could even spend an entire episode where Voyager desperately works to save a race from something and succeed just in the nick of time. Then a temporal wave washes over everything, and suddenly Voyager is orbiting a dead planet, with Janeway commenting how they couldn't make it to help in time.
That would have been a punch in the viewer's guts.
In the next third, Voyager gets its temporal shields working, and they witness a time shift. So they go and try to stop the Krenim, and take a hell of beating as every attempt fails. Eventually, Janeway has no choice but to order most of the crew off Voyager because the Krenim have grown too large and strong, and the ship can no longer support everyone, so they need to try and find help. At this point, Chakotay and Tom are taken by the Krenim.
The last third would be the crew on board repairing Voyager, while the rest of the crew finds aliens to help them build a fleet, and Tom and Chakotay working on stopping the Krenim from the inside.
And then it all ends the same way the two-parter did, and the entire season gets reset and never happened.
Not that would have been a punch in the viewer's guts.
That would have been a jaw-droppingly awesome way to end the season.